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 Book of Firsts: Poems Celebrating a Baby's MilestonesA keepsake volume of poetry marking the key moments in a baby's first year, with space to record your baby's milestones My Book of Firsts is a delightful collection of poems about the milestones experienced by babies in their first year. From a baby's...
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More Than One Way to Be OldA poet considers the benefits of being invisible, her former life as a tree, the terrifying thrill of zip lining, what to say when a 100-foot cottonwood tree falls on your house, and how to respond to the many challenges of our time. Here...
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Love Poems for Married PeopleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people. Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People...
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Look: Poems*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award**Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday...
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Little Naturalists: Henry David Thoreau in the WoodsIntroduce your baby to Henry David Thoreau, his time at Walden Pond, and how he enjoyed living in the woods.Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, historian, and philosopher. Millions of people have read his writings, and a favorite of many is Walden,...
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Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People: The Collected PoemsWelcome to Judevine.In the 1970s, as a recent arrival to Wolcott, Vermont, writer David Budbill was inspired by his own working-class background to shine a light on the lives of his new neighbors who were, in turns, beautiful, ingenious, struggling, and unseen. These poems...
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I Want You to KnowThis poem with vibrant and colorful illustrations opens a conversation with young readers about family bonds and the lasting impacts of war. Anyone who has had to leave "home" and readers who loved the author's picture book collaboration with Innosanto Nagara, Together, will want...
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In TimePoetry. Poems of grief and discovery, of connection and the strange time travel that is the life we each lead: Rackin is back with her inimitable meld of mystery and simplicity.Says John Gallher: "In her fourth book of poetry, In Time, Ethel Rackin continues...
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In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to OrpheusRainer Maria Rilke's poetry offers a rare combination of insight, beauty, and accessibility that has delighted readers for generations. Beloved for its unique lyrical style and musical language, his work stands as some of the most remarkable poetry of the past one hundred years....
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IndigoEllen Bass's Indigo is a nuanced and profound exploration of life's complexities-where joy and devotion meet regret and dependence.Author: Ellen BassPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 04/07/2020Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40dISBN: 9781556595752Review Citation(s): Booklist 03/01/2020 pg. 9About the AuthorEllen Bass is...
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I Love Hearing Your Dreams: PoemsFrom a poet whose "poems don't merely attempt beauty; they attain it" (Boston Review), an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions. "Your dreams / have no hidden / agenda to be wise / they are...
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How to Be a Good Savage and Other PoemsThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse...
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Horsepower: PoemsPriest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self--a mixed-race...
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Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKayFrom the late 1910s to the mid 1930s, Harlem, New York City, was the center of an explosion of African-American social, artistic, and intellectual expression that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing African-Americans by the thousands to the 3-square-mile neighborhood in...
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GrimeOne of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall!From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist lens with a rare deftness of poetic form."Thea Matthews is our sacred underground; the only host of our...
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Good Girl and Other YearningsFrom "Quantum Mechanics And You" to "Little Red Riding Hood Buys A 6-Pack After EMDR," these poems turn the confessional genre on its head. Correa's debut full-length collection explores how trauma shakes the foundations of identity, and how healing happens on every level: atomic,...
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Fierce ElegyPeter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also--as it has been for centuries--a work of loveWinner of the T.S. Eliot Prize Winner of the Massachusetts Book AwardPeter Gizzi has said that "the elegy is a mode that can...
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Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry★ "The 70 short stories and poems that make up Brown's phenomenal debut collection (after the novella Grievers) explore social justice through an Afrofuturist lens...It's a masterful mix of genre and form that showcases Brown's range and skill. This should be required reading for...
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Exalted Ground: Poems of Praise and Lament for the Living"Kimberly Phinney's poetry does what poetry is meant to do: it sings, it dances, it cries, it praises, it searches, it laments. It shows us what it means to be creatures of language and words-and what the power of words can do..." -Dr. Karen...
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Daniel Finds a PoemStunning collage art full of rich color, glorious details, and a sense of wonder--reminiscent of the work of Ezra Jack Keats--illustrate this delightful story celebrating the poetry found in the world around us. What is poetry? Is it glistening morning dew? Spider thinks so....
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