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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman ...

In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. ... Read more

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In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter.
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Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick

The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA PICK • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver, a definitive and enduring collection of her best work“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA PICK • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver, a definitive and enduring collection of her best work“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment,
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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 ... Read more

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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
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The Crown Ain't Worth Much

by Hanif Abdurraqib ...

2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Poetry Honorable Mention 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Grand Prize Short List 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, ... Read more

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2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Poetry Honorable Mention 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Grand Prize Short List 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems,
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A Fortune for Your Disaster

Poems

by Hanif Abdurraqib ...

“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” —Booklist, Starred ReviewIn his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about ... Read more

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“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” —Booklist, Starred ReviewIn his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about
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Winter Hours

Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

by Mary Oliver ...

"On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, a work of reflective memoir accompanied by a ... Read more

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"On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, a work of reflective memoir accompanied by a
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The Complete Collection of John Dos Passos. Illustrated

U.S.A. Trilogy, District of Columbia Trilogy, Plays, Poetry, and Non-Fiction

by John Dos Passos ...

This comprehensive collection brings together the literary genius of John Dos Passos, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. Spanning novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, it captures the breadth and depth of his exploration of American society, politics, and culture. At the heart of the collection is the U.S.A. Trilogy, a landmark series that blends innovative ... Read more

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This comprehensive collection brings together the literary genius of John Dos Passos, one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. Spanning novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, it captures the breadth and depth of his exploration of American society, politics, and culture. At the heart of the collection is the U.S.A. Trilogy, a landmark series that blends innovative
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Fear Less

Poetry in Perilous Times

by Tracy K. Smith ...

Series series A Norton Short
**"Wonderful.” —David Kirby, New York Times Book ReviewA Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world.**Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as “inaccessible,” “irrelevant,” or “intimidating.” She argues that ... Read more

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**"Wonderful.” —David Kirby, New York Times Book ReviewA Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world.**Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as “inaccessible,” “irrelevant,” or “intimidating.” She argues that
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

by Ocean Vuong ...

The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016“There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from... ... Read more

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The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016“There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from...
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In the Middle of a Better World

Poems

by Grant Chemidlin ...

A poetry collection about gay love, belonging, and being fully seen.In the Middle of a Better World is a queer guide to love and identity, a collection both formally inventive and infused with a bright, shimmering imagination. Part elegy, part battle cry, this highly anticipated new collection by Grant Chemidlin is unabashedly joyous in its exploration of desire, human connection, and community ... Read more

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A poetry collection about gay love, belonging, and being fully seen.In the Middle of a Better World is a queer guide to love and identity, a collection both formally inventive and infused with a bright, shimmering imagination. Part elegy, part battle cry, this highly anticipated new collection by Grant Chemidlin is unabashedly joyous in its exploration of desire, human connection, and community
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

by Audre Lorde ...

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her ... Read more

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A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her
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FRANK O'HARA Ultimate Collection: 100+ Poems in One Volume (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Meditations in an Emergency, Lunch Poems, A City Winter, A Pathetic Note…

by Frank O'Hara, Faye Roswell ...

FRANK O'HARA Ultimate Collection: 100+ Poems in One Volume gathers the quicksilver intelligence, urban immediacy, and conversational brilliance that made O'Hara central to postwar American poetry. These poems move through museums, streets, friendships, love affairs, movies, and lunch-hour errands with a style at once casual and highly wrought. Rooted in the New York School, they combine Abstract ... Read more

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FRANK O'HARA Ultimate Collection: 100+ Poems in One Volume gathers the quicksilver intelligence, urban immediacy, and conversational brilliance that made O'Hara central to postwar American poetry. These poems move through museums, streets, friendships, love affairs, movies, and lunch-hour errands with a style at once casual and highly wrought. Rooted in the New York School, they combine Abstract
... Read more
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

A Novel

by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers ...

A Kirkus "Best Book of the 21st Century"An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S "GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS" • BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times • Time • Washington Post • Oprah Daily • People<... ... Read more

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A Kirkus "Best Book of the 21st Century"An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S "GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS" • BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times • Time • Washington Post • Oprah Daily • People<...
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The Wilds of Poetry

Adventures in Mind and Landscape

by David Hinton ...

An exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avant-garde poets --a thrilling journey with today's premier translator of the Chinese classics.Henry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was ... Read more

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An exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avant-garde poets --a thrilling journey with today's premier translator of the Chinese classics.Henry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was
... Read more
Seeing the Body

Poems

by Rachel Eliza Griffiths ...

**Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in PoetryAn elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing.**Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.In radiant poems—set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of ... Read more

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**Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in PoetryAn elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing.**Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.In radiant poems—set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of
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A Working Girl Can't Win

and Other Poems

by Deborah Garrison ...

Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work. ... Read more

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Deborah Garrison, whose work as an editor and writer has enlivened the pages of The New Yorker for more than a decade, evokes the characters and events of her everyday life with intense feeling and, more important, conjures up the universal dilemmas and pleasures of a young woman trying to come to terms with love and work.
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Faithful and Virtuous Night

by Louise Glück ...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWinner of the National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times) Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. ... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWinner of the National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times) Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. ...
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The New Testament

by Jericho Brown ...

Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library JournalNPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of ... Read more

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Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library JournalNPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of
... Read more
The Waste Land

by T.S. Eliot ...

One of the greatest poems in the English language.The Waste Land is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, a beautiful examination of themes of decay and despair. Like many of his works, it alludes frequently to famous pieces of literature and legend, in this case most prominently to the legends of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King.Several images and lines from The Waste Land have become lodged in the popular ... Read more

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One of the greatest poems in the English language.The Waste Land is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, a beautiful examination of themes of decay and despair. Like many of his works, it alludes frequently to famous pieces of literature and legend, in this case most prominently to the legends of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King.Several images and lines from The Waste Land have become lodged in the popular
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Averno

Poems

by Louise Glück ...

A ravishing collection by Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureAverno is a small crater lake in southern , regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds ... Read more

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A ravishing collection by Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureAverno is a small crater lake in southern , regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds
... Read more
War of the Foxes

by Richard Siken ...

“This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you.”—NPR.org"Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."—Huffington PostIn reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the ***New York Times***wrote that "his territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse." In this long-awaited follow ... Read more

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“This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you.”—NPR.org"Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."—Huffington PostIn reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the ***New York Times***wrote that "his territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse." In this long-awaited follow
... Read more
Sanctificum

by Chris Abani ...

“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal“Stunning poems.” —New HumanistA self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and ... Read more

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“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal“Stunning poems.” —New HumanistA self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and
... Read more
Asked What Has Changed

by Ed Roberson ...

Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
Finalist for Griffin International Poetry Prize, given by The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2022Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry's orbit what the physical and human ... Read more

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Finalist for Griffin International Poetry Prize, given by The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2022Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry's orbit what the physical and human
... Read more
The History of Forgetting

by Lawrence Raab ...

Series series Penguin Poets
Lawrence Raab's richest work to date-his saddest, funniest, most personal, and most searching bookOf Lawrence Raab 's 1972 debut, Mark Strand wrote:"This is a first book with more authority and wisdom in it than most poets are able to manage in their entire careers. I am amazed by its casualness and clarity, its forcefulness, its engrossing strangeness." Mystery and strangeness remain at the heart ... Read more

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Lawrence Raab's richest work to date-his saddest, funniest, most personal, and most searching bookOf Lawrence Raab 's 1972 debut, Mark Strand wrote:"This is a first book with more authority and wisdom in it than most poets are able to manage in their entire careers. I am amazed by its casualness and clarity, its forcefulness, its engrossing strangeness." Mystery and strangeness remain at the heart
... Read more

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Leaves of Grass

Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick

The Complete Poetry

The Crown Ain't Worth Much

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Winter Hours

The Complete Collection of John Dos Passos. Illustrated

Fear Less

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

In the Middle of a Better World

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

FRANK O'HARA Ultimate Collection: 100+ Poems in One Volume (Annotated)

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Wilds of Poetry

Seeing the Body

A Working Girl Can't Win

Faithful and Virtuous Night

The New Testament

The Waste Land

Averno

War of the Foxes

Sanctificum

Asked What Has Changed

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