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Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
₦5,000A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare’s sonnets and poems, complete with valuable tools for educators.
The authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:
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Hymns & Qualms By Peter Cole
₦27,000Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole’s acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present.
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Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
₦3,000Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suffering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speechless by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life.
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The Nectar of Pain by Najwa Zebian
₦8,000The Nectar of Pain is a collection of poetry and prose that the pain of love and loss gave birth to. When pain knocks on your door, let it in. If you don’t, it will knock harder and harder. Its voice will become louder and louder. So let it in. Spend some time with it. Understand it. Then walk it to the door and let it leave because it’s time for you to welcome happiness.
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HER 1 by Pierre Alex Jeanty
₦6,000Her” is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate.
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The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time By Leslie Pockell
₦25,000By Leslie Pockell, Katharine Rapkin, Adrienne Avila
From the bestselling author of One Child comes the story of three of former special education teacher Torey Hayden’s most extraordinary challenges.
Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped by her father and found starving, dirty, and picking through garbage cans—is a child prone to long silences and erratic, violent behavior.
Charming, charismatic four-year-old Drake will speak only in private to his mother—while his tough, unbending grandfather’s demands for an immediate cure threatens to cause irreparable harm.
And though she had never worked with adults, Hayden agrees to help fearful and silent eighty-two-year-old massive stroke victim Gerda—discovering in the process that a treatment’s successes could prove nearly as heartbreaking as its limitations.
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Import US; Reissue edition (26 Mar. 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780446676816
- ISBN-13: 978-0446676816
- ASIN: 0446676810
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.9 x 20.3 cm
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Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome By Deepak Chopra
₦15,000By Deepak Chopra
The United States is composed of and built by immigrants, and it has been a beacon to those in search of a new life for hundreds of years.
HOME is a collection of thirty-four poems and twelve songs inspired by a diverse group of immigrants who have made significant contributions to the United States. From Yo-Yo Ma to Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein to Celia Cruz, these poems symbolize the many roads that lead to America, and which we expect will continue to converge to build the highways to our future.
This unique collaboration takes the form of a keepsake book, with a CD of beautiful original music tucked inside. An audiobook edition in which Deepak Chopra reads the poems is also available, as a digital download. This hardcover book (with accompanying music CD) and digital-only audiobook will be available simultaneously.
Offering a welcoming feeling intended to inform our cultural conversation and enhance our national dialogue, HOME has twelve accompanying musical pieces that serve as personal meditations on the essence of home, in which you can reflect upon where you feel most welcome, whether a place or state of mind.
Written and composed by immigrants and first generation Americans, HOME provides a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for everyone.
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Mr. Memory & Other Poems By Phillis Levin
₦4,500By Phillis Levin
An intimate, richly textured new collection from Phillis Levin, a poet whose work “shimmers with gracefulness” (David Baker)
Phillis Levin’s fifth collection of poems encompasses a wide array of styles and voices while staying true to a visionary impulse sparked as much by the smallest detail as the most sublime landscape. From expansive meditation to haiku, in ode and epistle, dream sequence and elegy, Levin’s new poems explore motifs deeply social and historical, personal and metaphysical.
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books (March 29, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143128116
- ISBN-13: 978-0143128113
- Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
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Poems in the Manner of…
₦5,600By David Lehman
Poems in the Manner Of is an illuminating journey through centuries of writers who continue to influence new work today, including that of respected poet and series editor of The Best American Poetry David Lehman. “Very few writers can actually shape how you see the world. David Lehman is such a writer,” says Robert Olen Butler. Now the Best American Poetry series editor and New School writing professor channels, translates, and imagines a collection of “poems in the manner of” Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, Rilke, William Carlos Williams, and more.
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Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love
₦6,000By Brad Gooch
Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. He has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and to Saint Francis of Assisi for his spiritual wisdom. Yet his life has long remained the stuff of legend rather than intimate knowledge.
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Good Poems for Hard Times By Garrison Keillor
₦4,000Good Poems for Hard Times By Garrison Keillor. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as “Such As It Is More or Less” and “Let It Spill.”
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The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
₦6,500The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloomPraise for Rupi Kaur: