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Vendor: Ryan George Kittleman
The Honorable Mentions
A musician playing at the bottom of a lake. A contest for ugly smiles. Petty gossip and bizarre rituals. A village seemingly untethered from time and reality. Such is the world of The Honorable Mentions. Told through a series of dreamlike vignettes, The Honorable...- $9.99
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Vendor: Bill O'Connell
When We Were All Still Alive
Bill O'Connell explores the ancient and the new in these poems: the planet of rocks and soil and sea and the planet of the mind looking outward. What lives and dies are enfolded in time: O'Connell seeks to know nature's music and what humans...- $17.00
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Vendor: Anne Woodhull
Racing Heaven
New Poetry By Anne WoodhullRACING HEAVEN is about love. The surprise of its arrival, its particularities, energies, challenges and gifts. And when death comes, what happens? These poems track each turn. What changes, what stays the same. They visit the depths of place, sadness,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Franz X. Kugler
Battle of the Stars and the Fiery Impact of Phaethon Seen as Natural History
Phaethon was a monstrous fireball that tore through the inner solar system in ancient times, plunging into the earth and setting much of the world ablaze. At the same time, much of the rest of the planet was engulfed in a watery deluge. It...- $14.99
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Vendor: Roberta C. Bondi
Wild Things: Poems of Grief and Love, Loss and Gratitude
"Grief is such a messy thing," Roberta Bondi writes in the introduction. "It fills us with many ideas and images, memories and fantasies, celebration and bitter regret all at once - all superimposed upon one another. No wonder it wears us out."In this book...- $13.99
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Vendor: Andrew Hemmert
Blessing the Exoskeleton: Poems
Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner's book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert's poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though the majority of these poems are narrative, they approach...- $18.00
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Vendor: Tony Kitt
Endurable Infinity: Poems
In Endurable Infinity, Tony Kitt creates his own tangential surrealism through wonder, intuition, and surprising connections. If the original surrealists of the 1930s sought to unleash the unconscious mind by bringing elements of dreams to the waking world with jarring juxtapositions, Kitt's poetry is...- $18.00
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Vendor: Roger Averill
Spendthrift Time: Poems for Lily
Celebrations of a young life in its unfolding, the poems in this collection were written by Roger Averill to mark each of his youngest daughter's birthdays from ages three to twenty-one. Often humorous, and featuring the rhythms and rhymes of light verse, these poems...- $20.00
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Vendor: Natalie Neckovska
Shadow Paradise
The captivating collection of poems; Shadow Paradise, offers hope and faith for those struggling with addiction, drug withdrawal, depression or trauma. The varying phases of these struggles are explored through an alternate lens; of power and search for inner freedom. Through this, it accentuates...- $13.99
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Vendor: Don Vito Radice
Poems for the Voiceless
Poems for Anti-Establishmentarians, Non-Conformists, Trouble Makers, Freaks, Lost Souls, Radicals; Revolutionaries, war, peace, exploitation, discrimination, anti-establishmentarianism, protest, rebellion, alternative thinkers, anti-capitalistsAuthor: Don Vito RadiceISBN-10: 0645236195ISBN-13: 9780645236194Publisher: Vito RadiceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2022Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.18d- $20.00
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Vendor: Povoafrika Trust
Nehanda re-imagined
The Nehanda Re-Imagined is a project to revive and re-imagine depictions and the legacy of Mbuya Nehanda in their plurality and diversity, bringing her to a contemporary setting. There has been much discussion on social media in reaction to the current construction of a...- $47.00
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Vendor: Donna Reis
Torohill
Poetry of loss, irony, love, memory, and geography, with honesty, humor, sensuality and playfulness of language -- these are modern poems which are not the garden variety -- Reis has an experienced voice.Donna Reis' gift for mapping the irony, hurt, love and loss of...- $18.50
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Vendor: Scott Gutterman
Sunlight on the River: Poems about Paintings, Paintings about Poems
The world's great poets interpret the world's great art in this exquisite book that investigates the connection between art and words, deepening our understanding of both. The poet and the artist share a special kind of vision--an ability to see and penetrate the very...- $34.95
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Vendor: Alison Palmer
Everything Is Normal Here
In her second poetry chapbook, Alison Palmer begs the question, What is normal?The title of Alison Palmer's second poetry chapbook suggests the comfort of, or perhaps a yearning for, the known; but really it begs the question: What is our normal? The answers she...- $20.00
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Vendor: Thomas Zemsky
Elephant
Master of metaphor Thomas Zemsky returns with his third poetry collection. There is no limit to the number of ideas that can be found in a book, Thomas Zemsky declares in the opening poem of this new collection, and though he goes on to...- $24.00
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Vendor: Grace Cavalieri
Other Voices, Other Lives: A Grace Cavalieri Collection
Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices....- $19.95
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Vendor: Jorg Piringer
Data Poetry
Poetry. DATA POETRY is a collection of short computer-generated texts and visual poems that explore the technologies and concepts of the digital world. J rg Piringer uses concepts that enable smart phones to understand language, that help email programs to filter out spam messages,...- $25.00
