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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Marriage PoemsA sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Omar Khayy m to D.H. Lawrence...
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The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1998-2018Each reading of your palm a different road verging from soil and forking into possibilities in a wild and foreign ocean no vaster than the line it makes with the sky In The Many Uses of Mint Ravi Shankar resuscitates old poetic traditions while...
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Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete PoemsAn eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical--and not so typical--middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems. His musings cover the usual stuff, like pizza, homework, thank-you notes, and his annoying older sister. In addition, he speculates about professional wrestling for animals,...
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Green GhostsIf I had it to do over Had to face it once again I wouldn't change a moment I would do it with these men. In this company of heroes I'd face another war Print another page in history For our Country and our...
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Homemade MistakesLife will not give you purpose laid out like a feast; you must seek it out (especially on the difficult days). I'm working on being intentional, I'm building better days, I'm pursuing the impossible, and I'm clearing out the excuses that I've let block...
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Hitman-Baker-Casketmaker: Aftermath of an American's Clash with ICEHitman-Baker-Casketmaker: Aftermath of an American's Clash with ICE spotlights loss, change and resurrection. For the first time, Master Bread Baker Klecko reveals the circumstances behind the 2018 demise of St. Agnes Baking Company just days before the Twin Cities hosted Super Bowl LII at...
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Beauty In The Let Go"The demons will feast on your chaos. Tell them to fuck off, there's love at your core." -This is the overall punch in the stomach type of writing that you get from author Tiffany Simone's second book, Beauty In The Let Go. Simone is...
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HurlyburlyThis riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon, and Jerry Stiller. Characters nose-deep in the decadent, perverted, cocaine culture that is Hollywood, pursuing...
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Torch Song TrilogyCharacters: 4 male, 2 femaleTony Award Winner, Best Play 1983 Includes: The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First "A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...the zappiest evening of theatre...
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Little MurdersJules Feiffer Full Length, Black Comedy Characters: 6 male, 2 female Interior Set Depressed New Yorker Alfred Chamberlain is engaged to perky, can-do Patsy Newquist. As their wedding day grows near, Alfred finds himself embroiled in an urban nightmare not the least of which...
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One for the RoadAuthor: Harold PinterPublisher: Samuel French LtdPublished: 08/02/2013Pages: 30Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.06dISBN: 9780573121845This title is not returnable
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The New Faber Book of Love PoemsJames Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, The New Faber Book of Love Poems contains a fantastic mix of classics...
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The Poems of CatullusCatullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry...
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Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip WhalenPhilip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite, shy,...
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Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco ChinatownMarlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of...
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The Poetry of the BluesA signal event in the history of the music. -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world...
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Idylls of the KingWith Idylls of the King, one of the giants of Victorian literature turned his considerable talents to the chivalric lore surrounding a larger-than-life British ruler, King Arthur. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, cast his interpretation of Arthurian myth into the form of an epic poem, and...
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Introduction to Italian Poetry: A Dual-Language BookThis anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Italian verse in the original with English translations on facing pages. Twenty-one poets are represented, from Saint Francis of Assisi, author of...
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A Dog Runs Through It: PoemsReflecting on her long and celebrated career in poetry, two-time National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was struck by the number of dogs that have appeared in her poems--whether as the primary subject or in the briefest of allusions. Dogs run through these poems,...
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A Sleepwalk on the SevernA Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald's signature sensitivity to nature, the poem chronicles a night on the Severn Estuary as the moonrise travels through its five stages:...
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