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Love Poems: (For Married People)by John KenneyInspired by one of the most shared New Yorker pieces of all time, this collection captures the reality of life once the spark of a relationship has settled--and hilariously so. Kenney's wry observations and sharp humor remind us exactly what it's like to spend the rest of your life with the person you love.
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Halal If You Hear Me: Breakbeat Poets, vol. 3 edited by Fatimah AsgharThe collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.
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The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This Oneby Amanda LovelaceThe author of the award-winning The Princess Saves Herself in This One features poems partly inspired by mermaid and siren mythology that incorporate themes of escapism, healing and empowerment.
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Magical Negro: Poems by Morgan ParkerA latest collection by the prizewinning author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé explores black American womanhood through evocative themes ranging from self-conception and loneliness to objectification and ancestral trauma.
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Love Looks Pretty on Youby Lang LeavThis highly anticipated—and beautifully written—collection of contemporary poetry and prose explores how the power of words can impact love, heartbreak, relationships and self-empowerment.
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My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry by Philip LevineThe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet describes his journey to understand himself and his art form and describes the events, memorable teachers and lifelong friends who influenced him as well as the other poets he admires, including William Carlos Williams, John Keats and William Wordsworth.
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The Last Shift: Poemsby Philip LevineThe final book of poems from the National Book Award awardee and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who died in early 2015 includes his lyrical takes on his family and childhood, the power of dreaming and poems about his heroes.
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This Many Miles from Desire: Poems by Lee HerrickThe haunting music of Lee Herrick's poems reflect the quest of the poet, an adoptee, to understand his place in the world: "one more child found in the world's history/of found children." Spiritually yearning, imagistically sharp, and lyrical, Herrick's poems are a journey of reward.
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Afterland: Poemsby Mai Der VangAn essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.
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The Palace of Contemplating Departure: Poems by Brynn SaitoBrynn Saito’s debut collection of poetry traverses myriad terrains--both emotional and physical--as it weaves towards completion. From the bays of Denmark to the deserts of California, Saito’s searching lyricism gathers stories of sudden departures, forced removals, and the journeys chosen in between.
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Tremorby Marisol BacaInterlacing the past and the present through the lens of her Mexican-American heritage, Baca unspools profound connections -- life and death, her grandmother's legacy and earth's graces -- in poems that move the reader with quiet strength and honesty.
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The Sun and Her Flowersby Rupi KaurFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Milk and Honey comes a transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one’s roots and expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself, augmented by the author's own illustrations.
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance HayesA powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares.
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Wade in the Water: Poemsby Tracy K SmithPulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary OliverThe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet offers a carefully curated selection of her definitive writings in a volume spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
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New and Selected Poemsby Mary OliverCapturing the poet's consistent tone and lyrical beauty, this collection of poems takes readers deep into the heart of the poet's meditations on the natural world.
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The Essential W.S. Merwin by W. S. MerwinA deeply considered selection from W.S. Merwin's vast oeuvre that represents the poems--and a few select pieces of prose--that readers will cherish today, tomorrow, and into the next century.
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: 100th Anniversary Editionby Robert FrostRobert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem along with other works from his brilliant early years, including such poems as "After Apple-Picking," "The Oven Bird," and "Mending Wall."
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Drawings by Edward Gorey A collection of T. S. Eliot's poems concerning cats, including Mr. Mistoffelees and Skimbleshanks, The Railway Cat.
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanThe edition of Whitman's poems as they were first published is accompanied by an in-depth introduction.
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The Essential Rumi by Jalāl al-Dīn RūmīA collection of poetry by the thirteenth-century Sufi saint coverS topics ranging from emptiness and silence to elegance and majesty.
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughesby Langston HughesThis comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer.
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965. Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.
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This Present Moment: New Poemsby Gary SnyderSnyder, a Zen Buddhist and 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner who has been writing poetry and prose for over 50 years, continues to address themes present in much of his work. He focuses on his travels, the wonders of history, and the environment, all with heavy emphasis on the metaphysical.
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So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le GuinAward-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death in 2018--Le Guin immerses herself in the natural world, ruminating on the mysteries of dying, and considering the simple, redemptive lessons of the earth.
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Brown: Poemsby Kevin YoungJames Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: the recently National Book Award-longlisted author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection. Brown offers beautiful, sustained harmonies from a poet whose wisdom deepens with time.
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Wild Beauty/ Belleza Salvaje: New and Selected Poems by Ntozake ShangeAcclaimed poet, playwright, and novelist Shange, best known for her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood in her first selected volume. With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color.
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The Collected Poemsby Sylvia PlathBrings together a collection of all Plath's mature poetry, published and unpublished, together with a large selection of her juvenile works.
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Paradise Lost by John MiltonA definitive new edition of the classic poem about the Creation and the fall of Adam and Eve.
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Love Poems by Pablo NerudaThe Nobel Prize-winning poet's romantic works is comprised of pieces mostly written on the island of Capri, where he found inspiration in its idyllic landscapes and his relationship with Matilde Urrutia.
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Black Girl Magic: BreakBeat Poets, vol. 2edited by Mahogany L. BrowneBlack Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.
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Whereas : Poems by Layli Long SoldierWhiting Award winner Long Soldier, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, uses urgent, muscular, fiercely vibrant language to explore the very concept of language. She gives a vivid account of the realities of life as a Native American mother, unfurling a series of poems that relate the duplicitous behavior of the U.S. government toward indigenous peoples.
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New Poets of Native Nationsby Heid E. ErdrichNew Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Collected here are poems of great breadth—long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics—and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now
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Whiskey, Words & a Shovel, Volume 1 by R. H. SinA volume of the author's works cultivated from his Tumblr page, Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1, is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love yourself, even if it means heartbreak.
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The Complete Poetryby Maya AngelouAn updated collection of the inspirational late writer's complete body of poetry includes her reflections on African-American life and her tribute to Nelson Mandela.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean VuongIn his impressive debut collection, Vuong writes beauty into—and culls from—individual, familial, and historical traumas. Vuong exists as both observer and observed throughout the book as he explores deeply personal themes such as poverty, depression, queer sexuality, domestic abuse, and the various forms of violence inflicted on his family during the Vietnam War.
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Here, Bulletby Brian TurnerA first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Throughout, Turner attempts to capture the extreme experience of war by depicting the feelings it generates: the sense of loss, hatred, humiliation, love, uncertainty, and dreamy longing for a normal life among others.
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Indecency by Justin Phillip ReedReed’s visceral and teasingly cerebral debut probes black identity, sexuality, and violence and is inseparably personal and political. He displays a searing sense of injustice about dehumanizing systems, and his speakers evoke the quotidian with formidable eloquence
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The Penguin Book of Haikuedited by Adam L. Kern Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous.This anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form.
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The Odyssey by HomerThis fresh, new translation of the epic poem, done for the first time by a woman, describes Odysseus’ arduous journey home after the Trojan War and includes an overview of the Bronze Age, discussions of the poem’s major themes and controversies about its origins.
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Monument: Poems New and Selectedby Natasha D. TretheweyThe two-term U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author poetically links the human struggles and resilience of African-American women throughout history to the collective trauma of national wounds.
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart: New Poems by Alice WalkerAlice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--crafts a bilingual collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived.
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The Dark Between Stars: Poemsby AtticusIn his second collection of poetry, the poet captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again.These poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations.
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The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings by Leonard CohenAn eloquent valedictory collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death.
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonOne of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection of her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and feminists of today.
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