The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: Paisley Rekdal
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award…
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1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry
By: Rita Dove
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, P… read more
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3. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
By: Anne Lamott
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more
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4. Dancing in Odessa
By: Ilya Kaminsky
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more
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5. The Art of the Poetic Line
By: James Longenbach
5.00
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each b… read more
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6. Good Poems for Hard Times
By: Charles Bukowski , None , Thomas Hardy , X.J. Kennedy , Raymond Carver , Jim Harrison , Hilaire Belloc , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Emily Dickinson , E.E. Cummings , Herman Melville , Wendell Berry , William Blake , Elizabeth Bishop , John Berryman , John Donne , John Keats , Galway Kinnell , Stephen Dunn , Jane Kenyon , Garrison Keillor , Grace Paley , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Mary Oliver , Howard Nemerov , W.S. Merwin , Carl Sandburg , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Maxine Kumin , Louis MacNeice , Kenneth Rexroth , Jennifer Michael Hecht , Robert Burns , Donald Hall , Robert Frost , Billy Collins , Noël Coward , Hayden Carruth , Rita Dove , Sharon Olds , Stephen Dobyns , Patricia Hampl , Lawrence Raab , Carl Dennis , Philip Booth , David Ignatow , Erica Funkhouser , Fleur Adcock , None , None , None
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in… read more
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7. New Collected Poems
By: Wendell Berry
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Wendell Berry's upcoming The New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immen… read more
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8. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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9. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
By: Anne Lamott
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
A chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectionate, wise and very … read more
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11. Best American Poetry 2016
By: David Lehman , Edward Hirsch
4.33
Format: 228 pages, ebook
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues--guest edited this year by award-wi… read more
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12. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
By: Gregg Olsen
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more
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13. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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14. Good Poems
By: Garrison Keillor
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanacon public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them… read more
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15. The World Doesn't End
By: Charles Simic
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more
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16. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
17. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
18. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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19. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
20. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
21. The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: David Lehman
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry , “a ‘best’ antho… read more
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22. The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: Paisley Rekdal
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award… read more
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23. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
24. Indigo
By: Ellen Bass
4.48
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life… read more
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25. Dearly
By: Margaret Atwood
3.74
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more
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"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
26. The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: Tracy K. Smith
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the f… read more
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27. The Best American Poetry 2023 (The Best American Poetry series)
By: David Lehman
3.49
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry ,… read more
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28. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019
By: Laura Furman
3.80
Format: 457 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short … read more
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29. Cheap Motels of My Youth
By: George Bilgere
4.45
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In Cheap Motels of My Youth, George Bilgere continues his explorations, both funny and poignant, of… read more
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30. The Best American Poetry 2018
By: Dana Gioia
3.74
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry —“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title… read more
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31. Modern Irish Short Stories
By: Ben Forkner
3.89
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
A collection of 26 twentieth-century Irish short stories, including works by Samuel Beckett, James … read more
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