Poetry
Explore the best poetry books, including popular collections, English poems about love, war, flowers, and twilight. Discover top-selling poetry titles and the best books to read
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I Am LovedNewbery Award honoree Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen of National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni's poems to illustrate with his inimitable flourish. There is nothing more important to a child than to feel loved, and this gorgeous gathering of poems written by Nikki...
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How the Sea Came to Be: And All the Creatures in It***THREE STARRED REVIEWS***A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids A Chicago Public Library Kids Best of the Best BookBank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List - STEM & Outstanding Merit A poetic, amazingly illustrated journey through the...
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Hood VacationsMichal " MJ" Jones' debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling - an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: " We were mighty...
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Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate: PoemsAn essential collection of James Tate's extraordinary poems that will captivate today's readers, with a foreword by Terrance HayesCelebrating James Tate's work as it transcends convention, time, and everything that tells us, "No, you can't do that," Hell, I Love Everybody gives us the...
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Healing Dust: Poems of SurvivalFlorinda Ruiz was an avid poet and award-winning photographer. After her cancer diagnosis, she dedicated herself to sharing her poetry and photos with the community of cancer patients around the world."Healing Dust is a work of poetic alchemy: transforming the anguish and grief of...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major WorksThis authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life...
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Flowers of EvilInspired, seminal translations of one of the greatest poets of all time by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon, now available in a sleek new edition. Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry, and Flowers of Evil has been a bible for poets from Arthur...
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Fancy Nancy: The Wonderful World of Fancy Nancy: 4 Books in 1 Box Set!Four books in one irresistible box! Fancy Nancy loves learning new things, and this collection of four separate story books with fun sprinklings of information will serve as fun inspiration for young readers to learn and explore along with her.Whether it's writing her own...
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Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers...
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Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside ThemPoetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it is often held by women. Everybody Wants...
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Eric Carle's Dragons, DragonsFiery dragons, playful centaurs, the mysterious garusa, the web-footed bunyip--these and other mythological creatures abound in Eric Carle's Dragons Dragons. In this companion volume to Eric Carle's Animals Animals, he celebrates mythology and legends from around the world, and breathes life into the creatures...
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Dub: Finding CeremonyThe concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In these prose poems, Gumbs channels...
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Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma JungA richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung's wife and collaborator Emma Jung (1882-1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, yet...
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Crow with No MouthAn eccentric classic of Zen poetryWhen Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him...
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Bluest Nude: PoemsFinalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkAma Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual...
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Black California GoldFor numerous migrants who ventured westward in the twentieth century in search of greater opportunities, the glitter of California often proved to be mere fool's gold--promising easy riches but frequently resulting in dispossession and displacement. Poet Wendy M. Thompson is descended from two of...
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Beauty for Ashes: A Journey of HealingStatistically speaking, as many as one in five women experience childhood sexual trauma. With a topic like this, one person with this experience is too many! Emma Leigh Levine is one of those one in five women spoken about in that statistic. In Beauty...
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Averno: PoemsWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter,...
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Aunt Sue's StoriesStorytelling is an ancient and powerful human tradition. It ties us to cultural memory and the experiences of those who came before us, linking one generation to the next. Oral tradition is of keen importance to Black heritage and is honored here in this...
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At The Still Point: In Conversation with Saint JulianIn Conversation with Saint Julian - Praise for At the Still PointIn this contemplative and lyrically rich collection, poet Ron Starbuck offers a series of poetic "Disclosures" inspired by Revelations of Divine Love, the visionary 14th-century work by Julian of Norwich. Rather than offering...
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