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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Orphic Hymns GrimoireIn Orphic Hymns Grimoire, Sara L. Mastros transforms the devotional hymns of Orpheus, the oracular hero of ancient Greece, into a functional, working grimoire for contemporary magicians. The Orphic Hymns have inspired generations of poets, musicians, and playwrights as exemplars of archaic mytho-poetry. In...
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Over the River and Through the Wood"An exceptionally handsome treat." -Booklist Lydia Maria Child's beloved poem turned classic song embodies the magic of bundling up and riding a horse-drawn sleigh to visit Grandmother for Thanksgiving. The joys of Thanksgiving are indelibly captured in this glorious paring of text and art....
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And Yet: PoemsThe second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York...
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The Essential June JordanHonored as a Best Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak...
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Harp and Laurel Wreath: Poetry and Dictation for the Classical CurriculumConvinced that a critical part of education is to foster in our children a love of the beautiful and true, teacher and writer Laura Berquist presents this wide selection of poetry for every age level from grades one to twelve. Language development is significantly...
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Selected PoemsThe one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen...
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'HaraAvailable for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when...
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Monument: Poems New and SelectedUrgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and select poems drawing upon Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia, Native Guard, Congregation, and Thrall, from two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey.Layering joy and urgent defiance--against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy...
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Desolation Peak: Collected Writings"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it." In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the...
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Love Your Amazing Self: Joyful Verses for Young VoicesThe world has its ideas of who you are/ but you don't need them, / to be the person you really are inside/ is Freedom. The empowering lyrical verse of Ofosu Jones-Quartey, a meditation teacher and hip-hop musician, offers a unique entry point to...
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Pet: the Journey from Abuse to Recovery"Pet" is a poem sequence that navigates the reader through the traumatic & transformative journey of domestic abuse and its aftermath. Written in four parts, "Pet" explores what it means to lose the sense of self to the coercion of violence; the world-shattering revelation,...
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Little DancersLittle Dancers is a deeply personal yet whimsical poetry collection that illuminates the many forms of heartache through childlike perspectives. More than anything it is about joy, while also addressing grief, womanhood, singleness and faith. It is hopeful and nostalgic as a lullaby.Author: Eleana...
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100 Poems to Break Your Heart100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a PoemImplicit...
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Noor Upon NoorNoor upon Noor is a collection of quotes and poetry. A book that will guide you towards your best life. Towards success in Dunya and in Deen. Towards a meaningful life. Towards reaching your true potential and becoming those people who are admired, loved...
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On a Gold-Blooming Day: Finding Fall TreasuresOn a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . / Snakes glide. / Spiders hide. / Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp. From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Snow-Melting Day, comes an exciting companion book. As autumn begins, plants and animals in nature begin...
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Word in the Wilderness: A Poem a Day for Lent and EasterFor every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. Lent is a time to reorient ourselves, clarify our minds,...
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Muse Found in a Colonized BodyIn the book's eponymous poem, Yesenia Montilla writes, "How do you not love yourself when you / constantly survive your undoing just by being precious?" Muse Found in a Colonized Body answers this rhetorical question by populating itself with poems that range far and...
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' AntigoneIn this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch. Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century...
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The ProphetRead Gibran's masterpiece in print! Set in the mythic city of Orphalese, The Prophet is a poetic treatise on all facets of life, from the daily realities of clothes and houses, to questions of love, beauty, and self-knowledge. Featuring 12 original illustrations by the...
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Pilgrim (Revised) (Revised)In this collection, David Whyte looks at the great questions of human life through the eyes of the pilgrim: someone passing through relatively quickly, looking for the biggest context they can find or imagine, someone dependent on friendship, hospitality and help from friends and...
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