Poetry

25001 books

$9.67

Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author), A. D. Melville (Author), E. J. Kenney (Introduction by)Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. About the Series: For over 100 years O...

$12.91

Report copyright infringementby Horace (Author), John Davie (Author), Robert Cowan (Author)Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and his pervasive humanity. Boasting famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse and the grotesque dinner party given by the nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems influenced not only contemporaries such as Juvenal, but also English...

$14.40

Report copyright infringementby Major Simmy Thomas(retd) (Author)This book is an Emotional walk, down the memory Lane, speaks about the hardships and challenges a Women Faces and how She fights all Battles and comes out with Victory. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2025

$19.44

Report copyright infringementby Dekeersgieter (Author), Marilyn Chin (Foreword by)Back JacketWinner of the 2023 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Opium and Ambergris is the haunting debut collection by poet Colin Dekeersgieter, whose lyric poems scrutinize a family's history with addiction, death, and mental illness. Reeling from the loss of his brother to a heroin overdose, Dekeersgieter grieves while doing his best to keep his suicidal mother alive and raise his family. As a result, these poem...

$24.17

Report copyright infringementby Steven P. Redondo (Author), Steven P. Redondo (Illustrator), Jonathan D. Robbins (Editor)Feels is a book for everyone.Inspired by real-life scenarios, Redondo's debut poetry collection invites us to reflect on who we are as people, and how we respond to the world around us. Through playful verse and vibrant illustrations, Feels is an emotional exploration of our most fundamental, universally-shared experience: Feeling.Articulating phenomena like happiness, ange...

$18.36

by Farnaz Fatemi (Author), Tracy K. Smith (Foreword by)Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize * Starred Review, Publishers WeeklyBack JacketThe poems in Sister Tongue explore negative spaces--the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet's upbringing in California and her family in Iran. This space between vibrates with loss and longing, arcing with tension. Farnaz Fatemi's poetry delves into the intricacies of the relational space b...

Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black

$20.47

Report copyright infringementby Keizer (Author), Cornelius Eady (Foreword by)Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist Beauford Delaney. These poems pay homage to Delaney's resilience and ingenuity in the face of profound adversity. Although his work never garnered the acclaim it deserves-and is finally receiving-Delaney was well known and highly respected in Afric...

The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition - Paperback

$40.43

by Don W. King (Editor)Although C. S. Lewis is best known for his prose and for his clear, lucid literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and imaginative Ransom and Narnia stories, he considered himself a poet for the first two and a half decades of his life. Owen Barfield recalls that anyone who met Lewis as a young man in the early 1920s at Oxford University quickly learned he was one "whose ruling passion was to become a great poet. At that time if you thought of Lewis you automatically ...

Lives of the Saints: Stories from the Bible

$18.34

Report copyright infringementby Michael Marcinkowski (Author)Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that blends personal introspection with collective disquiet, Marcinkowski's poems interrogate labor, knowledge, and justice, engaging readers in reimagining societal norms through a transformative leap of faith. By reviving Hopkins' 'sprung rhy...

$18.99

Report copyright infringementby Lynn Street (Author), Anne Hunter (Illustrator)Take a lyrical journey on the wings of blue jays as they bury thousands of acorns for next season's food and help Mother Nature extend the oak forests. Most of us know about the mighty oak tree, and how important oaks are as a keystone species. But we may be less aware of the role that blue jays play in assisting the expansion of oak tree forests. Covering one full year from season to season, we learn about the hab...

$21.58

by James Joyce (Author)This early work by James Joyce was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Pomes Penyeach' is a collection of Joyce's poetry. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. He excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, and then at University College Dublin, where he studied English, French, and Italian. Joyce produced several prominent works, including: 'Ulysses', 'A Portrait of the Young Ar...

Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States

$28.80

Report copyright infringementby Luisa A. Igloria (Editor), Aileen Cassinetto (Editor), Jeremy S. Hoffman (Editor)WINNER, AMERICAN BOOK FEST BEST BOOK AWARDSIn Fall 2023, the congressionally-mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) report was released under the U.S. Global Change Research Program to support informed decision-making relating to climate change impacts, risks, and responses. Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States, edited by Academy o...

$13.36

Report copyright infringementby Corey Mesler (Author)Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People is filled with young, vibrant poems from a wise voice. The poems often wax reflective, filled with the historicity of experience, yet always returning to the now. Thus, Mesler's collection is defined by beautiful immediacy, intimacy, and urgency. Constantly, these poems remind the reader what it means to be human, to be alive and living surrounded by a multitude of beating hearts and breathing lung...

$98.91

Report copyright infringementby David a. Campbell (Author)This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. First published in 1967 in the 'red Macmillan' series, it was reprinted by BCP in 1982 with addenda to the bibliography and an appendix reproducing a text of three substantial 'new' papyrus fragments by Archilochus, Stesichorus and Alcaeus. The extensive commentary gives assistanc...

$24.23

by Inua Ellams (Author)Author BiographyBorn in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a cross-art-form practitioner, a poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist, designer and founder of the Midnight Run-a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Complete Works poet alumni and a designer at White Space Creative Agency. Inua's previous plays at the National include The 14th Tale (Fringe First award) and Black T-Shirt Collection. Other plays include Knight Watch at Greenwich + Docklands Festival; Cape at the Unico...

$20.23

Report copyright infringementby Willow Bowery (Author)this isnot an albumnot a departmentjust you and mebeing forced towrite an anthologythat was boundto fail Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2024

$18.36

Report copyright infringementby Dasbach (Author), Ellen Bass (Foreword by)Finalist, Berru Award in Mem-o-ry of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash, National Jewish Book Awards Winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Ellen Bass, Judge "A compelling book about origins--of ancestry, memory, and language"--Ellen Bass The Many Names for Mother is an exploration of intergenerational motherhood; its poems reach toward the future even as they reflect on the past. This evocative collection hovers arou...

$17.28

Report copyright infringementby Joe Deany-Braun (Author)Young Santa speaks in animal tracks and simples of the moon. He gets lost in the land of seeds and snow. He does not know what he does not know.A "quietly astonishing" debut (Dan Beachy-Quick), Young Santa sketches the life of a saint in short poems "worthy of Bashō or Dōgen" (David Mutschlecner). Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 7 x 4.25 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2025

Lullabies for the Insomniacs: A Memoir in Verse

$15.99

Report copyright infringementby Ella Grace Foutz (Author) A teen with bipolar disorder fights for survival in Ella Grace Foutz's memoir in verse. Foutz weaves an intimate and gripping chronicle of her experience with mental illness. Amidst the turbulence of manic and depressive episodes, often accompanied by insomnia, Foutz relentlessly pursues stability and self-understanding. She examines the struggles that come with her illness, the ways it can be managed, and the ways in which it's inextr...

$32.40

Report copyright infringementby Conor Hultman (Author)A RUTHLESS ACCOUNT OF DEATH IN AMERICA"Constructed from evidence extracted from a database of unsolved human remains cases, the poems in Conor Hultman's DOE stare back and dare you to look away. Disturbing, sad, haunting, and addictive, they evoke the sickening nostalgia of shows like Unsolved Mysteries and Dateline blasting from childhood living rooms. Part archival séance, part cartography of evil, this collection is an indispensable wor...

$11.52

Report copyright infringementby Katrina J. Hille (Author)These poems speak to the ache and celebration of human experience: the weight of disappointment, the longing for something different, and the slow reclaiming of self. Through emotion and imagery, the collection draws parallels between the individual experience and larger global themes. This collection is for anyone who has needed rest, wished for change, fallen in and out of love, and found their strength again. These words are both a r...

