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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Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our PlanetWinner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature"A splendid marriage of poetry and photography." --School Library Journal (starred review)Acclaimed children's book author and photographer April Pulley Sayre's love letter to Earth is a stunning exploration of the beauty and complexity of the world around...
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Terminal Surreal: PoemsThis unflinching poetry collection follows the author's diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In her masterful poetry collection Terminal Surreal, Martha Silano confronts the reality of mortality with gorgeous attention to imagery and scene. The book follows a trajectory from early symptoms before diagnosis...
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Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in VerseOne of Electric Literature's Best Nonfiction Books of 2024. One of them.'s Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024. A finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction."This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in...
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Tamalitos: Un Poema Para Cocinar / A Cooking PoemIn this bilingual cooking poem for young children, Jorge Argueta encourages more creativity and fun in the kitchen as he describes how to make tamalitos from corn masa and cheese, wrapped in cornhusks.The book opens with an homage to corn -- white, yellow, blue,...
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Soseki Natsume's Collected Haiku: 1,000 Verses from Japan's Most Popular Writer (Bilingual English & Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Readings of1,000 haiku by Soseki Natsume, collected into one volume for the first time! Soseki Natsume is Japan's most popular writer, well known in the West for his satirical novels like I Am a Cat, Botchan and Kokoro. However, he first made a name for...
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Son of a BirdSon of a Bird is a provocative encounter of girlhood, farm life and longing, hauntings and huntings, the self's instability, and the place where desire and the strange/unusual/unconventional/ meet. Son of a Bird is a memoir in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Flannery...
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Song of Myself: The First and Final Editions of the Great American PoemThis book compiles both the first (1855) and final revised (1892) versions of Walt Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of Myself" in one volume, making it unique and valuable for students of American literature.Author: American Renaissance Books,Walt WhitmanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/04/2013Pages: 134Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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SofteningSoften into what life is currently showing you, and become who you already are with this new collection of poetry and notes from the author of Bloom for Yourself, April Green. Filled with love and spiritual lessons from her own experience with trauma and...
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Silence, JoyIn this day of mindless distraction, we're desperate for reasons to put down our phones and reconnect with our spiritual selves. In time for the 50th anniversary of Thomas Merton's death in 1968, Silence, Joy is an invitation to slow down, take a breath,...
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Shifting the SilenceShifting the Silence breaks the taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short, unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan grapples with the breadth of her life at ninety-five, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own approaching death. The personal is continuously...
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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul CelanPaul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for...
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Selected PoemsThom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn's dozens of...
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Riprap and Cold Mountain PoemsBy any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all...
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Remember Love: Words for Tender TimesFrom the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk, a collection of prose and poetry that explores how we can find light in periods of lostness, love for ourselves after heartbreak, okay-ness in the midst of change, and strength in letting go....
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RaftDelightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life's shared experiences and emotions--illness, aging, beauty, and love.Raft is our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to...
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Proofs and TheoriesWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureProofs and Theories, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, one of this country's most brilliant poets.Like her poems, the prose of Glück, who won the Pulitzer...
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Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota GardenTravel through a garden's seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness--for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota spirituality,...
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PansyStep into the enchanting world of Pansy , where author Andrea Gibson creates a tapestry of emotions and experiences that will leave your your mind craving more. With an artful hand, Gibson seamlessly blends themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, and forgiveness, painting a...
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Out of the Ashes"When life feels as though it has been burned to the ground, reduced to piles of ash, there is always someone to remind us that life begins again, no matter how hard we fall or how disastrous the crash." This is the story of...
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No Rhododendron: PoemsWinner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Part elegy, part poetry of witness, and part poetry of exile, No Rhododendron is a lament to the poet-speaker's father and fatherland and a grief-wrought love letter to his mother and mother tongue. The collection...
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