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Read our blog post, "Ways to Connect with Poems & Celebrate National Poetry Month this April" to learn more.
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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By combining the ancient mysteries of Sappho with the contemporary wizardry of one of our most fearless and original poets, If Not, Winter provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho... |
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The Odyssey
Homer - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved... |
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Seamus Heaney - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel... |
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno
Dante Alighieri - Penguin Classics; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original, this Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Italian with an introduction by Mark Musa. This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves... |
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Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classics)
John Milton - Signet Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human. |
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The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi
Daniel Ladinsky
Format: Paperback
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The first full-length volume of Rumis cherished verse by bestselling poet Daniel Ladinsky Renowned for his poignant renderings of Hafizs mystical texts, Daniel Ladinsky captures the beauty, intimacy, and musicality of another of Islams most beloved poets and spiritual thinkers. In collaboration... |
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Basho: The Complete Haiku
Basho - Kodansha USA
Format: Print book
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Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.Yet despite his stature,... |
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Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson - Sterling
Format: Paperback
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See the beauty and magic of the everyday world through the eyes of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved and most renowned poets. Flowers, birds, sunrises, sunsets, the moon, and even her own existence take on surprising meanings and colorful illustrations accompany more than... |
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Leaves of Grass: The First
Walt Whitman - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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"I am large, I contain multitudes" When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American... |
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Hughes: Poems
Langston Hughes - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this... |
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry - Vintage; Rep Rei edition
Format: Paperback
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This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicagos South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family son Walter... |
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Bright Dead Things: Poems
Limón - Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century... |
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Joy Harjo - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited poetry collection by one of our most essential Native American voices.In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow... |
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Wade in the Water: Poems
TRACY K SMITH - Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not love's bladeSizing up the heart's familiar meat?We watch and grieve. We sleep,... |
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Every Day We Get More Illegal
Juan Felipe Herrera - City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year!A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope."Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid... |
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The Simple Truth: Poems
Philip Levine - Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 Written in a voice that moves between elegy and prayer, The Simple Truth contains thirty-three poems whose aim is to weave a complex tapestry of myth, history (both public and private) , family, memory, and invention in a search for truths so basic... |
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman - Viking Books
Format: Hardcover
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On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition. |
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Patriarchy Blues
Rena Priest - Moonpath Press
Format: Paperback
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"Rena Priest addresses those who crave 'the meat of beasts with beets and leeks.' And while she insists that 'Nature makes you pay, ' her poems tell us that through a 'wistful song of sighs.' The world is not always comfortable, but her poems never 'lose... |
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Cipota under the Moon: Poems (English and Spanish Edition)
Claudia Castro Luna - Tia Chucha
Format: Paperback
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In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws... |
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What the Sky Lacks
Thom Caraway - Korrektiv Press
Format: Paperback
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With an unwavering ascendancy of the austere, Thom Caraway's What the Sky Lacks explores the negative capability of uncertainties and mysteries in a landscape of ruthless severity and elusive beauty, "a world built of unknown language." While witnessing the stark refuge of cottonwood... |
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Instructions for My Mothers Funeral
Laura Read
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This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent move to a new house and a new life, a life in which she is always alert to the absences and danger but also a life in which she begins |
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Scarecrow Oracle: Poems (Poet Laureate)
Mark L Anderson - Korrektiv Press
Format: Paperback
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Mark Anderson's Scarecrow Oracle opens by "Going Backwards to Where It Starts" and then takes us forward through the speaker's childhood into his early adulthood, traveling through time as he stays rooted in place-the Spokane Valley, The Empyrean Coffee Shop, the Rockford... |
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Damn Good Cookie: Poems
Chris Cook - Korrektiv Press
Format: Print book
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In the Spokane tradition of Vachel Lindsay, Chris Cook sings. Before you register the dark humor, the sharp satire, or the elegant constructions of the meter, you'll notice the music of these poems. Whether at the park, in memory, or elsewhere on the periphery, Cook writes large-hearted... |
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