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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)The Poems Shakespeare's greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious "dark lady." More profound than other Elizabethan sonnet sequences and never surpassed as archetypes of the form, these poems explore almost every imaginable emotional complexity related to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alina Stefanescu (Author)Behold My Heresies: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Whether through sardonic takes on old Bible myths or homage paid to French-Romanian poet Paul Celan, Stefanescu's poems are laden...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Rodefer (Author), Geoffrey Young (Introduction by)Originally published in the 1980s and out of print until now, Rodefer's four long poems are milestones in American avant-garde poetry. Stephen Rodefer was an innovative, singular American writer--a student of Charles Olson's often associated with the Language poets but whose eclectic, energetic verse defies categorization and embraces a worldly lyricism all Rodefer's own. Four Lectures--first published i...

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Report copyright infringementby Nezami Ganjavi (Author), Dick Davis (Translator), Dick Davis (Introduction by)A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis A Penguin Classic Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic stories readers l...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Strasser (Author)Mystics Recourse: A Poetic Journey is a profound collection of verse that navigates the personal and spiritual landscape of life-altering challenges. Dedicated to cancer survivors and those lost to the disease, this book offers a raw yet hopeful exploration of survival, compassion, and the fundamental changes that come with confronting one's mortality.Drawing on the author's deep connection to wild places and natural processes, the poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead ...

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures - Paperback

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by Mary Ruefle (Author)This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle's work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play...

Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Peter Washington (Editor)Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his mo...

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures - Paperback

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by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Editor), Leora Kava (Editor), Craig Santos Perez (Editor)In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, sho...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert MacFarlane (Author), Jackie Morris (Illustrator)From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary -- widely used in schools around the world -- was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature...

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Report copyright infringementby Kyo Lee (Author)A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lensLotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant memory or a flaming future.Kyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics including lineage, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Felicia Zamora (Author)Water permeates this stunning collection--ocean, lake, saliva, tears, sweat, blood--and the deeper Felicia Zamora excavates, the sheerer it becomes. Revisiting her childhood as a Latina living in poverty in the United States, Zamora explores racial trauma, estrangement from inherted culture and language, and the instinct to retreat into the body as a space of understanding. Grounded in the specificity of her history, her body, and her lif...

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Report copyright infringementby Alberto Ríos (Author)From backyard to Sonoran desert, Every Sound is Not a Wolf explores the tender connection between people, place, and the natural world.Alberto Ríos' Every Sound is Not a Wolf evokes and awakens the senses--the smell of herbs, "the geckos at their mysterious work." Even silence grows loud and expansive in its stillness. Told entirely in couplets, and with remarkable lucidity, Ríos balances the harmonies and disharmonies found throughout all ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Latvala (Author)Michelle Latvala is the author of Between Latitudes, published by Green Writers Press in March 2025. She is faculty for poet David Whyte's Institute for Conversational Leadership, served as Executive Director of Spirit Rock Meditation Center for a decade, and founded Insight Outside, which integrates writing and meditation programs in wild places. Michelle migrates thoughtfully between responsibilities in northern California and eastern...

Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Mubanga Kalimamukwento (Author)Mubanga Kalimamukwento's multi-lingual, hybrid collection of essays and poems, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies, is a kaleidoscope of emotions: at once self-excavation and epitaph, exhumation, and burial song. These words are a conversation between the present and the past.Kalimamukwento deftly navigates the aftermath of devastating personal losses, particularly that of her mother. Through them, she invites readers to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Chryss Yost (Author)Chryss Yost is poet laureate of Santa Barbara and winner of the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. She has two previous chapbooks and is a co-editor (with Dana Gioia and Jack Hicks) of California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Heyday, 2002). "Mouth & Fruit-what a hearty debut! If ever there lived a hands-on poet, her name is Chryss Yost. Wired with feeling and touch, reverie and thought, anger and hunger, these sleek poems dart, d...

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)A rich, poetic, and socially relevant version of the great spiritual-philosophical classic of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching--from a legendary literary icon Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu's time-honored and as...

Ojalá Te Enamores (Edición Aniversario) / I Hope You Fall in Love

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Report copyright infringementby Alejandro Ordóñez (Author)Libro que integra artículos y relatos breves como los del blog Por escribir. Incluye los artículos más leídos de la página, pero también contenido inédito. Dividido en temas: amor, desamor, pensamientos... Ojalá te enamores es un libro poético e intimista sobre la vida, los sentimientos y los deseos más dulces y secretos que todos escondemos dentro. Sonríe, la vida no es tan mala como tú crees, ni el mañana tan lejano, ni el futuro t...

