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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Once I Was a Stone"Emilie Lygren's poems are pulse and heartbeat! Their clear vision restores our own bigger sight. Remember when we felt connected to everything? Emilie's poems are gravity, immediate ground, wide horizon, ashes pitched off a cliff, creek stones carried up a mountain. I love their...
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New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012"It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic's work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight." -Los Angeles TimesFor over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and...
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Moral Tales from PanchtantraJourney Through Classic Tales of Panchatantra! Moral Tales From Panchatantra brings to life six timeless stories from ancient Indian folklore, designed to entertain and educate young readers. With engaging narratives and vivid illustrations, this collection imparts age-old wisdom about human nature, wise conduct, and...
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Magic Enuff: Poems"Gorgeous poetry" (People) that celebrates Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, from the bestselling author of Memphis. "These are lush poems full of radical love and strength."--Warsan Shire, author of Bless the Daughter...
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Leaves of Grass: Selected PoemsDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...
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Leaves of GrassIn 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions...
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I Shimmer Sometimes, TooPorsha Olayiwola's debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These poems dip their hands into the fabric of black womanhood and revel in it. Shimmer establishes Olayiwola firmly in the lineage of black queer poetics, celebrating the work done...
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In the House of Modern Upbringing for GirlsWinner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls is Majda Gama's first full-length poetry collection.In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility of history, and...
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Instructions for the LoversFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRYA taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life."Dawn Lundy Martin's poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can't...
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Hey Black ChildSix-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are?Do you know you can be What...
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Head Off & Split: PoemsWinner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain...
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HawkHawk is a magnificent long-form poem analogizing flight into space with freedom. First published in 1957, these new editions (paperback and hardcover facsimile) mark the first time Hawk is widely available for purchase.Author: Vivian AyersPublisher: Clemson University PressPublished: 10/31/2023Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 10.00h...
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems"Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one."-- from the preface I was born to grow, alongside...
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Hard DamageHard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of...
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Games for Children"A restless collection of incredible breadth, whose ability to meld applied science, faith, history, racial myth, and personal archive gives us poems whose power is unmistakable. A game-changing book."--Rosalie Moffett, judge of the 2024 National Poetry SeriesRadiant with a tenderness that is only achieved...
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From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms*over 150,000 copies of Jess's poetry books sold worldwide!*"I want to tell you everything I knowcarry you and guide youyet somehow, as your tiny finger pointsto things in wonderand your eyes meet minethe paradigm shiftsI once thought I was to show you the worldwhen...
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Dress Me Like a PrizefighterCatherine Strayhall's debut is one of generations of joys and losses, of memories firmly rooted by place. Strayhall has a dexterous range of forms that she uses to explore the legacy of World Wars, the changing landscape and climate, and to count all the...
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Dear Inheritors"Dear Inheritors" moves from the intimacy of home and family to community to social movement, to other countries, back to dirt, river birch and sycamore, to the sea. Opening with the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, looking back to childhood awakenings, the poems...
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Consider the RoosterNAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2024 BY LIT HUB AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2025 CLMP FIRECRACKER AWARD IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA AWARD FOR TRANSGENDER POETRYConsider the Rooster serves as...
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Commotion in the OceanThis delightful board book, by the author of Giraffes Can't Dance, features a collection of rhyming poems with colorful illustrations and is a wonderful way to introduce little ones to the animals and fish who live in and around the ocean. Children will love...
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