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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My Life: Growing Up Native in AmericaA moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more that capture and celebrate the modern Native American experience, featuring entries by Angeline Boulley, Madison Hammond, Kara Roselle Smith, and many more. With heart, pathos, humor, and insight, twenty renowned writers, performers, athletes, and...
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My HeresiesBehold My Heresies: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama....
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Ms. Coco Is Loco!With more than 35 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! In the sixteenth book in the My Weird School series, it's Poetry Month! And Ms. Coco, who runs the gifted and talented program, is poetry crazy! She cries...
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mountainsIn a poetry collection written at 16 years old, John Colacarro shares his journey through 6 chapters. Dealing with different parts of growing up, mountains discusses themes such as heartbreak, loss, nostalgia, and self-hate. It takes the reader through a journey, hoping that they...
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Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient ChinaThe earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to...
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Motherlands: PoemsWinner of the Levis Reading PrizeChosen by Louise Glück for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. "In summer I write. Two lines at...
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Milk and HoneyWatch rupi kaur live now on Prime Video. "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." - The New Republic A hardcover gift edition of milk and honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by rupi kaur, which has sold...
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Mending HolesPatrick Dixon conjures his past life as an Alaskan fisherman with his considerable poetic and storytelling gifts and a capacious memory for the perfect detail. That world's thrills, exhaustion, danger, jonesing, friendships, boats, whiff of diesel layered over fish, and orange pink sunsets all...
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Love Poems of CatullusCatullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare psyche: moments of erotic passion, of scorn and jealousy, of heartfelt devotion, of...
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Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples PoetryJoy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space,...
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Lessons with KiarostamiOver the past two decades, Abbas Kiarostami - the Iranian film director of Where is the Friend's House?, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Close Up, A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone...
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Leaving Biddle CityA brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker's experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as "Biddle City." Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan...
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Leaves from an Ancient TreeLeaves from an Ancient Tree is a poignant debut collection of poetry and essays that explores the beauty of nature, the complexities of love, and the journey of self-discovery. Through vivid imagery and heartfelt reflections, Bettye Wages captures the essence of life's cycles-growth, change,...
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Kaboom! a Volcano EruptsThe story of a volcano's eruption, as it's never been told before! A perfect pick for budding volcanologists -- or any child who can't resist a good kaboom!Here's a step-by-step story of a volcanic eruption -- told from the volcano's point of view! Readers...
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Just Another Epic Love PoemBest friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. "The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." -National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of...
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It's Raining Pigs & NoodlesThe master of mischievous rhyme, Jack Prelutsky, and his partner in crime, James Stevenson, have whipped up a storm of more than one hundred hilarious poems and zany drawings. Grab your umbrella--and make sure it's a big one!It's raining pigs and noodles, it's pouring...
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In Remembrance of . . .In Times of Grief...Spouses, families, and othersoulmates - those of youare usually the people, in times of loss, who experience grief withmore intensity, more passion, more feelings, more emotions.You go through moments(sometimes days) of shock, moments of anger and depression, moments when you doubtand...
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I Know about a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, TexasStruggling for 30 years with chronic illness at her ranch outside Uvalde, Texas, Ann Alejandro was a writer of transporting natural talent and prolificity. Though she would have loved to be widely read and appreciated, she was too modest to scale the walls of...
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If a Mountain Lion Could Sing: The Lyric Poems of Xin QijiIf a Mountain Lion Could Sing stands as the first major English translation of poems written by China's greatest lyric poet, Xin Qiji. World-renowned translator Red Pine has found a new dance partner. His latest bilingual collection, If a Mountain Lion Could Sing, boasts...
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I Cut My Tongue on a Broken CountryA debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lensLotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant memory or...
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