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Silver People: Voices from the Panama CanalIn 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world's two largest oceans and signaled America's emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood--and creating a miracle is no...
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Short, But Not Always SweetA collection of twenty-one poems filled with thoughts on life, love and loss, as seen through the eyes of a self-described "contemporary renaissance woman."Author: Marilyn L. HealeyPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 52Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.11dISBN: 9789372135138About the AuthorHealey, Marilyn L.:...
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Paroles: Selected PoemsIn the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, Paroles...
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New and Selected PoemsCharacterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws...
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Morning Night: Poems on Spirit, Race, and NatureWelcome to Morning Night, Dr. Larry Ward's first poetry collection.This book emerged from his thirty years of teaching mindfulness and focuses on the themes of spirit, race, and nature with the aim of lifting our sights. It has been washed in holy tears and...
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More Than OrgansA love letter to Brown, Queer, and Trans futures, Kay Ulanday Barrett's More Than Organs questions "whatever wholeness means" for bodies always in transit, for the safeties and dangers they silo. These poems remix people of color as earthbenders, replay "the choreography of loss"...
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Lives of the Female PoetsClare Pollard thumbs her nose at Dr Johnson's all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in her Lives of the Female Poets. These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet's own everyday life - from nit-combing and...
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Little Poet Emily Dickinson: In Emily's GardenIntroduce clever babies to classic poets with Gibbs Smith's new Little Poet series.Avid gardener and poet Emily Dickinson collected 424 pressed flower specimens and wrote nearly 1800 poems in her lifetime, with nature and plants inspiring many of her beloved works. Lines and couplets...
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Lines from a Mined Mind: The Words of John Trudell"Lines from a Mined Mind" brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection goes deeper, revealing the incendiary intersection of...
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Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960"As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to...
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I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-EsteemFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, creators of Today I Feel Silly and Where Do Balloons Go?, comes I'm Gonna Like Me, a funny and moving celebration of self-esteem and loving the skin you're in.Celebrate...
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How My Father Became a BoatA river swollen and drained by tides, a dauntless heart pumping time, forms the center of How My Father Became a Boat. The collection begins in the last days of the speaker's father before fanning out like the teeming deltas of its poems. Join...
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Hanukkah, Here I Come!Celebrate Hanukkah with a collection of funny and festive poems from the author of the hugely popular Kindergarten, Here I Come! "A warm and welcoming Hanukkah story."-Kirkus Reviews The candles are lit and the latkes are frying - Hanukkah is here! Welcome in the...
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Half Moon PoetryAuthor: Katrina J. HillePublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 11/06/2025Pages: 40Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.08dISBN: 9798898658076About the AuthorHille, Katrina J.: - Katrina is the daughter of an immigrant, first generation American, proud Army veteran, and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She has lived...
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Girl in a ForestElline Lipkin's Girl in a Forest explores the roles and tropes of women at different life stages, filtered through the lens of the Brothers Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. These poems lay a trail of breadcrumbs through permutations of grief as a mother...
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Five BaptismsFive Baptisms is written by Brian in chronological order from: birth in a conservative, small-town Methodist church to "falling away" to joining an ultra-conservative evangelical megachurch to becoming Catholic back to Methodist then Episcopal, then to becoming a None, along the way being baptized...
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous TimesDrawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as "inaccessible," "irrelevant," or "intimidating." She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to...
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Dog Show: PoemsNew York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions, with striking watercolor canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel. "Collins remains the most companionable of...
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Diary of Small Discontents: New & Selected Poems 1974-2024A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau's writing. This collection brings together work from half a century of writing by John Yau. Preoccupied with forms and musical structures, Yau's work includes sestinas, sonnets, pantoums, and lists, as well...
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Burnt Offerings: Wilderness Readings for Lectionary Year aTo gaze at the pyre of the world's injustices, to stare through its bitter smoke in search of life, to love upon one another even though (and because) the fire has singed our spirits--this is the labor of faith, and this is the gift...
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