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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGood Poems for Hard Times
Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noel Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy · 356 pages
From the beloved creator of A Prairie Home Companion, a timely, thoughtful collection of poems that provide solace and wisdomWhen Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with" inspired thousands
The Wellspring
Sharon Olds · 88 pages
Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very well-spring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood - and, finally, to the depths of adult love. Always bold, musical, honest, these poems plunge us into the essence of experienc
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Kevin Powers · 96 pages
Offers poems capturing the life of a soldier, including waiting in the dusty Middle Eastern heat and writing a love letter back home.
El amor, las mujeres y la vida
Mario Benedetti · 212 pages
Los poemas del amor, las mujeres y la vida.
All the Words Are Yours: Haiku on Love
Tyler Knott Gregson · 144 pages
Tell Me
Kim Addonizio · 96 pages
"Tell Me examines the tangled ties that bind us to those we love - parents, siblings, children, friends, lovers or ex-lovers - in rhythm-driven verse, traditional forms and prose poems. The themes of love, loss and loneliness and the inevitability of the body's decay propel this collection."--BOOK JACKET.
The Bees
Carol Ann Duffy · 96 pages
'The Bees' is a collection of poetry from the pen of Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Weaving through the book is its presiding spirit, the bee, symbolizing what we have left of grace in the world and what is most precious for us to protect.
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
Robin Coste Lewis · 142 pages
Selected Poems
George Gordon Byron · 216 pages
George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788 and he inherited the barony in 1798. He went to school in Dulwich, and then in 1801 to Harrow. In 1805 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, later gaining a reputation in London for his startling good looks and extravagant behaviour. His first collection of poems, Hours of Idleness (1807), was not well received, but with the publication of the f