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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I Commissioned Some Wooden Luggage: and other poemsWhile backpacking in Europe as a teenager in the 1980s, Nick Benson stumbled on a window display in a Venetian gallery that caught his eye: it featured a beautifully carved duffle-bag sculpted from wood, complete with drawers. For the itinerant Benson, this objet d'art...
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Hurricane in a Bad MoodIn her fifth book of poetry, Sue Owen, who lived and taught in Louisiana for more than thirty years, continues to offer poems rich with her provocative dark humor. Here she explores her familiar themes of fear, danger, and death, but with a new...
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Hark! a Shark!: All about SharksLaugh and learn with fun facts about sharks from the smallest (the dwarf lantern) to the largest (the whale shark), the most notorious (the great white) to the most obscure (the goblin), and more--all told in Dr. Seuss's beloved rhyming style and starring The...
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Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making ConnectionsRupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry....
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From My Healing HeartFrom My Healing Heart is a series of poems I wrote throughout my healing and self-discovery journey--a journey that has taught me a lot about myself, the people around me, and, most importantly, the value I have as a woman and a human being....
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Free Admission to My MindThis poetry collection, like a cerebral train, travels through the varied landscapes of my thoughts, opinions, and life experiences. Words collide with syllables, erupting into vivid imagery that reaches the far recesses of the imagination. These poems are my literary children: sometimes impulsive, but...
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Frank's Wing: Poems"... my relationship with most art living or lost / is the same as yours: we will pass it by" bemoans the last poem in Jacob McArthur Mooney's latest collection. Written as a sequence of "ghost ekphrastics" (poems inspired by works of art that...
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Fine: PoemsCharting the porous borderlands of the self and the social through a year of cataclysm, Matt Rader conjures a vision of the present from a deep future. The follow-up to Ghosthawk, Fine is set largely in the Kelowna area of the Okanagan Valley, BC,...
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Find your Voice: Poetry Journal with 69 PromptsFind your Voice: Poetry Journal with 69 Prompts is a guided journal full of poetry prompts to help people develop their own poetry style. Prompts range from encouraging them to experiment with poetic form to expanding their vocabulary.Author: Night S. CollinsPublisher: Night Sammy CollinsPublished:...
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Drink of SensationThis collection carries the thoughts of a single mother, a romantic lover, a woman who has experienced loss, a little girl searching for love and acceptance, and a divine warrioress who is ready for any challenge that lies ahead.Author: Brenaye PowellPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 11/18/2023Pages:...
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Dirge: A Ballet For 13 Dancers"Sculptured memories and reflections tantalize in a spectral ballet like wisps of smoke; the analytical reflection inside such undercurrents is delicious work for the reader. Complexity and diversity of conscious life can be imagined as generously flashing before the eyes-as in a last, desperately...
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Deliriously Unapologetic: Not Apologizing For Being Me Transparency In My Own Poetic FormIn this ever-changing world that we live in, we can't help but feel delirious at times. We are always questioning and trying to understand the world around us, who we truly are, and why we operate the way we do. Most of all, we...
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Deeds/Abstracts: The History of a London Lot, 1 January 1991 - 6 October 1992Before his tragic death in 1992, Greg Curnoe had submitted to Brick Books a manuscript based on extraordinarily detailed research into the history of 38 Weston, his address in London, Ontario. The result is a journal/collage that traces the occupancy of that one small...
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Dame Evergreen, And Other Poems of Myth, Magic, and Madness"Now comes the time of Midwinter's Hag, when holy sun hides her face, night ruleslongest, and stars cut the open sky." The world is magic, and the world is poetry. The poem-spells contained herein draw on myths, fairy tales, and folktales from around the...
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Cryptid Carols to Sing in the DarkDark fantasy meets cozy horror meets your cold weather fears.This season, trade your boring silent nights for the things that go B U M P in the night.A delectably strange collection for those who like a little more lurk with their holiday lore.Sing along,...
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crash & bloom: A poetry collection of grief & gratitudemama, am I going to make it, is it going to be okaywill I lose my breasts, my hair, my eyelasheswill I lose my identity, femininity, my dignitywill I recognize myself in mirrors, in photos, in memorieswho will I become if I no longer...
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Circles on the WaterAuthor: Marge PiercyPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 05/12/1982Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.13w x 0.97dISBN: 9780394707792About the AuthorMarge Piercy is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including The Art of Blessing the Day; Early Grrrl; Mars and Her Children, My Mother's...
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Calligraphies: PoemsMoving from Paris to Beirut and back, Calligraphies is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming...
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Butterflies at Hope StationWith joy and depth, Suzi Rapoport evokes the span of our human journey, in the 44 poems in this collection Butterflies at Hope Station. Their ease and seeming simplicity carry them on wings whose colours come to reveal unexpected subtlety and maturity. From poem...
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Boxed JuiceBoxed Juice is a rare and original work that makes clear why Danielle Chapman is so vital to contemporary poetry. Spontaneous and indelible, enchanting and disillusioned, extravagant and direct, these poems reveal what Chapman sees from within roles that our culture often renders invisible...
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