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Falling Down the Page: A Book of List PoemsTRY THIS AT HOME. Poems to inspire young readers. From Eileen Spinelli's many goodbyes to summer at the shore, to Avis Harley's catalog of ways to say hello across the globe, to a close look at the birds and animals outside Valiska Gregory's window...
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Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of ColorALSC Notable Children's Book Here is the story of Miss Prudence Crandall and her black students, who endured the cruelty of prejudice and hateful actions for the sake of their education. Miss Crandall faced legal proceedings for opening her school of African American women....
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Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your HeartA collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment--and...
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Rumble in the JungleJoin this rhyming safari and meet everyone from the elphing elephant to the gangly giraffe, and maybe even the terrible tiger! Rounded corners and sturdy board pages add to this great title!Author: Giles AndreaePublisher: Tiger TalesPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 26Binding Type: Board BookWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.96h x...
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Ron Padgett: Collected PoemsGathering the work of more than fifty years, Ron Padgett's Collected Poems is the record of one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth-century American poetry. Padgett's poems reverberate with his reading and friendships, from Andrew Marvell to Woody Guthrie and Kenneth Koch. Wry,...
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The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary AnthologyBestselling poetry anthology back in print. Winner of the PEN Oakland Literary Award. Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary traditions in the world, yet they are virtually unknown in the West. In assembling this collection, Nathalie Handal has compiled an...
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Early Works: Actos, Bernabe & Pensamiento SerpentinoDrama. EARLY WORKS: ACTOS, BERNABE AND PENSAMIENTO SERPENTINE is three books in one: 1) a collection of one act plays by Valdez and the famous farmworker theater, El Teatro Campesino, 2) one of the first fully realized, full-length plays by Valdez alone, and 3)...
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Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna KamienskaKamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the 20th century.Her...
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Shock by ShockIn Shock by Shock] Young retains his considerable charms: a generous, tragicomic spirit, a guileless love of rhyme, and an acrobatic sense of logic and image. --Publishers WeeklyIn Young's work, the big essential questions--mortality, identity, the meaning of life--aren't simply food for thought; they're...
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In Search of Small GodsFunny and tender beneath a wry and gruff seen-it-all veneer, Harrison contemplates death, discerns divinity in every stone and leaf, and nobility in ordinary lives, and laughs at our attempts to separate ourselves from the rest of nature.--BooklistHis poems succeed on the basis of...
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Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems"Hoagland's verse is consistently, and crucially, bloodied by a sense of menace and by straight talk." --The New York Times My heroes are the ones who don't say much.They don't hug people they just met.They don't play louder when confused.They use plain language even...
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RangoliThis collection travels through the dynamics of diaspora and colorism across borderlines and cultures, as well as those within.Author: Pavana ReddyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/19/2017Pages: 238Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54dISBN: 9781544961484This title is not returnable
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Bloom for Yourself II: Let go and grow'A few years ago, I fell apart. And in the process of building myself back up, I learned that you are allowed to leave some pieces behind-you are allowed to become the person you design yourself to be.'A collection of notes and poetic reflections,...
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CornhuskersCornhuskers by Carl Sandburg is a collection of classic rural American poetry. "I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan. Here the water...
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GunslingerFiftieth Anniversary Edition "Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuane This fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn's masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still resonates today. Set in the American West, the Gunslinger, his talking horse Claude L vi-Strauss, a...
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Emily Dickinson: A CompanionThe public is familiar with the Emily Dickinson stereotype--an eccentric spinster in a white dress flitting about her father's house, hiding from visitors. But these associations are misguided and should be dismantled. This work aims to remove some of the distorted myths about Dickinson...
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Praise the Tainted Trinity: 40 Poems of Love and GriefPraise the Tainted Trinity tracks the journey of a turbulent relationship, offering poetic snapshots of a couple's love and deterioration, and the speaker's reckoning of grief and impending fatherhood. Beginning with a proud declaration of survival, the subsequent poems depict the small blisses of...
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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)From Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker's Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey, complete with textual notes and an illuminating introductory essay.The hardcover publication of the Odyssey received glowing reviews:...
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The Soul in Paraphrase: A Treasury of Classic Devotional PoemsChristians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience....
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For Dear LifeIn the aftermath of her husband's medical crisis and the brain surgery that followed, Jessica Dubey contemplates the possibility of a life without him, re-examines those early warning signs that something was terribly wrong, and walks side-by-side with her husband through "recovery's uncertain re-entry."...
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