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 Pilot Star Elegies: PoemsThe centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Santos follows this elegiac theme into...
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Theory of the LyricWhat sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric--the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has...
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The New Life: PoemsWith fear, joy, ambivalence, and wonder, this braided collection of poems by Wendy Wisner explores motherhood through the lens of a fractured childhood and intergenerational trauma. As the past collides with the present, Wisner moves through the intense years of early motherhood and marriage,...
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The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, CriticsHelen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as...
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The Machine Autocorrects Code to IA knock-out debut that erases the boundaries of time and geography with unrestrained wit, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I holds its subjects - family members at odds with their hopes and fears, various fruits and animals constrained by the laws of humans, and...
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The Goner SchoolJessica Laser has given her generation a voice and a name in this masterful, funny, and heartbreaking collection, The Goner School. Members of this school, despairing and hopeful, count themselves among the self-aware, trauma-informed inheritors of a warming, warring planet. Childhood, the gym, plant...
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The End of Everything and Everything That Comes After ThatA chicken lives for eighteen months after its head is cut off. Tourists pose with an inflatable sex doll at the 9/11 memorial. A sex-reveal party starts a wildfire in a forest named for a conquistador. The author's cancer treatments are intertwined with the...
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The Cost of Our BaggageThere are things we carry with us through life: physical, emotional, metaphorical. A teddy bear you've had since you were a child, the resentment at a family member who let you down, the fear which keeps you awake at night. All of these come...
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Sustenance: 50 Poems + One Love Story"It is a scary thing to put work into the world that cannot be edited once it's printed, but there is also a beauty in honoring that thing you wrote that one time. There will be other books and other stories, but this one...
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StrikeIt's March 1984 and the miners' strike has just started. By exploring both famous and previously unseen photographs through the lens of poetry, STRIKE captures the turbulence of one of the longest industrial disputes in British history, and the spirit of a marginalised community...
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Sometimes You Gotta Let The Pain Out""""""Sometimes You Gotta Let the Pain Out"""" offers a glimpse into the transformative journey of what it looks like to move beyond the symbolic acknowledgement of our cultural pain and bondages. Lateasha """"S.P.A.Z."""" Owens poetically guides readers through compelling narratives, ARTiculating how she put...
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Something Whole from Something BrokenSomething Whole from Something Broken is a compelling collection of poems that weaves together tales of resilience, love, and the beauty of transformation. This anthology is an homage to the indomitable human spirit, finding the magnificent whole within the broken pieces of life. Author:...
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Smother: PoemsHow should we raise our children in, and for, a world that is burning? Rachel Richardson's third collection, Smother, interrogates this impossible question. The poet, raising young daughters and grieving the death of a friend, documents a string of record-breaking fires across the California...
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Slave Songs and the Birth of African American PoetryIn this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'intrinsic value as lyric poetry, sheds light on their roots and originality, anddraws new conclusions on anart form long considereda touchstone...
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Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth CenturySinging by Herself reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. Many of the earliest records of the terms "lonely" and "loneliness" in British literature describe solitaries whose songs positioned...
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Show Me the Bells: PoetryXochiquetzal Candelaria's second book, Show Me the Bells, celebrates ecological, political, and social change amidst the crush of late-stage capitalism. Foregrounding the Nahuatl concept of Nepantla, the collection mobilizes imagery, music, and silences to awaken our real and raw memories and to honor the...
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Shechinah at the Art InstituteAuthor: Irwin KellerPublisher: Blue Light PressPublished: 08/07/2024Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36dISBN: 9781421835594
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Shakespeare on LoveWhen in love, our heart overflows. Whether love is requited or remains a hope and dream, love compels us to express ourselves. This original collection, culled from William Shakespeare's works, testifies to the essential link between love and language, between the experience of falling...
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Seven By 7, The Door County Poet LaureatesDoor County, Wisconsin has had seven poet laureates appointed by the Door County Board of Supervisors since the inception of the program. This anthology contains seven poems by each of the seven poets, Frances May, Barbara Larsen, Estella Lauter, Ralph Murre, Sharon Auberle, Nancy...
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Separation and DivorceSeparation and Divorce chronicles the dissolution of a marriage through a series of poems. The poems were written over the course of a year and they grapple with the feelings of loss, grief, joy, pain, trauma, and all the things encountered in the process...
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