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Vendor: Thomas Blenman Hare
Zeamiâ (Tm)S Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo
This is the first full-length study of Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), generally recognized as the greatest playwright of Japan's classical Noh theater. The book begins with a biography based on the known documents relating to Zeami's life. It then examines the documentary evidence for authorship...- $35.00
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Vendor: David Mamet
Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond
The Woods, described by the Chicago Daily News as a "beautifully conceived love story," is a modern dramatic parable in which a young man and woman who spend a night in his family's cabin experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled...- $15.95
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Vendor: Michael Tolkin
The Player, the Rapture, the New Age: Three Screenplays
Author: Michael Tolkin, TolkinISBN-10: 0802133924ISBN-13: 9780802133922Publisher: Grove PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/1995Pages: 227Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.69d- $13.00
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Vendor: Earl R. Wasserman
Shelley: A Critical Reading
In Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran bring together an internationally recognized group of scholars to focus on Percy Bysshe Shelley's conception of the poet's social role and how that conception has changed over time. The authors...- $40.00
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Vendor: Mikl Radni
Miklos Radnoti: The Complete Poetry in Hungarian and English
This book contains the complete poems in Hungarian and in English translation of Hungary's great modern poet, Miklos Radnoti, murdered at the age of 35 during the Holocaust. His earliest poems, the six books published during his lifetime, and the poems published posthumously after...- $39.95
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Vendor: Lou Le Blanc
Are You There, God?
These poems are written to reveal, and shout, the joys of love and life--and to expose, and scream, the problems. These poems are not verbose abstractions, but are easily read and enjoyed without a dictionary.Author: Lou Le BlancISBN-10: 0759677131ISBN-13: 9780759677135Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $9.95
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Vendor: Brooke Aiello
Tolerance Tykes
School has finally begun, and Miss Brooke is eager to teach her first ever 3rd grade class. Her class is special with 10 students living with unique challenges. Through poems and stories, sensitive topics are introduced, like Autism, Down Syndrome, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and...- $12.95
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Vendor: Renee Verona
The Night Sky
The Night Sky is an anthology of intricate poems filled with elated storytelling, empathic perspectives, and free-thinking esoteric notions; All are inscribed in a rather neo-classic style of writing. The collection of poems also contains "Aurora Borealis" which reads like a mini-epic. " Is...- $25.00
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Vendor: John Kilroy
Proof of Flight: Poems
Poetry riotous and transportive. John Kilroy was the featured contemporary poet in the book, "Zero Break-An Illustrated Collection of Surf Writing, 1777-2004." His powerful debut was the 252-page collection of poems, "Torque." In "Proof of Flight," Kilroy goes BIG, chasing hard after the grit...- $16.00
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Vendor: Kevin Dyer
Somehow Still Watered When It Was Over
There's a kind of synesthesia that occurs while reading Kevin Dyer's poetry. The dust gets under your skin, there's a scent of sand, of heat and spices, the rush of a river. The impact is nearly visceral, evocative, sometimes almost other-worldly. Whatever the experience,...- $12.00
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Vendor: Ashley R. Lumpkin
#AshleyLumpkin
Sitting at the intersection between memoir and verse, Ashley's third collection is a pointillist view of the poet owning all that she is. It is both gorgeous and haunting, a fistful of eulogies.Author: Ashley R. LumpkinISBN-10: 0692813985ISBN-13: 9780692813980Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2017Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize:...- $20.00
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Vendor: T. Skye
Loved to Death: A Collection of Poetry, Lyrics & Images
Some words allow you to breathe, while others take your breath away. Loved to Death is an unfolding display of emotions eloquently revealed through the poetry, lyrics and photography of author T. SKYE. Authentic and honest, compelling and darkly beautiful, no stone is left...- $33.95
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Vendor: William Ratcliffe
Talking with Trees
A series of Poetic works exploring the nature of Trees, Relationships and the Divine.Author: William RatcliffeISBN-10: 0692684026ISBN-13: 9780692684023Publisher: Talking with Trees BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2016Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.16d- $7.98
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Vendor: Greta Render Whitehead
Mama: a poet's heart in a Kentucky girl
"MAMA: a poet's heart in a Kentucky girl" is an outstanding new collection of poetry and interviews by famed Kentucky poet Ron Whitehead and his mother, Greta Render Whitehead. Take a stroll through time and visit life in rural western Kentucky during the 1937...- $15.99
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Vendor: Melanie Villines
Self-Portrait Poetry Collection
Self-portrait poems from 67 poets around the world. The authors offer portraits of themselves that are, by turns, humorous, heartfelt, harrowing, honest, stunning, surreal, and full of surprises. Contributors include: Kathryn Almy, Cynthia Anderson, Ivan Arg elles, Ronald Baatz, Suvojit Banerjee, Carol Berg, Alan...- $8.49
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Vendor: Josephine J. Bridgers
Priscilla's Smile
Priscilla's smile is a special invitation, the author utters her thoughts in a genre that is relatable allowing the audience to visit all these poets' stories by using this book as a canvas to dream dreams. Priscilla's Smile is a dedication to all the...- $19.00
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Vendor: Alexander Johns
Darwin's Book of Saints
"There's more territory out there, don't you know? / You, person who might have been you." Alexander Johns' poems generously share his unique gift of insight of his environment and experiences, especially of the things that hum, sing, and roar around him. His poems...- $16.99
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Vendor: David Lane
The Tragedy of King Lewis the Sixteenth
The play presents the life of King Louis XVI of France during the French Revolution and is based on the tradition dating from the seventeenth century of an unfulfilled request by Jesus Christ through St. Margaret Mary Alacoque that, to avert a future catastrophe...- $24.95
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Vendor: Czeslaw Milosz
The Witness of Poetry
Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe," a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked...- $32.00
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Vendor: Harold Bloom
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays,...- $38.00
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Vendor: Helen Vendler
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis....- $52.00
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Vendor: Angus Fletcher
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination
Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several...- $32.00
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Vendor: Kevin Lawler
The Seasons: Poems from 1989 - 2014
These poems, selected from over two decades of writing, are loosely gathered around an architecture of the seasons. They weave their way through the antique streets of an Omaha filled with ghosts and surrounded by a sea of prairie grass and sky.Author: Kevin LawlerISBN-10:...- $10.00
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Vendor: Scott Antwan
Love Drunk
First love is a right of passage that everyone is destined to experience and the reason that it rings through our souls forever is because it only happens once. Love Drunk is a poetic tribute to "First Love" from one lovelorn heart to the...- $10.00
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Vendor: Kristy Bowen
in the bird museum
I was apprenticed to the frenzied atmosphere, the verandas that open into dark wind.... Bowen is apprenticed to the "frenzied atmosphere" and in it she finds the crucial minutiae, in it she finds skirts of night and a woman's heart as a wind-up bird....- $14.00
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Vendor: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Through Rose Colored Glasses / Poems
THROUGH ROSE COLORED GLASSES is a book of visionary poems mindful of the story of Sayyedina 'Isa (Jesus), peace be upon him, who one day passed by a decaying dog carcass in the road with his companions, and replied, when they complained at how...- $15.01
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Vendor: Ronald Tanaka
Shido, the Way of Poetry
Author: Ronald TanakaISBN-10: 0595182437ISBN-13: 9780595182435Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.39d- $12.95
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Vendor: Makenna Misuraco
Sins and Cigarettes
Sins and Cigarettes is collection of poetry that transports any reader to a place where they are no longer alone. Misuraco writes of love, heartbreak, sexuality and mental health. She explores the avenues and pit stops that come along with growing up and figuring...- $14.99
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Vendor: Deborah A. Williams
Peace Treaty with Myself: A Book of Poetic Meditations
In Peace Treaty with Myself: A Book of Poetic Meditations, Deborah A. Williams poetically unpacks a few of her life experiences with the help of Peace. The book's opening captures the reader with the author's chilling recollections of past instances of domestic violence and...- $20.00
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Vendor: Jessica Berger
Always Crashing Issue Two
Always Crashing is a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between. We are interested in surfaces and form, in works that seek something via untruth, fantasy, artificiality, the plastic, deep superficiality, and attention to their own construction. We are interested in...- $12.00
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Vendor: David A. Horowitz
Two On the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams
Two on the Aisle: A Judaic American Tale of Romance and Creative Dreams, is a biography of the author's parents, Nathan and Dorothy Horowitz, as well as a twentieth century American cultural history. The story describes how two offspring of Eastern European immigrants combined...- $10.00
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Vendor: Will Alexander
The Brimstone Boat
"Yet the voice of Will Alexander, who here commemorates Lamantia in his pluperfect poem The Brimstone Boat, rose hardly more than a quarter century later... In this automatistically extended poem, we are witness to the passage of energies from the older to the younger...- $24.95
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Vendor: Marva Collins-Bush
Screams From The Heart Of A Woman
A collection of poems and soliloquies that touch the heart and soul of the reader. A time of remembering and reflecting is created by reading these writings. These poems take you deep within in a safe and loving way. You will be taken to...- $24.99
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Vendor: Tom Stoppard
Rough Crossing
Comedy Tom Stoppard, from an original play by Ferenc Molnar Characters: 5 male, 1 female The co authors, the composer and most of the cast of a comedy destined for Broadway are simultaneously trying to finish and rehearse the play while crossing the Atlantic...- $15.95
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Vendor: Harold Pinter
One for the Road
Author: Harold PinterISBN-10: 0573121842ISBN-13: 9780573121845Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1985Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.06d- $11.95
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Vendor: Aberjhani
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009
For the past two years (2006-2008) The Bridge of Silver Wings has earned a name for itself both as a series of poems published in different e-zines and as a book first published in 2007. What makes this 2009 edition a special one is...- $9.95
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Vendor: Eyre-Todd George
Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...- $22.95
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Vendor: Chimako Tada
Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako
One of Japan's most important modern poets, Tada Chimako (1930-2003) gained prominence in her native country for her sensual, frequently surreal poetry and fantastic imagery. Although Tada's writing is an essential part of postwar Japanese poetry, her use of themes and motifs from European,...- $34.95
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Vendor: Stephane Mallarme
Selected Poems of Mallarme, Bilingual Edition
The leading poet of French symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writers. In this volume C. F. MacIntyre has translated forty-three of his poems, including the "Ouverture" and "Scène" from Hérodiade, which was...- $23.95
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Vendor: Robert Hayden
Collected Prose
"A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced poet Robert Hayden. Contents include "The History of Punchinello: A Baroque Play in One Act," Hayden's introductory remarks to volumes like Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poet and The New Negro, and interviews...- $27.95
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Vendor: Donald Hall
Claims for Poetry
A collection of essays by contemporary American poets on the subject of their artAuthor: Donald HallISBN-10: 0472063081ISBN-13: 9780472063086Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/1982Pages: 520Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.44w x 1.11d- $27.95
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Vendor: Charles Swain
Poems
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Vendor: Margaret Olive Jordan
Wine for the Soul: In Prose and Verse
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Vendor: Christopher Davis
Only, If: Bleeding Black: Volume 2
Bleeding Black is a gripping book of poetry that gives a lens into the state of African Americans in modern society.Author: Christopher DavisISBN-10: 0464735106ISBN-13: 9780464735106Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2018Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d- $18.00
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Vendor: M. L. Rosenthal
The Poet's Art
In this original work, one of our most distinguished poets and critics considers the nature of poetry as "a recovery, in language, of revelatory awareness in process," and of structure as a "balancing of pressures active inside the poem." In fresh, precise language, he...- $18.95
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Vendor: Helen Gera
Mat Leave: a collection of poems
A collection of poems from a sleep deprived and somewhat overwhelmed new mum.Author: Helen GeraISBN-10: 0368227960ISBN-13: 9780368227967Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2019Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.08lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.06d- $8.61
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Vendor: Erick Vasquez
Violent
Violent is a love story about two lovers who are caught in a visceral, passionate, and abusive intimacy.Author: Erick VasquezISBN-10: 0368205282ISBN-13: 9780368205286Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2019Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12d- $15.00
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Vendor: Lysz Flo
Lysz Flo Reflects 1.31.19
Brief Multilingual Poetry Book commemorating my spoken word performance. It celebrates self love, women's empowerment, and the release of toxic love.Author: Lysz FloISBN-10: 0368106926ISBN-13: 9780368106927Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2019Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.07lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.05d- $10.00
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Vendor: Joyce Kilmer
Dreams and Images: An Anthology of Catholic Poets
Joyce Kilmer's supreme compilation arranges classic Catholic poems by their creators, their verses spanning many topics as well as centuries of Christian history and worship. With works collected from dozens of authors from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, this anthology of Catholic...- $17.97
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Vendor: Marisa Crane
Our Debatable Bodies
In 'Our Debatable Bodies', Marisa Crane addresses the uncomfortable truth about being a woman operating outside patriarchal constraints of traditional femininity. She rages against the expectations of womanhood, tearing them down to build new ones. Love, self-belief, and the trials and triumphs of queer...- $10.00
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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.