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Maya Angelou · 209 pages
Examines the life and accomplishments of the African American writer, performer, and teacher. Includes a selection of her poetry.
The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur · 256 pages
From rupi kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, root
The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
Mina Loy · 256 pages
There was a time when it was common to couple Mina Loy's name with that of W. C. Williams or Marianne Moore: her advanced contemporaries considered her a literary and artistic genius - a descendant of Sappho by way of Emily Dickinson. But the public was scandalized by her work, and some critics openly scorned it. Not only were her Futurist-inspired techniques unlike anything most readers had enco
Another Birth - Let Us Believe In The Beginning Of The Cold Season
Forough Farrokhzad · 123 pages
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
Nikki Giovanni · 512 pages
Ariel
Sylvia Plath · 96 pages
"A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death." Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
Robin Coste Lewis · 142 pages
Eat the World: A Collection of Poems
Marina Diamandis · 128 pages
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange · 64 pages
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
Christine Heppermann · 114 pages
Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves. There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. Self-doubt and self-confidence. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking. In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. Using fairy tale characters and tropes, Poisoned Apples explores how gir
The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton · 622 pages
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou, Linda Sunshine, Diego Rivera · 112 pages
Maya Angelou's third poetry collection, a unique celebration of life, consists of rhythms of strength, love, and remembrance, songs of the street, and lyrics of the heart.
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo · 238 pages
"Nobody warned you that the women whose feet you cut from running would give birth to daughters with wings. -- Ijeoma Umebinyuo"--Page 4 of cover.
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
Illona Linthwaite · 224 pages
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Nikita Gill · 176 pages
Power Politics
Margaret Atwood · 58 pages
When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s *Power Politics* startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, dir