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Dancing at Lake Montebello: poemsDancing at Lake Montebello begins at the dawn of the civil rights era, calling up memories of life in Baltimore, the most segregated U.S. Northern city, and moves through the poet's coming of age in the turbulent '60s and '70s. The book's final section,...
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The Long Road HomeMartin Lammon's long-awaited second collection, The Long Road Home, offers poems that tell stories about a son's affection for his mother and father, and a husband's abiding love. His poems tell stories about back roads that crisscross Ohio's heartland, the Deep South, and beyond...
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Sleep in PeaceThis charming book-length poem is the perfect bedtime story. It assures the child trying to put off the inevitable that no matter where or how they live, everybody goes to bed sooner or later. Children learn that, just like them, kids around the world...
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The Dragons Are Singing TonightFrom beloved children's poet Jack Prelutsky and acclaimed illustrator Peter Sis comes a fierce, fanciful series of poems all about dragons: dragons fierce and dragons friendly; dragons' lairs and dragons' eggs; even a menacing dragon living inside a computer--all spring to life in these...
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Animal ExperimentsAnja Konig's is a voice we need now more than ever. In an era of tribalism, it's rare to encounter one so committed to identifying the root of things as they really are, and then laying those findings bare with benign frankness. While the...
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The Song Weigher: Complete Poems of Egill SkallagrímssonEgill Skallagr msson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's saga details his life-story as well as...
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Phone Bells Keep Ringing for MePoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong. This volume selects poems of many decades by one of the most startling, distinctive, and influential feminist voices in contemporary Korean poetry. Against the limits society would erect around her,...
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Art in TimeHistorically, much landscape art has reinforced binaries such as inside/outside, subject/object, and culture/nature, thus reducing a complex network to an ornament that reinforces a sense of human power over nature, imposes specific cultural values, and/or claims or exercises control. And yet there are also...
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Disappearing OxMacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde and painter Max Gimblett collaborate to create a modern American version of the twelfth-century Chinese "Oxherding Series." As Lewis Hyde writes, "There are ten drawings, the first of which shows a young herder who has lost the ox he is...
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Somebody Give This Heart a PenIn a powerful debut, rising star Sophia Thakur brings her spoken word performance to the page. Be with yourself for a moment.Be yourself for a moment.Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment. From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of...
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Girl Without a ShirtAuthor: Christine JonesPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublished: 01/17/2020Pages: 68Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16dISBN: 9781646621170About the AuthorJones, Christine: - Christine Jones is founder/editor-in-chief of Poems2go, an international public poetry project, and an associate editor of Lily Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared...
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Music for the Dead and Resurrected: PoemsWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York Times In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history. With shocking, unforgettable...
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I didn't know how to say this, so i wrote it downThis is a collection of poems by Zeinab Jawad Fakih about the good, the bad and everything in between. It's about toxicity, survival, bad habits, love and loss. "I Didn't Know How to Say This" takes readers through an emotional journey full of highs...
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Beyond the Drift: New & Selected PoemsSpringing from ordinary events, or a picture, or an aspect of the priestly life, David Scott's beautifully restrained poems work up the detail into a moment of significance. They are rooted in an English culture which is found not only in locality, but also...
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Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry LecturesIn this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by...
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In Her Words: A Poetry Journal for and by WomenCelebrate your voice, claim your power-with this women's poetry journal.The journey of poetry writing begins with a single line. Within these pages is an inspiring way to get started. In Her Words is a poetry journal for women who want to express themselves, reinforce...
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The Hidden Third"A first phrase is always a first phrase: it begins. And in these poetic theorems, each theorem is always a first phrase. And the beginning, any beginning, always has additional force: it's always at the inception of a process where the greatest quantity of...
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Bones2020 Raymond Souster Award Longlist * 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the...
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Collected Poems: 1946-2016Poetry. Art. Preface by Arlo Haskell. Introduction by Daniel Levin Becker. Harry Mathews (1930-2017) was among the most inventive and unorthodox writers of his generation. His novels earned comparisons to Vladimir Nabokov and Thomas Pynchon and bear the mark of one who learned never...
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Untied: The Poetry Of How Knots Become StringsThe knots in our stomachs can still be untangled. The binds we tether our hands together with can still be undone. There is still time for us to untangle rope we tied around our necks. This is the poetry of for those trying to...
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