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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The Iliad: Introduction by Gregory NagyIn every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our...
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A Short Treatise on MortalityIn Douglas Reid Skinner's eighth book of poems, a lifetime of writing becomes the writing of a lifetime. With verse ranging from the philosophical to the surreal, Skinner ponders the most universal of questions and concerns - how to live, and, perhaps more crucially,...
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Kneeling in JerusalemIn a powerful and creative way, renowned author and speaker Ann Weems brings new insight into the Lenten season by providing seventy-one poems of inspiration. With her intuitive and heartening poems, Weems takes the reader on a pensive journey through Lent and Easter.Author: Ann...
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Sun in Days: PoemsFrom acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O'Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. These formally ambitious poems and lyric essays give voice to the...
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Toasting Marshmallows: Camping PoemsEverything that happens when you go camping can be an adventure, from getting dressed inside your sleeping bag on a chilly morning to meeting a moose to sharing secrets in a tent at night. Kristine O'Connell George turns the memorable moments of a family...
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Versed in Nature: Hiking Northwest Illinois and East Iowa State ParksCome along with Jodie Toohey as she hikes some of the trails in eastern Iowa's and northwestern Illinois' state parks. Part guidebook, part memoir, this collection of park descriptions and poems will take you on a beautiful, nature-filled journey through the Midwest and mid-life.Author:...
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C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the ExileC. S. Lewis (1898-1963) is best remembered as a literary critic, essayist, theologian, and novelist, and his famed tales The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters have been read by millions. Now, A. T. Reyes reveals a different side of this diverse man...
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Back To Grace: Spiritual Poetry and ReflectionsBack To Grace by Earthschool Harmony is a collection of 79 illuminating poems, celebrating the eternal spiritual truth within each heart. The author, Earthschool Harmony is a 3rd generation poet who has been influenced by the wisdom of great poets, sages, saints and mystics...
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Blake: Prophet Against EmpireAn unsurpassed account of the historical background -- literary, cultural, and intellectual as well as political and social--against which Blake worked and to which he responded as engraver, painter, and poet. -- English Language Notes.For many years, William Blake was seen as a brilliant...
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Dirty Side of the StormAn evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water--sensuous, fecund, and destructive. As marsh turns into...
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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary AfghanistanAfghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet-a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 million Pashtun women who...
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Notebook 1967-68: PoemsA pivotal book in Robert Lowell's groundbreaking career, Notebook is, as Seamus Heaney has written, a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of immeditae, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force, which record not so much the public events of the late 1960s] as the reactions which the...
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Boss CupidA great poet's freshest, most provocative book. He dreams at the center of a closed system, Like the prison system, or a system of love, Where folktale, recipe, and household customRefer back to the maze that they are of.--from A System: PCP, or Angel...
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Seriously Scary PoemsA collection of wonderfully hilarious, seriously scary rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.SERIOUSLY...
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My Teacher's Name is Love: Some Poems for PremA collection of poems examining love, self, devotion, and opening to a wider cosmos. Whimsical, meditative, rapturous, these poems are a contemporary expression of spirit.there, wobbling on the wireof my neighbour's rooftopaerialbacklit againstthe early summerskythis young magpie riffs, delirious with the possibilitiesof joyVictor Marsh...
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Ordinary Beast: PoemsONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey's work is restless...
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Ordinary Beast: PoemsONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole SealeyThe existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey's work is restless...
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Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a PoemHave you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents?Jack Prelutsky has written more than one thousand poems about all of these things--and...
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Speak LowSpeak Low is the tenth book from one of America's most distinctive--and one of poetry's most essential--contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for work provocative in its candor, uncompromising in its inquiry, and at once rigorous and innovative in its attention to craft....
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Acts of Contortion, 2002Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945."The Development of...
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