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Vendor: Christine Rigden
Metamorphosis
Life brings us many experiences over the decades, and might be painful or joyous - or even simply grey. However rich or difficult, they can be elusive and hard to put into words. But all experiences become part of who we are, whether we...- $4.69
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Vendor: Gary Rainford
Salty Liquor
Salty Liquor is Rainford's first full-length collection of poems. Gary Rainford lives on Swans Island in Maine year-round with his wife and daughter. His poetry, shaped by tides and saltwater, is published in a wide range of literary magazines and university journals, including North...- $12.95
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Vendor: Jonas Zdanys
St. Brigid's Well
St. Brigid's Well began on the West Coast of Ireland as Jonas Zdanys was teaching a seminar in Dingle, County Kerry, on writing the literature of place. It is a single lyrical narrative poem, composed in stanzas and sections, that considers place as a...- $15.00
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Vendor: Stephen Levine
Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace
Levine's wit, wisdom, and untamed heart at their best. This delightful book celebrates the long-awaited return to poetry (after 40 years) of the beloved author/teacher, acclaimed worldwide for his work with the terminally ill. It teems with life and timelessness--ranging from hope to awe...- $15.00
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Vendor: John Davis Jr
Middle Class American Proverb
"This collection affirms place, multi-generational family and physical work as the center of meaning. The beloved world presented here is by turns gracious, modest, proud, funny, horrific... there are pleasures here for a reader." - Donald Morrill, author of The Impetuous Sleeper and The...- $16.95
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Vendor: Chiwan Choi
Wednesday Vol. 1 No. 3: The Body and the Blood
Wednesday reveals the heart of our beloved city: the poems, stories, and artwork from the writers and artists who keep Los Angeles alive. Each issue presents the newest works from both known and unknown writers.Author: Chiwan ChoiISBN-10: 0941017729ISBN-13: 9780941017725Publisher: Bombshelter PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2005Pages: 124Format:...- $10.00
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Vendor: Michael Hettich
Bluer and More Vast
In Bluer and More Vast, Michael Hettich writes, "Scientists had discovered a way to ascertain whyeach of us was born, by pricking us slightly through the moons of our thumbs . . ." Elsewhere the poet invents the remarkable notion that "Inside our bodies,...- $15.00
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Vendor: Keith Harrison
The Complete Basho Poems
Author: Keith HarrisonISBN-10: 093939409XISBN-13: 9780939394098Publisher: Black Willow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d- $11.95
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Vendor: Tasha Golden
Once You Had Hands
Author: Tasha GoldenISBN-10: 0931779588ISBN-13: 9780931779589Publisher: Humanist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2015Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d- $17.99
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Vendor: David Savran
Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group
Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company.Author: David SavranISBN-10: 0930452828ISBN-13: 9780930452827Publisher: Theatre Communications GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.91h x 5.99w x 0.67d- $17.95
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Vendor: Enrique Lihn
Figures of Speech
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Dave Oliphant. Enrique Lihn's writings, both creative and critical, are considered in Chile some of the most significant in the country's distinguished literary history. This bilingual volume is the most complete collection of Lihn's...- $15.95
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Vendor: Pamela Sutton
Burning My Birth Certificate
Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry, judged by Andrew Hudgins. In 'Night Mowing, ' Sutton says, 'I smell / like sweat and blood and metal, ' and so do her piercing poems. All those disparate aspects of herself grieve for...- $15.95
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Vendor: Victor Rodriguez Nunez
Night Badly Written: Poems 2000-2015
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen. The imagination of this Cuban, this true poet...stains the darkness of these times with a red squirrel guided by the light...V ctor Rodr guez N ez doesn't wait for the arrival of anyone...- $20.00
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Vendor: Valerie Hsiung
Efg
Poetry. Valerie Hsiung's powerful, fugue-like procession of words continues in her third full-length collection, EFG (EXCHANGE FLOWING AND GENE FLOW). Her words seem to prick you as pins amidst her nostalgia and floral lines that ribbon the reader into being immersed in the enthrall...- $16.00
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Vendor: Andra Rotaru
Lemur
Poetry. Art. Dance. Translated by Florin Bican. LEMUR speaks of the grotesque and mutable grace of the body. LEMUR scalds the page and, in so doing, proposes a bold choreography--one of dis-membering and re-membering the human into a new species. In this space, and...- $18.00
