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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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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take SidesAward-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides. Songs My Mother Taught Me is Williams' clear-eyed exploration of the role of the artist in these times by...
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Reflections of Ink - Riflessi d'inchiostroDear reader, Reflections of Ink unfolds as a work steeped in quiet bitterness, yet brushed by delicate traces of sweetness. It evokes sorrow, though never without the faint shimmer of hope, and reveals a fragile vulnerability beneath its harsh, disciplined language.The first section contemplates...
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Selected PoemsThe largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by "the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes" (Mario Vargas Llosa)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and...
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Scattered PoemsSpontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku."HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTH before we all go to Heaven VISIONS OF AMERICAAll that hitchhikinAll...
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Palestine Bleeds for YouThe shrieks of warplanes on their way to bomb Gaza provoked Ramsey Hanhan to write. This collection of poetry and essays plumbs the depths of human thought, religion, history, and culture in search of hope amid the world's criminal silence. In an authentic Palestinian...
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Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness. Over half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet's...
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Of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka PoemsA collection of translated Japanese waka-poems, including text collage and haibun-style discourses on translation. Of Women is a collection of translations of Japanese waka-poems from the seventh century to the twelfth century, featuring twenty female poets from this period, when Japanese women's literature flourished....
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Nkjv, Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James VersionAn easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even...
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Mock Heart: New & Selected PoemsA career-spanning volume of the poet's work charts the seasons of a woman's life through desire and motherhood, grief and the consolations of poetry "Reading Jill Bialosky's poems feels like taking a slow and lone journey into the depth of the human heart, yet...
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Making of a SonnetThis illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes, paying particular attention to how individual poets from Shakespeare to Strand have claimed...
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Leaves of Grass"I am large, I contain multitudes" A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the...
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Kindest Regards: Poems, Selected and NewFour decades of poetry―and a generous selection of new work―make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest, Kooser's poetry succeeds in finding the emotional resonances within the ordinary. Kooser's language of quiet intensity...
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I Am a Carnival of Stars: Essential Words from Sonia Sanchez on Life, Love & ResistanceAn inspirational keepsake from the multiple award-winning writer and activist Dynamic and legendary, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez is one of the most esteemed poets in contemporary American literature. Now for her fans and new readers alike comes this giftable quote book, containing some...
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HeritanceWriting from a mixed heritage, Paisley Rekdal voices both the sins of our fathers and the suffering of our mothers.In Paisley Rekdal's latest collection, Heritance, the body and its meanings are ever shifting--it is, at once, a legacy, an obligation, and a means of...
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Fear or Assurance: You Can ChooseIn the pages of this book, you will find ways to fight and win the war against Satan. The war against evil exists in the world and within each of us.In these verses, you will be encouraged along your path toward righteousness. You will...
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Dear Mothership: PoemsFrom the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity.In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the speculative vision...
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Constellation RouteConstellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, friendship, violence, and spirituality. The book is largely a metaphysical tribute to both the Post Office and the act of letter writing as...
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Blud"Throughout [BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like magic. . . . Stunning, unflinching, fearless."―Booklist Starred Review "Chicana poet, activist, and witchy folk hero of the disenfranchised....
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Ampersand Organ: A More-Than-Human LyricAn Autostraddle Most Anticipated"Epic, kaleidoscopic and unapologetically crip: this is a book that sings the multitude in revolutionary new ways."--PeopleA fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.Here...
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Alhamdulillah Anyway: PoemsHow totally must a heart break so that gratitude is repeatedly uttered on our lips? In Alhamdulillah Anyway, Moudi Sbeity responds by holding the grief of witnessing the genocide in Gaza and the war in Lebanon alongside praise for existing at all. As a...
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