Poetry
100 POEMS TO BREAK YOUR HEART
Written by Hirsch, Edward
100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not j
LITTLE HISTORY OF POETRY
Written by Carey, John
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New York Times Book Review What is poetry?
ESSENTIAL JUNE JORDAN
Written by Jordan, June
"...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality.
NEW-GENERATION AFRICAN POETS: A CHAPBOOK BOX SET (NANE)
This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of thirteen new African poets.Included in Publishers Weekly's Adult 2021 Announcements (Poetry)
DIVINE COMEDY ILLUSTRATED BY MIMMO PALADINO
Written by Risaliti, Sergio
- Marking the 700th anniversary of his death, this new publication of Dante's Divine Comedy features 50 original lithographs by Italian artist Mimmo Paladino, and essays by notable Italian scholars and art historians To mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, Italian artist Mimmo Paladino has illustrated the complete text of Dante's epic masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, with 50
IDEA OF PERFECTION: THE POETRY AND PROSE OF PAUL VALÉRY; A BILINGUAL EDITION
Written by Valéry, Paul
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. Heir to Mallarmé and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo.
POEMS TO NIGHT
Written by Rilke, Rainer Maria
A collection of haunting, mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English One night I held between my hands your face.
BUZZ WORDS: POEMS ABOUT INSECTS
A unique anthology of poems--from around the world and through the ages--that celebrates the gloriously diverse insect world. Given that insects vastly outnumber us, it is no surprise that many cultures have long and rich traditions of verse about our tiny fellow creatures.
GOLD
Written by Rumi
The thirteenth-century Persian sage Rumi was chiefly known as a preacher and a man of serious and sober views. But at the age of forty, his encounter with the poet Shams of Tabriz left him utterly transformed.
BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME
Written by Mans, Jasmine
NAMED ONE OF OPRAH MAGAZINE'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQ BOOKS IN 2021
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