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Vendor: Snorre Sturleson
The Elder Eddas, and The Younger Eddas (Esprios Classics): with Saemund Sigfusson
The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous poems, which is distinct from the Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson. Several versions exist, all primarily of text from the Icelandic medieval manuscript known as the Codex Regius,...- $34.99
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Vendor: Joshua Edwards
The Double Lamp of Solitude
Emerging from walks taken by the author from the birthplaces to the deathsites of three poets (Hderlin, Lorca, and Hern疣dez), THE DOUBLE LAMP OF SOLITUDE is a collection of poems, prose, translations, and images that meditate on time, relationships, reading, society, and solitude.Poetry. Art....- $20.00
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Vendor: Jessie Dunleavy
Cover My Dreams in Ink (2nd ed.): A Son's Unbearable Solitude A Mother's Unending Quest
Born different, a boy struggles. His story draws you in. So, too, does his mother's relentless quest, albeit flawed, from the fight for an appropriate education through the fight for his life as he enters the harrowing world of addiction. The boy's poetry-undiscovered in...- $19.99
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Vendor: Anosha Zereh
Who Am I?: A Mindful Door to Finding Our True Selves
My highest aspiration in reaching the garden of Self is to attain a state of beingness where the merit of my words can be an agent of transformation. I aspire to attain the ability to communicate universal truths effectively through my words and experiences...- $23.99
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Vendor: Boston E. Jr. Sams
Poetic Words
Poetic WordsBy: Boston E. Sams Jr.Poetic Words is a book of poems about different experiences author Boston E. Sams Jr. has experienced-and we may find we have experienced some of them also. It is the emotions and energy that we share but most importantly,...- $10.00
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Vendor: Norma Paul
Jersey Girl
This book of poetry includes sections devoted to learning to write, poems for youth, and descriptions of the world seasons from the author's New Jersey home. Poems devoted to love and marriage comprise one section of the book. Responses to the disasters of 2020...- $7.99
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Vendor: Nathaniel Moore
Constrictor
Constrictor piles shock on top of shock until all one can feel is the places where ones nerves are twitching liked downed Hydro wires. A long poem outlining the trauma and resolution of teenage sexual abuse acts as the centre piece for a collection...- $18.00
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Vendor: Mark Lilley
Lucky Boy
Mark Lilley's Lucky Boy is filled with hints of unsettledness: bus tickets, a storm front, a rootless father, any number of nervously-smoked cigarettes. In cars, vans, pickups, and big rigs, characters seem almost continually on the move. What remains in place, however, is the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Abbas Kiarostami
In the Shadow of Trees: The Collected Poetry of Abbas Kiarostami (Mass Market Paperback)
Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895-1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). In 2015, shortly before his death, Kiarostami published two further...- $32.00
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Vendor: Grace Carras
Quiet Kid: 2019 Mark Ritzenhein Emerging Poet Award Winner
Author: Grace CarrasISBN-10: 1646622553ISBN-13: 9781646622559Publisher: Finishing Line PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2020Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d- $14.99
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Vendor: Travis J. Woods
Love, Sex and Philosophy
Love, sex and philosophy are three words that encapsulate the human experience. What they represent is so central to our existence, yet we overlook the power and wonder involved when consciously engaging with these interests. As such, we neglect our beauty and misunderstand what...- $16.32
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Vendor: Rainie Oet
Glorious Veils of Diane
Glorious Veils of Diane is about the weird way children turn themselves inside out on the world, and a reimagining of the author's own childhood. Diane is an ever-changing archetype, a self-conscious child who's seen too many horror movies and is discovering, for the...- $15.95
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Vendor: Tracy Ross
James Dean and the Beautiful Machine
In her second poetry collection--James Dean and the Beautiful Machine--Tracy Ross plays with the effects of postindustrial, data-info culture on the human psyche, our aspirations for the future, and our heritage of the past. Along with James Dean, there are appearances by Elvis, Jim...- $14.95
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Vendor: Basarab Nicolescu
The Hidden Third
"A first phrase is always a first phrase: it begins. And in these poetic theorems, each theorem is always a first phrase. And the beginning, any beginning, always has additional force: it's always at the inception of a process where the greatest quantity of...- $19.25
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Vendor: Malka Older
...and Other Disasters
Fiction. Poetry. ...AND OTHER DISASTERS, the smart and moving collection of short fiction and poetry from acclaimed author Malka Older, examines otherness, identity and compassion across a spectrum of possible existence. In stories about an AI built for empathy, a corps of fighting midwives...- $21.00
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Vendor: Katherine Hollander
My German Dictionary
My German Dictionary, which won the fourteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, is a guide to an idiosyncratic interior country, a map of the experience of absorbing and being absorbed by Central European language, culture, aesthetics, and history. It is a catalogue of small...- $17.00
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Vendor: Larry a. Burns Sr
Troubling Wind and the Gentle Breeze
The world tends to dwell on pain and disorder, yet there are those who still love and understand, poetry brings that out in all of us.Author: Larry a. Burns SrISBN-10: 1987701461ISBN-13: 9781987701463Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2018Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...- $10.00
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Vendor: Elaine Parker Adams
Hurricane Harvey Lowku
Elaine Parker Adams is one of the many survivors of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated the Houston, Texas area in 2017. Although her life goes on, it is forever altered, as she experienced the terror of the storm, the uncertainty of evacuation, and the difficult...- $12.95
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Vendor: Hilda Hilst
Of Death. Minimal Odes
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin. If life is no more than a prolonged flirtation with death, then Hilda Hilst's OF DEATH. MINIMAL ODES is the true account of a lifelong seduction. It is at once both a reverie and reliquary, as...- $18.95
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Vendor: Joanne Greenway
Limited Engagement
Limited Engagement is Joanne Greenway's first published chapbook of free verse poetry. The subject matter of these poems is wide-ranging and her style is direct and accessible. The choice of a theatrical title was deliberate: we are hardly ever in control of our life...- $12.49
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Vendor: N. Scott Momaday
MEDITATIONS After the Bear Feast
This important and engaging book records the first acquaintance of poets from American Indian and Native Siberian cultures as they come to recognize their similar cultures, life-ways, and reverence for the natural world. The poetic dialogues contain a mutual recognition of kinsmen across centuries...- $19.95
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Vendor: Ernest Holmes
The Voice Celestial
2018 Reprint of 1960 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. This is a book of verse to inspire those who wander in a desert of defeat, unhappiness and loneliness. It opens a door into the hidden...- $9.50
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Vendor: Mischa Willett
The Elegy Beta: And Other Poems
The poems in this volume feature impressionistic meditations on faith and everyday life. In concert with Rilke's Duino Elegies, the classic text on the force and work of angels, The Elegy Beta simmers with luminous, transcendent language, elegance, and, frequently, humor.Author: Mischa WillettISBN-10: 1733716653ISBN-13:...- $12.00
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Vendor: Kim Kierkegaardashian
My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian
"Reflective maxims on life, death, sin, and emptiness, salted with luxury accessories of the Kardashian lifestyle...@KimKierkegaard is dross turned gold, redemption through absurdity in a hundred and forty characters." -The New Yorker In "the ultimate meeting of the sublime with the ridiculous" (London Evening...- $17.99
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Vendor: Allen Frost
A Flutter of Birds Passing Through Heaven: A Tribute to Robert Sund
The poet and artist Robert Sund is a Pacific Northwest legend. This book is an inspired biography comprised of stories, memories, poetry, photography and artwork by those who knew him. The book is also filled with previously unpublished and uncollected works by Sund. A...- $20.00
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Vendor: Alejandra Pizarnik
The Most Foreign Country
Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert. First published in 1955 and now translated for the first time into English, THE MOST FOREIGN COUNTRY is Alejandra Pizarnik's debut collection. Here, the nineteen-year-old poet begins to explore the themes that will shape and define...- $14.00
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Vendor: Curtis L. Crisler
Black Achilles
There's a fine, rumbling power to Crisler's poetry, a daredevil blend of humor and anger that pays homage to the everyday glories and frustrations of the human condition, with all its icy highways, hospitals, and basketball courts. There's an eclectic energy to Black Achilles,...- $12.00
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Vendor: Zefyr Lisowski
Blood Box
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. BLOOD BOX, the deliciously haunting debut short collection from poet Zefyr Lisowski, takes us inside the infamous 1892 axe murders of Abby and Andrew Borden through twenty-six wide-ranging, stylistically experimental persona poems. Lisowski re-introduces us to mythologized spinster Lizzie Borden as...- $9.95
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Vendor: Jason Magabo Perez
This is for the mostless
THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez's debut book, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems, essays, fictions, and oral histories. Moving against discipline and genre, from city to city, barrio to barrio, these stories and sympathies are filled with...- $20.25
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Vendor: Lnrot
The Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland
Complied by the various sources of Finland's national mythology, the Kalevala outlines the creation myths of the world and typical stories of heroes of old including romance, lust and conquest. The stories that are told here are a national icon for the people of...- $44.99
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Vendor: Setara Cheri Mastin
The Words I Never Said
The Words I Never Said is the debut book by Setara Cheri Mastin. Filled with poems and prose, the words throughout these pages hope to give the reader a friend. Many go through depression and heartbreak alone, not knowing that others are in fact...- $5.99
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Vendor: Giovanni Singleton
American Letters: Works on Paper
Poetry. Art. Inspired by African American spirit writing, sacred sound, Tibetan meditation practice, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy, AMERICAN LETTERS: WORKS ON PAPER is giovanni singleton's followup to ASCENSION.Author: Giovanni SingletonISBN-10: 0996982760ISBN-13: 9780996982764Publisher: Canarium BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2018Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.40h...- $14.00
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Vendor: Charles Inge
Brazos View
Author: Charles IngeISBN-10: 0982440510ISBN-13: 9780982440513Publisher: Ink Brush PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2010Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d- $16.95
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Vendor: Burton Raffel
Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Burton Raffel (1928-2015) was the author and translator of many books, including his acclaimed translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote and Beowulf by Anonymous. Alla Burago is the cotranslator (with Burton Raffel) of Selected Works of Nikolai S. Gumilev.Author: Burton RaffelISBN-10: 1438471661ISBN-13: 9781438471662Publisher: State University...- $36.95
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Vendor: Joanna C. Valente
Sexting Ghosts
Sexting Ghosts is a collection of poems by Joanna C. Valente. 'In Sexting Ghosts, Joanna Valente invites us to join them in their haunted psychiatrist's chair for a cinematic Q&A with the ghosts and gods of the future past. These poems together form an...- $12.00
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Vendor: Jose Luis Peixoto
A Child in Ruins
This book is a selection from the three books that I published so far. 'A Child in Ruins' is the title of the first of these books. A Crianca em Ruinas (A Child in Ruins), first published in 2001 A Casa, a Escuridao (The...- $15.00
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Vendor: Walter Lew
Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems of Frances Chung
Frances Chung's poetry stands alone as the most perceptive, aesthetically accomplished, and compassionate depiction of a supposedly impenetrable community during the late 1960s and 70s. Written "For the Chinatown People" and imprinted with Chung's own ink seal, Crazy Melon is collects brief poems and...- $17.95
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Vendor: Bertolt Brecht
Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays: Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of
These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships of...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jodie Toohey
Versed in Nature: Hiking Northwest Illinois and East Iowa State Parks
Come along with Jodie Toohey as she hikes some of the trails in eastern Iowa's and northwestern Illinois' state parks. Part guidebook, part memoir, this collection of park descriptions and poems will take you on a beautiful, nature-filled journey through the Midwest and mid-life.Author:...- $12.00
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Vendor: Marvina Sims
Labeling Saga
This book is an attempt to show how labels can build up or tear down. Some labelscan be so subtle it's diffi cult to even know its true purpose. The government andcorporate America want us to believe labels are needed for statistical purposes.Tradition wants...- $15.99
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Vendor: Anthony-David Wilder
Life, Love & Spiritual Poetic Views
This book is the collection of poems I have written from the past 10 to 12 years of my life. When my journey first started I didn't know what or why I was writing, I just knew it felt good to combine words together...- $12.99
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Vendor: Helen Louise Porter
Enlightenment
Helen Louise Porter's collection ENLIGHTENMENT is, on the surface, a quiet book containing less than thirty short poems. Look closer, however, and you will realise that it is full of powerful emotions: each poem comes direct from the author's heart and soul.ENLIGHTENMENT is a...- $5.95
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Vendor: Sarwat Zahra
Wonderland
Wonderland presents the celebrated poetry of Sarwat Zahra in English translation for the first time. This collection includes poems drawn from her previous two volumes, Song of the Blazing Wind (2002) and From Time's Captivity (2013), plus a generous selection of her newest work....- $12.00
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Vendor: Gurnika Dhillon
Ensnaring Feelings: Ponder upon my thoughts, let me think again
THROUGH THE HEART OF A TEENAGER: Settling somewhere in the middle, a 15-year-old girl resonates with paper. She decides to pen down each set of emotions she faces, as a teenager. As life provides her with her own struggles, she decides to face them...- $8.99
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Vendor: Kathryn Winograd
Flying Beneath the Dog Star: Poems from a Pandemic
"Kathryn Winograd's new chapbook, Flying Beneath the Dog Star, though rooted in an intense pandemic year, offers lyrical and exquisitely descriptive poems that speak to all of us. These quiet but not silent poems are alive with birds, one thread woven into a vivid...- $14.99
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Vendor: April A. Vanapeldorn
Rhyme & Reason
A word creates a thought. A thought creates an emotion. An emotion creates an image. The cycle of verbal to visual art. What I found so beautiful about this cycle is that no two people will ever come up with the same image. They...- $25.99
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Vendor: Maureen Thorson
Share the Wealth
SHARE THE WEALTH trains a wry and closely-observing eye on chance, exploring a world in which we collectively stand always on the brink of change--for good or ill. Sometimes the roll of the die delights: Cherry leaves turn into tortillas, snowbanks wear makeup, and...- $19.00
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Vendor: Kimberley Tent
Scattered Little Parts: Book Two of the "Parts" Series
...and slowly, she exhaled Retired Constable Kimberley Tent had discovered a strong will to survive but found herself in yet another standoff with her own inner demons through a courageous battle with a Post-Traumatic Stress Injury, depression, and bulimia. Described as "gripping" and "inspirational,"...- $10.99
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Vendor: Jacqueline Eller
Never Kick a Bee Hive, A collection of amusing art and verse
A light-hearted selection of experiences and observations mixed with humor and pathos that I hope will be as entertaining to the reader as it was for me putting it all together. Jacqueline Nancy Eller was born in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England, and grew up...- $21.95
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Vendor: Deshawn McKinney
father forgive me
" McKinney crafts an acerbic, hip hop hymnal to ask father Forgive me in poems that are fearless, wounding and tender " Deshawn McKinney holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. A performer and poet, he has headlined at...- $8.10
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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.

