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Vendor: K. M. Halpern
The Man Who Stands in Line: A Collection of Very Short Works
Killer flies, amorous dinosaurs, angry buildings, and one very large fish --- all in a single volume. THE MAN WHO STANDS IN LINE takes a surreal and humorous view of the usual questions of self, purpose, and society. This quirky collection of flash fiction,...- $9.99
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Vendor: Rick Lupert
Beautiful Mistakes: Poetry from Portland, Seattle, and Twin Peaks
Rick Lupert's 22nd book - a collection of travel poetry written while exploring the Pacific Northwest including stops in Seattle, Washington (where there's coffee on every corner), Snoqualmie, Washington (better known as Twin Peaks), and Portland, Oregon (where everything is weird and there's even...- $19.95
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Vendor: Rick Lupert
Donut Famine
Rick Lupert's 20th book and latest poetic travelogue takes you to the Big Easy, New Orleans, Louisiana and environs where alligators were seen but not eaten, and cocktails were imbibed in the very spots they were invented. Filled with warmth and humor. Rick Lupert's...- $19.95
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Professor Clown on Parade
Rick Lupert's 18th book - a collection of travel poetry written on the go in the wilds of Burlington, Vermont, Portland, Maine and Hartford Connecticut. Force of Nature, Rick Lupert, and his wise wife, Addie, have been let loose in the Northeast, and the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Marla Melito
The Doppler Effect
Author: Marla MelitoISBN-10: 1944899782ISBN-13: 9781944899783Publisher: Finishing Line PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2016Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.08d- $13.99
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Vendor: Carlo Matos
Skate/Glove
Skate/Glove is a romance with the worlds of roller derby and mixed martial arts, where poetry and prizefighting intersect.Author: Carlo Matos, Nicole MatosISBN-10: 1944899251ISBN-13: 9781944899257Publisher: Finishing Line PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2016Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07d- $12.49
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Vendor: Trish Lindsey Jaggers
Holonym
Holonym is a collection of contemporary poems by award-winning Kentucky poet, Trish Lindsey Jaggers. Holonym, from the title poem, is the relationship of the "whole" that is created by its "parts." (Flower is the holonym of petal, stamen, and pistil; tree is the holonym...- $12.49
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Vendor: Dianna MacKinnon Henning
Cathedral of the Hand
Dianna Henning's evocative poems do not flinch a moment from their subject matter. These are poems that are mythical, reverential and mysterious, as well as hard won. Dianna wants to become the air the fox breathes, enter the spirit world of animals. She acknowledges...- $14.49
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Vendor: Dan Bellm
Deep Well
Poetry. California Interest. DEEP WELL, Dan Bellm's fourth collection of poems, is an extended homage and elegy for a mother lost to Alzheimer's Disease in 2010. The sequence is a book of memory and consolation, combining formal precision with plain speech, and interwoven with...- $16.00
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Vendor: Keith Montesano
Housefire Elegies
In Housefire Elegies, Keith Montesano continues his textured exploration of primal American fear and violence--not to glorify, but as an attempt to see through pain into a landscape lit with the fire of humanity. At times chilling yet compassionate, this book, like all important...- $15.95
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Vendor: Adam Crittenden
Blood Eagle
Joshua McKinney: "I had not thought death had undone so many," Dante said upon entering the underworld; six centuries later, Eliot quoted him in The Waste Land. In Blood Eagle, Adam Crittenden traces the reverberation of such awe through the underworld of our own...- $14.95
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Vendor: Sarah Sutro
ノtudes
Author: Sarah SutroISBN-10: 1944251863ISBN-13: 9781944251864Publisher: Finishing Line PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2016Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.09d- $14.49
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Vendor: Jeff Stumpo
Villains
Author: Jeff StumpoISBN-10: 1944251391ISBN-13: 9781944251390Publisher: Finishing Line PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2016Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07d- $12.49
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Vendor: Anne F. Walker
when the light of any action ceases
Author: Anne F. WalkerISBN-10: 194425126XISBN-13: 9781944251260Publisher: Finishing Line PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2016Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d- $14.49
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Vendor: Collin Kelley
Midnight in a Perfect World
"In Midnight in a Perfect World, Collin Kelley navigates the moody landscapes of desire, travels the dark edge of Eros in the 21st century of love, charting his passage in language sometimes brutal, sometimes lyrical, often both at once. And if that perfect world...- $15.00
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Vendor: Bryan Borland
Tourist
