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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This Is Us Losing Count: Eight Russian PoetsIn This Is Us Losing Count, eight contemporary Russian poets obliterate old conventions in their efforts to reckon with the past. A woman surveys a changing city from her self-described "cloud tower," recalling where building used to stand. A grandmother spends her hallucinatory final...
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Distant Transit: PoemsFrom a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history. At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost. Infused with movement, Maja Haderlap's...
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Piero Heliczer: Poems & DocumentsRarities and ephemera from the life and work of Piero Heliczer--poet, filmmaker, publisher, the Apollinaire of the international '60s avant-gardePiero Heliczer (1937-93) was one of the most important and ubiquitous protagonists of the underground of the 1960s and '70s. Born in Italy, Heliczer lived...
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Like We Still SpeakWinner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister...
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Poetry in Motion: (With Rhyme and Reason) for Lovers and Other StrangersM.S. Penelope Price speaks about love, lust, desire and romance.Author: M. S. Penelope PricePublisher: Xlibris UsPublished: 05/12/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51dISBN: 9781664173873About the AuthorM. S. Penelope Price has always been a lover of the written word (and the spoken...
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The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab DiasporaThe Funambulists brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple languages and regions, this volume illuminates the distinct artistic voice of each poet, yet also highlights the aesthetic and political relevance that unites their work. Marchi explores...
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The Art of Expression in Poetry: A Book of Short Poems A-ZThe Art of Expression in Poetry: A Book of Short Poems, A-Z is a compilation of fifty-three poems derived from experiences and knowledge obtained during my life. The poetry discusses a wide range of topics and issues that we encounter throughout life and a...
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Exile HeartThe 8th book and 7th poetry collection by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck tracks tributaries from the Golden Gate Bridge, California to the Neosho River, Oklahoma. Shuck centers this collection around Indigenous bodies, nature, family, land, and memory. It is at once a...
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sour cream and vinegar: when milk and honey are not enoughsour cream and vinegar is a collection of poems that take confessionalism into an unorthodox literary marriage with imagism. the deplorable poet brings a unique poetic format that allows the reader to set their own rhythm while being engaged with each poem. Realism takes...
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Voices of the Grieving HeartGrieving the death of someone we loved is the darkest road many of us will ever travel.Each of us must find our own path as we navigate the uncharted territory of our new lives. Voices of the Grieving Heart isn't a map; it's a...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Origin Story: Poemsorigin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers. These poems take us from Kansas to Korea and back again in an attempt to reconnect with estranged family and familial ghosts divided by years of diaspora. An...
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spare changeIn her debut poetry collection, spare change, Irene Cooper speaks to the dead and the living through sideways sonnets and fragmented form. This is a book, says TC Tolbert, "...that holds at its center the multiplicities of grief ("permission to speak/to the open wound"...
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I and You and Don't Forget Who, 20th Anniversary Edition: What Is a Pronoun?Just like a substitute teaches your class, /when she's asked to fill in for your teacher, /a pronoun steps in as a sub for a noun, / becoming the star of the feature. In this 20th anniversary edition of I and You and Don't...
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Atlantis, an AutoanthropologyOver the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he knew André...
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Our Cancers: PoemsPoet and playwright Dan O'Brien chronicles the year and a half during which both he and his wife were treated for cancer. On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11--an event that caused their downtown apartment to become "suffused with the World Trade Center's carcinogenic dust"--Dan...
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American Poetry: A Very Short IntroductionA leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the...
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While I Am Drawing BreathThe experience of living in the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow of all the poetry Ausl nder wrote, though she rarely addresses it explicitly. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror, the horror of...
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Amanda Gorman: Poet & ActivistThis title introduces young readers to Amanda Gorman, best known as the first Youth Poet Laureate and for her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb. Readers will enjoy learning about Gorman's early years, education, bibliography, and many accomplishments. Aligned to Common Core standards &...
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The Waste LandThe Waste Land (1922) is a poem by T.S. Eliot. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Eliot took a leave of absence from his job at a London bank to stay with his wife Vivienne at the coastal town of Margate. He worked on the...
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