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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Sofar: PoemsIn SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield attends our current ecological and historic moment, her decades-long queer love, a life time of work on boats, and her body's shifting currents with wry yearning and linguistic delight. SOFAR is an acronym for the "sound frequency and ranging...
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Sleeping in a Field: Poems"Triin Paja's debut collection, Sleeping in a Field, shimmers and shines like 'half-limbed light' dancing off 'the grey eyes of the sea.' These poems read like hymns, like devotions--to the world and its imperiled creatures and to beloveds--but they are grief songs, dusk-lit funeral...
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Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh FarrokhzadWinner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize "In Wolpé's fresh and vital translation, a musical and compelling English version that draws the reader along and captures a sense of the exquisitely balanced pacing of Farrokhzad's language, and the immediacy and authenticity of...
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Selected Prose of T.S. EliotThe Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Professor Frank Kermode, gathers work from Eliot's unrivalled career as a literary and social critic. These thirty-one essays-categorized as "essays in generalization," "appreciations of individual authors," and "social and religious criticism" were written over the...
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Selected Poems of Donald HallFormer poet laureate Donald Hall selects his essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.“When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that's what I'd do my whole life. I don't regret it.” -- from the...
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Second NatureWinner of the 23rd annual Poulin Prize, Chaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban. Riddled with the ghostly voices of family...
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Second NatureWinner of the 23rd annualA. Poulin, Jr. Poetry PrizeChaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory thatcelebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban. Riddled with the ghostly voices of family...
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Sea & FogThese interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once.Author: Etel AdnanPublisher: Nightboat...
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Schoolapalooza: A Silly Alphabet of 26 Schooltime PoemsTwenty-six poets, from Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple to Charles Waters and Marilyn Singer, cheer, wail, and salute the classroom in this silly tribute to school.Calculators and erasers, school buses and pop quizzes, recess and a school vacation countdown--nothing about the school...
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected PoemsSailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his...
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Sacred Graces Poetry of Prayer in PlacesSacred Graces A Journey of Devotion, Beauty, and Transformation In the gentle hush of dawn, when hearts yearn for solace and souls crave communion with the divine, there emerges a collection of verse and reflection that shimmers with wonder, reverence, and surrender-this is Sacred...
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Rumi's Little Book of Love: 150 Poems That Speak to the HeartRumi, one of the most celebrated mystics of all time, chose poetry to communicate his deep spiritual experiences. His language, that of love in its purest form, speaks to us today as it did seven hundred years ago, surpassing time and bridging cultures. These...
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ReliquariaIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the...
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Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United StatesRed Hot Salsa is an extraordinary collection of bilingual poems from the bestselling editor of Cool Salsai think in spanishi write in english i want to go back to puerto rico, but i wonder if my kink could livein ponce, mayagüez and carolina tengo...
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Red Doc>**New York Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader's Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to...
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Rattle of the SunGregg Orifici's Rattle of the Sun is a meditation on the personal and the monumental. His poems are carefully crafted portraits of longing, discovery, and rambunctious joy, giving voice to misunderstood weeds, the irrepressible elderly, a boy coming to terms with his difference, and...
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Rainbows in the Night: Poemsrainbows in the night is a collection of poems and original photographs about loss and healing. these poems ask us to be still to tune into the body in search of new understandings of self and worthto trust in the journey. it gathers its...
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Psychic Party Under the Bottle TreeIn this striking collection of poems, Jennifer Martelli delves deep into the human psyche, exploring themes of desire, self-destruction, and the complexities of human existence. From suffocation to snakes, moon jellyfish to Marcia Brady, Martelli's Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree fearlessly confronts the...
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PreverbalHow does trauma shape us? What is memory but a flawed attempt to set the record straight so we can live with it? How do we give voice to what is mostly whispered in the dark? How do we go on?These are the questions,...
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PoemsWilliam Blake is one of England's most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile...
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