Rupi Kaur

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

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

Milk and Honey

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Missouri

This poetry companion puts favourite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites.



Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to carry around their favorite poems, and ideal for the reader seeking an introduction to the greatest poems world literature has to offer. The authors included are each represented by his or her best-known and best-loved work, from the Classics (Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Ovid) to the Renaissance (Dante, Petrarch, Villon, Shakespeare) to the Romantics (Schiller, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats) to the 20th Century giants (Pound, Eliot, Frost, Stevens) down to the present day (Ginsberg, Plath, Angelou). Each poem is introduced by a brief head note which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance.

The 100 Best Poems of All Time

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Justin Blaney

Nebraska

Revery is a genre of dreams, musings, single thoughts locked in time, free form expressions that can be either overtly logical or cryptically puzzling, extravagant or plain, proselike or rhythmical. Revery is a big tent construct that affords writers flexibility from the categorization of traditional genre.This volume, Whispers Willow, contains the first one hundred reveries of author Justin Blaney, a series that ranges in content and tone from high romance to philosophical, travel memoir to motivational, fantastical to nightmare.

The Whispers Willow

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Trista Mateer

Georgia

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in this new poetry and prose collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It. In this empowering retelling, she uses the mythology of the goddess to weave a common thread through the past and present. By the end of this book, Aphrodite make you believe in the possibility of your own healing.

Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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Robert Hass

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New and Selected Poems

“No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.” —Atlantic Monthly The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections of this great artist’s work, published far too infrequently, The Apple Trees at Olema is a cause for celebration.

The Apple Trees at Olema

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Iain S. Thomas

New York

Poetry about Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness

This is the truth of you. Because you are all I see. Because you are all I breathe. Because when I cannot find you, I am lost. Because when I'm with you, I am found. Because you have the fire of the universe in you, and sometimes you forget. So this book is here to remind you. Dear You, I want you to know that I see you. I want you to know that even if no one else does, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer, wherever you're reading this, I see you. I see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream. I see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be. I see you and in looking at you, I want you to know that whoever you've had to be to survive all this, I will not look away. I want you to know that there's a space inside this book for you. So if you have the time and the inclination, you can sit here with me, just for a while. And perhaps between us, we can see everything that matters. -pleasefindthis

The Truth of You

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The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems

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Rachel "Raych" Jackson

Alabama

Even The Saints Audition: A book of poems exploring the relationship between blackness, shame, and what it is to live a life tied to the church. Rich with historical context and a deeply engaging personal narrative.

Even the Saints Audition

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Amy Cohn

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs

FROM THE SHORES of the Atlantic Ocean to the waters of the Pacific, America overflows with a rich multicultural heritage. Through story and song, this landmark treasury celebrates and explores our unique nation and its folklore. More than 140 American folktales, folk songs, poems, and essays, placed in historical context, are brought together with over 300 original illustrations by some of today's most distinguished artists. From Native-American creation myths to stories told by the first wave of immigrants that followed Columbus; from the tales of the American Revolution to those of the settlers of Appalachia; from the days of the great waterways to those of the Iron Horse; from the tragedies of slavery to the trials and triumphs of the westward movement, readers are invited to experience the sights and the sounds, the challenges and the catastrophes, and the ebullient passions of the multitudes who were drawn to this continent by the promise of a better future. And there's more. Trickster tales, nonsense songs, tall tales, baseball lore, and ghost stories celebrate the country's playful spirit. And a grand finale pays a moving tribute to the folklore being made in our own time. Extensively researched and documented, From Sea to Shining Sea paints a sweeping portrait of our nation, and offers every American family a piece of it - its stories, its songs, its promise. Here is the folklore that belongs to us all - here is all that makes us American.

From Sea to Shining Sea

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Florida

Mirthful and Otherwise

Uncle  Charlie's Poems (1906)

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Maryland

Poems

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus. Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, and Alicia Keys). In his second collection of poetry, The Dark Between Stars, he turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences—the inescapable connections between our highest highs and lowest lows. He captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. While grappling with the question of how to live with purpose and find meaning in the journey, these poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations. As Atticus writes poignantly about dancing, Paris, jazz clubs, sunsets, sharing a bottle of wine on the river, rainy days, creating, and destroying, he illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.

The Dark Between Stars

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A Charles Bukowski Reader

The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.

Run with the Hunted

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Leonard Cohen

California

Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Book of Longing

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Alicia Keys

Maine

Poetry and Lyrics

Tears for Water

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Jenn Shapland

ARC
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8/2023

Thin Skin: Essays
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Jenn Shapland

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Texas

Essays

A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • Examining capitalism’s toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking, this incisive new work is “a visceral exploration” (Katherine May, author of Wintering) from a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind. "A wrenching, loving and trenchant examination of feminism, nuclear weapons production, healthcare, queerness and American life" —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity—thin skin. Recognizing how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings, she becomes aware of the impacts our tiniest choices have on people, places, and species far away. She can't stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable. Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire. She traces the legacies of nuclear weapons development on Native land, unable to let go of her search for contamination until it bleeds out into her own family’s medical history. She questions the toxic myth of white womanhood and the fear of traveling alone that she’s been made to feel since girlhood. And she explores her desire to build a creative life as a queer woman, asking whether such a thing as a meaningful life is possible under capitalism. Ceaselessly curious, uncompromisingly intelligent, and urgently seeking, with Thin Skin Shapland builds thrillingly on her genre-defying debut My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (“Gorgeous, symphonic, tender, and brilliant” —Carmen Machado), firmly establishing herself as one of the sharpest essayists of her generation.

