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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 Flowers of EvilThe Flowers of Evil (1857) is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire. Translated into English by Cyril Scott in 1909, Baudelaire's poems remain lively and idiosyncratic nearly two centuries after they came into existence. Comprised mostly of sonnets and short lyrics, The Flowers...
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Nachoem M. WijnbergA new translation of work by one of the Netherland's most innovative, exhilarating poets, a poet who draws on everything from economics to parables to world history. The Dutch poet Nachoem M. Wijnberg is one of the most inventive, surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking poets...
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Boyfriend PerspectiveThankful for this book, and Michael Chang's ability to weave seamlessly in between scenes, to honor the full ecosystem of a narrative-people, places, images, metaphor. This is a rich book, it felt like stepping into a generous and welcoming world. -HANIF ABDURRAQIBMichael Chang's debut...
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Field RequiemShortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022. Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Benning's poems chart the ways in which a way of life collapses, the world of the family farm,...
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Self Care: The Journey Of Minding My BusinessDedication: To Serve as a beacon of possibly to the person that is Having trouble getting out of their own way. A breeding ground for creativity and wings to allow you to soar as high as your ambition Acknowledgements: To a helpful scripture of...
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People Only Enjoy The Real YouDedication: To Serve as a beacon of possibly to the person that is Having trouble getting out of their own way. A breeding ground for creativity and wings to allow you to soar as high as your ambition Acknowledgements: To a helpful scripture of...
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Cracked SpacesDescription of Cracked SpacesSpace is an abstract perception of the world around us. It evokes a sense of freedom and spaciousness, and it is defined by the human ability to move, by the spatial location of the body to objects. However, space is also...
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Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of SpectacleThe essays in the collection examine, from a variety of perspectives and conceptual standpoints, the ways performative language in contemporary poetry can be politically charged. The poetic text, then, becomes a spectacle, which ultimately renegotiates the power dynamics implicit in the simple act of...
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Poems to Lift You Up and Make You SmileYour Daily Poem launched in June 2009 with a single goal: to share the pleasure of poetry with those who may not have had the opportunity to develop an appreciation for that genre--usually due to a boring experience in a classroom. Along the way,...
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Deluxe Library Edition)The Divine Comedy describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and represents the soul's journey towards God. This edition includes the complete texts of Dante's Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso.Inferno - Inferno begins with Dante lost in a dark wood, assailed by beasts he...
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Long RainLong Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Here, Moore expands on the rich history of African-American writers such as Richard Wright, Sonya Sanchez and James Emanuel, creating...
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J'Accuse...!: (Poem Versus Silence)"J'Accuse...! is so dynamic, joyous in its language and emotion, and consistently exciting, engrossing.... A page-turner! And mysteriously easy to read given the inventiveness, color, and torsion of the poetic language.... A wonderful combination of the sophisticated, the primal, and the available. Great poetry...
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Ghosthawk"Many cultures have had names for seers like Matt Rader. Contemporary Western culture has none. This is the book of a man who has died more than once and who carries with him knowledge of the point where being's blaze touches nothingness. A book...
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The Handless MaidenAuthor: Vicki FeaverPublisher: Random House UKPublished: 02/01/2010Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780224090049About the AuthorVicki Feaver is the author of The Book of Blood, Close Relatives, and The Handless Maiden. The Book of Blood was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Award.This...
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By A River, On A HillBy a River, On a Hill brings you into the lives of twins born during the depression in a small steel mill town in Western Pennsylvania and carries you through the depression, the war, the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, and on to...
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Salamat sa IntersectionalityDani Putney's debut poetry collection, SALAMAT SA INTERSECTIONALITY, is a lyrical triptych that traces the evolution of the speaker's identity as a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, and neurodivergent individual. Each "panel" of the speaker's life represents a distinct period of growth: a youthful beginning,...
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evening primrosesGabby Loomis-Amrhein's debut collection seeks to address trans struggle and liberation in the crepuscularity and in-betweenness of rural being. Showing the country itself as queer, "evening primroses" serves as a sort of field guide for growth and change in that space, marking the passage...
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A Year in the Life of Death: Poems Inspired by the Obituary Pages of the New York TimesWhen Shawn Levy had the notion to write a poem each day for a year, inspired by the obituary pages of The New York Times, he had no way of knowing that the year in question, 2016, would claim so many of the world's...
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Mother Truths: Poems on Early MotherhoodRefreshingly honest rhymes on first-time motherhood.Mother Truths is a beautiful, funny, and raw collection of poetry about early motherhood. The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums. It's comprised of 38 poems and includes the viral hit 'That First Year'. Karen McMillan delivers...
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Hex & Howl"You and I were told to swallow / our hexed howling, refuse the reptilian // and the mammalian, unless it's tame, / you know, cow-eyed, with a roundness eager / for petting." A powerful evocation of the feminist voice, HEX & HOWL both applies...
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