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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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Return to My Native LandA work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work...
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Please Bury Me in ThisThe speaker in Please Bury Me in This grieves the death of her father and the loss of several women to suicide while contemplating her own death and the nature of language as a means of human connection that transcends our temporal lives. This...
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Coeur de LionNow that I am not addressing youBut the "you" of poetryI am probably doing something horrible and destructive.But this "I" is the I of poetryAnd it should be able to do more than I can do.Just a few months after the publication of her...
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TeethWinner, 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry Stunning, highly original poems that celebrate the richness of the author's multicultural tradition, Teeth explores loves, wars, wild hope, defiance, and the spirit of creativity in a daring use of language and syntax. Behind this language one senses...
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The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life CrisisLuisa A. Igloria's "Buddha poems," written in early 2016, first appeared online at Via Negativa, where she has posted a new poem every day since November 2010.The author says these poems began from the premise that "if the Buddha in me can greet the...
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The History of Hip Hop"In the eighties, Hip hop transformed from urban American from infancy to a new culture "With the gradual shift from the seventies disco scene, a new style of music known as hip hop paved way for inner-city underground party scene; bringing out new young...
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Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook & Kim Min JeongTranslated by Jiyoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, Jake Levine and Johannes G ransson. This collection brings together three of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean poetry to the English language in translation. These three women poets shock and delight, entertain and de-familiarize, corrupt...
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The Song of Hiawatha: abridged for children with 48 colour illustrations (Aziloth Books)This colourful edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' is specially selected with children in mind, tracing Hiawatha's life from his early years and his friendship with animals and nature spirits through his marriage to Minnehaha and his mission to...
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TulleThe winning poetry collection in the inaugural Salmon Poetry Publication Prize 2001.Author: Mary O'DonoghuePublisher: Salmon PoetryPublished: 12/21/2001Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.08h x 5.22w x 0.17dISBN: 9781903392157This title is only available via back order
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Languages of Our Land/Langues de Notre Terre: Indigenous Poems and Stories from Quebec/Poèmes Et Récits Autochtones Du QuébecLanguages of Our Land/Langues de notre terre is a collection of poems and stories by twelve emerging and established Indigenous writers living in Quebec and writing in French. These writers all participated in either the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program (now the Indigenous Writing Program)...
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Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a HatRight under the big sky, I don't wear a hat presents colloquial haiku and occasional essays by an eccentric and disturbed personality who spent his last lonely years at a small Buddhist temple off the coast of Shikoku.Author: Hosai OzakiPublisher: Stone Bridge PressPublished: 07/01/1998Pages:...
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Under Storm's WingUnder Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the celebrated volumes As It Was and World Without End, her letters to Edward, and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H.Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon,...
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A New Silence"Observant, musical, coheres to nature; it's been a pleasure to read Joseph Massey for some years now. A poetry pared down to the essential inside the world where language interacts with itself and becomes the landscape it emerges from. Musically tipped-in to a vigilant...
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The Little Book of LoveA gorgeous and original gift for any occasion One of the world's favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profound than when he wrote about love. He believed it was the raison d'être of the universe. With the simplicity and lyrical beauty of The...
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A Hundred and Seventy Chinese PoemsWith some hesitation I have included literal versions of six poems (three of the "Seventeen Old Poems," "Autumn Wind," "Li Fu jen," and "On the Death of his Father") already skilfully rhymed by Professor Giles in "Chinese Poetry in English Verse." They were too...
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Teeth Never Sleep: PoemsFinalist, 2019 PEN Open Book AwardWinner, 2019 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Drawing on folklore and fantasy, childhood memory and hallucination, and marked by a tone of piercing divulgence, Teeth Never Sleep nimbly negotiates the split consciousness a culture of dominance requires of...
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How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars To Stars: Winner of the 2015 New Women's Voices SeriesAuthor: Alysia Nicole HarrisPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublished: 09/16/2016Pages: 42Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10dISBN: 9781635340013About the AuthorHarris, Alysia Nicole: - Alysia Nicole Harris is an internationally-known performance artist and poet hailing from Alexandria, Virginia. She is a Cave Canem fellow, founding...
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Cool SalsaGrowing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. "Cool Salsa" celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs...
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1919"The Zora Neale Hurston of her generation." --Studio 360"A truly rare cultural phenomenon: an artist who not only holds up a mirror to society, but makes herself a catalyst to change it." --Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the...
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Beginnings and BeyoneNearly four decades and 300,000 volumes after being told that her first book of poetry wouldn't sell, Carol Lynn Pearson's poetry has been internationally acclaimed and is going strong. More importantly, her poems have carved themselves in to the hearts of her loyal following,...
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