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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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Run with the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, aThe best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/07/1994Pages:...
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Star over BethlehemWith Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you've never heard it before. . . ....
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How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry"A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." --Tampa Bay TimesIn this intimate...
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How Poems Get MadeWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson,...
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RhetoricOne of the seminal works of Western philosophy, Aristotle's Rhetoric vastly influenced all subsequent thought on the subject -- philosophical, political, and literary. Focusing on the use of language as both a vehicle and a tool to shape persuasive argument, Aristotle delineates with remarkable...
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Paradise LostJohn Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world's creation and the first humans. Its focus is...
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This Craft of Verse"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." --Steven Poole, The Guardian Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries. For more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges's Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard in...
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The Cantos of Ezra PoundAuthor: Ezra PoundPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 10/01/1970Pages: 822Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.90lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.30w x 2.00dISBN: 9780811203500
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Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and MoralityThree Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M's of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring words that might appear incompatible but become dancing partners...
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Poemas de Amor / Love PoemsLonglist, 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval Eight years before Sylvia Plath published Ariel, the Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño released Poemas de Amor, a collection of confessional, passionate poetry dedicated to the novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. Both of...
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Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower: Poems"A rich catalog of the Anthropocene, including history, research, and initiative."--Ellen Bass, author of In Indigo Essential poems devoted to the power of language to pull us closer to Nature and each other. In her sixth poetry collection, award-winning writer Alison Hawthorne Deming extends...
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The Illustrated Walt Whitman: 25 Essential PoemsLush and evocative, this treasury of Walt Whitman's classic poetry will be a household favorite for generations. Bound and curated, this full-color collage illustrated beauty will educate young readers while delighting the senses. Whitman is considered one of the most influential poets in American...
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Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, a Graywolf AnthologyRaised by Wolves is a unique and vibrant gathering of poems from Graywolf Press's fifty years. The anthology is conceived as a community document: fifty Graywolf poets have selected fifty poems by Graywolf poets, offering insightful prose reflections on their selections. What arises is...
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The Dhammapada: A Translation of the Buddhist Classic with AnnotationsThe Dhammapada is the most widely read Buddhist scripture in existence, enjoyed by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. This classic text of teaching verses from the earliest period of Buddhism in India conveys the philosophical and practical foundations of the Buddhist tradition. The text presents...
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Frame Inside a Frame: Poems Volume 37Frame Inside a Frame by Daniel Lassell explores the boundaries, overlaps, and portals of memory and seeking. Lassell's collection is wildly surprising at every turn, greeting readers with visceral childhood memories, gritty landscapes of climate collapse, a quirky neighbor transfixed on love, a sexual...
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Pink DustRon Padgett is one of America's best-known and most acclaimed poets. Admired by John Ashbery, Jim Jarmusch, and Anne Waldman, his poems have moved and delighted generations of readers with their inventiveness, their gentle humor, and above all their ability to elicit wonder. These...
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To After That (Toaf)A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time. Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing--somewhere between criticism and memoir...
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I'm Always So Serious"I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." --Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and...
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Flu SeasonFrom Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2023-2026: "In Katie Kalisz's Flu Season, a welcome is also a warning. Daily anxieties caution us at every cough and intersection and goodbye kiss. There are dreads we pass down, an inheritance of fear that blooms at...
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Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the ParkA lyrical journey through New York's most iconic green space, one poetic step at a time. Whether you're a lifelong New Yorker or a first-time visitor, this book offers a fresh, intimate perspective on the park's landscapes, sculptures, and stories. Four Walks in Central...
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