Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

Major Tales and Poems

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#paperback #british #poetry 🇬🇧 📚 

Kentucky

Offers representative selections from the works of major British poets, from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth century.

The Mentor Book of Major British Poets

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Iowa

The Blue and the Grey

#hardcover #nonfiction #poetry #memoir #socialjustice #newrelease 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could never be shielded from the brutality that has ended so many Black boys and men's lives. With camera phones and internet access, the racist violence that has plagued America throughout its history has become more extensively documented, and immediately and constantly accessible through news articles and social media posts. The children of this generation were teens too when Trayvon Martin was murdered in 2012 before reaching adulthood, becoming the first in a series of now well known names, and any efforts from mothers to protect their sons from the heartbreaking truth of our society was futile in the digital age of information. Now, the viral essay which spoke so resonantly to this unique historical moment that it was shared and praised by Barack Obama, John Legend, Melissa Harris Perry, and many more, is expounded upon, bookended by additional essays woven with profound insight and heart and combined with groundbreaking art by prominent and up-and-coming Black artists. Taking the reader through our past and extrapolating its lasting impact through to our current moment, Elizabeth then turns her eye to the radical potential of our future. Through her lyrical prose, Elizabeth Alexander writes with pride, fear, love, and a keen awareness of the reflective power of pop culture and art on the nature of racism and the fight for racial justice as it spans and evolves across generations. These essays are essential reading, a breathtaking expression of both the hope and horror of this era"--

The Trayvon Generation

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#hardcover #poetry #milkandhoney #feminism #modern #nonfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edge paper, a woven ribbon marker, and a foreword written by the author. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Milk and Honey

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Connecticut

Collects poems written by the eleven-year-old muscular dystrophy patient, sharing his feelings and thoughts about his life, the deaths of his siblings, nature, faith, and hope.

Journey Through Heartsongs

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Florida

Poems

Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City-now in paperback.

"I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too." -Eileen Myles

Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz's path through these poems.

From Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as "Ivanka Skirting" and "This Beautiful Bubble" we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry.

In this moving collection, we enter Katz's world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.

Broadway for Paul

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#paperback #mayaangelou #poetry #blackwomen 

Minnesota

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 

New Jersey

A gathering of poets with extracts from Shakespeare

Love is a Poem

#hardcover #fiction #poetry #fable #scottish

North Carolina

Translated by Seamus Heaney

An exciting new translation of a classic poem by Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.

The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

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Pennsylvania

A Selection of His Stories and Poems

Kipling 

#nonfiction #poetry #paperback #humanexperience

Michigan

A moving collection from a Pulitzer Prize finalist about life's greatest challenges.

Sinking Creek

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#hardcover #japanesepoetry #poetry #musings #zen #nonfiction 

Arkansas

The Poetry of Scott Oki

Musings

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#paperback #poetry #fiction #milkandhoney #rupikaur 

Illinois

"A collection of poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity"--Amazon.com.

Has some scratches on the dust jacket but still good! #humor #comedy #poetry #cats #funnycats

Virginia

And Other Poems by Cats

A collection of humorous poems delves into the cat psyche, covering such topics as separation anxiety, scratching at closed doors, and trips to the veterinarian.

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats (Gifts for Cat Lovers, Funny Cat Books for Cat Lovers)

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#paperback #christian #religion #faith #prayer #poetry #mystics #spiritual #god

Jeanne Guyon was born in south-central France in the mid-1600s. Her writings and her ministry knew a brief period of popularity, making her a friend even of the wife of Louis XIV. She greatly influenced the life of Fenelon, one of the two most famous clergymen in France's history and she earned the wrath of the other, Bosuet. The conflict between these two giants over her teachings led to her disgrace in the king's court and then her imprisonment. Three hundred years later she is still one of the most influential people in the lives of those who seek a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.

Union with God

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Complete; spine is worn with small tear. #fiction #poetry #paperback #classic

Kansas

The story of Spoon River's inhabitants is related in their poetic, imaginative epitaphs

Spoon River Anthology

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Fair amount of spine wear/tanning, but free of any marks/marginalia. #fiction #poetry #paperback 

In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature. In these pages, no less than 214 individual voices are heard — some in no more than a dozen moving lines. Alternately plaintive, anguished, enigmatic, angry, and contemptuous, the voices of Spoon River, although distinctively small-town Americans, evoke themes of love and hope, disappointment and despair that are universal in their resonance. This American classic is reprinted here from the authoritative 1915 edition.

#epic #poetry #classic #classics #greek #murder #romance #mystery #monsters #gods

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oedipus, Antigone

Detailed notes accompany modern translations of the stories of Oedipus, a king who is unable to escape his tragic fate and ends his days in exile

The Three Theban Plays

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A collection of poems and meditations on love, loss, and human relationships.

