Poetry

Find Hope and Solace in Inspirational Poetry from Scotland’s Poet Sensation and Sunday Times Bestselling Author “Beautiful and uplifting” —Davina McCall“So inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond...

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.The...

“Both plain-spoken and luminous . . . [Szymborska’s] is the best of the Western mind—free, restless, questioning.” — New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Editors’ Choice “Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the...

Best-selling poet Lang Leav presents a gorgeous hardcover gift book featuring the best of Lullabies and Love & Misadventure plus thirty-five new poems for fans to discover, along with original color illustrations by the author.For...

More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some...

dear self, is a free-flowing collection of gentle reminders and loving affirmations centered around self-love, self-acceptance, growth and healing. This collection takes you on a journey of deep reflection and introspection until you uncover the many...

Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this...

Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery...

Named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail(Canada).From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics” (Nylon), comes "a warmly considered meld of criticism and memoir"...

Honored as a "Best Book of 2021" by Publishers Weekly."This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power...

Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light.In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett celebrates the unsung hero of the plant world with her unique blend of poetry, nature writing and...

A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate BolickWonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker...

Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation.Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and...

(Available after August 30th, 2022)An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.   “I have always been...

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book...

Poet and expert on what the heart holds most closely, Rupi Kaur’s Healing Through Words gives us the words that help heal best. Touching, empathetic and knowing is what we all need. To know words as Kaur does is to know what matters most. Open up and...

“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe. Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood...

Collecting the inspirational, lyrical poetry of the iconic Persian mystic, this superbly curated volume showcases Rumi's towering love poetry alongside his verse on spirituality and the natural world.   The essential poems of the inspirational...