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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Votive MessVotive Mess is a book of small rebellions against systems of exhaustion and alienation, tracing Welsh poet Nia Davies' efforts to a lost mother tongue, y iaith Gymraeg, and embracing lingual brambles and shabby theatre to assemble fragments gleaned from the rubble of Babel....
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Void of CourseIn 1973, at the age of twenty-three, Jim Carroll burst upon the poetry scene with his first collection, Living at the Movies, a book of vivid and inventive verse that won him comparisons to everyone from Arthur Rimbaud to Frank O'Hara. Carroll's first new...
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Unbecoming Lost: A meditative collection of self-study poemsAuthor: Shaneeka Shalom GoinsPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 11/01/2024Pages: 42Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.09dISBN: 9789363309159This title is not returnable
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True PoetLarry McCollum, born in San Francisco in 1968, discovered his passion for writing at a young age, encouraged by his English teacher. With his first poem published in Scholastic Magazine, McCollum embarked on a lifelong journey of self-expression through poetry. A multifaceted individual with...
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Transcript of the UnnamedBlurbsLee evokes the nuanced character of the capital city, a place "between joy / and bruise" where you can be "born of church and Sunday dinners" but also haunted by people treated as if they were disposable, such as the "Freeway Phantom" girls whose...
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Through One's EyesThe purpose of my writing is to tell others--whether kids, teenagers, or adults--my version of life. A vast majority of my writing is nonfictional, where I look through another person's eyes. Sometimes I even write to myself to give myself motivation to continue to...
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This Place the Gods Touched EarthAuthor: Montana Arts CouncilPublisher: Montana Historical Society PressPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 104Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9781940527055
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The Territory of UnderstandingSounds are born out of silence, And movements out of stillness.Poetry is the meaning leading to the eternal, And the poet's soul strives to create a union.For not everyone can touch the depths, Getting into the streams of life.The whirlpool of fate, sometimes as...
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The Susan Awards: A Selection of Winning WritingThis book is a celebration of the writing talents of public high school seniors throughout the Muskingum Valley area over the past twenty years. This anthology represents the best of the best writing pieces from which all winners of the Susan Award received one...
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The Stone Tries to Understand the HandsFrom Eduardo C. Corrall (author of Guillotine): "The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands is a dazzling book of poems-I underlined many lines and images. The electric particulars of the past and the sorrow of knowing dovetail into poems that pulse with music, pleasure....
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The Silent HummingbirdAuthor: Anjum ChoudharyPublisher: Page PublishingPublished: 10/11/2024Pages: 238Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9798891579057
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The Salmon Shanties: A Cascadian Song CycleHarold Rhenisch's poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, The Salmon Shanties celebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the...
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The Meaning of Poems: Selected Poems (as) PoeticsJames Berger takes up the question with a sly, ironic wit that interrogates the idea of poetics and subjects his own assumptions and biases to a ruthless and delightfully honest self-critique. Many poets will see their own agon reflected here. "My project is to...
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The Love Language of Plants: Stories of Becoming Written by a Human and Her PlantsThe Love Language of Plants is a collection of co-authored essays written by a human and her plants. These heartfelt essays capture intimate moments and encounters between human and plant, where connections are forged through the shared language of experience and love, simultaneously transcending...
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The Life of Saint Katherine of AlexandriaThe fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Alexandria, who was an anomalous cultural icon, a scholar, and a sovereign whose story unsettled traditional gender stereotypes yet was widely popular throughout Western Europe. Capgrave's Life...
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The House of Men"In a fearless love letter to his mother--a daughter of the Great Migration who dared to go West and never gave up in her ill-fated quest for companionship--and his ditch-digger daddy "calling from the other side," Stewart Shaw takes readers on a Freudian journey...
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The God of LonelinessIn The God of Loneliness, Charles K. Carter shares their most vulnerable work yet. While using a variety of poetic forms, Carter tackles the tough intersection of isolation, disconnection, and sexuality. "The God of Loneliness is a plaintive exploration of loving and being loved...
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The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language EditionA DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTY Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic and vulnerable, melancholic and humorous, Baudelaire's infamous book brings to the surface a new understanding of evil, of eroticism,...
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The ElementsAuthor: Amber RunePublisher: FriesenPressPublished: 11/18/2024Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13dISBN: 9781038311283
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The Day the Flowers BloomedAuthor: Clara X. Roque-WagnerPublisher: Daxson PublishingPublished: 11/09/2024Pages: 82Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9798990053199
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