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100 Great Poems for BoysA handy collection of the most popular and fondly remembered poems of all time, geared to boys of all ages. Reading any great poem for the first time is always a thrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and this collection brings...
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The Republic of Poetry: PoemsIn his eighth collection of poems, Martín Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead, visit in dreams,...
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The Poet's Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American PoetsThe Poet's Notebook brings together excerpts from the working notebooks of twenty-six American poets. Unsystematic, spontaneous, irreverent, intense, witty, unexpected, these notebooks shimmer with reflections, speculations, confessions, quotations, impressions, and ruminations. They create a portrait of the artist as a purposeful gatherer and sifter...
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The Collected Poems of AIBefore her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as "one of the most singular voices of her generation" (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American...
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Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Poetry and ColorBeloved by readers and critics alike for over 60 years, Mary O'Neill's timeless children's poetry book is a tribute to the many beautiful colors we see around us, and is considered a modern classic. Featuring beautiful poems and deeply luminous illustrations, Hailstones and Halibut...
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Rudyard Kipling: Complete VerseWitty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages.Included are both the familiar favorites and Kipling's lesser-known works.This is the only complete collection of Kipling's poems available in paperback."Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 12/27/1988Pages: 864Binding...
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Walking BackwardsCollected poems from America's searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet . . . There's somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents' pipe dreams: They'll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their placesIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary tales Than parts of an unchanging whole,...
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Road-Side DogI went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a...
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The Complete PoemsPoet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A...
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A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems"Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world." --Seamus Heaney Originally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions--between...
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Her Shades of LoveHer Shades of Love was written to show the cycles we endure while Loving people in this world. HSOL gives you an insight on all the feelings we experience while being on this emotional rollercoaster we call love. This Love anthology was written for...
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Touchstones Now!The popular and trusted Key Stage 3 anthology - completely updated to meet the demands of today's classroom and the 2008 National Curriculum.Author: Michael BentonPublisher: Hodder EducationPublished: 06/27/2008Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780340965788
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Stay, Illusion: PoemsNational Book Award Finalist Stay, Illusion, the much-anticipated volume of poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, illuminates the broken but beautiful world she inhabits. Her poems are lit with magic and stark with truth: whether they speak from the imagined dwelling of her "Abandonarium," or from...
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The Tale of Kieu: A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen KieuSince its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Th ng's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated by notes that give comparative passages from...
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HiveHive is a remarkable debut collection of poems about brutality, exaltation, rebellion, and allegiance. Written in the voice of a teenage Mormon girl, these poems chronicle an inheritance of daily violence and closely guarded secrets. A conflicting cast of recurring characters-best friends, sisters, serial...
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The Hidden Eyes of ThingsA new lumnious volume from visionary poet Peter O'Leary In THE HIDDEN EYES OF THINGS, we travel through far reaches of the solar system--from the silver of twilight on Mercury, to the vast sea of hydrogen on Jupiter, to the endless collisions of ice...
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Sharing God's Word Through Poetry to Ignite Your FaithSharing the Word of God through Poetry to Ignite Your Faith God has called, gifted, and anointed me with this ability to write poetic, powerful, spiritual truths from His Word. He has anointed me to write excellent things. He shall be glorified, and many...
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-TextThis is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society,...
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The Terrible: A Storyteller's MemoirWinner of the PEN Ackerley Prize - Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award "Devastating and lyrical." --The New York Times "Suspenseful and affecting." --The New Yorker From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age,...
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The Complete PoetryA wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in an astonishing variety of forms his inner...
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