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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Rara AvisRegally bearing its Latin title, Rara Avis captures in sparse, moving verse both the splendor and the loneliness of what it means to be exceptional -- a rarified specimen, a strange bird. A son, a husband, and now a father, seasoned poet Blas Falconer...
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Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems"One of her best collections to date." --EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s...
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Prisons to Paradise - My Journey to ChristA composition of poetry that reads like a story; each poem being a chapter, or layer, on my path of healing, my journey to Christ.Author: Janel TuftsPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 08/30/2023Pages: 54Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.11dISBN: 9789357747295This title is not returnable
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Poyums AnnawThe anticipated follow up to poyums, from a singular voice in modern Scots poetry "A second, blistering collection that confronts patriarchy, gender-based violence and societal injustice with tenderness, a jousting wit and not a little righteous fury"--Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller There isn't a timescale...
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PostLeo Herrera's debut book "Post" is a collection of poems, lectures, prayers and grudges. In 2020, amidst the uncertainty of COVID-19, Herrera's voice emerged as a source of comfort, clarity, and difficult truths. Originally presented as "meme essays" on social media, Herrera's densely-written posts...
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Poetry for Kids: Robert FrostA 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English) Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost is a collection specially curated for young readers which won't just be read, but consumed, experienced, and treasured for a lifetime. Whether capturing a cold New...
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Pink Lady: PoemsWhen her mother agrees to enter a Rhode Island nursing home in December of 2019, Denise Duhamel promises she'll visit at least once a month. By March of 2020, everyone is in lockdown. The elegies in Pink Lady explore the resiliency of her elderly...
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Pet Poems (also not just pets)"Keep this book handy to read over and over again."- Publisher's Weekly=====From Typewriter Rodeo's Sean Petrie comes this playful collection of animal poems & full-color art, reminiscent of Shel Silverstein & Mary Oliver.An ode to the perfect scratch spot. A tribute to lost pets....
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Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedJohn Milton's classic epic poems in one pocket-sized volume These controversial biblical poems explore the story of Adam and Eve, Satan, and the fall of man. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and...
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Paper CrownFirst poetry collection in a decade from acclaimed author of The Crying BookSince Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works The Crying Book and In the Rhododendrons have found her readers around the world. Paper Crown marks Christle's...
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New Collected PoemsWENDELL BERRY POETRY AT ITS BEST: Discover nearly 200 poems from the Kentucky poet's most popular poetry collections"A straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament, and family life." --The New York Times Book Review In New Collected...
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected PoemsAn award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.Author: Yusef KomunyakaaPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 04/30/1993Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.55w x 0.57dISBN: 9780819512116Award: Pulitzer Prize - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 03/15/1993 pg. 1292Library Journal 03/15/1993About the AuthorYUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the...
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Nature PoemNature Poem follows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He'd slap...
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Morning in the Burned House: PoemsThe renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems, by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate, are some of Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and...
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Me vs. You: (but mostly me)"Me vs. You (but mostly me)", is an ode to those that are battling with the need to compare their life with others. Throughout the course of my life, I wrote this collection of poems, starting at the age of 14 and still going...
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected LecturesThis is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery...
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Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner)Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With...
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Lebor Gabala Erenn: the book of the taking of IrelandLebor Gabála Érenn is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages. There are a number of versions, the earliest of...
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I Promised I Would TellHolocaust educator and survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz has been called "a survivor with a poet's eye." Her memoir, I Promised I Would Tell, includes her story of survival and more than two dozen poems through which she bears witness to the unspeakable. Through poetry...
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InfernoAn innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been rendered Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was...
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