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Classic Poetry: Candlewick Illustrated ClassicFew anthologies for this age group include such a fine selection of works, introduce the poets so vividly, or provide such a rich collection of haunting illustrations. -- BooklistPoetry provides the best introduction to the marvels of the English language. This volume, collected by...
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Homesick Angels & Second-hand Roses: Reflections of a Dead Society PoetHomesick Angels & Second-hand Roses is the latest poetry collection from JR Hataway (Dead Society Poet). Pain, heartbreak, and regret might seem to rule the day but in the end it's love that keeps poetry's fire burning. Author: Jr. HatawayPublisher: Jr HatawayPublished: 09/20/2022Pages: 112Binding...
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The Selected Poems of Nikki GiovanniWhen Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Finally, here is the first compilation of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is the testimony...
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The Collected Poems of Amy ClampittWhen Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent memory. "A dance of language," said May Swenson. "A genius...
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Gone and the Going AwayWelcome to "Fog Town Holler," Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning's glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memories -- not unlike E. A. Robinson's Tilbury Town or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County -- Manning...
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Poems and Selected LettersVeronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. As...
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The Penguin Book of First World War PoetryUnrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians...
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New and Collected PoemsThis volume represents virtually all of Wilbur's published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.Author: Richard WilburPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 09/18/1989Pages: 416Binding Type:...
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The AeneidThis volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry's life: a complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He...
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The OdysseyThis prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding version of Homer's famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus from the siege of Troy to his...
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Omer/Teshuvah: Poetic Meditations for Counting the Omer or Turning Toward a New YearThis is the second edition of Shifrah Tobacman's unique and inspirational poetic meditations for counting the Omer or turning toward a new year. These poems will open your heart and spirit ABOUT OMER/TESHUVAH "This book invites us to breathe the air and taste the...
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Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American PoetryThis is not just another poetry anthology. It is a gathering of poems that demonstrate what happens when writers in a marginalized community collectively turn from dedicating their writing to political, social, and economic struggles, and instead devote themselves to the art of their...
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Shakespeare's Metrical ArtThis is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness...
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The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary EditionThis deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.Author: VirgilPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 09/03/2007Pages:...
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Collected Poems of Donald JusticeThis celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht...
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Women Poets of the English Civil WarThis anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom...
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It's HalloweenThirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. "Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level."--Kirkus Reviews.Author: Jack PrelutskyPublisher: Greenwillow BooksPublished: 09/20/1996Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.30h x 6.30w x 0.20dISBN: 9780688147334Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated...
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Dear Terror, Dear SplendorThese poems trace the speaker's emotional biography from a wild and impoverished rural childhood through tender and terrifying adulthood. Rooted in the heart and the messy organs of our mortality, Melissa Crowe's work is epistolary in tone but gritty in texture. She reckons with...
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Selected PoemsThese poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one...
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The Complete Poems of MichelangeloThere is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting. John Frederick Nims has brought...
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