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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The Iliad and The OdysseyThe Iliad and The Odyssey are the earliest works of Western literature and are the wellspring for much of Western culture. The Iliad, beginning"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles / and its devastation"describes the devastation unleashed by Achilles's rage, engulfing soldier and...
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Awâsis -- Kinky and DishevelledWinner of the 2022 SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski * 2022 High Plains Book Awards Finalist * 2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist * 2022/2023 First Nation Communities Read Awards Longlist A gender-fluid trickster character leaps...
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DM Me, Mother Darling: PoemsDM Me, Mother Darling pulses with the confusion, elation, and shattering fear of 21st century parenthood. Through the eyes of Peter Pan's Mother Darling and Doran's own experience navigating modern motherhood, the struggles so often fought in silence come careening forward, electric as the...
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Madonna, ComplexWhat does it mean to say yes?--to God, to the Spirit, to art, to love, to motherhood, to the dazzling & tangible world? Mary's response to the angel, saying "Let it be to me as you have said," is an essential moment in the...
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A Kinship with AshIt's difficult to accept that shadows, too, are products of the natural world. Often we hold what's beautiful next to what we fear. As much as we want to appeal to our better angels, cruelty hovers and haunts our hearts. In Heather Swan's A...
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I AM SpeakingGOD has made me one of His secretariesI just listen, then write things down.A lot of the poems are edifyingMany with His truths abound.There are those that give us hopeThat God is still in control.Others encourage us to go outTo bring other sheep into...
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sick"Jody Chan writes, 'have you ever found your specific wounds curled up in a song / written by someone else?' SICK is medicine and music. This book unearths a tenderness unknown to me before reading these poems and witnessing their 'humble magic.' Chan's lyric...
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The VaultThe Vault is a quiet and vulnerable sequence of ethereal fragments, letters, and poems that trace a narrative of love and healing in the afterlife of a parent (TM)s death. Seasons turn and a life is built despite the ruin. Each poem is a...
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Bone Rosary: New and Selected PoemsA selection of the very best from one of America's most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. As The New York Times said, "likely to resonate with many who have come face to face...
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I Must Belong Somewhere: Poetry and ProseA daring but necessary insight into themes of longing, home, bullying, loneliness, and mental health, I Must Belong Somewhere is a silver lining for anyone struggling. With her third poetry collection, I Must Belong Somewhere, acclaimed writer Dawn Lanuza is returning to her most...
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Poems of Friedrich HolderlinPoetry. Translated by James Mitchell. Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is considered one of the great German poets, yet his works and reputation are not well known outside Germany. This is the fourth published edition of James Mitchell's highly regarded translations and presents some of...
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Fractured EcologiesFractured Ecologies participates in environmental praxis through literary practice. How does experimental writing contribute to the ways we think about ecology? This collection of papers, bent essays, and playful poetic impressions positions marginal aesthetic forms front and center. The idea of Fractured Ecologies is...
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Here at Dawn: Poetry and ProseFind the magic in this collection--the moments and words that seem to glimmer and shine with their own inner light. Find deep magic in the pages of Beau Taplin's third book, Here at Dawn. The message is this: There is nothing ordinary about you...
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Space Between the Stones: Poetry and Practices for Connecting with Nature, Spirit, and Creativity2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalistby the Amazon-bestselling author of Poems of Earth and Spirit "I love Space Between the Stones. It is down to Earth and deeply spiritual-living poetry that invites us to taste the mystery, the ordinary, and the beauty and...
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How to Exterminate the Black WomanIn a country grappling with its bloody history and uncertain future, How to Exterminate the Black Woman illuminates the struggle of the Black woman trying to thrive in a society seeking to consume and erase her. Set after the murder of Sandra Bland, or...
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In the Dark, Soft Earth: Poetry of Love, Nature, Spirituality, and DreamsDig into Dig into this delectable journey through the dark, sensual, and ravishing poetry of Frank Watson. Ruminate the searing to the sultry as you absorb this haunting lilt of burning carnality. The poems ignite rapid and surprising shifts in focus and perspective as...
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Confessions of HerConfessions of Her is a tale of survival depicting how one young woman found love in herself, rather than searching for it in the arms of another. This autobiographical collection of poetry and prose takes the reader on a journey of love and loss,...
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Counting DescentFrom the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America* Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * One Book One New Orleans 2017 Book Selection...
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PersonhoodWhether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the invasive species crisis, Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the...
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Every Day Is a Poem: Find Clarity, Feel Relief, and See Beauty in Every Moment"This is a practical guide for everyone to learn the requisite art of slowing down, becoming more curious in order to 'nurture transformation and love limitlessly.'"--Derrick C. Brown, author of Hello. It Doesn't Matter., UH-OH, and How the Body Works the Dark How do...
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