Best Poems About Beauty - April 2024

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.Carefully curated, these 200 pl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399563245
• ASIN: 0399563245
• ISBN: 0399563245
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393320979
• ASIN: 0393320979
• ISBN: 9780393320978
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, eac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0147515823
• ASIN: 0147515823
• ISBN: 9780147515827
• Brand: Puffin Books
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

A Light in the Attic Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems

• ASIN: 0061905852
• UPC: 201561905852
• ASIN: 0061905852
• ISBN: 9780061905858
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Cry, the Beloved Country

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land ar... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743262174
• ASIN: 0743262174
• ISBN: 0743262174
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives.John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life. O’Donohue looks at life’s thresholds—getting married, having children... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385522274
• ASIN: 0385522274
• ISBN: 0385522274
• Brand: Doubleday Books
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Love Her Wild: Poems

The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. He was dubbed the “#1 poet to follow” by Teen Vogue and “the world’s most tattoo-able” poet by Galore magazine, in Love Her Wild, Atticus captures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in l... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501171232
• ASIN: 1501171232
• ISBN: 1501171232
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Seeds and Trees: A children's book about the power of words

Words are powerful. They can hurt or they can heal.It’s time to tell a special tale that will warm the hearts of readers of all ages. Seeds and Trees revels in the power of words. It explores their effects on feelings and emotions. And it does so through the journey of two different seeds.In Seeds and Trees, discover a young prince who gathers seeds both green and dark from those he encounters, and then gifts them forward. He faithfully plants and waters all those seeds daily, but comes to realize that the dark trees harm the green ones. With the help of a kind friend he discovers he can ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DH86HFL
• ASIN: B07DH86HFL
• Manufacturer: The Treasured Tree Digital

Citizen: An American Lyric

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . .A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1555976905
• ASIN: 1555976905
• ISBN: 1555976905
• Brand: Graywolf Press
• Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been. For the first time in paperback, this collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671028456
• ASIN: 0671028456
• ISBN: 9780671028459
• Brand: MTV Books
• Manufacturer: MTV Books

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• ASIN: 1492238287
• ASIN: 1492238287
• ISBN: 1492238287
• Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

The best-selling Rumi book ever is now better than ever! This revised and expanded edition of the comprehensive one-volume edition of America′s most popular poet includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks, and 57 new poems never published before. The ecstatic, spiritual poetry of Rumi is more popular than ever, and The Essential Rumi continues to be far and away the top-selling title of all Rumi books. With the addition of many new poems and a new introduction, The Essential Rumi is now clearly the definitive, and most delightful selection of Rumi̸... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062509594
• UPC: 787721907510
• ASIN: 0062509594
• ISBN: 0062509594
• Brand: HarperOne
• Manufacturer: HarperOne

The Iliad of Homer

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard M... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0226470490
• ASIN: 0226470490
• ISBN: 0226470490
• Brand: University of Chicago Press
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesLibrary Journal 2016 Best Books of the Year WINNER, 2016 Whiting AwardWINNER, 2017 Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn AwardFINALIST, 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardFINALIST, 2017 Lambda Literary Award In his haunting and fearless debut, O... [Read More]

• ASIN: 155659495X
• ASIN: 155659495X
• ISBN: 155659495X
• Brand: Ocean Vuong
• Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press

Her

"Her" is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of "Her."

• ASIN: 0997426586
• ASIN: 0997426586
• ISBN: 0997426586
• Manufacturer: Jeanius Publishing LLC

Best Loved Poems of American People

Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

• UPC: 461703
• Rating: 4.667

Wild Beauty : New and Selected Poems

Collects over sixty original and selected poems with Spanish translations on facing pages that frequently deal with such difficult subjects as rape, abortion, suicide, and domestic

• UPC: 56043633
• Rating: 5.0

Echo Echo : Reverso Poems About Greek Myths

• UPC: 46850791
• Rating: 3.0

She Walks in Beauty : A Woman's Journey Through Poems

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject

• UPC: 47698200
• Rating: 4.4

Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! : More Poems About School

Poems celebrate the world of education and the situations that occur in the elementary

• UPC: 368270

A Place to Start a Family : Poems About Creatures That Build

"Many animals build remarkable structures in order to attract mates, lay eggs, give birth, and otherwise perpetuate their species. Twelve animals are presented in four sections based on where they live--underground, in the water, on

• UPC: 56086675
• Rating: 5.0

There are Girls like Lions : Poems about Being a Woman

"Editorial collaboration by Mallory Farrugia" -- Verso title

• UPC: 169221387
• Rating: 4.0

You Don't Even Know Me : Stories and Poems About Boys

In nine stories and 15 poems, Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group of adolescent African-American

• UPC: 15401824
• Rating: 4.0

Music's Spell : Poems About Music and Musicians

Music may be the universal language that needs no words, but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. The poems in this collection are

• UPC: 10301656

100 Best Poems for Children

Books : 100 Best Poems for Children (Puffin Poetry)

• UPC: 772242114
• Rating: 5.0