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In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more.

Brought to you by Penguin. Dearly: Poems is written and read by Margaret Atwood. The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and...

Kahlil Gibran's aphorisms, stories, and poetry on a theme remain among some of those best known to Western readers. His views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted "greeting card" sayings to a wide realm of human emotions and relationships - passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers, neighbors, and enemies. This little book captures love and life in all of their complexities and nuances. 

"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself suddenly without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry...

New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the voice of a soft-spoken New Englander. Critics have long marveled at the poet's gift for capturing the speech of the region's natives and his realistic evocations of the area's landscapes. This compilation, first published in 1923, earned Frost the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes and includes several of his best-known poems: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and "Fire and Ice".

From the internationally bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars and Love Her Wild, Instagram sensation Atticus returns with another romantic and deeply moving collection. The Truth About Magic builds on the pains and joys of romance explored in Love Her Wild and the New York Times...

Almustafa, the chosen and beloved, must leave the port of Orphalese upon the ship he has waited upon for 12 years. As he descends to the waterfront, the people of Orphalese gather to question him and hear his wisdom on important topics of their daily lives. Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece is a series of enlightening, philosophical answers to those questions. The inspirational and spiritual words of The Prophet, written in an almost Biblical, poetic style, reveal deep insights into each of the subjects in question.

Edward Lear's much-loved comic poem, featuring the most elegant fowl in literature and his beautiful feline friend, read by Jenny Agutter.

Arbre dont j'ignore le nom est une méditation du poète sur l'exil et l'oubli. L'exil et l'incapacité à dire dans une autre langue : quand « les mots sont pauvres, ils montent et descendent comme le hoquet d'un nourrisson dans le brouillard d'une autre langue ». L'exil et le souvenir d'histoires familiales qui permettent d'évoquer ce que l'on fut, là d'où l'on vient.

These unforgettable love poems—queer, complicated, and almost always compromised—engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernesses of unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question "defined not by what we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves." These poems write into that intricate webbing between us, holding space for an "I" that is permeable, that can be touched and changed by those we make our lives with.

何事もなく一日を過ごす難しさ、 いま生きているこの時間や、死、ひとが旅立つということ……。 ――日々の生活から浮かんで来た言葉から詩が始まる。 2016年9月26日から朝日新聞で始まった連載「どこからか言葉が」の後半をまとめた、谷川俊太郎がさいごに遺した「感謝」を含む47篇。

Bloomsbury presents Some Sacred Harbour, written and read by Roger Robinson Selected Poems gathers together a lifetime's work by beloved, prize-winning poet and musician, Roger Robinson, reflecting on the joys and pains of life 'His poems are deep, mature, moving and inventive' BERNARDINE...

From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books. A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion. Called superb sensory...

 Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Secrets is a collection of Gibran's words on life's big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are part of the fabric of existence, and it is an attempt to penetrate and explain the mysteries of life. 

Walt Whitman's celebrated poetry collection, read by Ed Begley.

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Whether offering hope in the darkest of nights or expressing sincere joy at the extraordinariness of the everyday, Maya...

Ce recueil rassemble cinq poèmes écrits par deux poètes, Hamed Ashour et Haidar Alghazali, et une poétesse Nisrine Suleimane, vivant aujourd'hui à Gaza, ce recueil rassemble : une supplique pour emporter cette nuit qui pèse sur nos poitrines, une question « Comment tu vas ? Je vais en ruines » une voix de gardien dans un cimetière à Gaza, une envie de mourir dans un lit, pour rien, ni pour une cause, ni pour quelqu'un, une pensée de goutte d'eau. Ce qui relie ces poèmes, c'est la présence entremêlée de la vie et la mort.

Une écriture aride comme la pierre du Cantal où vit Odile Fix. Une illustration solaire comme la terre d'Ardèche où vit Clothilde Staës. Le port a jauni a proposé une rencontre entre ces deux univers : Odile Fix a exploré le thème de la terre, des éléments, du frottement entre les matières, la pierre et le temps. Clothilde Staës a travaillé sur des masses lumineuses, souples, douces, en écho infidèle à l'écriture rugueuse d'Odile Fix.

Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-acceptance and inspiration on the days we feel worn down, helpless or sad. Written with love and understanding, Donna reminds us that amidst our daily struggles and constant outpourings of bad news we have so much to hope for, and that every one of us can play a part, big or small, in making the world a better place.

Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration. A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart, read by the author herself.