Poetry Books

Updated August 25, 2025
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American poetry. The twentieth century
Paper Book
In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry...
Ariel
Plath, Sylvia.
Paper Book
"Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name." -- The Critical Quarterly Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When...
Borderlands : the new mestiza = La frontera
Anzaldúa, Gloria.
Paper Book
Second edition of Gloria Anzaldua's major work, with a new critical introduction by Chicano Studies scholar and new reflections by Anzaldua.
Diving into the wreck; poems, 1971-1972
Rich, Adrienne
Paper Book
Dream work
Oliver, Mary
Paper Book
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chrono­logically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness--so...
Peach State Poems
Su, Adrienne
Ebook
Finalist, 2022 Patterson Poetry Prize Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused...
The Sky Watched : Poems of Ojibwe Lives
Grover, Linda LeGarde.
Ebook
A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems   Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Watched gives poetic voice to Ojibwe family life. In...
Territorial : Poems
Rosenthal, Mira.
Ebook
Territorial explores the bargains that women make to stay safe from violence. Set in a landscape of looming ecological ruin, the poems bear witness to the effects of drought on the California chaparral region and delve into difficult personal terrain to reveal patterns of abuse we inflict on...
I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Poems
Ryan, Sara
Ebook
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood--they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self...
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein
Silverstein, Shel.
Paper Book
Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in...for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. This...

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