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Vendor: John Dixon Hunt
The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form--landscape gardening--and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty...- $33.00
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Vendor: Stanley Lombardo
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments
Having found his translators, may Callimachus now find the public he deserves. --D.S. Carne-RossA Poundian figure who summed up the possibilties of a new era's response to an old and rich poetic tradition, Callimachus (ca. 305 B.C.-ca. 240 B.C.) was the first learned scholar-poet...- $34.00
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Vendor: Sharon Cameron
Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre
Lyric Time offers a detailed critical reading of a particularly difficult poet, an analysis of the dominance of temporal structures and concerns in the body of her poetry, and finally, an important original contribution to a theory of the lyric.Poised between analysis of Emily...- $34.00
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Vendor: Hugh MacLennan
The Watch That Ends the Night
George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is...- $19.95
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Vendor: Hugh MacLennan
Two Solitudes
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In...- $22.95
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Vendor: Hiroaki Sato
Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology: An Anthology
Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the...- $64.95
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Vendor: Reynol Luna
Salud: Poesias de Reynol Luna
Author: Reynol LunaISBN-10: 0759687366ISBN-13: 9780759687363Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2002Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d- $11.45
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Vendor: Sarah B. Marsh-Rebelo
Over My Shoulder
We all have choices in life. Over the years I have been able to draw from the negative and the positive experiences in my life and create a path I feel privileged to walk. Everyone with whom I have interacted has caused a shift...- $32.49
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Vendor: Thomas Heywood
A Woman Killed with Kindness: Revised Edition
"Here lies she whom her husband's kindness killed" This is the epitaph, in golden letters, Master John Frankford proposes for the tomb of his wife, Anne, who has just starved herself to death. Frankford congratulates himself on the clever means by which he has...- $13.95
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Vendor: Erin Lynn Els Poetry
Words I've Never Sent
Relatable prose and Poetry about love, heartache, love lost, growing, finding yourself, and letting go.Author: Erin Lynn Els PoetryISBN-10: 0692990690ISBN-13: 9780692990698Publisher: Erin Lynn Els PoetryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2017Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.47d- $11.99
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Vendor: Javier Rivera
The Girl And Her Petals
"The Girl And Her Petals" written by Javier Rivera (A.Fellow) - is a poet who characterizes emotional vulnerability through verse."The Girl And Her Petals" written by Javier Rivera (A.Fellow) - is a poet who characterizes emotional vulnerability through verse."The Girl And Her Petals" written...- $12.99
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Vendor: Rose Auslander
Wild Water Child: Poems by Rose Auslander
Wild Water Child is a collection by Hyannis poet Rose Auslander and the second annual publication of Bass River Press, an imprint of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. The poems are written from the perspective of a mother struggling to understand and accept...- $12.95
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Vendor: Peter Griffin
Love Land
It is an unfortunate comment on culture today that the wicked and evil steal the show because sin and suffering appear as the most universal experience of the human condition. But the opposite perspective is certainly worth our attention, if not devotion. We spend...- $23.00
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Vendor: Audrey J. Streetman
Deep Calls to Deep
The poems in Audrey Streetman's Deep Calls to Deep invite, sometimes challenge, readers to enjoy with the poet a life observant of the great and the small -- the pleasures, joys, and griefs of a life deeply felt and fondly remembered and lived. The...- $12.99
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Vendor: Marc C. Ness
Poetic Tails: The mystical connection of horse and rider
In this mystical journey into the depths of horse and human relationships the author reveals the struggles and joys of working with horses. Practical stories alongside inspirational poetry capture the imagination opening the way to inner psychological realms that accompany everyday equestrian experiences. He...- $9.95
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Vendor: Amanda Torroni
Poetic Conversations
"Poetic Conversations" by Amanda Torroni is a collection of 70 snippets of dialogue from her most popular Instagram series of the same title. The exchanges are largely open-ended and gender neutral, on topics ranging from self-discovery to friendship to falling in love (and falling...- $12.00
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Vendor: Mary H. Ber
The Shape of Grief
The Shape of Grief is a poetic narrative of widowhood. It begins with a definition of widowhood and goes on to expresses its spiral shape: deep grief, initial lessening, sinking back, rising and sinking over and over. But each stage widens one's perception of...- $15.00
