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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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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to RumiWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many...
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Selected Poems of William BlakeWriter and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him throughout his remarkable life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth, or the corruption caused by mankind, his writings...
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The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems"These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming." -- Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, U.S. Poet...
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We Are ShiningFrom Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate and the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist comes We Are Shining. Marking the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks, this powerful picture book is a celebration of...
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Chasing Utopia: A HybridThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred social justice movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations about the reality of life--especially Black life--in America. One of the foremost African-American writers and activists of her generation, she has been hailed as a healer...
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Notes from the Air: Selected Later PoemsThis long-awaited volume, a new selection of his later poems, spans ten major collections by one of America's most visionary and influential poets. Chosen by the author himself, the poems in Notes from the Air represent John Ashbery's best work from the past two...
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The October PalaceGrounded in a series of mediations upon the life of the feeling heart in the world, Jane Hirshfield's long-awaited third collection of poetry explores the ways that radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult, and the plain.Author: Jane HirshfieldPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 03/16/1994Pages:...
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Walt Whitman: A Life"Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking--hugely human, enormously attractive." --Newsweek A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet--his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility--an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-nineteenth century America. In vivid detail, Justin Kaplan,...
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The Blacker the BerryBlack is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous poetry collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many...
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Teasing Tongue-TwistersTEASING TONGUE TWISTERS is one of four sparkling new collections of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Children's Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet and teacher. His book, Wham Bang Orangutan is hugely popular (published OUP).New and existing...
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Self-Titled, By AlienIn the place where love letters to strangeness overlap with hope for a more human world, Self-Titled by Alien offers the reader well-portioned courses of gender identity, companionship, romance, and existential dread."Self-Titled, by Alien is a brilliant, expansive, and experimental collection of word that...
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Sex Depression Animals: PoemsIn SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult. Using dreamlike, shimmering imagery, she pieces together a fractured...
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A Matter of InclusionAppealing to the Good is Us, Chad Norman writes poignantly and lyrically about the human journey, punctuated by border crossings, walls and barb-wire fences, racism, and intolerance based on one's physical looks, religion, gender, language, and geographic dis/location. In these deeply moving poems, the...
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Upper Heights and Lower Depths: Poems by Vivian Smith, Sid Harrex, Margaret Scott, Graeme HetheringtonThe four poets in this collection were born in the 1930s: Vivian Smith at Hobart in 1933; Margaret Scott at Bristol in the United Kingdom (1934); Syd Harrex at Smithton (1935) and Graeme Hetherington at Latrobe (1937). Apart from Gwen Harwood (born in the...
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Non FinitoThe poetry in this collection is intended to invite the reader to consider the beauty and vitality to be found in things unfinished, as they are always reminders of what can be finished, as difficult to imagine as that is. The poems focus on...
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to beat a blue bird black: a collection of poemsAnalyzing the world as she experiences it, this poetry book by Elle Cox is filled with dark imagination and hope. Based on her lived experience and understanding as Black woman, the book tells a gripping story of abstraction through 12 poems. To beat a...
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Bury Me NakedBury Me Naked is driven by its hard-hitting language, accessible images, and depth of feeling. The poems are set in the poet's home village of KwaGezubuso, and show the tough life of young people in South Africa's neglected rural areas. Many poems are religious,...
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Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for EnglishnessThe stanzas beginning, 'And did those feet' are among the most famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William Blake. Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916 and renamed, 'Jerusalem', this hymn has become an emblem of Englishness in the past...
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Let's Celebrate Holidays in AmericaAuthor: Riddhima VermaPublisher: Writers Republic LLCPublished: 05/30/2022Pages: 34Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.09dISBN: 9798885361194This title is not returnable
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Bone PickerFrom the Eyre Highway to the tiled lanes of Lisbon, and the muted Australian suburbs at the beginning of a pandemic, Bone Picker presents vignettes of place and memory that draw on senses of belonging, movement, and conflict. These imagistic glimpses into everyday life...
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