mimi10v3Compressed language for longing, attention, nature, devotion, and the strange precision of feeling. Cohen, Dickinson, and Rumi anchor a shelf that values memorable voice over schoolroom exhaustiveness.
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Book of Longing
About the bookThis collection gathers Leonard Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and 2006, marking his first new volume of verse since *Book of Mercy*. The poems explore enduring themes of myst…
8/10Language : PoetrySelected Poems of Emily Dickinson
About the bookThis Modern Library edition gathers over four hundred of Emily Dickinson’s poems that were published between her death in 1886 and 1900. As a reclusive figure in Amherst, Massachusetts,…
8/10Language : PoetryThe Essential Rumi
About the bookThis collection presents a curated selection of the ecstatic and mystical poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi, the 13th-century Persian Sufi poet. The volume focuses on the transformative perio…
7/10Language : PoetryLove Notes from the Hollow Tree
About the bookLove Notes from the Hollow Tree is a collection of poetry by Jarod K. Anderson, published in 2020. The work explores themes of nature, memory, and emotional resonance, drawing on the im…
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| And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou | 1978 | 4 | Read | → |
| Book of Longing | Leonard Cohen | 2006 | 8 | Read | → |
| Collected Poems | Stevie Smith | 1975 | 4 | Read | → |
| Control Burn: A Book of Poetry | Darby Taylor | 2022 | 6 | Read | → |
| Inferno | Dante Alighieri | 1767 | — | Read | → |
| Love Notes from the Hollow Tree | Jarod K. Anderson | 2020 | 7 | Read | → |
| Nocturnal | Wilder | 2019 | 6 | Read | → |
| Rides | Marcus Slease | 2011 | 4 | Read | → |
| Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson | 1890 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Modern Library Torchbearers) | Chika Sagawa | 2015 | 5 | Read | → |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | Anonymous | 2006 | — | Read | → |
| The Essential Rumi | Jalal al-Din Rumi | 13 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Lost Words | Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris | 2017 | 6 | Read | → |
| Wild Embers | Nikita Gill | 2017 | 5 | Read | → |