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 Waste Land and Other PoemsA Penguin Classic While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery...
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: InfernoAn acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original...
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Ice Cycle: Poems about the Life of IcePancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms! From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!, comes a beautiful collaboration between verse and science. Brief poems and ethereal illustrations introduce readers to the...
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Wait and SeeLongtime collaborators Helen Frost and Rick Lieder team up for a breathtakingly beautiful glimpse at the praying mantis--and entice us to take the time to open our eyes to the world in front of us. The creators of Step Gently Out and many other...
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Essential Haiku Volume 20American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from...
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So Tall It Ends in Heaven: PoemsWith lush and deeply intimate language, Jayme Ringleb's debut collection So Tall It Ends in Heaven explores sexuality, estrangement, and the distances we travel for love.Following the end of a marriage, So Tall It Ends in Heaven's queer southern speaker tries to restore a...
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The Nectar of This BreathTHE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH - explores the liminal space between poetry and meditation. Many of the poems are prompts for contemplative practice, either by individuals or groups. They unite the mind with the heart, reaching even into our cell physiology to refresh the...
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We Are Mermaids: PoemsEffusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, "perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say" (Boston Review) Stephanie Burt's poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much...
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Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: PoemsOther People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night--the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets--is back in print.The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why she's become one of the most beloved writers working today....
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Gumbo YA YA: PoemsWinner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual PoetryWinner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry) Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop...
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Poems to Learn by HeartIn this diverse collection, a companion to her New York Times #1 best-seller A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has chosen more than a hundred poems that speak to all of us the young and young at heart, readers new to poetry, and devoted...
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Bonfire Opera: PoemsPoems In Praise of the Impossible, Wild World and Its Beauty Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain....
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The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called LifeA companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had...
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Tree Lines: 21st Century American PoemsThe poems in this beautiful anthology consider trees in various seasons, landscapes and time periods. These poems recognize our spiritual, psychological, and physical need for trees. With climate change looming as a crisis that affects the entire planet, this collection of stirring poems by...
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A Kudzu Vine of Blood and BoneThere's a lot to be said about kudzu. In the South, it's everywhere. You can't kill it. You can try, but you will drive yourself crazy. It's resilient. Just like me. Just like you. May we sprawl unflinchingly out of the dark corners of...
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Blood SnowAmerican Book Award-winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, BLOOD SNOW, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures.Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, okpik's relationship...
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The Pocket RumiA collection of Rumi's best, most beloved poetry--presented in one pocket-sized volume for on-the-go inspiration The renowned Persian Sufi mystic Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the most widely read poets in the world today. His compassionate insight into the nature of human...
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Whoever You AreEnjoy this picture book celebration of diverse childhoods, and the essential things that make us all the same."A compelling exploration of the differences between children that make them unique as well as the common humanity that unites them." (Publishers Weekly)Every day all over the...
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DicteeNewly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist...
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The Shift: Poetry for a New PerspectiveThe world has changed - but thankfully so have we. The Shift: Poetry for a New Perspective embodies the best of who we are now. From Melody Godfred, author of Self Love Poetry: for Thinkers & Feelers, comes a collection of poems designed to...
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