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 Enlightened HeartFrom Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to Mitchell's bestselling translation of Tao Te Ching- The Upanishads - The Book of Psalms - Lao-tzu - The Bhagavad Gita - Chuang-tzu - The...
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The Dream SongsThe complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly...
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The Divine ComedyPenned in the early 14th century, this epic poem is an extraordinary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante's vivid imagination and profound allegory provide a gripping exploration of the human condition and spiritual transformation. Dive into a poetic odyssey that has captivated minds...
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The DeletionsSarah Green's The Deletions is a spiritual and psychological reckoning with ecological grief, infertility grief, and the loss of a marriage. These poems live at the intersection of ode and elegy, simultaneously observing and reflecting upon multiple kinds of love (friendship, romance, family). With...
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The Collected Poems of G. K. ChestertonThis book takes you on a journey to solve mysteries, fight dragons, debate religion, and quarrel among politicians in the parliament.It will have you smiling at its witty sarcasm, tearing up over its nostalgic rhythm, and frowning in perplexion at its mind-twisting ideas!"Chesterton was...
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The CanyonThrough poems and photos, The Canyon meditates on Eaton Canyon, a unique ecosystem nestled adjacent Pasadena and Altadena, California.In January 2025, the Eaton Fire devastated the canyon, along with parts of Altadena and Pasadena. The Canyon reflects on the resilience of this environment, recalling...
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The Book of QuestionsA best-selling volume of Pablo Neruda's poetry in an English-Spanish edition.Pablo Neruda is one of the world's most popular poets, and in The Book of Questions, Neruda refuses to be corralled by the rational mind. Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the...
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The Book of Hallowe'en: The Origin and History of HalloweenSince its original publication in 1919, Ruth Edna Kelley's THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN remains the all time classic exploration of Halloween history, from the mysterious year end rites of the ancient Celts, to the autumnal reign of Samhain, the Druid god of death, to...
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The Blessing of Rain and Other PoemsThe poetry in this collection is informed by the memory of ancestors and is motivated as well by my personal struggle to define a vision of life. The poems are arranged loosely into five categories: Ancestors and Memory, Passages, The Natural World, The Spiritual...
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The Big Empty: A Sagebrush Survival StoryPeople passing by call this land the big empty. / But I call it home. In spare, poetic text written from the point of view of big sagebrush, readers are transported to the vast landscape of western North America. This incredibly resilient plant, which...
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The Asking: New and Selected PoemsNow in paperback, the long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of "some of the most important poetry in the world today" (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives In an era of algorithm, assertion, silo,...
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The Apple Trees at Olema"No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass."--Atlantic Monthly The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of...
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Tender ButtonsThe MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions has awarded Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition its seal designating it an MLA Approved Edition.2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the original publication of Gertrude Stein's groundbreaking modernist classic, Tender Buttons. This centennial edition is the...
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Tempest At TwilightTempest At Twilight is an ensemble of free-form poetry I wrote in my college dorm in order to breathe, so I could sleep at night. Extracted from my collection, A Maelstrom At Midnight, the aim is to encompass the evolution of relationships. Moving from...
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Swirl by Swirl Board Book: Spirals in NatureSidman's lyrical poetry and Krommes' charming illustrations illuminate this intriguing shape found all throughout the universe. Young readers will enjoy discovering all of the different spirals in nature in this new board book edition. What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful? Why does...
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Stuck in the Rut: Chasing AlaskaAdventure Awaits in the Alaska WildPack your bags and load up the truck, plane, or boat. It's time to head deep into the Last Frontier, where wild things roam and adventure never ends. Stuck in the Rut - Chasing Alaska follows a hunting family...
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Stranger Music: Selected Poems and SongsIn the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including the legendary songs "Suzanne," "Sisters...
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Sorry for Your TroublesOne of the most engaging voices contemporary spirituality in is that of the Irish poet, Pádraig O'Tuama. This second poetry collection arises out of a decade of his hearing stories of people who have lived through personal and political conflict in Northern Ireland, the...
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Song of My SofteningA Finalist for a 2025 NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry)The raw poems inside Song of My Softening study the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the...
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So Far So GoodLegendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet. In this clarifying and sublime collection, completed shortly before her death in 2018, Le Guin is unflinching in the face of mortality,...
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