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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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Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-MakingPoetry discovers and speaks a truth ordinary language cannot express. And the passionate message in Finding What You Didn't Lose is that we're all poets--capable of giving voice to such truth. Poet-teacher John Fox reveals how imagery, sound, metaphor, rhythm, and other poetic elements...
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fascinationsWhen we say something "fascinates" us, we usually mean something benign: the thing we are looking at somehow attracts us. The Kardashians fascinate us, for example, as do car accidents and kidnappings. Historically, however, the word "fascination" has had much more ominous overtones: for...
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Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic FormArguing that the 19th century concept of "living form" (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived...
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Everybody is a Bridge: poems, prose-poems, notes & fragmentsThe same poet who observes that "everybody is a bridge/'' then asks in Zen-fashion, "Is it me, or is it you?/ are you reflection or projection / or the light that's shining through?'' can also note in a very down-to-earth way, that "If we...
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Emotional Support HorseA London Review Bookshop Book of the Year 2024. Emotional Support Horse tracks the tragicomedy of grief, and out of low vision, bereavement and eco-stress blends poems of startling wit, verve and solace. A woman longs to transform into Nicola Walker in a cop...
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Emotional PolyglotMy musings were born out of a desire to live out my experiences and do so fully, which meant speaking to them as well. Finding an expression for my life's occasions was downright challenging. I also began to notice how elusive it was for...
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Eggplant: Golden or ScornedEggplant: Golden or Scorned is a debut book of poetry by Cape Cod native Albert Peter Groom. This collection of 100 poems reflects the author's struggles with and recovery from substance abuse. An appendix outlines the author's family history in the towns of Truro...
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Desfibrilador (Poes?a) / Defibrillator (Poems)Author: Gilraen E?rfalasPublisher: Planeta PublishingPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9786073924122Language: Spanish
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Come fromForeword by Ross GayHere is a collection that pulses with warmth and vitality, heralding the arrival of a fresh and vibrant voice on the poetry scene. Clear and concise, accessible and profound, janan alexandra's debut poetry collection come from weaves from English to Arabic,...
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Cemeteries and Galaxies: PoemsJohn Koethe unravels timeless questions of death, math, meaning, and much more in this mesmerizing collection. John Koethe, one of our most philosophically sophisticated poets, has written a book of pithy, contentious, witty poems about our perennial, never-satisfied search for meaning. The silent mysteries...
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CaptivityWhat are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The...
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Candy NecklaceThe brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems.Candy Necklace ushers an intense new voice onto the field of American poetry. Lush and turbulent, the poems collected here expose the violence underlying all acts of union...
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Call and Response"Rob Carney is tuned to some amazing frequency-it comes from 500 North and Morton, it comes from beyond, it comes from when we were wooded slopes-but he listens and returns with these poems, thrumming with 'lifeblood, ' these songs which throw down and call...
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Burial FragmentsOriginal poems by Keith Ekiss. "San Francisco, the millennial city: Mission and Market, bars and cafes, hills, bridges, and ocean. To read the pages of Keith Ekiss's Burial Fragments is to follow a gorgeous thread of urban encounters until you reach the center of...
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Braided SpacesBraided Spaces is a poetry collection by Jen Cheng with themes of immigrant displacement, critical race feminism, and the queer musings of a Chinese American eldest daughter. The author divides the book into sections representing the Five Elements of Feng Shui, to represent a...
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Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under Sentence of DeathIn this collaborative work, death row prisoner George T. Wilkerson, criminology professor Robert Johnson, and poet Kat Bodrie use poetry, prose, and fiction to explore the dynamics of life under sentence of death. Grounded in the first-hand experiences of the authors, and enriched by...
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Blue MementoWhat happens when a young boy senses the erotic energy of his grandmother; her adoration of everything male and dismissal of everything female? In Blue Memento, Robert Carr turns to impressions and blurred boundaries from childhood. In a world where every memory is bed-wet...
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Blue FrontA stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel archwith electric lights, and later a lamppost, thiswas a modern...
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Blue Boat HomeA stunning illustration of the beloved song by folk singer and songwriter Peter Mayer. The wide universe is the ocean I travel and the earth is my blue boat home. We are all travelers on this earth, sailing through the cosmos together on the...
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Bladesong: The Martyrs of Compi?gneSo often one hears the question "What can we do?" More often than not, it remains a question without the effort of an answer. Yet in the turbulence and terror of the French Revolution, a time much like today, when the new sacrificed the...
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