In the fall of 2016, Bryan Borland embarked on a book tour that took him across the United States. Set against the backdrop of a divisive presidential campaign with an unanticipated victor, an explosion in New York, a historic World Series, the largest poetry...- $10.00
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Vendor: Anthony Frame
Where Wind Meets Wing
Anthony Frame, by trade, is an exterminator. Frame is, also by trade, a poet. In Where Wind Meets Wing, Frame writes what he knows, inviting us into the delicate world of pests others pay to have extinguished. What is not expected is the tenderness...- $10.00
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Vendor: Al Black
Man With Two Shadows
In this book of poetry, Al Black takes the reader along on his own personal path to the death of a parent - a journey all of us ultimately take. As Black grieves for his father's passage, his poetry still rises hopeful and full...- $12.00
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Vendor: Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Persephone on the Metro
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in the spaces between Texas and Arkansas, Arkansas and Missouri, Texas and Louisiana. She is the author of two books, Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Books 2008) and Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda Books, 2000) and two chapbooks, After Happily Ever...- $7.95
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Vendor: J. Diego Frey
Umbrellas or Else: Poems
J Diego Frey is a product of suburban Colorado in the nineteen-seventies and an admirer of cheeseburgers. His poetry follows naturally from this. "Umbrellas or Else" is JD's first collection of poems. The title of the book was suggested to the poet by his...- $12.99
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Vendor: Eddie Morales
The Sonnet of Puerto Rico: El Soneto Borincano
A bilingual book of poetry with two goals. First, the author introduces a new sonnet form to add to the English (Shakespearean), Italian (Petrarchan), and Spanish sonnets called The Puerto Rican Sonnet, in honor of the island where he was born. Secondly, the book...- $9.95
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Vendor: Tony Magistrale
Entanglements
ENTANGLEMENTS is Tony Magistrale's third collection of poetry. The book contains poetry written in both Europe and the United States. Many of the poems reflect a certain awareness of Vermont as seasonal place and essence. Additionally, some of the poems bear black and white...- $15.00
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Vendor: Karina Tarnawsky
Modus Tollens: Improvised Poetic Devices
BLACK AND WHITE EDITION. In Modus Tollens Yuriy Tarnawsky fully develops the technique of Heuristic Poetry that relies on ambiguity, sketched out in some of his earlier collections, which forces the reader to create the poem for himself as he reads through the text,...- $18.00
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Vendor: Denise Duhamel
Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New Collaborations
Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations is the quirky love child of Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, award-winning poets who teamed up over twenty-five years ago to practice their collaborative skills on every topic they could joyfully exploit: feminism, gender, sex, witches, religion, the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Ralph Hamilton
Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail
At its heart, TEACHING A MAN TO UNSTICK HIS TAIL is a book about relationships, both with those closest to us and with ourselves. As Allison Joseph, editor of CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW says, "Ralph Hamilton's poetry is a tapestry stitched from flesh and beauty,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Phil Pochurek
The Other Side of the River: Poems
The Other Side of the River is a compilation of poetry and prose written from the banks of the McKenzie River. Phil Pochurek spent almost two years on the river as a resort manager and caretaker, but when his dream job ended in a...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kevin M. F. Platt
Hit Parade: The Orbita Group
Hit Parade is a bilingual Russian-English collection of poems by the four leading authors of the Orbita creative collective, based in Riga, Latvia: Semyon Khanin, Artur Punte, Vladimir Svetlov and Sergej Timofejev. Though their work is primarily written in Russian, the Orbita poets draw...- $18.00
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Vendor: Amy Delabruere
A Play of Light and Shadow
A Play of Light and Shadow is a compilation of vivid, introspective poems which focus on the effect of the world on the individual. Amy DeLaBruere finds a balance amidst contrasting topics of nature, crisis, music, politics, and tragedy. Her work exemplifies a beautiful...- $9.95
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Vendor: James Grinwis
The City from Nome
"I took the pill that shrinks you down. I gave the book the treatmentthat turns a book into a 3-dimensional self-contained universe within auniverse. I climbed in and began to walk around. It took me a while tocatch on. I was a little too...- $17.95
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Vendor: Howard Brunn
Flaps Up!: Poetry, Prose, and Pictures
"Flaps Up is a book from the heart of an amazing man. It is a chronological journey, through poetry and photos, of his life and love. But it is also an eloquent statement from the wisdom and optimism of a man who has lived...- $20.00
