Poetry genre books (206)
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Mind Platter by Najwa Zebian EN
LebanonDescription:
From celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet and speaker, Najwa Zebian, comes this revised and expanded edition of her debut collection. Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence. It is written in the words of a woman who came from Lebanon to Canada at the age of sixteen and experienced what it was like to have fate push her to a place where she didn't belong. It is written in the voice of every person who has felt unheard, mistreated, misjudged, or unseen. The book contains over 200 one-... continue
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Missing in Action and Presumed Dead : Poems by Rashidah Ismaili EN
BeninDescription:
Poems that tell the pain of being enslaved and displaced
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Morte e vida severina : Auto de Natal pernambucano (edição especial 60 anos) by João Cabral de Melo Neto PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Um dos poemas mais populares de João Cabral de Melo Neto, Morte e vida severina dá voz aos retirantes nordestinos e ao rio Capibaripe, em cenas fortes e contundentes. Clara crítica social, o autor descreve a viagem de um sertanejo chamado Severino, que sai de sua terra natal em busca de melhores condições de vida. Durante a jornada, Severino se encontra tantas vezes com a Morte que, desiludido e impotente, percebe que a luta é inútil como ele, tantos outros severinos padecem com a miséria e o abandono. Apenas o nascimento de um bebê, uma criança-severina, renova as esperanças e o espírito cans... continue
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Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva EN
BelarusDescription:
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and frien... continue
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Multitudinous Heart : Selected Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
In 1962 de Andrade published Antologia Poética, a personal anthology of poems from his first ten books. This selection draws on de Andrade's anthology to encompass his finest works within his chosen areas of interest: The Individual, Minas Gerais, Family, Friends, Social Confrontation, Experience of Love, Poetry Itself, and An Attempt to Understand Existence Feted as the most important - and premiere modernist - Brazilian poet of the twentieth century, Carlos Drummond de Andrade appears in Penguin Classics for the first time. His fans and translators have included Mark Strand, Lloyd Schwartz a... continue
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected : Poems by Valzhyna Mort EN
Description:
In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. In Music for the Dead and Resurrected, Valzhyna Mort asks how we mourn after a century of silence and propaganda. How do we remember our history and sing after being silenced? Mort draws on intimate and paradoxical first-hand accounts of a past grandparent generation of the Soviet labor camps, redistribution of land, and massacres of World War II in Belarus. As her country is being run by a long-time dictator, the poet creates a ceremony of myth making for the erased ... continue
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My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng EN
Country: Oceania / 
Micronesia
Micronesia
Description:
The first collection of poetry by a Pohnpeian poet, Emelihter Kihleng's My Urohs is described by distinguished Samoan writer and artist Albert Wendt as "refreshingly innovative and compelling, a new way of seeing ourselves in our islands, an important and influential addition to our [Pacific] literature."
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MalawiDescription:
From beloved Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala comes the revised and expanded edition of her second collection of poetry. In nectar, Chisala guides readers through a beautiful process of growth and renewal. These poems celebrate our always complex, sometimes troubled roots while encouraging us to grow through and beyond them toward a passionate self-love. Chisala's hope is that her words will encourage readers to sow seeds of change in their own lives and the lives of others.
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Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku EN
AlbaniaDescription:
*Shortlist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize* "Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war," writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title poem to her powerful new collection Negative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive dictatorship of the poet's native Albania. For Lleshanaku, the "unsaid, gestures" make up the negative space that "gives form to the woods / and to the mad woman--the silhouette of goddess Athena / wearing a pair of flip-flops / and an owl o... continue
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New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney EN
IrelandDescription:
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, 'from Seeing Things onwards', as he foresaw it. Although he was unable to complete a edition/selection, he left behind selections that have been followed here. New ... continue