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Vendor: Joaquin Zihuatanejo
Fight or Flight
In his new collection Fight or Flight, poet, writer, and teacher, Joaquin Zihuatanejo, explores new territory with every turn of the page. The book itself is surprising in that this is the first time Zihuatanejo has written a book that is equal parts poetry...- $20.00
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Vendor: Anne Britting Oleson
The Beauty of It
In 2010, The Beauty of It was the first runner-up in the Sheltering Pines Press poetry chapbook contest. With the demise of the press, the chapbook went out of print. Now it's back, in a second edition, containing the same award-winning poems of finding...- $6.99
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Vendor: George McKim
Found & Lost: Found Poetry and Visual Poetry
Found & Lost is a collection of repurposed and remixed Found Poetry and Visual Poetry. George McKim has repurposed and remixed the work of poets ranging from Tristan Tzara to Lyn Hejinian and has transformed their words into a fascinating collection of strangely haunting...- $15.00
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Vendor: Mary Buchinger
Aerialist
Mary Buchinger (Bodwell) is the author of both Aerialist (finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award/ Utah State University Press; semi-finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize and the Perugia Press Prize) and Roomful of Sparrows (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared...- $15.95
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Vendor: M.
Un-Sight/ Un-Sound: (delirium X.)
"un-sight un-sound/ yet/ in vacuum of doubt's expel/ clamouring for beyond flesh what meat as if/ yet forage no/ not a/ eye crushed within fist of none/ echoing chamber of nothing/ never dispelled"Un-Sight/ Un-Sound (delirium X.) is a prose-poetic work in three sequences: "delirium...- $8.00
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Vendor: Oral Nussbaum
Frogs, Hogs, Puppy Dogs: Funny Children's Poems About Animal Friends
The third in Leslie C. Halpern's "Funny Children's Poems" series, "Frogs, Hogs, Puppy Dogs: Funny Children's Poems About Animal Friends" features rhyming poems about pets, zoo animals, wild animals, and our relationship to them. Be sure to read her other books: "Rub, Scrub, Clean...- $11.99
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Vendor: Jeffrey Charles Naish
Malcontent
MALCONTENT is the uncompromising and unparalleled epitaph of a lost soul wandering through the dark depths of a societal wasteland, the last words screaming from a man dragging through the agonies of a mundane existence. From the trials and terrors of the flesh, to...- $10.00
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Vendor: Tom Clements
Chicken Soup for Betty Boop: a Book of Funky Poems
A fast-paced book of funky poems with quirky rhymes, syncopated rhythms and georgeous illustrations that resonate with the book's pop culture themes.Author: Tom ClementsISBN-10: 0692240195ISBN-13: 9780692240199Publisher: Hit 'em Up PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2014Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13dReview Citation(s): Foreword 07/29/2015- $14.95
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Vendor: Kyla Jenee Lacey
Hickory Dickory Dock I Do Not Want Your C*ck: A Book About Patriachy For Manchildren
A tongue-in-cheek approach to teaching men and manchildren about patriarchy and sexism, "Hickory Dickory Dock, I Do Not Want Your C*ck," may deal with some pretty complex issues, but breaks down women's issues so well, that even a cave or man who thinks he's...- $10.99
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Vendor: Ginger Michelle McGee
All These Things: a collection of poems
Depression is so much more than just sadness. Comparing sadness and depression is like saying that getting wet and drowning are the same thing. These poems are about my co-existence with my mental illness - a glimpse into my "drowning moments". There is no...- $16.00
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Vendor: Isabel Sobral Campos
Your Person Doesn't Belong To You
"Your Person Doesn't Belong To You is a transformative work, immersed in the intermittence, light, and expansion of character as embodied and voiced by Jeanne d'Arc -- who here is a composite of historical figure, main character from Carl Dreyer's 1928 film The Passion...- $14.95
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Vendor: Noah Burton
Look Out Animal
Noah Burton is a rare contemporary male American writer who possesses a sense of humor, a flair for the absurd, and a marvelous poignancy without being a whiney dick. Get this book if you want to be entertained and enlightened by a smooth professional."When...- $14.95
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Vendor: George Seferis
George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955. Bilingual Edition - Bilingual Edition
This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969. It presents for the first time the complete Notes for a 'Week, ' " Three Secret Poems, and three later poems that...- $92.00
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Vendor: James Tatum
Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On the Education of Cyrus
"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ". . . you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in...- $53.00
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Vendor: Claude Calame
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of...- $34.00
