Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Poems

A black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of "quiet" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.

"Bulley's stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they] perfectly embody the political through the personal."--Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

How does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isn't silence? Where does quiet exist--and what liberating potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language, Quiet navigates the tension between the impulse to guard one's inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, "your silence will not protect you."

Quiet

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

This bold wide-ranging new collection -- Mark Doty's sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation and force of feeling that have made his poetry significant to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

The new poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the paradox of selfhood. Are we edgeless and unbounded, or locked within our own singularity? What is it to be one person in the world's great multiplicity of selves?

Source investigates matters of public life -- the degradation of Walt Whitman's vision of a democratic America, a child's display of longing on a New York sidewalk, Provincetown's restless summer crowds. But the poems also turn toward the realm of private struggle, how the self is claimed and lost through desire, how the dapple of light on a hotel windowsill makes a claim for the life of the soul.

Source is a complex, boldly colored selfportrait; its muscular lines argue fiercely with the fact of limit, and pulse with the drama of perception, the quest to forge meaning.

Source #10

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Danny Cassidy

Georgia

Timeless Poems of Tainted Love from the Pop Hits of the '70s and '80s

Just as I Can't Fight This Feeling featured cheesy love poems from the 1970s and 1980s, You Give Love a Bad Name explores the dark side of romance: cheating spouses, broken hearts and worse. Therapeutic lyrics of over 35 pop hits guide the reader through the five stages of grief as defined by acclaimed psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler Ross. The songs express denial ("Is She Really Going Out with Him?" by Joe Jackson); anger ("I Hate Myself for Loving You" by Joan Jett); bargaining ("If Ever You're in My Arms Again" by Peabo Bryson); depression ("Cuts Like a Knife" by Bryan Adams); and acceptance ("Goodbye to You" by Scandal). Nostalgic fun, this elegant hardcover comes with a marker.

You Give Love a Bad Name

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

The Desiderata of Happiness 

Previous owner’s name on inside cover #fiction #poetry #hardcover #americana #africanamericans #blackvoices #historicalfiction #history #america

Kansas

A Life in Poems

Carver

Utah

The Shell in Silk

This is an advanced readers copy. #paperback #karenhesse #witness #youngadult #youngadultfiction #poetry 

Tennessee

In 1924 Vermont, a small town falls under the influence of the Ku Klux Klan. Two girls, Leanora Sutter and Esther Hirsh, one black and the other Jewish, are among those who are no longer welcome in their community. As the potential for violence escalates, heroes and villains are revealed, and everyone in town is affected. From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning "Out of the Dust".

Witness

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Proud to be one of the poets who contributed to this anthology. My poem Two Girls was the first thing I ever tried to get published. I wonder if I just got lucky. I wrote it in a way, you can't read it fast or it may sound confusing or incorrect. I'm a lover of language, and phrasing things in ways people aren't used to hearing them phrased. Never thought it would even get in the book, bringing up homosexuality and all. It even looks atheist if read the wrong way, and without thinking about it what it really means. That... was the sign I needed to keep going with writing. There are so, so many different kinds of poems in this book. Going through this for the first time, I kept ripping off parts of a tissue and sticking them in the pages, cause I didn't have a bookmark, so I could come back to the poems... well I ran out of tissue, so there are a lot of great poems in there! What I like about it is that I'm in the same book with people who have contrasting, or slightly different views/beleifs. (obvious by the poems) Diversity is a good thing in an anthology. I can recal a *hilarious* poem, and a poem that makes you want to just curl up and cry in a corner for days... in a good way. Theres poems that make you want to praise and celebrate, and there are poems that make you really need to think. I couldn't dream of a better anthology that I would want my first published thing in. I didn't even think I'd get in this one. You never know. Anyhow this would make a great holiday gift for any lover of modern poetry. There's a poem in this book for anything you can imagine. It's just a beautiful display of self-expression, wisdom, rhythem, and pure emotion. Definately add this to the collection.

Washington

Forever Spoken 

John Train

California

Considered by Casanova, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Sigmund Freud, Byron, S. J. Perelman, La Rochefoucald, John Updike...

Love

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II – railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" – are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present – a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier – are fraught with this same anxiety.

But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like "The Tollund Man in Springtime" and in several poems which "do the rounds of the district" – its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts – the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.



Texas

Poetry

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals: Again the growl Of shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble Of iron on iron, then a long centrifual Haulage of speed through every dragging socket. (from 'District and Circle')

District and Circle

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Caroline Kaufman

Indiana

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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Nick Norwood

Alabama

With its astonishing evocation of the interior and exterior landscapes of our visitable world and its dazzling lyrical intensity, The Soft Blare by poet Nick Norwood makes its debut as the third volume selected by Andrew Hudgins for the River City Poetry Series. As Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Howard writes, "I must not fail to commend his wonderful mastery of the strictly lyric mode, so rare among his contemporaries. Norwood's poems in this register can actually be sung, indeed they seem to have the music in them already." We could not have said it--or sung it--better ourselves.

The Soft Blare

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#garden #gardening #poems  #poetry #hardcover 

A Joyful Bouquet

Springtime is garden planting time. This little book contains light-hearted poems about the earth and the plants. It also includes watercolour illustrations.

