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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For the Confederate DeadThe award-winning "lively and excellent collection" (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has "set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected...
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First Rain in ParadiseFirst Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard-won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging...
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Exit StrategyIn Exit Strategy, Patrick Wright crafts a vivid exploration of grief and loss, intertwining personal experience with responses to modern and contemporary art. Wright refracts bereavement through the lens of ekphrasis, transforming visual art into a language for mourning, while traversing the liminal spaces...
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Every Sunset Will Remind Me of YouEvery Sunset Will Remind Me of You is a heartfelt poetry collection by Goran Rahim that explores the deep emotional landscapes of love, longing, loss, and the fleeting moments that define our lives. Through lyrical verses, Rahim reflects on the beauty and pain of...
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Estate SaleWinner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry In a house full of stanzas found in Estate Sale, Dan Murphy opens the door on the objects of his life: accumulated experience and imagination, trauma, personal and political history, inheritances that subtly unearth the...
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Elephants by Night: African PoemsHow was Abraham Sutzkever, the most famous Yiddish poet to survive the ghettos of Europe, inspired by an invitation to speak in South Africa? How did he transform his travels into a celebration of the creative impulse at a moment when Yiddish literature was...
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Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian EpicIn early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos. In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can comparison...
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Discarded: A Rural AnthologyA reclamation of the narrative of rural and small towns and reservations across the United States, Discarded is an anthology holding the works of 63 artists with place-based relationships to 27 states. Informed by the front porch and the frontlines, this anthology explores the...
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Delphinium GospelDevastating violence is a fracturing occurrence that distinguishes itself from other eventualities in the three distinct and divergent blessings that God/the universe gifts to its victims. The victim can only choose one blessing to embrace because each blessing contradicts and makes the other inviable....
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Dear Memphis"What do I know of exile?" asks the speaker in DEAR MEMPHIS, standing inside the colliding geographies and intimate economies of the American South. Offering a direct address to the city where the poet grew up, this collection explores the displacement and belonging of...
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Daughter of Breath: PoemsDaughter of Breath is a timely voice calling those lost in the wilderness created by church-sponsored patriarchy, misogyny, and queer phobia, to grieve, heal, and reclaim their authentic voices. Born from the ache of deeply personal, yet all too common experiences-the poems in Daughter...
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Dangerous Household Items"David Orr is an authentic iconoclast. His criticism is exuberant and original. Dr. Johnson, my critical hero, urged us to clear our mind of cant. Orr has cleared his. He will enhance the perception of his readers." --Harold Bloom"A poetry critic and poet himself,...
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Cultural Slag"Cultural Slag is a collection of light verse, prose pieces and black-humor drawings by the creators of Scrap Irony, a collaboration hailed by the New York Times as an "uncommonplace book of bright verse and lively prose." Laughing over the absurdities of our times,...
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Crucify Me GentlyPlunging into darkness, you look for a lifeline. I came forth from the mental hospitals fighting; drugged and almost committed for life. Flashbacks and putting the pieces together, memories unearthed. Unwanted are the memories, yet they come, crying out to God to not be...
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Collected SonnetsMore than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems--including 20 sonnets from Mine the Harvest not contained in previous editions of her Collected Sonnets--are brought together in this expanded edition. An introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses on examples...
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Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, DelightA unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object. In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve illustrations of the so-called "Pearl-Manuscript," the only...
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Chaotic GoodAn evocative journey of self-discovery and reclamation in the wake of divorceThis fresh, dynamic debut poetry book from award-winning poet Isabelle Baafi explores the transformative journey of redefining one's identity following trauma and upheaval. This conversational collection simmers with energy and immediacy as it...
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Chaotic GoodAn evocative journey of self-discovery and reclamation in the wake of divorceThis fresh, dynamic debut poetry book from award-winning poet Isabelle Baafi explores the transformative journey of redefining one's identity following trauma and upheaval. This conversational collection simmers with energy and immediacy as it...
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Braids & Sequins: A Brief HistoryCelebrating the prose poetry sequence in twentieth century literature.Sequences, some narrative and some fragmentary emerged as a form early in the twentieth century with the work of Ernest Hemingway, Amy Lowell, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, H.D., and others. Braids & Sequins traces the form...
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Blue Skies.My fifty-poem collection, Blue Skies, explores the human life experience through my own genuine, personal reflections.Author: John E. Jr. FranklinPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 01/04/2025Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9789363310452This title is not returnable
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