Pierre Jeanty

Omar Rodriguez

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"Her" is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of "Her."--Amazon.com.

Her II

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Noor Unnahar

New York

Yesterday I Was the Moon

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Lisa-Marie Vecchino

New Jersey

Glass Hearts and Broken Promises

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R. H. Sin

Texas

A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood, and wrongfully labeled in a way that limits them in this world. The author's most personal volume yet, A Beautiful Composition of Broken builds a conceptual bridge between r.h. Sin's earliest work and his forthcoming series, Planting Gardens in Graves.

A Beautiful Composition of Broken

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Vintage Poetry Book 1956

Words to Live By 

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

A cultural "biography" of Robert Frost's beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . ." One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" is so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost's immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong.
 

David Orr's The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem's enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem's cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature.
 

"The Road Not Taken" seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking "the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering?

What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, "The Road Not Taken" is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor.

Published for the poem's centennial--along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost's poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself--The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.

The Road Not Taken

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Homer

Robert Fagles

Bernard Knox

I purchased this copy of the Odyssey BRAND NEW and never got around to reading it so it is in perfect condition.   #paperback #fiction #classic #classicists #adventure #poetry #mythical #affordable 

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Odyssey

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Grief’s Labyrinth and Other Poems

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Child's Anthology of Poetry

Denise Levertov

Maryland

Denise Levertov's Candles in Babylon evinces both the inner strength gained by a life of social commitment and the quiet wisdom born of solitude. The seventy-one poems in the book--her first full collection since Life in the Forest (1978)-- are grouped into several thematic sections that explore by turns the subtleties in the shifting balance between our public and private selves, the poet's voice ranging from the wry satire of her "Pig Dreams" sequence to the resonant grandeur of her six-part "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus." Behind it all is the gentle melancholy of the title poem and the poet's vision of peace.

Candles in Babylon

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James McMichael

Series of poetry from James McMichael called If you can tell. Hardcover in near perfect condition. Inside in perfect condition.

Poems

If You Can Tell, the new book of poems by James McMichael, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006, takes up what it might mean that the word was in the beginning, before which there may not have been "empty / space, / even, / nor the thought of it." A baby is conceived after a verbal exchange between his parents. He's born and learns to talk. Told that the grandfather he cherishes has died, he unknowingly silences any memory of the man. To his Sunday school class a few years later, he tells the lie that he himself was born in China. The boy grows up into a vexing faith. Though he expects his own death will be final, God is no less God to him in the life he's been given and must in time give back.

If You Can Tell

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An anthology of modern verse for boys and girls

My poetry book

Go on a Blind Date with a Book!
Poetry Genre

Treat yourself or a loved one to a surprise book!

Each surprise book comes with a Bookmark, Tea Bag & Stickers (tea bag and stickers are placed with double sided tape and can be gently removed from paper)

These have been slightly read, and are in like new to good condition from my personal collection

Blind Date With A Book Poetry Fiction

Courtney Peppernell

California

When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things - your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. 

           

It is time to find the way back home. 


Returning with her newest poetry book, bestselling author Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with anecdotes, messages, and feelings from the pandemic that changed the world, The Way Back Home is a tribute to rebuilding our lives. Divided into sections that draw on themes of courage, resilience, purpose, and hope, Peppernell once again walks us through an illuminating journey of the heart, mind, and soul. 

 

Discover what it means to continue forward in life, despite such loss, and find the way back home.

The Way Back Home

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Matthea Harvey

Ohio

The verse and prose poems of this third collection by Harvey shows her signature wit (the factory puffs its own set of clouds), darkened by an ominous sense of fearfulness in a post-9/11 world, which the poems' seeming levity tries to combat. The backbone of the collection is a pair of sequences titled The Future of Terror and Terror of the Future, that explore those two increasingly loaded words using a clever alphabetical system with haunting results: We were just a gumdrop on the grid. Prose poems bookending the sequences present a fable about a lonely robot (When Robo-Boy feels babyish, he has the option of really reverting); a study of appetite (Ma gave Dinna' Pig his name so that no-one would forget where that pig was headed); an explanation of how the impossibility of mind-reading led to love (Even when they press their ears or mouths or noses together, the skull wall is still in the way); and an unlikely dinner ritual (rip the silhouette from the sky and drag it inside). A few short, lineated poems punctuate the blocks of prose: World, I'm no one/ to complain about you.

Modern Life

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Marianne Boruch

Utah

A book of meditations, The Anti-Grief ventures out into the world, jumps its synapse, ties and unties knots, and misbehaves.

The Anti-Grief

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Soft Thorns

Cleo Wade does it again!  Like her previous “Heart Talk,” Wade speaks truth to power in a deeply personal way. Bought multiple copies of her book and would love to share with YOU ❤️#nonfiction #poetry #hardcover #diverseauthors #love #bethechange

 A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our (Crazy) World

Where To Begin

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Virgil

Robert Fitzgerald

Missouri

Virgil's poem about the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy

The Aeneid

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#hardcover #fiction #nonfiction #youngadult #poetry #hope #poems #love 

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are. This hardcover collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, Light Filters In will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike. it’s okay if some things are always out of reach. if you could carry all the stars in the palm of your hand, they wouldn’t be half as breathtaking

Light Filters in: Poems

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Rupi Kaur

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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Washington

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most. Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel.

Pillow Thoughts

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Home Body

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Anne Sexton

Collects all the poems from the late confessional poet's ten books as well as eight previously uncollected poems, revealing in one volume Sexton's daring openness, language, and emotional honesty.

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Pierre Jeanty; Omar Rodriguez

Her II

Noor Unnahar

Yesterday I Was the Moon

Lisa-Marie Vecchino

Glass Hearts and Broken Promises

R. H. Sin

A Beautiful Composition of Broken

Edited by William Nichols

Words to Live By

David Orr

The Road Not Taken

Homer; Robert Fagles (Translator); Bernard Knox (Introduction by, Notes by)

The Odyssey

Lisa Albright Ratnavira

Grief’s Labyrinth and Other Poems

Elizabeth Hauge Sword

A Child's Anthology of Poetry

Denise Levertov

Candles in Babylon

James McMichael

If You Can Tell

Grace thompson huffard

My poetry book

Surprise Book

Blind Date With A Book Poetry Fiction

Courtney Peppernell

The Way Back Home

Matthea Harvey

Modern Life

Marianne Boruch

The Anti-Grief

Bridgett Devoue

Soft Thorns

Cleo Wade

Where To Begin

Virgil; Robert Fitzgerald

The Aeneid

Caroline Kaufman; Yelena Bryksenkova (Illustrator)

Light Filters in: Poems

Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers

Courtney Peppernell

Pillow Thoughts

Rupi Kaur

Home Body

Anne Sexton

The Complete Poems