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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Barter: Poems"Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking." --Claudia Rankine Felix the Rat's hind feetcould be Barbie hands-- same pink, same injection-molded seaming.--from "Electronica" The poems in Barter, Monica Youn's exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between...
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A Walk Through Life: Book of PoemsYou know that moment when you just sit back and think about life and say to yourself, "where would I be right now if I would've made different decisions in my past? If I would've made a right turn instead of a left, where...
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At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World PoetsNew poems from 100 of the world's brightest contemporary poets, all about a common subject: the Louvre--exploring the many pleasures, provocations, and surprises that the museum and its collection inspire. Of the world's great museums, the Louvre is the most encompassing, a sumptuous collection...
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As Time Goes ByWhat if the greatest voices of ancient times-gods, heroes, and legendary figures of Greek mythology-could voice their thoughts on power, love, and all that lies between?In As Time Goes By, history comes alive, transcending the bounds of time as these immortal voices speak once...
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A Promising New Look: Book of PoemsThe idea of living a perfect life is something that we all desire. We like to think that things will be great if we could all just get along. We enjoy living in the Land of the Free and we just want to earn...
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A Prague FlaneurBy spring 1938, Prague is a city increasingly on tenterhooks in expectation of an attack by Nazi Germany. Earlier that year the pressure of the situation produced a schism in the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia between V?tězslav Nezval, who wanted to continue to support...
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A Place of My OwnMary Howard's second collection of poems and photographs was written during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting the internal traumas and insights experienced during that time. Her summer trips to Vinalhaven, Maine; memories of her years in New York City; and daily walks...
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American CrowIn American Crow Jennifer Browne has crafted a formidable and fascinating sequence of work that deftly navigates land mines, lifelines, history, reverence, harm and mystery while excavating meaning from the blood and bones of a people.Browne has an observational acuity and way with language...
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Also in ArcadiaAndrew Mulvania's Arcadia lies tucked into the rich landscape of rural central Missouri-its cornfields and falling-down barns, its rickety old river towns with their repair shops and crackling blacktop roads. Like the earliest Arcadians, this fine young poet renders the rough, precarious world with...
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A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo TakiguchiThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi's first year at Tokyo's Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school...
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A Flag of No Nation"This is a living and essential book." --sam sax, author of Bury It and MadnessA meditation on historical rupture and political imagination, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, navigating the tides of antisemitism, Turkish nationalism,...
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A dive through cancerJoin the author as she takes you alongside an emotional dive through breast cancer. Reflecting on her journey of pain, loss, death, hope, love, and rebirth. Written as a series of musings, short stories, and poetry, she connects you with the cancer experience. From...
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A Beautiful DoomWith this fifth book of poetry and prose, aptly titled "A Beautiful Doom," author and poet Clyde Hurlston lets us know that every part of journey matters. Especially the part we often dread to contemplate: the end.Seemingly closing a chapter on this part of...
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Zombie Vomit Mad LibsIn Zombie Vomit Mad Libs, the climate has changed, and what mostly remains are zombies meandering through a world where we only have brief memories--where connection (human and zombie) is now only made possible thanks to bits of the salvaged wreckage that was left...
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Young Man Grown Old: A Poet's Journey HomeMy grandfather started writing poetry during the Second World War. A young navy corpsman, far from his small hometown in rural Minnesota, he composed love letters to a bride he had not yet met. He described a home on a creek that had yet...
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Yard ShowBlack history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows,...
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Without a Field GuideNicole Robinson's debut collection, Without a Field Guide, combines lyric intensity with narrative sweep. This poet attends to the bare reality of trauma and its aftermath, the challenge of navigating life "without a field guide / to identify who I am or where I'm...
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What Was and Will BeWhat do you learn from a preemie, a snake, a pink slip, a loaded pistol? Life lessons, the ability to find solace in tears, humor in hardship--and still hope. Take a journey in verse over the familiar roads many of us travel in Eric...
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What Now?!: Puppy Haiku / Dog HaikuThese 300 haiku capture moments with the author's dog in ways that will make you laugh out loud and nod in recognition. Life with a dog involves excitement, surprises, ridiculous situations, opportunities to exercise patience, sweet moments, frustration and pure love. It all starts...
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what are you afraid of?what are you afraid of? is a sequence of de/reconstructed sonnets derived from the transcript of "interviews" between the software engineer Blake Lemoine and a colleague at Google with LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications). Tasked by Google to investigate the ethics of AI,...
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