Poetic


On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The Song of Achilles
Milk and honey
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Little Prince
Letters to a Young Poet
Circe
The Poet X
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Bell Jar
The Prophet
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The Great Gatsby
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
La Celestina by Fernando de RojasBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsElizabeth's Mountain by Lucille GuarinoThe Arabian Nights by Anonymous
Erotic Prosimetra
18 books — 4 voters
Lullaby of Love by Rebecca WinningLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanSelected Poems by Emily DickinsonREPERCUSSIONS OF LOVE by Nathan OlszewskiThe Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry Everyone Should Read - 2021
53 books — 10 voters

Echos of the Canyon by Betty Nadine ThomasComing to Jakarta by Peter Dale ScottPoetry in a time of Pestilence by Alex MorrittThe Secret of Divine Civilization by Abdu'l-BaháAgainst Forgetting by Carolyn Forché
Poetic Politics
66 books — 8 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanCoraline by Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Beautifully Disturbing
84 books — 58 voters

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Most Poetic Book Titles
2,032 books — 900 voters
Poems for the Hazara by Kamran Mir HazarExotic Neurotic by Kenneth Jarrett SingletonAngels Cried by Stephen L. WilsonA World of Verse by Christopher  ShieldsRevel by Michael Indemaio
Best poetry Anthologies
204 books — 81 voters

Jessica Sorensen
Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.
Jessica Sorensen, Ember

Monica Ali
Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265 ...more
Monica Ali, Brick Lane

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