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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On Poetry"This is a book for anyone," Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters....
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Psalms of LamentHere beloved poet Ann Weems offers a poignant rendering of her own personal psalms of lament. She draws from the rich heritage of Scripture to give voice to the grief and anguish she has felt. Her words will deeply move anyone who has mourned.Author:...
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From Advent's Alleluia to Easter's Morning Light: Poetry for Worship, Study, and DevotionWeems's lyrical poetry is a reminder of the importance of true discipleship. She challenges Christians to look past the ongoing distractions of the "busy work" of church meetings and socials, new programs and technology, and inevitable conflict, while reminding readers in her singularly expressive...
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Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's SurvivorsFrom the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems comes a celebration of ubiquitous life forms among us. Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman presents another unusual blend of fine poetry and fascinating science illustrated in exquisite...
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Peace Treaty with Myself: A Book of Poetic MeditationsIn Peace Treaty with Myself: A Book of Poetic Meditations, Deborah A. Williams poetically unpacks a few of her life experiences with the help of Peace. The book's opening captures the reader with the author's chilling recollections of past instances of domestic violence and...
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A Walk Through BrooklynA Walk Through Brooklyn is a collection of nineteen poems. It expresses the black experience from the vantage point of an African-American man. The poems deal with self-motivation, love, abandonment, and loss. The pictures painted through words will persuade you to read this poetry...
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The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New PoemsCharles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, a sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutia...
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Opal: The Journal of an Understanding HeartA lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.Author: Opal WhiteleyPublisher: Potter StylePublished: 10/03/1995Pages: 192Binding Type:...
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The OceanA collection of short essays and poems written by journalist Warwick McFadyen on the subject of death, grief and loss in the first years after the death of his son in 2019, describing with heartbreaking acuity his emotional responses to everyday life and the...
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Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very YoungThis long beloved poetry treasury from acclaimed anthologist Jack Prelutsky is now available in paperback for the very first time America's favorite children's poet and anthologist, Jack Prelutsky has selected more than 200 poems for every occasion, every event, every experience that a young...
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The Owl and the PussycatOwl sets out to woo Pussycat in a boat laden with fruit from their Caribbean island and with a guitar at his side, ready for serenading. As they sail off across the sea, another story unfolds in the water beneath the boat. One by...
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Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.Author: Margaret AtwoodPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 11/05/1987Pages: 160Binding Type:...
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The Dead and the LivingFrom the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. Larry Lewis say, "The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling...
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Toxic Flora: Poemsfrom "On Deceit as Survival" Yet another species resembles a female bumble bee, ending in frustrated trysts-- or appears to be two fractious males which also attracts--no surprise-- a third curious enough to join the fray. What to make of highly evolved Beauty bent...
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Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001The Fact of a Doorframe is the ideal introduction to Rich's opus, from her formative lyricism in A Change of Word (1951), to the groundbreaking poems of Diving into the Wreck (1973), to the searching voice of Fox (2001).Author: Adrienne RichPublisher: W. W. Norton...
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A Coast of Trees: PoemsOf this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely...
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In a Time of Violence: PoemsThis, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed the meeting place between womanhood and history.Author: Eavan BolandPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 05/01/1995Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.51w x 0.31dISBN: 9780393312980About the AuthorBoland, Eavan: - Eavan Boland (1944--2020) was...
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The Selected PoemsTo the visions of clarity and terror in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work. Among...
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Haiku in English: The First Hundred YearsHaiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking...
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What Have You Lost?What have you lost? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?Each NightImages, dream news, fragments, flashthen fade.These darkened walls.Here, I say.Climb intothis story.Be remembered Jay Bremyer 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field...
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