Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


joyce compton brown

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joyce compton brown
Skip side bar filters
  • Flowers of the Heavens

    Poems

    Flowers of the Heavens by Joyce Compton Brown explores the South and its history through the lens of her family. These poems recognize within this history the holiness of life and the nobility of the human spirit, while remaining conscious of the necessity of breaking up the South's old and stubborn mores. The collection is an elegy to the past, an appreciation of present moments, and an ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Dearly

    New Poems

    A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Calling a Wolf a Wolf

    by Kaveh Akbar ...
    "The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." --Fanny HoweThis highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker

    1925-2025

    Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New YorkerSeamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesław Miłosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Collected Poems

    1974-2004

    by Rita Dove ...
    **Finalist for the 2016 National Book AwardFinalist for the 2017 NAACP Image AwardThree decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.**Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blue Iris

    Poems and Essays

    by Mary Oliver ...
    For poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are "the simple garments" of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earth's changes and its permanence.In Blue Iris, Mary Oliver collects ten new poems, two dozen of her poems written over the last two decades, and two previously unpublished essays on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Joyful Noise

    Poems for Two Voices

    Illustrated by Eric Beddows ...
    From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrates the insect world.Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise.The poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee. They can be fully appreciated by an individual reader, but they're ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Feather Room

    by Anis Mojgani ...
    Science, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room, Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of magic realism, endowing his tales with a greater sense of fantasy and brightness. The work recounts loss and heartbreak ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Bonfire Opera

    Poems

    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Winner, 2021 Northern California Book Award | Finalist, 2021 Patterson Poetry PrizeSometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Birds & Other Dreamers: Poems

    poetry, #1

    by K.B. Marie ...
    Series Book 1 - poetry
    Birds & Other Dreamers is about love despite fear. After heartbreak, a happy ending often seems impossible. What if it isn't?Affectionately called "Love in the Time of Anxiety," this is an illustrated collection of fifty love poems that the poet wrote and dedicated to her wife. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collage

    by Sally Hendee ...
    Collage a mix of prose, poetry and art, each creating its own emotional texture. The pieces in this publication were composed with the intention of pleasing the reader, both visually and rhythmically, through a variety of subjects and format. Cover and inside artwork: Sally Hendee Photographs: Sally Hendee ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been

    New and Selected Poems

    “[Twichell’s] poems generate the requisite heat with the poet’s precise, original and frequently brilliant use of language. . . . A major voice in contemporary poetry.” —Publishers Weekly“[Twichell’s poems] track the inner movements of one life with an unexpected freshness.” —The Washington PostPublishers Weekly called Chase Twichell “a major voice in contemporary poetry,” and this long overdue ... Read more

    $10.69 USD