Poetry

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Academy Award–winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my...

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic―the most revered war poem of all time....

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...

From the author of Make Your Bed, The Hero Code and The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, comes an uplifting selection of speeches, letters, toasts and poems that capture the essence of who we are as Americans. Admiral McRaven's name has become synonymous with indelible advice for changing your life...

An entirely new collection of poetry, prose, and inspiring quotes designed to uplift and comfort readers over 365 days, from the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Cleo Wade. Bestselling author of Heart Talk Cleo Wade returns with In a World of Sunrises, offering 365 ideas you will...

This international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace....

An instant audio classic! Sir Patrick Stewart draws upon his decades on the Shakespearean stage to bring listeners an all-new, definitive recording of the complete Sonnets—an audio treasury of incandescent performances and insightful personal commentary. Already beloved by audiobook listeners...

Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dante’s The Divine Comedy....

Compelling and straight-shooting wisdom for coping with whatever challenges life throws at us from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself. In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop taught millions of readers how to silence the negative, self-sabotaging voice in their head to thrive...

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. ‘Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of the history of these fascinating people – a selection [of verses] offered as an ‘interim report’...

The Iliad. Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and...

With Professor Esolen you will enter the terrible gates of Hell and progress level by infernal level to its diabolical depths. Professor Esolen places a special emphasis on the drama of the poem, leading you through each canto in succession....

The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series--now available in a new 20th Anniversary Edition, including an introductory letter by the author It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and...

In 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the...

You Better Be Lightning ranges from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between....

Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, with a preface by his holiness the Dalai Lama, now in audio for the first time....

First ever audio edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son was originally published in the 1953 edition of Essays and Studies. In December...

When Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry....

Ceremony is a collection for those on the cusp of becoming. It is a reminder that we were not meant to fit into this world perfectly, but to live in such a way that might forge a path all our own.

“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us...

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory....

The story of Christ like you’ve never heard it before. Told through the eyes of the two thieves on the cross and the spiritual warfare hidden from mortal men but seen by Mary Magdalene....

Tender captures all the tiny, fragile, perfect moments of new life and, with it, new parenthood. Full of sleepless wonder and with his characteristic wit and warmth, Harry Baker offers snapshots into the intense first 100 days with his son as they get to know each other.

The heroic story of the siege of Troy is as enthralling today as it ever was. The Greeks are entering the tenth year of their war with the Trojans, but their armies are fractured and their best warrior Achilles has abandoned the battle on a mission of revenge. Only the death of his best friend Patroclus persuades Achilles to return to battle and confront the Trojan leader Hector in single combat.

Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space. The title of Maggie Smith’s new collection comes from the eponymous poem...

The Raven and Other Favorite Poems is a collection of Poe’s most famous and haunting lyrical works. The poems explore themes of loss, beauty, death, memory, longing, and the supernatural, all delivered in Poe’s signature musical, rhythmic style. This collection gathers the poems that made Poe one of the most recognizable voices in American Romanticism and Gothic literature.

Every poem Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote — in one volume, with a critical essay and biography Edited by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Before horror had a name, before the gothic became a genre, there was a man in a dark room writing poems about loss, madness, beauty, and the dead women he could not stop mourning. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent melancholy — but he gave it a music that no one has surpassed. This edition brings together all 61 poems — from the famous to the forgotten, from the early Byronic experiments to the final, ...

A good poem is forever a good poem. In fact, if it lasts, more people can enjoy and appreciate it. The writing process also yields unexpected outcomes in the form of feedback and reactions. If you are the writer, you can’t help but be influenced by opinion. At the same time, the originator of the poem is charged to keep it original and authentic.

Have you ever thought of yourself as a “vessel of love?” This image speaks to what I envision for the elderhood years. The vast life experiences of the past provided countless opportunities for our love to grow and mature. The persons we have known, what we have done or had done to us, the beliefs stretching our minds and hearts, what we gained and what we shed, the results of our choices and decisions, our deliberate participation in the evolving history of the world―all this and more we bring with us into the final decades.

Este libro reúne los mejores poemas de amor escritos por Mario Benedetti, uno de los poetas más innovadores, divertidos, ambiciosos y modernos de la literatura en español.

Experience the uplifting message of “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of the most beloved classic poems in American literature. This inspirational work encourages listeners to embrace life with courage, determination, and hope, reminding us that every moment matters and that our actions can leave a lasting impact. Longfellow’s powerful verses inspire personal growth, resilience, and positive living, offering timeless guidance for anyone seeking motivation and purpose in life.

La vasta produzione è infatti pervasa dalla personalità schiva eppure dirompente che la contraddistinse: gli affetti, la natura, il pensiero ossessivo della morte e dell'abbandono ne sono protagonisti vivi, che Dickinson racconta con uno sguardo in apparenza semplice e ritirato, in realtà ricco di complessità. Nei suoi versi ritroviamo lo scorrere ciclico ma effimero delle stagioni, i fiori e soprattutto gli animali, in grado di risvegliare in lei la più variegata gamma dei sentimenti, dalla repulsione allo sgomento, dall'ironia all'incanto.

La poesia come atto di resistenza. La forza delle parole come tentativo di salvezza. È questo il senso più profondo delle trentadue poesie di autori palestinesi raccolte in questo volume, in gran parte scritte a Gaza dopo il 7 ottobre 2023, nella tragedia della guerra in Palestina, in condizioni di estrema precarietà: poco prima di essere uccisi dai bombardamenti, come ultima preghiera o testamento poetico (Abu Nada, Alareer), mentre si è costretti ad abbandonare la propria casa per fuggire (al-Ghazali), oppure da una tenda, in un campo profughi dove si muore di freddo e di bombe (Elqedra).

From an award-winning poet praised for his “rhapsodic, rigorous” work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thought We (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem made to the measure of the modern world. Composed of 55...

Within A Flower / Between the mist of spring / and among the softness of a flower / along the river's path and above heavens star / Seek passion inside yourself / Then you will see / Within a Flower

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901-May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and opinion columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In the following recording, Langston Hughes reading 35 of his best-known poems.

Emily Dickinson é considerada uma das maiores poetisas americanas de todos os tempos, e só teve grande parte da sua obra publicada postumamente. Levando uma vida reclusa, ela escreveu mais de mil poemas com metáforas surpreendentes, uso não convencional de pontuação e observações extraordinárias sobre muitos temas. Nesta seleção inédita, que contou com a participação de @mcarolbrx, o foco foi o amor - talvez o assunto que mais entusiasme seus leitores fiéis.

This book is a T4T love letter to the living cosmos, to Jewish mystics who get a little slutty with it, to anarchists who make their every day-to-day choice as if the healed world is already here, to people whose gender identities are just on the verge of disintegrating. You are hereby invited to use this book as a sacred text, which is to say, to use this book as a sex toy, which is to say, to use this book as your incense, your needle, your wedge, your weapon in the waging of spiritual warfare against Control.

The Odyssey has survived nearly three thousand years because it speaks to a simple, powerful truth: sometimes the hardest battle is not the war abroad, but the long, uncertain journey back home. In this modern prose retelling, Homer's epic is presented as a continuous story rather than as verse. The language is clear and contemporary, but the structure and major episodes of the original are faithfully preserved.

Verses From the Heart is a charming and heartfelt collection of poetry beautifully written by Augusta Georgia native JoMadelyn Burt. Tapping into her real-life experiences, Burt takes us on a poetic journey filled with inspiration, joy, pride, love and even grief as she shares bits and pieces of her soul in this lifelong collection of poetry. Verses From the Heart is filled with that familiar southern charm.

Discover the powerful message of “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley, one of the most famous inspirational poems in English literature. Written during a time of personal hardship, this short yet profound poem celebrates inner strength, resilience, and the unbreakable human spirit.

From Sappho to Sinéad, acclaimed poets Carina Bissett and Lee Murray parse the pages of historical writings to uncover stories lost between the lines, to lift women's voices from the margins and give them new life in a vibrant collection of sixty biographical poems that resonate with universal truth.

Z niezgody na zastaną rzeczywistość, z buntu i fermentu, zwykle powstaje nowa, a nawet nowatorska wizja, zapłodniona przez sprzeciw wobec autorytetu i poszukiwanie indywidualnego rozwiązania. Bogini Dyskordia karmi się buntem i odwagą. Tych zaś nie brakuje autorce, Beacie Poźniak, poszukującej wciąż nowych inspiracji, w aktorstwie, malarstwie, reżyserowaniu filmów, teraz również w poezji, gdzie komentując współczesność nie waha się sięgać wstecz, do tematów kontrowersyjnych, budujących zapory między ludźmi.

First published in 2007, this book contains poetry, toasts, verse, and songs written and re-written by the author over 40 years. . Subjects range from the humorous to the nostalgic to the heart-broken. From politics and philosophy to justice and injustice to ... poison ivy?

This book of Free Verse poems tells stories of growing up. When we share our growing-up experiences, a window is open for children to learn about life, family, friendship, and faith. These stories can impart invaluable lessons and morals, helping them navigate their life journeys. Sharing stories from your childhood and adolescence allows children to connect with you on a deeper level. They will see you not just as a parent or guardian but as someone who faced and learned from challenges. Such narratives provide gentle guidance and a moral compass for positive choices.

Narrow AI or You'll Die: A poem about the rapidly growing AI craze, and the wish for it to stay in the Narrow field.

Change My Mind: Poems on Religion, Love, and Mental Health is a deeply personal and thought-provoking poetry collection written from a distinct atheist perspective. Divided into three sections, the author critically examines religious beliefs—including Christianity and Sikhi—challenging traditional faith through evocative and heartfelt verse that invites listeners to reflect on spirituality without reliance on the supernatural.