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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Layli and MajnunThe Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet...
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Kindest Regards: Poems, Selected and NewFour decades of poetry―and a generous selection of new work―make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest, Kooser's poetry succeeds in finding the emotional resonances within the ordinary. Kooser's language of quiet intensity...
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Town Crier: PoemsThe poems in Town Crier wryly express the pervasive nature of loss, how it suffuses all aspects of a life: memories, hopes, love, sex, lunch. The death of the author's dear friend, the late poet Max Ritvo, becomes the cornerstone of the book, a...
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The Lehman TrilogyBasis for the 2022 'Tony Award Best Play' winnerMagnificent in scope, internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Broadway play of the same name. The Lehman Trilogy follows the epic rise and fall of three generations...
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Took HouseTook House is a disquieting book about intimate relationships and what is seen and hidden. In vulnerable poems of obsession, Camp places motivation deep in the background, following instead a chain reaction between pain and pleasure. Took House navigates a landscape of bone and...
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Oliver ReedPoetry. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Women's Studies. Art. In Hannah Regel's brilliant collection, OLIVER REED, the figure of the horse becomes an object for language's brutality and the all too familiar subjugation of women's voices, bodies, and labour. An impressive hyperbolic pastiche of pleasurable misbehavior...
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We the Jury: PoemsWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for PoetryA boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another's thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These...
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Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous ProseIn the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that "would be a bit more sober & more spacious" than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such "more spacious" work -- i.e. prose --...
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Night PhilosophyNight Philosophy is collected around the figure of the child, the figure of the child not just as a little person under the tutelage of adults, but also the submerged one, who knows, who is without power, who doesn't matter. The book proposes a...
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NuitsLes Nuits est une oeuvre du po te et dramaturge fran ais Alfred de Musset. C'est un ensemble de quatre longs po mes de l'auteur, r dig s de 1835 1837. Ils furent tout d'abord publi s dans La Revue des deux Mondes.Author: Alfred...
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I Live in the Country & Other Dirty PoemsArielle Greenberg's I Live in the Country & other dirty poems exploits and undoes the stereotype of the "wholesome country life." Here, the speaker moves to the country ("where the animals are") in order to live a whole life, one in which she can...
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Sacrament of Bodies2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and...
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Catrachos: PoemsThe breathtaking debut collection from one of America's most inventive new poets A name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. Guzm n reaches across borders--between life and death and between...
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Ojalá Te Enamores / I Hope You Fall in Love#OjaláTeEnamores es el libro del blog Por Escribir: nuevas reflexiones poéticas sobre la vida, los sentimientos y los deseos más íntimos que todos escondemos dentro. Incluye los textos más emblemáticos del blog y mucho contenido inédito! Ojalá la encuentres. Lo digo en serio. Ojalá...
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CompanyRoss's poems are at once earthy and delicate and view their subjects through a perceptive, picaresque lens.Author: Sam RossPublisher: Four Way BooksPublished: 02/15/2019Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.30dISBN: 9781945588334About the AuthorThe author of Company(Four Way Books 2019), winner of the...
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Sister: A Novel in PoemsNickole Brown writes in a voice that is simultaneously vernacular and lyrical. It is a voice thick with the humidity and whirring cicadas of Kentucky, but the poems are dangerous, smelling of the crisp cucumber scent of a copperhead about to strike. Epistolary in...
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Corporal MuseIn Corporal Muse, poet Allison E. Joseph pulls back the curtain on her writing process, searching for (and finding) The Muse in unexpected places. These are poems of love and praise. They are time machine and magic spell. Corporal Muse is a cross-section of...
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Under the Music: Collected Prose PoemsUnder the Music is cause for celebration, as it gathers over forty years of Maxine Chernoff's brilliant exploration of a single form: the prose poem. Her pieces abound in witty dialogue, absurdist jokes, sage advice, and a gallery of eccentric characters like "The Man...
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The Queer South: Lgbtq Writers on the American SouthIn The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it...
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Our Lady of Not Asking WhyWinner of the 2016 New Issues PrizeAuthor: Courtney KampaPublisher: New Issues Poetry and ProsePublished: 04/18/2017Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781936970483Review Citation(s): Library Journal 05/01/2017 pg. 79About the AuthorCOURTNEY KAMPA's writing has been widely published, appearing in Boston Review, TriQuarterly,...
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