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"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. The book is organized into sections honoring...

A comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Emily Dickinson.

Guided by acclaimed poet Matthew Dickman’s signature “clarity and ability to engage” (David Kirby, New York Times), Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. Written after a separation and during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, Husbandry refuses romantic notions of parenting and embraces all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth. Dickman composes these poems entirely in vivid...

50 lyrical poems by the author express renewal of humanity in love and oneness with the natural.

"My fourth anthology of poetry is sub-titled, 'Intriguing Thoughts to Explore.' The largest section, nature, contains 13 poems, three of which are sonnets. 'Autumn Moon' is the first one and it may interest you to know that it was inspired by a line from a song by Led Zeppelin. 'Cry of the Driftwood' is the second sonnet, describing vividly the observations of water pollution. 'My Dream Domain' is the third sonnet in this category. The remaining selections...

A collection of humorous retellings of classic nursery rhymes by contemporary children's authors.

Twenty poets each share a poem about a mistake they made as a young person and also provide a short statement on what they learned from it.

This book collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering...