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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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Poems New and CollectedPoems New and Collected: 1957-1997 is the definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes...
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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question...
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The Symmetry of Fish"All hits no skips. I was incredibly moved by these poems." --Roxane Gay, via Goodreads From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon Language and lore are at the core...
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Home Is Not a CountryLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Nothing short of magic." --Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa's "30 Under 30" list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an...
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We Are Owed.We Are Owed. is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces. Through poems about the author's childhood in Texas and a trip to Mexico as an adult, Brown interrogates the accepted origin stories of Mexican...
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Content Warning: EverythingThe first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine. In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi--award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji, and Dear Senthuran--imagines a...
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Love Poems to No One: Romantic PoetryI won't tell you how love is supposed to be because the truth is, love is many things, least of all predictable. It is feeling things we shouldn't and not feeling things we should. It is unexplainable at times leaving us at a loss...
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Maranatha AwakeningsMaranatha literally means "Jesus is coming!" This book is a journey of awakening to truth and duty as the Second Advent of Christ is dawning in imminent reality. These poems are inspired by the times in which we live, showcasing prophetic events that give...
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Mujer Sin Vergüenza / Woman Without ShameUna valiente colección de poemas nuevos de Sandra Cisneros, autora del libro de mayor venta La casa en Mango Street. Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora...
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This Wound Is a WorldThe new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man--available for the first time in the United States "i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative." Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, This...
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Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black MenAs he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires--groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin...
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What Are Little Girls Made Of?Think you know your nursery rhymes? Then think again In this witty reworking of some nursery rhymes, Georgie Porgie doesn't dare to make the girls cry, Little Bo-Peep's sheep are all present and accounted for, thank you, and it's a female doctor, of course,...
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The Wife of WillesdenZadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath "Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth,...
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EddaBut the king's heart swells, bulging with courage in battle, where heroes sink down... Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. His work surveys...
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[To] the Last [Be] Human[To] The Last [Be] Human collects fourextraordinary poetry books--Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway--byPulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most...
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Animals MovePreschoolers love baby animals, and they love to move. Celebrate both with a hard-wearing Toddler Tough picture book perfect for an active read-aloud. Calves swim, / Hatchlings bounce, / Porcupettes nibble, / Kittens pounce. Story time is on the move with this multilayered concept...
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A Fortune for Your DisasterIn his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the...
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The Last Night of the Earth PoemsPoems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 408Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.80h x 5.94w x 1.09dISBN: 9780876858639Review Citation(s): Booklist 03/15/1992 pg. 1330Library Journal 04/15/1992About the AuthorBukowski, Charles: - Charles Bukowski...
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Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsThe inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats, with whimsical illustrations by Edward Gorey. These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and adults...
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A Wheel of Small GodsModern medicine was born in the healing temples of the Hellenic world. Within their grounds, doctors like Hippocrates and Galen performed surgery, provided plant-based medicines, and promoted health with exercise. And while we have continued their legacy, we have forgotten something they knew to...
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