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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Hang FiveUntil age three, she believed her parents when they said she was like everyone else and should go along accordingly. So, she did, never mind the missing toes. She walked, talked, ran, and swam. She learned to read, write, sing, and ride a bike,...
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Great and Small: PoemsIn his debut poetry collection, Great and Small, Josh Dugat deftly maps the terrain between the intimate and the infinite, drawing on the hymnal echoes of Psalm 104. With formal dexterity and keen observation, these poems shift from backyard curiosities to cosmic marvels, from...
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Flacofolio: Micro-EssaysFlaco, the eagle-owl liberated from his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo, captivated the city. He remained in Central Park for nine months living on his own, eventually also exploring nearby buildings and neighborhoods in Manhattan. In February 2024, one year after his escape,...
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Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems"At once erudite and colloquial" (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry In Don't Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating...
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Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.In this defiant and urgent collection, Noor Hindi navigates Arab womanhood, migration, queerness, and Palestinian identity with striking and evocative lyricism.Author: Noor HindiPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 05/31/2022Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781642596960About the AuthorNoor Hindi (she/her/hers) is a Palestinian-American poet...
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Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 PoemsA brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella...
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Das EnergiAuthor: Paul WilliamsPublisher: Entwhistle BooksPublished: 04/01/1980Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.38dISBN: 9780934558006
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Conamara Blues: PoemsTranslating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara...
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Compass RoseIn Arthur Sze's tenth collection, the poet uses crisp, graceful language of astronomy, biology, and music.Author: Arthur SzePublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 07/01/2014Pages: 68Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9781556594670Award: Pulitzer Prize - FinalistReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 91Publishers Weekly 05/19/2014About...
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Collected PoemsOne of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. Collected Poems brings together not only all his books--The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows--but...
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Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of GhazalsThe beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes those known and loved--W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, James Tate, and more--while in other searingly honest verse he courageously faces his...
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Call Me AlAli is an eighth-grade kid with a lot going on. Between the pressure from his immigrant parents to ace every class, his crush on Melissa, who lives in the rich area of town while he and his family live in a shabby apartment complex,...
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California BrownJuan Felipe Herrera's kaleidoscopic poetry collection takes the reader into unexpected territories, from the stark brutality of massacres and wars to the delicate duality of life's beauty, where borders of nations and eras blur as Herrera guides us through the historical and geographical journey...
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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about BirdsIn this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert...
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Book of PotionsWinner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.Written with tremendous urgency and ferocious candor, the prose poems of Book of Potions captures a woman caught in the middle of life: no longer young, not yet old, trapped between...
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Blood DazzlerIn minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the...
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Best Literary Translations 2025Best Literary Translations redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors.Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza, Best Literary Translations 2025 features poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages,...
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Beat the Bots: A Writer's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AIBeat the Bots offers science-based creativity techniques that guide you through the writing process to unlock your imagination and create compelling stories that resonate with emotional truth in ways AI can't match. Even though artificial intelligence is based on a technology called "machine learning,"...
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Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of MemoirVidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps adventurously between memoir and criticism, understanding his life through poetry, and...
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A Planet Is a PoemScience and poetry combine in an out-of-this-world exploration of the wonders of our solar system.From a ballad of Earth and an ode to the sun to a villanelle for Venus and a sestina for Saturn, here are 14 original poems about planets and other...
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