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Vendor: Roberto Christiano
Port of Leaving: (Expanded Edition)
Americans are notorious for having short memories. That is why it was the American, William Faulkner, who had to say, "The past isn't dead; the past isn't even past." But memory is a double-edged sword. It can give continuity and context but it can...- $19.99
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Words from Walls
DM Frech has the gift for taking a surprising angle on the world as if it were the most natural view, in a plain-spoken voice that somehow pierces to the heart of every moment on first encounter, and she has the craft to explore...- $26.99
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Vendor: William T. IV Langford
Detroit: Workers, Teachers, Lovers
In this bluesy ode to Detroit and its working-class people, William T. Langford IV has crafted a deeply thorough spirit of communal uplift. These poems resonate with "the gospel-growl" of those who still boom and brim within. But this book also demands a worthier...- $26.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Robin
To My Dreamcatcher
In Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle writes, "For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry." I see that lunar lyricism reflected by this poet. The language is mystical, mythic, sublime, and romantic. The haunting imagery is fresh and...- $29.99
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Vendor: Margaret Hasse
The Call of Glacier Park
I visited Glacier Park in 1955, saw my first glacier, and have chased that inspiration ever since. Margaret Hasse's beautiful collection portrays that indescribable presence with poems that are vivid and alive.-Will Steger, polar explorer and champion for climate actionMargaret Hasse has written a...- $14.99
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Vendor: Bonnie Wehle
A Certain Ache: Poems in Women's Voices
A Certain Ache: Poems in Women's Voices is a double boon, because the notes in the book are, by themselves, a treasure of facts about well-known women and women we would do well to know. Their voices are here, rendered in excellent detail, in...- $14.99
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Vendor: Brenna Womer
cost of living
From gleaning to toothaches, across anxieties and economic precarity, Womer writes with gorgeous attention to language and to sound, creating a book quivering with insights. I loved this book.-TaraShea Nesbit, author of Beheld Brenna Womer's cost of living is meditative, subtle, and moving; it...- $14.99
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Vendor: Mike Gill
Reflections from the Front Porch
This collection of poetry and poetic prose holds a beautiful word-sketch of a continuing world that surrounds us despite a smearing cloud of pandemic. Outside the boundaries of fear and lockdown, the narrator helps us escape to a parallel world where squirrels, foxes, maples...- $14.99
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Vendor: Alysia Nicole Harris
How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars To Stars: Winner of the 2015 New Women's Voices Series
How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars To Stars by Alysia Nicole Harris intermingles a lushness of texture with a well-defined sagacity of form, and a compelling honesty in these perfectly-crafted poems: "I cannot go / to sleep in my heart. I wet...- $24.99
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Vendor: Mary Romero
Loom
What makes this book most marvelous is not the rich conceit whereby Penelope finally gets in a few words, sharp as that conceit is (and as those words can be); nor is it the savory mouth-music of the language, gorgeous and resonant; nor is...- $29.99
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Vendor: Cheri L. Miller
Trying my Wings
Cheri Miller's poems are flush with imagery that reflects earth's bounty. Her opening poem, "First Religion," begins "When the line was blurred between yard and woods." In it, she writes of the moon, wet grass, blackberries, and wild grapes. We imagine this is the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Kathy Kremins
Undressing the World
Even though the penultimate poem swears that it's not about Newark, Parents, Religion, or Longing, each poem in this collection gets to the heart of one child's experience of the profound and lasting impact of Vatican II and Vietnam, of the Civil Rights Movement...- $14.99
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Vendor: Clare Chu
Objects Heavy in This Life
With language that is just as arresting as it is precise, Clare Chu's Objects Heavy in This Life is a dazzling collection. Diverse in its implementation of various formal choices, Chu's work, although often moored in life's darkness, always finds slivers of light for...- $14.99
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Vendor: Buff Whitman-Bradley
The Heron Could be Lost
These poems are luminous and generous, making room for newts, crickets, stars, and a boundlessly tender view of the human condition. Each poem is laced with affection for humanity, and has a curious, intimate take on the natural world. They acknowledge the wobbliness, uncertainty,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Carla Schwartz
Signs of Marriage
"My favorite is Turntable Park, which may be seen as a contest with nature: wind, rain, waves, with focus on the finish line. The vivid imagery draws the reader into this exploit in this nicely woven poem with no loose threads-a fresh, original creation."-Harris...- $14.99
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Vendor: William T. IV Langford
Detroit: Workers, Teachers, Lovers
In this bluesy ode to Detroit and its working-class people, William T. Langford IV has crafted a deeply thorough spirit of communal uplift. These poems resonate with "the gospel-growl" of those who still boom and brim within. But this book also demands a worthier...- $16.99
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Vendor: Richard Murray
Edisonia
Welcome to Edisonia, a condition of being and mind as much as a place on an actual map of New Jersey. Your guide is Richard Murray, a poet intimately familiar with this terrain, whose mystery-leavened lines point you to where the long shadow of...- $19.99
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Vendor: Pramila Venkateswaran
We are Not a Museum
An exquisite collection of poems, where history and lyricism dwell in the memory of the Jews of Kochi, where time and centuries of persecution have tried to erase them. Pramila Venkateswaran is a poet of resilience and of hope. Each of these poems engages...- $24.99
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Vendor: Sunil Iyengar
A Call from the Shallows
"How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea," Shakespeare writes, "Whose action is no stronger than a flower?" Sunil Iyengar answers the question in this dazzling debut collection with poems of poise, wit, and depth of thought. One seldom reads poetry with such...- $14.99
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Vendor: Cheri L. Miller
Trying my Wings
Cheri Miller's poems are flush with imagery that reflects earth's bounty. Her opening poem, "First Religion," begins "When the line was blurred between yard and woods." In it, she writes of the moon, wet grass, blackberries, and wild grapes. We imagine this is the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Colleen Wells
Animal Magnetism
Animal Magnetism, by Colleen Wells is a think piece on the natural world and our place in it. Are we masters of the planet? Abusers? Supplicants? Prey? In this collection of thoughtful poems, the author gives voice to her deeply personal and highly relatable...- $14.99
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Vendor: Mark Gosztyla
Everything Is Obvious After It Happens
These poems are like those tiny fireworks wrapped in white paper: tiny, unassuming bundles that explode if you snap them between your fingers. Here, Gosztyla has mastered a syntax of magical compression-of contortion, too. As he bends language in ways that delight and unsettle,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Chris Arvidson
The House Inside My Head
Chris Arvidson's "The House Inside My Head" is poetry that speaks to both your head and heart. Full of rich detail, reading it takes you on a travelogue journey across the world, through her neighborhood, and down I-77. Told with keen humor, the poems...- $14.99
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Vendor: James Keane
Small Wonders
With brevity and musicality, the poems in Small Wonders make peace with the world. I recommend reading them through once and then rereading them often, as they act as a form of meditation. James Keane expresses his vulnerability and love in poems dedicated to...- $14.99
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Vendor: Milton Jordan
Politics and Pandemics
I marvel at how involved these poems are with the world at large-very little 'navel gazing' here. I'm always looking for lines in poems that leave me with freshness. Here are a few from Milton Jordan's collection: 'neighbors who kept our twisted systems turning;'...- $14.99
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Vendor: Chris Arvidson
The House Inside My Head
Chris Arvidson's "The House Inside My Head" is poetry that speaks to both your head and heart. Full of rich detail, reading it takes you on a travelogue journey across the world, through her neighborhood, and down I-77. Told with keen humor, the poems...- $24.99
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Vendor: Hayley Bowen
Dearly Departed
What a vibrant, necessary new voice in American poetry via Hayley Bowen's Dearly Departed. Buy it, read it, watch whatever comes next from this blazing talent.-Mary Karr, author of The Liar's ClubIn her debut collection, Hayley Bowen delivers a haunting look at the impermanence...- $24.99
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Vendor: Richard Becker
On Sunday Afternoons
Despite its unassuming low-key title, On Sunday Afternoons is a collection of vividly stimulating surprises-whether of natural description, emotional understanding, or bristling with tactful literary reference. What I especially admire is how in poem after poem Becker startles a reader into refreshed appreciation of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Pramila Venkateswaran
We are Not a Museum
An exquisite collection of poems, where history and lyricism dwell in the memory of the Jews of Kochi, where time and centuries of persecution have tried to erase them. Pramila Venkateswaran is a poet of resilience and of hope. Each of these poems engages...- $14.99
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Vendor: Hayley Bowen
Dearly Departed
What a vibrant, necessary new voice in American poetry via Hayley Bowen's Dearly Departed. Buy it, read it, watch whatever comes next from this blazing talent.-Mary Karr, author of The Liar's ClubIn her debut collection, Hayley Bowen delivers a haunting look at the impermanence...- $14.99
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Vendor: Mary Romero
Loom
What makes this book most marvelous is not the rich conceit whereby Penelope finally gets in a few words, sharp as that conceit is (and as those words can be); nor is it the savory mouth-music of the language, gorgeous and resonant; nor is...- $19.99
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Vendor: D. M. Frech
Words from Walls
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Vendor: Joy Louise Washington
The Gingerbread House
A book Joy Louise Washington wrote for her son and niece 1955-1957. Author: Joy Louise WashingtonISBN-10: 164133715XISBN-13: 9781641337151Publisher: Mainspring BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2022Pages: 18Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.25d- $16.99
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Vendor: M. C. Rydel
Almost a Memoir