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Vendor: Sheryl St Germain
Let It Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems
In this retrospective collection, Sheryl St. Germain sings of her New Orleans upbringing, the Cajun/Creole culture, and the struggles of being a woman in a decaying culture.Author: Sheryl St GermainISBN-10: 1932870164ISBN-13: 9781932870169Publisher: Autumn House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2007Pages: 152Format: Paperback- $17.95
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Vendor: Ed Ochester
Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New
This collection includes the entire text of Snow White Horses, Ochester's earlier selected poems, as well as selections from Land of Cockaigne and a generous sampling of new poems.Author: Ed OchesterISBN-10: 1932870148ISBN-13: 9781932870145Publisher: Autumn House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2007Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w...- $17.95
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Vendor: Michael Gottlieb
Mostly Clearing
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. At times ironic and sincere, optimism colors every interaction, transaction, and action absorbed into the mockingbird diction of MOSTLY CLEARING. This repetitive impulse privileges idiom and anachronism as means of indexing specific generational affects. Throughout, Gottlieb's speaker addresses three generations of...- $17.95
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Vendor: Ruth Awad
Set to Music a Wildfire
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. In Lebanon during the civil war, a teenage boy and his family witness leveled cities, displaced civilians, the aftermath of massacres. Resources are scarce and uncertainty is everywhere. What does it mean...- $15.95
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Vendor: Frederick Franck
Pacem in Terris: A Love Story
The banner of humankind blows over Pacem in Terris whenever it is open. The five stripes symbolize five subdivisions of the one human race; brown, black, red, white, yellow, unite at the top, each one is free to blow in the wind according to...- $20.00
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Vendor: Hassan Melehy
A Modest Apocalypse
Poetry. Hassan Melehy's debut collection is a blistering retort to the Eisenhower America that drove his literary heroes half-mad, expressed in a taut, sometimes furious, savage lyricism of a man born with a Muslim name at a time of growing hate. Exploring sexual desire,...- $14.49
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Vendor: John Gallaher
The Little Book of Guesses
The Little Book of Guesses takes place in a 21st-century world where we've "accustomed ourselves to our customized dogs" and "honed the idea of ideas there in the obstacle race / that'll never catch up." But while it's a world we're not unfamiliar with--"in...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kathryn Maris
The Book of Jobs: Poems
Kathryn Maris tracks the occupations and preoccupations of a young speaker from post-collegiate funk and despair through a variety of identity-crushing and identity-configuring encounters. Motherhood, employment, urban threats and pleasures, illness and wellness, and the making and the observing of art contribute to her...- $14.95
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Vendor: Martin Corless-Smith
Odious Horizons: Some Versions of Horace
Poetry. ODIOUS HORIZONS ransacks and revives Horace for our contemporary world. Part translations, part re-visionings, these radical (yet often formal) lyrics offer the stoical, joyful praise for a simple life away from the insidious and toxic world of political power and material obsession. What...- $17.00
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Vendor: Claribel Alegr?
Casting Off
Now in her 70s, Claribel Alegria is universally recognized as the major living poet of El Salvador. Casting Off extends the themes Alegria explored in Sorrow: the loss of a loved one, solitude, and reflections on the past. As the title implies, this collection...- $16.95
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Vendor: Aleksandr Blok
Aleksandr Blok: Selected Poems
Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem The Twelve has claims to being the first great poem of the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Christine Brooke-Rose
Subscript
The author blends her unique and well developed narratorless technique with a classic extension of a very ancient convention, that of lending words to creatures that have none, indeed have no consciousness, to move steadily through evolution to the arrival of the human species.Author:...- $19.95
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Vendor: Laura Bentley
The First
Poetry is probably the most unpopular of writings out there, with its metrics and rhymes, the nonsensical rhythms of the heart and soul. But this book tells a story of a girl who made many good decisions as well as bad ones. Trusting people...- $18.99
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Vendor: Laura Bentley
The First
Poetry is probably the most unpopular of writings out there, with its metrics and rhymes, the nonsensical rhythms of the heart and soul. But this book tells a story of a girl who made many good decisions as well as bad ones. Trusting people...- $13.99
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Vendor: Curtis Wetzel
Collected Poems of Curtis Wetzel
A TRICKSTER OF KIND(Inspired by Black Jack)A phantom-magician with rain-boots, Levitating through the night, Tapping on the upper window, thrice - on its way it went.Wearing a trench-coat and top-hat, it had no body.A phantom levitating off into the night, It must have been...- $11.99
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Vendor: Naomi Beth Wakan
Time Together
Time Together, a collection of poems and photographs by Naomi Beth Wakan and Elias Wakan, is dedicated with love to Gabriola, the island near Vancouver, British Columbia, where the couple has lived for some twenty years. Both in their nineties, the Wakans have each...- $23.95
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Vendor: Richard Widerkehr
Night Journey
In Night Journey, poet Richard Widerkehr invites the reader to take a journey with him through darkness while examining suffering and pain, but these poems "bring us to a place where news of war or disaster is tempered by the vitality and beauty of...- $14.95
