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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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Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color BrownA poetry collection that explores the spectrum of beautiful shades of brown.When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Tan, sienna, topaz, or tamarind? Poet Malathi Michelle Iyengar sees a whole spectrum of beautiful shades of brown. Swirls of henna decorate ocher...
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Swan: Poems and Prose Poems"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are...
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SpoonhandleSpoonhandle, Ruth Moore's second novel, spent 14 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and was made into the movie Deep Waters. Spoonhandle is about Maine, brilliantly authentic, but the story told is universal, as old as time as it deals with the...
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Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts"You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same." That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all...
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SongWinner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.... Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude...
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Soft ScienceParis Review Staff Pick A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness--how to be tender and feeling and still survive a...
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Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the YearSing a Song of Seasons is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems -- one for every day of the year. Filled with familiar favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets, including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Updike, Langston...
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Round and Round the Year We GoEric Carle meets Chicken Soup with Rice in this joyful dance through the year one month at a time, sure to whirl young readers right along with it. Time never passed so happily! From sledding and snowman-crafting in January to the New Year's countdown...
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Requiem for a RedbirdRequiem for a Redbird is a collection meant to take its readers through five distinct yet interwoven sections; it's a book, in Bush's own words, that is unapologetically both Appalachian and Black. Bush came to sort their work into poems whose main themes begin...
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Pole Dancing to Gospel HymnsPrepare to be moved, challenged, and utterly captivated by the profound journey that awaits the reader within the pages of Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns.In this thought-provoking collection of poems, Gibson fearlessly confronts the haunting aftermath of a soldier's psychological wounds, delving into the...
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Poems of AkhmatovaWitness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent biographies attest to a remarkable resurgence of...
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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating WomenA collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou These four poems, "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers," are among the most remembered and acclaimed of Maya Angelou's poems. They celebrate women with a majesty that has...
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ParallaxFinalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Julia Kolchinsky's Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet's birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence, Kolchinsky struggles to process...
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Parable and Paradox: Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus and Other PoemsSince the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom,...
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Out There in the Wild: Poems on Nature'Sometimes a book comes along that stops you in your tracks. This arrived today. It is beautiful, intelligent, accessible, deeply moving. Fantastic writing, fantstic art. A book for everyone.' David Almond A stunning poetry gift book celebrating the natural world, illustrated by Diana Catchpole....
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Night Train to MemphisTo see inside, was Tillinghast's succinct response to the question, Why do you write? This short answer holds the key to his unstinting vitality, in poetry: curiosity, observation, and reflection.Night Train to Memphis addresses several recurring concerns. A sense of mortality runs throughout, including...
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My Little Spiritual Book: Rituals, Poems & Practices for EnlightenmentIf you like Gabi Bernstein's books for manifesting, then you'll love My Little Spiritual Book: Rituals, Poems and Practices for Enlightenment.Written by Miami manifesting queen and author Annie Vazquez, this simple and easy book for mindfulness-on-the-go has everything you need, from how to work...
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Modern Poetry: PoemsFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2024 HEARTLAND BOOKSELLERS AWARD FOR POETRY Diane Seuss's signature voice--audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude--has become one of the most original...
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Metamorphoses: A New Verse TranslationOvid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find...
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Lucky WreckCelebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Ada Limón's award-winning debut poetry collection, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet that reflects on the book and how her writing practice has developed over time.From the new introduction by the author: "I expected to meet...
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