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Vendor: Patricia E. Neely-Dorsey
My Magnolia Memories and Musings- In Poems
In Magnolia Memories and Musings, Patricia Neely-Dorsey continues to "Celebrate the South and Things Southern." Her first collection of poems, Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia was called by one reviewer, a "love letter to the South." With Magnolia Memories and Musings, the love affair...- $15.00
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Vendor: Fartema Mae Fagin
Gentle Flower Growing Wild
A collection of 46 poems reflected through the eyes of the author that describes layers of emotions based on interpersonal relationships. The poems are inspirational and hopeful, and they paint vivid pictures of some life experiences that helped develop, grow and shape the author's...- $12.95
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Vendor: Zackary Sholem Berger
All the Holes Line Up: Poems and Translations
Zackary Sholem Berger is a poet, a Yiddish translator, a doctor. In this volume, he is also an observant Jew visiting other people's holy places and an American city dweller among the poets of pre-War Vilna and Yiddish-speaking Tel Aviv. Berger's observations and language...- $14.95
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Vendor: William Packard
The New York Quarterly, Number 48
Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus...- $18.95
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Vendor: William Packard
The New York Quarterly, Number 44
Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus...- $18.95
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Vendor: William Packard
The New York Quarterly, Number 27
Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus...- $18.95
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Vendor: William Packard
The New York Quarterly, Number 1
Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus...- $18.95
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Vendor: Anton Yakovlev
Chronos Dines Alone
Born in Moscow, Russia, Anton Yakovlev is a graduate of Harvard University currently living in the New York metropolitan area. He is the author of "Ordinary Impalers" (Kelsay Books, 2017) and two prior chapbooks. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Hopkins...- $8.49
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Vendor: Robert Sheppard
Hap: Understudies of Thomas Wyatt's Petrarch
Taking only the sonnets Wyatt 'translated' from Petrarch, but adding a few of his own, Robert Sheppard merges the historical Wyatt with his hysterical contemporary analogue, a reluctant civil servant of a corrupt administration. His world fluxes between Henrician terror, administered by Cromwell, and...- $9.00
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Vendor: Sara Hirsch
Louder than Words
Louder Than Words is the second poetry collection from spoken word educator Sara Hirsch; the former UK Slam Champion, ranked 3rd in the World Slam Championships (as seen on the BBC). Sara presents poems for and about young people and a selection of their...- $14.99
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Vendor: Arnie Wilson
A Limerick Romp Through Time
Thanks to the late Peter Tory's encouragement, who used almost 100 of my limericks in his Diary columns in the Star and The Sunday Express in the '80s and early '90s, I seem to be addicted to writing limericks. Or trying to. As often...- $13.81
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Vendor: Roy McFarlane
Beginning With Your Last Breath
This debut collection of poems by former Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane explores love, loss, adoption and identity in powerful, precise and emotionally-charged poetry. From bereavement comes forth a life story in poems; the journey of sons, friends, lovers and parents, and all the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Camilla Nelson
Apples & Other Languages
Author: Camilla NelsonISBN-10: 190944393XISBN-13: 9781909443938Publisher: Knives Forks and SpoonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2017Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.12d- $13.00
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Vendor: Jim Chapson
Daphnis & Ratboy
Specifically drawing on the pastoral traditions of Greek poetry, Chapson's book contains an extended imitation of the work of Theocritus, the third-century poet widely considered the father of the idyll.Author: Jim ChapsonISBN-10: 1903631572ISBN-13: 9781903631577Publisher: Arlen HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2009Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w...- $19.95
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Vendor: Marlena Dees
The One You Left Behind
Rejection as a child by a beloved father prompts the poignant writing of Marlena Dees. Heart and soul revealed.Author: Marlena DeesISBN-10: 1894936949ISBN-13: 9781894936941Publisher: Good Red Road Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2007Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d- $12.95
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Vendor: Brendan Ryan
The lowlands of Moyne
Ryan draws poetry from the tough work of dairy farming and factories, poetry that transcends time and class, it's a joy to read this book, laced with dry humour and a complex humanity. Hard edged yet inviting. Ryan has a light touch and a...- $14.00
