Poetry
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
Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks," she writes in tribute to those 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.
CAME THE LIGHETNING: TWENTY POEMS FOR GEORGE
Written by Harrison, Olivia
'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' – Olivia HarrisonOlivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems dedicated to George, marking the twentieth year since his passing.
AMERICAN WILDFLOWERS: A LITERARY FIELD GUIDE
Organized as a field guide, a literary anthology filled with classic and contemporary poems and essays inspired by wildflowers--perfect for writers, artists, and botanists alike American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world.
TREASURY OF FAMILY CHRISTMAS POEMS
This cozy collection of holiday poetry includes works by Clement C. Moore, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, and more. It is an excellent gift and will serve as a family heirloom for generations. The Treasury of Family Christmas Poems features full-color period illustrations as well as a deluxe case, foil stamping, a cloth ribbon, and bookplate.
MEMORY ROSE INTO THRESHOLD SPEECH: THE COLLECTED EARLIER POETRY: A BILINGUAL EDITION
Written by Celan, Paul
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet. Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and politic
HOWDIE-SKELP: POEMS
Written by Muldoon, Paul
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.
WINTER RECIPES FROM THE COLLECTIVE: POEMS
Written by Glück, Louise
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.
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