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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How to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem "Introduction to Poetry" (Field Guide Series)How to read a poem. A lot of books want to teach you just that. How is this one different? Think of it less as an instructional book and more as an invitation. For the reader new to poetry, this guide will open your...
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The Inward Trilogy: Yung Pueblo Box SetRecognized by Time Magazine as one of the TIME100 Creators: Most Influential Digital Voices A gorgeous, hardcover box set collecting #1 New York Times bestselling author Yung Pueblo's poetic trilogy on developing self-knowledge, healing old wounds, and cultivating harmonious relationships. For the first time,...
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The Eating Knife: PoemsThe Eating Knife is an exploration of personal and intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Akedah, the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. Like Abraham, the speaker's father heard voices and directives that led to an impossible bind. The poems in this collection...
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Hills Full of Holes: Poems"Birdcall a doorlatch," this book begins, and we enter into a world of "forest bathing" on trails of the East Bay Area parklands, undertaken while recuperating from a brain injury. This is a refractory world of senses heightened and disrupted: a world of suns...
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I Always Carry My BonesThe poems in I Always Carry My Bones tackle the complex ideation of home--the place where horrid and beautiful intertwine and carve a being into existence--for marginalized and migrant peoples. Felicia Zamora explores how familial history echoes inside a person and the ghosts of...
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A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015This collection of Wendell Berry poems and essays--written outdoors on the Sabbath--"[shines] with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life" (Christian Science Monitor) More than 35 years ago, Wendell Berry began spending his...
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The OddsSuzanne Cleary's The Odds is about chance: crazy luck, bad luck, about the luck of the draw, and what we make of that draw. Through arresting imagery and surprising turns, these narrative and contemplative poems examine the work of holding a job, of making...
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Interlocutor Goddess"Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being." --aracelis girmayInterlocutor Goddess explores the creation of a trans language for selfhood within an exilic state of "ecstatic grief."Reid's experimental...
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Lullaby of Love: Selected PoemsRebecca Winning gives the reader unique poems filled with seeable images, mystery, personal loves and glimpses of nature. These poems are best read with time to ponder, perhaps when drinking a coffee or tea. They are to be savored like eating a really rich...
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Collected Poems of W.B. YeatsWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of...
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KobzarMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage.As a foundational text, The Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko has played an important role in galvanizing...
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UnashamedUnashamed follows the journey of World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker from graduating with a maths degree being unsure if this poetry thing was even possible, to becoming one of the nation's favourite poets and having his work viewed by millions all over the...
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These Women You Gave MeAntoinette Brim's These Women You Gave Me brings front and center Biblical mythology and legend to prove a truth that can only be proven through poetry. Brim's poems sing of the ability women have always had to love and thrive in spite of the...
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairDiscover the poetry that ignites Grace and Hudson's love story!Body of my woman, persistent in your grace. My thirst, an endless desire, my unsure path!First published in Chile in 1924 by a then-unknown young poet named Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song...
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The Lost NostalgiasLyrical insights from an immigrant son navigating love, death, acceptance, and belonging along the United States and Mexico border. With a narrative voice that translates the unforgettable into something lyrical and magical, The Lost Nostalgias demonstrates Esteban Rodríguez's exploration of familial moments that move...
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Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the...
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The sun will rise and so will weThe Sun Will Rise and So Will We, is a poetry book filled with all things sunshine without ignoring the storms. Pain is real. Anxiety is real. Depression is real. Hardships in life are real. I hope when you pick up this book you...
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Siren of AtlantisCedar Sigo's latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance. Here are poems that speak to Sigo's profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022. In creating this work, the author...
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Exile Is HomeThroughout the poems in Exile Is Home, Elvis Alves examines the drudgery of work and the draw of the creative mind. He juxtaposes these aspects in the attempt to reveal the freedom that is inherent in being human. The collection encapsulates the author's propensity...
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tic tic ticMore than testimonial, the poems in tic tic tic bring to our age of volatility and urgent moral questions, a clear-sightedness owed to Seaborn's Eliotic sense of history and rich literary knowledge. tic tic tic gently and magically reorients our eyes, turns us toward...
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