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Some poetry lingers like a quiet echo, others strike like a lightning bolt and change how you see the world.
This list celebrates those rare collections, award-winning works that hold the fragility of life, the pulse of nature, and the renewal of the human spirit.
Each book here is a journey through language, an invitation to pause, feel, and remember why poetry endures.
This list celebrates those rare collections, award-winning works that hold the fragility of life, the pulse of nature, and the renewal of the human spirit.
Each book here is a journey through language, an invitation to pause, feel, and remember why poetry endures.
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My Heart Is Not Asleep
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Thomas A. Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Verses of a Poet Who Didn't Know It
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Filing Order
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Waking Up at the Gates: Poems of Recovery, Healing, & Transformation
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Exits
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Stephen C. Pollock (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Selected Poems by Robert Frost (Illustrated): Poetry from A Boy's Will, North of Boston and Mountain Interval
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De Rerum Natura: On Nature and Poetry
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David Hillstrom (Goodreads Author)
4.94 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston
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Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary
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The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
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The Complete Poems 1927-1979
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
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Opened Ground
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