Readers' Advisory: Poetry

The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath This collection contains 224 poems, including a selection of her very earliest work. Also use: Crossing the River (1971), a volume that contains the poet's last works. Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes. Annotation. Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes

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Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. The volume features works by seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to read and appreciate the poems in English. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained. #eBook

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman; foreword by Oprah Winfrey

"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."

The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry by [editors] Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington

Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems written over the last fifty years. The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetryin cludes numerous distinguished prose poets; Jordie Albiston, Joanne burns, Gary Catalano, Anna Couani, Alex Skovron, Samuel Wagan Watson, Ania Walwicz and many more; and documents prose poetry's growing appeal over recent decades, from the poetic margins to the mainstream. This collection reframes our understanding not only of this dynamic poetic form, but of Australian poetry as a whole. #eBook

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"--In a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.

Words For War: New Poems From Ukraine edited by Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky. "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. In addressing these themes, the poems also raise questions about art, politics, citizenship, and moral responsibility. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity." #ReadingCulture #eBook

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100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, translated from Spanish to English by Gustavo Escobedo. The original title is 'Cien sonetos de amor.'

Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman

Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is "The Hill We Climb," which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration.

Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations, edited by Malashri Lal

This book presents a range of Rabindranath Tagore's creative works, including translations of short stories, essays, poems, memoirs, songs and plays from his vast corpus to show his conception of the feminine and gender identity that are relevant even today. The editor establishes the search for Tagore's engagement with the feminine as subject and agency, character and voice, philosophy and politics in this book. There is rich cultural interplay as Tagore muses over the contrasting social position of women in the ‘East'and the ‘West'. He relies on Indian traditions to understand them in the context of domestic ethics, marital institutions, parenting, empowerment, aesthetics and gender politics. The book includes new translations while presenting fresh insights into previously published works. #eBook

Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe "Featuring seven new, never-before-published poems in addition to Chinua Achebe's award-winning earlier work, Collected Poems makes available again after more than twenty-five years the poetry of Africa's foremost novelist. From an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships, Achebe's poems are marked by a richness of language and blend simplicity and eloquence, fierceness and tenderness and a careful attention to the minute - a facial expression, a wrinkled hand, a sunbeam."

A Selection of Short Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Behold: a selection of short stories from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe. #eBook

Gitanjali: Song Offerings, a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore ; with an introduction by W.B. Yeats. In this 'Song offerings', Tagore uses modernized images from classical Indian love poetry to symbolize his yearning to merge with the Supreme. So the mudstained traveller, the parched summer earth, the bride awaiting the return of her lord, the first monsoon shower, the flowers, the rivers and the conch are images which gain a mystical depth in these poems. Included in this edition is W.B. Yeats' Introduction to Tagore's English translation of the work. #eBook

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo; with a foreword by Sandra Cisneros

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

Still Life: Poems by Jay Hopler

Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler-author of the National Book Award-finalist The Abridged History of Rainfall-got to work. The result of that labor is Still Life, a collection of poems that are heartbreaking, terrifying, and deeply, darkly hilarious. In an attempt to find meaning in a life ending right before his eyes, Hopler squares off against monsters real and imagined, personal and historical, and tries not to flinch. This work is no elegy; it's a testament to courage, love, compassion, and the fierceness of the human heart. It's a violently funny but playfully serious fulfillment of what Arseny Tarkovsky called the fundamental purpose of art: a way to prepare for death, be it far in the future or very near at hand. #eBook

Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems Poetry about Nigeria, civil war, and the Nigerian-Biafran War by Chinua Achebe.

Poems and Prose of Mihai Eminescu This new edition of poems and prose by Mihai Eminescu commemorates the 130th anniversary of the death of Romania's national poet. This book includes a selection of the best English-language renditions of poems and prose by this remarkable cultural figure of the nineteenth-century, whom the British writer George Bernard Shaw once referred to as “the Moldavian who raised the XVIII-XIX fin de siècle from its grave.” It is undeniable that to have an appreciation of Romanian culture one must become acquainted with the works of Mihai Eminescu. The leading cultural figure of nineteenth century Romania, Eminescu (1850-1889) was not only a poet, but also a philosopher, prose writer, translator, and journalist. The selections in this volume include English language versions of some of Eminescu's best-known poems such as Doina, Lacul,?i daca, Luceafarul, Oda (în metru antic), Mai am un singur dor, Scrisoarea III, and many others. It also includes English versions of his most important prose writings. This beautiful, deluxe volume also includes an introduction on the life and work of Eminescu by A.K. Brackob and original artwork by Ioana Lupu'oru. #eBook

A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales by the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo

Mvskoke tribal song and storytelling, Navajo and Hawaiian philosophies, the music of the Middle East, and the poetry of western civilizations can all be heard in these songs and stories that bear witness to the cruelties of history and the miracles of human kindness at the border between this century and the next.

Zimbolicious Anthology: Volume 4: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts

Volume 4, has nonfiction, poetry, an interview, fiction and incisive visual art! #eBook

Poems of the American South by [editor] David Biespiel

"An anthology of poems about the American South from the past four centuries."