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The New Negro - Alain Locke Cover Art

The New Negro

The New Negro Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke

A portrait of the vibrant world of 1920s Harlem, with writings by Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Walter White, and more. The Harlem Renaissance was a landmark period in African American history—a time when black poets, musicians, intellectuals, civil rights activists, and others changed the social and cultural landscape in enduring ways. Its influence went far beyond the confines of uptown New York City, as it incorporated voices from the Great Migration, in which African Americans moved north in vast numbers; and elevated artists and thinkers who would become iconic figures in not only Black history, but also American history. Now considered the definitive work of the Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro features fiction, poetry, and essays that shaped the era.   “A book of unusual interest and value.” — The New York Times   “[Locke was] the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance.” — Publishers Weekly   “Alain Locke is a critical—and complex—figure in any discussion of African-American intellectual history.” — Kirkus Reviews

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A Magnificently Ordinary Romance - Celia Martinez Cover Art

A Magnificently Ordinary Romance

A Magnificently Ordinary Romance A Poetry Collection by Celia Martinez

Following the success of her Diary of a Romantica series, Celia Martinez returns to further explore love and all of its magnificent beauty. In  A Magnificently Ordinary Romance , social media breakout poet and Yale graduate Celia Martinez (@powerhouseofthecel on TikTok and @diaryofaromantica on Instagram) takes hopeful romantics everywhere on a journey through the timeless adoration and passionate miscommunication of young love.    With the vulnerability and intelligence that has gained her an audience of over 4.5 million listeners, readers, and followers,  AMOR  follows two lovestruck romantics who fall in love a little too quickly—and even more chaotically—before learning they are colleagues working in the same building. A twist that proves even more challenging for their equally enamored guardian angels. A unique take on  amor , romance, and coming of age, Celia Martinez proves to be a once in a generation voice for a new generation of lovers.

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Después del amor, nosotras - Virginia Petro De León Cover Art

Después del amor, nosotras

Después del amor, nosotras by Virginia Petro De León

Es difícil lavar el rastro de las heridas, pero siempre podemos volver a amar.  Hay luces insostenibles en el tiempo , dice Virginia. Hay quienes con la máscara del amor juegan únicamente a la violencia. Hay lecciones que la vida nos enseña de las formas más crueles. Y luego, después de todo eso, está la posibilidad de volver a amar. Hay formas de sanar y volver a nacer, nuevas palabras para hablar del cariño, para hablar en plural, para decir: nosotras . Con dibujos delicados y expresivos, Eloísa Castro retrata una cotidianidad extrañada por el dolor que, trenzada con los poemas de Virginia, nos lleva en un viaje de sanación . Es difícil lavar el rastro de las heridas, pero siempre podemos volver a amar. 

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson Cover Art

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

This fantastic collection includes all 1775 the poems by Emily Dickinson + a link to download a FREE audiobook with a selection of her poems! For a complete list of her poem, check the sample!

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XLI Poems - Poetry by e.e. cummings - E.E. Cummings Cover Art

XLI Poems - Poetry by e.e. cummings

XLI Poems - Poetry by e.e. cummings by E.E. Cummings

Controversial and passionate, XLI Poems is e.e. cummings’ second masterful poetry collection, complete with 41 poems that were originally disregarded by publishers. Of the 152 poems included in e. e. cummings’ original manuscript for his first poetry collection, Tulips and Chimneys (1923), only 86 were published. 41 of the omitted pieces were published two years later in XLI Poems . Although written at the same time as his previous collection, the poetry demonstrates further evidence of cummings’ experimentation in form and style. Much of the work featured in this volume was designed to shock cummings’ readers. The poetry heavily focuses on themes of eroticism and controversy. The collection unironically examines the traditional sonnet and common poetic themes such as romance, death, and nature, while giving the familiar styles a modern twist. This volume features titles such as: - ‘the sky was’ - ‘of my’ - ‘when life is quite through with’ - ‘This Is The Garden’ Republished in a brand new edition by specialist poetry imprint, Ragged Hand, XLI Poems is not to be missed by collectors of e.e. cummings’ work and fans of modernist poetry.

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A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman Cover Art

A Shropshire Lad

A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman

Few volumes of poetry in the English language have enjoyed as much success with both literary connoisseurs and the general reader as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad , first published in 1896. Scholars and critics have seen in these timeless poems an elegance of taste and perfection of form and feeling comparable to the greatest of the classic. Yet their simple language, strong musical cadences and direct emotional appeal have won these works a wide audience among general readers as well. This finely produced volume, reprinted from an authoritative edition of A Shropshire Lad , contains all 63 original poems along with a new Index of First Lines and a brief new section of Notes to the Text. Here are poems that deal poignantly with the changing climate of friendship, the fading of youth, the vanity of dreams — poems that are among the most read, shared, and quoted in our language.

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Nepantla - Christopher Soto Cover Art

Nepantla

Nepantla An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States. Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U.S. history, including literary legends such as Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Ai, and Pat Parker alongside contemporaries such as Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Robin Coste Lewis, Joy Harjo, Richard Blanco, Erika L. Sánchez, Jericho Brown, Carl Phillips, Tommy Pico, Eduardo C. Corral, Chen Chen, and more!

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Haywire - George Bilgere Cover Art

Haywire

Haywire Poems by George Bilgere

Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician’s way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away his gaze, and ultimately no reason not to define himself in joy Haywire was chosen for the Swenson Award by poet Edward Field, winner of numerous awards and a personal friend of the late May Swenson. Field describes the book this way. “This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn’t fall for anything phony—his own language is irresistibly no-b******t down to earth, even sassy.”

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You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

You Better Be Lightning

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are

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The Odyssey - Homer & Emily Wilson Cover Art

The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer & Emily Wilson

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the “complicated” hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer’s music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer’s swift, smooth pace. A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem’s major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this is an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

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Black Girl, Call Home - Jasmine Mans Cover Art

Black Girl, Call Home

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by  Oprah Magazine   •   Time   •    Vogue  •  Vulture  •   Essence   • Elle  • Cosmopolitan  • Real Simple  •  Marie Claire  •  Refinery 29   •   Shondaland •  Pop Sugar  •  Bustle   •  Reader's Digest  “N othing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary .”— Vogue From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.   With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.

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The Iliad - Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox Cover Art

The Iliad

The Iliad by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic.

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Take Me With You - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

Take Me With You

Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson

A “surprising and powerful” ( The Millions ) book of poetry that’s short enough to read in a single sitting, but full of messages big enough to stay with you—from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time, the subject of the award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light . Just to be clear, I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate heavens for all my flying parts. In Take Me With You , Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a fierce willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to heal and to be different in this strange age. Illustrated throughout with evocative line drawings by Sarah J. Coleman, this book is divided into three sections: On Love, On the World, and On Becoming. Written in one-liners, couplets, greatest hits phrases, and longer-form poems, it is destined to find its way into the hands of anyone who could use its wisdom.

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Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke Cover Art

Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.

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Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur Cover Art

Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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.

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Lord of the Butterflies - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

Lord of the Butterflies

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

Andrea Gibson’s latest collection is a masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career. Each emotion here is deft and delicate, resting inside of imagery heavy enough to sink the heart, while giving the body wings to soar.

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Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Alfred Lord Tennyson Cover Art

Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greatest poet of the Victorian era deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of poetry.  The Delphi Poets Series offers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (5MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tennyson's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Features Tennyson's first poetry collection, which he wrote with his brother, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Includes other rare collections often missed out of editions * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Also includes the complete poetic dramas * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes the collection of memoirs edited by Tennyson's son - spend hours exploring the poet's letters and anecdotes written by close friends and literary figures * Features two bonus biographies - discover Tennyson's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections POEMS, BY TWO BROTHERS TIMBUCTOO : A POEM POEMS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL POEMS, 1832 THE LOVERíS TALE. A FRAGMENT. POEMS, 1842 MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1831-1868 THE PRINCESS: A MEDLEY IN MEMORIAM A. H. H. MAUD, AND OTHER POEMS IDYLLS OF THE KING ENOCH ARDEN AND OTHER POEMS BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER, ETC. DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS THE DEATH OF åNONE, AND OTHER POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA HAROLD: A DRAMA BECKET THE CUP: A TRAGEDY THE FALCON THE PROMISE OF MAY THE FORESTERS: ROBIN HOOD AND MAID MARIAN The Biographies TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS by Hallam, Lord Tennyson ALFRED TENNYSON by Andrew Lang TENNYSON'S LIFE AND POETRY by Eugene Parsons Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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The Wanderer's Havamal - Jackson Crawford Cover Art

The Wanderer's Havamal

The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford

The Wanderer's Hávamál features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hávamál, newly annotated for this volume, together with the original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius manuscript. Rounding out the volume are Crawford's classic Cowboy Hávamál and translations of other related texts central to understanding the character, wisdom, and mysteries of Óðinn (Odin). Portable and reader-friendly, it makes an ideal companion for both lovers of Old Norse mythology and those new to the wisdom of this central Eddic poem wherever they may find themselves.

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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous - Megan Fox Cover Art

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous Poems by Megan Fox

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Heartbreaking…Go read the book, everyone.” —Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. “These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,” says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.

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Valentía - Kelbin Torres Cover Art

Valentía

Valentía by Kelbin Torres

Este no es un libro de esos que dejas olvidados en un rincón, es un libro de esos a lo que vuelves cada vez que lo necesitas. Es de esos que logran derrumbarte, pero también hacerte brillar. Te hará llorar y reír, te acercará más a la vida.Aquí encontrarás verdades, de esas sin filtro, que te hacen reflexionar. No encontrarás utopías, pues cada palabra nace de una experiencia. Valentía es un camino, tiene sus obstáculos, sus dolores y tristezas, pero también está lleno de esperanza, de fe. Es un libro que avivará el fuego de tu corazón, pondrá tus emociones a flor de piel y, sobre todo, te recordará que en esta vida vale mucho más ser valiente que cualquier otra cosa.

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The Madness Vase - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

The Madness Vase

The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson

These poems’ topics range from hate crimes to playgrounds, from international conflict to hometowns, from falling in love to the desperation of loneliness. Gibson’s work seizes us by the collar and hauls us inside some of her darkest moments, then releases us out the other side.

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Soft Science - Franny Choi Cover Art

Soft Science

Soft Science by Franny Choi

Paris Review Staff Pick A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness—how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness. "Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." —Publishers Weekly "Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect." –BUSTLE “…these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation.” –NYLON

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The Odyssey - Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox Cover Art

The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan 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.

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Pillow Thoughts III - Courtney Peppernell Cover Art

Pillow Thoughts III

Pillow Thoughts III Mending the Mind by Courtney Peppernell

A beautifully raw and poignant collection of poetry and prose, Pillow Thoughts III continues the series from poet Courtney Peppernell . Fix yourself a warm drink and settle into Peppernell's words as she pens a tribute to her readers who are bravely continuing their journey from hurt to healing. 

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Home - Whitney Hanson Cover Art

Home

Home by Whitney Hanson

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems "the bees aren’t going to go away but they are going to change with you sometimes they will be chaotic sometimes they will rest sometimes they will give you sweet honey and sometimes they will remind you of how much love can sting but if you can find a home within yourself and make peace with your bees you will be alright” --from Home Resonant, raw, and vibrant, Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak. Tracing the stages of healing—from the despair that comes with the end of a relationship to the eventual light and liberation that comes with time—the poems in Home provide comfort and solace, while revitalizing your soul—and helping you make peace with your bees.

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Beowulf (Bilingual Edition) - Seamus Heaney Cover Art

Beowulf (Bilingual Edition)

Beowulf (Bilingual Edition) by Seamus Heaney

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

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Everything You’ll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself - Charlotte Freeman Cover Art

Everything You’ll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself

Everything You’ll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself by Charlotte Freeman

Everything You’ll Ever Need (You Can Find Within Yourself)  is Charlotte Freeman’s first book and was written from the most vulnerable places of the heart. The pages of this book are open and honest, written to resonate with those who need it the most. Full of messages we all sometimes need, that often come at  just  the right time, this book is your reminder that everything you’ll ever need, you can find within yourself.

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La Divina Comedia (Spanish Edition) - Dante Alighieri Cover Art

La Divina Comedia (Spanish Edition)

La Divina Comedia (Spanish Edition) Illustrated by Dante Alighieri

La Divina Comedia (en italiano: Divina Commedia) es un poema épico escrito por Dante Alighieri. Se desconoce la fecha exacta en que fue escrito aunque las opiniones más reconocidas aseguran que el Infierno pudo ser compuesto entre 1304 y 1307 o 1308, el Purgatorio de 1307 o 1308 a 1313 o 1314 y por último, el Paraíso de 1313 o 1314 a 1321, fecha del fallecimiento del poeta. Se considera por tanto que la redacción de la primera parte habría sido alternada con la redacción del Convivium y De Vulgari Eloquentia, mientras que De Monarchia pertenecería a la época de la segunda o tercera etapa, a la última de las cuales hay que atribuir sin duda la de dos obras de menor empeño: la Cuestión del agua y la tierra y las dos églogas escritas en respuesta a sendos poemas de Giovanni del Virgilio. - Extraído de Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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The Ramayana - R. K. Narayan & Pankaj Mishra Cover Art

The Ramayana

The Ramayana A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan & Pankaj Mishra

The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling A Penguin Classic A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills of a master novelist to re-create the excitement he found in the original. A luminous saga made accessible to new generations of readers, The Ramayana can be enjoyed for its spiritual wisdom, or as a thrilling tale of ancient conflict. 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.

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Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson Cover Art

Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Disseminating his genius through celebrated essays and the hundreds of public lectures he gave across the United States, Ralph Waldo Emerson led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century and was lionised as a champion of individualism and a staunch critic of the countervailing pressures of society. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Emerson’s life and works * Detailed introduction to the life of Emerson * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Hundreds of rare poems appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Emerson’s letters – spend hours exploring the poet’s personal correspondence * The complete prose works, with all the essays * A generous selection of early, middle and late journals – appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Features two biographies – discover Emerson’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres   CONTENTS:   The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson BRIEF INTRODUCTION: RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE COMPLETE POEMS   The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER   The Books NATURE: ADDRESSES AND LECTURES ESSAYS. FIRST SERIES ESSAYS, SECOND SERIES REPRESENTATIVE MEN MEMOIRS OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI by R. F. Fuller ENGLISH TRAITS THE CONDUCT OF LIFE SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS LECTURES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES MISCELLANIES NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT AND OTHER PAPERS   The Essays LIST OF ESSAYS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF ESSAYS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER   The Letters THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON   The Journals SELECTED JOURNALS   The Biographies RALPH WALDO EMERSON by Oliver Wendell Holmes BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH by Edward W. Emerson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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Just Remember - Joey Kidney Cover Art

Just Remember

Just Remember by Joey Kidney

Through this genuine and personal collection of poems, Joey Kidney shares gentle reminders that though life can be overwhelming and unpredictable, we all have the ability to hold tight to hope. Sometimes we just need a little help remembering. With over 10 million followers across his vast social media platform, Canadian-born writer Joey Kidney has built a thriving international community of supporters seeking his brotherly advice on life, love, and healing. Just Remember is the perfect embodiment of Joey’s journey over the past decade of sharing his life and what his supporters have come to love most about his work: a thoughtful collection of quick, peaceful poems that you can revisit throughout the day when you need a gentle reminder that you are seen and loved and needed in this chaotic world.

