No Place Like Home

Poems

Edited by  Jane Holloway
No Place Like Home

Poets from around the world celebrate the universal appeal of the comforts of home in this unique anthology.

Whether inhabited or remembered, whether solitary or teeming with family, whether a refuge from the world or a connection to a community, home is essential to the self. The poems in this anthology invite us into urban apartments and cozy cottages, stately mansions and hermits’ huts. We watch a medieval housewife explain how she has spent her day; we join with Robert Herrick as he gives thanks for his “humble roof . . . weatherproof”; we peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in his bed, and join Joy Harjo at the kitchen table.
 
Home can mean many things: from…

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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell
Abortion Stories

Abortion Stories

Edited with an Introduction by Karen Weingarten; Foreword by Rebecca Traister; Afterword by Renee Bracey Sherman
A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Lauren Groff
A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf
Vita Nuova

Vita Nuova

Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri
Cold Mountain Poems

Cold Mountain Poems

Hanshan; Edited and Translated by Peter Harris
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio

Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio

Liang Qichao; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Peter Zarrow
My Left Foot

My Left Foot

Christy Brown
Mutual Aid

Mutual Aid

Peter Kropotkin; Introduction and Notes by David Priestland
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa

The Cosmography and Geography of Africa

Johannes Leo Africanus; Translated and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard J. Oosterhoff
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil FindsWork Waterlog

Waterlog

Roger Deakin
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The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings

Elizabeth Garver Jordan; Edited with an Introduction by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan; Foreword by Brooke Kroeger

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