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Vendor: Madeline Defrees
Subjective Geography: A Poet's Thoughts on Life and Craft
This volume presents, in one piece, much of the careful and nuanced thought of one of the finest American poets of the twentieth century, and beyond: she died at the age of ninety-five in 2015. Severe, funny, mischievous, and astoundingly clear, these essays present...- $19.95
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Vendor: Ale Debeljak
Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems
A major literary event, Without Anesthesia offers a generous selection of the poetry of acclaimed Slovenian writer-critic Ales Debeljak. It includes the entirety of two recent collections, Unended and Below the Waterline, which have never before been published in English, as well as significant...- $39.95
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Vendor: Byron Herbert Reece
Bow Down in Jericho
Author: Byron Herbert ReeceISBN-10: 0877971021ISBN-13: 9780877971023Publisher: Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d- $25.00
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Vendor: Lucien Stryk
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest
Author: Lucien StrykISBN-10: 0875805019ISBN-13: 9780875805016Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1967Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.53h x 5.55w x 0.98d- $18.00
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Vendor: Jim Knable
Hyper-Focus
Thomas Jefferson, a middle school student, can't seem to focus in school. He is told he has ADD, or Attention Deficit Disorder, a condition that affects his ability to concentrate in class. With his widowed mom, a caring teacher, and his first potential girlfriend,...- $13.95
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Vendor: Ulick O'Connor
Oliver St John Gogarty
Oliver St John Gogarty was called by Yeats 'one of the great lyric poets of the age'. He was the garrulous and flamboyant drinking companion of James Joyce, providing the character of Buck Mulligan for Ulysses, the exuberant and mocking wit who delighted George...- $27.95
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Vendor: Georg Trakl
Collected Poems
The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Sch ler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl's poems,...- $18.50
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Vendor: Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610: A Critical and Annotated Spanish/English Edition
One of the first travel journals of its kind to be published, this epic poem about Juan de Oñate's entrada that led to the founding of Nueva México in 1598 (to become the state of New Mexico 314 years later) is full of the...- $50.00
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Vendor: Joshua Mehigan
The Optimist
In Joshua Mehigan's award-winning poetry, one encounters a lucid, resolute vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line. Most of the poems in The Optimist unapologetically employ traditional poetic technique, and, in each of these, Mehigan stretches the fabric of living language...- $29.95
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Vendor: Jed Rasula
This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry
Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves. In This Compost Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by...- $34.95
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Vendor: Victor Segalen
St鑞es
First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translationWinner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008)Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the...- $39.95
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Vendor: Pierre Joris
Poasis: New and Collected Poems
Poasis, Joris's first major publication in the United States, highlights his work since the mid-1980s.Pierre Joris's poems are characterized by an arresting mix of passion and intellect, by what Pound called "language charged with meaning." For Joris, a language is always a second language,...- $17.95
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Vendor: Sandra McPherson
Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals
Constructed in two parts, this collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists.Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to date. Constructed in two parts, the collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of...- $15.95
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Vendor: Ginny Wilder
All My Words Have Holes in Them: Simple Daily Meditations
Powerful, image-filled reflections on listening to and responding to the Holy within and around usHave you ever worked up the courage to pray and opened your mouth to discover you didn't know what to say? Perhaps you were worried you might sound foolish or...- $14.95
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Vendor: Louie Clay
Letters from Samaria: The Prose & Poetry of Louie Crew Clay
The definitive collection from one of thethe leading voices on LGBTQ issues in the Episcopal Church.Letters from Samaria gathers together much of Louie (Crew) Clay's best and most influential prose and poetry, written from 1974 until the present day, including an essay composed especially...- $22.95
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Vendor: Erich Auerbach
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature: Volume 9
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In his foreword to this reprint of Erich...- $50.00
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Vendor: Rukhl Fishman
I Want to Fall Like This: Selected Poems of Rukhl Fishman, a Bilingual Edition
Selected poems from Rukhl Fishman. I Want To Fall Like This showcases the inspired poetry of Ruhkl Fishman (1935-1984), the youngest and only American-born Yiddish poet of the "Yung Yisroel." This group of young poets and prose writers from across the world settled in...- $22.99
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Vendor: James V. Hatch
Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers. While many historically significant or interesting plays by white playwrights are easily found in anthologies, few by early African American writers are equally accessible. Indeed until the 1970s, almost none of these...- $24.99
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Vendor: Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions
Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends...- $34.95
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Vendor: Linda Myrsiades
Karagiozis: Culture and Comedy in Greek Puppet Theater
"Karagiozis--a form of comic folk drama employing stock puppet figures--was immensely popular in Greece until recent years, when newer forms of entertainment have virtually eclipsed it. Kostas and Linda Myrsiades present here a tripartite view of Karagiozis; a translation of a typical text taken...- $40.00
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Vendor: Osama Alomar
The New Directions Poetry Pamphlets 9-12
This bundle of four Poetry Pamphlets (9-12 in the series) includes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts Cries Laughter Osama Alomar's Fullblood Arabian Oliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a StreetcarFifteen Iraqi Poets (edited by Dunya Mikhail)Author: Osama Alomar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Oliverio GirondoISBN-10: 0811221830ISBN-13: 9780811221832Publisher: New Directions...- $35.00
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Vendor: Sakutaro Hagiwara
The Iceland
Hagiwara writes in the preface: "The author's past life was that of a disconsolate iceberg that drifts and flows in the extreme regions of the northern seas. Looking at the phantom-like auroras from various spots of the iceberg, he yearned, suffered, rejoiced, sorrowed, at...- $10.95
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Vendor: Tennessee Williams
Camino Real
In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature--Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron--inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly...- $14.95
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Vendor: Delmore Schwartz
Screeno: Stories & Poems
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was one of the finest writers of his generation. Winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, he was hailed by John Ashbery as "one of the major twentieth-century poets." Schwartz's stories were also...- $8.95
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Vendor: Bei Dao
Old Snow: Poetry
The three sections of Bei Dao's affecting new book of poems, Old Snow--"Berlin," "Oslo," "Stockholm"--are poignant reminders of the restless and rootless life of the exile. All the poems in the present bilingual volume were written post-Tiananmen Square (June 4, 1989), and the poet...- $12.95
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Vendor: Tennessee Williams
Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play
The late Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotelmade its New York debut in 1980. Here Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, often seen as symbols of the doomed youth of the jazz age, become two halves of a single creative psyche, each part alternately feeding...- $8.95
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Vendor: Nick Mamatas
Cthulhu Senryu
Cthulhu Senryu Move Under Ground Was The Book This Is The Chapbook 100 Poems From Move Under Ground limited One more for each book Only eight dollars The Great Old Ones will consume Your soul for less, pal.Author: Nick MamatasISBN-10: 0809562413ISBN-13: 9780809562411Publisher: Prime BooksLanguage:...- $8.00
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Vendor: Bruce Andrews
The Language Book
"Ok murky in alter all end, unpredictable day, with rainshine any degree night, the sun kin warm and hot. Enough stone or other jugs lineup of whatever is In Through Out That's light as much as known Differences evanesce Like, where and/or what on...- $32.00
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Vendor: Matthew S. Santirocco
Unity and Design in Horace's Odes
Horace's first three books of Odes, published together in 23 B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Matthew Santirocco provides the first new critical approach to them in English in more than two decades.Drawing on recent works on...- $37.50
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Vendor: Leanna Petronella
The Imaginary Age: Poems
Leanna Petronella's The Imaginary Age is an unwaveringly confident debut collection and an exciting contribution to contemporary poetry. This collection does not invite us but compels us to look with the poet, as Petronella addresses the female body and female relationships with rare candor...- $17.95
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Vendor: Kate Daniels
