Poetry

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by Kahlil Gibran (Author)One 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 as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freed...

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by John Coy (Author), Shannon Gibney (Author), Sun Yung Shin (Author)In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from--literally and metaphorically--as well as what unites all of us as humans. Richly layered illustrations connect past and present, making for an accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity. We come from stardust / our bodies made of ancient elements. / We come from single cells / evolving over billions of years. ...

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by Lucia Perillo (Author)The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and certainly sex. Her textual landscape includes rock climbers and the ill, female killers who take to the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they're forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once coll...

My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups - Hardcover

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by Chris Harris (Author), Andrea Tsurumi (Illustrator)This hilarious follow-up to the New York Times bestselling poetry book I'm Just No Good at Rhyming is full of surprising twists of wit and wordplay that will have readers rolling on the floor laughing! "Highly recommended, it gets 5 stars and 8 moons and a chef's kiss and a tip of the hat and a jump in the lake from me."--Bob Odenkirk, award-winning actor, writer, and comedian I'm Just No Good at Rhyming is this century's most acclaimed co...

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by Elizabeth Acevedo (Author), Andrea Pippins (Illustrator)They tell me to "fix" my hair.And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten;but how do you fix this shipwreckedhistory of hair? In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins...

Dome of the Hidden Pavilion: New Poems - Paperback

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by James Tate (Author)The seventeenth book of verse from one of America's finest and most acclaimed contemporary poets--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.Capturing his inimitable voice--provocative, amusing, understated, and riotous all at once--the poems in Dome of the Hidden Pavilion demonstrate James Tate at his finest. Innovative and fresh, they range in subject from a talking blob to a sobering reminiscence of a war and its aftereffects.Though they are diverse in s...

Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift - Paperback

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by Elly McCausland (Author)Grab your highlighters and favorite red pen and prepare to join professor of "Swifterature" Dr. Elly McCausland as she dives deep into the tortured poetry of Taylor Swift. Going line by line and word by word through 46 of Swift's most celebrated and hotly debated songs from across her 11-album career, McCausland is here to help you listen, read, and understand Taylor's music in an all-new way! Stars Around My Scars is a fan-focused opportunity to revel in the poetic...

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by Chekwube Danladi (Author)The poems in Chekwube Danladi's debut collection ardently expose unnamed spaces of agency, proclaiming power and beauty through an unaccustomed yearning. Semiotics contends with the thresholds, eagerly transgressing the limits of material and spiritual realms in pursuit of personal and collective liberation. These poems negotiate a captive erotic condition and augur a hesitant yet lush embodiment, unearthing a Black femininity preoccupied with retrieving its unfett...

Make Your Own Magic: A Beginner's Guide to Self-Empowering Witchcraft - Hardcover

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by Amanda Lovelace (Author)From the bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one comes an accessible guide to welcoming magic into your life, perfect for beginner witches and the magic-curious alike. As witchcraft grows ever more popular, there are countless introductions and paths into magical practice to choose from--so many that you might not know where to begin. When you're just getting started, it's easy to be intimidated or discouraged or to feel that there's no place f...

Italian American Poetics of Place - Hardcover

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by Sabrina Vellucci (Author)This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. It fills a gap in the theoretical discourse on Italian American culture, whose concerns about environmental justice have been mostly overlooked. From mid-twentieth-century poets such as John Ciardi and Diane di Prima to late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction writers such as Carole Maso and Salvatore Scibona, the study combines Italia...

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by M. J. Tutton (Author)In her debut collection of poetry, songs, and prose, M.J. Tutton takes her readers on an honest and unforgettable journey. Each piece, written from 2010 to late 2017, paints a picture of love, loss, heartbreak, depression, betrayal, hope, life, and reinvention. The book is split into 12 chapters - one for each month of the year.Author BiographyM.J. Tutton started writing when she was 9 years old. She won her first poetry award in 2004 and went on to win several others ...

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by Mary Oliver (Author)"The popularity of Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming." --The Boston Globe Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observat...

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Paperback

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by Franny Choi (Author)Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A Goodreads Readers Choice Award SemifinalistFrom acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to ea...

