Poetry

Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life.

I hope this book feels like a warm hug to you. I wrote this book for the ones who feel everything too deeply. You’re right, I wrote this book for you. This book was meant to find you if you’ve ever loved someone who didn’t love you back, if you’ve ever over-invested in the wrong people or if you have a hard time letting go. I Don’t Love You Anymore is a book that’ll feel like home to you. I promise it’ll hold you gently on your worst days.

A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker is a celebratory selection from 100 years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker. Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar: these stellar names make up just a fraction of the wonderfulness that is present in this essential anthology.

Through Coleman Barks’s translations, Rumi is the world’s most popular poet. The newest addition to HarperSanFrancisco’s “A Year With” series, A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Coleman’s mystical, elegant, and beautiful translations of Rumi’s poetry, for listening, reflection, and embarking upon your own journey inward.

Muchas veces tenemos que irnos a pesar del miedo, de las dudas, y de la falta de confianza. En esta ocasión, conocerás a Vespertine y viajarás de su mano luchando contra el temor a estar solo, el falso apego y la aceptación a la muerte. Entre poemas y narrativa Vespertine cuenta su historia. Sangrando cada escrito para cicatrizar el dolor de la pérdida, y el reto de emprender un viaje solo, en el que una sacudida a su realidad sirve de boleto y las respuestas son el único destino.

Pope's mastery of the heroic couplet and his perceptive wit are apparent in the many epigrams and epitaphs that he composed. The subjects of these snippets of verse are widely varied, ranging from encomiums to great celebrities like Sir Isaac Newton to witty soupçons, like that attached to the collar of a dog that the poet gave to Prince George (later King George II).

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature.

A book about contemporary American experience reflects on people and their experience of the natural and built environment. Scenes in the forest to library restrooms, migrant workers picking strawberries and reflections on the search for God, Sunday school teachers and children, dealing with obesity and strokes all find a place in this diverse collection about American society at the beginning of the 21st century.

In this work, I am inviting you to embark on a journey with me. That journey is poetry—the story of my life.

A unique collection of diverse poems written over a lifetime by the author.

Words Are Snakes with Arms is a bold and heartfelt poetry anthology by Alex Brown, encapsulating a year in the author's life through a series of intimate, daily reflections. Each poem serves as a microcosm of a single day, capturing the raw emotions and thoughts experienced in real-time. The collection invites listeners to explore the highs and lows of human existence, from joy and passion to despair and confusion, presented with unflinching honesty and poetic grace.

In life’s kitbag of essentials food and drink are right at the top. Their variety and ways to consume are a wonder, both of nature’s offerings and human creativity. For our classic poets ranging from Ancient Romans to Elinor Wylie and Rainer Maria Rilke, their recipes for verse using the simple ingredients of words and imagination are a wonderful and enduring example of their craft and art applied to the one thing mankind looks forward to each and every day.

These four poems, which deal with ethical issues, were collated and published in 1751 by William Warburton, seven years after Pope's death.

Dark Way Down, a road trip in verse, is a speculative continuation of David Bowie's album, Station to Station, featuring the iconic David Bowie character, the Thin White Duke. The collection explores gender, addiction, occultism, and toxic queer masculinity through the lens of the Duke’s lesbian daughter, a mixed-up queering of bygone relics and Casanova. From Lauren Parker's pensive daydreams out of Dodge, the Daughter of the Duke drives a rickey Chevelle from Bel Air to the Mesas of New Mexico seeking the place where her father was last seen. This is the story of what she found.

“Life on Earth: Poetic Perspectives”, a compelling collection of 200 thoughtprovoking poems that capture the essence of human experience. From inspiring verses that ignite the spirit to practical advice that navigates life’s challenges, this anthology offers a unique blend of inspiration and wisdom. Dive into the depths of human emotions, explore the beauty of nature, and find solace in the power of words.

"EarthArt" is a poetic journey that captures the timeless beauty and delicate rhythms of the natural world. Through 100 intricately crafted haikus, the book celebrates the elements of earth, water, air, and fire while exploring their intersections with human emotions and experiences. Each haiku in EarthArt serves as a snapshot of nature’s wonders—from the first bloom of spring to the quiet stillness of a snow-covered field.

"Inked with Perseverance", A collection of poems filled with resilience, A group poetry filled with resilience, The words dance and intertwine like ink on a page, Inked with Perseverance. These stories are full of strength and triumph over life's challenges. Through vivid imagery and heartfelt verse, each poem in this heartfelt anthology takes place in its own unique and engaging way, In each poem, disability struggles and triumphs are portrayed through vivid imagery and heartfelt poetry.

Amidst an otherwise routine blink, you have just caught glimpse of a curious and unfamiliar binding - one that promises only to lead you gradually off the wayside. Its destination: past the charming whims of poetic joviality into the snarky silhouette of an umbral fowl.

Threadgill offers the listener various entryways to witness the magnificence and fragility of our voices and of our lives. As a performing professional vocalist, songwriter, recording artist, and bandleader, she began Lost & Found during the pandemic—born from many years of teaching voice, the Alexander Technique, and practicing meditation and meditative movement.

In the hills of Sparta, Tennessee, during the early nineties, Helen decides to break free from the life that stifles her: marriage, motherhood, the monotonous duties of a Southern housewife. But leaving isn’t the same thing as staying gone. Rooted in a lush landscape, this poetry collection explores Helen’s isolation and rebellion as her expansive personality clashes with the social rigidity of her small town. In layered poems with settings that range from football games to Chuck E. Cheese to the bathroom of a Motel 6, Helen enters adulthood as a disaffected homemaker grasping for agency.

Was würde passieren, wenn nicht Gottes Wille, sondern unser eigenes Wünschen und Wollen alles bestimmen könnte. Wie würde unsere kleine Welt dann aussehen. Eine abenteuerliche Geschichte voll Weisheit und Humor.

Adonai, der himmlische Schöpfer, schenkt Seinen Menschenkindern ein großes Vermächtnis: Wurzeln und Flügel. Erfahre mehr von diesem wundersamen Geheimnis des Himmels.

Anton Huber hatte seine Frau verloren und damit auch den Sinn in seinem Leben. Erst der Geruch von Kardamom Plätzchen brachte neue Hoffnung und das Leben zu ihm zurück. Jetzt konnte es Weihnachten werden.

Charlotta lehrt ihren Opa Claudius dieses Mal das Geheimnis des Wartens. Ohne Warten könnte vieles im Leben gar nicht erst in Existenz kommen. Diese Entdeckung ist enorm wichtig für ungeduldige Persönlichkeiten.

Diese Geschichte handelt von jemanden, der viele Fragen ans Leben hat. Que sera – was wird sein? Schließlich trifft er jemanden, der eine sehr gute Antwort auf diese Frage für ihn hat.