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Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

Miss Eliza's English Kitchen A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship by Annabel Abbs

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Country Living Best Book of Fall * A Washington Post Best Feel-Good Book of the Year * One of the New York Times's Best Historical Fiction Novels of Fall In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses—until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few options. Although she’s never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her surprise she discovers a talent – and a passion – for the culinary arts. Eliza hires young, destitute Ann Kirby to assist her. As they cook together, Ann learns about poetry, love and ambition. The two develop a radical friendship, breaking the boundaries of class while creating new ways of writing recipes. But when Ann discovers a secret in Eliza’s past, and finds a voice of her own, their friendship starts to fray. Based on the true story of the first modern cookery writer, Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen is a spellbinding novel about female friend­ship, the struggle for independence, and the transcendent pleasures and solace of food.

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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems - Joy Harjo Cover Art

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize

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The Collected Poems of Hafiz - Hafiz Cover Art

The Collected Poems of Hafiz

The Collected Poems of Hafiz by Hafiz

Hafiz was a Persian lyric poet (1315/17-1390) whose collected works, or "Divan", are as sacred to most Iranians as the Qur'an. He was highly acclaimed during his lifetime, and is by far the most popular poet in Iran, where they celebrate Hafiz Day on October 12. Although he was influenced by Islam, Hafiz is widely respected by Hindus, Christians and others for his beautiful turn of a phrase and for his regard of the universal soul. "The Collected Poems of Hafiz" touch on themes of love, faith and exposing hypocrisy, and many people find personal guidance within its pages. Since Hafiz' work was first translated into English in 1771, scholars in the Western world have been conflicted between literal and mystical interpretations of the poems. Nevertheless, they provide fascinating details on life and culture in Persia, and to some, it brings valuable insight toward mysticism and the ineffable.

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Philip Larkin Poems

Philip Larkin Poems Selected by Martin Amis by Philip Larkin

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of emotional effects? Who else takes us, and takes us so often, from sunlit levity to mellifluous gloom?... Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin Amis

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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems - Rita Dove Cover Art

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry) A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls’ night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali’s conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives. Meticulously orchestrated and musical in its forms, Playlist for the Apocalypse collects a dazzling array of voices: an elevator operator simmers with resentment, an octogenarian dances an exuberant mambo, a spring cricket philosophizes with mordant humor on hip hop, critics, and Valentine’s Day. Calamity turns all too personal in the book’s final section, “Little Book of Woe,” which charts a journey from terror to hope as Dove learns to cope with debilitating chronic illness. At turns audaciously playful and grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to catastrophic failures of the human soul. Listen up, the poet says, speaking truth to power; what you’ll hear in return is “a lifetime of song.”

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Our Andromeda

Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy

"A heady, infectious celebration."— The New Yorker "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."— Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects—trauma, childbirth, loss of faith—and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda. From "Our Andromeda": Cal, faster than the lightest light, so much faster than love, and our Andromeda, that dream, I can feel it living in us like we are its home. Like it remembers us from its own childhood. Oh, maybe, Cal, we are home, if God will let us live here, with Andromeda inside us, doesn't it seem we belong? Now and then, will you help me belong here, in this place where you became my child, and I your mother out of some instant of mystery of crash and matter . . . Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999). Shaughnessy’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper's, The Nation, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review . She is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.

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The Ring and The Book - Robert Browning Cover Art

The Ring and The Book

The Ring and The Book by Robert Browning

The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem of 21,000 lines written by Robert Browning. It was published in four installments from 1868 to 1869. The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome in 1698, whereby an impoverished nobleman, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murders of his young wife Pompilia Comparini and her parents, having suspected his wife was having an affair with a young cleric, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Having been found guilty despite his protests and sentenced to death, Franceschini then appeals - unsuccessfully - to Pope Innocent XII to overturn the conviction. The poem comprises twelve books, each a dramatic monologue spoken by a different narrator involved in the case, usually giving a different account of the same events. — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein

Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein by Margaret Atwood

In 1966, before they were international sensations, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of cultural history and available for the first time as an enhanced eBook for iPad. In this imaginative work, only existing as an artist book of fifteen copies until recently, Charles Pachter set the poetry of Margaret Atwood to his beautiful and whimsical artwork. Produced originally on handmade paper made with materials found around his house, this is a rare piece of art that should be read by anyone interested in the origins of these two great artists. This work is now exclusively available for the iPad as an enhanced eBook, and features an introduction by Margaret Atwood, video interviews with Charles Pachter, and an audio narration of Margaret Atwood reading the poems. When you load this enhanced eBook in iBooks, you will find a speaker icon in the info bar at the top of the screen, which is where you can access the enhanced features of this eBook. For the optimal reading experience, turn on these features by tapping on the speaker, turning on the soundtrack, setting pages to turn automatically and tap "Start Reading." For a more traditional reading experience, turn these elements off and change the settings to turn the pages manually. This enhanced eBook contains high-resolution images and embedded audio and video. Depending on the speed of your internet connection this book may take up to 25 minutes to download. Rest assured, it is worth the wait!

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The Lights - Ben Lerner Cover Art

The Lights

The Lights Poems by Ben Lerner

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize A New Yorker Essential Read Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , Vulture , NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world. Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights registers the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises, but for all their insight and critique, Ben Lerner’s poems ultimately communicate—in their unpredictability, in their intensities—the promise of mysterious sources of lift and illumination.

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Elegy Owed

Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. "What Hicok's getting at [in Elegy Owed ] is both the necessity and the inadequacy of language, the very bluntness of which (talk about a paradox) makes it all the more essential that we engage with it as a precision instrument, a force of clarity, of (at times) awful grace."— Los Angeles Times "[A] fluid, absorbing new collection. . . . Highly recommended."— Library Journal , starred review When asked in an interview "What would Bob Hicok launch from a giant sling shot?" he answered "Bob Hicok." Elegy Owed —Hicok's eighth book—is an existential game of Twister in which the rules of mourning are broken and salvaged, and "you can never step into the same not going home again twice." From "Notes for a time capsule": The twig in. I'll put the twig in I carry in my pocket and my pocket and my eye, my left eye. A cup of the Ganges and the bacteria from shit in the Ganges and the anyway ablutions of rainbow- robed Hindus in the Ganges. The dawnline of the mountain with contrail above like an accent in a language too large for my mouth. A mirror so whoever opens the past will see themselves in the past and fall back from their face speaking to them across centuries or hours or the nearnevers . . . Bob Hicok 's worked as an automotive die designer and a computer system administrator before becoming an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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AnOther E.E. Cummings - E. E. Cummings & Richard Kostelanetz Cover Art

AnOther E.E. Cummings

AnOther E.E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings & Richard Kostelanetz

An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose. As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically experimental. To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and never to have: only to grow." To not read the avant-garde Cummings is to not read Cummings. Adjusting type size may change line breaks. Landscape mode may help to preserve line breaks.

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Delphi Complete Works of Claudian (Illustrated) - Claudius Claudianus Cover Art

Delphi Complete Works of Claudian (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Claudian (Illustrated) by Claudius Claudianus

Claudian, the Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns of the brothers Honorius, the Emperor in the West, and Arcadius, ruler in the East. Though a pagan, he became a professional court-poet, composing for Christian rulers panegyrics that have given us important knowledge of Honorius’ times. Claudian also composed a celebrated mythological epic on the ‘Rape of Proserpina’, which was left unfinished, but has been noted for its command of language and polished style. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Claudius’ complete extant works, with relevant illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Claudius’ life and works * Features the complete extant works of Claudius, in both English translation and the original Latin * Concise introduction to the life and times of the poet * Includes M. Platnauer’s translation, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Claudius * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the poems you want to read with individual contents tables * Includes Claudius’ rare poems, first time in digital print * Provides a special dual English and Latin text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph – ideal for students * Features a bonus biography – discover Claudius’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translation BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: CLAUDIAN THE POEMS OF CLAUDIAN The Latin Text CONTENTS OF THE LATIN TEXT The Dual Text DUAL LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biography INTRODUCTION TO CLAUDIAN by Maurice Platnauer Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod - Traci Brimhall Cover Art

Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall

Written during the trial for a close friend’s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend’s murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic. In lullaby, lyric essay, and always with brutal sincerity, Brimhall examines how beauty and terror live right alongside each other––much like how Nod is both a fictional dreamscape and the place where Cain is exiled for murdering Abel. By plucking at the tensions between life and death, love and hate, truth and obscurity, Brimhall finds what it is that ties opposing themes together; how love and loss are married in grief. Like Eve thrust from Eden, Brimhall is tasked with finding meaning in a world defined by its cruelty. Unrelenting, incisive, and tender, these poems expose beauty in the grotesque and argue that the effort to be good always outweighs the desire to succumb to what is easy.

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Classic Works from Women Writers

Classic Works from Women Writers by A. J. Odasso

A fine collection of classic novels, short stories, poems, and essays from distinguished women writers. Women writers have been making their voices heard for centuries, but their works were not always taken seriously. Over time, as women gained more social and political freedom, these works have reemerged as subjects that are considered to be worthy of closer study.  Classic Works from Women Writers  is a collection of more than thirty novels, short stories, poems, and essays by prominent and lesser-known female writers since the seventeenth century. Included in this volume are groundbreaking works such as Mary Shelley’s  Frankenstein ; Agatha Christie’s  The Mysterious Affair at Styles , the first Hercule Poirot novel; Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and her follow-up essay; and poetry from the likes of Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, and Sara Teasdale. The words of these authors offer a multitude of perspectives on different issues that affect not only women but the wider world as well.

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A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker

A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker 1925-2025 by New Yorker Magazine Inc & Kevin Young

Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesław Miłosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar: these stellar names make up just a fraction of the wonderfulness that is present in this essential anthology. The book is organized into sections honoring times of day (“Morning Bell,” “Lunch Break,” “After-Work Drinks,” “Night Shift”), allowing poets from different eras to talk back to one another in the same space, intertwined with chronological groupings from the decades as they march by: the frothy 1920s and 1930s (“despite the depression,” Young notes), the more serious ’40s and ’50s (introducing us to the early greats of our contemporary poetry, like Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, and Adrienne Rich), the political ’60s and ’70s, the lyrical ’80s and ’90s, and then the 2000s’ with their explosion of greater diversity in the magazine, greater depth and breadth. Inevitably, we see the high points when poems spoke directly into, about, or against the crises of their times—the war poetry of W. H. Auden and Karl Shapiro; the remarkable outpouring of verse after 9/11 (who can forget Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World”?); and more recently, stunning poems in response to the cataclysmic events of COVID and the murder of George Floyd. The magazine’s poetic influence resides not just in this historical and cultural relevance but in sheer human connection, exemplified by the passing verses that became what Young calls “refrigerator poems”: the ones you tear out and affix to the fridge to read again and again over months and years. Our love for that singular Billy Collins or Ada Limón poem—or lines by a new writer you’ve never heard of but will hear much more from in the future—is what has made The New Yorker a great organ for poetry, a mouthpiece for our changing culture and way of life, even a mirror of our collective soul.

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Dickinson: The Complete Works - Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson & Martha Dickinson Bianchi Cover Art

Dickinson: The Complete Works

Dickinson: The Complete Works 580+ Poems & Verses, Including Biography & Letters by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson & Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Emily Dickinson is the iconic American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends, and also explore aesthetics, society, nature and spirituality. This meticulously edited poetry collection includes her complete poetical works, as well as her letters and the biography of this powerful author: The Life and Legacy of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated Biography) Poems—First Series: Book I.—Life: Success Our share of night to bear Rouge et Noir Rouge gagne Glee! the storm is over If I can stop one heart from breaking Almost A wounded deer leaps highest The heart asks pleasure first In a Library Much madness is divinest sense I asked no other thing Exclusion The Secret The Lonely House To fight aloud is very brave Dawn The Book of Martyrs The Mystery of Pain I taste a liquor never brewed A Book I had no time to hate, because Unreturning Whether my bark went down at sea Belshazzar had a letter The brain within its groove Book II.—Love: Mine Bequest Alter? When the hills do Suspense Surrender If you were coming in the fall With a Flower Proof Have you got a brook in your little heart? Transplanted The Outlet In Vain Renunciation Love's Baptism Resurrection Apocalypse The Wife Apotheosis Book III.—Nature: New feet within my garden go May-Flower Why? Perhaps you 'd like to buy a flower The pedigree of honey A Service of Song The bee is not afraid of me Summer's Armies The Grass A little road not made of man Summer Shower Psalm of the Day The Sea of Sunset Purple Clover The Bee Presentiment is that long shadow As children bid the guest good-night Angels in the early morning So bashful when I spied her Two Worlds The Mountain A Day The butterfly's assumption-gown The Wind Death and Life 'T was later when the summer went Indian Summer Autumn Beclouded The Hemlock There's a certain slant of light Book IV.—Time and Eternity: One dignity delays for all Too late Astra Castra Safe in their alabaster chambers On this long storm the rainbow rose From the Chrysalis Setting Sail Look back on time with kindly eyes A train went through a burial gate I died for beauty, but was scarce Troubled about many things Real The Funeral I went to thank her I've seen a dying eye… Poems—Second Series (160+ poems) Poems—Third Series (160+ poems) The Single Hound (140+ verses) The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

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Sun in Days: Poems - Meghan O'Rourke Cover Art

Sun in Days: Poems

Sun in Days: Poems by Meghan O'Rourke

Named a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review, Sun in Days is “O’Rourke’s most ravishing and brilliant collection yet” (Cathy Park Hong). From acclaimed poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke comes a powerful collection about the frailty of the body, the longing for a child, and the philosophical questions raised when the body goes dramatically awry. These formally ambitious poems and lyric essays give voice to the experience of illness, the permanence of loss, and invigorating moments of grace. A Paterson Poetry Prize finalist, Sun in Days is unsentimental yet deeply felt, characterized by O’Rourke’s signature lyric precision and force of observation.

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Poesie d'amore - Nâzım Hikmet Cover Art

Poesie d'amore

Poesie d'amore by Nâzım Hikmet

Partecipe dell'estrema dolcezza orientale e dei crudi ritmi dell'Occidente, in queste Poesie d'Amore Nâzim Hikmet tocca le vette della sua arte. Versi immortali, tra i più amati della poesia contemporanea, che sanno parlare il linguaggio universale del sentimento e arrivano diritti al cuore di tutti noi: come gli scatti del grande fotografo francese Robert Doisneau, che accompagnano le liriche di Hikmet in questo volume unico e prezioso.

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Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror - Peter Dale Scott Cover Art

Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror

Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror by Peter Dale Scott

"Not since Robert Duncan's Ground Work and before that William Carlos Williams' Paterson has New Directions published a long poem as important as Coming to Jakarta!" —James Laughlin A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics, Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played by the CIA, banks, and oil companies in the 1965 slaughter of more than half a million Indonesians. A former Canadian diplomat and now a scholar at the University of California, Peter Dale Scott has said that the poem "is triggered by what we know of the bloody Indonesian massacre… However it is not so much a narrative of exotic foreign murder as one person’s account of what it is like to live in the 20th century, possessing enough access to information and power to feel guilty about global human oppression, but not enough to deal with it. The usual result is a kind of daily schizophrenia by which we desensitize ourselves to our own responses to what we read in the newspapers. The psychic self-alienation which ensues makes integrative poetry difficult but necessary." With a brilliant use of collage, placing the political against the personal––childhood acquaintances are among the darkly powerful figures––Scott works in the tradition of Pound’s Cantos, but his substance is completely his own.

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