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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SlipInventive and dynamic, Nicole Callihan's fourth poetry collection, SLIP, navigates midlife with stick in hand and tongue in cheek. As Ellen Bass writes, Callihan "turns recurrent obsessions like children, husband, mother, laundry, time, art, and body into poems of elastic syntax and shapes--psalms, prose,...
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Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, a Poetic MeditationSilent No More: Bible Women Speak Up is a collection of 35 persona poems--free-verse, villanelles, sestinas, haikus, reader's theater--in which women of the Bible tell their own stories. The poems reach into the heart of how women in Bible times felt emotionally about their...
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Shadow Price: PoemsBorrowing its title from a finance term--"the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists"--Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens. What gives life value?...
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Searching for Stars: A Muslim Immigrant Woman's Poetry Collection On Journey, Trauma, Justice, and LoveThis poetry collection reflects on Muslim diaspora, heartbreak, trauma, healing, resistance, and unrequited and limitless compassion. This collection honors the labor of being a Muslim woman in a post-9/11 America, reclaiming her agency and learning to love the most seemingly unlovable parts of herself,...
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Scraps and TestamentsThis is a collection of poems written over many years. The poems are, for the most part, lyrical and concern a variety of topics, from courtship to the fall of empires. There are poems about famous people I never met and others inspired by...
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Salve: A poetry collection by Christina L. HalsteadThis collection, the thinkings found amongst these pages, are the ointment to heal; the writings to restore and the words to protect. This mind's rawness - raw pain, confusion, and beauty, soothed with craft. Christina L. Halstead is a medical student at University of...
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Running Again in Hollywood CemeteryFrom athletic events to family portraits to celebrations of historic scenes, Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery speaks with the stately music of complex witness....The drama of these poems is to convert physical life to words without losing touch with physical life.Author: Ron SmithPublisher: Madhat,...
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Run from Your NowA good poet, to me, is either witness or magician. Ben Westlie is both. These poems are proof of a life hard-won, of living, breathing things, of birds of dreams and nightmares, of soothing hands and hard slaps. These poems are spells. They commune...
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 (1919)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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RhizodontShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteous's latest collection address current issues of social and environmental change. 330 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close...
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Reality CheckmateA dynamic and philosophical debut collection, Daniel Ruiz's Reality Checkmate choreographs the endless wrestling match between lyrical sensibility and ontological principles taking place on the mind's stage. These poems exquisitely demonstrate that phenomena in the material world are rarely as simple as they seem...
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Proud to Be Me!Unique and special is what we all are, But the same we will never be...So let's celebrate you, And let's celebrate me CHILDREN, GATHER AROUND Proud to Be Me is an inspirational book intended to encourage you to love yourself and others just as...
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Prayers to a Small StoneAdvance praise for Prayers to a Small Stone: "Jo Brachman's collection, Prayers to a Small Stone, is wonderfully titled, and its poems (to borrow description from the book's own varied pages) know no boundaries, no maps, no roads, no signposts, and talk in a...
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PoyumsFrom Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, comes an electric debut collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving - an instant Sunday Times bestseller THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY POST AND iPAPER BESTSELLER And I have done more than just simply...
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Poetry Of Your DreamsPoetry of Your Dreams is an evocative collection that guides readers through life's trials, joys, and dreams. Each poem is a reflection on universal human experiences-struggles, triumphs, empathy, and hope-told with lyrical depth and vivid imagery. From the peaks of self-discovery in 'The Mountain...
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Poems from the Rebel OutpostThe Rebel Outpost is the creative virtual space for a close-knit group of poets who met during the inaugural year of The Stafford Challenge, 2024, during which registered participants wrote a poem (more or less) each day for a year. Members of The Rebel...
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Picking Up The Pieces"Picking Up the Pieces: Life After Trauma" is a raw and powerful poetic memoir by Lilly Rose Crow that delves into the struggles of living with mental illness. Through evocative verse, Crow explores the complexities of borderline personality disorder, depression, and trauma, painting an...
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Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of ItWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored...
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Pelican: PoemsWritten partly in response to the clerical sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the poems in this collection are an exploration of what it means to have faith, membership, sin, expectation, freedom, and culpability. These poems speak to long-silent suffering and serve as...
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Paradise on Earth with Words Collection 4: Star QualityThese poems give an in-depth understanding of what it's like to live as an artist the events that take place and terms that go along with it and the effort that's put to getting the results that's expected from itAuthor: Eric Scott GrandPublisher: Urlink...
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