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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Real Indian Junk Jewelry"Trevino Brings Plenty's tales focus on Native survival in the face of modern American displacement. He is a young Indian Odysseus, head up, going forward strongly, only occasionally getting distracted by urban sirens singing their songs of destruction. A dynamic, new Indian voice." -Adrian...
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Geographies of LightGEOGRAPHIES OF LIGHT is a voice of the Palestinian people, bearing witness to brutal loss, as well as the joy.Author: Lisa Suhair MajajPublisher: Web del Sol AssociationPublished: 10/30/2009Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 5.98h x 9.01w x 0.32dISBN: 9781934832080This title is not returnable
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Mercury"This astonishing young poet--still in her twenties--is surely destined to be one of the crucial voices of her generation."--Michael Silverblatt, BookwormComposed in the direct, accessible, consciousness-piercing style readers of Ariana Reines' first two books are wildly enamored of, Mercury comprises a group of long...
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Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade AgreementPoetry. Latinx Studies. Second Edition. In 2010 Hugo Garc a Manr quez set out to work through the North American Free Trade Agreement in Spanish and English. The result is a bilingual artifact that interrupts and re-politicizes NAFTA's neoliberal language, becoming a space of...
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A Little White ShadowSelectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle's ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its former self, yet completely new. A high-quality replica of the original aged, delicate book...
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The Voice: Selected Poems of Robert DesnosIn the 60 years since his death, the great French surrealist poet Robert Desnos has become one of the most accomplished lyricists of the twentieth-century. His name has become synonymous with artistic, personal, and political freedom. He was the last of the Romantics, and...
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Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (Loa #168)No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances...
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AmnesiacPoet, musician, scholar, and singer, Duriel E. Harris has written an amazing book. As Sterling Plumpp tells us, her work "is a twenty-first century literary text emerging out of the prism of race, gender, and social class. It is eloquently postmodern funk and intimately...
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The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's PoetryThis anthology, revised and greatly expanded since the groundbreaking first edition, features poetry by sixteen of Ireland's finest poets: Eil an N Chuillean in, Eavan Boland, Eva Bourke, Medbh McGuckian, Kerry Hardie, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Mary O'Malley, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon,...
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A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of LifeMitsu Suzuki is the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the Zen monk who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States. A White Tea Bowl is a selection of her poems, written after her return to Japan...
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The Yoga Game in the GardenThe second book in The Yoga Game series wiggles its way to the garden. Hum like a bee Grow like a tree Enjoy another delightful yoga practice with more entertaining rhymes, enchanting riddles and whimsical illustrations. Critters and creatures help plant the fun with...
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ThawWhen a thunderstorm's dark reverberations glimmer 'in the night-sky of the head', or when apricots generate an edible appreciation of 'soft time', we discover Charles Bennet's lyrical and powerful poems revealing the impact of nature in memorable, unexpected and sometimes unusual ways.This fascinating collection...
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BeowulfPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION WINNER OF THE TIMES STEPHEN SPENDER PRIZE 2011 A warrior sets sail for a distant land, to a once great hall plagued by a murderous enemy - the monster Grendel. Can the hero Beowulf defeat his bloody-thirsty foe, save...
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The ApothecaryI want an ingenious fibre to be treated as funny tragedy expressing a classic argument against materialism which runs like this: which changes of costume are bound to be dangerous? The Apothecary is an extinct fern called a sentence unfurling in the mists. It...
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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other PoemsProtean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthologyPablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis...
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University of Hunger: Collected Poems & Selected ProseThe Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the foremost Caribbean writers of the 20th century. Twice imprisoned by the colonial government of British Guiana during the Emergency in the 1950s, he became a minister in Guyana's first independent government during the 60s,...
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I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected PoemsGrace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain...
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Walk in the WoodsSet in the midst of the Cold War, Lee Blessing's powerful and startling play dramatises a stand-off between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators as they battle for supremacy. Full of tension and humour A Walk in the Woods shows how the relationship between the...
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The Bridge"Transit becomes an act of transcendence in Mary Austin Speaker's The Bridge. I love how each section of the book ends almost where it begins, how the world comes as it goes, flash after flash - and just when things begin to blur we...
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Pepper SeedThe poems in 'Pepper Seed' reflect the fact that Malika has grown up in several different places including Brooklyn, Brixton and Grenada/Victoria. This complex sense of rootedness shapes the dimensions of her work, giving her the ability to delve into a multiplicity of places,...
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