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Vendor: Joseph Stanton
Prevailing Winds
Prevailing Winds by Joseph Stanton is organized into three sorts of considerations of the world-showcasing some of the ways it is represented in art, makes appearances in nature, and tends, in the long run, towards disappearance. The first two sections of the book are...- $16.95
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Vendor: D. K. Babach
Step Into My Visions: Idle Thoughts in Poetry
This is a memorable collection of poems. My way of sharing my visions to you.Author: D. K. BabachISBN-10: 1956017437ISBN-13: 9781956017434Publisher: Workbook PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2022Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d- $9.99
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Vendor: Bella Karoli
Trio
Bella's parents started her education a couple of years before she started school. She began writing in 3rd grade. Simple poems and stories branched into songs and music about a year later. Being reared on opera and German music fostered a lifelong interest in...- $14.99
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Vendor: Bella Karoli
Trio
Bella's parents started her education a couple of years before she started school. She began writing in 3rd grade. Simple poems and stories branched into songs and music about a year later. Being reared on opera and German music fostered a lifelong interest in...- $9.99
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Vendor: Dwayne Cole
Lone Leaf Dancing
In his poetry, Dwayne Cole brings us along on a journey through the seasons where trees are our companions. His poems go deeper than mere appreciation for these trees. These poems are about friendships with trees and their healing power. Dwayne recognizes the interconnected...- $18.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Kerlikowske
The Vaudeville Horse
Elizabeth Kerlikowske's The Vaudeville Horse is a whimsical, yet honest and eye-opening poetry chapbook, from stinkbugs, butter, and walnuts, to talking about how one should ask to see the map of abandoned dreams when buying a home. In this collection, The Vaudeville Horse is...- $10.00
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Vendor: Ralph Metzner
EYE OF THE SEERESS - VOICE OF THE POET / Auge der Seherin - Stimme des Dichters
Hildegard von Bingen, Francesco d'Assisi, Meister Eckhart, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke and Bertholt Brecht, Author: Ralph MetznerISBN-10: 1954925166ISBN-13: 9781954925168Publisher: Four Trees PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2022Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d- $20.00
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Diving For Treasures: Poems & Epilogs
These poems were written over a period of about 30 years, in the course of my travels in America and Europe, teaching courses and workshops in consciousness expansion, meditation, psychedelics, shamanism, alchemy and emerging new worldviews.Some of these poems were recorded on a spoken...- $20.00
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Vendor: Evan R. Underbrink
Milford: A poet's life in spiritual retreat
This book of poetry chronicles a year of life lived in spiritual retreat at the Jesuit Spiritual Center in Milford, Ohio. Inspired by Thoreau's "Walden," the Jesuit spiritual tradition, and the theopoetical writings of Rubem Alves, Stephen Dunn, and Dante's La Vita Nuova, this...- $15.00
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Vendor: Laura Matthias Bendoly
Sight Lines
Daughter and noted poet combine her photography and his short verse.This book contains forty examples of Laura Matthias Bendoly's recent photographs, along with an introduction explaining the history of her engagement with the art and some elucidating notes adjacent to the photographs themselves. As...- $20.00
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Vendor: Elena L. Denecochea
when Supernova dies
a poetry collective with art pieces, detailing loss through the eyes of a lover. a chronological roller coaster of real and true experiences of grief and healing from the voice of a young and queer, mexican-american feminist.Author: Elena L. DenecocheaISBN-10: 1952337488ISBN-13: 9781952337482Publisher: Sacramento: I...- $25.00
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Vendor: Ra?sa Maritain
Poetry and Mysticism
These two essays by Ra?sa Maritain-"Sense and Non-Sense in Poetry" and "Magic, Poetry, and Mysticism"-comprise an often forgotten but significant contribution to Catholic letters. Maritain considers the way true poetry always transcends its "logical sense" in order to convey a "poetic sense." Poetry is...- $7.00
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Vendor: Nina Rubinstein Alonso
Riot Wake
The chapbook. based on months of travel in Spain and Morocco with her late husband Fernando Alonso, touches on the writer's personal vision as well as the religious and cultural histories and surprises they encounter.Author: Nina Rubinstein AlonsoISBN-10: 1950063348ISBN-13: 9781950063345Publisher: Cervena Barva PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $13.00
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Vendor: Danny Rosen
The Tuscan Journals & Other Poems
Rosen's first collection since PRIMATE POEMS (2016)I took a trip to Neeli... Italy was in the background. From various notebooks, landscapes, cafネs, frantic roads... THE TUSCAN JOURNALS arose. It is at heart an homage to poet Neeli Cherkovski, with whom I traveled in the...- $20.00
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Vendor: Kyle Harvey
Cosmographies
COSMOGRAPHIES is Kyle Harvey's first collection of poetry!Making the poem, I simply look for a way in. Tucked between the pages, I find a small piece of paper with handwriting that reads: 'To receive a boring gift, look under Michael's bed.' And I'm in....- $20.00
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Vendor: Charles A. Perrone
All Poetry
A complete collection of the poetry of Paulo Leminski. Leminski was one of Brazil's most popular poets in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His wide-ranging poetry is renowned, and the translation by Perrone and Santana is astonishing in the way it interprets...- $18.95
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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.