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Vendor: Allen Fisher
Gravity as a consequence of shape
Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited paintings in many shows, including one-man shows in London in 2003 and in Hereford, 2013. The poems in...- $25.00
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Vendor: Bill Griffiths
Collected Poems Volume 3
This is the third, and projected to be the final, volume of Reality Street's edition of Bill Griffiths' Collected Poems, which began with Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010 and continued in Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91) in 2014. The sequence spans 30 years...- $25.00
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Vendor: Bill Griffiths
Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91)
Reality Street published Bill Griffiths' Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. This successor volume collects work from the following decade, bringing back into print poetry that appeared in hard-to-obtain small editions or was previously uncollected or unpublished. Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar,...- $25.00
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Vendor: C. Smith
Spanish Ballads
The Spanish ballad is well documented from the 16th to the 20th century in substantial, though declining, oral sources, chiefly in Castilian but also in Judeo-Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese. The 70 ballads in this volume are taken from 16th-century printed sources, from the period...- $30.95
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Poetry Books
Poetry books are a collection of literary works that focus on the art and expression of the written word through verse. They have been an integral part of human history, with evidence of poetic writings dating back to ancient civilizations.
Poetry books encompass a wide range of themes, styles, and forms, reflecting the diverse perspectives, emotions, and experiences of poets throughout different eras. From love to nature, politics to spirituality, poetry explores various subjects and serves as a medium to convey thoughts and feelings in a unique and creative way. The structure and format of poetry books can vary greatly. Some collections consist of individual poems written by a single author, while others may contain the works of multiple poets compiled together. They can be organized by themes, chronology, or even by different poetic styles and movements.
Poetry books are not only a source of artistic enjoyment, but they also offer insights into different cultures, periods, and social issues. They provide a medium for self-reflection, introspection, and contemplation. Many readers find solace, inspiration, and a deep connection with the emotions and experiences expressed in poetic verses. The popularity of poetry books has endured throughout history, transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries. From ancient epics like "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, to classic works like Shakespeare's sonnets, to contemporary collections like Rupi Kaur's "Milk and Honey," poetry has always remained relevant and influential.
Whether you are a poetry enthusiast, a lover of literature, or someone interested in exploring emotions, ideas, and the beauty of language, poetry books offer an immersive experience that can touch hearts, provoke thoughts, and inspire change.
Popular Poetry Books
Poetry books have always captivated readers with their rhythmic verses, vivid imagery, and poignant emotion. They have the power to transport us to different worlds, evoke deep feelings, and make us see ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Within the vast world of poetry, there are several notable and popular books that have left an indelible mark on literature and continue to enchant readers to this day. Let us explore some of these beloved poetry collections.
1. "Milk and Honey"
2. "The Sun and Her Flowers"
3. "Milk and Vine"
4. "Magnetic Poetry: Original Kit"
5. "The Classic Hundred Poems"
These popular poetry books represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse offerings within the genre. Whether you seek to be moved, inspired, entertained, or enlightened, there is a poetry collection out there waiting to captivate your imagination, stir your emotions, and leave a lasting impression on your literary journey.
Popular Poetry Books Authors
The world of poetry has produced numerous celebrated authors whose words continue to captivate and resonate with readers across generations. From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, these poets have left an indelible mark on the literary landscape.
1. William Shakespeare
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Robert Frost
4. Maya Angelou
5. Langston Hughes.
6. Rumi
These authors represent just a fraction of the exceptionally talented poets whose works have left a lasting impact on the world of literature. Through their poetry books, they invite readers to explore the depth of human emotion, question societal norms, and find solace in the beauty of language.
Whether you are an admirer of classic poetry or a novice looking to explore this enchanting genre, White Rain Book House welcomes you with open arms. Step into this haven of literary delights, and allow the words of renowned poets, beautifully encapsulated in their poetry books, to transport you to a world of emotions and imagination.

