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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Rumored AnimalsReaders of new poetry have come to expect a certain amount of wonder in the work, a certain receptivity (here and there) to the non-rational, preternatural undercurrents which ordinarily reveal themselves to us with full force only every now and then. For some, poetry...
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A Collection of NightmaresHold your screams and enter a world of seasonal creatures, dreams of bones, and confessions modeled from open eyes and endless insomnia. Christina Sng's A Collection of Nightmares is a poetic feast of sleeplessness and shadows, an exquisite exhibition of fear and things better...
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Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded"The marvelous prose poems in Shivani Mehta's debut collection live at the intersection of language and imagery. Even if you won't be losing your head anytime soon, Useful Information for the Soon-to-be Beheaded should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in spending some time...
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Killing FloorPoetry. In 1978, KILLING FLOOR was awarded the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The book was selected by Charles Wright, Maxine Kumin, and Philip Levine. On the Occasion of the 40th anniversary of publication, Tavern Books has brought this masterpiece...
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Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows"Everyone warns us off the rocks. / But what will keep us from the river?" Leigh asks in her debut collection, which pieces together a kind of mythology in which the surreal and celestial coexist with the realities of childhood abuse as an adult...
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Woman Without UmbrellaWith a voice that is rooted in the lush, immediate present, Victoria Redel explores the necessity to live and love deeply in her third collection of poems, Woman Without Umbrella. With her fearless and insistent engagement with language, Redel leads us, unprotected and exposed...
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Watching the Perseids: The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary AnthologyThis anthology commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Backwaters Press, a nonprofit literary publisher located in Omaha, Nebraska. Virtually every poet published by the press in its first two decades is represented here with two new, previously unpublished poems selected specifically for this volume.Author:...
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Like the New Moon I Will Live My LifeThe most recent in a line of great American transcendentalist writers.--The New York TimesBly's poems flow from . . . the great current of longing for reality, true maturity, the devotee's call to the Beloved.--The NationRobert Bly changed the course of poetry in America...
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Vertical Poetry: Recent PoemsRoberto Juarroz's poems focus on the interior world or the internal experience of the exterior world. We are reissuing this collection of Juarroz's earlier work as a companion to the new volume.Mary Crow is a translator and former Colorado Poet Laureate. Her most recent...
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Chilean Poets: A New AnthologyPoetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by many hands. This anthology offers a broad spectrum of modern and contemporary Chilean poetry, including both works by such eminent figures as Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo de Rocka, Vicente Huidobro, and Nicanor Parra and a...
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You Ask Me to Talk about the InteriorPoetry. YOU ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERIOR emerges out of the ontological shock and double- bind of there being a world (rather than nothing at all), and inhabiting this world that depends on violence. Still, Carolina Ebeid writes I have wanted /...
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A Series of Un/Natural/DisastersA Series of Un/Natural/Disasters explores the many forms of mutual aid and possibility that appear in moments of state failure. It maps long and complicated equations, taking us from Katrina to the prisoners at Riker's Island as they await Hurricane Sandy. It understands and...
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The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Special EditionThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as revealed by the brilliant fifth edition translation of Edward Fitzgerald, with the lush illustrations of Edmund Dulac, is art that speaks to both the aesthetic and intellectual foundations of the human spirit. It exemplifies the qualities that define...
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The Book of Feral FloraFiction. Poetry. Ecopoetics. Amanda Ackerman's THE BOOK OF FERAL FLORA collapses distinctions between narrative, poetry, and prose. Grafting stories to stones and written poems to plant rewrites generated via sensory-electronic technology, THE BOOK OF FERAL FLORA attempts to write the language of plants. From...
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San Francisco PoemsHere are all of Ferlinghetti's poems set in the city he has lived in for over half a century. He brings alive, with wit and lyricism, scenes of city life: a Giants baseball game, the Green Street Marching Mortuary Band, bohemian North Beach, Golden...
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How Trees Must Feel: A Poetry CollectionAiming to write for these who tell her "I don't like poetry, but I like what you write," Longenecker seeks to create poems that are textually accessible and often traditional in form yet (as her title poem signals) use the ordinary to convey the...
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Museum of False Starts"I hope you like the powerful and evocative poems in Museum of False Startsas much as I do. I especially admire how skillfully Chip Livingston makes the ordinary exotic, erotic and extraordinary."-AiAuthor: Chip LivingstonPublisher: Gival PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w...
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Elegy for Emilia: A Verse Biography of Emily Remler (1957-1990)The short but remarkable career of American jazz guitarist, Emily Remler (1957-1990), ended with her death, amid still-disputed circumstances, in Sydney in 1990 while on tour. Emily played with virtually all the major jazz guitarists of the era and recorded six albums under her...
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We Need to Talk: Sexual Violence, Survivorship and SolidarityIf I could write just one poem about sexual violence it would be this: Always. Believe. The victim.We Need To Talk is a poetry collection on sexual violence, survivorship and solidarity. We Need To Talk instead looks at gender-based violence structurally, taking Agnes's own...
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The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets: An Anthology (A Bilingual Edition)This anthology reflects a search of the Ukrainian nation for its identity, the roots of which lie deep inside Ukrainian-language poetry. Some of the included poets are well-known locally and internationally; among them are Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Ostap Slyvynsky, Marianna Kijanowska, Oleh Kotsarev,...
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