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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The Poetry of Pablo NerudaThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda offers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márquez). "In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to...
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The OdysseyThe epic tale of Odysseus's journey home--one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest...
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The Hum of a Dreaming MoonSurreal, dreamlike, and absurdist lyrics-as-poetry weave together fact and fable in this debut collection from A.p. Harbor: pen name of Appalachian songwriter Andrew Preston. Illustrated in doodles and fragments by bandmate Mary Morris, this hodgepodge of story-songs explores love, nature, magic, family, science, and...
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The Divine Comedy: Anniversary Edition: Newly Translated and Annotated with Illustrations by Gustave DoreDante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of...
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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and TransformationFrom the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. "A great poet's reflections on our greatest mystery."--Billy Collins "A treasure . . . The solace Rilke...
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The Blues Cry For A RevolutionAward-winning Poet and Writer, Rashaun J. Allen's The Blues Cry For A Revolution is a poetry collection that navigates systemic oppression black victims, watchers, and resisters face in the United States. The versatile collection serves not only as a voice for those who have...
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The Best Part of Me: Children Talk about Their Bodies in Pictures and WordsEqual parts heartwarming, funny, and empowering, this stunning photography book celebrates kids' favorite things about themselves. An award-winning photographer asked children, "What is the best part of you?" Their answers accompany striking black-and-white photographs in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, deeply personal book. A...
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The Beadworkers: StoriesBeth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works...
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The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing"Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets." -Billy CollinsThe Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the...
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Ten Indian Classics"The Murty Classical Library of India sifts through multiple languages and thousands of years to bring a nation's literary treasures to English-language readers." --Wall Street Journal Romantic ghazals and devotional quatrains, medieval battles and separated lovers, Buddhist women on their journeys toward nirvana and...
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Teaching My Mother How to Give BirthWhat elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of...
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Strange FlowersBryan Byrdlong's debut Strange Flowers fashions a kind of suit, an armor, a disguise out of the folk and pop cultural creation of the zombie. In response to historical prejudice, but more specifically in response to fear of Black people in America, the poetry...
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Strange Beach: PoemsA debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform--across oceans and within relationships--told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens At times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of Strange Beach demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseun's speakers--usually,...
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Starlight She Becomes: PoemsExperience a powerful journey of transformation and self-love, told through the evocative words of a trans woman reclaiming her identity and joy. Trans poet Parker Lee (author of the bestselling coffee days whiskey nights) returns with an all new collection of poetry, prose, and...
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Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: PoemsThe loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces--at bedside vigils and in city streets--quickens Catherine Barnett's metaphysical poems, which are like speculative prescriptions for this common human experience. Here loneliness is filled with belonging, which is in turn filled with loneliness, each state suffused...
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Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and LongingRumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks.Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century...
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RoseTable of Contents I.EpistleThe GiftPersimmonsThe Weight Of SweetnessFrom BlossomsDreaming Of HairEarly In The MorningWaterFalling: The CodeNocturneMy IndigoIrisesEating Alone II.Always A Rose III.Eating TogetherI Ask My Mother To SingAsh, Snow, Or MoonlightThe LifeThe WeepersBraidingRain DiaryMy Sleeping Loved OnesMnemonicBetween SeasonsVisions And InterpretationsAuthor: Li-Young LeePublisher: BOA EditionsPublished:...
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Quiet as MudA sweet poem about being an introvert in a big loud world. The Children's Book Council (CBC) - K-2nd grade CHILDREN'S favorite Inspired by a quote from the late, great children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, this poem honors and celebrates the beauty of...
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Philosophical Essays: A Critical EditionFernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by "thousands of philosophies," all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting fragments were never published by Pessoa himself and almost the entirety of them are presented in this...
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One Hundred Poems from Old Japan: A New Translation of the Hyakunin Isshu [With Free Online Audio Recordings]"Translated with both grace and precision, the poems are elegant expressions of the depth of human emotion." --William Scott Wilson, renowned translator of Japanese literature In the pale dawnyour coldness as we partedfroze my heart--nothing now so chills meas morning's early light --Mibu no...
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