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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Crime SceneCynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than the world, her siren song insinuates...
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Turn Up the Ocean: PoemsThe final book of poems by Tony Hoagland, "one of the most distinctive voices of our time" (Carl Dennis). Over the course of his celebrated career, Tony Hoagland ventured fearlessly into the unlit alleys of emotion and experience. The poems in Turn Up the...
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Homie: PoemsFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's...
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Queer Nature: A Poetry AnthologyAn anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries. This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context...
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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures,...
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Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose EverRichard Scarry introduces toddlers to the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose Featuring his unmistakable art (now restored to its original glory) and fifty of Mother Goose's most beloved rhymes, Scarry's timeless collection, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, is a must-have for readers of all...
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MetamorphosesOvid's sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed...
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All I See Is You: Poetry & Prose for a Mother's Heart**Hardback includes bonus pages of additional poetry!**Jess's poetry books have sold over 60,000 copies worldwide"Mama, I can't see past you right now, I'm so small and everything's a little blurry.All I see is you.When you feel alone, like the walls are closing in, remember...
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Above GroundA remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming...
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister RogersThe New York Times Best Seller For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly illustrated treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults...
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Promises of GoldA groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural--is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is...
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Isaiah Dunn Saves the DayStarting middle school is no joke! Isaiah Dunn has more to say in the sequel to the award-winning novel Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Friendship, community, and a love of poetry blend in this coming-of-age tale. Things are looking up for super kid Isaiah...
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Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in VerseAn "extraordinary" (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history. "A masterpiece that...
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To the man I loved too much: and the ones who didn't love me enoughIn her first collection of poems, Gabrielle G. depicts different love stories from the initial spark to the last heartbreak and writes in verses the heartache we've all been through.A poetry book to make your heart smile and weep at the same time.Author: Gabrielle...
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The In-BetweenFor fans of Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and Life in Motion by Misty Copeland, this middle grade memoir in verse chronicles a young girl and her family who must start over after losing their home. In the early 2000s, thirteen-year-old Katie Van Heidrich...
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The Best American Poetry 2021The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The...
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Sister TongueWinner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize * Starred Review, Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Farnaz FatemiPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 08/31/2022Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.32dISBN: 9781606354445Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/20/2022
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Notes from the Column of MemoryFrom the first poem "Red-Eared Slider" through to the final "All the Hours the Night Has Left," Drexler weaves a tapestry of love, loss, grief, and acceptance-an elaborate kaddish in which she celebrates and sanctifies the names of the things, events, and persons she...
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The Essential Neruda: Selected PoemsThis bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems is indispensable.Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes.An...
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Late Summer Ode"The balance of rigidity, rhyme and ruin . . . makes an Olena Kalytiak Davis poem extraordinarily distinct. Even when she's alluding to Dante and Rilke and Chekhov, her voice is like no one else's."--New York Times, Editors Choice In Late Summer Ode, Olena...
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