A Walk in Victoria's Secret: Poems
With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover...- $17.95
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Vendor: Betty Adcock
Slantwise: Poems
Leaning toward Emily Dickinson's advice to tell it slant, the poems in Betty Adcock's Slantwise approach our losses, including such disasters as September 11 and the crash of the space shuttle Columbia, through happenings outside the public view -- asides, as it were, from...- $16.95
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Vendor: Joyce Carol Oates
The Fabulous Beasts: Poems
This collection of fifty-two poems from the author of Angel Fire and Anonymous Sins explores the annihilation of the time-bound ego, a liberating, sometimes terrifying experience for all who live within the "fabulous beast" of history and nature. The poems explore the shifting, elusive...- $17.95
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Vendor: Benjamin Harshav
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, responses to...- $50.00
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Vendor: Horton Foote
Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, the Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle
Classical in its breadth and scope, Horton Foote's nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle begins with a father's death in a small Texas town at the turn of the century, a loss that sends his son, twelve-year-old Horace Robedaux, on an odyssey through the darkest corners...- $14.00
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Poetry Books
Poetry books are a collection of literary works that focus on the art and expression of the written word through verse. They have been an integral part of human history, with evidence of poetic writings dating back to ancient civilizations.
Poetry books encompass a wide range of themes, styles, and forms, reflecting the diverse perspectives, emotions, and experiences of poets throughout different eras. From love to nature, politics to spirituality, poetry explores various subjects and serves as a medium to convey thoughts and feelings in a unique and creative way. The structure and format of poetry books can vary greatly. Some collections consist of individual poems written by a single author, while others may contain the works of multiple poets compiled together. They can be organized by themes, chronology, or even by different poetic styles and movements.
Poetry books are not only a source of artistic enjoyment, but they also offer insights into different cultures, periods, and social issues. They provide a medium for self-reflection, introspection, and contemplation. Many readers find solace, inspiration, and a deep connection with the emotions and experiences expressed in poetic verses. The popularity of poetry books has endured throughout history, transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries. From ancient epics like "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, to classic works like Shakespeare's sonnets, to contemporary collections like Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey," poetry has always remained relevant and influential.
Whether you are a poetry enthusiast, a lover of literature, or someone interested in exploring emotions, ideas, and the beauty of language, poetry books offer an immersive experience that can touch hearts, provoke thoughts, and inspire change.
Popular Poetry Books
Poetry books have always captivated readers with their rhythmic verses, vivid imagery, and poignant emotion. They have the power to transport us to different worlds, evoke deep feelings, and make us see ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Within the vast world of poetry, there are several notable and popular books that have left an indelible mark on literature and continue to enchant readers to this day. Let us explore some of these beloved poetry collections.
1. "Milk and Honey"
2. "The Sun and Her Flowers"
3. "Milk and Vine"
4. "Magnetic Poetry: Original Kit"
5. "The Classic Hundred Poems"
These popular poetry books represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse offerings within the genre. Whether you seek to be moved, inspired, entertained, or enlightened, there is a poetry collection out there waiting to captivate your imagination, stir your emotions, and leave a lasting impression on your literary journey.
Popular Poetry Books Authors
The world of poetry has produced numerous celebrated authors whose words continue to captivate and resonate with readers across generations. From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, these poets have left an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
1. William Shakespeare
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Robert Frost
4. Maya Angelou
5. Langston Hughes.
6. Rumi
These authors represent just a fraction of the exceptionally talented poets whose works have left a lasting impact on the world of literature. Through their poetry books, they invite readers to explore the depth of human emotion, question societal norms, and find solace in the beauty of language.
Whether you are an admirer of classic poetry or a novice looking to explore this enchanting genre, White Rain Book House welcomes you with open arms. Step into this haven of literary delights, and allow the words of renowned poets, beautifully encapsulated in their poetry books, to transport you to a world of emotions and imagination.