Poetry

"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...

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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...