Poem Book and Samples

A poetry book is a collection of poems, typically written by a single author, and published as a cohesive work. Poetry books can encompass a variety of themes and styles, from romantic love poetry to political and social commentary, from free verse to formal structures like sonnets and villanelles.

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Poetry books can be divided into several categories, including:

Single-author collections: These books are comprised of poems written by a single author, and are often organized around a specific theme or subject.
Anthologies: These books are collections of poems written by multiple authors, and are often organized around a specific theme or subject.
Collected works: These books compile all the poems written by a particular author throughout their career, and can be useful for studying an author's evolution as a writer.

Here are a few examples of poetry books and their corresponding sample poems:

"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot

Sample line: "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain."

"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman

Sample line: "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

"The Sun and Her Flowers" by Rupi Kaur

Sample line: "it isn't blood that makes you my sister / it's how you understand my heart as though / you carry it in your body."

"Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur

Sample line: "you tell me to quiet down cause / my opinions make me less beautiful / but i was not made with a fire in my belly / so i could be put out / i was not made with a lightness in my tongue / so i could be easy to swallow / i was made heavy / half blade and half silk / difficult to forget and not easy / for the mind to follow"

"The Love Poems of Rumi" by Rumi

Sample line: "Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along."

"Selected Poems" by Emily Dickinson

Sample line: "Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all."

"The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

Sample line: "Your children are not your children / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

"Ariel" by Sylvia Plath

Sample line: "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air."

"The Odyssey" by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)

Sample line: "Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven / far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel."

"Paradise Lost" by John Milton

Sample line: "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe."