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Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur Cover Art

Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition by Rupi Kaur

This stunning new anniversary edition celebrates the journey of Rupi Kaur and  milk and honey . • 40 new original poems and 20 new illustrations • Full-color, never-before-seen photos and memorabilia • Illuminating introduction and handwritten diary entries by Rupi • Heartfelt annotations from Rupi and some of today’s most respected voices  Since its debut,  milk and honey  has sold more than 6 million copies globally, becoming the highest-selling book of poetry in the 21st century and propelling Rupi Kaur into the stratosphere as the voice of a generation.  milk and honey  has taken millions of readers on a shared journey through life’s most emotional moments, reminding us along the way that there is sweetness everywhere, if only we are willing to look.    An exceptional volume, the  milk and honey 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition  is a must-have keepsake that will be treasured by longtime fans as well as readers new to the work that transformed poetry in our time.  

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The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur Cover Art

The Sun and Her Flowers

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer & Emily Wilson

Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation. "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 the epic’s music, sailing 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 an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

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New Moons

New Moons Phases of Healing by r.h. Sin

New Moons: Phases of Healing , the first installment in the Healing Verses series from New York Times bestseller r.h. Sin, is a lyrical and luminous exploration of heartbreak, resilience, and healing from trauma.  In this collection, r.h. Sin invites readers to move through darkness, heartbreak, and emotional rebirth with a voice that is intimate, raw, and unwavering in its honesty. This deeply personal work acts as both a mirror and a beacon, reflecting the pain that comes with love lost while lighting a path toward inner peace, radical self-love, and emotional freedom. Structured in three phases—Reflections, Poetry, and Love Letters—the book mirrors the lunar cycle, guiding readers through the emotional tides of grief, awakening, and healing. Whether mourning the end of a relationship, reclaiming self-worth, or rediscovering the quiet power of choosing peace, New Moons offers solace and strength for anyone navigating the aftermath of emotional storms. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt broken and needs a reminder that wholeness was always theirs to return to.

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Collected Poems

Collected Poems A Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca

A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work And I who was walking with the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eagles and a naked girl. The one was the other and the girl was neither. -from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico García Lorca was the most beloved poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. His work has long been admired for its passionate urgency and haunting evocation of sorrow and loss. Perhaps more persistently than any writer of his time, he sought to understand and accommodate the numinous sources of his inspiration. Though he died at age thirty-eight, he left behind a generous body of poetry, drama, musical arrangements, and drawings, which continue to surprise and inspire. Christopher Maurer, a leading García Lorca scholar and editor, has brought together new and substantially revised translations by twelve poets and translators, placed side by side with the Spanish originals. The seminal volume Poet in New York is also included here in its entirety. This is the most comprehensive collection in English of a poet who—as Maurer writes in his illuminating introduction—"spoke unforgettably of all that most interests us: the otherness of nature, the demons of personal identity and artistic creation, sex, childhood, and death."

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The Iliad - Homer & Emily Wilson Cover Art

The Iliad

The Iliad by Homer & Emily Wilson

“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” —Ange Mlinko, London Review of Books The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic—the most revered war poem of all time. The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters—both human and divine. The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.

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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Cover Art

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar A Novel by Sylvia Plath

One of  The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels “A coming–of–age masterpiece.” — Boston Globe "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." —USA Today The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath’s masterwork—an acclaimed and timeless work of psychological fiction about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures. The story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student facing a profound identity crisis while coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. She becomes increasingly disillusioned and her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading her to undergo harsh treatment and therapy. "Funny, intense, enormously human" ( Cosmopolitan ), The Bell Jar is a poignant exploration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche and remains an extraordinary accomplishment from one of the country's most luminous talents.

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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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A Crowded Loneliness - r.h. Sin Cover Art

A Crowded Loneliness

A Crowded Loneliness by r.h. Sin

LIMITED EDITION E-BOOK EXCLUSIVE! A Crowded Loneliness documents the thoughts of one mind in isolation and may mirror the emotions of many others.

