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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A Thousand Mornings"Her compact poems are conversational and teasing, yet their taproots reach deeply into the aquifers of religion, philosophy, and literature . . . Oliver is funny and renegade as she protests cultural vapidity, greed, violence, and environmental decimation and ravishing in her close readings...
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Aster of Ceremonies: PoemsA polyphonic new entry in Multiverse--a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent--JJJJJerome Ellis's Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a "lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled...
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Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. CavafyThe National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. In her first book, Robin Coste Lewis's poems exploded the imagery...
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A Proclamation for Peace: Translated for the WorldThis book sends a peace proclamation around the world so it may become a new poem in Arabic and Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian, Tibetan and Mandarin, Tamil, Vietnamese, Polish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, and a host of other languages. Together with notes about peace-making translators...
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Another WomanIn the tradition of confessional and lyrical poets like Cynthia Cruz, Linda Gregg, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Wright, Another Woman explores female sexuality, anguish, and abjection within the decline of a romantic relationship as well as through biblical, mythical, or pop cultural figures such...
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Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for KidsEdited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance...
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A Nature Poem for Every Autumn EveningPoems to celebrate autumn. A companion volume to the successful winter and spring titles, this anthology of poems is as sweet as pumpkin spice and warming as a roaring log fire. With one poem for every autumn evening, it's the perfect literary companion as...
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All the Possible BodiesSteeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, the poems of All the Possible Bodies attend to the complexities of violence in America, racial justice, and the intersection of personal and national identity. Pollock's third collection is an emotionally candid and...
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After the OperationElizabeth T. Gray Jr.'s After the Operation reports from the No Man's Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor. What does the mind feel like after something has been taken out of your skull? "An uninhabited coast," or...
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With My Back to the World: PoemsWinner of the Forward Prize for Best CollectionFinalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPRNamed One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric...
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Wise Up! Wise Down!: A Poetic ConversationFunny, thought-provoking, and bursting with curiosity, Wise Up! Wise Down! is a lively conversation between two internationally known poets, illustrated by acclaimed artist Satoshi Kitamura. How can laughter be more powerful than a sword? Why do days have names but not weeks? And do...
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul. -- Elias Khoury The book tugs at the reader's heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain...
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White Pine: Poems and Prose PoemsFrom the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver, a collection of evocative and haunting poetry and prose"Oliver's poems are...as genuine, moving and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." --New York TimesIn her first collection since winning the National...
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Where We Come from"Outstanding in all ways, this title deserves a place in most collections and adds a wonderful opportunity for upper elementary students (and higher!) to unpack our complicated histories."--starred, School Library Journal We come from stardust our bodies made of ancient elements. We come from...
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Vita NuovaPart love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante's "little book," the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well...
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Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and DreamingA queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely...
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To See the Earth Before the End of the WorldGenerous, visionary new work by this major American poetWinner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016)In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his...
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Tomie's Little Mother GooseThis board book of classic nursery rhymes introduces children to the magic of Mother Goose! Heartwarming illustrations and over 24 traditional rhymes and verses -- taken from the classic versions -- will delight babies, toddlers, and parents alike. This charming board book lovingly brings...
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic MythThe definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology,...
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The Weary BluesThe Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. Over ninety years after its publication, it remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still evokes a fresh, contemporary feeling and offers a...
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