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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Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology"A rich, thoughtful anthology exploring centuries of Black poetry." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This deep and complex assemblage of Black poetry culminates in a joyful, painful, and emotionally rich experience." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"An eclectic mix of Black experiences fills this unmatched anthology that features...
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Pillow Thoughts: Deluxe EditionA special hardcover gift edition of Courtney Peppernell's bestselling Pillow Thoughts! Originally published in 2017, Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. Since its release, an ethereal and awe-inspiring universe has unfolded around it, but the...
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Permanent RecordA visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Browne, and many new and emerging voices.Inspired by Naima Yael Tokunow's research into the Black American record (and its purposeful...
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ParadisoA new translation of the final part of Dante's Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante's Purgatorio. Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic and visionary end. This final leg of Dante's journey from Hell into...
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ParadisoWith his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and...
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Paradise Lost: A BiographyThe life and times of Milton's epic poem about Satan's revolt against God and humanity's expulsion from paradise John Milton's Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately...
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Out of the Blank"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud." From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The New York Times), Equi's subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from...
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New Poets of Native NationsA landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first centuryNew Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one...
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My Life and My Life in the NinetiesNew edition of one of the founding works of Language writingLyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. First published in 1980, and revised in 1987 and 2002,...
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MothersaltDrawing from the sticky, milk-drenched reality of childbirth and pregnancy, Mothersalt explores the intimacies and bewilderment of early motherhood, illuminating the myriad ways in which the self, reconstituted through birth, can emerge into powerful, lyrical new forms of existence. With haunting precision, Mothersalt explores...
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Liontaming in AmericaLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into the ancient...
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Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through PoetryAuthor: Charles MalonePublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 08/27/2024Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.91w x 0.55dISBN: 9781606354858About the AuthorCharles Malone is assistant director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. His poetry collections include After an Eclipse of Moths, Working Hypothesis,...
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Leadbelly: Poems"It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake."--Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judgeA biography in poems, leadbelly examines the life and times of the legendary blues...
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Kontemporary Amerikan PoetryJohn Murillo's second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a...
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JuveniliaThe North American debut by cult favorite New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird, Juvenilia wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive.this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl.........with many beneficial thoughts...
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Inhabit the Poem: Last EssaysIn 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a...
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IncarnadineWinner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry * An NPR, Slate, Oregonian, Kansas City Star, Willamette Week, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Amazon's Best Book of the Year in Poetry 2013 * In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks...
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I am me, and that is worthy.I am me, and that is worthy is a heartwarming and empowering affirmation book for children that celebrates self-love, emotional awareness, and the courage to be uniquely you. Through gentle rhymes and vibrant self-talk, young readers are invited to recognize the power of their...
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HereA "delectable and profound" collection of poems from Nobel Prize-winner Szymborska (Booklist).When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest...
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healing for no one but meBest-selling poet of The Sun Will Rise and So Will We, Jennae Cecelia brings you her tenth poetry book about healing. In a time when the years have felt heavy and uncertain, Healing For No One But Me is meant to make you feel...
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