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Pillow Thoughts

Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell

With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, the Pillow Thoughts series has become an international success. Divided into sections for when you are dreaming of someone, heartbroken, lonely, or in need of encouragement, Pillow Thoughts has been embraced by readers as a sanctuary for their feelings. With simple yet profound words, Courtney Peppernell offers gentle reminders that love, loss, and resilience connect us all. The perfect gift for all experiencing life transitions, as a source of solace after heartbreak, or as a reminder of hope during difficult times.

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Liontaming in America

Liontaming in America by Elizabeth Willis

A spiraling, staggering new collection of historical and mythic reinvention (and Elizabeth Willis’s first book with New Directions) LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY “To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one’s relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world,” Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments and disciplinary displays of the circus. Liontaming in America investigates the utopian aspirations fleetingly enacted in the polyamorous life of a nineteenth-century Mormon community, interweaving archival and personal threads with the histories of domestic labor, extraction economies, and the performance of family in theater, film, and everyday life. Lines reverberate between worldliness and devotion, between Peter Pan and Close Encounters, between Paul Robeson and Maude Adams, between leaps of faith and passionate alliances, between everyday tragedy and imaginative social possibility. As Willis writes in her afterword to the book, “The repeated unmaking and remaking of America, as a concept and as an ongoing textual project, is not impossible. It is happening all the time.”

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The Complete Poetry

The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou

The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry , including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning” Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life.   Every poetic phrase, every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure-to-be-treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for / I believe enough to die for / That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise” (“Out of the huts of history’s shame / I rise / Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning” tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon / The day breaking for you. / Give birth again / To the dream.”).   Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry also features her final long-form poems, including “A Brave and Startling Truth,” “Amazing Peace,” “His Day Is Done,” and the honest and endearing Mother:   “I feared if I let you go You would leave me eternally. You smiled at my fears, saying I could not stay in your lap forever”   This collection also includes the never-before-published poem “Amazement Awaits,” commissioned for the 2008 Olympic Games:   “We are here at the portal of the world we had wished for At the lintel of the world we most need. We are here roaring and singing. We prove that we can not only make peace, we can bring it with us.”   Timeless and prescient, this definitive compendium will warm the hearts of Maya Angelou’s most ardent admirers as it introduces new readers to the legendary poet, activist, and teacher—a phenomenal woman for the ages.

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Whiskey Words & a Shovel II - r.h. Sin Cover Art

Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by r.h. Sin

Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry.  Sin's first book is a bestseller and continues to delight his one million followers. R.H. Sin’s second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the pure emotional energy and the vulnerability of his poems. Relationships, love, pain, and fortitude are powerfully rendered in his poetry, and his message of perseverance in the face of emotional turmoil cuts to the heart of modern-day life. R.H. Sin’s poems are often only a few lines long, and yet the emotional punch of his language gives these words an enduring power beyond the short page. He doesn't back away from the pains and struggles of life and love, and yet his determined, unapologetic voice provides a measure of comfort and a message of perseverance that is at once realistic and indomitable. This blend of determination and painful vulnerability gives his poetry a distinctive, engaging flavor.

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she followed the moon back to herself

she followed the moon back to herself by Amanda Lovelace

USA TODAY Bestselling Author The tenth poetry collection from Amanda Lovelace deviates from the path of fairy tales and myths, instead bringing readers face to face with the person behind the poems that have made her beloved. From bestselling poetess Amanda Lovelace comes she followed the moon back to herself , an autobiographical standalone poetry collection that follows a woman who—through heartbreak, bottles of rosé, and the general messiness of life—felt like she completely lost who she was. Each bitesize poem shines a light on where she’s been and how she’s managed to overcome it all, offering a dose of hope and moondust to all who join her on the journey back to herself. An authentic, relatable collection that is a must-read for fans of Amanda Lovelace’s work and all interested in modern poetry.

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Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong Cover Art

Time Is a Mother

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” — The Washington Post The New York Times- bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part   In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , Vuong contends with the meaning of family and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, these poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.   The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds , winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize, and a 2019 MacArthur fellowship, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. These poems represent a more innovative and daring experimentation with language and form, illuminating how the themes we perennially live in and question are truly inexhaustible. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time Is a Mother is a return and a forging forth all at once.

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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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Poems & Prayers - Matthew McConaughey Cover Art

Poems & Prayers

Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Academy Award–winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my poems are my prayers. I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world. A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream. I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe. But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential. I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality. Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason. Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.

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Whereas - Layli Long Soldier Cover Art

Whereas

Whereas Poems by Layli Long Soldier

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

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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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Beowulf

Beowulf A Translation and Commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

A beautifully designed hardcover box set containing four classic myths and legends of epic poetry composed or translated by J.R.R. Tolkien — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún , The Fall of Arthur , and Beowulf . The fifth set in a series of affordable hardcover box sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dust jackets. Set 5 contains Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún , The Fall of Arthur , and Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary . Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance from the world of Arthurian legend, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child but, like Gawain, it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s. The three translations are here uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkien’s acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, during a time of gods, betrayal and fierce battles; the revenge of his wife, Gudrún; and the Fall of the Nibelungs. Told in verse composed by J.R.R. Tolkien derived from the ancient poetry of the Poetic Edda and the prose Völsunga Saga, this masterful fusion of Norse mythology and poetry is accompanied by notes and commentary by Christopher Tolkien. The Fall of Arthur tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England’s legendary hero, King Arthur. It is the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, and may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre. The long narrative poem is accompanied by significant if tantalising notes, in which can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion . The translation of Beowulf , a cornerstone of Old English literature, by J.R.R. Tolkien was completed in 1926: he returned to it later but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for the translation is here paired with an illuminating written commentary on the great Anglo-Saxon poem by the translator himself, prepared for a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s. From these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if Tolkien entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. These are accompanied by Sellic spell , a "marvellous tale" written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the "historical legends" of the Northern kingdoms. Published together for the first time, these four books—all edited by the author’s son and literary executor—collect a fascinating period of Christopher Tolkien’s forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkien’s scholarly writings and literary criticism on the myths and legends of northern Europe, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the academic brilliance and storytelling genius of one of the twentieth century’s finest literary pioneers.

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Bright Dead Things

Bright Dead Things Poems by Ada Limon

The National Book Award finalist. " Limón's poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." — The Millions   Bright Dead Things  examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact—tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a "huge beating genius machine" striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. "I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying," the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous and accessible—though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.   "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted."― Huffington Post "Limón's work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers."— Flavorwire

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I Do Everything I'm Told

I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

A TIME Best Book of 2023 “Moving . . . irresistible . . . transforms verse into multiverse.”— The New Yorker Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience and worship, longing and possessiveness, and nights of wandering cities. Its poems span thousands of miles, as a masterful crown of sonnets starts in Shanghai, then moves through Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Palermo, Paris, and Philadelphia—with a speaker who travels solo, adventures with strangers, struggles with the parameters of sexuality, and speculates on desire. Across four sections, poems navigate the terrain of queer, normative, and ambiguous intimacies with a frank intelligence: “It’s better to be illegible, sometimes. Then they can’t govern you.” Strangers, ancestors, priests, ghosts, the inner child, sisters, misfit raccoons, Rimbaud, and Rilke populate the pages. Beloveds are unnamed, and unrealized desires are grieved as actual losses. The poems are grounded in real cities, but also in a surrealist past or an impossible future, in cliché love stories made weird, in ordinary routines made divine, and in the cosmos itself, sitting on Saturn’s rings looking back at Earth. When things go wrong, Fernandes treats loss with a sacred irreverence: “Contradictions are a sign we are from god. We fall. We don’t always get to ask why.”

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A Gentle Reminder

A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino

A gentle reminder, for the days you feel light in this world, and for the days in which the sun rises a little slower. A gentle reminder for when your heart is full of hope, and for when you are learning how to heal it. A gentle reminder for when you finally begin to trust in the goodness, and for when you need the kind of words that hug your broken pieces back together. A gentle reminder for when growth hangs heavy in the air, for when you need to tuck your strength into your bones just to make it to tomorrow. A gentle reminder for when you are balancing the messiness, and the beauty, of what it means to be human, when you are teaching yourself that it is okay to be both happy and sad, that you are real, not perfect. A gentle reminder for when you seek the words you needed when you were younger. A gentle reminder for when you need to hear that you deserve to be loved the way you love others. A gentle reminder for when you need to recognize that you are not your past, that you are not your faults. A gentle reminder for when you need to believe in staying soft, in continuing to be the kind of person who cares. A gentle reminder for when you need to believe in loving deeply in a world that sometimes fails to do so. A gentle reminder to keep going. A gentle reminder to hope. A gentle reminder, for you. Take what you need.

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Poems 1962-2012

Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize–winning poet It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape—Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain—persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. From the outset (" Come here / Come here, little one "), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we "do not see the intervening fathoms." From within the earth's bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness my friend the moon rises: she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful? To read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it, the one fated to die and the other to endure.

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Clarity & Connection

Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo

From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Clarity & Connection , Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. To be read on its own or as a complement to Inward , Yung Pueblo's second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation, building self-awareness, and deepening their connection with others. • Perfect for fans of poetry, meditation, and personal development  • Powerful reflective writing for readers who want to better understand their inner world and build healthier relationships • Rooted in meditation and self-inquiry, this is a gentle guide toward greater clarity, peace, and balance. Whether you’re navigating personal growth or looking for a meaningful self-care or mindfulness gift, gain wisdom, reflection, and inspiration for the journey inward from Clarity & Connection .

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I Still Believe in Miracles

I Still Believe in Miracles Poems to Find Meaning in Difficult Times by Lucas Jones

A bestselling collection of poetry exploring themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection, from British poet and viral phenomenon Lucas Jones. For fans of Yung Pueblo, Hussain Manawer, and Whitney Hanson. "Eviscerating and tender all at once, this book is impossible to read without feeling." ―David Larbi, author of Frequently Happy How do you respond to fear, grief, heartbreak, loss, and injustice in a world that seems more divided than ever? A tribute to a search for meaning in difficult times, these poems are a remarkable homage to the beautiful humanity of choosing to love despite it all. “[Lucas] is a one-off, a genius, a master of thought and communication. And we very much need his light. Lucas Jones’s words will help you to heal. Let them cut you open and stitch you back up again, but better." ―Donna Ashworth, author of I Wish I Knew

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The Stars We Find in Dust

The Stars We Find in Dust by Emma-Rose Wallner

In The Stars We Find in Dust, sixteen-year-old Emma-Rose Wallner offers an intimate, unflinching glimpse into the heart and mind of a young soul navigating the complexities of growing up. Across three carefully curated sections, Wallner invites readers into a world shaped by frustration, grief, tenderness, and wonder. Her work dwells in ambiguity—in the uncertain rhythms of inspiration, the slippery contours of mental health, and the uneasy coexistence of memory and mourning. With fierce honesty and lyrical sensitivity, she weaves reflections on adolescence into narratives of obsession and rage, capturing the struggle to find meaning in a chaotic world. Written in the candid voice of a teenager on the cusp of adulthood, these poems and stories speak to a generation facing inner demons, uncertain futures, and moments of fleeting light. Wallner’s words urge us to look inward, to sit with the shadows—and to find the stars hidden in the dust.

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Obit

Obit by Victoria Chang

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020 Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 NPR's Best Books of 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist Frank Sanchez Book Award After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of “the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.” These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died (“civility,” “language,” “the future,” “Mother’s blue dress”) and the cultural impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living. "When you lose someone you love, the world doesn’t stop to let you mourn. Nor does it allow you to linger as you learn to live with a gaping hole in your heart. Indeed, this daily indifference to being left behind epitomizes the unique pain of grieving. Victoria Chang captures this visceral, heart-stopping ache in Obit, the book of poetry she wrote after the death of her mother. Although Chang initially balked at writing an obituary, she soon found herself writing eulogies for the small losses that preceded and followed her mother’s death, each one an ode to her mother’s life and influence. Chang also thoughtfully examines how she will be remembered by her own children in time."—Time Magazine

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The Aeneid

The Aeneid by Virgil & Robert Fitzgerald

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." — New York Review of Books Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

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Flowers on the Moon

Flowers on the Moon by Billy Chapata

Flowers on the Moon  is the second major poetry collection by Chameleon Aura author and social media sensation Billy Chapata, offering insight and advice on the powerful world of love, heartbreak, and what comes next.  Filled with the resonant themes of love, loss, resilience, and growth from Chameleon Aura , the touching narrative of Flowers on the Moon celebrates humanity for its undeniable worth. Through fresh poems and new advice, Chapata delivers his signature blend of experience and inspiration in a chaptered series of prose and poetry. Perfect for men and women of all ages, this collection will encourage readers to survive adversity and prosper and warm them with hope for growth, rebirth, and, most prominently, self-acceptance.

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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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Love is a Dog From Hell

Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

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Couplets

Couplets A Love Story by Maggie Millner

“ An astounding debut. ” — Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real. One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affair—into queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind. Maggie Millner’s captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets chronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships—the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments—and how the people we love can show us who we truly are. "An endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer & Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory. Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition. Winner of the Bollingen Prize

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The weight of whats gone

The weight of whats gone by F. Hamiti

Grief doesn’t ask for permission. It arrives uninvited, sits quietly beside us, and never fully leaves. The Weight of What’s Gone, offers a deeply human exploration of sorrow, memory, and love after loss. Through spare, lyrical poems, this collection gives voice to the silence left behind by children, siblings, and parents —lost to time, tragedy, or the ache of absence. These poems do not try to fix grief. They simply sit with it— the way a friend would.

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Visitations

Visitations Poems by Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver. “Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids miracles and mourning, infused with the compassion that characterizes all the work of this resplendent writer.” —Martín Espada, National Book Award-winning author of Jailbreak of Sparrows In these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, the smells of sancocho and sofrito, the formative influence of her tías and her sisters, her move to America and the challenges of learning English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers, visit the homes where she grew up and the homes where she grew into the formidable writer read in thousands of classrooms across America today. Her wisdom is as clear and beautiful as the light that shines through glass and yet grounded through the form and substance of self-knowing. Told with a storyteller’s intimacy and the comfort of a warm hearth, this is a master writer’s reflection on family, aging, love, the body, having a voice, and the very act of composing poetry itself, experienced across the arc of decades—a collection of searching for an artistic voice, for the author’s very essence, until, “the way it sometimes happens: we arrive / where we were promised, belong to / what we longed for in ourselves, each other.”

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The Way of Chuang Tzu

The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton

Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, in a new edition with a preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu’s writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name—Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit and paradox and shattering insights into the true ground of being. Thomas Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao.

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Autobiography of Red

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist   "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice

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Daring To Take Up Space

Daring To Take Up Space by Daniell Koepke

In her first poetry collection, Daniell gives voice to the fear and anxiety, as well as the perseverance and strength, that has been fundamental to her own personal growth journey and the path to deeper and more meaningful self-love and acceptance. In her own words, this book is for “the 17-year-old Daniell who was convinced she was worthless; who was convinced she would never survive or amount to anything. This is for the friends and family who never stopped believing in and supporting her. This is for all the people who feel that they have to shrink and hide who they are in order to be loved and accepted and worth something. This is for anyone who needs a reminder that you deserve to take up space in the world and that you are enough.”

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I Do Know Some Things

I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken

*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Finalist* I Do Know Some Things is a brave book, both in content and method. It is brave to write about childhood scars and the heartbreak the dead leave behind. It is brave to reconfigure one’s life in the aftermath of a stroke. Richard Siken presents these subjects directly, without ornament, and with nothing to hide behind, confronting the fact that he can no longer manipulate the constructions of form, or speak lies that tell the truth. In spite of these limitations, Siken chooses to write these poems and release them into a dangerous world. Each image, each sentence, is as direct as the American artist Jasper Johns’s shooting targets. Each poem is like a small room in a house, a room where you will be punched in the throat. As he claws himself back into a self, into a body, Siken has written a book that is unsettling and autobiographical by necessity, and its seventy-seven prose poems invite the reader to risk a difficult intimacy in search of yet deeper truths.

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When Angels Speak of Love

When Angels Speak of Love by bell hooks

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love . Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. “Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go,” she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible—encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.

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La Edad de Oro

La Edad de Oro by José Martí

La Edad de Oro José Martí, político republicano democrático, pensador, periodista, filósofo y poeta cubano de origen español (1853-1895) Este libro electrónico presenta «La Edad de Oro», de José Martí, en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente al capítulo seleccionado. Índice interactivo -01- Presentación -02- LA NIÑA DE GUATEMALA -03- CULTIVO UNA ROSA BLANCA -04- A LOS NIÑOS QUE LEAN -05- TRES HÉROES -06- DOS MILAGROS -07- MEÑIQUE -08- CADA UNO A SU OFICIO -09- LA ILÍADA, DE HOMERO -10- UN JUEGO NUEVO Y OTROS VIEJOS -11- BEBÉ Y EL SEÑOR DON POMPOSO -12- LA ÚLTIMA PÁGINA -13- LA HISTORIA DEL HOMBRE -14- LOS DOS PRÍNCIPES -15- NENÉ TRAVIESA -16- LA PERLA DE LA MORA -17- LAS RUINAS INDIAS -18- MÚSICOS, POETAS Y PINTORES -19- LA EXPOSICIÓN DE PARÍS -20- EL CAMARÓN ENCANTADO -21- EL PADRE LAS CASAS -22- LOS ZAPATICOS DE ROSA -23- UN PASEO POR LA TIERRA DE LOS ANAMITAS -24- HISTORIA DE LA CUCHARA Y EL TENEDOR -25- LA MUÑECA NEGRA -26- CUENTOS DE ELEFANTES -27- LOS DOS RUISEÑORES -28- LA GALERÍA DE LAS MÁQUINAS

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Come, Thief

Come, Thief Poems by Jane Hirshfield

A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot help but steal from our arms. Hirshfield is unsurpassed in her ability to sink into a moment’s essence and exchange something of herself with its finite music—and then, in seemingly simple, inevitable words, to deliver that exchange to us in poems that vibrate with form and expression perfectly united. Hirshfield’s poems of discovery, acknowledgment of the difficult, and praise turn always toward deepening comprehension. Here we encounter the stealth of feeling’s arrival (“as some strings, untouched, / sound when a near one is speaking. / So it was when love slipped inside us”), an anatomy of solitude (“wrong solitude vinegars the soul, / right solitude oils it”), a reflection on perishability and the sweetness its acceptance invites into our midst (“How suddenly then / the strange happiness took me, / like a man with strong hands and strong mouth”), and a muscular, unblindfolded awareness of our shared political and planetary fate. To read these startlingly true poems is to find our own feelings eloquently ensnared. Whether delving into intimately familiar moments or bringing forward some experience until now outside words, Hirshfield finds for each face of our lives its metamorphosing portrait, its particular, memorable, singing and singular name. Love in August White moths against the screen in August darkness. Some clamor in envy. Some spread large as two hands of a thief who wants to put back in your cupboard the long-taken silver.

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick  One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022" A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a speculative poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, an essential work of Asian American poetry, reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems about survival spin backwards and forwards in time—from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. This collection of queer poetry explores narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what togetherness—between Black and Asian and other marginalized communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity and conquest—could look like. Bringing together Choi's signature speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On ultimately charts new paths toward hope in the aftermaths, and visions for our collective survival.  How do we find hope when the world keeps ending? Apocalyptic Poetry: Journey from the apocalypses of the past to the precipice of the climate crisis, examining the endings that have already happened and those yet to come. Social Justice Themes: A powerful call for solidarity between Black, Asian, and other marginalized communities wrestling with shared histories of conquest and calamity. Historical Reckoning: Unflinching poems that bear witness to the lives of Korean comfort women and the generational trauma of war. Lyrical Futurism: Explores queer linearity while charting new paths toward collective survival and hope in the aftermath.

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The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, C O'Donnell & Thomas Roche

The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.

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Play the Piano

Play the Piano by Charles Bukowski

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature. This is Bukowski at his most vulnerable and vicious. Raw and Honest Poetry: Poems that stare into the abyss of a life filled with lechery, romance, and the brutal struggle to find meaning. Los Angeles Poet: Experience the gritty, sun-bleached streets of L.A. through the eyes of its most notorious and unflinching chronicler. Poems about Love and Loss: A tender and savage look at human connection, where love is found, fumbled, and fought for in cheap rooms and smoky bars. American Beat Poetry: Unfiltered verse fueled by whiskey, racetrack bets, and the defiant spirit of an underground literary legend.

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Poems Of Richard Wilbur

Poems Of Richard Wilbur by Richard Wilbur

This collection includes Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, Things of This World, Ceremony and Other Poems, and The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems.  "One of the best poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur has imagined excellence, and has created it." —Richard Eberhart, New York Times Book Review Inside this volume, four of his greatest works showcase a career dedicated to formal beauty and lucid insight. Formal Mastery: Experience Wilbur’s celebrated command of meter and rhyme, where traditional forms feel both timeless and refreshingly new. The Luminous Ordinary: Find beauty in the tangible world, from a toad in a garden to laundry on a line, as Wilbur transforms everyday moments into occasions for wonder. Four Books in One: This generous single volume includes the complete texts of The Beautiful Changes , Ceremony , Things of This World , and Advice to a Prophet . An American Master: Read the essential work of a National Book Award winner and esteemed translator, celebrated for his intellectual depth and enduring grace.

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The Collected Works of Walt Whitman

The Collected Works of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

The Collected Works of Walt Whitman is a collection of classic works by one of the most popular writers in history. The included works of Walt Whitman are Complete Prose Works, Drum-Taps, Leaves of Grass, The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman, Poems By Walt Whitman, and The Wound Dresser. The Collected Works of Walt Whitman is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Walt Whitman, and for those discovering his works for the first time.

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Once in the West

Once in the West Poems by Christian Wiman

Intense and Intimate: A Searing Collection from an Important American Poet "Memories mercies mostly aren't but there were I swear days veined with grace" One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 and a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist , Once in the West is Christian Wiman's fourth collection, plumbing the depths of "suffering of primal silence" and achieving the "rockshriek of joy." Readers will recognize Wiman's sharp characterizations, humor, and reverent rage, but there is something new here, too: moving love poems to his wife, tender glimpses of his children, and amid the onslaughts of illness and fear and failures, "a trace / of peace." Wiman's multifaceted poems are at once spiritual and secular, metaphysical and realistic, provocative and generous. With wry humor and intelligent grief, Once in the West proves why Wiman is considered one of our country's most important contemporary poets.

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Omeros

Omeros by Derek Walcott

A masterpiece of modern epic poetry from the Nobel Prize–winning author: "One of the great poems of our time." —John Lucas, New Statesman Dive into the poignant verses of Omeros , a grand opus of epic poetry penned by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Told in multiple chapters and tracing two currents of history, this work offers an immersive blend of historic account and personal sentiment. Titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros elegantly traverses the surface and depths of history. While wrapping you in the intricacies of Caribbean literature and Latin American poetry, the verses of Omeros take you on an emotional journey through Saint Lucian landscapes. Celebrate the spirit of this significant contribution to Caribbean poetry and St. Lucian literature while unraveling the complex themes of 20th-century poetry, including slavery, Native American history, and more. "Strenuous and thrilling . . . What justifies the title of Omeros is a sense of unbridled imaginative scope, that feeling of amplitude and sensuous inclusion which we find in Homer—and a few other writers, Lucretius, for instance, or Shakespeare or Whitman—and which Walcott can summon as much as any poet now living." —Michael Heyward, The Washington Post Book World "No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language or in the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds. This wonderful story moves in a spiral, replicating human thought, and in the end, surprisingly, it makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us." — The New York Times Book Review

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