Poetry

A KING'S GENETIC MEMORY: The Royal Inspiration

by Craig Pinckney Refour

Synopsis: This book of inspirational poetry started with the author writing down his deepest thoughts, emotions and experiences. Craig Pinckney Refour wrote about his relationships with friends, loved ones and...

Songs Without Names Vol. VII-XII

by Frithjof Schuon, William Stoddart & Annemarie Schimmel

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same...

A History of Color: New and Selected Poems

by Stanley Moss

Few poets today, even very good ones, write lines, as Stanley Moss does, that are so exquisitely crafted you cannot help but remember them. "What is heaven but the history of color," begins the new long poem...

The Madman: His Parables and Poems

by Kahlil Gibran

"This volume is in part translation from the Arabic parables, in part written directly in English. A small book of only seventy pages, it is a product of the poet's youth and early manhood, rich with promise...

The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems

by Kahlil Gibran

"You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your own giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation."

"And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching...

The Earth Gods

by Kahlil Gibran

"The Earth Gods, the last book to be published while Gibran was still in this world, came into the poet's hands two weeks before he was to lay aside all earthly volumes. . . . He had a peculiar feeling of tenderness...

Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems

by David Young

A career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable...

Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods: Poems

by Paula Bohince

A debut collection of poems that reads like a murder mystery.

Mosquito: Poems

by Alex Lemon

A lyrical memoir in poetry form inspired by the award-winning author’s serious illness

Dog Days

by Linda Coggin

Peculiar, unique, unusual, elements of Cummings, Stevie Smith and Larkin cohere then fall away, in a collection of darkly clear, or clearly dark poems.

The Best American Poetry 1997

by James Tate & David Lehman

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Best American Poetry is the one indispensable volume for readers eager to follow what's new in poetry today. Sales continue to grow and plaudits keep coming in for...