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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Poetry for DummiesDemystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley, poetry was "the...
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JabberwalkingJuan Felipe Herrera, the first Mexican-American Poet Laureate in the USA, is sharing secrets: how to turn your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry. Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabberwalk? Can you write...
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Wake Up!The world is wide awake -- are you? Stunning photos and poetic text usher readers into the early moments of life all around them. Wake up Come out and explore all the new creatures being born -- just-hatched birds in the trees, tadpoles in...
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A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very YoungCurl up with a playful collection of poems from best-selling children's author and poet Michael Rosen, perfect for sharing with young friends. In this exuberant compilation, Michael Rosen invites children to joyfully celebrate sounds and the infinite possibilities of language. Nonsense verses with the...
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Days Like This: A Collection of Small PoemsEach brief verse has the rhythmic lilt and play with sounds and meaning that so engage young children. . . . But James's illustrations are the best feature of this inviting collection. -- The Horn Book (starred review) Days Like This is a book...
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'minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' Complete First Edition, 1802This critical edition of Scott's Minstrelsy presents a seminal 19th-century work for a 21st-century audience The first volume in this three volume set contains all Scott's ballad texts with his introductions and notes together with an introductory essay on Border history and an essay...
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The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and ProseThroughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His...
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Behind the Mask: A Book about PrepositionsThrough clever, rhyming text and boldly colorful illustrations, students and language lovers of all ages will enjoy exploring Ruth Heller's world of prepositions. To say that Heller has a way with words is to understate a multifaceted talent.-- Publishers WeeklyRhyming text...provides many examples of...
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Watercolor WordsTopher Kearby explores the themes of heartbreak, love, happiness, wonder, and so much more through poetry, words, and art. Enjoy modern poetry, scanned pieces of typed words on scraps, and full color original artwork. Open your mind and let your heart go on an...
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COLD MOUNTAIN Transcendental PoetryCOLD MOUNTAIN Transcendental Poetry is an expanded 7th edition collection of 100 poems by the T'ang Zen poet, Han-shan. The introduction includes a unique autobiography of the poet, using information drawn exclusively from the poems. The poems were found written on the rocks in...
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Gilgamesh: The Life of a PoemReflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but...
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. - Revised EditionC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among...
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Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her work offers a rich profusion of them--the poems reach to where possession is...
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The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no...
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Shakespeare: Poems: Edited by Graham HandleyThe Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Shakespeare contains selections from Shakespeare's work, including his sonnets, his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, songs and...
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Drunk by NoonDid somebody say Jen Knox's poems "read like Richard Pryor with an MFA"? Yes, somebody did. (It was John Findura in Verse Magazine.) She's also been compared to comedian Sarah Silverman, artist Jeff Koons, a 10-year-old who can't keep her mouth shut, and cartoonist...
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Poems of Richard BarnfieldRichard Barnfield is an important Elizabethan poet whose work continues to gather appreciation from readers and critics alike. He was a brave voice in the English Renaissance who dared to publish poetry about one man's love for another man. In his student days in...
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RememberUS Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem "Remember," illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it. Remember the sky you were...
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Mr. Pendlum's Compendium: The Illustrated Multiverse Vol. 1If Carl Sagan and Shel Silverstein had written a book together, it may have resulted in something like Mr. Pendlum's Compendium-Illustrated Verse from the Multiverse Vol. 1. This book is a bridge between fact and fiction that inspires wonder and curiosity. It presents real...
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The Sick Bag SongFrom the inimitable Nick Cave comes a mesmerizing exploration of love, inspiration, and memory that chronicles his 2014 twenty-two-city American tour with the Bad Seeds. The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled on paper airlinesick bags during Cave's 2014 tour. It soon grew into...
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