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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Bough DownGrief emphatic, grief redeeming, grief protacted, grief abraded all intertwine in this funny, prickly memoir." -David Denby, The New YorkerWith fearlessness and grace, Bough Down reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer...
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Fanny SaysAn "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in...
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Adrift: Poems & MusingsAdrift: Poems & Musings is a collection of poems which chronicles the author's rapid descent into clinical depression, and her slow but steady and triumphant climb through acceptance and peace into serenity and contentment. A lighthouse, on the shores of Charlevoix's Lake Michigan beach,...
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Field TheoriesField Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings, Newports, and love, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption vs. the whitebody's idealized reflection) with live Black bodies. Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love, intent, identity,...
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A Camouflage of Specimens and GarmentsPoetry. Award-winning poet Jennifer Militello's third full-length collection, A CAMOUFLAGE OF SPECIMENS AND GARMENTS, casts a smokescreen of selves. Fragmentary letters addressing illness and struggle are interspersed with ventriloquisms in the voices of mythological heroes and long-dead composers, ancient goddesses and murdered girls. Intricate...
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Jimmy & Rita"One of the wonderful things about Jimmy & Rita is that Kim Addonizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing themselves into us. We experience the victories and defeats of Jimmy and Rita as they struggle through the boundless claustrophobia of...
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The Feather RoomScience, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room. In The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch, Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of...
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In the Company of Spirits"Carmen Calatayud's courageous poems not only sing, but talk straight from the heart about love and death, the everyday as well as the inexplicable. These poems accomplish that rare feat of weaving a spell from the first to last page that causes everything else...
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Of Gods & StrangersA meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods & Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of "Empress Dowager" Tzu Hsi, last...
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DuppiesIn Duppies, D.S. Marriott writes a poetry of grime, the London street music, one that is "late shift, zero hour." Mixing lyric tonality with grime's aggression, grit, and speed, this is a coruscating study of the racial politics of austerity. And it is an...
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ThresholdThreshold enters a landscape of seemingly perpetual in-between, crossing from conventionality to queerness; exploring the fluidity of gender; and translating the hard hold of family. The collection meditates on passageways and what it means to arrive at, and pierce through, thresholds--between countries, past and...
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Trances of the BlastWe emerge from these poems, scathed and awakened.--PoetryAn excellent choice for any collection looking to expand poetry beyond the obvious.--Library Journal, starred reviewTrances of the Blast is a major new collection from beloved and award-winning poet Mary Ruefle. Full of the peculiarity and wit...
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This Many Miles from DesireAuthor: Lee HerrickPublisher: Wordtech CommunicationsPublished: 05/01/2007Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21dISBN: 9781933456614This title is not returnable
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Redwing: Poems by Marvin OrbachIt was with much pleasure and reverence that I accepted the request by Richard Grove, Publisher of Hidden Brook Press, to write a foreword to Redwing, a provocative jewel of poems written by Marvin Orbach. The book was thoroughly and lovingly compiled by his...
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Pearl: A New Verse Translation in Modern EnglishPoetry. PEARL is an intricate fourteenth-century poem written by one of the greatest Middle English poets--the anonymous artist who also gave us Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This medieval masterpiece presents the meditative Dream Vision of a father (the Dreamer) mourning the loss...
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Sit!Claudia Schmid's drawings meet Matt Harvey's words in this affectionate look at dogs and their humans. Sit is an entertaining, occasionally surreal, but mostly down-to-earth celebration of the strange, satisfying relationship between dogs and their human companions. Featuring beautiful black-and-white line illustrations to accompany...
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Forefathers' EveForefathers' Eve Dziady] is a four-part dramatic work begun circa 1820 and completed in 1832 - with Part I published only after the poet's death, in 1860. The drama's title refers to Dziady, an ancient Slavic and Lithuanian feast commemorating the dead. This is...
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Our Sudden MuseumWith elegies to a brother, sister and father at the core, Robert Fanning's third poetry collection examines what sustains in us in spite of loss. In richly sonic and poignant lyrics, we witness the wilder forces beyond our bastions of safety-of the beauty and...
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Daughters of the HouseDaughters of the House, Catherine Phil MacCarthy's fifth collection, opens with poems that arose during a residency in Paris. It begins with glimpses of that city in the present before reaching back to consider some of the many Irish artists who were drawn to...
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Angela"There's just something that doesn't seem right ..."Who can explain the mysterious allure of Angela Lansbury? In this Sidekick Books team-up, poet Chrissy Williams and illustrator Howard Hardiman gaze upon (and into) the many facets of Angela and her most famous fictional counterpart, Jessica...
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