Poetry Books

Henry Salt's lyrical tribute to Egypt captures the essence of this mysterious and alluring land. Through vivid descriptions and evocative imagery, Salt transports readers on a journey through Egypt's ancient history and awe-inspiring landscapes.This work...

 In this far-reaching poetry collection, Kevin Arnold explores the intricacies of relationships, enhancing his observations with reflections on the little things in life.The book begins with the journey of his wife's descent into Alzheimer's with...

Many of my poems reflect the effort to know or to build some structure around things or ideas that I haven’t yet figured out.  It’s like E.M. Forster who said, “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”  One...

PRAISE for ~ HUNGER FOR SALT“The poems of Elaine Fletcher Chapman are meditations waiting for our eyes to open. A few of these poems remind me of the beautiful seashells one finds on the beach after a storm. Chapman writes from the heart reminding...

Everything But a Smile is a collection of poems that speak to acknowledgement, acceptance, and fight through the hollows and peaks of the human experience. The author, Candace D. Henry has a knack for gripping the emotions of her readers to get them to...

A collection of poetry and prose reflecting love, heartbreak and the true events through verses. Despite being written by a female author, the poems reflect the feelings of both the genders by splitting the book into one of the sections called Pronouns...

From jaw-droppingly profound poetry to stories and essays and comics that will transport you, Underlying Conditions, the 9th Pangyrus anthology, registers the seismic shocks of the moment--and the truths that keep us together.

Maiche Lev offers his second album of colorful and whimsical poetry, a circus of informal rhyme inspired by life, popular culture, and FM radio. The set list ranges from Little Walter to Glenn Beck to Bruce Springsteen and Luciano Pavarotti—not...

Maiche Lev offers his first album of colorful and whimsical poetry, a circus of informal rhyme inspired by life, popular culture, and FM radio. The set list ranges from Bob Dylan to Iggy Pop. Learn about the folly of dodging lions and embark on a fierce...

"A most valuable book about the joys and pains of wandering through a world both visible and invisible. Poems full of life and music, so tuned and flexible they can be read straight through as a dizzying world tour of the magic of myth and the...

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterIn The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski's gritty poems deal with writing, death and...

The Music of Her Rivers pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet--the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place, history, and people, especially those left voiceless due...

A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South × South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet. Blending travel narrative, historical research,...

Struggling to accept her impending blindness, the speaker in Julia B. Levine's fifth collection of poetry, Ordinary Psalms, asks everyday life to help her learn how to see beyond appearances into fundamental truths. As she contemplates the loss of one...

In her third collection of poems, The Atheist Wore Goat Silk, Anna Journey once again celebrates the profusion of sensuality erupting from the material world. As she weaves dark fables, luminous family memories, and hard-edged personal tales into a...

Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who appreciates the complexities of the world but finds pleasure in events as predictable as the changing of the seasons or as uncomplicated as a visit to an...

This unusual collection of poems, illustrated with monochrome watercolor paintings, takes its inspiration from the Old Testament book of Jonah, the familiar story of the stubborn prophet who did not want to preach to Nineveh. The poems make their...

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic...

Peter Oswald's verse plays have been performed at Shakespeare's Globe, where he was Writer in Residence, at the National Theatre, and around the world. The magazine City Limits said of the poetry in his plays:Beautiful poetry, fearlessly experimental,...

Poetry can be both political and pedagogical. It is utilised in a variety of ways in research to enhance, critique, analyse, and express different voices. Poetry, Method and Education Research brings together international scholars to explore issues as...

This is James Robinson's twenty-year labor of love, and it's just the beginning of his autobiographical exploration of poetry and prose. Join, support and engage the art through a journey of self-awareness, vulnerability, exposure and, without question,...

Recycle No More is a collection of poetry (animated flip book) that deals with past memories that keep cycling themselves in your mind. Touching on topics such as love, lost relationships, family, and spirituality they are all essentially individual...

