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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Love ProdigalAmidst cycles of heartbreak, trauma, and chronic pain, Love Prodigal finds strength in the natural world, motherhood, desire, and new love. Fiercely self-aware and "utterly present tense," Traci Brimhall's Love Prodigal lives in the messiness of starting over. As Brimhall grieves a divorce and...
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LocomotionFinalist for the National Book Award When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he's eleven, and he still misses them terribly. And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because "not...
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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected PoemsIn the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of...
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Late to the Search Party: PoemsA raw, crystalline debut poetry collection exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss--a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life. The unsettled border between absence and presence haunts this stunning collection, in which poet laureate Steven Espada...
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Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and MeditationsThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine--the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press.At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost...
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If I Ran the Dog Show: All about DogsLaugh and learn with fun facts about humankind's best friend--dogs!--all told in Dr. Seuss's beloved rhyming style and starring The Cat in the Hat. "I'm the Cat in the Hat, and today we will go to the Short-Shaggy-Tail-Waggy Super Dog Show!" The Cat in...
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I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six PoemsAcclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath's poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet. One of our leading interpreters of ancient literature, acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden (the Aeneid) has long had a passion...
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How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and SkillMore than 30 acclaimed writers--including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy--reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that focuses on the Black...
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How to Love a Country: PoemsA timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people--immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the...
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Her Dark EverythingPart elegy to a friend who died by suicide, part love poem to a friend who continues to survive, Her Dark Everything is a collection that will pull you through the darkest depths until you feel the light against your skin. It will make...
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Guitar Tab Notebook: Music Paper Sheet For Guitarist And Musicians - Wide Staff Tab Large Size 8,5 x 11"A must-have tool for all music students, hobbyists as well as for professionals and teachers, who play guitar! Whether you're planning to write a beautiful love song, compose a classic musical for the ages, or just want to write quick notations or ideas on...
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Green of All HeadsThe Whiting Award-winning poet returns.Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent...
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Flower Crowns and Fearsome Thingsin her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems. within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both...
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Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved ThemWidely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems...
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Duino Elegies & the Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language EditionAvailable for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of...
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Drag Queen PreacherHow did you grow to be who you are? What loves nurtured you into becoming? What seeds have been sown within you to nurture hope? Which avenues through life have allowed you to expand your self and transform in myriad ways? I am not...
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June JordanAffordable paperback of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."Author: June JordanPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 640Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.70dISBN: 9781556592348About the AuthorJune Jordan was born in Harlem. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays,...
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Digger, Dozer, Dumper"Rising above the usual singsong name-checking, Vestergaard celebrates not only the jobs these machines perform but also their marvelous mechanics." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems--each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an...
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Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."--World Literature TodaySpanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists...
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Collected PoemsRobert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and...
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