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 Season in Hell & IlluminationsTranslated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason "The definitive translation for our time."-Edward Hirsch From Dante's Inferno to Sartre's No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell-written when...
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Ararat: PoemsA new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing sixth collection of poetry, about "the myth of a happy family" (The New York Review of Books). Louise Gl?ck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet, one who was innovative,...
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Another LifeAnother Life is a collection of poems that circle motherhood and all it entails, its hopes and its horrors. It's about the life chosen and the life left unlived. Frances Klein takes the reader on a journey through both the pain and the pleasure...
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Animals Out-There W-I-L-D: A Bestiary in English & ASL GlossIn this groundbreaking collection of sign language gloss poetry, the first of its kind to be published, Raymond Luczak explores the dynamics of written English poetry and ASL gloss by communing with the animals living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.Having lost much of his hearing...
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An Exodus of SparksAn Exodus of Sparks explores how violence reshapes family, geography, and faith. Predominantly set in the high desert, these poems explore the micro-losses of a father and brother (to downwinder-related cancer and substance abuse) against the macro-losses of a geography to nuclear testing and...
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Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, PoetryAncient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to tragedies from the Classical Age of Athens and beyond. With a focus on the Olympics, Gregory Nagy investigates how the heroes of ancient Greek poetry related...
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All The Small Things"In this very old, magical place / I knew I was not alone."A vibrant, moving sophomore collection, All the Small Things offers a gentle reminder to readers young and old: You are not alone. Through poetic lyricism and whimsical watercolour illustrations, Libby McKechnie showcases...
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All the Love Poems of ShakespeareThis is the first paperback reprint of the beautiful Sylvan Press edition of Shakespeare's love poems. First published in 1947, the Sylvan Press edition was printed in a limited edition and was allowed to go out of print when all copies were sold out....
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Accident DancingAccident Dancing is a book of poetry by artist and musician Keaton Henson, detailing his life in fragments, from the extreme to the mundane. Accompanied by evocative pencil illustrations, it is an intimate and unapologetically personal insight into this extremely emotive artist. "Accident Dancing...
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A book of soundsIn the Postface to his 114 Songs of 1922, Charles Ives wrote: "Some of the songs in this book, particularly among the latter ones, cannot be sung, and if they could, perhaps might prefer, if they had a say, to remain as they are;...
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100 Poems by 100 PoetsTo pass the time on a long train ride from London to Cromwell, playwright Harold Pinter and his two companions, Geoffrey Godbert and Anthony Astbury, set up a challenge: Choose 100 poems by 100 poets -- living poets excluded -- to represent the finest...
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1,001 Haikus to Start With: An Honest Attempt to Explain the Teaching ProfessionJames Cottage uses a form of poetry anyone could write to describe teaching as only he can. Spanning over twenty years in the country's largest public school system, Cottage shares the day-to-day thoughts and feelings that race through his mind while meeting the needs...
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अनसुने लफ्ज़Author: Vinay K. Gogne, AnupriyaPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 12/23/2024Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.10dISBN: 9789363301573This title is not returnable
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Wrong WindsAhmad Almallah's third collection considers the impossible task of being a Palestinian in the world today. When genocide is the question, can the answer be anything but wrong? In Wrong Winds, written during the first months of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Palestinian-American poet...
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Words, Words, WordsIn Words, Words, Words, V.S. Woodraven embarks on an evocative journey through the power of language and emotion. Each poem captures fleeting moments of clarity and chaos, offering readers a profound exploration of life's joys, struggles, and the spaces in between. With themes that...
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Within MeA story of breaking and becoming...I began to give myself to the breaking, knowing deep down that what was true could never shatter. I was breaking open to the real me. I witnessed it-gosh, did I witness it. A different sort of breaking. I...
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: PoemsIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello--to mourn the deaths of Black...
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When Darkness LovesWhen Darkness Loves is an enchanting collection of dark romantic poetry that explores the captivating intersection of love and darkness. Delving into the depths of human emotions, this evocative anthology unravels hauntingly beautiful verses that celebrate the mysterious allure of love's darker shades. With...
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We Are All God's PoemsPoets Cinnamon Kills First, Keya Mitra Lloyd, Jos? Hernandez, Patricia Vald?s, Charles Finn, and Shann Ray curated a series of poems from poets-nationally and internationally, emerging and award-winning-that stands against the current age of ego enragement, fracture, and disillusionment. The poems here, all titled...
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WayfarersWritten in the wake of the sudden disappearance of her nephew, Jane Medved's award-winning Wayfarers tells of the struggle to process loss without any physical anchor. Threaded through these poems are clues to navigating our time on earth, as left for us by the...
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