Poetry Books

Time Is a Mother By Ocean Vuong Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593300251
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Published: Penguin Books - June 6th, 2023

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong

"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post


How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
 


This Day Is Dark By r.h. Sin Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781524882211
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - August 22nd, 2023

r.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and love falls in the hands of the wrong people, as explored in his signature poetic voice.

From New York Times bestselling author r.h.


Best Barbarian: Poems By Roger Reeves Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781324064459
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 22nd, 2023

In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award–winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity—climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss.


The Ferguson Report: An Erasure By Nicole Sealey Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593535998
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Published: Knopf - August 15th, 2023

A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department


Time Will Tell By Courtney Peppernell Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781524872120
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - August 1st, 2023

Time Will Tell is a collection of introspective poetry from bestselling author Courtney Peppernell. Discover what it means to start inward and evolve into the version of yourself the world knows you can be.


The Bible and Poetry By Michael Edwards, Stephen E. Lewis (Translated by) Cover Image
By Michael Edwards, Stephen E. Lewis (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781681376370
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Published: NYRB Classics - August 15th, 2023

A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar.


Feather Leaf Bark and Stone By Jackie Morris Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781800181557
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Published: Unbound - May 16th, 2023

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorious final section made up of texts typed directly onto leaves, bark and feathers.


Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 By Henri Cole Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780374606688
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 4th, 2023

New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with “a quality of daring that is rare in our poetry” (Louise Glück).

I take joy in considering my generation. I rewrite
to be read, though I feel shame acknowledging it.
Scattered among imposing trees, the ancient
and the modern intersect, spreading germs of pain


Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition By Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (Translated by), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by), Damion Searls (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (Translated by), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by), Damion Searls (Foreword by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9781324050728
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 23rd, 2023

A gorgeous edition of one of the most beloved classics of the twentieth century, published in celebration of W. W. Norton’s 100th anniversary.


Bread and Circus By Airea D. Matthews Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781668011454
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Published: Scribner - May 30th, 2023

A powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it.

As a former student of economics, Airea D.


Calligraphies: Poems By Marilyn Hacker Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324036463
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

A formally brilliant and powerful volume from “one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today” (Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times).


Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems By Stephanie Burt Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781541603615
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Published: Basic Books - May 9th, 2023

“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry 

In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry.