Poetry genre books (189)
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides EN
GreeceDescription:
Hecuba The Trojan Women AndromacheIn the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination.The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness ofspirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her r... continue
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The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan EN
PalestineDescription:
Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.
Portugal174.
This Wound Is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States “i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative.” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what we’ve been waiting for.... continue
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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong EN
VietnamDescription:
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Vuong contends with p... continue
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Ivory Coast177.
Madagascar178.
Tudo nela brilha e queima : poemas de luta e amor by Ryane Leão PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Estreia em livro de Ryane Leão, criadora da página onde jazz meu coração, com mais de 150 mil seguidores nas redes Livro de estreia de Ryane Leão, mulher negra, poeta e professora, criadora do projeto onde jazz meu coração, com mais de 150 mil seguidores nas redes. “a poesia é minha chance de ser eu mesma diante de um mundo que tanto me silencia. é minha vez de ser crua. minha arma de combate. nossa voz ecoada. nossa dor transformada. nela eu falo sobre amor, desapego, rotina, as cidades que nos atravessam, os socos no estômago que a vida dá, o coração desenfreado, a pulsação que guia as estra... continue
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Tudo O Que Já Nadei : RESSACA, QUEBRA-MAR E MAROLINHAS by Letrux PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Textões, poemas e aforismos da maior voz da cena indie brasileira: Letícia Novaes, a Letrux “Aos goles, salgados, doces, etílicos e brandos, as três seções de Tudo que já nadei nos vão entrando pela cabeça, revirando ou se assentando nos nossos estômagos, mas chegam, certamente, ao coração.” – RITA VON HUNTY “Letícia flutua e mergulha, superficial e profunda, como pop music Escrever é uma coisa, fazer querer ler é outra inteiramente diversa Flutue, mergulhe, os textos são suas boias de braço, e nade. De nada.” – LULU SANTOS “Este livro contém 855 aparições da vigésima letra do alfabeto romano:... continue
Honduras