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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 DesertPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, guides us deep into, and then back out of, a rich yet desolate North American landscape. Divided into seven sections--featuring poems, letters, diary...
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Nioque of the Early-SpringPoetry. Translated from the French by Jonathan Larson. On the 50th anniversary of its publication, The Song Cave is honored to publish the first English translation of Francis Ponge's NIOQUE OF THE EARLY-SPRING. Ostensibly a book written to honor the season itself and the...
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When She Woke She Was an Open Field*Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize These poems have an incredibly beautiful and painful landscape. The body becomes the field splayed open, as does memory, as does love, as does language. The imagery of the body is sensual and electric and you can feel...
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To See a World in a Grain of SandTo See the World in a Grain of Sand is a collection of poems about incidents, memories, and meditations that span eight decades of the poet's life. Grain of Sand is divided into four sections, Blueberry Summers about childhood and family, Did the Hand...
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This Dream the World: New and Selected PoemsThis Dream the World: New and Selected Poems brings together the most powerful and resonant poems of Carolyne Wright's books and chapbooks to date. About the range of Wright's work, poet David Axelrod has written, "The language of Carolyne Wright's poems is as rich,...
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Assisted Living"Erin Murphy's invented form, the demi-sonnet, is small but alarmingly penetrative....These poems, simultaneously eerie and straightforward, exert a cumulative effect as they disclose the haunted domestic." --Claire Bateman, author of SCAPE and LOCALS"Murphy chisels words down to their musical rawness, providing us a poetry...
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Sea-Witch: Vol. 1 (May She Lay Us Waste)Sea-Witch is a genre-phobic novel-in-fragments of contemporary transsexuality that focuses on the life of a girl monster named Sara who lives inside a witch-god named Sea-Witch. Follow the occult fairytale story of how this young monster came to be, of the origins of Sea-Witch,...
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How to Wear This BodyIf you want to learn how to live on this planet, read How to Wear This Body, a lyric and riveting book uniquely suited to help us survive the hard facts of our existence and to do so with wit and courage, intelligence and...
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The Crafty Poet II: A Portable WorkshopLike the original, The Crafty Poet II is organized into ten sections. We again end with "Revision," but this time we also begin with it in "Revising Your Process." That section is followed by one on "Entryways into Poems" which considers how a poet...
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CrawlspaceThey are writing down their feelings to put into the civil feelings jar, scuttling with amendments asking for an ultrastrength, longer-lasting solution homes, names, and host categories renegotiated. I've been exhausted my entire life --from Sonnet (18)Author: Nikki WallschlaegerPublisher: Bloof BooksPublished: 05/10/2017Pages: 82Binding Type:...
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The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert MillerPoetry collection by E. Ethelbert Miller, writer and literary activist. The editor of Poet Lore, Miller served as Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. Awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Emory and Henry College, Miller has taught at UNLV,...
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Poetry Book - Abyss of Bliss (Love Poems About Life, Poems About Love, Inspirational Poems, Friendship Poems, Romantic Poems, I love You Poems, PoetryAbyss of Bliss is a poetry book exploring the purpose of life. This spellbinding poetry, goes beyond emotion, beyond form, beyond belief and explores the resounding truth of peace, love and wellbeing hidden in the heart. Beautiful soul healing love poems that reach into...
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This Beckoning Ceaseless BeautyAuthor: Heidi Rose RobbinsPublisher: Heidi RobbinsPublished: 11/01/2013Pages: 76Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9780991078905This title is not returnable
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To Keep from UndressingAisha Sharif's debut collection is an exploration in belonging--to a family, to a community, to a faith. In poems that navigate the boundaries of these different types of belonging, Sharif examines both what is lost and what is gained. Praise for To Keep From...
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Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green TeaGwendolyn Morgan's first collection, Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, offers richly textured poetic renderings of natural landscapes and emotional nuances in response to those landscapes. She weaves concerns for global warming, social inequities, and health care together with images of birds, plants, animals,...
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A Commonplace Book of PieAdorned in a charming beige cloth cover, this reissue of Kate Lebo's whimsical love letter to poetry and pie-making features a new introduction by Lebo on commonplace books and six new illustrations by Jessica Bonin. This cliché-busting book explores facts--real and imagined--about pie with...
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Dragonfly WeatherLois Red Elk writes her poetry from the perspective of a Dakota speaker: her words echo a relative Lakota dialect. In both dialects, the images and blood memory are the same. Her narratives are personal and descriptive of a life lived as a Dakota...
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The Words of Rumi: Celebrating a Year of Inspiration"Love wishes these words to be released.""Meaning is a treasure hidden in the sands of words." -- RumiAll great discoveries, inventions, journeys, ideas, actions, and life transformations begin with inspiration. Let's celebrate a Year of Inspiration in Life for ourselves and in the solitude...
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Movable TyypeKathleen Fraser's inventive new book showcases poems from four recent collaborative artist books that exhibit "her longtime love of words as objects into play" (The New York Times). These new poems, many created through her unique collage and hand paste-up techniques, continue Fraser's ambitious...
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120 SongsSinger, songwriter, painter, essayist...Tom Russell is known as one of the most compelling performers in the world, and is recognized as a master American lyricist. And now, with 120 Songs, Russell presents his first-ever collection of lyrics, handpicked and individually introduced, and complemented by...
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