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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Home: A Poetry BookA book on healing and the quest to return home in both non-physical and and physical ways.Author: Nausicaa TwilaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 03/06/2018Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34dISBN: 9781986272971About the AuthorNausicaa Twila is a Canadian Based author and poet...
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A Flying RoseA collection of quotes and reflective pieces about Hope, Faith, Love and LifeAuthor: Amreen Shaikh, Sabah AhmadPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 12/12/2017Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64dISBN: 9781981285020This title is not returnable
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Eugene Field, Collection children's poetryEugene Field, Sr. (1850 - 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of...
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Between Here and HomeBetween Here and Home stitches together a narrative through soliloquies from several inhabitants of an imagined rural valley in the American West. Distance and wind make the fabric thin but not always easy to tear.Author: Matt DalyPublisher: Unsolicited PressPublished: 06/18/2019Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize:...
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FlameFlame, a collection of persona poems in the voice of Mary, mother of Jesus (inthe Christian tradition) and Isa (in the Islamic tradition), is equal parts bodyand spirit, experience and myth. The poems are imaginative, as hope and faith areimaginative: we need to be...
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Letters to My CityTogether we are alive in a city of destiny. I am still alive in Los Angeles The poems and essays in Letters to My City combine two decades of field experience, research, personal observations, and stories told to the author, a third-generation Los Angeles...
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The Bones of Winter BirdsLike "sunlight stroking the birds' throats so it comes out as song," Ann Fisher-Wirth's graceful and sturdy lines unsettle the seemingly familiar. A writer of moral gravity, her distilled attentiveness presses against our all-too-common ambivalence and detachment from the ordinary world. Whether set in...
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Mare Nostrum"On the bridges to those slippery worlds, we are wrapped in gold foil, disease free. Who is saving whom? The question's not stated, only implied." In 2013, the Italian government implemented Mare Nostrum, an operation intended to limit immigration from Africa and the Middle...
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Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion"Gregory Crosby's poetry matches an extensive knowledge of literary form with a curator's eye for the idiosyncrasies of our popular culture. He zooms in on familiar scenes of contemporary life - 'Lonely Starbucks Lovers, ' 'Netflix & Chill.' He writes elegant elegies for David...
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A Flutter of Birds Passing Through Heaven: A Tribute to Robert SundThe poet and artist Robert Sund is a Pacific Northwest legend. This book is an inspired biography comprised of stories, memories, poetry, photography and artwork by those who knew him. The book is also filled with previously unpublished and uncollected works by Sund. A...
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Star Map with Action Figures"How does a sentence, // just like that, become prayer?" Part parable, part bestiary, part glossary of possible and impossible loves, Star Map with Action Figures, poem after poem, provides an answer. From the space between punishment and its promise, Phillips quizzes the thousand...
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In Whatever Light Left to UsJessica Jacobs' In Whatever Light Left to Us is about how a great love for another woman got her to write it; poems infused not only with a serious and, at times, satiric and erotic understanding of the world facing intimacy, but poems that...
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Drowned: A Mermaid's Manifesto"Theresa Davis's work revels in searching for the strength to be found in armor chinks. Every aspect of this book bears the standard of a regiment at war with the interior, fighting battles with loss, depression, and the lover that will not recede, battles...
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North of Eden: New & Collected PoemsThis is the definitive collection of poems by Rennie McQuilkin, Poet Laureate of CT and winner of the CT Book Award. His17th poetry collection and winner of the Indie Book Award for Poetry, it contains his best work from previous books, demonstrating a love...
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Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. PippinA lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin--the best-known African American artist of his time--Primitive offers a searching critique of the condescension to African American folk art as supposedly "primitive," and it also critiques the underestimation of African...
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Letters to a Young PainterNever before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke's fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While...
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The Derelict Daughter"The Derelict Daughter grabbed me by the throat in the first three lines: 'I've dug up my brother / and propped him against my shoulder, / his weight like a sagged-bag of dog food.' This collection sizzles and sparks, electric with grief and violence,...
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Three stories and ten poemsDuring his first 20 months in Paris, Hemingway filed 88 stories for the Toronto Star newspaper. He covered the Greco-Turkish War, where he witnessed the burning of Smyrna, and wrote travel pieces such as "Tuna Fishing in Spain" and "Trout Fishing All Across Europe:...
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Of MongrelitudePoems that break language apart from the inside. Brolaski's third collection combines Latin, pop culture, etymology, politics, and sex in linguistic experimentation. It asks the reader to let go of expectations and be open to a sonically immersive experience. The poems are as radical...
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Grief SequenceOffering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in trauma. In doing...
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