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 Mystery of the Raddlesham MumpsThe Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps is a modern ballad in verse form, reminiscent of the Tale of Tam o' Shanter, but with a child protagonist. Crispin inherits a ghostly and ghastly stately pile, threatened by a curse and menaced by a demonic butler....
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Love Stands AloneAuthor: Venkatachalapthy A. R.Publisher: India PenguinPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780143103974About the AuthorA. R.Venkatachalapathy is an Indian historian, author, and translator who writes and publishes in Tamil and English. He is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. He is noted for...
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Proceed to Check OutAward-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude. Alan Shapiro's fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world...
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NightjarIn this richly imagined collection of poems, Michael Simms draws inspiration from history, psychology, biology, and astronomy, yet at heart he is simply a man with stories to tell. A poet returns home from the funeral of his parents to find that the language...
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Spirits in BondageSpirits in Bondage was C. S. Lewis's first published work, originally published under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. The poems take on several styles and rhythms throughout the three sections of poetry contained in the book. This work stands out among Lewis's writings not only...
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Of Broken Pieces and Light AheadOf Broken Pieces and Light Ahead is a compilation of prose and poetry that speaks to both our individual and shared human experience, of trauma, of healing and ultimately triumph. It is an exquisite yet profound portrayal of the winding and intertwining road that...
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ManhatitlánIn the sequel to The Codex Mojaodicus, Steven Alvarez's experimental Manhatitlán returns to the mythopoetic mode to build a network of layered rhythms, designs, images, languages, and voices, with the nodal point centered on Mexican New York City, past, present, and future. The novel...
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Spring and AllSpring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All,...
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While We're HereIn her moving debut poetry collection, Leeza Jayde bravely examines and reflects on the most important relationship in our lives- the one we have with ourselves. This beautifully tender, vulnerable, and deeply intimate collection will speak to the hardest parts of yourself, and yet...
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The Etiquette of Early Northern VerseIn The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets.This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a...
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New Poetry from the Midwest 2019New American Press releases a new volume of recently published work from the Midwest each year to bring more visibility to Midwestern writing that is innovative, engaging, finely crafted, and strong in voice."Midwestern" is a term diverse in meaning, and we will seize on...
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Omar Khayyam PoemsThe poems attributed to Omar Khayyam have a universal and timeless philosophical theme: life is a meaningful journey even if brief and uncertain. They inspire an unconstrained free-thinking mindset and a wise realization that guides thinking persons: it is impossible to see the absolute...
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The One WhoThe One Who is a collection of poetry about author Sierra Romero's very abusive childhood, growing up, and life getting better. It's interesting because it follows a path we take from being broken to healing to learning to love. Not many people share her...
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The Kama Sutra Of VatsyayanaAn ancient Hindu text, "The Kama Sutra" is attributed to Vatsyayana-a Vedic philosopher of the Gupta Empire. The book offers advice on the practice of sexual intercourse, with additional passages about virtue, love, family, and other aspects of human life. It is arguably the...
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When There Were No BordersRaúl Sánchez's long-awaited 2nd book is a gift, a gateway, a harvest. These poems present and re-present our "tongue," our "language," our "culture and pride." Steeped in history and "blood blood blood" unforgotten and dignified, these poems are never what you expect yet are...
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Study of the RaftWinner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home...
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Storm of Roses: A Compilation of Poetry and Short StoriesWith bold musings about pleasure, pain, life, death, anger, spirituality, nature, compassion, fantasies and daydreams, this compilation is a provoking celebration of wisdom.Originally published in 2006, Storm of Roses was the winner of the Best Books National Book Award in Poetry and an award-winning...
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Lorca After LifeA reflection on Federico García Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not...
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The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide to six Shakespeare playsThis book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions, and reviw for six of Shakespeare's most meaningful (and enjoyable) plays."Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, 'a great observer, ' able to see and depict patterns of...
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The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems"The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems" is a collection of poems by famed English poet Francis Thompson. Generally regarded as the most important modern Catholic poet, Thompson achieved critical and commercial success with his volumes of poetry and prose during his relatively short...
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