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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An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of HellA love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas,...
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Common LifeA wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play--all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.In three poems, one play, and three short stories, Stéphane Bouquet's Common Life offers a lively, searching vision of contemporary life, politics, and sociality. At...
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Adhure Khwabon Ka Devta / अधूरे ख़्वाबों का देव&#Is pustak me lekhak ne aparna/atrapt prem se janmi maanviya samvednaon ka postmortem kiya hai. Jaise insaani jism ka postmortem shalya chikitsa upkarno dwara kiya jaata hai, usi prakar is kriti me bhavanao ka postmortem kavitaon dwara kiya hai. Ye kavitayen dekhne me bhale...
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Unkahe Jazbaat / अनकहे जज्बात: Unkahe JazbaatThe Poems in this book tells us about love, sacrifice of soldiers and farmers and torture on women. The poet tries to awaken the feeling of love and respect towards our country, soldiers and women and enlighten with the different untouched aspects of life.Author:...
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Melodies with a Primitive Rhythm: Aadim Talna SangeetRain Melody Rain and its sound have always greatly fascinated me since my childhood. When it started raining, I would set aside my school studies, and would keep watching the rain. I still do so. The sound of the rain, gushing winds, lightning flashes...
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Lost for Words: The Poetry of Mindfulness and Non-DualityIn the early hours of almost every morning during the Covid lockdown in the months of March and April 2021, these poems began mysteriously arriving - like persistent early morning visitors. Curiously, the author's wife was absent for the whole of this time, and...
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Karma Bank to Following by ListeningThis collection of song lyrics encompasses: a Collection From the Karma Bank, Still Wide Awake in the Now, Capturing the Glow, Beginning to Imagine Better, and Following by Listening. They are tales, tides and twinkling lights - tunes telling stories of warmth and sun,...
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Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening EngagementReading Poetry with College and University Students aims to help faculty foster students' intellectual and aesthetic engagement with poems while enabling them to sharpen critical and creative thinking skills. Reading authors across history and the globe--such as Julia Alvarez, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahmoud...
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BlameforestIn Blameforest, Jason Stocks captures the rhythms of a vibrant vernacular that is original and authentic. He builds a distinctive world that often turns violent and lovelorn, his rendering clear-eyed and voiced like a blade -- and does so while displaying the expansive range...
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Emily DickinsonAmerican poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted: 'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune...
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The Odes of PindarThis collection of the extant odes by the Greek poet Pindar presents a comprehensive look at the odes that define his poetic career. Along with Sappho, Pindar is one of the esteemed nine lyric poets of Ancient Greece. These extant odes are also representative...
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A Sleep That Is Not Our SleepWinner of the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Belli hands the stage to a luminous constancy in this deftly lyrical and incisive collection. Structured around a central poem, Billet Doux, which is a love letter to the bones--and their persistence when faced with...
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Out of NowhereIn Out of Nowhere, Susan Comninos pays homage to the long and varied traditions of poets who have come before her and turns poetry on its head. Inthese pages, "No barrow depends on this / trio of hens," nudists visiting an art museum become...
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Soul Trash, Space GarbageWritten during a time of significant upheaval, Soul Trash, Space Garbage is a poetry collection for all of the messy things inside ourselves that we don't feel are worth committing to paper, or talking about, or confronting. The trash of our souls, the cosmic...
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The Golden Peacock: The Voice of the Yiddish Writer Bilingual / Di Goldene Pave: Dos Kol fun dem Yidishn ShrayberThis book, THE GOLDEN PEACOCK: THE VOICE OF THE YIDDISH WRITER Bilingual, accompanies a spoken word recording of 12 Yiddish writers reading from their works, both poetry and prose, followed by readings of English translations. It is a unique collection of Yiddish literature and...
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Divinely Inspired under the Anointing of the Holy SpiritThe title of the book comes from being inspired by God. The inspirational writings that he gives me comes from him. Some may come at night; some may come early in the morning. They could come at any time, but it is always in...
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American CycleTen long poems that try to do for America what Shakespeare did for England: turn history and legend into poetry. American Cycle, a sequence of long poems inspired by our folklore and past, was written over forty-seven years. Its themes are love, local mythology,...
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The Last Show on Earth: Poems from the AnthropoceneIn this unflinching and whimsical collection, Victoria's former poet laureate Yvonne Blomer explores death, disability, and the fate of our imperilled world. In The Last Show on Earth, Yvonne Blomer gathers the diverse characters and distinct moments from everyday life, its tragedies, and triumphs,...
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Soulmates IIFinding your soulmate means falling in love with somebody who values your spirit, recognizes your strengths, honors your ideas, and loves you down to the bones. It can take time, patience, and healing, but all the struggles in love are worth are worth a...
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Linger: 365 Days of Peaceful PausesPause. It's momentary, the space of a breath or two, a few seconds to tune in to the present. What can you notice in a pause? What can you see, smell, taste, hear, touch? What can you feel? The whole universe.Author: Karyn HenleyPublisher: Andon...
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