Poetry genre books (16)


1.
Antologia Poética

Antologia Poética by Florbela Espanca PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Recommended: 24 Feb 2023

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Appalachian Elegy

Appalachian Elegy : Poetry and Place by Bell Hooks EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Description:
A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
Recommended: 21 Jan 2023

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson EN

Rating: 4     87 Votes
Description:
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for... continue

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Colonised People

Colonised People by Grace Mera Molisa EN

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Oceania / Vanuatu flag Vanuatu
Recommended: 14 Jan 2023


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Geography for the lost by Kapka kassabova EN

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Country: Europe / Bulgaria flag Bulgaria
Description:
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history, but they always speak of the many ways to be lost and disoriented: in a place, in the past, in fear, in love, in the very quickness of life. The voices speaking here - from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ - are the voices of the heart-sick, the culturally jet-lagged, people from photographs, the "tenants" of lives, cities and destinies. This is what we all ... continue
Genre Poetry
Recommended: 23 Feb 2022

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How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) : Poetry by Barbara Kingsolver EN

Rating: 3.9     4 Votes
Description:
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous. In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all... continue
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

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Micro Child by Valentine Namio Sengebau EN

0 Ratings
Country: Oceania / Palau flag Palau
Genre Poetry
Recommended: 17 Mar 2023

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Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Collection of poetry.
Recommended: 24 Feb 2023

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My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng EN

0 Ratings
Country: Oceania / Micronesia flag Micronesia
Genre Poetry
Recommended: 03 Mar 2023


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