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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Blues JourneyThe blues aren't all sad. There's joy in the blues as well as heartbreak. Love discovered. Love lost. Love just around the corner. In this beautiful tribute to the poetry and art of the blues, renowned author Walter Dean Myers collaborates with his son,...
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Collected Poems of Muriel RukeyserMuriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a powerful voice against enforced silences of all kind, against the violence of war, poverty, and racism. Her eloquent poetry of witness-of...
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The Collected Poems of Barbara GuestThe lifework of a preeminent New York School poetWinner of the SFSU Poetry Center Book Award (2010)One of the most notable members of the New York School--and its best-known woman--Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth...
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Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems of Frances ChungTwo previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese diaspora during the 1960s and 70sFrances Chung's poetry stands alone as the most perceptive, aesthetically accomplished, and compassionate depiction of a supposedly impenetrable...
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Dien Cai DauPoetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.Author: Yusef KomunyakaaPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 09/01/1988Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.30dISBN: 9780819511645About the AuthorBorn in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam...
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State of SiegeMahmoud Darwish (1942 2008), recipient of France s Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal, the Lotus Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, is widely considered Palestine s most eminent poet. State of Siege was written while the poet himself was...
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Shimmer of Something: Lean Stories of Spiritual SubstanceProse poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever welcome to the melodic world of Brian Doyle s proems, swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling...
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Martín and Meditations on the South Valley: PoemsFiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or detribalized Apache. Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family,...
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The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson JeffersRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers's work for the general reader...
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A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other PoemsDisplays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short...
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Selected Poems: Pablo NerudaThe winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the twentieth century. This bilingual edition makes available a major selection of his poems, both in the original Spanish and impressively rendered into English...
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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd EditionThis is the first of a fourteen-volume edition of Yeats's work issued under the general editorship of Richard Finneran and George Mills Harper. A necessary read for Yeats devotees, Seamus Heaney writes, "All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it...
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Torch Song Trilogy: PlaysA new edition of the classic drama portraying gay life in New York in the 1970s and 80s--winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, now back on Broadway in a revival hailed by The New York Times as "irresistibly compelling." What begins as...
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1000 Poems from the Manyoshu: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai TranslationDating from the 8th century and earlier, the Manyoshu is the oldest Japanese poetry anthology; it is also widely considered to be the best. The 1,000 poems (out of a total of more than 4,500) in this famous selection were chosen by a distinguished...
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Poems of AkhmatovaWitness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent biographies attest to a remarkable resurgence of...
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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and WritingThis book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will...
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Monster Verse: Poems Human and InhumanMonster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest...
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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language. Alongside Joseph Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete...
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Selected Poems 1957-1994Poems from every phase of the career of a great poet This selection of Ted Hughes's poetry, made by the author himself in 1995, includes poems from every phase of his four-decade career. Here are poems from Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the...
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Poetry CollectionWhat lies between these pages are words for every person through every walk of life. It's thought upon as life-changing poetry and can put a lover in a state of euphoria and one that is lost in a place of serenity.This book, once experienced...
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