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Piyale

Piyâle (Wine Glass) is a 1926 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Ahmet Hâşim, his second and last book, opening with his influential manifesto on poetry as an art closer to music than to words.

Piyyut of the Land of Israel

Piyyut of the Land of Israel is the Hebrew liturgical poetry composed in the synagogues of Palestine from late antiquity, first appearing around the 5th century CE.

Platero and I

Platero and I (Platero y yo) is a prose poem book by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez about a silver donkey in Moguer, first published in 1914.

Plumb

"Plumb" (Romanian for "Lead") is a poem by George Bacovia that opens his 1916 debut volume and stands as the emblematic poem of Romanian symbolism.

Poem of Sorrow and Anger

Poem of Sorrow and Anger (悲愤诗, Beifen shi) is the title of two poems attributed to the late Han poet Cai Yan, also known as Cai Wenji.

Poem Without a Hero

Poem Without a Hero (Поэма без героя) is a long poem by Anna Akhmatova, written from 1940 into the 1960s, looking back at pre-revolutionary Petersburg.

Poema

Poema (Russian: поэма) is a Russian literary genre, roughly "a long poem with a story," combining narrative plot with a strong lyrical voice; Pushkin and Mayakovsky wrote notable examples.

Poema de Chile

Poema de Chile is an unfinished book of poems by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, published posthumously in 1967, describing an imaginary journey through Chile from north to south.

Poema Sujo

Poema Sujo ("Dirty Poem") is a long narrative poem by Ferreira Gullar, written in exile in Buenos Aires in 1975 and published in 1976 to wide acclaim.

Poemas

Poemas is a book of poetry by the Angolan poet Alda Lara, gathered by her husband and published posthumously in 1966; it is regarded as a foundational work of modern Angolan poetry.

Poemas árticos

Poemas árticos is a 1918 poetry collection by the Chilean writer Vicente Huidobro, written in Paris between 1917 and 1918 and published in Madrid, his first purely creacionist book.

Poemele luminii

Poemele luminii ("Poems of Light") is the 1919 debut poetry volume of Romanian poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga, published in Sibiu and known for its central metaphor of light.

Poèmes antiques

Poèmes antiques is the first poetry collection of the French poet Leconte de Lisle, published in Paris in 1852 with 31 poems on ancient Greek and Latin subjects.

Poèmes barbares

Poèmes barbares is an 1862 poetry collection by the French poet Leconte de Lisle, enlarged in 1871, drawing on biblical, Nordic, Celtic, and Indian subjects.

Poèmes saturniens

Poèmes saturniens (Saturnian Poems) is the first poetry collection of French poet Paul Verlaine, published by Alphonse Lemerre in Paris in 1866, marked by melancholy.

Poems (Branko Radičević)

Pesme is the first poetry collection of Serbian Romantic poet Branko Radičević, published in Vienna in 1847 and seen as a turning point in modern Serbian literature.

Poems 1923–1954

Poems 1923–1954 is a collected edition of E. E. Cummings' poetry, published by Harcourt, Brace in 1954 as the first complete edition of his verse.

Poems by Emily Dickinson

Poems by Emily Dickinson is an 1890 volume of poetry, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson after her death and published by Roberts Brothers of Boston.

Poems in Prose

Poems in Prose (Stikhotvoreniia v proze) is the last work of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, a cycle of short lyrical prose miniatures written 1877–1882 and first published in December 1882.

Poems of Black Africa

Poems of Black Africa is a 1975 anthology of poetry edited and introduced by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, published in London as volume 171 of Heinemann's African Writers Series.

Poems of Lu Xun

The Poems of Lu Xun (鲁迅) are the classical-style verse, prose poems of Wild Grass, and new poems of the Chinese writer Lu Xun, 1881 to 1936.

Poems of Mao Zedong

The Poems of Mao Zedong (毛泽东诗词) are the classical Chinese poems written by Mao Zedong, mostly in traditional verse forms and mostly recording his revolutionary career.

Poems of Resistance

Poems of Resistance from British Guiana is a 1954 collection of 18 poems by the Guyanese poet and political activist Martin Carter, published in London by Lawrence and Wishart.

Poems of Tao Yuanming

The Poems of Tao Yuanming are the roughly 125 surviving poems of the Eastern Jin recluse poet Tao Qian (ca. 365–427), known for their plain, natural style.

Poems of the Atomic Bomb

Poems of the Atomic Bomb (Genbaku shishū) is a 1951 poetry collection by Hiroshima poet Tōge Sankichi, a central work of Japanese atomic bomb literature.

Poems on History

Poems on History (Yongshi) is a set of eight five-character poems by the Western Jin poet Zuo Si, written around 270 to 280, which transformed the Chinese poems-on-history genre.

Poesía en movimiento

Poesía en movimiento is a 1966 anthology of Mexican poetry compiled by Octavio Paz and three other poets, collecting 42 poets writing from 1915 to 1966.

Poesía no eres tú

Poesía no eres tú is a 1972 compilation of the collected poetry of Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in its Letras Mexicanas series.

Poesias

Poesias is the first poetry collection of the Brazilian Parnassian poet Olavo Bilac, published in São Paulo in 1888 and expanded into a definitive edition in 1902.

Poesie

Poesie is the title of two central books by Italian poet Sandro Penna: the 1939 debut collection published in Florence, and the 1970 complete Garzanti anthology Tutte le poesie.