Poetry

Verse that distills emotion and language to its essence.

10 books

Confessional Poetry

Ariel

Sylvia Plath · 1965

Plath's searing final collection, published after her death.

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Nature Poetry

Devotions

Mary Oliver · 2017

The selected poems of America's most beloved nature poet.

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Beat Poetry

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg · 1956

The poem that opened the Beat generation and survived an obscenity trial.

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American Poetry

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman · 1855

Whitman's celebratory, ever-expanding song of himself and America.

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Contemporary Poetry

Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur · 2014

The bestselling debut collection on survival, love and femininity.

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American Poetry

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson · 1890

All 1,775 poems of one of America's greatest poets.

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Occasional Poetry

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman · 2021

Gorman's poem delivered at the 2021 presidential inauguration.

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Prose Poetry

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran · 1923

Gibran's beloved meditations on love, work, joy and sorrow.

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Contemporary Poetry

The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur · 2017

Kaur's second collection on growth, roots and healing.

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Modernist Poetry

The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot · 1922

The defining poem of modernism, in fragments and many voices.

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