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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The OdysseyHomer's classic epic of survival, revenge, and homecoming, translated by E. V. Rieu, now in a stunning clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, and featuring an Introduction by Peter V. Jones. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan The epic...
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan PoePart of the Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every known tale written by the famous gothic American writer. Poe's often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include...
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The ProphetOne of the most beloved classics of our time--a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Published in 1923, Gibran's masterpiece has been translated into more than twenty languages.Gibran's musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics...
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The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer's timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of honor, heroism, and the consequences of unchecked pride....
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary OliverNow a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. "No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much...
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Water to Water: Gaza RengaA poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of Renga by two award-winning poets during the genocide in Gaza. In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each...
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TributariesTributaries is a pulse, a heartbeat of imprinted memories found within the land we all find ourselves in. Listen closely to the language of tree bark, owl howls, bison, coyotes, butterfly dreams. An eco-poetic journey that digs into the humanity and spirituality of nature...
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The Poetry Reader: An AnthologyYou have picked up this book because you are a poetry reader. Or you are about to be one. Because as soon as you read a poem, that's what you are. Filled with the profound, the lyrical, the consoling, and the curious, The Poetry...
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The Narrative PoemsThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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The Divine ComedyComprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dante's Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, and heaven.Divine Comedy began as a project in 1308 and ended in 1320, the year before...
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The Collected Poems of William WordsworthWith an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and...
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Still LifeStill Life has been named a best book of the year by NPR and Time magazine. Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award.Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler--author of the National Book Award-finalist The Abridged History of Rainfall--got to work. The result...
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Speak English, You're in AmericaSpeak English, You're in America is a prose poetry collection that explores the complexities of belonging. When Carolina was forced to leave the place she knew as home and started over in foreign land, her sense of belonging became blurry, and her search for...
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Reflection of Her StoryReflection of Her Story is a raw and intimate journey through pain, healing, and becoming. In these pages, Dani Moody bares the weight of her childhood struggles, the ache of growing pains, the haunting presence of shadows, and the unshakable courage found in God's...
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Letters to BouldersThe scientist is the close cousin of the poet and Karen Donovan is both. In her witty and engaging Letters to Boulders 45 stunning photographs of stones are paired with prose pieces inspired by their appearance or origins. Geographic forces-erratics, tarns, glaciers, and xenoliths-mirror...
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Leaves of GrassDelight in the work that forever changed the course of American poetry! Walt Whitman's modern and ecstatic free-verse poems shocked, enraged, and delighted critics of the time for their celebration of physical pleasures and the human body. Throughout his life, Whitman continuously revised and...
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In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable WorkshopIdeal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to...
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DelugeThis stunning debut blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and pop culture in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.Author: Leila ChattiPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 04/21/2020Pages: 74Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9781556595899Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020 pg. 176About the AuthorLeila Chatti...
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ColorscapesThe sixth volume in Lee Woodman's renowned Scapes series, Colorscapes is a veritable celebration of the colors of Woodman's life. As a child living in India, she absorbed the rich and colorful fruits and spices in the marketplace and the wild combos of yellows,...
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Cartographies of HomePriscilla Long's nimble verse examines the difference between provenance and improvisation in how we grow up-or, to use the language of one Eastern Shore of Maryland family, how we "grow away." This portrait-in-poems' entrance into adulthood is graceful and sonically compelling: "I pull red...
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