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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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Laurie Ann Guerrero: I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake; New and Selected PoemsThis collection of Guerrero's new and selected work documents the struggle to both honor and disrupt cultural, social, and familial traditions and histories. Hers is an honest and fearless examination of racism, sexism, domestic abuse, illness, and loss.Feminist writer, mother, and educator, Guerrero has...
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The Visible PlanetsThe Visible Planets is a celebration and a eulogy of galactic proportions. Simultaneously an exploration of universal joy and the mourning of a lost sister, Aly Pierce's The Visible Planets is a reminder of all the beauty in this fleeting life. Utilizing the cosmos...
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The CipherMolly Brodak's The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits. "We stand on the rim of the void," Brodak writes. "We hold our little lamps of knowing...
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More Than Watchmen at DaybreakPoetry. A stunningly beautiful and moving group of twelve related poems written while the author was resident for three months without internet or phone in a Benedictine monastery near Georgia O'Keefe's ranch.Author: Cyrus CassellsPublisher: Nine Mile Art CorpPublished: 04/06/2020Pages: 44Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.80h...
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Women of the Big SkyPoetry. Translation. Trilingual: Mapuzungun, Spanish, English. Argentinian poet Liliana Ancalao brings to us her mother tongue, Mapuzungun, which has survived the enslavement and dispossession of its people over centuries. Her poems, written in both Spanish and Mapuzungun by the author and then beautifully rendered...
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vulnerable beautythe story within these pages could belong to anyone. why? because love and grief do not discriminate. follow the bittersweet journey of the elation of love, the agony of heartbreak, and finding the strength within each of us to allow that love to help...
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FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry: An AnthologyThe first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a beautiful bilingual editionMore than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto slammed the door on the nineteenth century and trumpeted the arrival of modernity. Since then, against the backdrop of two...
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The Cyborg Anthology2021 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award Shortlist * 2021 Elgin Awards Longlist Poems written by Cyborgs in the future-this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots...
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Unearth [The Flowers]An electrifying letter to family, country, and self, Unearth The Flowers] is an essential collection, relentless in its journey through stages of grief and healing while celebrating life. Each poem is an anthem for resiliency, a testament to survival, a triumph over the stigmatized...
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Disturbing the LightThrough the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past on the present, especially in...
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The Nancy Reagan CollectionPoetry. Hybrid Genre. Performance Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. THE NANCY REAGAN COLLECTION is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics and aesthetics of mourning....
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Ancestor Count: Four Corner PoemsIn this volume, poet and philosopher Jennifer Lisa Vest explores history, ancestry, racism, identity, traditonal culture, modernity, sexuality, gender, indigeneity and blackness thought the lens of hybridity and mulitipositionaity. She names and claims, decries and protests the histories of her people in a effort...
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Ovid: A Very Short Introduction"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read...
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Like You: PoemsAnti-nostalgic and mutagenerative, productive of thought-experience even while centered on finalities--the limitations of human purview--these poems make sound and image about image and sound at the auratic edges of individualist glamour, in a country field. Their sensuous wit and emotional availability work against and...
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Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big HouseThe provocative position of Kent Johnson in American poetry over the past two decades--as both its foremost gadfly and its anti-institutional conscience--is unequalled. Admired and abhorred in like measures, he is the author, translator, or editor of more than thirty titles of poetry, criticism,...
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The Canterbury TalesDuring his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and 'the father of...
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"Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul": Mykola (Nik) Bazhan's Early Experimental PoetryThis bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. As he moved from futurism to neoclassicism, symbolism to socialist realism, Bazhan consistently displayed a creative approach to theme,...
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The Hymns of Orpheus: With the Life and Poetic Theology of OrpheusThis collection of hymns by Orpheus also includes a biography of the great poet by the celebrated translator and scholar of antiquity, Thomas Taylor.Termed by Pindar to be "the father of songs", Orpheus is a legendary figure of ancient Greece, responsible for gifting the...
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Band Nerds Awards: Nominations from the 13th Chair Trombone PlayerMove over, Pulitzer Get out of the way, Nobel Prize The most prestigious award of the century is calling. Don't miss another laugh-out-loud installment in the 13th Chair series by DJ Corchin The Marching Band Nerd Awards are not your typical awards. But do...
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By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's CapitalFollowing her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital...
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