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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1924, Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada remains among Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical, these poems are based upon his own private associations. Their sensuous use of nature symbolism to celebrate love and to express grief has not been surpassed in the literature of our century. This edition offers the original Spanish text, with masterly translations by W.S. Merwin of facing pages.
5) I am loved
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Hand-selected by Newbery honoree Ashley Bryan, he has, with his masterful flourish of color, shape, and movement, added a visual layering that drums the most impartant message of all to young, old, parent, child, grandparent, and friend alike: You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. As a bonus, one page is mirrored, so children reading the book can see exactly who is loved--themselves!
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From Najwa Zebian-celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet, speaker, and educator-comes a highly personal and moving second collection. In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a painful heartbreak. She writes that the process of cleansing oneself of that pain-day by day, hour by hour, and second by second-is the real work of healing. With uncommon warmth and wisdom, Zebian empowers all who have lost to let...
9) Felicity
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems,"--Amazon.com.
10) September love
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A book that will change the way you think about love, relationships, heartbreak, and self-empowerment. Breaking the rules, challenging perceptions, and exploring the secret desires we keep hidden from the world. Beautifully composed and written by international bestselling author Lang Leav, this new collection of poetry and prose will positively influence your life. September Love captures the magic of each passing season, a pearl of wisdom waiting...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Syrian poet Maram Al-Massri writes of love and the place of Arab women in the modern age. "I am this mix between the submissive and rebellious woman," she writes, "my freedom is so difficult and so desired." Her poems - presented here in a bilingual format - invoke the intoxicating power of seduction and the intensity of lust, the security of relationships and the muffled explosions of emotion."--Jacket.
13) Dear delinquent
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Is it possible for poetry to be simultaneously raw and elegant, direct and oblique, hurtful and consoling? Yes, says Dear Delinquent, Ann Townsend's incandescent new collection. "My heart presses my ribcage like an octagon fist," she writes, taking on the persona of both betrayed and betrayer. Through poems that masterfully recall the styles of Sylvia Plath or Philip Larkin, Townsend convinces us that, even if its most destructive forms, love is the...
Author
Publisher
Castillo de la Lectura
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Almost all poets have dedicated some verses to falling in love, to disappointment, to nostalgia, to the loss of the loved one. This anthology proposes a selection of the most representative voices of Latin America of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and brings young readers closer to the exploration of love through poetry. This anthology covers Ibero-American poetry, from traditional metrics to the avant-garde.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
r.h. Sin completes his bestselling series with Planting Gardens in Graves III, another powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the themes dearest to his readers. This series celebrates connection, mourns heartbreak, and above all, empowers its readers to seek the love they deserve. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak. The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told in verse and short prose pieces. Relatable and honest, with Tank's signature mix of whimsy and realness, Vulnerable AF is about the difference between love and infatuation, the danger and confusion of losing yourself in the idea of someone else,...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"...John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on the greatest "joy" in life: children. Kenney covers it all, from newborns, toddlers, and sleep deprivation, to the terrible twos, terrible tweens, and terrible teens. A parent's love is unconditional, but sometimes that button can't help but be pushed. Between back to school shopping, summer vacations that never end, the awkwardness of puberty, the inevitable post-college...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Deepak Chopra presents his personal selection of favorite poems by one of history's greatest poets of spirituality and romance. Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved,...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books in collaboration with Octopus Books, 2013
Pub. Date
Oregon.
Language
English
Description
"Someone Else's Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts a human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities....
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