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 Stone in My ShoeAuthor: Lucy LogsdonPublisher: Pierian Springs PressPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 80Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31dISBN: 9781953136701This title is not returnable
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The Southern Eye: Co-Seeing DisplacementsThe Southern Eye: Co-Seeing Displacements delves into the layered and poignant experiences of refugees, intertwining photography and prose to explore themes of memory, identity, and belonging. The book is a collaborative effort, blending the perspectives of Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, migration scholar Elena...
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The Rose: PoemsAuthor: Ariana ReinesPublisher: Graywolf PressPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781644453346
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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by...
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The OvermindTraversing an axis of Liverpool-London, and following a car accident in New York, The Overmind is an attempt to metabolise experience whilst seeing the world through the skin of a jellyfish. In lyric poems and sequences, Byrne summons his Irish and English working-class ancestry,...
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The Octopus GameHighly intelligent and a master of camouflage, the octopus is a creature destined to thrive in the poetic ecosystem. In The Octopus Game, the figure of the octopus shape-shifts and reinvents itself throughout ocean depths, tide pools, aquariums, gardens, movies, pulp novels, fine art,...
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The Nectar of Self-Awareness: A Poet's Rendering of Jnaneshwar's AmritanubhavThe Nectar of Self-Awareness (Amritanubhav) is an original work describing, in part, the spiritual experiences and state of enlightenment of its author, Jnaneshwar, the great thirteenth-century Indian poet-saint. Written originally in Marathi, it has few English translations. This poetic rendering by the poet George...
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The Natural AlphabetLearn the alphabet the natural way with bright illustrations to engage readers. Finger traceable letters that will enhance letter recognition. As well as acrostic poems to help increase vocabulary along and letter sound association. Budding naturalist are sure to enjoy this alphabet book!CarrieAnne's knowledge...
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The Little Book of EThe poet lives inside and outside of life. In the little book of e poet E. Ethelbert Miller embraces the Japanese poetic form of haiku to comment on our contemporary world. Written during the pandemic Miller's poems follow in the tradition of Basho and...
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The Last Place on EarthIn this autobiographical book of poems, the arcof a life is considered from childhood to last days, each poem a stop along the way. From remembering how his mother wrote, "A bird / skipped across the surface of the page." To consideringhow he might...
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The K?rm?n LineThe K?rm?n line describes the altitude at which outer space begins and national airspace ends, where the body in flight achieves orbit. In The K?rm?n Line, a heartsick narrator drives across the Jornada del Muerto to the commercial rocket launch site Spaceport America. Tracing...
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The Grateful Giraffes: What is Gratitude?A Treat for All Ages Discover the keys to gratitude with the Grateful Giraffes: Gift, Gail & Gilbert as they bring to life the lighthearted and empowering poem, Gratitude Is.Read along with children to explore the big words, and how to make gratefulness a...
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The Diminishing HouseIn Nicky Beer's The Diminishing House, birds are disemboweled, a father is mourned, and a basement fills with snakes. This first book of resonant lyric poetry meditates on such subjects as animals, art, and anatomy, and transforms the familiar and mundane into something strangely...
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The Chapel of Small BreathOur lives are awash with moments when we come undone: we face a loved one's belongings after they have gone, a deer jumps in front of the car, or we face a debilitating illness. The Chapel of Small Breath meets us there. As the...
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The Chances of Harm: PoemsIn The Chances of Harm, Adrian Rice is a superb celebrant of the everyday, telling how though by times he may "feel that all of our days have really been the selfsame day", he rejoices in endless wonders around him, birds flitting, dusky trees,...
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The Blue Divide"With clarity and intensity, Linda Nemec Foster dives deep into the shadows, and deep into the light-global landscape, personal touch; faith and art; the sensual and the cruel; forward and backward through generations of family, acknowledging loss wherever it occurs-all with her trademark tenderness...
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The Birthday YearsOff and on since Rachel Guido deVries was eleven years old, she has written a poem on her birthday. Now at 75, she has gathered these poems into a collection both intimate and expansive, mixing the natural world with personal insight.Author: Rachel Guido DeVriesPublisher:...
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The Birds Are Singing In The SnowThese poems are intended to help people fall more in love with the natural world. Grounded in accessible language, each poem tries to bridge mind and heart to create a luminous and spiritual connection to all that is.Author: John M. BatesPublisher: Manitowish River PressPublished:...
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The Aching Unrest of SpheresThe Aching Unrest of Spheres consists of poems written between 2002 and 2022 in Hawaii and the high desert of Northern Arizona. The poems explore personal mythology, love and desire, often set within dreamscapes and immersion in nature. The narratives often function as spiritual...
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Tall As You Are Tall Between Them"A fierce and frightening intelligence animates Annie Christain's Tall As You Are Tall Between Them, a book of teeming references and unsettling implications. Whether they've sprung from biblical figures, pop stars, or serial killers, these wild, wide-ranging monologues can sound like depositions or fever...
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