Poetry
FAIRY POEMS
A wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world Fascination with fairies spans centuries and cultures. With ancient roots in pagan belief, fairies have long populated mythology, folklore, and oral and written poetry.
LITTLE POEMS
From Sappho and Li Bai to Sandra Cisneros and Ocean Vuong: a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems from around the world and through the ages Short poems have been popular for centuries, from the famous fragments of Sappho in ancient Greece to the traditional haiku of Japan, from the Imagist poems of Ezra Pound and H. D.
TOGETHER IN A SUDDEN STRANGENESS: AMERICA'S POETS RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us from the earliest days of the lockdown, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives as the pandemic continues to shape our lives **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z--Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder--with work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fan
TANYA: POEMS
Written by Shaughnessy, Brenda
The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. In this powerful gathering of poems about her own influencers, as well as poems on Dadaist artist Méret Oppenheim and the young choreographer Lauren Lovette, Brenda Shaughnessy dwells
QUIET: POEMS
Written by Bulley, Victoria Adukwei
A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love. How does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isn't silence? Where does quiet exist--and what liberating potential might it hold?
TRACE EVIDENCE
Written by Shanahan, Charif
In a powerful and urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan's poems in Trace Evidence explore the complexities of mixed-race identity, the tension of queer longing, time and mortality, and the brutal legacy of anti-Blackness in the United States and abroad.
FLOWERS OF EVIL: (LES FLEURS DU MAL)
Written by Baudelaire, Charles
Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
CHROME VALLEY: POEMS
Written by Browne, Mahogany L
A highly anticipated volume from critically acclaimed poet Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley is at once a luminous hymn and a battle cry. Spanning the course of her own life as well as embodying centuries of virulent history, this collection pays solemn tribute to the women who came before her.
PLAYLIST FOR THE APOCALYPSE: POEMS
Written by Dove, Rita
In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy.
CALLIGRAPHIES: POEMS
Written by Hacker, Marilyn
Moving from Paris to Beirut and back, Calligraphies is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman.
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