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  • The Father

    by Sharon Olds ...
    A searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).The Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beowulf: A New Translation

    Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books’ Holiday List.A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife**... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classics)

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine issue. The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Iliad (Illustrated and Annotated)

    by Homer ...
    The Iliad is a classic Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Feeler

    Series series Quarternote Chapbook Series
    Since Heather McHugh first began publishing her poems in 1968, poetry readers have marveled at the immensity and range of her gift. There seems to be nothing that McHugh can’t do with words and do with high wit and sonic brilliance. In her chapbook Feeler, McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy—how much we feel, and do, for the afflicted. It also addresses the relation between thought and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by David Raeburn ...
    'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Omeros

    by Derek Walcott ...
    Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott.With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events--the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement--and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Orphic Paris

    by Henri Cole ...
    A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In a Time of Violence: Poems

    by Eavan Boland ...
    The publication of Eavan Boland's previous book, Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990, established Boland as a significant presence in the contemporary American poetry world.This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Language of the Birds

    Poems

    by Amy Nemecek ...
    According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of Eden. Amy Nemecek listens for this divine dialect as she communes with God on her walks along country roads and creek banks, through forests and hayfields. She observes the world around her with expectation, knowing that God still speaks to us as he is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia

    Edited by Jeff Mann, Julia Watts ...
    This collection, the first of its kind, gathers original and previously published fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like much Appalachian literature, these works are pervaded with an attachment to family and the mountain landscape, yet balancing queer and Appalachian identities is an undertaking fraught with conflict. This collection ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Complete Poems of John Keats

    by John Keats ...
    'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses but suffered a tragic early death. Edmund Wilson counted him as 'one of the half dozen greatest English writers, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Slug

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Hollie McNish ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe bestselling collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by David West ...
    'The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original' The TimesAfter a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Year of Last Things

    Poems

    From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking backFollowing several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry*.* In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Harmony

    From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of love, loss, grief, and healingi am finally finding a balance,a great harmonybetween the lossand the love,between who i wasand who i have becomeIn this exquisite poetry collection, Whitney Hanson, chronicles the loss of a loved one, tracing the progression of grief and healing through the lens of music ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Novels and Stories

    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tres (Bilingual Edition)

    Translated by Laura Healy ...
    “Poetry is braver than anyone,” Roberto Bolan~o believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection.Roberto Bolan~o’s Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. “Prose from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Unknown University

    Translated by Laura Healy ...
    A deluxe edition of Bolano’s complete poetryPerhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without disappearing.” When asked, “What makes you believe you’re a better poet than a novelist?” Bolano replied, “The poetry makes me blush less.” The sum of his life’s work in his ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • You Better Be Lightning

    by Andrea Gibson ...
    2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''

    “The ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.” —Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker**A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke’s ten classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.**For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Iliad

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    **One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year 2023 • One of Atlantic's Best Books of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of New Statesman's 2023 Books of the Year • One of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2023The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Beginnings and Beyond

    “POETRY WON’T SELL,” said local publishers when Carol Lynn Pearson and her husband, Gerald, presented them with the manuscript of Beginnings in 1968. So they published two thousand copies themselves, believing that they had their lifetime supply of wedding presents.NEARLY FOUR DECADES and 300,000 volumes later, Carol Lynn’s poetry has been internationally acclaimed and reprinted in Ann Landers’ ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus