Best Collection of Poems by Living Authors

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White Knuckle
White Knuckle 4.53 avg rating β€” 456 ratings
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Crush
Crush 4.34 avg rating β€” 41,093 ratings
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Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red 4.26 avg rating β€” 34,582 ratings
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Bluets
Bluets 4.06 avg rating β€” 54,806 ratings
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A Village Life
A Village Life 4.05 avg rating β€” 2,181 ratings
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No Urgency To Be Home
No Urgency To Be Home 4.08 avg rating β€” 101 ratings
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Fugue for Other Hands
Fugue for Other Hands 4.73 avg rating β€” 182 ratings
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The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris 4.18 avg rating β€” 14,606 ratings
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Erythra Thalassa Brain Disrupted
Erythra Thalassa Brain Disrupted 4.45 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating β€” 47,850 ratings
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Dancing in Odessa
Dancing in Odessa 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,364 ratings
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Averno
Averno 4.18 avg rating β€” 6,965 ratings
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Just Love Her
Just Love Her
by: Raz Mihal
4.30 avg rating β€” 5,890 ratings
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The Sun and Her Flowers
The Sun and Her Flowers
by: Rupi Kaur
4.08 avg rating β€” 364,886 ratings
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth 4.24 avg rating β€” 21,148 ratings
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No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
by: Sarah Kay
4.20 avg rating β€” 15,622 ratings
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Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days
Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,286 ratings
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope 4.38 avg rating β€” 993 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating β€” 200,845 ratings
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Self-Reliance and Other Essays 4.12 avg rating β€” 20,165 ratings
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Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series 4.18 avg rating β€” 10,881 ratings
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The Beautiful: Collected Poems
The Beautiful: Collected Poems 4.08 avg rating β€” 446 ratings
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 527 ratings
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THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3)
THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3) 4.60 avg rating β€” 161 ratings
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The Strength In Our Scars
The Strength In Our Scars 4.05 avg rating β€” 13,697 ratings
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What the Living Do: Poems
What the Living Do: Poems 4.31 avg rating β€” 5,068 ratings
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Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1) 3.81 avg rating β€” 53,921 ratings
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Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers
Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers 4.12 avg rating β€” 3,834 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating β€” 50,753 ratings
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The Moon Queen: Another Book of Rhyme
The Moon Queen: Another Book of Rhyme 4.27 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Racing Hummingbirds
Racing Hummingbirds 4.30 avg rating β€” 709 ratings
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The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,213 ratings
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Ventricle, Atrium
Ventricle, Atrium 4.53 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Dogs in Lingerie
Dogs in Lingerie 4.30 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2 4.56 avg rating β€” 3,829 ratings
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Full Force
Full Force 4.17 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,438 ratings
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Homie
Homie 4.41 avg rating β€” 7,787 ratings
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What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,564 ratings
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Haiku in the Night
Haiku in the Night 4.32 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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The Beautifully Worthless
The Beautifully Worthless 3.99 avg rating β€” 295 ratings
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Poems, 1962-2012
Poems, 1962-2012 4.43 avg rating β€” 1,954 ratings
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The Pustoy
The Pustoy 4.74 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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An Inkling Hope: Select Poems
An Inkling Hope: Select Poems 3.78 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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The Golden Years
The Golden Years 4.46 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Cottonmouth Kisses
Cottonmouth Kisses 4.14 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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Revel
Revel 4.58 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
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What I Found in the Dark
What I Found in the Dark it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Bone Fragments
Bone Fragments 4.59 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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Not Afraid to Be Real: A Poetry Collection
Not Afraid to Be Real: A Poetry Collection 3.97 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1) 3.82 avg rating β€” 156,283 ratings
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Sea of Ink : A Creative Writing Anthology
Sea of Ink : A Creative Writing Anthology 4.61 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Obit
Obit 4.25 avg rating β€” 4,100 ratings
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Leap
Leap 4.59 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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The Culling of the Fold
The Culling of the Fold 4.25 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Mirror on the World: Poetic Reflections
Mirror on the World: Poetic Reflections
by: Ann Perry
4.54 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Anxiety
Anxiety 4.17 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Wilt
Wilt 4.75 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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Bright Dead Things
Bright Dead Things
by: Ada Limon
4.20 avg rating β€” 13,804 ratings
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For Eternity
For Eternity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Unopened
Unopened 4.64 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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More To Life
More To Life 4.53 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Antiemetic for Homesickness
Antiemetic for Homesickness 4.35 avg rating β€” 311 ratings
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Songs of Love & Longing
Songs of Love & Longing 4.46 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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If This Is the Age We End Discovery
If This Is the Age We End Discovery 3.98 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
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Practical Gods
Practical Gods 3.94 avg rating β€” 415 ratings
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The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 4.40 avg rating β€” 1,780 ratings
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Verse for Ages
Verse for Ages 4.71 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
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The Soul Bearer - and other poems
The Soul Bearer - and other poems 4.38 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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The Lice: Poems
The Lice: Poems 4.32 avg rating β€” 409 ratings
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Flora, Fauna, Fairies and Other Favourite Things
Flora, Fauna, Fairies and Other Favourite Things
by: Ann Perry
4.46 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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PLACE
PLACE 3.97 avg rating β€” 286 ratings
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In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by: Joy Harjo
4.23 avg rating β€” 807 ratings
73.
Caresses Soft as Sandpaper
Caresses Soft as Sandpaper 4.05 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
75.
The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem
The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem 4.37 avg rating β€” 990 ratings
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals 3.78 avg rating β€” 2,757 ratings
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Lockdown 2020: 5 Minute Poems
Lockdown 2020: 5 Minute Poems 4.24 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Corpse Delectable
Corpse Delectable 4.33 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Turtle Island
Turtle Island 4.09 avg rating β€” 4,514 ratings
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Hot 'n' Cold: Poems, Lyrics and Rhymes
Hot 'n' Cold: Poems, Lyrics and Rhymes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Country Between Us
The Country Between Us 4.23 avg rating β€” 2,766 ratings
82.
Rise of the Trust Fall
Rise of the Trust Fall 4.23 avg rating β€” 209 ratings
82.
Slopjar
Slopjar 4.32 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar
Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar 4.73 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
82.
Anatomy of a Poet
Anatomy of a Poet
by: C.J. Heck
4.05 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
82.
Where Pain Thrives
Where Pain Thrives 4.06 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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The Feeling May Remain
The Feeling May Remain 4.05 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
82.
Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9)
Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9) 4.62 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
82.
A Season of Shooting Stars
A Season of Shooting Stars 3.99 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
82.
Ruthless. Heartless! Loveless.
Ruthless. Heartless! Loveless. really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Blacked
Blacked 4.92 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
82.
One Heart - Many Breaks
One Heart - Many Breaks 4.84 avg rating β€” 140 ratings
82.
Labyrinth Heart
Labyrinth Heart
by: Naiad
4.30 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
94.
The Steward (Weald Fae Journals, #1)
The Steward (Weald Fae Journals, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 605 ratings
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Midnight Poems
Midnight Poems 4.33 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix
Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix 3.70 avg rating β€” 916 ratings
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Tongues of Fire
Tongues of Fire 4.19 avg rating β€” 509 ratings
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Exits
Exits 3.99 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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In the Eyes of a Military Wife
In the Eyes of a Military Wife 4.75 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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If I Were to Die Today
If I Were to Die Today 3.56 avg rating β€” 900 ratings
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