Poetry Books

Updated April 27, 2023
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The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad
Birbiglia, Mike
Paper Book
With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one. *A Finalist for the...
Life between the tides
Nicolson, Adam
Paper Book
Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist's curiosity and a poet's wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you...
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
"A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature." --Tampa Bay Times In this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver,...
Black girl, call home
Mans, Jasmine
Paper Book
A literary coming-of-age poetry collection, an ode to the places we call home, and a piercingly intimate deconstruction of daughterhood, Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing. From...
Little big bully
Erdrich, Heid E.
Paper Book
Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women's resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate,...
Winter recipes from the collective
Glück, Louise
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human,...
Dearly : new poems
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her...
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country
Gorman, Amanda
Paper Book
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller Amanda Gorman's electrifying and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration. "Stunning." --CNN "Dynamic." --NPR...

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