{"title":"Poetry Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eRead a poetry book and discover your new favorite poem from poets like Ada Limón and Rupi Kaur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780062651433","title":"On Cats","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski’s classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endearing as he explores and honors the majestic creatures and our relationship with them.” —Bustle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelines touched a vulnerable spot in the unfathomable soul of Charles Bukowski, the Dirty Old Man of American letters. For the writer, there was something elemental about these inscrutable creatures, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our beings. Bukowski considered cats to be forces of nature, elusive emissaries of beauty and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny and moving, \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e offers Bukowski’s musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and resiliency. Poignant and free of treacle, \u003cem\u003eOn Cats\u003c\/em\u003e is an illuminating portrait of this one-of-a-kind artist and his unique view of the world, witnessed through his relationship with the animals he considered among his most profound teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.\" -Charles Bukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369254359101,"sku":"9780062651433","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062651433_p0.jpg?v=1771565185"},{"product_id":"9780674273115","title":"Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 New England Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, \u003ci\u003eSuper Gay Poems\u003c\/i\u003e brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Since that galvanizing moment, poetry has served as both a vehicle for queer liberation and a witness to its sometimes fragile, sometimes ebullient flourishing, across the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in this anthology represent the great variety of queer and trans life itself. They include near-sonnets, iambic couplets, and rhymed quatrains; skinny dimeters and shaped poems; chatty free verse and intentionally inaccurate translations; the demotic and the rococo. Arranged in chronological order, the selections trace queer culture’s recent evolutions. Frank O’Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Adrienne Rich, Chen Chen, essa ranapiri, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise—poets widely known and poets who deserve to be—share their alienation, their euphoria, and their encounters with a protean community as it discovers new solidarities and new selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach piece is paired with a concise, eye-opening essay in Burt’s trademark style, with verve and an inimitable literary ear. A treasury of aesthetic experience and insight, \u003ci\u003eSuper Gay Poems\u003c\/i\u003e points protestors, political organizers, poetry lovers, and LGBTQIA+ readers toward many beautiful tomorrows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369272381501,"sku":"9780674273115","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780674273115_p0.jpg?v=1771589930"},{"product_id":"9780151686568","title":"Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats, Illustrated Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe inspiration for the iconic musical \u003cem\u003eCats,\u003c\/em\u003e T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats, with whimsical illustrations by Edward Gorey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world since they were gathered for publication in 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, that he first revealed himself as \"Old Possum\" and for whom he composed his poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis captivating edition is a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry and fierce, small and unmistakably round. Also includes Edward Gorey's charming pen and ink illustrations. Gorey gives a fresh intepretation of \"Mr. Mistoffelees,\" \"Growltiger,\" \"The Rum Tum Tugger,\" \"Bustopher Jones,\" \"Skimbleshanks,\" \"Macavity: the Mystery Cat,\" and a variety of other memorable feline strays all of whom have been brought to life on the stage in the hit musical \u003cem\u003eCats\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369325072445,"sku":"9780151686568","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780151686568_p0.jpg?v=1771575393"},{"product_id":"9780813198125","title":"Gay Poems for Red States","description":"\u003ci\u003eNo one will protect you. \u003c\/i\u003eMonths after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. announced his decision to leave the public school system. His career as a high school English teacher had spanned more than a decade but ended abruptly—another casualty of the cruel and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination that is creeping back into the halls of government and the homes of Americans. At the beginning of Carver's career, an administrator warned him about discussing his otherwise openly gay identity at work: \"No one will protect you, including me.\" A new administration allowed for more freedom, but the initial warning eventually rang true. School officials failed repeatedly to address harassment of students and of Carver himself, until he could no longer endure such a purposeful deterioration of human rights. While Carver's testimony before the House of Representatives brought much-needed attention to the need for protections for LGBTQ+ people in schools, the damage was done. \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGay Poems for Red States\u003c\/i\u003e, Carver counters the injustice of a persistent anti-LGBTQ+ movement by asserting that a life full of beauty and pride is possible for everyone. More than a collection of poetry, Carver's earnest and heartfelt verses are for those wishing to discover and understand the vastness of Appalachia, and for the LGBTQ+ Appalachians who long for a future—for a home—in an often unwelcoming place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369384710205,"sku":"9780813198125","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780813198125_p0.jpg?v=1771582727"},{"product_id":"9780358539414","title":"Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope","description":"From NPR correspondent and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events.   A book in the tradition of James Baldwin’s “A Report from Occupied Territory,”  \u003ci\u003eLight for the World to See\u003c\/i\u003e is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America’s crisis of conscience . . . to the centuries of loss, endless resilience, and unstoppable hope.   Includes an introduction by the author and a bold, graphically designed interior.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369438580797,"sku":"9780358539414","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780358539414_p0.jpg?v=1771586850"},{"product_id":"9780062509598","title":"The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis revised and expanded edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Rumi\u003c\/em\u003e includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems of Rumi.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever. \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Rumi\u003c\/em\u003e continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369441988669,"sku":"9780062509598","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062509598_p0.jpg?v=1771565924"},{"product_id":"9780358652977","title":"Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Pearl, And Sir Orfeo","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePEARL\u003c\/i\u003e, AND \u003ci\u003eSIR ORFEO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POEMS, WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It’s Christmas at Camelot, the heart of Arthurian legend, 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 of the knights to strike him once, with a battle-axe no less, on the condition that he is allowed to return the blow a year hence. Arthur’s brave favorite for the challenge is Sir Gawain…\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Accompanying \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e in this book are \u003ci\u003eSir Orfeo\u003c\/i\u003e, a medieval version of the story of Orpheus and Euridice, a love so strong that it overcame death, and \u003ci\u003ePearl\u003c\/i\u003e, a moving tale and powerful Christian allegory about a man in a graveyard mourning his baby daughter, lost like a pearl that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and dreams of meeting her in a bejewelled fantasy world.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Interpreted in a form designed to appeal to the general reader, J.R.R. Tolkien’s vivid translations of these classic medieval English poems represent the complete rhyme and alliterative verse of the originals. This beautifully decorated text includes as a bonus the complete text of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369442644029,"sku":"9780358652977","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780358652977_p0.jpg?v=1771587600"},{"product_id":"9780062565327","title":"Essential Bukowski: Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of American poetry from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse in this landmark poetry collection illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting modern poetry touched by grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is \u003ci\u003eEssential Bukowski\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis career-spanning collection captures the voice of a literary outlaw:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTransgressive Literature:\u003c\/b\u003e Witness the raw, funny, and acutely observant voice that left an enduring mark on modern culture, speaking to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRaw and Honest Writing:\u003c\/b\u003e Experience Bukowski’s unvarnished, self-deprecating, and powerful verse, which illuminates the most enduring concerns of the human condition with visceral and hilarious clarity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePoems About Life:\u003c\/b\u003e Journey through a wide range of subjects—from love and sex to death and the desperate absurdity of writing and ordinary life—all captured with a tough, unrelenting style touched by grace.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLiterary Poetry:\u003c\/b\u003e Curated by leading scholar Abel Debritto, this essential volume presents the most powerful and poignant work from a master of the form, tracking his evolution from early lyricism to his final, philosophical stance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369445134397,"sku":"9780062565327","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062565327_p0.jpg?v=1771565161"},{"product_id":"9780062643520","title":"Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA repackaged edition of the revered author’s poetry—a collection of verse that exemplifies and celebrates his breadth of knowledge, his wide-ranging interests, both spiritual and earthly, and his never-ending search to find God and understand the mysteries of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for his fiction and philosophical nonfiction, C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eMere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other beloved classics—was also an accomplished poet. In \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e, Lewis dives deep into a wide range of subjects—from God to nature to love to unicorns—revealing his extensive imagination and sense of wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369449066557,"sku":"9780062643520","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062643520_p0.jpg?v=1771565879"},{"product_id":"9780374277734","title":"The Translations of Seamus Heaney","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney’s translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1999, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, “something imperishable and great” (James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgil’s \u003ci\u003eAeneid Book VI\u003c\/i\u003e caused a similar stir, providing “a remarkable and fitting epilogue to one of the great poetic careers of recent times” (Nick Laird, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e). Now, for the first time, the poet, critic, and essayist’s translations are gathered in one volume. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeaney translated not only classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Russian, German, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Ancient and Modern Greek, Middle and Modern French, and Medieval and Modern Italian, among other languages. In particular, the Nobel laureate engaged with works in Old, Middle, and Modern Irish, the languages of his homeland and early education. As he said, “If you lived in the Irish countryside as I did in my childhood, you lived in a primal Gaeltacht.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Translations of Seamus Heaney\u003c\/i\u003e, Marco Sonzogni has collected Heaney’s translations and framed them with the poet’s own writings on his works and their composition, sourced from introductions, interviews, and commentaries. Through this volume, we come closer to grasping the true extent of Heaney’s extraordinary abilities and his genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369449623613,"sku":"9780374277734","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374277734_p0.jpg?v=1771587092"},{"product_id":"9780142437223","title":"The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno \u003c\/i\u003ethat retains all the style, power and meaning of the original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell recreates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369450147901,"sku":"9780142437223","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780142437223_p0.jpg?v=1771574264"},{"product_id":"9780374523503","title":"Omeros","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOmeros\u003c\/i\u003e is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWith circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, \u003ci\u003eOmeros\u003c\/i\u003e 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 from the suffering of the individual in exile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the great poems of our time.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn Lucas, New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369455489085,"sku":"9780374523503","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374523503_p0.jpg?v=1771586520"},{"product_id":"9780374524524","title":"The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky","description":"This 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 \u003ci\u003eterza rima\u003c\/i\u003e form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: \"A brilliant success,\" as Bernard Knox wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369455718461,"sku":"9780374524524","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374524524_p0.jpg?v=1771587168"},{"product_id":"9780374525743","title":"The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE BOLLINGEN PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eCOMING SOON AS A MAJOR FILM FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN  \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and  Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this\u003ci\u003e Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369456013373,"sku":"9780374525743","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374525743_p0.jpg?v=1771586555"},{"product_id":"9780374529604","title":"The Poetry of Pablo Neruda","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the most comprehensive English-language collection ever by \"the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language\" (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel García \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMárquez\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness.\" So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as \"the people's poet.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems, scores of them in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy among English-speaking writers and readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369456668733,"sku":"9780374529604","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374529604_p0.jpg?v=1771587222"},{"product_id":"9780374530686","title":"The Man with Night Sweats","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man with Night Sweats \u003c\/i\u003eis a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is also one of the few works of literature that have fully met both the aesthetic and the moral challenges that the AIDS epidemic poses. The nobility and sobriety of Thom Gunn's forms enhance and underscore the gravity and pathos of his subjects. The results have the cathartic and healing power of great art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369457029181,"sku":"9780374530686","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374530686_p0.jpg?v=1771586960"},{"product_id":"9780374530969","title":"Life Studies and For the Union Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century—and \u003ci\u003eLife Studies and For the Union Dead \u003c\/i\u003estand as among his most important volumes. In \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of \u003ci\u003eFor the Union Dead \u003c\/i\u003econcerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369457193021,"sku":"9780374530969","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374530969_p0.jpg?v=1771586532"},{"product_id":"9780143037675","title":"Good Poems for Hard Times","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The book is full of strong, memorable poems that stick with readers like a friend during a long, hard night. \" - The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as \"Such As It Is More or Less\" and \"Let It Spill.\" From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Mary Oliver, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or who simply appreciate the power of good poetry.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369457913917,"sku":"9780143037675","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143037675_p0.jpg?v=1771574396"},{"product_id":"9780062668875","title":"The Essential Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover the unparalleled brilliance of one of America's most celebrated poets. \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a carefully curated selection of her most profound and beloved works, capturing the essence of her timeless genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDickinson's poetry transcends the boundaries of time and space, exploring themes of love, nature, death, and the soul with unmatched depth and insight. Whether you’re a lifelong fan or new to her work, this collection offers the perfect gateway into her poetic universe. Explore her most iconic poems, from \u003cem\u003eBecause I could not stop for Death\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003e“Hope\" is the thing with feathers. \u003c\/em\u003eGain insight into the mind of a reclusive yet revolutionary artist whose words continue to resonate across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep into Emily Dickinson's remarkable world, where every word is a window to new realms of thought and feeling. \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a book; it’s an invitation to experience the beauty, mystery, and eternal relevance of one of literature’s greatest voices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369458044989,"sku":"9780062668875","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062668875_p0.jpg?v=1771565074"},{"product_id":"9780374533762","title":"Poet in New York: Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA newly revised edition of the insightful poetic cycle by one of the key figures of modern literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929–30, \u003ci\u003ePoet in New York\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important books he produced, and certainly one of the most important books ever published about New York City. Indeed, it is a book that changed the direction of poetry in both Spain and the Americas, a pathbreaking and defining work of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Timed to coincide with the citywide celebration of García Lorca in New York planned for 2013, this edition, which has been revised once again by the renowned García Lorca scholar Christopher Maurer, includes thrilling material—new photographs, new and emended letters—that has only recently come to light. Complementing these additions are García Lorca’s witty and insightful letters to his family describing his feelings about America and his temporary home there (a dorm room in Columbia’s John Jay Hall), the annotated photographs that accompany those letters, a prose poem, extensive notes, and an interpretive lecture by García Lorca himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     An excellent introduction to the work of a key figure of modern poetry, this bilingual edition of \u003ci\u003ePoet in New York\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea strange, timeless, vital book of verse, is also an exposition of the American city in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369458667581,"sku":"9780374533762","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374533762_p0.jpg?v=1771586885"},{"product_id":"9780374534097","title":"Poems 1962-2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize–winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape—Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain—persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made.    \u003cbr\u003e          From the outset (\"\u003ci\u003eCome here \/ Come here, little one\u003c\/i\u003e\"), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we \"do not see the intervening fathoms.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom within the earth's\u003cbr\u003ebitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emy friend the moon rises: \u003cbr\u003eshe is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it, the one fated to die and the other to endure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369459224637,"sku":"9780374534097","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374534097_p0.jpg?v=1771588063"},{"product_id":"9780374534554","title":"The Dream Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete \u003ci\u003eDream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berryman's \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: \"if he had a hundred years,\" Henry despairs in \"Dream Song 29,\" \"\u0026amp; more, \u0026amp; weeping, sleepless, in all them time \/ Henry could not make good.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume collects both \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, \u003ci\u003eHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369459519549,"sku":"9780374534554","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374534554_p0.jpg?v=1771587432"},{"product_id":"9780374534929","title":"All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an artichoke to the clouds in the sky, from the moon to his own friendship with Federico García Lorca and his favorite places in Chile. He was in his late forties when he committed himself to writing an ode a week, and in the end he produced a total of 225, which are dispersed throughout his varied oeuvre. This bilingual volume, edited by Ilan Stavans, a distinguished translator and scholar of Latin American literature, gathers all Neruda’s odes for the first time in any language. Rendered into English by an assortment of accomplished translators, including Philip Levine, Paul Muldoon, Mark Strand, and Margaret Sayers Peden, collectively they read like the personal diary of a man in search of meaning who sings to life itself, to our connections to one another, and to the place we have in nature and the cosmos. \u003ci\u003eAll the Odes\u003c\/i\u003e is also a lasting statement on the role of poetry as a lightning rod during tumultuous times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369459617853,"sku":"9780374534929","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374534929_p0.jpg?v=1771586609"},{"product_id":"9780374535612","title":"Selected Poems 1988-2013","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften considered to be \"the greatest poet of our age\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 \"for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.\" He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with \"the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values.\" Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was \"the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority.\" \u003cbr\u003e     Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1988–2013\u003c\/i\u003e, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things \u003c\/i\u003e(1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) where we experience \"the poem as ploughshare that turns time \/ Up and over.\"; the landmark translation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e (1999); \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369459814461,"sku":"9780374535612","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374535612_p0.jpg?v=1771586897"},{"product_id":"9780374535773","title":"Faithful and Virtuous Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA luminous, seductive new collection from the \"fearless\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her \u003ci\u003ePoems 1962–2012 \u003c\/i\u003ewas hailed as \"a major event in this country's literature\" in the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003e is no exception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where \"on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball\" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, \"the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369460011069,"sku":"9780374535773","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374535773_p0.jpg?v=1771586673"},{"product_id":"9780143039273","title":"Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I celebrate myself, and sing myself,\u003cbr\u003e And what I assume you shall assume,\u003cbr\u003e For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Walt Whitman self-published his \u003cb\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/b\u003e in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished \u003cb\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/b\u003e, but as Harold Bloom reminds us, the book that matters most is the 1855 original. In celebration of the poem’s 150th anniversary, Penguin Classics proudly presents the 1855 text in its original and complete form, with a specially commissioned introductory essay by Harold Bloom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369460961341,"sku":"9780143039273","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143039273_p0.jpg?v=1771574355"},{"product_id":"9780374538972","title":"100 Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected poems from a Nobel laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e 100 Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from \"The Cure at  Troy\" to \"Death of a Naturalist.\" It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369462042685,"sku":"9780374538972","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374538972_p0.jpg?v=1771586929"},{"product_id":"9780374539351","title":"Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Phillips’s new poetry collection, \u003ci\u003ePale Colors in a Tall Field\u003c\/i\u003e, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought and body as forms of resistance. The poems are both timeless and timely, asking how we can ever truly know ourselves in the face of our own remembering and inevitable forgetting. Here, the poems metaphorically argue that memory is made up of various colors, with those most prominent moments in a life seeming more vivid, though the paler colors are never truly forgotten. The poems in \u003ci\u003ePale Colors in a Tall Field\u003c\/i\u003e approach their points of view kaleidoscopically, enacting the self’s multiplicity and the difficult shifts required as our lives, in turn, shift. This is one of Phillips’s most tender, dynamic, and startling books yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369462698045,"sku":"9780374539351","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374539351_p0.jpg?v=1771587875"},{"product_id":"9780374604851","title":"Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021","description":"\u003cb\u003eNew and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize–winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese songs run along dirt roads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; highways, crisscross lonely seas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; scale mountains, traverse skies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp; underworlds of neon honkytonk,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWherever blues dare to travel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryday Mojo Songs of Earth \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together selected poems from the past twenty years of Yusef Komunyakaa’s work, as well as new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner. Komunyakaa’s masterful, concise verse conjures arresting images of peace and war, the natural power of the earth and of love, his childhood in the American South and his service in Vietnam, the ugly violence of racism in America, and the meaning of power and morality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new poems in this collection add a new refrain to the jazz-inflected rhythms of one of our “most significant and individual voices” (David Wojahn, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e). Komunyakaa writes of a young man fashioning a slingshot, workers who “honor the Earth by opening shine \/ inside the soil,” and the sounds of a saxophone filling a dim lounge in New Jersey. As April Bernard wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, “He refuses to be trivial; and he even dares beauty.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Probably my favorite living poet. No one else taught me more about how important it was to think about how words make people feel. It's not enough for people to know something is true. They have to feel it's true.\" —Ta-Nehisi Coates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369463615549,"sku":"9780374604851","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374604851_p0.jpg?v=1771587896"},{"product_id":"9780374606473","title":"Against Silence: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWords—there is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eslip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e •\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet up a situation,—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . then reveal an abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In \u003ci\u003eAgainst Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and old cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls reality forth—with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369464008765,"sku":"9780374606473","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374606473_p0.jpg?v=1771586826"},{"product_id":"9780374606480","title":"Winter Recipes from the Collective","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the \u003ci\u003eWild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. \u003ci\u003eWinter Recipes from the Collective\u003c\/i\u003e is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, \u003ci\u003edolente\u003c\/i\u003e, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, \u003ci\u003eanimoso\u003c\/i\u003e, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369464139837,"sku":"9780374606480","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374606480_p0.jpg?v=1771587203"},{"product_id":"9780374613617","title":"Ararat: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the Nobel laureate’s searing fifth collection of poetry, about “the myth of a happy family” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e).   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArarat\u003c\/i\u003e, Glück’s fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father. Here she creates a ruthlessly probing family portrait and confronts the difficulties and intricacies of a daughter’s relationship to her parents. The result is a subtle and determined collection in which the poet interrogates both her own life and the whole world that emanates from it. “I was born to a vocation,” she writes, “to bear witness \/ to the great mysteries. \/ Now that I’ve seen both \/ birth and death, I know \/ to the dark nature these \/ are proofs, not \/ mysteries—”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369466105917,"sku":"9780374613617","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374613617_p0.jpg?v=1771588204"},{"product_id":"9780143105138","title":"The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods. Ultimately, he reaches the promised land of Italy where, after bloody battles and with high hopes, he founds what will become the Roman empire. An unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, the \u003ci\u003eAeneid \u003c\/i\u003eredefines passion, nobility, and courage for our times. Robert Fagles, whose acclaimed translations of Homer’s \u003ci\u003eIliad \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOdyssey \u003c\/i\u003ewere welcomed as major publishing events, brings the \u003ci\u003eAeneid \u003c\/i\u003eto a new generation of readers, retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original Latin as well as its powerful blend of poetry and myth. Featuring an illuminating introduction to Virgil’s world by esteemed scholar Bernard Knox, this volume lends a vibrant new voice to one of the seminal literary achievements of the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369466171453,"sku":"9780143105138","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143105138_p0.jpg?v=1771574534"},{"product_id":"9780143105152","title":"Spoon River Anthology","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, \u003ci\u003eSpoon River Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and other luminaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369466236989,"sku":"9780143105152","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143105152_p0.jpg?v=1771573913"},{"product_id":"9780374613969","title":"What You Want: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eMaureen N. McLane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn her first book of poems since the scintillating \u003ci\u003eMore Anon: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. \u003ci\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shapes an ambient unease. Whether skying with John Constable or walking on wintry paths in our precarious republic, the poet channels what Wordsworth called “moods of my own mind” while she scans for our common horizon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are poems filled with gulls and harbors, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumored sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. From Sappho to the Luminist painter Fitz Henry Lane, from constellations to microplastics, \u003ci\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/i\u003e is a book alive to the cosmos as well as to our moment, with its many vexations and intermittent illuminations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn poems of powerful command and delicate invitation, moving from swift notations to sustained sequences, this collection sees McLane testing what (if anything) might “outlast the coming heat.” And meanwhile, “There’s no end \/ to beauty and shit.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369466269757,"sku":"9780374613969","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374613969_p0.jpg?v=1771586826"},{"product_id":"9780374615970","title":"With My Back to the World: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award and the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection \u003ci\u003eObit\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith My Back to the World\u003c\/i\u003e engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space.  Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang’s new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369467220029,"sku":"9780374615970","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374615970_p0.jpg?v=1771587357"},{"product_id":"9780375700897","title":"Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy: Including the First English Translation of the Unfinished Poems","description":"An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal—and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian’s assessing eye along with the poet’s compassionate heart. \u003cbr\u003e After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn—a classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world—gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy’s verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. Complete with the Unfinished Poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died—a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades—and with an in-depth introduction and a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory translation is a cause for celebration: the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369469317181,"sku":"9780375700897","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375700897_p0.jpg?v=1771588287"},{"product_id":"9780143106203","title":"Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova,\u003c\/i\u003e his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante was only nine years old when he first met young Beatrice in Florence. Loving her for the rest of his life with a devotion undiminished by even her untimely death, he would dedicate himself to transfiguring her, through poetry, into something far more than a muse—she would become the very proof of love as transcendent spiritual power, and the adoration of her a radiant path into a “new life.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Censored by the Church, written in the Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin, exploding the courtly love tradition of the medieval troubadours, and employing an unprecedented hybrid form to link the thirty-one poems with prose commentary, \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1294, represents both an innovation in the literature of love and the work of Dante’s that brings this extraordinary poet into clearest view. This limpid new translation, based on the latest authoritative Italian edition and featuring the Italian on facing pages, captures the ineffable quality of a work that has inspired the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Penn Warren, and Louise Glück, and sustains the long afterlife of a masterpiece that is itself a key to the ultimate poetic journey into the afterlife, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369470267453,"sku":"9780143106203","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143106203_p0.jpg?v=1771574420"},{"product_id":"9780375704468","title":"The Colossus and Other Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. • \"[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows.\" —Joyce Carol Oates,\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn such classics as \"The Beekeeper's Daughter,\" \"The Disquieting Muses,\" \"I Want, I Want,\" and \"Full Fathom Five,\" she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in \u003cb\u003eThe Colossus\u003c\/b\u003e are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369471152189,"sku":"9780375704468","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375704468_p0.jpg?v=1771588219"},{"product_id":"9780143107194","title":"The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAn epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished with semiautobiographical details, Dante's poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. This acclaimed blank verse translation is published here for the first time in a one-volume edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369472397373,"sku":"9780143107194","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143107194_p0.jpg?v=1771574355"},{"product_id":"9780143107286","title":"Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTogether, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south-central Iran, and all three drew support from arts-loving rulers during a time better known for its violence than its creative brilliance. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered “our finest translator of Persian poetry” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time…\u003ci\u003eFaces of Love\u003c\/i\u003e has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems.” \u003cb\u003e—Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369472561213,"sku":"9780143107286","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143107286_p0.jpg?v=1771573699"},{"product_id":"9780375707575","title":"The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Beauty Of The Husband \u003c\/i\u003eis an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369472626749,"sku":"9780375707575","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375707575_p0.jpg?v=1780108267"},{"product_id":"9780143107392","title":"The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrost’s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of “The Road Not Taken”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classics Deluxe edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For one hundred years, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise—a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. \u003ci\u003eThe Road Not Taken and Other Poems \u003c\/i\u003epresents Frost’s best-loved poem along with other works from his brilliant early years, including such poems as “After Apple-Picking,” “The Oven Bird,” and “Mending Wall.” Award-winning poet and critic David Orr’s introduction discusses why Frost remains so central (if often misunderstood) in American culture and how the beautiful intricacy of his poetry keeps inviting generation after generation to search for meaning in his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369473413181,"sku":"9780143107392","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143107392_p0.jpg?v=1771574060"},{"product_id":"9780375710018","title":"Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Pulitzer Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER • \u003c\/b\u003eIn this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside \/ my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death . . . There is only \/ mine \/ or yours,– \/ but the world \/ will be filled with the living.” In prayerlike poems he invokes the one “who spoke the world \/ into being” and celebrates a dazzling universe–snowflakes descending at nightfall, the intense yellow petals of the September sunflower, the planet adrift in a blizzard of stars, the simple mystery of loving other people. As Wright overcomes a natural tendency toward loneliness and isolation, he gives voice to his hope for “the only animal that commits suicide,” and, to our deep pleasure, he arrives at a place of gratitude that is grounded in the earth and its moods.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369473577021,"sku":"9780375710018","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375710018_p0.jpg?v=1771588254"},{"product_id":"9780375724510","title":"If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"gorgeous translation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed,   only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new   translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments,   in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them,   inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or,   to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire ... racing under skin.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator.... Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth.\" \u003ci\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369475903549,"sku":"9780375724510","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375724510_p0.jpg?v=1771587542"},{"product_id":"9780143108320","title":"Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the \u003ci\u003eShahnameh\u003c\/i\u003e to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the \u003ci\u003eShahnameh\u003c\/i\u003e is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the \u003ci\u003eShahnameh\u003c\/i\u003e are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner \u003c\/i\u003eand the love poems of Rumi and Hafez.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369476558909,"sku":"9780143108320","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780143108320_p0.jpg?v=1771574488"},{"product_id":"9780375755194","title":"Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eSailing Alone Around the Room\u003c\/b\u003e, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections \u003cb\u003eThe Apple That Astonished Paris\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eQuestions About Angels\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Art of Drowning\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003ePicnic, Lightning\u003c\/b\u003e. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369478262845,"sku":"9780375755194","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375755194_p0.jpg?v=1771587691"},{"product_id":"9780375755217","title":"The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems","description":"Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWith his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address \/ only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, \/ the toast is in the toaster, \/ and the poets are at their windows. \/ They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth–the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, \/ the American poets gazing out \/ at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn’t have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most “serious” poetry: “By now, it should go without saying \/ that what the oven is to the baker \/ and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner \/ so the window is to the poet.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing–themes familiar to Collins’s fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins’s poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369478426685,"sku":"9780375755217","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375755217_p0.jpg?v=1771588413"},{"product_id":"9780375761232","title":"The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet’s most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality—featuring a new introduction by poet Olivia Gatwood, author of \u003ci\u003eLife of the Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation as one of the most critically acclaimed poets of the Modernist era. Her work pushed boundaries within the literary canon for its lyrical expression of female embodiment and progressive feminist politics, and she was honored as only the third woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates Millay’s legacy and influence on contemporary poetry. Sometimes satirical, often sharp, and always striking, the poems in this collection span Millay’s remarkable career, from the success of \u003ci\u003eRenascence and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e to the sting of \u003ci\u003eA Few Figs from Thistles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSecond April\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver” and eight sonnets from the early twenties. Millay’s incandescent poetry continues to inspire today as broadly and deeply as during her lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAMERICAN INDIAN STORIES • THE AWAKENING • THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY • THE HEADS OF CERBERUS • LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET • LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS • PASSING • THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN • VILLETTE • THERE IS CONFUSION • THE SELECTED POEMS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369480327229,"sku":"9780375761232","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780375761232_p0.jpg?v=1771587544"},{"product_id":"9780062844682","title":"Light Filters In: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of poetry collections like \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMilk and Honey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdultolescence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLight Filters In, \u003c\/em\u003eCaroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis hardcover collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, \u003cem\u003eLight Fi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003elters In w\u003c\/em\u003eill thrill existing fans and newcomers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eit’s okay if some things\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eare always out of reach.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eif you could carry all the stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ein the palm of your hand,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethey wouldn’t be\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003ehalf as breathtaking\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369482358845,"sku":"9780062844682","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780062844682_p0.jpg?v=1771565693"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/collections\/poetry.oembed?page=10","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}