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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Dog Songs: Poems"The popularity of Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming." --The Boston Globe Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that...
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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: PoemsWinner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of a 2020 Whiting Award in PoetryFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetrySelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers...
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I Am Her Tribe#IAmHerTribe creator Danielle Doby shares her poetry for the first time in a collection long anticipated by her followers. Positive and powerful, I Am Her Tribe is a collection of poetry drawing on the viral Instagram handle and online hashtag that serves to create...
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UrbansheeUrbanshee is Siaara Freeman's retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern and urban lens. This collection discusses the weight of being Black in America, Freeman's relationships to lovers and family, and how the physical place you grew up can become part...
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New York City HaikuOne hundred fifty haiku on New York City in just three lines each. New York City Haiku collects 150 of the best haiku inspired by the Big Apple. These succinct three-line poems express not only the personal experiences of every New Yorker (or New...
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I'll Walk with YouHelp little ones learn to show love for the people around them, no matter how they look, sound, pray, love, or think.Beloved author of The Lesson and Will You Still Be My Daughter? Carol Lynn Pearson is known for her heartfelt, sometimes tear-jerking poetry...
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While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the WorldA groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller. Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr--an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee--traveled to Greece, Trinidad & Tobago, and Syracuse, New York,...
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This Will Remain With UsThis Will Remain With Us is a collection of poems written during the Covid-19 pandemic when Melissa Mendelson suddenly found herself declared an "essential worker."In the midst of the turmoil, she turned to poetry to document and cope with the challenge of the lockdown,...
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Flatback Sally CountryAuthor: Rachel CusterPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublished: 03/20/2023Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781947896628
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PoemsA Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop's poems combine...
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Holy Land: Poems"Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." --Exodus 3:5"The Holy Land is everywhere." --Black ElkThe two epigraphs that preface Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's Holy Land introduce the reader to the central theme that permeates her...
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Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and PlaceAuthor, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to stand...
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (In Full Color)A visionary of eighteen-century English art, William Blake was largely unknown during his own lifetime and often rejected as a madman for claims of hearing voices and later having visions. Since his death, Blake has achieved enduring fame for his innovative and extraordinary work...
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A Little History of PoetryA vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New...
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UnaccompaniedNew York Times Bestselling Author of Solito"Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."--Jamaal May"Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." --GlappitnovaJavier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from...
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Fixed StarThe opening poem, "Cuban Polymita," from which the title Fixed Star arises, serves as the scaffolding device for Frischkorn's manuscript. Like the beautiful painted snails it references, the book, too, is a series of spirals: mainly, a pair of sonnet coronas whose recursive lines...
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Protection from ErasureIn this poetry collection, Samuel Miranda aims to capture and celebrate a life lived and lives encountered. Through observations and conversations, we're reminded that mundane events and minute moments in our everyday lives can and should be memorialized. Part portraiture, part social commentary, and...
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Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of MoonsUnusual and intelligent...An exemplary introduction to Native American culture with its emphasis on the importance of nature. --Publishers Weekly In Native American legend, the thirteen scales on Old Turtle's back hold the key to the thirteen cycles of the moon and the changing seasons....
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The World's Wife: PoemsBe terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, strayfrom home.So better by far for me if you were stone.--from Medusa Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau...
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Now We Are SixA treasured children's classic of 35 delightful poems, this lovely hardcover edition of Now We Are Six is British author A. A. Milne's second book of poetry, published in 1927. Charming verses capture the inner voice of a child's imaginings upon turning six years...
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