Poems for Gardeners

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Split on outer cover at spine - book is in good condition 

We Say our Prayers 

Tami Charles

A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds! Be bold. Get seen. Be Heard. For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean "Mercury" Jones. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the lies the girls have to tell are all worth it. Until they're not. Denver begins to realize that she's trapped in Merc's world, struggling to hold onto her own voice. As the dream turns into a nightmare, she must make a choice: lose her big break, or get broken. Inspired by true events, Muted is a fearless exploration of the dark side of the music industry, the business of exploitation, how a girl's dreams can be used against her -- and what it takes to fight back.

Muted

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1981 edition. The jacket has some wear and tear. The book itself is in good shape, has a page of inscriptions just inside the front cover and a scratch on the back side. 

 #hardcover #poetry #poems #robertfrost #vintagebook #vintagehardcover #classics #poets 

Colorado

Approximately 60 poems from the great American poet, including many previously unpublished. Includes landmark poems such as The Pasture, After Apple-Picking and The Wood Pile.

Early Poems of Robert Frost

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Nice, clean copy. See pics 📸

 #poetry #shakespeare #fiction #sonnets #lovepoems #classic #poems #hardcover

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Michigan

Among the few facts known about William Shakespeare's life: he was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Tradition assigns his birth to April 23; he died fifty-two years later on the same day. At eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior. Their daughter Susanna was born six months later, followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. The next seven years of his life are unaccounted for, but by 1592 he was well known in the London theatre world. From 1589 to 1613 he wrote the thirty-six plays (and cowrote two others) on which his fame chiefly rests, though his place in the top rank of English writers would have been secured just by his excellence as a poet. He bought one of the finest houses in Stratford in 1597 and lived there from 1610. He is buried outside Holy Trinity Church.

The Sonnets and Other Love Poems

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Beautiful Writings in Tribute to Mothers

⭐ With Love to a Wonderful Mother (vintage)

New York

A Norton Critical Edition

Bryon’s Poetry

Joseph Parisi

Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine

"The history of poetry and of Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," wrote A. R. Ammons. Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine established its reputation immediately by printing T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Carl Sandburg's "Chicago Poems," Wallace Stevens's "Sunday Morning," and the first important poems of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and many other then unknown, now classic authors. Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades--an unprecedented record. Decade by decade, this bountiful ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents--along with several lesser known--in all their variety: William Butler Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale, D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Graves, May Sarton, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Hart Crane, Robert Penn Warren, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Anne Sexton, Thom Gunn, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Maxine Kumin, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and Galway Kinnell. In recent decades, Poetry has presented Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Eavan Boland, Stephen Dunn, Mary Oliver, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jane Kenyon, James Tate, Sharon Olds, Louise Gl ck, Marilyn Hacker, and many, many others. T. S. Eliot called Poetry "an American institution." The Poetry Anthology is sure to be an American keepsake.

The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002

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Illinois

A Parade of Animal Poems

From Little to Big

Maxine Kumin

Virginia

A Memoir

From Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry. Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker’s Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia, where Kumin’s father was a pawnbroker, to Radcliffe College, where she comes into her own as an intellectual and meets the soldier-turned-Los Alamos scientist who would become her husband; to her metamorphosis from a poet of “light verse” to a “poet of witness”; to her farm in rural New England, the subject and setting of much of her later work. Against all odds, Kumin channels her dissatisfaction with the life that is expected of her as a wife and a mother into her work as a feminist and one of the most renowned and remembered twentieth-century American poets.

The Pawnbroker's Daughter

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The daughter of sharecroppers and raised on a small farm near the Carolinas? border, Judy Jordan in her first poetry collection transforms the harshness of her youth with the beauty, inventiveness, and musicality of language. Physical and emotional privation, familial violence, racial enmity, and recurrent death haunt Carolina Ghost Woods, which is set amid the lush landscape of the South and enfolds the wildness?inclement and consoling by turns?of nature and agriculture. Jordan, though, reveals compassion as well as passion for her subject matter and the people in her poems, creating lines of hope and chords of ecstatic energy out of despair: ?Yet another attempt to find what the guidebooks can?t say / in this place smelling green-walnut bitter / and drifting up at each kicked leaf: / something that promises we will go on.?

Expansive, ambitious, risk-taking, these narrative-lyrics?often elegiac?engage the timeless subjects of absence and distance, using metaphor in a way that surprises the reader to a different level of awareness, ?like the years / that have paused to rub their furred mouths against my leg and pass on.? An extraordinary rendering of the mystery, heat, and closeness of the undisclosed, Carolina Ghost Woods offers a poetry of witness that does not sacrifice the aesthetics of language and rhythm: ?Here I bring my sorrows / like the delft-blue mussel shells, / fingertip tiny, most beautiful when strewn wide with loss.?

Carolina Ghost Woods

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Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo

2Fish is a collection of intimate poems (and a few short stories) written by Chilombo from adolescence to adulthood, in no particular order. The book details Chilombo's thoughts in their most raw and honest form taken directly from a collection of notebooks she has kept since age 12.

(a Poetry Book)

Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo has developed and refined a method of emoting through writing. 2Fish is a collection of intimate poems (and a few short stories) written by Chilombo from adolescence to adulthood, in no particular order. The book details Chilombo's thoughts in their most raw and honest form taken directly from a collection of notebooks she has kept since age 12.

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Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Quiet

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Source #10

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You Give Love a Bad Name

Max Ehrmann

The Desiderata of Happiness

Marilyn Nelson

Carver

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