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Best Collection of Poems by Living Authors
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White Knuckle
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Steven Bruce (Goodreads Author)
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Crush
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Autobiography of Red
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Bluets
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A Village Life
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No Urgency To Be Home
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Neha R. Krishna (Goodreads Author)
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Fugue for Other Hands
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Joseph Fasano (Goodreads Author)
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The Wild Iris
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Erythra Thalassa Brain Disrupted
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Annette Libeskind Berkovits (Goodreads Author)
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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Dancing in Odessa
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Averno
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Just Love Her
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Raz Mihal (Goodreads Author)
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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Warsan Shire (Goodreads Author)
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No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
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Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
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William Sieghart (Editor)
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
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Tyler Knott Gregson (Goodreads Author)
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The Beautiful: Collected Poems
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
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Mark Matousek (Goodreads Author)
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THE FIRST DEATH (Poena Damni #3)
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The Strength In Our Scars
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What the Living Do: Poems
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Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
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Courtney Peppernell (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 54,340 ratings
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Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers
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Melody Godfred (Goodreads Author)
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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The Moon Queen: Another Book of Rhyme
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R.K. Pavia (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Racing Hummingbirds
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Jeanann Verlee (Goodreads Author)
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The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
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3.94 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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Ventricle, Atrium
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Gabriel Gadfly (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Dogs in Lingerie
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New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
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Full Force
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Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
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4.22 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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Wilt
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Steven Bruce (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Homie
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What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
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Kim Addonizio (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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Haiku in the Night
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Ben Ditmars (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Beautifully Worthless
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Poems, 1962-2012
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The Pustoy
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An Inkling Hope: Select Poems
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Erin A. Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Golden Years
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Grasshopper Bot (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Cottonmouth Kisses
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Revel
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What I Found in the Dark
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Clayton Clifford Bye (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bone Fragments
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Gabriel Gadfly (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Not Afraid to Be Real: A Poetry Collection
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Maranda Russell (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
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Sea of Ink : A Creative Writing Anthology
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Obit
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Victoria Chang (Goodreads Author)
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Leap
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Heather Grace Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Culling of the Fold
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Jessika Bat (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Mirror on the World: Poetic Reflections
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Anxiety
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Bright Dead Things
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Ada Limon (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 13,990 ratings
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For Eternity
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Samin Pedram 萨明佩德拉姆 (Goodreads Author)
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More To Life
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Jacob Lasher (Goodreads Author)
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Antiemetic for Homesickness
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Songs of Love & Longing
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Cassia Hall (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 37 ratings
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If This Is the Age We End Discovery
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Rosebud Ben-Oni (Goodreads Author)
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Practical Gods
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The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
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Verse for Ages
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The Soul Bearer - and other poems
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R.K. Pavia (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Lice: Poems
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Flora, Fauna, Fairies and Other Favourite Things
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PLACE
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Caffeine
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Steven Bruce (Goodreads Author)
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In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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Joy Harjo (Goodreads Author)
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Caresses Soft as Sandpaper
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The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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Patricia Lockwood (Goodreads Author)
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Lockdown 2020: 5 Minute Poems
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Chris Mark Thomson (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Corpse Delectable
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Turtle Island
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Hot 'n' Cold: Poems, Lyrics and Rhymes
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The Country Between Us
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Rise of the Trust Fall
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Slopjar
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Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar
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Anatomy of a Poet
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C.J. Heck (Goodreads Author)
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Where Pain Thrives
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Mie Hansson (Goodreads Author)
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The Feeling May Remain
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Akif Kichloo (Goodreads Author)
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Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9)
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Nataša Pantović (Goodreads Author)
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Unopened
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A Season of Shooting Stars
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Dhaval Rathod (Goodreads Author)
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Ruthless. Heartless! Loveless.
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Blacked
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One Heart - Many Breaks
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Labyrinth Heart
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Naiad (Goodreads Author)
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The Steward (Weald Fae Journals, #1)
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Christopher Shields (Goodreads Author)
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Midnight Poems
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Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix
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J.D. Stockholm (Goodreads Author)
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Tongues of Fire
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Exits
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Stephen C. Pollock (Goodreads Author)
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In the Eyes of a Military Wife
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It's amazing how the poems in this book mirror how I feel at times. It's nice to know someone feels the same way as I do and was able to put into words the emotions I even can't describe myself.
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