Poetry category: 46548 books

Look for the healing in the hurting. No matter who you are or what you do, everyone has experienced problems in their lives. Prayers, those answered and yet to be answered, have been a way to channel that negative energy into something possibly positive. Poetry is an outlet to express ones innermost...

Attic Pieces is a debut collection of narrative poems covering a variety of themes set in rural towns as well as big cities, as seen through the eyes of the old and young alike. To a veteran astronaut unsure of home, to a soldier afraid to leave his, to a fishing town and farmer in their last days;...

Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 1, containing poetry by Jenna Bazzell, Martin Anthony Call and Campbell McGrath, is the first volume in the Floodgate Poetry Series, an annual series of books collecting three chapbooks by three poets in a single volume.  Campbell McGrath’s Picasso/Mao...

Tony Scanlon has been publishing poetry since the mid-1960s. A number of poems in this collection have won major awards, including the Jesse Litchfield Award for N.T. Literature in 1990. He has twice won the Red Earth Poetry (N.T.) prize.Tony's poems appear in many anthologies of contemporary...

Global Dream of Poetry Forever. Is words aged of century till today I have related their cultures, history's and Geographic's in my feelings I feel described in art. Poetry is expressions of emotions rhymes metaphorical symmetries to the writers expo in words to relative people. I see my resembled...

Celebrate The Holidays With The Simple Things: A Poetry Collection is a mini book that contains poetry of the many different things that we experience during the Holiday season. From gingerbread cookies to opening gifts, this book has it all for the inspirational and Holiday spirit that we look for....

I WAS BORN IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY BUT WAS RAISED BY MY AUNT CARRIE AND UNCLE BASS IN PARIS TENNESSEE. I WAS ALWAYS A CREATED CHILD GROWING UP, BUT POETRY WAS NOT MY THING AT THE TIME, ART WAS. I WAS SO GOOD ONCE UPON A TIME THAT I WAS OFFERED A CAREER IN A ART SCHOOL. MY MOM WOULD NOT LET ME TAKE...

This book is a collection of poetry and experiences related by a Florida Cowboy. The Author explains the inspiration that led to most of these poems, and includes a brief personal history of himself and the cattle industry in the state of Florida in his Introduction to the book. He will continue writing...

This book of poetry will be read by all with an interest and passion for the love and caring for the other. With a greater outlook for our future and major improvement towards a lifestyle, this book is written from the views through the window of memories and life in general as we know it today from...

The English actress, poet and society beauty of the late eighteenth century, Mary Robinson was known as “the English Sappho” and earned her nickname “Perdita” for her celebrated role as the heroine of Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’. Robinson’s work has in more recent times received...

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings,...

Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to...

Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the idea of enjoyment from Plato to Peter Abelard and the troubadours, the book then presents a literary and philosophical...

hands on the hips is the newest volume of the collected poems of Jhon Z. Baker, compiled from published and unpublished poems. This is poetry for the real, poetry for the people, poetry for the moment, poetry to satiate the needs, poetry of an American outlaw. untitled (the sane) The sane point fingers...