Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.

Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.[1] Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry
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When Shall the Butterfly Rest
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The Anatomy of Desire: An Anthology of Distance
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018
The Switch
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
Lord of the Butterflies
Planting Gardens in Graves III
Winter of Summers
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Your Heart is the Sea
Breakup Poems: Vol 1
I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable
  • A First Utterance by John  Canyon
    A First Utterance
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    Release date: May 02, 2018
    The first poetry collection by author John Canyon. These poems are full of shadows and insights. Sunsets and marvels.
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 165 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 05 - Jan 20, 2019

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  • A Warrior Poet by James Romero
    A Warrior Poet
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    Release date: Jun 16, 2018
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    A warrior is one who has
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    Giveaway dates: Dec 18 - Jan 16, 2019

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  • How to Love a Country by Richard Blanco
    How to Love a Country: Poems
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    Release date: Mar 26, 2019
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    Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
    Love Her Wild
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    Lost For Words
    Light Filters In: Poems
    I Hope This Reaches Her in Time
    If They Come for Us
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    One
    A Love Letter from the Girls Who Feel Everything
    Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart
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    The Odyssey
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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    Paradise Lost
    The Iliad
    Sonnets
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