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
-
Strong Feather: PoemsIn Strong Feather, Jennifer Reeser revisits the salient themes of Indigenous-her acclaimed, award-winning preceding poetry collection. While the poems in Strong Feather reprise the exposition of a Native American heritage juxtaposed with a mixed European ancestry, many of them center on a Native American...
- ¥4,893 JPY
- ¥4,893 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Pulling PetalsPulling Petals is a collection of modern poetry and prose which celebrates individuality, the resilience of humanity and our capacity as humans to survive and flourish in this sometimes harsh, but forever beautiful, life. It takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery and...
- ¥5,296 JPY
- ¥5,296 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Blood Sugar CantoAuthor: Ire'ne Lara SilvaPublisher: Saddle Road PressPublished: 01/15/2016Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24dISBN: 9780991395286
- ¥4,014 JPY
- ¥4,014 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
DisciplineThis stunning second collection engages the disciplines associated with regimes of powers and sadomasochism. The work interrogates the social and linguistic space between regimes of power enacted on the body, and thereby the soul.Author: Dawn Lundy MartinPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublished: 03/08/2011Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize:...
- ¥3,557 JPY
- ¥3,557 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Chanson Dada: Tristan Tzara Selected PoemsChanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Translated as a labor of love over a ten year period the poems encompass the full range of Tzara's works, the results of which have...
- ¥4,669 JPY
- ¥4,669 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The CowThis text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. I cannot count the altering that happens in...
- ¥3,557 JPY
- ¥3,557 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Girl with Tangled Hair: The 399 tanka in Midaregami ? Tangled Hair by Akiko YosanoFor the first time all the tanka in Akiko Yosano's 1901 book, Midaregami - Tangled Hair, have been translated into English. Each of the tanka has the original kanji version, a romaji version and the English so readers in both languages can appreciate the...
- ¥4,182 JPY
- ¥4,182 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean WomenAnxiety of Words focuses on the work of three contemporary Korean women poets whose fierce poetic voices display a critical consciousness of women's lives under patriarchy, capitalism, and neocolonialism. Each poet is represented, in bilingual format, by approximately twenty poems and a biographical introduction....
- ¥3,569 JPY
- ¥3,569 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Selected Poems of Anna AkhmatovaA companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. We needn't worry again about how to...
- ¥3,778 JPY
- ¥3,778 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Half-Red SeaFull-length collection of poems by Evie Shockley featuring a special fold-out page for the poem "a thousand words."Author: Evie ShockleyPublisher: Carolina Wren PressPublished: 08/20/2006Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9780932112538About the AuthorBorn and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, poet Evie Shockley...
- ¥3,778 JPY
- ¥3,778 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Psychedelic Prayers: And Other MeditationsWritten while Leary was visiting India in 1965 and finished the following year, Psychedelic Prayers is an adaptation of Book 1 of the Tao Te Ching. With a new Introduction by Ralph Metzner, Leary's Harvard colleague, this book of poetry and meditations is being...
- ¥3,778 JPY
- ¥3,778 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Complete Poems of Hart CraneThis edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio,...
- ¥7,790 JPY
- ¥7,790 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Dragonfly DanceDragonfly Dance is a collection of poems remarkable for their candor and sense of catharsis. Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian women, Denise Lajimodiere opens a door into the lives of Native girls and women. Her poems often reflect the deep...
- ¥4,669 JPY
- ¥4,669 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Rain Scald: PoemsIn this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore. Presented in three sections, Ts yi', Gorge Dweller, and T hee', the poems negotiate between belief and doubt, self and...
- ¥4,226 JPY
- ¥4,226 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Because What Else Could I Do: PoemsWinner of the 2020 Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet's husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking...
- ¥4,684 JPY
- ¥4,684 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Elegy On Toy PianoIn Elegy on Toy Piano, Dean Young's sixth book of poems, elegiac necessity finds itself next to goofy celebration. Daffy Duck enters the Valley of the Eternals. Faulkner and bell-bottoms cling to beauty's evanescence. Even in single poems, Young's tone and style vary. No...
- ¥4,459 JPY
- ¥4,459 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
What It Doesn't Have to Do with: PoemsLindsay Bernal's What It Doesn't Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this collection link the objectification of women in art and life to personal narratives of heartbreak, urban...
- ¥4,448 JPY
- ¥4,448 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways AllianceYes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and...
- ¥4,448 JPY
- ¥4,448 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Meteoric FlowersA bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the...
- ¥3,793 JPY
- ¥3,793 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943A unique study of the WW2 culture of Germany.The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party....
- ¥4,459 JPY
- ¥4,459 JPY
- Unit price
- per