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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HuntPoetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. Winner of the 2016 Washington Prize, this poetry collection retells the story of Moby-Dick, but from the points of view of the women left at home, the whales, the sea itself. Patriarchy is inverted by lyric and astonishing voices...
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Marianna's Beauty SalonBushra Rehman's debut collection singes in its interrogation of the American dream while capturing the lives of a neighborhood in transition. These sly, adept poems work through circumstances under threat with audacity, humor, and wonder. Rehman offers a new kind of fairy tale, surreal...
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The Pocketknife Bible: The Poems and Art of Anis MojganiThe upcoming book from Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, and winner of the Worldcup Poetry Slam Anis Mojgani, The Pocketknife Bible, builds the bridge between a grown-up book for children and a children's picture book for adults, seeking to answer...
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The Heart of a CometThe Heart of a Comet is a collection of poems and short stories offering the tale of Comet, who fell from the sky unto an unfamiliar plane of existence. On his quest to return home, he has many life-altering encounters with people and places...
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Hum2014 Notable Book Award from the American Library Association 2013 Silver IndieFab Award Winner 2013 NAACP Image Award Nominee 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist 2013 The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2013 List 2012 Beatrice Hawley Award Linguistically acrobatic and] beautifully...
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The Big Book of Exit StrategiesPraise for Jamaal May: Linguistically acrobatic and] beautifully crafted. . . . Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel.--Publishers WeeklyFollowing Jamaal May's award-winning debut collection, Hum (2013), these new poems explore parallel landscapes of...
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Hemming the WaterChanneling the collection's muse, jazz composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams, Hemming the Water speaks to the futility of trying to mend or straighten a life that is constantly changing. Here the spiritual and the secular comingle in a "Fierce fragmentation, lonely tune." Harvey...
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Luminous Spaces: Olav H. Hauge: Selected Poems & Journals'During those years when I lived a truly spiritual life, they called me sick and locked me up.' Intense forces are in play in the writings of Norwegian poet and diarist Olav H. Hauge. His Luminous Spaces is the life work of a restless...
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Requiem for the OrchardThese are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one...
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Deer Trails: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 72019 NCIBA Golden Poppy Award Winner - Poetry***San Francisco's 7th poet laureate--a Native American and native San Franciscan--explores urban space and the natural world.Deer Trails is a strongly elegiac evocation of a San Francisco that lies buried under its contemporary urban landscape, but can...
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Book of My NightsBook of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as...
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The Sunshine KidThe Sunshine Kid follows the narrative of Harry Baker's 5-Star Edinburgh Fringe shows, Harry Baker's Super-Amazing Mega-Awesome Gap Year Adventures: Birth of a Champion and Proper Pop-Up Purple Paper People. It details the journey from performing Jay Z-Maths parodies in school competitions to representing...
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MatadoraWith seriocomic tone, these elliptical lyrics reveal illusions and exclusions at the heart of America's global narrative of economic "progress," and the attendant loss of cultural identity and memory. At the same time, Matadora challenges traditional Fillipina gender norms, beginning with the title which...
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Confetti: Poems for ChildrenChildren's Books Mean Business, Children's Book Council (CBC) Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)The renowned poet Pat Mora celebrates the culture and landscape of the Southwest through the eyes of a Mexican American girl.In this joyful and spirited collection, award-winning poet Pat Mora and...
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Lynette Roberts: Collected Poems: Lynette RobertsThe work of an original, haunting, and experimental modernist poet is made available again for the first time in 50 years in this volume. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life...
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Poetry of the TalibanOverlooked by many as mere propaganda, poetry offers an unfettered insight into the wider worldview of the Afghan Taliban. This collection of over two hundred poems draws upon Afghan tradition and the recent past as much as upon a long history of Persian, Urdu...
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Difficult FruitThis collection of poems forms a memoir of the author's life and speaks of a woman's experience in the modern world.Author: Lauren K. AlleynePublisher: Peepal Tree PressPublished: 06/30/2014Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781845232276About the AuthorLauren K. Alleyne is an...
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Water Runs RedIn a world of tyrant rulers and the misunderstood witches who oppose them, this narrative poetry collection explores ruined friendships, self-exploration, and the ever raging battle between good and evil. "a new poet explodes into the scene with a dark, fantastical, & all-too-relatable voice....
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Rabindranath Tagore, The Poetry OfPoetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets...
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A Really Good Brown Girl: Brick Books Classics 4Deluxe redesign of the Gerald Lampert Award?winning classic. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of A Really Good Brown Girl features...
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