This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English-from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortality. Here also are beloved poems by Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning,...

In Real Life: An Online Love Story is the first of its kind-a bilingual novel-in-poetry written by popular Spanish-language poet Leticia Sala. In Real Life is not only about a young Barcelona woman who finds romance online thousands of miles away in New York City, it is also an ode to the titanic effort required in staying loyal to a commitment and her own individuality in the silicon age.​ Told in a poetic key, the fate of this couple, whose relationship...

In the silence of the night, when the heart beats strongly and the soul seeks its complement, words become verses and verses become the purest expression of love.Imagine a place where the deepest and purest feelings are transformed into words that touch the soul and the heart. That place exists, and it is the universe of poetry. In this book, "60 Love Poems in English: The Most Beautiful Collection of Poems in the World," you will find a compilation...

From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, here are stirring poems that read like music. Awarded the Pura Belpré Honor for this book, Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world-between two cultures, two homes. With a crazy maraca beat, Herrera creates poetry as rich and vibrant as mole de olé and pineapple tamales . . . an aroma of papaya ....

Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia, and displays a variety of works by authors, who all come from different backgrounds. Some of them are well-known not only locally, but also internationally due to festival appearances and translations into European languages, among them are Gennady Aigi, Gennady Alexeyev, Vladimir...