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People's Poet - Pacific Rim Review. In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People's Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him "surely the most imaginatively inventive poet in the country." A profound meditation on love, death, sex, and sickness, If I Didn't Love the River speaks directly to the polarizations of our time.

Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect) — one of two key journals which championed the intellectual and literary movement against the US-backed military dictatorships of Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan in the 1970s and 80s.

From Dr. Martina McGowan, I am The Rage is a Nautilus Award and BCALA 2022 Honor Poetry Award–winning collection perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and Maya Angelou. Through a blend of personal experiences and collective pain, Dr. McGowan engages readers in a vital dialogue about racial trauma and inequality, seeking to transform outrage into understanding and denial into awareness.

"One of the most important books of poetry to come along in years."—Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR. Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and Publishers Weekly, Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In an agile blend of zuihitsu, ghazal, mosaic poems, and lyric essays, Tina Chang evokes the bottomless love and terror of motherhood as she describes raising her mixed-race son. Ambitious and revelatory, Hybrida establishes Chang as one of the most vital voices of her generation.

Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. The wide-ranging poems in Hope Matters focus on the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. But they also document a very personal journey—the journey of a mother and her two daughters.

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry — Finalist for the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. Danez Smith is our president. Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer.

If a tortoise could run – And losses be won – And bullies be buttered on toast; If a song brought a shower – And a gun grew a flower – This world would be nicer than most! Beautiful, poignant and funny, Ruskin Bond's verses for children are a joy to read to yourself on a lazy summer afternoon or to recite in school among friends. For the first time, his poems for children, old and new, come together in this illustrated volume. Nature, love, friends, school, books— all find a place in the poetry of India's favourite children's writer.

George Herbert (1593–1633) has come to be one of the most admired of the metaphysical poets. Though he is a profoundly religious poet, even secular readers respond to his quiet intensity and exuberant inventiveness, which are amply showcased in this selection. Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to pattern poems, the shapes of which reveal their subjects.

An award-winning collection of poems that vividly capture the astonishing emotional range of an entire romance from beginning to end.—Jimmy Santiago Baca introduces us to a man and woman before they are acquainted and re-creates their first meeting, falling in love, their decision to make a family, the eventual realization of each other’s irreconcilable faults, the resulting conflicts, the breakup and hostility, and, finally, their transcendence of the bitterness and resentment.—Throughout the relationship we are privy to the couple’s anguish of loneliness, the heady rush of new love, the i

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, and an index of first lines.