Poetry category: 46548 books

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft...

Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against Nature was the 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets, which recognizes a poet’s second collection of poetry. Crime Against Nature has been long out of print, until now. This new edition includes an introduction by Julie R. Enszer, a...

This bilingual anthology of fifty one poems selected from Júdice’s extensive poetic opus covers the years of 1967 to 2005 and contains the original Portuguese poems face à face with their English translations. Although his works have been translated into twelve languages in twenty...

The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry brings lesser-known Irish voices to an American audience. In this fourth volume, editor David Wheatley, himself an established poet and critic, has selected poetry by Trevor Joyce, Aidan Mathews, Peter McDonald, Ailbhe Darcy, and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh. Each...

This beautifully presented special edition is the pinnacle of the Poetry Treasures series. It contains all four volumes of the series, in one stunning book that will delight and inspire even the least poetic among us. It is a beautiful work of poetry.

Seasonal Lives Poetry Collection: With Me is a collection of Poetry about love, life, seasons, situations, myths, food, et cetera.It's a general poetry book for all ages with a relatable poem for anyone. The poetry progresses through the changes of growing up to follow a path of confidence. From inspirational poems to fun poems, there is an array of poems.

The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness...

As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this timely reissue, first published in 1991, evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe, arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary phenomenon. As well as locating the work of well-known...

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. It explores a uniquely wide...

Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms...

This book, first published in 1988, does not concern the theory of poetry so much as the poetry of theory: a poetry that theorizes, that has a "view" on things, that thinks. What or what things does poetry think about, and what do we mean by thinking? The author attempts to answer these...

Reviews from Stephens previous book Wind in My Head have been so positive. His new book Words of Want is expected to generate the same excitement! -Amazon Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars The Big Blush, July 24, 2012 By bayvillegirl This review is from: Wind In My Head: Volume 3 A Collection Of Our...

American Heritage contains a comprehensive collection of the best poetry previously published in three volumes, Beyond Darkness and Light, Guardian Angel and American Heartland Poetry. Roy Peterson is the quintessential poetry and prose author hearkening back to the great poets in the Pantheon that...

"The poems successfully maintain a delicate balance, a unique and distinct interior logic." --Philadelphia City Paper "The poems in Daisy Fried's first collection of poetry read like tough, urban fables. Formally innovative and thematically challenging, these poems traverse the geography...