Were you ever told your worries, and frustrations meant nothing in the grand scheme of things? If so, you may relate to these thirteen poems of anguish.Read, and understand you're not alone.

Muerte y autopsia es el primer poemario de Miguel Ángel Sánchez,en él nos encontramos una poesía libre, moderna y sin reglas, caóticacomo la vida en las ciudades. Si Peter Pan no quería crecer para noenfrentarse a la adultez, en Muerte y Autopsia de...

Ce recueil est un 'programme poétique' pour oser enfin reconnaître la souffrance qui vit en soi et l'affronter, non pas tel un guerrier qui 'va t'en guerre' mais grâce à la force de l'Amour.Il est le fruit de l'expérience de l'auteure.

Una raccolta di poesie cruda, senza veli, dove l'autoreracconta l'autunno della propria vita mettendo a nudo lapropria anima e vivendo una nuova rinascita.Un viaggio all'interno di sentimenti e di nuovi sogni maisopiti tramite una poetica con tinte forti...

A teenage girl dreams of her ideal boyfriend told in the four seasons.

Marianna Piani raccoglie in questo suo volume d'esordio una selezione delle composizioni in versi pubblicate sul Blog "Maripiani",interamente dedicato alla poesia.Si tratta di lavori scritti dal 2012 (anno di inizio del Blog) a tutto il 2013, oltre a due...

don't be afraid to take the less popular pathlet them follow the herd blindlyyou do what you need to doto reach where you need to beit doesn't have to be a castleor the center stageit can be a place less traveled by othersit can be the most stranded town...

"When we work towards other people's dreams, our own pillows become empty shells."The freedom of words allows us to swim in and out of the depths of existence. Take a journey through the elements that make us who we are as physical beings in a spiritual...

AV would like to find some friends for an "acquire vision" adventure-unusual but fun!Read a page, think about it, agree or disagree, talk about it. A message!During the day, put that message into action, practice it: "acquire vision" connection.One can...

All over the United States, a story told through license plates.Barrett Westberg has taken hundreds of pictures of custom license plates and arranged them to tell a tale about the earth, spirituality, religion, politics, relationships, work, fortune,...

The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind. It argues that Victorian poets, inheriting from their Romantic forerunners the belief that subjective thoughts and feelings were the most important materials...

Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's...

What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the impact of global economic crises to local tag sales, from the subversive effects of dark money on politics to...

The Book of Hulga speculates-with humor, tenderness, and a brutal precision-on a character that Flannery O'Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: "the angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch with ground teeth."...

This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of...

The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature's forced exodus from the human, and the forms of longing, estrangement, magnetism, and self-otherness that ensue. Arrestingly tender and fiercely protective of where nature...

Susanna Childress writes with an earnest desire to understand things physical and things spiritual. What results is a first collection of provocative, honest poetry that explores various human predicaments: a cancer-ridden wife, an explosive father, an...

These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In this volume they are translated into the idiom of our...

A collection of poems by the award-winning poet.

Hingëllin me zë t`përvajshëm, Ngjethen mishtë, n`trishtim të skajshëm, T`këput shpirtin, tek mih dheun, Kërkon kali, Skënderbeun!?

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was a successful American novelist. He was famous for four novels; 'This Side Of Paradise', 'The Beautiful And Damned', 'The Great Gatsby', and 'Tender Is The Night', which earned him recognition as one of the...

A book of poems ranging from the surreal to social and environmental comment. Some are dark and some are fun. They mirror life and art in an exploratory and kaleidoscopic way.

A forma poética não deve reger-se apenas pelos textos ritmados e bem rimados, pode ser muito mais que isso. Uma conjugação de prosas e versos que para além da estética, reflictam também a essência humana numa filigrana delicada de metáforas e frases...

For centuries, Ancient Egypt has inspired artists, explorers and writers. This collection of poems pays tribute to the civilisation, getting inside the mind and beliefs of those who created this mighty culture and those inspired by it.