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by Tamika White (Author)Sometimes when you think you have it all figured out life isn't linear progress isn't linear but still you have to keep going. Follow your dreams and envision your imagination even if the words for out on paper. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 08, 2025

Rocketship to the Andromeda Galaxy - Paperback

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by Marc Vincenz (Author)For Every last Earthling Orbiting their own spacetimeFor Every last Earthling Orbiting their own spacetimeFor Every last Earthling Orbiting their own spacetime Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.09 x 7 x 7 IN Publication Date: August 10, 2024

Light Stream: Spirit Inspired Poetry and Poetic Prose - Paperback

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by Robert Schout (Author)ROBERT SCHOUT 's spiritually inspired, nature guided, and LGBTQ-themed poetry has been published in journals, periodicals, anthologies, and magazines since 2007. Robert's full-length collection of spiritually inspired poetry combines traditional poetic verse, free-form poetry, and poetic prose. It takes you on a journey beginning with an experience of spirit, to inward roads of sacred journeys, to a realization of the gifts of love and peace that come from unity and o...

A Bird Called Elaeus: Poems for Here and Now from the Greek Anthology - Paperback

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by David Constantine (Author)In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a collection of around 4500 poems composed over more than 1500 years by around 300 authors.The Greek Anthology is a marvellous salvage from the vast shipwreck of the Ancient World, a colossal continuity and variety from pre-classical times through Roman into Byzantine. For A Bird Called Elaeus - his small anthology of the vast original - David Con...

August Postcards: A Poetry Collection - Paperback

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by Constance Taylor (Author), Constance Taylor (Photographer)Observations and reflections on nature and life sprinkled with humor and cats by an Alaska poet. A collection of thirty-one poems shared with Poetry Postcard Fest participants during the 2024 season. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2024

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by H. D (Author), Lara Vetter (Editor)"Superb. Vetter's incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women's late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns."--Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of The Sword Went Out to Sea "This edition, with its finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she meditates...

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by Rebecca Roberts (Illustrator), Anthony Roberts (Author)The Clearing Barrel is a full length volume of poetry that is a combination of memoir, prayer, history, and war. Through words and rhythm the reader encounters a myriad of emotions, concluding in an uncertain triumph. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2021

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by Maria Clary (Author)Poems about being a zombie, going fishing and caching something completely different, and what if we were to live on Mars! Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2023

Lucretius and the Language of Nature - Hardcover

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by Barnaby Taylor (Author)Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy. The style of De Rerum Natura is like nothing else in extant Latin: at once archaic and modern, Romanizing and Hellenizing, intimate and sublime, it draws on multiple literary genres and linguistic registers. This book offers a study of Lucretius' linguistic innovation and...

Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson - Hardcover

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by Emily Dickinson (Author), Susan Snively (Editor), Christine Davenier (Illustrator)Let your children discover the works of poet Emily Dickinson in Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson. As the premier title in the Poetry for Kids series, Emily Dickinson introduces children to the works of poet Emily Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar Susan Snively has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by Christine Davenier and thoroug...

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by Janice N. Harrington (Author)Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.Harrington's speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, ...

How the Sea Came to Be: And All the Creatures in It - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Berne (Author), Amanda Hall (Illustrator)The Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List - STEM & Outstanding Merit (2024) The New York Public Library Best Books for Kids List (2023) A lyrical, spectacular history of the ocean--from its dramatic evolutionary past to its marvelously biodiverse present. "For millions of years these first bits of life Became more, and then more, and then more." Long, long ago, when the E...

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by Mustafa Cinar (Author) Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 14, 2025

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by Mustafa Cinar (Author) Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 14, 2025

The Unboxing of a Black Girl - Hardcover

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by Angela Shanté (Author)Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shanté, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique of how the world raises Black girls. As Shanté navigates the city through memory, she balances poetry with vignettes that explore the innocence and joy of childhood eroded by adul...

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age - Hardcover

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by John Lithgow (Author)New York Times Bestseller Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproa...

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by Delmar Daystar (Author)This collection is dedicated to you. To those who strive and struggle, who dream and despair, who love and lose, who fight and fail and rise again. "Gutter I" is not just a collection of poems but a reflection of our shared experiences, our collective highs and lows, and the intricate dance between hope and reality that defines us all. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2024

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Anthony Esolen (Translator), Gustave Dore (Illustrator)An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succee...

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly - Paperback

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by Denis Johnson (Author)Back JacketFrom the award-winning poet and novelist--a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.01 x 5.68 IN Publication Date: September 25, 2023