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Vendor: Paul Valéry
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 7: The Art of Poetry. Introduction by T.S. Eliot
All of Valery's major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age . . . a new conception of the poet." In Valery's...- $42.00
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Vendor: Octavio Paz
Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition
Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Latin American poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and...- $32.00
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Vendor: Julia Vinograd
New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1: The Babarians of San Francisco - Poets from Hell
(2005) Cafe Babar (named after the storybook elephant) is a little Cafe on 22nd and Guerrero behind the Mission District in San Francisco. From there on the West Coast from the mid-late '80s up through about 1994, a unique group of poets gathered on...- $26.49
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Vendor: Andrew Stephen Damick
Songs of Time and Season
Poetry in the English tradition from an American Orthodox Christian. Songs of Time and Season is a collection of poetry by Andrew Stephen Damick, an Orthodox Christian and lover of English literature. In it, he attempts to come to grips with many of the...- $12.95
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Vendor: Sergei Mikhail Tolstoi
The Limerick: An Anthology with Notes, Variants and Index
What is a Limerick? The limerick is an erotic stanza, stronger than spirits, hotter than vice and a little less sensuous than the act of love. In this classic collection, one encounters the peoples of all nations in ribald and bawdy situations more enlightening...- $21.99
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Vendor: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Children's Longfellow: Illustrated
This classic book is eight of the most popular of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's children's poems. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was a seminal American poet and member of the Fireside Poets. He was a prolific writer of poetry, and became known as "the children's poet"...- $25.99
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Vendor: C. Day Lewis
Selected Poems
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: C. Day LewisISBN-10: 1409791181ISBN-13: 9781409791188Publisher:...- $15.99
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Vendor: P. B. Shelly
The Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Vol. II - Plays, Translations & Longer Poems
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: P. B. ShellyISBN-10: 1409727181ISBN-13: 9781409727187Publisher:...- $41.99
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Vendor: C. Day Lewis
Poetry For You - A Book For Boys And Girls On The Enjoyment Of Poetry
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: C. Day LewisISBN-10: 1409724972ISBN-13: 9781409724971Publisher:...- $32.99
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Vendor: William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Longfellow & His Poetry
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: William Henry Oliphant SmeatonISBN-10: 1408684993ISBN-13:...- $27.99
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Vendor: Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow
This book contains Robert W. Chambers' 1895 collection of short stories, "The King in Yellow". The first half of this volume contains a number of well-received stories of the weird and strange, and the volume has been hailed as a milestone in the field...- $19.99
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Vendor: Edgar Allan Poe
Eureka: A Prose Poem: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe
This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's non-fiction work, "Eureka: A Prose Poem". Often published with the subtitle "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe", it is a monograph on Poe's personal ideas about the universe and God, whom he frequently describes as an...- $18.99
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Vendor: Thomas D. Traherne
The Poetical Works Of Thomas Traherne - 1636?-1674 - From The Original Manuscripts
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Thomas D. TraherneISBN-10: 1408639572ISBN-13: 9781408639573Publisher:...- $30.99
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Vendor: H. Collins V. H. Collins
A Book of Narrative Verse
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: H. Collins V. H. Collins,...- $42.99
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Vendor: Longfellow
Longfellows's Poems
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: LongfellowISBN-10: 1408630478ISBN-13: 9781408630471Publisher: Envins PressLanguage:...- $36.99
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Vendor: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetical Works, Lyrics and Shorter Poems
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN-10: 1406791601ISBN-13:...- $34.99
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Vendor: Alfred Noyes
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes - Vol I
This wonderful volume contains an extensive collection of some of Alfred Noyes's most beautiful and celebrated poetry. A volume that will appeal to a wide range of poetry-lovers, this collection embodies the delight of English ballad, and would make for a worthy addition to...- $34.99
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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.