What would you do if you knew the month of your death? How would you survive that month every year? How would you take advantage of your eleven months of immortality? Almost a Memoir, a new book of poems by M.C. Rydel, poses this...- $16.99
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Vendor: Juliana Ada-Nnenna Nwakamma
The Rivers Of Poems: My Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
The soil condemns our soaked imaginationsI am the Caesar of the land, the emperor of your shieldsI own this place before your ancestorsMy war will never seize, until my heritance is restored.At age thirteen, Lolo Mrs. Juliana Nwakamma began a long journey to understand...- $24.99
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Vendor: James Dickson
Some Sweet Vandal
If you're weary of ironic poems that wink at the camera, welcome to the ardent-hearted world of James Dickson. In Some Sweet Vandal, Dickson finds delight and depth in the everyday, and always in fresh language. We meet a high school teacher who reflects...- $16.50
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Vendor: Alec Solomita
Hard To Be a Hero
Alec Solomita's poems are precise and lucid in observation and expression alike, elegant and passionate accounts of those moments in life that stop us in our tracks and yet ultimately keep us going. Luminous visions of childhood, surreal dream images, desire's potent lineaments (both...- $19.00
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Vendor: Arnold Johnston
The Infernal Now
Arnold Johnston's The Infernal Now offers us poems that are acutely aware of mortality, counterbalanced by the timelessness of poetic forms, especially the sonnet, which he manages with flair. Johnston looks back "to the tacky apartment where I lived alone/On West Main Street, teaching...- $16.50
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Vendor: Dave Malone
Tornado Drill
The polished poems in Dave Malone's Tornado Drill spin readers from Kansas arroyos and Ozark lakes to sodden Paris side streets and back again. Along the way there are surprising glimpses through neighborhood windows and into manicured back yards, but no matter the setting,...- $19.00
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Vendor: Andrew Thomas Elder
The Circle of Life
Sometimes we all need a little help becoming inspired to "keep on, keep'n on." Especially when the wind has our sails at a mere flutter. I have a collection of philosophical thoughts of experiences and peoples met, sharing their experiences that do exactly just...- $24.59
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The Circle of Life
Sometimes we all need a little help becoming inspired to "keep on, keep'n on." Especially when the wind has our sails at a mere flutter. I have a collection of philosophical thoughts of experiences and peoples met, sharing their experiences that do exactly just...- $10.99
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Vendor: Pamela Wilkinson
A Dimash Qudaibergen Fable: The Sculptor's Masterpiece
This fan of Dimash Qudaibergen, the phenomenal singer from Kazakhstan, has embarked on another adventure to shine some light and attention on this singer who is clearly making his mark on the world. My first book, my fanbook, titled "I Am Music - My...- $17.99
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A Dimash Qudaibergen Fable: The Sculptor's Masterpiece
This fan of Dimash Qudaibergen, the phenomenal singer from Kazakhstan, has embarked on another adventure to shine some light and attention on this singer who is clearly making his mark on the world. My first book, my fanbook, titled "I Am Music - My...- $9.99
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Vendor: Bethany Danielle Dennis Fulghum
Life's Games
Life's GamesBy: Bethany Danielle Dennis FulghumSome of our earliest memories are of making games out of life. That is true of me. I clearly remember at one point my sister and I using our parents' home/restaurant as our stage or playground. So began my...- $14.00
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Thoughts of a Thoughtless Mind
A thoughtless mind is a mind that does not think but observes. A 'mind' that operates from the space of awareness.'Thoughts Of A Thoughtless Mind' is a collection of 48 reflective poems about an inner journey of the mind observing a broad spectrum of...- $9.99
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Mixed Emotions
Mixed EmotionsBy: Lynze PreeceWritten during a tumultuous time in her life, Mixed Emotions is a collection of varied emotional poetry from Lynze Preece. With no one to talk to during this time, Preece recorded her sentiments on paper, the one place she could feel...- $9.00
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The Art of Healing
The Art of HealingBy: Nathan J. Williams The Art of Healing began as Nathan J. Williams' dealings with the first real breakup in his life at the time and his forays to understand love both in a romantic sense with a partner as well...- $13.00
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Sweet and Savory
Sweet & Savory saved me. For years, I've been going through immense waves of depression, since I could even remember. I wanted this book to be as a guide, to show others and myself that their feelings are valid. Through life, we're taught how...- $13.95
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Life Is Crazy
I was born. I was raised by a hardworking mother and a loyal father. But when I was seven years old, I had suicidal thoughts. When I was sixteen years old, I found out my dad wasn't my real dad. I was married at...- $12.95
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Insights of a Poet's Soul...: Views and Thoughts... The Way I See It
Insights of a Poet's Soul... Views and Thoughts...The way I see itBy: Jessica MichelleInsights of a Poet's Soul... is a collection of poems, thoughts, and views on life. It's an affair of Jessica Michelle's heart and mind. No one is the same, but we've...- $12.00
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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.

