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677 members

27 reviews

4.1

2 Members: DebiCates, norabelle414

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Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972

by Adrienne Rich

865 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Charon07, GregM3

3

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

by Wilfred Owen

750 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: DebiCates, GregM3

4

Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996

by Seamus Heaney

1,650 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, LeslieWx

5

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

by Billy Collins

1,261 members

29 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, LeslieWx

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272 members

1 review

3.9

2 Members: DebiCates, GregM3

7

The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám (FitzGerald)

by Omar Khayyám

6,069 members

87 reviews

4

2 Members: LeslieWx, GregM3

8

Falling Up: Poems and Drawings

by Shel Silverstein

9,184 members

205 reviews

4.2

Member: norabelle414

9

The Complete Poems, 1927–1979

by Elizabeth Bishop

2,164 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: DebiCates

10

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Vol. 1: The Poems, 2nd Edition

by William Butler Yeats

632 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: hipdeep

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by Seamus Heaney

485 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: LeslieWx

12

by Elizabeth Bishop

346 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: GregM3

13

156 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: charl08

14

Reasons for Moving

45 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: Charon07

15

W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems with Paintings by Jack B. Yeats

1 member

Member: TonjaE

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by Wendell Berry

135 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: LeslieWx, GregM3

17

Transformations

1,064 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, GregM3

18

The Best of Robert Service

by Robert Service

571 members

4 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, LeslieWx

19

Words under the Words: Selected Poems

by Naomi Shihab Nye

337 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: LeslieWx, GregM3

20

Archy and Mehitabel

1,169 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

21

The World's Wife

by Carol Ann Duffy

899 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: charl08

22

Death of a Naturalist

by Seamus Heaney

812 members

9 reviews

4

Member: LeslieWx

23

Translations from the Night: Selected Poems of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

8 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: GregM3

24

The Animal in the Room

by Meghan Kemp-Gee

4 members

Member: DebiCates

25

by Carol Ann Duffy

435 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: charl08

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by E. E. Cummings

406 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: Charon07

27

304 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: GregM3

28

by Simon Armitage

34 members

1 review

4.1

Member: DebiCates

29

Acts of Contortion

10 members

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

30

Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

140 members

½ 4.4

Member: GregM3

31

by E. E. Cummings

136 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Charon07

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by U. A. Fanthorpe

88 members

½ 3.6

Member: charl08

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A flower child's garden of verses

by Henry Gibson

3 members

Member: LeslieWx

34

The Last Human Heart

by Allison Joseph

1 member

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

35

The complete poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

6,051 members

41 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: DebiCates

36

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins

2,584 members

31 reviews

4.2

Member: charl08

37

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

by John Ashbery

807 members

6 reviews

4

Member: Charon07

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The Country Between Us

by Carolyn Forché

476 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: GregM3

39

Sorry for Your Troubles: Poems

by Pádraig Ó Tuama

63 members

½ 4.6

Member: hipdeep

40

by Pearl S. Buck

18 members

1 review

5

Member: LeslieWx

41

A Coney Island of the Mind

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

2,055 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: DebiCates

42

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems

by Warsan Shire

293 members

7 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: charl08

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177 members

6 reviews

½ 4.7

Member: hipdeep

44

Constance: Poems

117 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: Charon07

45

Sun and Saddle Leather

by Badger Clark

29 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: LeslieWx

46

The Speed of Darkness

by Muriel Rukeyser

21 members

5

Member: GregM3

47

Collected Poems

1,576 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: LeslieWx

48

Life on Mars: Poems

by Tracy K. Smith

794 members

25 reviews

4.1

Member: hipdeep

49

Merwin: Collected Poems 1952-1993

by W. S. Merwin

95 members

4

Member: Charon07

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Every Soul Is a Circus

by Vachel Lindsay

4 members

1 review

4

Member: DebiCates

51

The Poems of the Canon

by Constantine P. Cavafy

2 members

4

Member: GregM3

52

Morning in the Burned House

by Margaret Atwood

660 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: LeslieWx

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by Seamus Heaney

586 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: Charon07

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Things I Didn't Know I Loved

by Nâzım Hikmet

18 members

3.8

Member: GregM3

55

Because the Stars Shine Through It

by Geoff Munsterman

5 members

½ 4.5

Member: hipdeep

56

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton

2,237 members

20 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Charon07

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by Frank O'Hara

1,159 members

12 reviews

4

Member: LeslieWx

58

The Jacob's Ladder

by Denise Levertov

81 members

½ 3.4

Member: GregM3

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Dearly: New Poems

by Margaret Atwood

763 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: Charon07

60

Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems

by Jane Hirshfield

197 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: DebiCates

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by Jeanne Griggs

1 member

4

Member: hipdeep

62

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

by Pablo Neruda

4,372 members

70 reviews

4.2

Member: Charon07

63

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

by Paul Fleischman

2,513 members

104 reviews

4.1

Member: LeslieWx

64

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

by Langston Hughes

1,149 members

21 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: hipdeep

65

Learning Human: Selected Poems

81 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: DebiCates

66

In the Next Galaxy

159 members

1 review

3.8

Member: DebiCates

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by Countee Cullen

49 members

4

Member: GregM3

68

More Trouble with the Obvious: Poems

by Michael Van Walleghen

5 members

Member: Charon07

69

Engraved: Poems

by Anna George Meek

3 members

4

Member: hipdeep

70

Questions about Angels: Poems

by Billy Collins

669 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: LeslieWx

71

New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

by Stevie Smith

101 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: DebiCates

72

The Carrier of Ladders: Poems

by W. S. Merwin

64 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: GregM3

73

After Kenyon: Poetry

by Jeanne Griggs

2 members

4

Member: hipdeep

74

The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems by Billy Collins

by Billy Collins

292 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: LeslieWx

75

The Lives of the Heart: Poems

by Jane Hirshfield

182 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: DebiCates

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by Stephen Spender

48 members

Member: GregM3

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by Natalie Shapero

13 members

4

Member: hipdeep

78

The Art of Drowning

by Billy Collins

651 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: LeslieWx

79

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

by William Carlos Williams

430 members

1 review

4

Member: GregM3

80

Domestic Violence: Poems

by Eavan Boland

71 members

2 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

81

Our Bog is Dood: Selected Poems for Young Readers

by Stevie Smith

10 members

Member: DebiCates

82

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins

828 members

55 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

83

The Ship of Fools

by Sebastian Brant

428 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: LeslieWx

84

Fully Empowered

by Pablo Neruda

275 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: GregM3

85

The Owl and the Nightingale

by Simon Armitage

105 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: DebiCates

86

The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975

by Charles Reznikoff

90 members

4.1

Member: DebiCates

87

Selected Poems: 1965-1975

by Margaret Atwood

565 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: DebiCates

88

A Timbered Choir

by Wendell Berry

547 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: LeslieWx

89

Against Love Poetry: Poems

by Eavan Boland

102 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

90

Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows: Poems

309 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: DebiCates

91

The Mad Farmer Poems

by Wendell Berry

121 members

½ 4.3

Member: LeslieWx

92

The Genome Rhapsodies

by Anna George Meek

2 members

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

93

Farming: A Hand Book

by Wendell Berry

201 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: LeslieWx

94

A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures

30 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: DebiCates

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by James Arlington Wright

28 members

½ 3.5

Member: GregM3

96

Imitation of Life

by Allison Joseph

12 members

½ 3.3

Member: hipdeep

97

by Gertrude Stein

1,019 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: DebiCates

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by Wendell Berry

71 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: LeslieWx

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by Allison Joseph

17 members

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

100

Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems

185 members

22 reviews

4.2

Member: DebiCates

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