Black Butterfly

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Wisconsin

"It's presumptuous, but if you're reading this youProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:The "world"--both the word and what it stands for--and time,Which is or isn't real, depending on my mood. I've alwaysHated poems about philosophy, and I hope I still do,But since I don't know what that means anymore, here I am,Musing on my ends and my beginnings one more time . . ."In Beyond Belief, John Koethe poses eternal and essential questions about the rhythms of time, language and literature, and "the space between attention and belief." The eleventh book of poetry from America's philosopher-poet is an intimate, searching collection that gives life to the mundane and lends words to our most interior and abstract musings. What makes a life real? Words on a page, the accumulation of moments and memories, or nothing at all? And what is it worth? Locked inside, have we lost our future and its promises or are we merely pressed to inhabit our present and ourselves? The award-winning poet invites us into his consideration of our world, as "an ordinary person sitting on his balcony on a summer afternoon, / Waiting patiently for someone to explain it to and meanwhile / Living quietly in his imagination, imagining the afterlife."

Beyond Belief

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#emilydickinson #hardcover #poems #poetry 

Utah

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10,1830, to a prominent family of academics, lawyers, and statesmen. Following her education at Amherst Academy and Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, Dickinson embarked on her impassioned journey as a poet. Composing first in a fairly conventional style, the poetess soon began to experiment with her writing; her frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, broken meter, and idiosyncratic metaphors made her work unparalleled for its time.

Dickinson's poetry dealt not only with issues of death, faith, and immortality, but with nature, domesticity, and the power of language to transfer emotions into written text. An obsessively private writer, only ten of her some 1,700 poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of 23 and devoted herself to writing in secret. It wasn't until her death in 1866 that the scope of Dickinson's work was realized, when her sister Lavinia found her prolific collection in a dresser drawer.

Since this time, Emily Dickinson's writing has had significant influences on modern American poetry; her complex use of language and form has contributed to her reputation as one of the most innovative poets of the 19th century. This collection of some of her finest works illustrates not only Dickinson's talent as a writer but her profound love of language, nature, and life.



In the series Classic Thoughts and Thinkers, explore some of the most influential texts of our time along with the inner workings of its greatest thinkers. With works from great American figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Emily Dickinson and seminal documents including the Constitution of the Unites States, this series focuses on the most reflective and thought-provoking writings of the last two centuries. These beautiful hardcovers are the perfect historical perspective for meeting the challenges of the modern world.



Other titles in this series include: As a Man Thinketh, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Collected Poems of Robert Frost, Common Sense, Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence, Helen Keller, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom.

 

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Has some water damage which I’ve included photos of! #paperback #classic #poetry #fiction #prose 

Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America.



Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways.



In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.



The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.

Trout Fishing in America, Pill vs Springhill Mine Disaster, in Watermelon Sugar

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Georgia

Black Girl, they say you ain't 'posed to be hereMuch of what 21st century culture tells black girls is not pretty: Don't wear this; don't smile at that. Don't have an opinion; don't dream big. And most of all, don't love yourself. In response to such destructive ideas, internationally recognized poet Mahogany Browne challenges the conditioning of society by crafting an anthem of strength and magic undeniable in its bloom for all beautiful Black girls. She has travelled the world sharing her vision of Black Girl Magic, and now in collaboration with artist Jess X. Snow, presents her acclaimed tribute in a visual form. Black Girl Magic is a journey from girlhood to womanhood and an invitation to readers to find magic in themselves.

Edgar Allen Poe

Major Tales and Poems

Oscar Williams (Editor)

The Mentor Book of Major British Poets

EveBunting

The Blue and the Grey

Elizabeth Alexander

The Trayvon Generation

rupi kaur

Milk and Honey

Mattie J. T. Stepanek

Journey Through Heartsongs

Vincent Katz

Broadway for Paul

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Various

Love is a Poem

Seamus Heaney; Robert Henryson

The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

John Beecroft

Kipling

John Engels

Sinking Creek

Scott Oki

Musings

Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey

Francesco Marciuliano

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats (Gifts for Cat Lovers, Funny Cat Books for Cat Lovers)

Jeanne Guyon; Gene Edwards (Editor)

Union with God

Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology

Sophocles

The Three Theban Plays

Robert M. Drake

Black Butterfly

John Koethe

Beyond Belief

Emily Dickinson

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Richard Brautigan

Trout Fishing in America, Pill vs Springhill Mine Disaster, in Watermelon Sugar

Mahogany l. Browne; Jess X. Snow (Illustrator)

Black Girl Magic