Poetry Ebooks

We’ve rounded up some of the best poetry ebooks, from classic favorites like X to newer phenomenal poets like X. Great poetry often explores shared human experiences of love, heartbreak, loss, and self-fulfilment while soothing our spirits with life’s hard-won lessons. Read on below to discover our collection of the best poetry books available.

We’ve rounded up some of the best poetry ebooks, from classic favorites like X to newer phenomenal poets like X. Great poetry often explores shared human experiences of love, heartbreak, loss, and self-fulfilment while soothing our spirits with life’s hard-won lessons. Read on below to discover our collection of the best poetry books available.

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a "Working Life"

byEileen Myles

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving present The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in relationship, on city sidewalks or in the country, their lyrics always engage with permanence and mortality, danger and safety, fear and wonder. a “Working Life” is a book transfixed by the everyday: the “sweet accumulation” of birds outside a window, a cup of coffee and a slice of pizza, a lover’s foot on the bed. These poems arise in the close quarters of air travel, the flashing of a landscape through a train window, or simply in a truck tooling around town, or on foot with a dog in all the places that held us during the pandemic lockdowns. Myles’s lines unabashedly sing both the happy contradictions of love and sex, spill over with warnings about the not-so future world threatened by climate change and capitalism, and also find transcendent wonder in the landscapes and animals around us, and in the solitary and collective act of caring for one another and our world. With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.

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About Poetry

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” This quote by Anton Chekov illustrates the heart of the poetry genre: an ability to show rather than tell. Poetry expresses a range of feelings and emotions touching on both light and dark, joy and sadness, anger and peace. It offers social commentary in compactness of expression and can be short and punchy or lengthy and profound. Like music, it’s got rhythm whether it’s a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter, a nursery rhyme, an epic story, or free verse, Alexander Pope, Robert Frost. Emily Dickinson. Maya Angelou. Sylvia Plath. These are some great examples of well-known poets. Add contemporary sensations like Alicia Cook and Rupi Kaur and you can see how poetry continues to be a vital art form. Some bestselling poetry books online are Dante's Inferno, The Iliad of Homer, The Sun and Her Flowers, and Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back. These titles will move you in unexpected ways. Dive in and see where a new poetry volume takes you.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” This quote by Anton Chekov illustrates the heart of the poetry genre: an ability to show rather than tell. Poetry expresses a range of feelings and emotions touching on both light and dark, joy and sadness, anger and peace. It offers social commentary in compactness of expression and can be short and punchy or lengthy and profound. Like music, it’s got rhythm whether it’s a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter, a nursery rhyme, an epic story, or free verse, Alexander Pope, Robert Frost. Emily Dickinson. Maya Angelou. Sylvia Plath. These are some great examples of well-known poets. Add contemporary sensations like Alicia Cook and Rupi Kaur and you can see how poetry continues to be a vital art form. Some bestselling poetry books online are Dante's Inferno, The Iliad of Homer, The Sun and Her Flowers, and Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back. These titles will move you in unexpected ways. Dive in and see where a new poetry volume takes you.