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The List Poem: A Guide to Teaching & Writing Catalog VerseThe list or catalog poem is one of the simplest ways for beginners to approach the writing of free verse. In order to help teachers use this form as a tool in the classroom, Fagin's seminal guide defines list poetry, traces its lineage to...
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ThieveThieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems--subtitled "Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic"--was written in direct response to the poet's own transition from rural poverty to coastal liberal comfort, as...
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Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language New and SelectedTaught By Women, Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected by Haki R. Madhubuti, marks a return to his roots. It is his first single-authored book of poetry in over nine years. In it, he pays homage to the many women who have influenced...
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According to Sand: PoemsAuthor: Thorpe MoeckelPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 66Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.10w x 0.26dISBN: 9780881468571
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Cape Verdean Blues"These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level." --Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 The...
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Snake Poems: An Aztec InvocationFor beloved writer and mentor Francisco X. Alarc n, the collection Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation was a poetic quest to reclaim a birthright. Originally published in 1992, the book propelled Alarc n to the forefront of contemporary Chicano letters. Alarc n was a...
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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001"A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov,...
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The Ghosts of BirdsThe Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the...
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The Glacier's WakeIn her debut poetry collection The Glacier's Wake, Katy Didden attends to the large-scale tectonics of the natural world as she considers the sources and aftershocks of mortality, longing, and loss. A number of the poems in the collection are monologues in recurring voices--specifically...
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Figure StudiesPoet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called "All Girls School," offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively "school" -- or refuse...
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Why I Wake Early: New PoemsMary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting...
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Mirabai: Ecstatic PoemsMirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and...
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A Pond Full of InkThis delightful collection of poems offers children and the young at heart a refreshing, inventive look at the world from the well-known Dutch author, Annie Schmidt. The rollicking poems tell the stories of such intriguing characters as three elderly otters who long to go...
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A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's: The Devine ComedyThe Divine Comedy has been a cornerstone of Western literature for the better part of a millennium. In this work, Joseph Gallagher brings the power and prestige of this medieval classic to a new generation of readers--taking them on a guided tour through heaven,...
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In the Sea"A magnificent merger of words and images." -- Booklist (starred review) A New York Times best-selling author and a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator explore life in the ocean. In striking woodcut illustrations, diverse creatures glide through blue and green waters, while succinct, witty poetry examines...
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A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete PoemsThese aren't poems to read aloud, but to look at and laugh at together, with young children and especially older readers, who will enjoy the surprise of what words look like and what can be done with them. -- Booklist (starred review) Concrete poems...
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Big Sky: Poems by Anam ThubtenIn his poetry, Anam Thubten explores the "magical impermanence" that is everyday life. There is a tradition in Tibetan Buddhism of Doha or Songs of Realization that express nonconceptual themes like the great emptiness, the unconditioned, boundless love, ecstatic devotion. People sang them to...
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William BlakeThis brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the...
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Is a Camel a Mammal?: All about MammalsDr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat introduces Sally and Dick to a variety of mammals, from the fruit-eating bat to the smart chimpanzee.Author: Tish RabePublisher: Random House Books for Young ReadersPublished: 10/13/1998Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.33h x 6.83w x 0.34dISBN: 9780679873020Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated...
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Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed EditionAbraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855,...
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