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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Myother TonguePoetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. How do we trace shifts of home or syllable, the history of becoming in language? We show what's passed on with the mother-milk, the blood-words, pushed from the body onto the page. That's what these poems do, spilling beautifully,...
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Sojourner Songs: PoemsFrom the author of A Small Cup of Light comes a collection of poetry that presses into the corners of our joy and our despair. By turns provocative, playful, sober, and hopeful, Sojourner Songs is a long-awaited companion on life's journey and a deep...
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The Island: Christian and his ComradesThis important historic poem recounts Captain Bligh's narrative of the mutiny on the Bounty. This pocket edition has been formatted to fit the smaller page, and fits most pockets.In 1787, British ship Bounty is headed for Tahiti to collect bread fruit. Captain Bligh's harsh...
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A Jazz Funeral for Uncle TomPoetry. African American Studies. Music. UNCLE TOM, AMERICA'S FAVORITE NEGRO, IS DEAD. Championing the tenderest of homicidal tendencies, a penchant for mercy killings and redemptive rites of passage, A JAZZ FUNERAL FOR UNCLE TOM is exactly what it announces it is, a book as...
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Between Page and ScreenPoetry. Art. Collaboration. An unlikely marriage of print and digital, BETWEEN PAGE AND SCREEN chronicles a love affair between two characters, P and S. The book has no words, only inscrutable black and white geometric patterns that, when coupled with a webcam, conjure the...
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Still Life with Dirty Dishes: PoemsLike its title poem, this collection insists on art's daily necessity. McCallum chronicles the rhythms of family life, and in the domestic pause between chore and love, in the hushed wake of cleaving or grieving, she catches a visceral sense of life's intensity. In...
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Say One ThingPoetry. Who's the queen of kundalini bloopers, Emily Dickinson's attitude problem (that bitch) and California dreams? It's Melissa Broder, who will charm your pants off and show you a little tough love in this vivid, witty first collection of poems. Each poem is artisan-crafted...
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Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 - Immeasurable EquationSun Ra was a master jazz musician unlike any before or after him. Here is a stunning collection of 260 of his cosmic poems and selected prose.Author: SunPublisher: Phaelos Books & MediawerksPublished: 11/22/2005Pages: 276Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.58dISBN: 9780970020970
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Elegies in Blue: PoemsBenjamin Saenz writes, In the desert, we live in a desert of translation. That is exactly what he sets out to do, in this, his third book of poems--translate experience into words. He writes of history and learning and death. He writes of loss...
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Breath of the Song: New and Selected PoemsA long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.Author: Jaki Shelton GreenPublisher: Carolina Wren PressPublished: 07/30/2005Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9780932112491About the AuthorJaki Shelton Green is the first...
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Lautr AmontThe famous French scientist-psychologist-literary critic provides a virtual bestiary for depth psychology and literary criticism in his study of Isidore Ducasse, known by the pen-name Lautreamont. Includes essays by James Hillman "Bachelard's Lautreamont, or Psychoanalysis without a Patient," and Robert Scott Dupree, "Bachelard as...
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Poetria NovaThe Poetria nova, written by the Englishman Geoffrey of Vinsauf shortly after 1200, was the most influential medieval treatise on rhetorical poetics. Modeled on Horace's Ars poetica, it is an art of poetry (and prose) in 2121 hexameter verses. With its updated scholarship and...
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I've Been a Woman: New and Selected PoemsThe author of several books of poetry, Sanchez' I've Been A Woman is the dynamic transcendental female voice of one of the finest poets of our time. Includes ""Black Magic: Blk Rhetoric"" and ""Blues.""Author: Sonia SanchezPublisher: Third World PressPublished: 06/01/1985Pages: 101Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize:...
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Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 162018 California Book Award FinalistFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet."Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into 'capital, collateral, damaged soul.' However, the women that appear throughout...
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Old Angel MidnightOld Angel Midnight is one of the great delights of the boundless improvisational world. Jack Kerouac's ear is peerless, manifesting structures otherwise impossible. A masterpiece of the mind freed to fly. Read it aloud, for yourself, 'for the sake of reading, and for the...
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Pictures of the Gone World: 60th Anniversary EditionLawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of A Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that...
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Uncollected Poems: Bilingual EditionBetween the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry--the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he was writing verse continually, often prolifically--in...
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If: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every PossibilityIf you need cheering up...If you need guidance...If you want to laugh...If you need courage...Sometimes only a poem will do.In this magical new collection of our best-loved poems, selected and introduced by the creators of the bestselling app iF Poems, discover the joy, solace...
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Koi: A Modern Folk TaleKoi are unusually beautiful creatures. Perhaps because of their unusual beauty, koi have inspired a variety of legends. The recurrent theme in these legends is that koi, because of their endurance and perseverance, have become symbolic of overcoming adversity and fulfilling one's destiny. In...
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The History of AnonymityThis debut collection of vivid, lyrical poems explores the emotional landscape of childhood without confession and without straightforward narrative. Chang sweeps together myth and fairy tale, skirting the edges of events to focus on the psychological tenor of experience: the underpinnings of identity and...
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