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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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Work & DaysIn 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade, and trying to...
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Bone LightOrlando White explores language from a Diné (Navajo) perspective. One idea that interests him, inspires him to think and write, is the idea of the English language as a forgotten language. Imagine if we as a people, all people in the United States, are...
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Episcopal HaikuThe Episcopal Church's rituals and foibles, character and characters, beauty and liturgy - seventeen syllables at a time. Stand, sit, kneel, stand, kneel: It's quite a good workout for a Sunday morning. Blessing animals is a joyous day at church. Who has ugly pets?...
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The Breath Between: An Invitation to Mystery and JoyThis astonishing new collection from poet Bethany Lee weaves the thread of her keen attention around life's joys and sorrows, draws them tightly together and offers them into our hands. With unflinching courage she extracts beauty from her journeys as seafarer and grief-tender, makes...
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As Clean as a BoneEmmett Wheatfall's As Clean as a Bone is a collection of poems for both the heart and the mind, a collection seasoned with the vital and invigorating salt of poetry and wisdom. Through clean, crafted lines that ring out, these remarkable poems question history,...
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Rumi's Four Essential Practices: Ecstatic Body, Awakened SoulPoems and commentary that open the door for a new generation to experience the ecstatic and embodied spiritual truths contained in Rumi's poetry - Reveals how the four practices of eating lightly, breathing deeply, moving freely, and gazing intently can invoke the divinity within...
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In Parenthesis: Seinnyessit E Gledyf Ym Penn Mameu"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of" with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated...
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Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard HellHot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell is a stupendous compendium of poetry, prose, photography, illustrations, interviews, essays, lyrics, and more by acclaimed artist, author, and rock star, Richard Hell. Since he first came to public attention in the 1970s, Richard Hell has...
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Hallelujah Blackout"Astonishing . . . A pure-gospel shout to the vaulted heavens." --D. A. POWELLWritten in the aftermath of brain trauma, this astonishing collection takes us through a glittering underworld of illness and recovery, on a confrontational, explosive trip that is at once euphoric and...
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DandariansHailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of our brightest talents," Lee Ann Roripaugh's fourth collection of poems maps the illusory and ephemeral connection between identities and language.Based on sources as diverse as Heian-period Japanese women writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing...
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The Prelude: Newly Edited from the Manuscripts and Fully Illustrated in Color"An outsize, gorgeous book, replete with paintings and drawings--landscapes, houses, portraits--contemporaneous with the poem. At last we have a worthy visual counterpart to one of the timeless monuments of English verse."--The Wall Street Journal The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank...
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HeartlandA read-aloud picture book for young children that celebrates the heartland of our great country. Every country has a heart and America's is in those places where golden wheat waves in the breeze, where great rivers flow, and cornfields stretch across the plains in...
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Exiles of EdenExiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally experimental collection steeped in Somali narrative tradition, Osman gives voice to...
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Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah: PoemsWinner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams AwardWinner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith's new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful--and...
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Entrepat"McMorris is a poet utterly devoted to the sensual beauty of language and he crafts lines dense and strong enough to bear the crashing forces of history and identity contained within them . . . his work is wrenching, lovely, and powerfully seductive."--Poetry Project...
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Teducation: Selected PoemsBlack Dues Black Blues Black News , Ted Joans trumpets in his tribute to Langston Hughes. What Library Journal wrote in 1969 holds true today: This collection of his work clearly reveals the influence of Langston Hughes, his mentor and friend. Joans, however, has...
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Conference of the Birds: A Mystic AllegoryFarid ud-Din Attar occupies a prominent place in the roll of distinguished Persian poets. His most famous work on Sufism, written eight centuries ago, is the Mantiq-ut-Tayr, or the "Colloquy of the Birds," an allegorical poem in which the gifted mystic describes the quest...
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God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of GodWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a "Magazine of Spiritual Ecology," has declared her an "earth...
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The Anchorage: PoemsIn this debut collection, Mark Wunderlich creates a central metaphor of the body as anchor for the soul-but it is a body in peril, one set in motion through the landscape of desire. In poems located in New York's summer streets, in the barren...
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Father's DayAs seen in the The New York Times Book Review "In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder's fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation." --The New...
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