Thin Skin

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#paperback #youngadult #poems #fiction #iheartyouyouhauntme #lisaschroeder 

Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl gets boy back... ...sort of. Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear his voice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she's crazy, but she knows he's here. Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me

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"A collection of ... poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. He ... captures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in life: the first glimpse of a new love in Paris; skinny dipping on a summer's night; the irrepressible exuberance of the female spirit; or drinking whiskey in the desert watching the rising sun"--

Love Her Wild

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David St. John

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Poems

An exciting, long-awaited collection from the National Book Award finalist, a poet of wild imagination and formidable accomplishment David St. John's new collection of poetry, The Auroras, is the most provocative, adventurous, and stylistically eclectic work of his career. Composed as a triptych of three distinct movements, it opens with a sequence of urgent, subversive, sensually charged poems, crackling with desire. In the center section, St. John returns to the California landscapes of his youth, in both the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These poems are quiet and measured, yet often psychologically troubling. The final section of The Auroras is constructed as an album of philosophical and aesthetic meditations, all haunted by the force of an emerging sense of mortality. In this collection, even the most compelling emanations of light—artistic, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual—are inevitably framed by impending darkness. The beauty, music, and artistry of David St. John's poetry have been long admired; now The Auroras reveals the extent and breadth of his masterful poetic achievement.

The Auroras

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Courtney Peppernell

The poetic book is about healing and self love, I recommend this book to whoever loves reading poems!

Healing the Heart

Following the smash success of her best-selling book, Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell now returns with the follow-up sequel Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart. Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration. A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart.

Pillow Thoughts II

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A Memoir in Fractures

"For a long time, everything only happened to other people," Julie Wade writes. Or so she thought. She records her falls. The "stunned body, the purloined speech" she experiences after crashing to the ground from a swing. The sensation of slipping from the platform saddle atop a circus elephant, sliding "flat as a penny against his wrinkled skin, rattling the bones of my ribs." The shame and uncertainty of being spilled from the security of parental love. And, finally, triumphantly, thefelix culpa, the fortunate fall, of love.

Juxtaposed against the fragmentary structure of the memoir, this fall comprises both the energy source, the burning center of the book, and its thematic vantage point. Falling in love is an explosion in Julie's mind as well as her body, an epiphany that remakes the map of her world, slicing the knot of her parents' shame, unmasking the visceral truths of her body. In love she is in motion, reimagining the past, striking out on road trips. Suddenly, she is living, grabbing, tasting, writing, her mouth full of "honey and moonlight," her mind afire. And we are reminded yes, this is what love does, this is how it saves us.

Julie Wade has received the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize (2005), the Literal Latte Nonfiction Award (2006), the AWP Intro Journals Award for Nonfiction (2009), the American Literary Review Nonfiction Prize (2010), the Arts & Letters Nonfiction Prize (2010), the Thomas J. Hruska Nonfiction Prize (2011), the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir (2011), and seven Pushcart Prize nominations.

Wishbone

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Atticus

Nevada

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Special edition collection book. Has a few scuffs #hardcover #poems #shortstories #childens

Where the Sidewalk Ends + Every Thing On it

James Agee

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(American Poets Project #27)

Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiting a variety . . . that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing." Ranging from intense religious sonnets to lyrics for musical comedy, Agee?s verse takes us into the heart of his unique genius, what Robert Fitzgerald called his "sense of being . . . a raging awareness of the sensory field in depth and in detail." About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

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Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey

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The 100 Best Poems of All Time

Justin Blaney

The Whispers Willow

Trista Mateer

Aphrodite Made Me Do It

Robert Hass

The Apple Trees at Olema

Iain S. Thomas

The Truth of You

Henry Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems

Rachel "Raych" Jackson

Even the Saints Audition

Amy Cohn

From Sea to Shining Sea

Charles Noel Douglas

Uncle Charlie's Poems (1906)

Atticus

The Dark Between Stars

Charles Bukowski

Run with the Hunted

Leonard Cohen

Book of Longing

Alicia Keys

Tears for Water

Jenn Shapland

Thin Skin

Lisa Schroeder

I Heart You, You Haunt Me

Atticus

Love Her Wild

David St. John

The Auroras

Courtney Peppernell

Pillow Thoughts II

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Wishbone

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The Dark Between Stars

Atticus

Love Her Wild

Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends + Every Thing On it

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James Agee: Selected Poems