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
-
Idiot VersePoetry. Music. Art. Combining whimsical illustrations with poems of love, humour and celebration of the ups and downs of being a touring recording artist, IDIOT VERSE is a delightful book in the tradition of Leonard Cohen and John Lennon. It's a singer-songwriter's notebook to...
- CHF 23.98
- CHF 23.98
- Unit price
- per
-
BreadfruitMalika Booker is a writer, spoken word and multidisciplinary artist, whose work spans literature, education and cross-arts. She has appeared world-wide both independently and with the British Council. Founder of the international writer development collective, Malika's Kitchen, Malika was Hampton Court Palace writer in...
- CHF 14.71
- CHF 14.71
- Unit price
- per
-
Toward. Some. Air.: Remarks on Poetics of Mad Affect, Militancy, Feminism, Demotic Rhythms, Emptying, Intervention, Reluctance, IndigeneitToward. Some. Air. is an unprecedented collection of contemporary poetics from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Here, poet and scholar Amy De'Ath and former Parliamentary Poet Laureate Fred Wah collect a wide range of conversations, statements, essays, profiles, and poems and...
- CHF 33.98
- CHF 33.98
- Unit price
- per
-
Tai Chi Secrets Ancient Masters: Selected Readings from the MastersShare the Secrets of Great Tai Chi Over the course of several centuries the Ancient Masters practiced and pondered the mystery and purpose of Tai Chi Chuan, preserving their profound insights in songs and poems. Shrouded in secrecy, these songs and poems were closely...
- CHF 17.18
- CHF 17.18
- Unit price
- per
-
EntriesIn these poems, Wendell Berry combines plainspoken elegance with deeply felt emotion--this is work of both remembrance and regeneration. Whether writing as son of a dying father or as father of a daughter about to be wed, Berry plumbs the complexities of conflict, grief,...
- CHF 21.15
- CHF 21.15
- Unit price
- per
-
City of the FutureTwenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Foster's childhood, comes a new collection of poetry and prose that takes on gentrification, modernization and globalization,...
- CHF 25.15
- CHF 25.15
- Unit price
- per
-
The Waste Land and Other PoemsT.S. Eliot's most famous work, The Waste Land, has been called one of the twentieth century's most important poems. Among his most famous lines are "April is the cruellest month" and "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." The poem falls...
- CHF 31.49
- CHF 31.49
- Unit price
- per
-
BeastBeast is the first collection in English from award-winning Catalan poet Irene Sol , a darkly imaged, startling and lyrically precise exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and multiple forms of desire."Beast enters incisively, like claws. It arrives with gleaming fur and stinking. It's a...
- CHF 25.49
- CHF 25.49
- Unit price
- per
-
The Flowers of Evil: Dual Language and New Verse TranslationJudicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his...
- CHF 21.68
- CHF 21.68
- Unit price
- per
-
Habeas CorpusJill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed meticulously with name, date, place, they are poignant with the factual, with eyewitness reports and the words of the condemned - so limpidly framed that one forgets the skill that...
- CHF 22.57
- CHF 22.57
- Unit price
- per
-
The Failure of Certain Charms: And Other Disparate Signs of LifeThis is a poetically charged work of autobiographical retrospection, speculative memory and an artistic alternative to common constructions of identity. The influences include traditional songs, ceremonial undercurrents, dream vehicles, disparate landscapes, chemical vapors, relative longings and belief in the possibility of healing again and...
- CHF 23.99
- CHF 23.99
- Unit price
- per
-
T.S. Eliot - The Waste LandIn this Readers' Guide, Nick Selby brings together some of the most important critical writings about The Waste Land and provides a clear discussion of their place within the development of critical theory from modernism to postmodernism. The Guide begins with early reviews and...
- CHF 63.67
- CHF 63.67
- Unit price
- per
-
The Art of Submission: The woman's guide to fulfillmentSeanne N. Murray, widely known as "SNM" and the architect of inspirational erotica, has been tantalizing and inspiring readers online since 2014. Her first book, The Art of Submission, The Woman's Guide to Fulfillment is the beginning of a new wave of feminism, moving...
- CHF 33.16
- CHF 33.16
- Unit price
- per
-
Modern Fairy Tales: Poetry, Art, WordsInsta-poet K. Towne Jr. has captured the hearts and imagination of thousands. This is his first published and illustrated collection, including his most popular works, as well as new and exclusive pieces. You said "us" --and in that moment, I knew words were magic....
- CHF 15.40
- CHF 15.40
- Unit price
- per
-
Waiting RoomYou're welcome to take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featuring a m 1/2lange of styles and forms (sonnets, erasures, unsent emails, footnotes, session notes, CVs, tweets, and other disparate source materials--including, the...
- CHF 27.88
- CHF 27.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Veni Na Phool ( Gujarati Edition )In 1926, Jhaverchand Meghani ventured into poetry with his book of children poems 'Veni Na Phool' and started writing in 'Janmabhoomi' under the column 'Kalam Ane Kitaab'Author: Jhaverchand MeghaniPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/23/2018Pages: 74Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.15dISBN: 9781723510939Language:...
- CHF 9.93
- CHF 9.93
- Unit price
- per
-
Consider the Lilies: Mrs. God PoemsInventive, surprising, moving, and often funny, the twenty poems in this book portray a female deity (Mrs. God herself) and follow her and her well-known spouse as they navigate creation and the following millennia. The following are a few lines from the first poem:...
- CHF 19.91
- CHF 19.91
- Unit price
- per
-
Palataka ( Bengali Edition )Palataka written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1918. Tagore published his political work Palataka (The Fugitive) which tells of his rebellious nature reflected in the narrative verse on the incidents and stories experienced by the poet himself. In Palataka, the poet is deeply rooted in...
- CHF 9.93
- CHF 9.93
- Unit price
- per
-
A Short History of Monsters: PoemsWinner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize"We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness . . . a smart, sympathetic mind at work." --Billy CollinsDrawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the...
- CHF 27.79
- CHF 27.79
- Unit price
- per
-
The Place of Broken ThingsBram Stoker Award(R) winners Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti use their unique voices to create a dark, surrealistic poetry collection exploring the many ways shattered bodies, minds, and souls endure. They created poems of visionary imagery encompassing death, gods, goddesses and shadowy, Kafkaesque...
- CHF 19.89
- CHF 19.89
- Unit price
- per