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Report copyright infringementby Lemn Sissay (Author)An uplifting poetry collection from the number one bestselling author of My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay OBE THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodora Ziolkowski (Author) Intimate, urgent, and relentlessly inventive, the poems in Ghostlit reflect upon mythology and feminist pop culture and contemporary ideology as they may become embedded in the psyches and even the bodies of their inheritors. Through visceral and sometimes gothic-inspired images, mythological allusions, and the assemblage of strands of narrative, the poems in this collection chart the ways in which manipulative emotional strategies ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Leyva (Author)Steven Leyva's second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man's lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva's poems ask readers to see and remember beauty when the world seems to be in ruins, to notice and praise "the industrious cherry // trees budding despite a summer / full of bullets to come." For Leyva, beauty can be found in lin...

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Report copyright infringementby Vincent Katz (Author)Stopping time on the page to discover the poetic moment where past and present are one, Vincent Katz (called a poet of "vibrant cinematic hunger" by Eileen Myles) opens himself to the fleeting beauty of both culture and nature in this stunning gathering of new work. With his painterly eye and disarming concision on the page, Katz opens this book with a powerful image of "all time sequestered in the fold of a daffodil," setting the stage for...

So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Wright (Author), Saundra Rose Maley (Author), Jeffrey Katz (Author)How a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry. The book draws on memoir, archival research, interviews, letters, and previous unpublished journal excerpts, presenting ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brad Leithauser (Author)MacArthur Fellowship-winning poet Brad Leithauser returns with his first new collection in more than a decade, a collection that recalls the delicacy and intimacy of his early, award-winning volumes, and embraces the wisdom of age. As snappy as a dinner jacket's red silk lining, as appealing as a piano interlude in jazz, Brad Leithauser's robust felicity is a balm in grim times. It's also the perfect vehicle for nostalgia, regret, and su...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Finley (Author)COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre rituals of the Covid era and its aftermath."Yep, she's still got it. . . . Like the most inspiring religious services, 'Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco' ends on an optimistic note, with Finley pivoting from shock and horror at the lives lost, access and control over one's body into hope-for change, peac...

Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Marie Delgado (Editor), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Foreword by)Like A Hammer is an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system. These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make up the US prison-industrial complex, revealing cracks in a criminal punishment system that too often appears unchangeable. The impacts of that system reverberate through lives and across generations. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nadia Alexis (Author), Evie Shockley (Foreword by)A hybrid collection that explores the dual nature of water as both a destructive and healing force, mirroring the experiences of Black women and girls. A hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed explores the various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother. Nadia Alexis crafts a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and...

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Report copyright infringementby John Schu (Author), Holly Hatam (Illustrator)From the New York Times bestselling John Schu comes a celebration of poetry and possibilities that follows a child who sparks to life a special space in her school for exploring ideas of all kinds. Ruthie Rose wakes up with an idea. A big, bright, beautiful idea. An idea so great! An idea so grand! Ruthie Rose can't wait to share it with her idea-loving librarian, her art teacher, and her best friend. As the idea get...

Cantan Las Formas Cantan / Singing Shapes

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Luján (Author), Nazli Tahvili (Illustrator)Un libro poético para pensar el espacio geométrico y para ejercitar los sentidos. Una niña y un niño juegan en el Parque de las Formas. Se zambullen en el círculo, retan al viento en la pista del óvalo, prueban la miel del hexágono... Sienten las formas hasta que las reconocen por las canciones que el viento toca en ellas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A poetic book to think about geometric space and to exercise the sens...

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Report copyright infringementby Terence Winch (Author)It Is As If Desire is a collection of occasional poems (poems written for specific occasions) that examine, deconstruct, disrupt, and celebrate love and friendship. The language of these 10-line poems (which one critic has called "foreshortened sonnets") is taut, while their spirit is open and loose. As the title suggests, these poems see love and desire as often conditional, fragmentary states. In this dialectic between life and love, it ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dario Bellezza (Author), Peter Covino (Translator)Dario Bellezza--Italy's first openly gay, major prize winning poet-novelist-playwright--was a bold, daring writer who energetically explored love, sexual transformation, and death. Bellezza embraced a variety of forms, from unabashed love-lyric to political narrative, and the fervor of his voice makes a compelling argument for his lasting importance as one of the most remarkable poets of the late twentieth centu...

El Libro de Los Animales (Poesía) / The Book of Animals (Poems)

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Report copyright infringementby Santiago Espinosa (Author), Iván Garzón Vallejo (Illustrator)Nuestra imaginación es un zoológico enorme: hay animales grandes y pequeños, así como hay personas altas y bajas. Hay animales tristes o melancólicos y algunos que son tímidos o felices. Estas historias capturan la forma en que los humanos se identifican con los animales, contada a través de los ojos de un poeta, y abren un panorama internacional de lirismo a los lectores jóvenes. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ...