One of the great innovators in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became uniquely American. Written in a pure, uninhibited style with a joyous voice, Leaves of Grass is his masterpiece.
American Poetry
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Auteur:Meyers, SusanSommaire:Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her...
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Auteur:Scott, JoannaSommaire:New writings-on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us-from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and...
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Auteur:Sommaire:From the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry, to recent poet laureate Rita Dove, I, TOO, SING AMERICA captures the enormous talent and passion of black writers. This powerful and diverse, this unique collection spans three...
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Auteur:Gills, DedanSommaire:Belvie and Dedan's journey took them to Accra, Ghana, where they were married; across the United States and Canada--including the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail--planting trees and building community in cities like Toronto...
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Auteur:Dameron, DéLana R. A.Sommaire:DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron's poetry...
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Auteur:Shapero, NatalieSommaire:Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon."--Houston Chronicle "Shapero's poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things."-Volta Thought-...
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Auteur:Evans, WorthySommaire:Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the fifth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and the first published collection by Worthy Evans. These verses resulted from a spontaneous outpouring of poems, pent up during...
- Auteur:Vincent, John EmilSommaire:
Took all this time to actually in fact bite our own tail to learn that that hurts; I guess it was worth it. / Developed a taste for tails. The prose poems of Ganymede's Dog startle myths back to life, whether Ganymede's...
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Auteur:Dickinson, EmilySommaire:Four well-known actresses read these poems by this great American poet. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems convey a penetrating vision of the natural world as well as the most profound human truths.
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A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances...
- Auteur:Franco, JamesSommaire:
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco. I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face—In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go...
- Auteur:Hodge, ChinakaSommaire:
Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop-and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's...
- Auteur:Book, ShaneSommaire:
At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book's Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of...
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Auteur:Harjo, JoySommaire:From poet laureate of the United States comes this collection of poems in which the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.
- Auteur:Rankine, ClaudiaSommaire:
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are...
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Auteur:Felix, CamonghneSommaire:In this full-length collection of poetry, Camonghne Felix redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
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Auteur:Cohen, LeonardSommaire:Leonard Cohen wrote this book of poems during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai.
- Auteur:Watson, RenéeSommaire:
A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the...
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Auteur:Sommaire:The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson, and more....
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