28 Best Poetry Books
Goal: Find the best Poetry books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best poetry books" and study the top 4+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
28 Best Poetry Books
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Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
100 Selected Poems
by E. E. Cummings
The Complete Poetry
by Maya Angelou
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
by William Shakespeare
The Essential Rumi
by Jalal Al-Din Rumi
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Kevin Kelly, Tara Brach, Adam Robinson, Tim O’Reilly, Harry Styles
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
Devotions
The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
Diving into the Wreck
Poems 1971-1972
by Adrienne Rich
If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
by Sappho
John Donne's Poetry
by John Donne
Neon Vernacular
New and Selected Poems
by Yusef Komunyakaa
On Love and Barley
Haiku of Basho
by Matsuo Basho
Picture Bride
by Cathy Song
Robert Frost's Poems
by Robert Frost
Selected Poems
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Selected Poems
by Rita Dove
Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
by Anna Akhmatova
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse
by Langston Hughes
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Poems
by John Ashbery
The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Essential Neruda
Selected Poems
by Pablo Neruda
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The Flowers of Evil
(Les Fleurs du mal)
by Charles Baudelaire
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
When My Brother Was an Aztec
by Natalie Diaz
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