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 Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket The Divine Comedy follows Dante on a symbolic journey through the realms of the afterlife: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Guided by the poet Virgil and later by his beloved Beatrice, Dante encounters souls facing the consequences of their...
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The Consolation of GeometryThe story in poems reads like a movie and exposes the bitter compromises a couple will make with abuse and love. Lyrical, accomplished poems examine and ultimately reveal "why we stay" as the poet recovers herself and her love through the language of healing....
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The Book of FlowersThe Book of Flowers uses ecopoetic and surrealist imagery - as well as formal experimentation - to process grief in its many forms. McCrea explores the pain caused by losing a loved one, living on a dying Earth, and the violence queer and other...
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The 2024 One Page Poetry AnthologyThe art of expressing a poetic theme on a single page is the premise upon which the One Page Poetry 2024 contest is based, and the hundred poets represented in our 2024 anthology demonstrate remarkable creativity and inspiration in exploring this premise. These gifted...
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Tell Me When You Are Tired of MeMemories from our childhood are poignant reminders of the people, places and events that have significantly shaped the quality and course of our future lives. Those memories are the background stories behind the episodic ways in which our lives develop and evolve, giving form...
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Still Water Carving Light: PoemsStill Water Carving Light tenderly navigates the depths of loss and memory. Peggy Shumaker delicately captures the fragility of the human body, the profound bonds between loved ones, and the unpredictable journey of life itself. As seasons shift and bodies age, these poems gracefully...
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Soul Sweet: A Soulful Collection of Poetry from the HeartExperience the romance of written verse and discover the poetry within us all.If life is literature and experiences are poems, how do we honor the stories that live inside us all?3/4Tell them. In Soul Sweet, Gwendolyn Harrell Oyewole taps into her romantic side to...
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Senior DaysAlice Mohor's newest collection of heart-warming, nostalgic rhyming poetry is aimed at Seniors. The modern world is pointlessly confusing and packed with technology that makes no sense compared with the way it used to be. The values, norms, family vacations in a station wagon,...
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Seamus Heaney's Gifts"The fact of the matter," Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, "is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry." Throughout his career, Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize...
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Rough Sea: poemsRough Sea is a collection of poems that do not shy away from life's complexity. J.P. White's poems vividly portray the natural world as well as human society, both worlds full of cruelty and beauty. The poems show an openness to some of the...
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Roots of Rot and RuinAuthor: Edgar J. WildePublisher: Edgar J.WildePublished: 12/09/2024Pages: 138Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9798992193107This title is not returnable
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Respirator BluesRespirator Blues is a collection of ninety lowku poems (senryu) by poet Elaine Parker Adams. Similar to the well-known haiku in structure, lowku focuses on social issues rather than nature.Adams explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of COVID-19, its effects, and the...
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Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the PulpsPulp magazines saw their heyday from the 1920s through the 1950s, appealing to an audience that included men and women: A quarter of the readers of Weird Tales were women. Across its 30-year publishing history, a third of its writers were women, too.Many of...
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RegalosIn Elisa A. Garza's debut poetry collection, Regalos, we find a Chicana feminist voice filled with power, grace, and truth. Here poetry delves deep into family issues, cultura, and language. Garza has created a masterpiece that will inspire and move readers from all backgrounds....
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Red Steagall: New and Selected PoemsRed Steagall brings the cowboy way of life to the public through many different media, including poetry. His poetry speaks in its own right, possessing a musical, songlike quality. His lilting rhythms carry the reader through the journey that each poem represents. Steagall's poems...
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Reality checkAuthor: Melissa JemisonPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 12/02/2024Pages: 38Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.08dISBN: 9789363314993This title is not returnable
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Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive CollectionThe poems within Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Collection explore our relationship with celebrity. They're about David Attenborough and 90s Hip Hop, Bjork, toxic masculinity, Patrick Swayze, The Golden Girls, nostalgia and vulnerability, Whoopi Goldberg, Justin Bieber, video games and Queen. But they're also...
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Poems 1959-2009These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today."Author: Frederick SeidelPublisher: Farrar, Strauss...
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Piscataqua Poems 2About a decade ago, we here at RiverRun began publishing books. Once we held that amazing, Promethean power in our little hands, we decided it would be great fun to put together Piscataqua Poems, a collection of local poets celebrating all the things we...
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Of Now and ThenAs are the sands of time we humans are like water in a glass. Is the glass half empty or half full? When it overflows the strain can become too great. In an attempt to ease this pressure we use words to relieve our...
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