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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda · 68 pages

Synopsis: First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief. Drawn from the poet's most intimate and personal associations, the poems combine eroticism and the natural world with the influence of expressionism and the ge

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Love & Misadventure

Lang Leav · 176 pages

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Mouthful of Forevers

Clementine von Radics · 112 pages

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Stag's Leap: Poems

Sharon Olds · 96 pages

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The Anatomy of Being

Shinji Moon · 104 pages

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A Night Without Armor

Jewel · 149 pages

In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic

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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Robert Frost · 130 pages

"A deluxe edition of Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem alo

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I Wrote This for You, 2007-2017

Iain S. Thomas · 316 pages

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The Complete Sonnets and Poems

William Shakespeare · 258 pages

"This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets. It contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. John Roe's introduction to the two long narrative poems examines their place within the classical and Renaissance European traditions, comparing Sh

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Thirst

Mary Oliver · 79 pages

In this collection of 43 new poems the author grapples with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years. She strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not it end. She also chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

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What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe · 91 pages

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I Wrote This For You

pleasefindthis, Iain S. Thomas · 216 pages

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson · 770 pages

The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.

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Selected Poems

Marina Tsvetaeva · 160 pages

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No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay · 100 pages

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Selected Poems

Anna Akhmatova · 173 pages

Includes selections from Evening, Rosary, White flock, Plantain, Anno Domini, Reed, The Seventh book.

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Kaddish and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg · 104 pages

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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

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Love, an Index

Rebecca Lindenberg · 96 pages

"A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fierce debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story—in verse—of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg's billowing, "I contain multitudes" style lays bare the poet's sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric and na

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Bright Dead Things

Ada Limon · 116 pages

"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"--

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The Surrender Theory

Caitlin Conlon · 148 pages

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Dirty Pretty Things

Michael Faudet · 278 pages

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