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 House of BeingAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey "Trethewey doesn't just explore the reasons why she writes. She also offers a compassionate argument for why we must all...
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I Ching: The Book of Change: A New TranslationA master translator's beautiful and accessible rendering of the seminal Chinese textIn a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an...
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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other PoemsPlayfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present book's title, Collins's...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected WorksSor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate...
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Magdalene: PoemsMagdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape--hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Between facing the traumas of her past and navigating daily life,...
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The Night Before New Year'sThe newest title in Natasha Wing's bestselling Night Before series! It's the night before New Year?s, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight! Everyone's stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with card...
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The Father: PoemsA searing sequence of poems about a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).The Father chronicles...
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Spider and the Fly"'Will you walk into my parlor, ' said the Spider to the Fly..." is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the...
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Dante: The Essential CommediaThe Commedia, Dante's epic story of one man's journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can seem daunting to the English-speaking reader. College courses...
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The Theory and Practice of RiversJim Harrison's The Theory and Practice of Rivers returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume.In her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, inspired by the death of Harrison's teenage niece, and a "loose memoir" teeming with thoughts...
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The Country of MarriageFirst published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly, marriage is the basic and...
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The Renunciations: PoemsAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and...
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A Nature Poem for Every Spring EveningPoems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest poets that...
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MercuryComposed in the direct, accessible, consciousness-piercing style, Mercury comprises a group of long poems. These interlocking works speak to the substance and essence of what is said, transmitted, transacted, "communicated" between persons. Reines proposes that substance and essence are opposites, and explores this in...
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Sonnets to Orpheus: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition)2025 Indie Book Awards Finalist Poetry"Rilke's voice from the last tumultuous young century reaches tenderly into ours. But his lush German is a language of its own. Mark Burrows has a rare gift to coax it faithfully into English. I am delighted, and so...
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Bitter Creek: An Epic PoemBitter Creek, a lyric Chinese epic of the American West, reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.In September of 1885, the Chinese coal miners who were brought in as strikebreakers were ambushed and driven out of the town at gunpoint by...
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Thoughts From the Heart: Embracing Change and Finding LoveThis book is more than the introspective journey of one woman navigating the complexity of life. It is a compilation of poems about how we learn to see people for who they are; find joy in sharing time with family and friends; adapt to...
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Brava"Let us celebrate our good fortune: that Violeta Garza's voice is now part of a literary lineage of poetas chingonas ... Brava, brimming with empathy, passion, but also bravado, soothes with the sensibility of a healer and commands with the ferocity of a comadre,...
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Hands in ClayA radical, radiant melancholy is the light that comes from Mildred Kiconco Barya's poems. Moonlight, hellfire, komorebi - light filtered through leaves. And the light from fires - buried, rekindled, luminous - a cremating fire of ritual and transformation of experience. Barya has a...
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The Sonnets and a Lover's ComplaintPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had...
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