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  • Beowulf

    A Translation and Commentary

    New York Times bestseller“A thrill . . . Beowulf was Tolkien’s lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it.” —New YorkerJ.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tales From The Perilous Realm

    Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien’s four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time. This new, definitive collection of works — which had appeared separately, in various formats, between 1949 and 1998 — comes with an illuminating introduction ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Pearl, And Sir Orfeo

    SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL, AND SIR ORFEOTHREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKIENIt’s Christmas at Camelot and King Arthur won’t begin to feast until he has witnessed a marvel of chivalry. A mysterious knight, green from head to toe, rides in and brings the court’s wait to an end with an implausible challenge to the Round Table: he will allow any ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Fall Of Arthur

    New York Times bestseller “An incomplete but highly compelling retelling . . . An action-packed, doom-haunted saga, full of vivid natural description.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe Fall of Arthur recounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the threshold of Mirkwood, is summoned back to Britain by news of the treachery of Mordred. Already weakened in spirit by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún

    Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Battle of Maldon

    Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

    The first-ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, featuring previously unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.In 991 AD, Vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defense-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the banks of the river ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blood Orange

    by Yaffa AS ...
    "Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous ... Read more

    $8.48 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Los cínicos no sirven para este oficio

    (Sobre el buen periodismo)

    Translated by Xavier González Rovira ...
    Es un error escribir sobre alguien con quien no se ha compartido al menos un tramo de la vida.» Es uno de los temas centrales de Los cínicos no sirven para este oficio, un libro «conversado» sobre el trabajo del periodista, sobre sus dificultades y sus reglas, sobre la responsabilidad de los intelectuales que, hoy en día, se dedican a la información. ¿Cómo contar la pobreza, el hambre, las guerras ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bodega

    Poems

    by Su Hwang ...
    Finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in PoetryAgainst the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents’ bodega in the Queensbridge projects, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work.In Su Hwang’s rich ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crown Anthology

    One Hundred Voices, Two Hundred Poems

    Edited by Analog de Lèon, Gabriel Sage ...
    Series series Lost Poets
    Two hundred poems of hope and empowerment in a time of tumult and darkness, from Instagram’s Lost Poets community.Crown Anthology is a new collection of verse from an online subculture of poets, with a foreword by Tyler Knott Gregson, one of the movement’s foremost authors. By celebrating self-love, self-worth, and empowerment, these two hundred poems examine life in a dynamic and transformative ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Way to Change

    A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation—Poems, Prose, Practices

    by Jezz Chung ...
    An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself—and the world—through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung.Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • These Black Bodies Are...

    Edited by Romaine Washington ...
    The beautiful cover art, "Shared Knowledge" by Charles Bibbs, frames the anthology These Black Bodies Are.... This collection provides snapshots of the human condition in melanated skin and kinky hair from established and emerging writers and artists in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles area, reaching throughout the diaspora. It is an exploration of eight movements: hopeful, mindful (mental health ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Valmiki's Ramayana

    by Arshia Sattar ...
    One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Customs

    Poems

    by Solmaz Sharif ...
    Winner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for PoetryWinner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardFinalist for the 2022 L.A. Times Book Prize for PoetryLonglisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardIn Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Matters of the Heart

    Loving - it is the seaLove can be sweet and bright as the sun sparkling on the waves, but under its surface lurk betrayal and despair in bottomless darkness.From innocent crush to losing a loved one, Matters of the Heart follows the ebb and flow of love and relationships through sweet and sour, and light and dark.______________collection of 30 poems ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beowulf

    Translated by Michael Alexander ...
    Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Through its blend of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Inferno of Dante

    A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Pinsky ...
    The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual EditionThis widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Waste Land

    by T.S. Eliot ...
    April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.Summer surprised us, coming over the StarnbergerseeWith a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,And went on in sunlight, into the HofgartenAnd drank coffee, and talked for ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Illustrated - Blue edition

    Series series Kentauron
    New edition for kindle with original illustrations based on wood engravings by Gustave Doré, restored, enhanced and coloured in a brilliant deep blue tint.Download the free sample or "look inside" to give it a try.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in ... Read more

    $0.69 USD

  • Finding My Elegy

    New and Selected Poems

    This poetry collection by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author presents selections from across fifty years of verse—plus more than seventy new poems.Though internationally celebrated for her imaginative fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin started out as a poet, and since 1959 has never ceased to publish poems. Finding My Elegy distills her life's work in verse, offering a selection of the best from her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Are Here

    Poetry in the Natural World

    Edited by Ada Limón ...
    Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.For many years, “nature poetry” has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

    Poems

    by Megan Fox ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Heartbreaking…Go read the book, everyone.” —Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcastMegan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cultivating the Empty Field

    The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi

    Series series Tuttle Library Of Enlightenment
    Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of Hongzhi's poetry, the only such volume available in English, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD