Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

The New York Times bestselling debut book of poetry from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.

“Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.” —Lana Del Rey

Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as “the essential writer of her times” (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum, and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator

I Praise My Destroyer: Poems by Diane Ackerman

In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal."

Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations of aging, longing, and death demonstrate Ackerman's full engagement with every aspect of life's process. Ackerman muses on the confines of therapy sessions, where she intersects "twice a week/in a painstaking hide-and-seek/making do with half-light, half-speak"; relishes the succulent pleasure of eating an apricot, with its "gush of taboo sweetness"; and imagines the "unupholstered voice, a life in outline" in her stunning elegy to C. S. Lewis. Whimsical, organic, and wise, the poems in I Praise My Destroyer affirm Ackerman's place as one of the most enchanting poets writing today

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann (Compiler)

 "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life.

Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Compiler Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined—from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries.

Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in translated English and romanized Japanese

Northerners (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson is a former criminal defense attorney and criminal investigator who teaches digital journalism, legal advocacy, and cultural theory at the University of New Hampshire. A regular political and legal analyst on CNN and the BBC during the Trump presidency, he is the author of eight books and editor of five anthologies. Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Ph.D. program in English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two one-year-old rescue hounds, Quinn and Scout

Undone: A Collection of Poetry by Aaryn K. Coley (Author), Kari Coley (Editor), Christopher Coley (Illustrator)

 Undone is a dynamic collection of poetry by Aaryn K. Coley that explores an eclectic mix of styles and topics - from the importance of individuality and positive contribution to society, to the beauty of love, the pain of heartache, and an introspective view of abuse, to the perils and possibilities for the future of the world.

It is a diary - this poet's personal account of some of the most vulnerable and impactful moments in the lifelong process of growing into oneself.

In this book, readers are granted passage on a journey through the mind, heart, and soul of a poet as she chronicles her own humanity, with the hope of leaving those who encounter these words inspired and better off having read them

The Old Pothead Poems by Sam Abrams

Louis Armstrong once said, ?Marijuana is an assistant, a friend.? These poems riff off that theme, a fifty-year-long set of improv-collaborations between two old friends, Miss Mary Jane and her man, Sam.

Poems too of a classicist, on familiar terms with Sappho, Archilochus, Horace, Socrates regulars in the audience along with Miles, Billy, Bessie, Woody hard listeners for poems that are bluesy, bopsy, beat. Whitmanesque, funny, generous, passionately committed, intellectually rigorous, sometimes savage poems from Brooklyn, America, Greece, London? in-your-face poems. And always poems composed not in the head, but ?on the breath.? Poems that can only?the author insists? be read aloud

Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers by Melody Godfred

Readers have called her work “life changing,” “pandemic medicine,” and “part of my daily ritual.” Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry book, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers, a collection of 200 thought-provoking and heart-opening self love poems.

In Self Love Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. On the left side of the book are "thinker" poems that light up the analytical, more literal, left side of the brain, and on the right side are companion "feeler" poems that speak to the creative, more emotional right side of the brain. Combined, the poems electrify the mind, body and soul through a completely unique poetry experience that inspires each of us to embrace all parts of ourselves. This empowering poetry book will not only engage you to think and feel, but will make you feel seen, show you how to love yourself, and encourage you to seek out the hope and beauty in the world … and in yourself. It’s the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love, especially after a most difficult year

Articolo: Michael Horovitz – faccia a faccia, dalle labbra all’orecchio, dai fianchi alla mente – The Poetry Society

Articolo: Michael Horovitz – faccia a faccia, dalle labbra all’orecchio, dai fianchi alla mente – The Poetry Society

Poesia in carcere: la speranza in una cartolina – The Poetry Society

Poesia in carcere: la speranza in una cartolina – The Poetry Society

Concorsi di poesia per i soci – The Poetry Society

Concorsi di poesia per i soci – The Poetry Society

Cicadas Serenade by Antonio Eramo

Cicadas Serenade is a contemporary poetry collection that varies between classic forms, modern forms, and free verse. The topics of the poems range from socio-political critiques to explorations of sexual identity

Poetry Society e AESSEAL con sede a Rotherham lanciano il progetto di educazione alla poesia verde – The Poetry Society

Poetry Society e AESSEAL con sede a Rotherham lanciano il progetto di educazione alla poesia verde – The Poetry Society

Guarda a nord più spesso 2024 – svelata la nuova poesia natalizia "Un bambino e un albero" – The Poetry Society

Guarda a nord più spesso 2024 – svelata la nuova poesia natalizia "Un bambino e un albero" – The Poetry Society

Serie Social: Libri dell'anno 2024 – The Poetry Society

Serie Social: Libri dell'anno 2024 – The Poetry Society

La Poetry Society in Insieme a Natale – La Poetry Society

La Poetry Society in Insieme a Natale – La Poetry Society

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) by Edward Kamens

 Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas. For this reason, most of them have been treated as examples of a category or subgenre of waka called Shakkyoka, “Buddhist poems.”

Yet many Shakkyoka are more like other poems in the waka canon than they are unlike them. In the case of Senshi’s “Buddhist poems,” their language links them to the traditions of secular verse. Moreover, the poems use the essentially secular public literary language of waka to address and express serious and relatively private religious concerns and aspirations. In reading Senshi’s poems, it is as important to think about their relationship to the traditions and conventions of waka and to other waka texts as it is to think about their relationship to Buddhist thoughts, practices, and texts.

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess creates a context for the reading of Senshi’s poems by presenting what is known and what has been thought about her and them. As such, it is a vital source for any reader of Senshi and other literature of the Heian period.

The Luminous Life: il nostro ventesimo sguardo annuale ai poeti esordienti | Poeti e scrittori

The Luminous Life: il nostro ventesimo sguardo annuale ai poeti esordienti | Poeti e scrittori

La poetessa statunitense Ada Limón lancia il progetto di libri e parchi "You Are Here" | AP News

La poetessa statunitense Ada Limón lancia il progetto di libri e parchi "You Are Here" | AP News

Recensione del libro: Raymond Antrobus affronta la paternità nella sua raccolta di poesie "Signs, Music" | AP News

Recensione del libro: Raymond Antrobus affronta la paternità nella sua raccolta di poesie "Signs, Music" | AP News

Il poeta giapponese Shuntaro Tanikawa, maestro del verso libero moderno, muore a 92 anni | AP News

Il poeta giapponese Shuntaro Tanikawa, maestro del verso libero moderno, muore a 92 anni | AP News

From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry by Sylvia Huot

 As the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manuscript has a theatrical, performative quality. She perceives the tension between implied oral performance and real visual artifact as a fundamental aspect of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century poetics. In this generously illustrated volume, Huot examines manuscript texts both from the performance-oriented lyric tradition of chanson courtoise, or courtly love lyric, and from the self-consciously literary tradition of Old French narrative poetry. She demonstrates that the evolution of the lyrical romance and dit, narrative poems which incorporate thematic and rhetorical elements of the lyric, was responsible for a progressive redefinition of lyric poetry as a written medium and the emergence of an explicitly written literary tradition uniting lyric and narrative poetics.

Huot first investigates the nature of the vernacular book in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, analyzing organization, page layout, rubrication, and illumination in a series of manuscripts. She then describes the relationship between poetics and manuscript format in specific texts, including works by widely read medieval authors such as Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and Guillaume de Machaut, as well as by lesser-known writers including Nicole de Margival and Watriquet de Couvin. Huot focuses on the writers' characteristic modifications of lyric poetics; their use of writing and performance as theme; their treatment of the poet as singer or writer; and of the lady as implied reader or listener; and the ways in which these features of the text were elaborated by scribes and illuminators. Her readings reveal how medieval poets and book-makers conceived their common project, and how they distinguished their respective roles

Una conversazione con Molly Spencer - The Adroit Journal

Una conversazione con Molly Spencer - The Adroit Journal

Il poeta laureato di San Diego ospita un festival di poesia presso l'UC San Diego | KPBS Public Media

Il poeta laureato di San Diego ospita un festival di poesia presso l'UC San Diego | KPBS Public Media

La poesia di Nikki Giovanni è stata una piattaforma per dire la verità | Libri | The Guardian

La poesia di Nikki Giovanni è stata una piattaforma per dire la verità | Libri | The Guardian

The Book of Nature: Wordsworth's Poetry on Nature by William Wordsworth

 The Book of Nature - Wordsworth's Poetry on Nature is a sublime collection of the best nature poetry by poet-laureate William Wordsworth, housed in a convenient pocket-sized edition.

Along with many other Romantic poets of the time, the theme of nature features heavily in the work of Wordsworth - to him, it represented a living thing, a sublime teacher-god that contained all beauty and divine truth. Wordsworth expresses his view on the natural world through the poetry in this charming collection while articulating his relationship with nature and its essential connection with human beings.

Poems featured in this collection include:

- Influence of Natural Objects

- Lines Written in Early Spring

- My Heart Leaps Up

- Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

- To the Clouds

Carefully curated by Read & Co. Books, this collection of twenty-one poems also features an introductory excerpt on William Wordsworth by Thomas Carlyle from his 1881 work Reminiscences. The perfect gift for poetry readers and nature lovers alike, this beautiful pocket edition is a wonderful book of posey for those who love reading on the go

Guggenheim offre la poesia del movimento: versi in linguaggio dei segni - The New York Times

Guggenheim offre la poesia del movimento: versi in linguaggio dei segni - The New York Times

The Kalevala: The Epic Poem Of Finland by Elias Lonnrot

 The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in the 1840s by the Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot, who took `dictation' from the performance of a folk singer, in much the same way as our great collections from the past, from Homeric poems to medieval songs and epics, have probably been set down. Published in 1849, it played a central role in the march towards Finnish independence and inspired some of Sibelius's greatest works

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy

The Why of Waterfalls: A Collection of Poetry by James Clayton Fredenburg

Featuring 50 original poems, The Why of Waterfalls explores the beauty of poetry through a variety of forms, including free verse, haiku, and an innovative style known as a collage. Like a watercolor painting composed of words and images, each poem blends vivid emotion and fleeting moments into a vibrant tapestry. Whether through the delicacy of a haiku or the expansiveness of free verse, these poems invite readers to experience the world with fresh eyes and an open heart

The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal by James Crews , and Nikita Gill (Foreword)

 USA Today Bestseller!

The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.

James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. As Crews writes in the introduction: "[A] deep love for the world is present in every one of the poems gathered in this book. Wonder calls us back to the curiosity we are each born with, and it makes us want to move closer to what sparks our attention. Wonder opens our senses and helps us stay in touch with a humbling sense of our own human smallness in the face of unexpected beauty and the delicious mysteries of life on this planet."

The anthology features a foreword by Nikita Gill and a carefully curated selection of poems from a diverse range of authors, including Native American poets Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Kimberly Blaeser, and Joseph Bruchac, and BIPOC writers Ross Gay, Julia Alvarez, and Toi Derricotte. Crews features new poems from popular writers such as Natalie Goldberg, Mark Nepo, Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, and Jacqueline Suskin, along with selections from emerging poets. Readers are guided in exploring the meaning and essence of the poems through a series of reflective pauses scattered through the pages and reading group questions in the back. This anthology offers the perfect intersection for the growing number of readers interested in mindful living and bringing poetry into their everyday lives