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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In Praise of UsefulnessIn Praise of Usefulness, Angela Patten's third collection of poetry, finds the expatriate Irish poet once again poised between thoughts of Ireland, the country that engendered her love of language and literature, and America, the country that fostered her development as a woman and...
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Neck of the WoodsIf two girls are two halves of a deep, lifelong friendship, what does one girl wholly become when the other is gone? Amy Woolard's debut collection, Neck Of The Woods, sets this question as a hero-quest deep inside the mythos of the American South,...
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TouchedI trust Luther Hughes with the body. In Touched, Hughes is careful with it, he handles the body as deliberate and tender as one would a poem. The bodies here, be they black, queer, animal, living, or recovering, are given an authority only possible...
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Prayers for My 17th Chromosome"Amir Rabiyah is a magician who has tasted salt of the creation story's sea. The cleaving of human to spirit found in Prayers for My 17th Chromosome is a blood tangle that will kiss your cells till you sweat / constellations. Rabiyah reminds their...
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How to Write a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem "Introduction to Poetry"Is it possible to teach someone how to write a poem? Or does poetry simply "come from the heart" or from a special talent only some can ever hope to have? Of course there's no formula for writing an amazing poem. If poems came...
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NatureIn this classic essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson presents the foundations of Transcendentalism, the belief system in which the divine permeates nature and in which reality is understood through nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayist and poet who led the...
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Grief SequenceOffering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in trauma. In doing...
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No Dictionary of a Living TongueNo Dictionary of a Living Tongue is formidable in its explorations of art, citizenship, and life as a body amid the social, political, and electronic networks that define us, hold us together, bind us. The poems here take many forms--prose, lyric, epigram, narrative, dialogue...
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A Yiddisher SheygetsThe book "Jewish Sheygets" is the first collection by the world famous pianist Evgeny Kissin. It includes his Yiddish poems, short stories and translations of poems into Yiddish from the last several years. His works carry the rhythm of our time and feature the...
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Suipsalms: Collected PoetrySuiPsalms is the follow up to Lawson's first, acclaimed poetry collection, THE TROUBLESOME AMPUTEE. Exploring the subject of suicide from all angles, this collection challenges pre-conceived notions and both poetry and suicide. Drawing on influences from Sylvia Plath to Ian Curtis this book is...
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Unpeopled EdenUnpeopled Eden opens in Mictl n, the region of the dead in Aztec mythology, inviting us down into a world where "the men are never coming home" and "rows of ghosts come forth to sing." Haunted by border crossers and forgotten deportees, lost brothers...
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John Newton's Olney HymnsThese hymns were written by John Newton in Olney, England and were originally published in 1779. This collection includes John Newton's contribution of 281 hymns. Some favorite hymns by John Newton are "Amazing Grace," "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken," and "How Sweet the...
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Cruel FictionCruel Fiction brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged "Brazilian Is Not a Race," a sonnet sequence meditating on race, nation, and history seen from the author's native Rio Grande...
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Haiti My CountryPretty flowers in my country are for me Like pink butterflies That smile at the sun - Judes-Roldes For several months, Quebec illustrator Rog prepared a series of portraits of Haitian children. Students of Camp Perrin wrote the accompanying poems, which create, with flowing...
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Dark Matter: New PoemsIn this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we've come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord:...
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Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead HamletsIain Sinclair's classic early text, Lud Heat, explores mysterious cartographic connections between the six Hawksmoor churches in London. In a unique fusion of prose and poetry, Sinclair invokes the mythic realm of King Lud, who according to legend was one of the founders of...
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Totem Poles and RailroadsTotem Poles and Railroads succinctly defines the 500-year-old relationship between Indigenous nations and the corporation of Canada. In this, her fifth poetry collection, Janet Rogers' expands on that definition with a playful, culturally powerful and, at times, experimental voice. She pays honour to her...
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ParadisoShortly before her death, philosopher Gillian Rose began work on a new book, her "Paradiso", thus fulfilling her promise at the end of "Love's Work" to 'stay in the fray, in the revel of ideas and risk'. Confident even only a week before her...
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And after All: PoemsRhina P. Espaillat's And after All meditates on the passage of time. The perspective sweeps from the panorama of foreign landmarks to the close view of a lover's feet in failing health, held and cared for. And after All displays the wit, wisdom, subtle...
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The UnmemntioableShortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award.The Unmemntioable joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what...
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