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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorEl 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
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
Good 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
What We Carry
Dorianne Laux · 71 pages
Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration. Sculptured, fluid and generous, they reveal a poet whose vision is informed by experience and caring. Of her poetry and poetic odyssey, critic William O'Daly writes:
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 105 pages
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.