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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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Ten Poems for Difficult TimesIn his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers' concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden's incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and...
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AmericanoAmericano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA is a groundbreaking collection from one of the most provocative voices in modern American poetry. The poems contained in these pages challenge mainstream sexual, political and religious beliefs reflecting unique experiences from the outskirts of...
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The Rubayat of Omar KhayyamOne of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayy m, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. The Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m is a collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century...
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The Dirges of Maldoror: An Illustrated English Translation of Les Chants de Maldoror'Les Chants de Maldoror' was virtually ignored when first published in 1869, a year before the author's death in Paris in 1870. Decades later the Surrealists discovered the work and hailed Lautr amont as an important precursor to Surrealism. Elements of 'Maldoror' have since...
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Blood HarmonyMusic is the motif, the pulse, of these poems. From Americana, Folk, and Bluegrass, to Country, Gospel, Blues, and Rock, Blood Harmony potently depicts the interconnectedness of musical genres. From Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Jean Ritchie, Ricky Skaggs, and Guy Clark, to Aretha Franklin,...
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The War Poems of Siegfried SassoonAn unabridged edition, with sixty-four poems to include, but not limited to: Prelude: The Troops - Dreamers - The Redeemer - Trench Duty - Wirers - Break of Day - A Working Party - Stand-To: Good Friday Morning - "In The Pink" - The...
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Alive in this PlaceThe poems in this collection travel across lifetimes, each twist and turn of the outer world reflecting an inner landscape, narratives unfolding against ever-changing backdrops-- places, seasons, decades. They trace the complexities of an ordinary life through the histories and environments that gave them...
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Straight James / Gay JamesAuthor: James FrancoPublisher: Hansen Publishing Group, LLCPublished: 12/23/2015Pages: 60Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12dISBN: 9781601822628This title is not returnable
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The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of StatementIntroducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement The Poetry of Search, with which the book opens, puts forward the suggestion that controversy about what kind of thing poetry ought...
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Power Made Us SwoonGuided by the character of the Woman Warrior--witty, swift, and ruthless in her wonder--readers of Brynn Saito's second collection of poetry travel the terrain of personal and historical memory: narrative poems about family, farming towns, and the bravery of girlhood are interspersed with lyric...
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The NightlifeIn Elise Paschen's prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems ". . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world." In her third poetry book, The Nightlife, Paschen once again taps into dream states, creating a...
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A Life Above WaterA Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies the ways that things are interconnected and the stories that we...
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PatterFor a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents' faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter re-imagine...
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Dreaming The Iron DreamA Collection of the Racial and Political Essays of Harold A. Covington. A look at the situation in the United Staes past, present and future and what can and should be done. A MUST readAuthor: Harold A. CovingtonPublisher: Liberty Bell PublicationsPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 204Binding Type:...
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A Bunch of PunctuationSelected by noted anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins, this collection of all-new poems is written from the points of view of personality-filled punctuation marks, and is a memorable introduction to grammar for kids (adults, too ) In this land of punctuation, the exclamation mark is...
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Cat TownModernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara's first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for "disturbing social customs." Along with the entirety...
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The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with VocabularyIs the Gulistan the most influential book in the Iranian world? In terms of prose, it is the model, which all writers of Persian seek to emulate. In terms of moral, philosophical or practical wisdom, it is endlessly quoted to either illustrate or prove...
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Love to Mama: A Tribute to MothersBest of the Best Books, Chicago Public Library Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education Books to Read Aloud to Children of All Ages, Bank Street College of Education Children's Literature Choice List, Children's LiteratureThirteen Latino poets celebrate...
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Window PoemsComposed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry's personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington hand press by...
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Chaat & SweetsThe 7th book in Tricycle's World Snacks series introduces toddlers to Indian snack foods known as chaat. Scrumptious treats like bhel puri (rice puff salad), tandoori chicken, and sweet coconut cham-cham, look good enough to eat in Wilson Sanger's gorgeous collage art, while her...
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