Letters to America
By: Fred D'Aguiar
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Choice. This is Fred D'Aguiar's fourth Carcanet collection, an…
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1. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
2. Picasso, I Want My Face Back
By: Grace Nichols
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' latest collection,… read more
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3. Her Birth
By: Rebecca Goss
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A poem sequence that is spare, tender, and haunting, this book navigates the difficult territory of… read more
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4. Selected Poems
By: Derek Walcott , Edward Baugh
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous piece… read more
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5. Silence in the Snowy Fields
By: Robert Bly
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and c… read more
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6. Monologue of a Dog
By: Wisława Szymborska , Billy Collins , Stanisław Barańczak , Clare Cavanagh
3.33
Format: None pages,
From a writer whom Charles Simic calls "one of the finest poets living" comes a collection of witty… read more
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7. Stag's Leap: Poems
By: Sharon Olds
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more
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8. Our Andromeda
By: Brenda Shaughnessy
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A heady, infectious celebration."--The New Yorker "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware,… read more
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9. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
10. Balladz
By: Sharon Olds
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for… read more
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11. The Kids
By: Hannah Lowe
4.01
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of co… read more
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12. Poems 1962-2020
By: Louise Glück
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fif… read more
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13. Bad Diaspora Poems
By: Momtaza Mehri
4.29
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more
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14. Self-Portrait as Othello
By: Jason Allen-Paisant
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more
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15. The Illustrated Woman
By: Helen Mort
3.94
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
The brilliant new collection from T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet Helen MortLet m… read more
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16. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
17. Eye Level: Poems
By: Jenny Xie
4.14
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New… read more
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"Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill."-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"Like a mule I understand one suffers by the load one chooses"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"[13] (from "Visual Orders") Look at how I perform for you Look at how you perform for me An eye for an eye is how you and I take on forms in the mind"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
18. To 2040
By: Jorie Graham
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more
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19. The English Summer
By: Holly Hopkins
3.48
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. A Poetry Book Society special commenda… read more
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20. Arrow
By: Sumita Chakraborty
4.18
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy M… read more
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21. Latch
By: Rebecca Goss
4.54
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Latch is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and underst… read more
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22. The Glimmer
By: Shazea Quraishi
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists’ col… read more
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23. Sonnets for Albert
By: Anthony Joseph
3.99
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more
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24. Egg/Shell
By: Victoria Kennefick
4.43
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / … read more
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25. Anteckningar
By: Tua Forsström
3.78
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
"När de frågade W.H. Auden om poesin kan förändra samhället sa han nej, kan poesin förändra männis… read more
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26. The Wrong Person to Ask
By: Marjorie Lotfi
4.10
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Marjorie Lotfi’s award-winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the i… read more
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27. Letters to America
By: Fred D'Aguiar
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Choice. This is Fred D'Aguiar's fourth Carcanet collection, an… read more
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28. Honorifics
By: Cynthia Miller
4.21
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Cynthia Miller’s debut poetry collection, Honorifics, is an astonishing, adventurous, and innovativ… read more
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29. Notes from a Shipwreck
By: Jessica Mookherjee
4.07
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Notes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed … read more
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30. Rotten Days in Late Summer
By: Ralf Webb
3.84
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an examination of the textures of class, y… read more
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31. The Insomnia Poems
By: Grace Nichols
3.77
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In her latest collection, Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours where Sleep (the thief who n… read more
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