Category: Poetry

Named one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews Named one of the top Children's Books of 2012 by the New York Public Library Add a little natural wonder to your poetry shelves. Because if we're talking about the best possible compliment to your eyes and ears alike, few have as many perks and grand moments as this. -School Library Journal starred review Out of a windless August night/A luna moth in ghostly light Beat softly on my window screen/Tick-tick-ticking-all silver green. She whispered secrets in my ear--/I am but a stranger here. The stars are scrawled across the sky/...
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The Lake Rises: poems to & for our bodies of water (Witness Post)

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Stockport Flats : October 2013

Seller ID: 348805

ISBN-13: 9780984028597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Poetry. Environmental Studies. Contemporary poets write on, in and through water to examine humans' responsibility to this endangered resource. These poets calm, quench, transport, cleanse as they protest derogation and mourn drowning. Editors Lisa Wujnovich and Brandi Katherine Herrera achieve a fluid weave of innovative and contemplative poets to usher in climate change. The poems in THE LAKE RISES: POEMS TO & FOR OUR BODIES OF WATER reach coast-to-coast, asking readers to drink a diversity of voices that resonate with each other in astounding ways. Some splash. Some sink. Simple narratives ...
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High Poets Society

By: Abbott, B

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Monarch Publishing, LLC : July 2016

Seller ID: 568286

ISBN-13: 9781945322006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is Brian Abbott's first major publication. The Boston-based writer has found his stronghold in the world of social media under the moniker of High Poets Society. HIs writing is most recognized for it's mesmerizing rhyme scheme and clever wordplay.
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Across the Vapour Gulf (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

By: Alexander, Will

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New Directions : August 2017

Seller ID: 239377

ISBN-13: 9780811226813

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

In Will Alexander's work, "Every poem reads like a subversive, alchemical wonder. It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, but he is truly a singular voice" (Jackson Poetry Prize citation).Composed and collected by slow accretion over the span of thirty years, Across the Vapour Gulf opens with a note by the poet: "When I first laid eyes on the writing of Cioran I was smitten by the form. The aphorism seemed cleansed of detritus--in Cioran's hands, it seemed to spontaneously ignite. Poetry, history, philosophy, the essay, medicinally combined, appearing on the other si...
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Because I Love You

By: Alice Joyce Davidson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co : October 1981

Seller ID: 366627

ISBN-13: 9780800712815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

American Poets, vol 47

By: American Poets

Price: $5.95

Seller ID: 359330

ISBN: 281BOH1004489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nine One One: Poems for September 11

By: Anthology

Price: $6.95

Publisher: DMT Publishing : January 2001

Seller ID: 529801

ISBN-13: 9780971388215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Four Seasons Japanese Haiku Second Series

By: Basho, Buson Issa Shiki and Others

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press : January 1953

Seller ID: 569004

ISBN: B0031R7PP2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems

By: Beilenso, Peter

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press : January 1955

Seller ID: 568963

ISBN: B000BKD3PS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)

By: Beum, Robert,Shapiro, Karl

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 2006

Seller ID: 555284

ISBN-13: 9780486449678

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Written by two major American poets, this guide to versification is immensely useful for anyone interested in poetry or in general poetic structure. Its systematic study of meter, tempo, rhyme, and other components of verse incorporates countless vivid illustrative examples.Concise and informal, The Prosody Handbook progresses from the smaller elements to the larger: from syllables to feet to lines to stanzas, and from smaller stanzas to larger ones. Its modified notation for marking times and stresses is easily understandable. The extensive and expanded material in the chapter titled "Scansio...
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