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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature.

Une langue limpide, des images évocatrices et fortes : à travers l'enseignement d'Al-Mustafa se dessinent quelques-uns des trésors de l'expérience humaine.

Belvie and Dedan's journey took them to Accra, Ghana, where they were married; across the United States and Canada--including the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail--planting trees and bui

In this full-length collection of poetry, Camonghne Felix redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

Leonard Cohen wrote this book of poems during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai.

In this profound book of poetry, Nikki Giovanni celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of raci

These "subversive sonnets" overhaul the traditional sonnet form to address a range of subjects, from the tenderness of love to the terror of rape, punishment, torture, and murder.

de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

Poems about being stranded in a truth that shows no mercy, speaking from the last place you'd ever choose to go.

The poems in Port of Being hold modern technology--surveillance, shipping, the Internet--to examine communication, migration, and identity.

Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world--subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of It

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence?

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic.

Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict).

Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead.