Best Poetry Books

"Once there was a tree . . . and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk . . . and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew olde...

Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard's work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published.Now, almost two decades after the original volume, Oxford is...

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.Featurin...

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Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterp...

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's selfstyled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and oneupmanship, and political intrigue....

The Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition...

Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55138) captures the splendour, the squalor, and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortunetellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land...

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note_x0097_a sensuous love song to the Earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, inviting in the grief of an elephant, the icy eyes of a scallop, _x0093_the ribs / of a silver silo,_x0094_ and the bright flash of painted fingernails. With unmatched sincerit...

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One of the most highly regarded novels of 1986, Vikram Seth's story in verse made him a literary household name in both the United States and India.John Brown, a successful yuppie living in 1980s San Francisco meets a romantic interest in Liz, after placing a personal ad in the newspaper. From this interaction, John meets a variety of characters, e...

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born _x0097_ a histor...

When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the bestselling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet'...

A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother_x0092_s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do...

Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable as vibrant and alive today as it...

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerou...

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times as in Tayeb Salih's work and translating to the r...

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Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This new verse translation, in simple and swift English hexameters, allows Ovid's narrat...

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk _x0097_from _x0093_No Fly Zone_x0094_With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the dis...

Poetry Speaks Who I Am is filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive infind the poem you love, the one that makes you angry, the one that makes you laugh, the one that knocks the wind out of you, and become a part of Poetry Speaks Who I Am by adding your own inside the book. Poetry can be life...

Return to the prehistoric era and discover a host of creatures both novel and familiar, from the mysterious trilobite to the famed T. rex.Care to meet a dunkleosteus An apatosaurus How about the dragonflyesque meganaura In a collection that's organized chronologically by epoch and is sure to intrigue everyone from armchair dino enthusiasts to bu...

Everything that happens when you go camping can be an adventure, from getting dressed inside your sleeping bag on a chilly morning to meeting a moose to sharing secrets in a tent at night. Kristine O?Connell George turns the memorable moments of a family outing into spirited, evocative verse, and Kate Kiesler?s vivid paintings provide a cast of cha...

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the author_x0092_s gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing the cosmic impacts of our political landscape. Ranging from autobiographic melancholy to rigorous...

Winner, CILIP Kate Greenaway MedalFinalist, Wainwright PrizeIn 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ? widely used in schools around the world ? was published, a sharpeyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit t...

Awardwinning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity the...

The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a neverbeforepublished selection of his earliest work. Rexroth?s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love poems justly celebrated for their eroticism and depth of fe...

An evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Awardwinning picture book. We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad...

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From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limon comes The Carrying_x0097_her most powerful collection yet.Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman strug...

_x0093_i closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored_x0094_From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from selflove to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the rea...

HOW TO PULL APART THE EARTH is an homage to the intrinsic thread that weaves the culture of Mexico together with the United States, and the echo of colonization that works to erase it. Cordero skillfully exemplifies the complexity & beauty of growing up in a borderland, and the sacrifices paid for the dream. HOW TO PULL APART THE EARTH is an homage...

This is the book we all know and love by Marlo Thomas and her friendsbrought to new life with brand new illustrations to captivate and inspire a new generation of readers on a journey of the heart. Whether you are opening Free to Be . . . You and Me for the first time or the one hundredth time you will be engaged and transformed by this newly beau...

A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive versesAs presidential inaugural poet, memoirist, public speaker, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting communities to connect to the heart of human experience and our ...

This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking.Gerard Manley Hopkins (184489) was one of the most innovative of nineteenthcentury poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, an...

All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his bestknown poems plus essays and criticisms....

The longawaited third collection from one of the UK_x0092_s finest, most virtuosic of modern lyric poets. These poems take the reader on surprising journeys of healing, hardwon amid personal and social vicissitudes _x0096_ including triumph over addiction, and alcoholism _x0096_ and open spaces in which to share in emotional, quasispiritual transcendence despite....

Jericho Brown_x0092_s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown_x0092_s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety Who is this nation Where does freedom truly lie Brown makes mythical p...

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In Kim Dower's fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave, death has never felt so alive! Alluring titles to haunting last lines, the poems in Dower's fourth collection soothe, terrify, and always surprise, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary.Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, humor and heartache, Dower's po...

When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens! Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thrunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover majestic photography p...

Alternatecover 25th Anniversary reissue edition can be found hereLast night while I lay thinking hereSome Whatifs crawled inside my earAnd pranced and partied all night longAnd sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that testWhatif green hair grows on my chestWhatif nobody likes meWhatif a bolt of lightning strikes me...Here in the att...

Poet and cocreator of the Emmynominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in Ame...

Richard Siken_x0092_s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is st...

The third book in Tommy Pico_x0092_s Teebs trilogy, Junk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of securit...

E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of the 20th century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings_x0092_s wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirtyfive of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. The...

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melanchol...

This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (18981937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. Most of al...

Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you've found poetry with a beat!Li...

Richard Scarry introduces toddlers to the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose! Featuring his unmistakable art (now restored to its original glory) and fifty of Mother Goose's most beloved rhymes, Scarry's timeless collection, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, is a musthave for readers of all ages. Richard Scarry introduces toddlers to the nurse...

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Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems _x0093_If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,_x0094_ Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver_x0092_s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our ...

This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one?s library and a gorgeous gift to be both shared and treasured.Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes to A. A. Milne. Greeting the morning, enjoying th...

Meet Chris Harris, the 21stcentury Shel Silverstein! Already lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, his hilarious debut poetry collection molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleightofhand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully ...

2015 Newbery Medal Winner 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I?m delivering," announces dreadlocked, 12year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball i...

In a novelinverse that brims with grief and love, National Book Awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this t...

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 ...

Poetry. LGBT Studies. DIALECTIC OF THE FLESH brings together Roz Kaveney's poems on queer and trans experience, poems which run the gamut of emotions, from exuberant and witty celebrations of the joy of sex to elegies of murdered friends, written for Transgender Day of Remembrance.This collection showcases Kaveney's versatility, including both her ...

The title section of Kim Hyesoon_x0092_s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of fortynine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea_x0092_s violent contemporary history, but also unve...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.Houses and rooms; cellars and att...

Published shortly after his death in August 2016 at age 25, Max Ritvo's collection of poetry is reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising. When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the lon...

A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's bestknown poemsand dozens morein a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Two Tramps at Mudtime," "Choose Something Like a Star," and "The Gift Outright," which Frost read at the inauguration of J...

I breathe slowly in, I breathe slowly out. My breath is a river of peace. I am here in the world. Each moment I can breathe and be.Hear thunder crash, feel your toes touch sand, and watch leaves drift softly away on a quiet stream. The simple poems in Breathe and Be help children learn mindfulness as they connect to the beauty of the natural world....

?Once you?ve become a part of this particular patch, you?ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.? Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren?s writing that ?you should not read it if you cannot take a punch.? The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled wi...

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, strayfrom home.So better by far for me if you were stone.?from "Medusa"Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiv...

National Book Award Long ListNew York Times Bestseller Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can?t nobody stop you/can?t nobody cop you?In this followup to the Newberywinning novel THE CROSSOVER, soccer, family, love, and friendship, take center stage as twelvey...

Jenny Xie_x0092_s awardwinning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, fro...

Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship 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 obse...

All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sun...

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following th...

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane San...

Deborah Landau_x0092_s fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bullseye on humanity_x0092_s vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, the speaker_x0092_s fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an imperiled planet on which all inhabitants are _x0093_soft targets._x0094_ Her melancholic examinations recall life_x0092_s uncanny ability to tran...

Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize In a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime, from begging to bravado, from despair to reverie, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures belief in the absence of fa...

In the tradition of Poetry Speaks, the anthology named a Best Book of 2002 by School Library Journal, and praised by the Seattle PostIntelligencer as "a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young," Sourcebooks MediaFusion is proud to introduce the joy of the written and spoken word in P...

Think of all the rocks there are: skipping rocks, splashing rocks, climbing rocks, and wishing rocks. Children can?t help collecting them. With joyful, poetic text and luminous photographs, If You Find a Rock celebrates rocks everywhere?as well as the mysterious and wonderful places they are found....

The master of mischievous rhyme, Jack Prelutsky, and his partner in crime, James Stevenson, have whipped up a storm of more than one hundred hilarious poems and zany drawings. Grab your umbrella_x0097_and make sure it's a big one!It's raining pigs and noodles,it's pouring frogs and hats,chrysanthemums and poodles,bananas, brooms, and cats.Assorted prunes...

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With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll.Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (18301886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe...

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a lifelong traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world the ch...

A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle_x0097_starring the film legend Anna May WongIn Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement but as a migration through time and a reckoning with Technology,. The title poem follows a nineteenyearold girl in Shanghai who uploaded her ...

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From the simplest couplet to the mindboggling pantoum, the awardwinning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.In this splendid and playful volume _x0097_ second of a trilogy _x0097_ an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twentynine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes bendable) rules o...

Stag_x0092_s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling_x0097_which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending_x0097_Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we...

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most ...

From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her longawaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one?s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her ...

A debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi.Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.She chose paint.By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was on...

A Caldecott medalist and a Newbery Honorwinning poet celebrate the beauty and value of spirals.What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful Why does that shape occur in nature over and over againbut also celebrate the beauty and usefulness of this fascinating shape....

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere....So begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's stirring tale of Paul Revere's ride and the first battle cry for American independence. Written over a century ago, the words still resonate today.Now acclaimed artist Charles Santore has turned his attention to this historic event,...

Poetry. California Studies. Foreword by Robert Hass. The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of...

Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.Pablo wrote poems about the things he loved?things made by his f...

Celebrated poet and anthologist Paul B. Janeczko pairs with Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet for a collection of short poems to sample and savor. It only takes a few words, if they_x0092_re the right words, to create a strong image. Whether listened to in the comfort of a cozy lap or read independently, the thirtysix very short poems in this collection r...

"These aren't poems to read aloud, but to look at and laugh at together, with young children and especially older readers, who will enjoy the surprise of what words look like and what can be done with them." _x0097_BOOKLIST (starred review)Concrete poems startle and delight the eye and mind. The size and arrangement of words and letters can add or alter ...

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabam...

A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen?and Zen has also had a profound influence on the secular poetry of the countries in which it has flou...

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sa...

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Testinspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with Artificial Intelligence, and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of te...

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and popcultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and popcultural criticism, examining and confrontin...

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down_x0097_and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times....

A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetrywriting exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels....

Filled with lush illustrations, this counting book reveals both the pleasure and the tranquility of the Japanese garden, while introducing haiku poetry, with eleven poems that are simple and easy to follow. Follow along as the young girl explores the beauty of the garden, and discover the fun of haiku....