$16.20

Report copyright infringementby Dayna Renee Lovely (Author)A raw, deeply feminine, and provocative poetry collection drawing from thematic elements of nature, cycles, and womanhood. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 30, 2025

$19.44

Report copyright infringementby Elline Lipkin (Author)Elline Lipkin's Girl in a Forest explores the roles and tropes of women at different life stages, filtered through the lens of the Brothers Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. These poems lay a trail of breadcrumbs through permutations of grief as a mother realizes her mortality, a girl awakens to possibility, and an elder reckons with loss. Lipkin invites the reader to step into the enchanted, "the grip of night, / a swarm of marble /feeling...

$16.18

Report copyright infringementby Isabella Lilien (Author)In the depths of despair, we find strength to rise again. Embracing love and loss, we learn to forgive ourselves and each other. Through tears and goodbyes, we discover hope and the courage to rebuild our lives, one moment at a time, together and apart. Buried in Ink is a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the journey toward healing. This collection of heartfelt poetry captures the raw emotions of relationships, the struggles of let...

Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England

$43.13

Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Author)A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse. These terms were often wielded in negative and gendered ways--to write soft or irregular verses was said to be a fe...

$23.71

Report copyright infringementby Wes Hanson (Author)Twenty-five years of Wes Hanson's nature paintings and pensive poetry adorn my Inland Northwest Land Conservancy office. His Hardscrabble: Life on the Land will join them soon. In 1997 Wes and his wife Gertie enlisted my organization to safeguard their family's land, the Carder Farm, and I have walked it many times since. This collection of thoughtful, restful, spare poetry is exactly like walking with Wes. It's a memoir, a paean to the farm,...

$11.52

Report copyright infringementby Sarah L. Curry (Author)In Seeker, each poem is a step on the path of rediscovery. This breathtaking collection invites readers to join the author in on her journey, one of resilience and empowerment and some silly-ness. Through vivid imagery, her verses reflect her voice. This is not merely a book of poetry it is a map to the soul, charted in rhythm and rhyme guiding seekers everywhere towards their own truth. For dreamers, wanderers and those yearning to recla...

$14.40

Report copyright infringementby Mendy Garron (Author) Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 04, 2025

$20.47

Report copyright infringementby Belew (Author), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Foreword by)Winner of the 2024 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize The Deep Blue of Neptune is a striking, meditative collection of poems by Terry Belew, which reminds readers of the necessity of empathy in the midst of uncertain and unsettling times. Set against a rural backdrop, Belew's poems reside in the everyday--driving on gravel backroads, roaming the aisles of Walmart, and doomscrolling on a smart phone--to highlight ...

$21.60

Report copyright infringementby Marcia Falk (Author)The poems in The Sky Will Overtake You abound in a rare, infectious, and hard-won ecstasy, the consequence-at least in part-of exquisite attention to whatever they approach. They celebrate "the days laid out like jewels / on a merchant's table" even as they acknowledge grief and loss and the knowledge that "[There is] no keeping anything." These poems make ephemerality palpable, establishing it as an essential feature of what we treasure. "W...

$33.10

Report copyright infringementby Michele Evans (Author)Using a mixture of poetic forms varying in subject, shape, style, and size, purl reimagines timeless myths from Homer's Odyssey. Stitched from classical translations, this poignant collection from Michele Evans, resurrects feminine forces from ancient Greek mythology and relocates them in modern portraits and landscapes, pastoral and urban. Invoking Phillis Wheatley Peters as her muse, Evans amplifies a chorus of the marginalized: queens a...

$31.61

Report copyright infringementby Courtney Bush (Author)A Movie, a book-length poem written in sentences, explores the ways movies are woven into the fabric of a life, as cultural products, as objects of intimacy, as social touchstones, as an ideal, as shorthand for certain kinds of experience, while also telling the story of the poet's production of an eighteen-minute vampire movie. Praise for A MovieIn A Movie, Courtney Bush presents us with a screen upon which we can view her virtuosic intel...