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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Thomas Hardy: The Complete PoemsThomas Hardy's first love was always poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was fifty-eight years old, having already established his reputation with fourteen novels and over forty short stories, that his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems was published. For the final...
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To the Place of the TrumpetsThe winning volume in the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is To the Place of Trumpets. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems suggest a kind of folk art-their clay washed of narrative...
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Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at upholding the exclusion laws that...
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Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive VerseAn anthology of poems from women who proudly celebrate their own nastiness and that of other women who have served as nasty role models; poems by and about women defying limitations and lady-like expectations; women refusing to be "nice girls;" women embracing their inner...
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The Inheritance of HauntingWinner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war,...
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Such Places as MemoryThe poems of an architect whose affection for urban reality and imagined space is as evident in his writing as in his buildings and drawings.The poems of John Hejduk are almost nonpoetic: still lives of memory, sites of possessed places. They give a physical...
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Paradise LostParadise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges...
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Complete PoetryThis volume of Keats's powerful poetry follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde's conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan and Christian, and his fluctuating attraction to Roman Catholicism. The Appendix shows Wilde's original...
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The Major WorksRobert Browning's poetic scope was broad, ranging from the beguiling magic of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved...
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Poems from Iqbal: Renderings in English Verse with Comparative Urdu TextAllama Muhammad Iqbal was acknowledged during his lifetime as the most important poet of Muslim India in the twentieth century, both for the quality of his verse and for the influence exercised by his ideas. This volume contains a rendering in English of over...
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In the PinesA bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics...
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The Government Lake: Last PoemsThe stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually...
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Tao Te Ching Low Price CD: A New English VersionIn 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord...
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Selected Poems of Rainer Maria RilkeFor poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet, brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.Author: Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert...
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Sinners Welcome"What gives Sinners Welcome its sharp edge is the poet's eloquently passionate struggle at the junction of doubt and devotion." --Washington PostFrom Mary Karr, the prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club, Cherry and Lit, comes Sinners Welcome, her fourth...
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On the Mercy Me PlanetIn these elegant, sparkling poems, Maya Janson writes about life's contradictory, mercurial nature with wit and warmth. Her imagination is expansive, her images surprising and delightful. Beware the urge to haul everything you own/ to the top of a mountain in order to hurl...
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Blisstopia: Humanstantial hankeringThe hankering of humans' being, moments are fleeting, always here, always gone, But at what price?The unwritten page of a picture book, the 'Sumi-e Art story' is a visually poetic picture book for adults series with abstract ink Sumi-e illustrations.Sumi-e is a Japanese word...
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1912: Poems of Time, Place & MemoryIn this unique, insightful collection of poems and pen and ink drawings, author and artist Kary Hess pours open her notebooks and invites readers to travel from Petaluma to Paris to Utah and back again in a knowing and humorous exploration of time and...
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Reflections Through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones Tras El Espejo Convexo del Tiempo: Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / PoemasIn this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. Tony Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times. Mares...
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A Preponderance of ThoughtsA Preponderance of Thoughts is an ode to surviving depression. It outlines the author's frantic, yet palpable emotions in a fight to stay alive. The poems explore and tackle the many questions asked when one's mind is spiralling into a perfect mess. An allegory...
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