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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BrazosA stark and lonely voice rings clear in Justin Carter's debut collection. Brazos teems with ghosts, bloodlines, and gas flares, tracing a "river cloaked in mud" that trudges toward the Texas Gulf Coast. In these poems, a complex Millennial coming-of-age story emerges amidst the...
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bouquet of thorny rosebouquet of thorny rose explores the intricacies of living in a deviant body through the intersections of pleasure, trauma, memory, and emotion. This hybrid collection burrows deep into relationships with self, others, and the world to examine, unearth, and name. To tend and prune....
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Beyond the Noisy Membrane, PoemsThe poems of Beyond the Noisy Membrane identify and celebrate the connections between what's on the everyday roadways we travel and in the vast worlds that encompass us.They embrace the complex simplicity of the natural world juxtaposed with our human desire for understanding our...
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Battle Cry: Before I DieCome see what choice you have afteryou die! Choose or lose or the choice will be made for you! This is a book with a hook! I'm 51 years old! I'm a grandma and mama with a word to be heard! I'm not absurd!...
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A Working Girl Can't Win: and Other PoemsThe surprising national bestseller and "New York Times" Notable Book that "Newsweek" called "a wonderful collection, full of candor, bereft of b.s. It will speak both to women and those hunting for clues to the same."Author: Deborah GarrisonPublisher: Random House Publishing GroupPublished: 02/22/2000Pages: 80Binding...
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Arabic, Between Love and WarIn Arabic, the word for love - حب - is one letter shorter than the word for war - حرب - Here, translators gather to perform an intimate labour, moving words from Arabic into English, or reversing such direction as language dissolves into cities,...
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Angel Sharpening Its BeakPoems that depict the reality of life in rural America. Angel Sharpening its Beak, Michael McGriff's fifth collection, searches for meaning at the intersection of surrealism, place, and poverty in rural America. From long sequences to dense enigmatic sketches, the poems gathered here honor...
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A Magnificently Ordinary Romance: A Poetry CollectionFollowing the success of her Diary of a Romantica series, Celia Martinez returns to further explore love and all of its magnificent beauty. In A Magnificently Ordinary Romance (AMOR), self-proclaimed hopeful romantic Celia Martinez poetically tells the story of a man and woman who...
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A Little History of PoetryA vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New York Times Book Review Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over...
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Your Mother's Bear Gun: PoemsThe poems in Your Mother's Bear Gun exist in thresholds, in liminal spaces: emotional and physical landscapes at the blurring of safety and danger, the point where preservation of self becomes harm to others. This collection explores the rugged wildernesses of Oregon, Montana, and...
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William Shakespeare Complete Works the Tragedies: Based on the First Folio of James Heminges and Henry CondellA long awaited addition to Flame Tree's stunning hardcover collector's series, one of three stunning volumes of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Tragedies sits alongside The Histories and...
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William Shakespeare Complete Works the Histories: Based on the First Folio of John Heminges and Henry CondellA long awaited addition to Flame Tree's stunning hardcover collector's series, one of three stunning volumes of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Histories, also including the sonnets and...
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William Shakespeare Complete Works the Comedies: Based on the First Folio of John Heminges and Henry CondellA long awaited addition to Flame Tree's stunning hardcover collector's series, one of three stunning volumes of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Comedies sits alongside The Histories and...
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Where the Stars Still BurnWhere the Stars Still BurnIn Where the Stars Still Burn, the light of the human experience shines through the darkness, exploring the quiet beauty and the haunting complexities of life. This collection of poems captures fleeting moments-an unspoken word, a fleeting glance, a heartbeat-woven...
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When We Were Birds: PoemsFinalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy CollinsIn When We Were Birds, Joe Wilkins wrests his attention away from the griefs, deprivations, and high prairies of his Montana childhood and turns toward "the bean-rusted fields & gutted factories of the Midwest," toward...
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When We Only Have the EarthIn this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where "the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me...
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we held our breath, the birds and IPoetry of the first sheltering: June to election, 2020Only a presidential term ago, we...and the world, sheltered at home, waiting for the Covid to find us. We were isolated, but weren't we all still a part of marches for George, mourning for Ruth, wishing...
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Water CastleThe poems of Natalie Solmer's Water Castle both seek and resist homeland, from ancestral Eastern Europe, to immigrant grandparents in America's Rust Belt, to her partner's, and therefore her children's, Caribbean origins. Our speaker is raised among the empty factories of a city on...
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Waltharius: The Latin Epic of Walther of AquitaineWaltharius is one of the great monuments of medieval European literature. Set in a fifth-century world of Goths, Huns, Franks, and Burgundians, this poem from the ninth or tenth century tells a lively tale of adventure, treachery, and combat. It recounts the daring escape...
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Vocabulary Lessons: In Love & LimerenceHere is every cavity-every artery-of my heart, displayed for the hearts still longing to feel some semblance of love. For those who believe that LOVE still matters, I lay my longing on this written platter.In her sixth poetry collection, Flor Ana diverts from her...
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