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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e. e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today Cummings is recognized as the author of some...
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Couplets: A Love Story"An astounding debut."--Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the...
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Color Me HumanPoetry / American / GeneralColor Me Human is a powerful, soul-stirring poetry collection by The Hermit (Keith Mansfield) that journeys through pain, healing, identity, and hope. With raw honesty and vivid language, Mansfield explores themes of mental health, addiction, trauma, resilience, racial identity, aging,...
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Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and HaikuThis delightful little book pays homage to the cat through artfully curated Japanese poetry and prints. No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists...
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Catching the LightNational Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Her enduring message--that writing can be redemptive--resonates: 'To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert "I am."'...
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Brooklyn Antediluvian: PoemsRosal finds trouble he isn't asking for in his unforgettable new poems, whether in New York City, Austin, Texas, or the colonized Philippines of his ancestors. But trouble is everywhere, and Rosal, acclaimed author of My American Kundiman, responds in kind, pulling no punches...
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Blue IrisA rich collection of ten poems, two essays, and two dozen of Mary Oliver's classic works on flowers, trees, and plants of all sorts, elegantly illustrated, Blue Iris is the essential companion to Owls and Other Fantasies, one of the best-selling volumes of poetry...
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Blood Orange"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against...
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Black Girl You Are AtlasA Coretta Scott King Honor BookWinner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writesabout her experience growing up as a young Black girl at...
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A Season in Hell & the Drunken BoatNew Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat -- a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths."...
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Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works"The hallucinatory prose-poems of Arthur Rimbaud rank among the glories of 19th-century French literature." -- New York TimesOne of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings,...
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A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and LaughterThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest,...
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Yard ShowWinner of the 90th Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker AwardFinalist for the Midland Authors Award (Poetry)Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the top 25 Best New Poetry Books by the New York Public LibraryBlack history, cultural expression,...
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Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems"On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And...
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Wildness Before Something SublimeIn dreams and memories, night poems and a centos, Wildness Before Something Sublime emerges at the edge of language to excavate the body--its desires and griefs.Leila Chatti's Wildness Before Something Sublime confronts a world defined by dualities--love and loss, wonder and despair, the gift...
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Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change"Author and poet Cleo Wade will make your day with her inspiring and uplifting outlook on life" (People) and she returns with another moving collection of poems, mantras, and illustrations encouraging you to remain hopeful and harness your inner power and create change through...
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What Had Happened WasIn her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories...
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Turtle IslandThese Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of...
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005The poems in Robert Hass's new collection--his first to appear in a decade--are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His...
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The Space Between MenA poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker "Willis' poetic voice is brimming with personality and curiosity, as musical as it is philosophical, and the space between...
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