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Poems weighing doubt and belief, Islamic faith and American life, silence and prayer.
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf
A debut poetry collection about addiction, recovery, faith, and the slippery distance between a word and what it names.
The Book of Hours
Prayers in the voice of a young monk addressing a God he imagines as unfinished and close at hand, the book that first made Rilke's name.
Gitanjali
Song offerings of devotion, nature and the infinite, the collection that won Tagore the 1913 Nobel Prize and introduced his work to readers in the West.
The Wild Iris
A book-length sequence of poems spoken by the flowers of a garden, by the gardener, and by the god they all address.
Devotions
Mary Oliver's own selection from a lifetime of poems about the natural world, attention, wonder and the discipline of noticing.
Martyr!
A lonely Iranian-American poet obsessed with meaningful death travels to a Brooklyn museum to meet a dying artist whose final performance is her own death.
Homie
A book-length love letter to the friends who keep Smith alive, in poems that refuse both despair and easy access.
The Essential Rumi
Coleman Barks's versions of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet, poems of divine love, longing and the dissolving of the self in the beloved.
Life on Mars
An elegy for her father, an engineer on the Hubble telescope, that reaches through Bowie and sci-fi for a language of outer space and inner loss.
Winter Recipes from the Collective
Glück's final collection, fifteen poems of old age, travel, and the communal winter in which what one has is what one shares.
Wade in the Water
The former US Poet Laureate writes through Civil War letters, motherhood, and ecological grief, listening for the voices buried in the national record.
The Sun and Her Flowers
Poems in five chapters, wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming, about ancestry, migration, love and becoming.