Weston LibGuides: Poetry : Books

Poetry: Books

eBooks

Take a look at some of these poetry eBook selections!

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Project Gutenberg Poetry Bookshelf
Free downloadable poetry e-books.

World Poetry

100 Ancient Chinese Poems (with MP3) by Jiemin; Zhu Hongda; Wu Jiemin
Call Number: C 895.1 100

Includes the best in Chinese verse covering 3,000 years from the Zhou through the Qing Dynasties.

Great books in our library that will get you started on your anthology assignment.

An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry by M. A. R. Habib (Translator)
Call Number: 891.4 ANT

An informed introduction to major modern trends in Urdu poetry.
Breaking Silence by Joseph Bruchac (Introduction by)
Call Number: 895 Bre

ISBN: 0912678593

Publication Date: 1984-01-01
Five T'ang Poets by Wang Wei; Li Po; Tu Fu; Li Ho; Li-Shang-yin; David Young (Contribution by, Translator)
Call Number: 895.1 FIV

The selections from these five poets constitute some of the greatest lyric poetry ever written.
Haiku by Peter Washington (Selected by, Editor)
Call Number: 895.6 Hai

ISBN: 9781400041282

Publication Date: 2003-11-11

Haiku by the Japanese masters: Basho, Issa, Buson, Shiki with superb examples from nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers.
Love Poems by Peter Washington, Ed.
Call Number: 808.1 LOV

Ranges from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America.
Miracle Fair by Wislawa Szymborska; Joanna Trzeciak (Translator)
Call Number: 891.8 SZY

A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet.
Modern Japanese Haiku by Makato Ueda (Compiled by)
Call Number: 895.6 MOD
Poetry of Our World by Ed J. Paine
Call Number: 808.81 POE

Includes the English-speaking world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
Tablet and Pen by Reza Aslan, Ed.
Call Number: 808.8 TAB

This collection features translated works from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish.
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry by Ilya Kaminsky; Susan Harris; Words Without Borders Staff
Call Number: 808.81 ECC

Internationally celebrated poets who have rarely, if ever, been translated into English.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
Call Number: 895.5 MAT

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world.
The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei; David Hinton (Translator)
Call Number: 895.1 WAN

Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry.
World Poetry by Katharine Washburn (Editor); John S. Major (Editor); Clifton Fadiman
Call Number: 808.1 WOR

More than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, spanning a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century.