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Incidental Pollen: PoemsRUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZEIncidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar-like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry. The hive serves as a thematic thread in this collection that explores the space...
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IEP Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter Volume 80As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At the same time, activists are raising their poetic voices against decades of colonialism, environmental destruction, and social injustice.Marshallese poet and activist...
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Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat [With CD (Audio)]Where words move, voices rise, and poetry becomes power--this is the beat of learning for a new generation.Hip Hop Speaks to Children, edited by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, is a vibrant celebration of rhythm, rhyme, and cultural roots. Blending the power of hip hop...
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by EuripidesNow in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was...
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Goodnight, Starry Night: Bedtime Poems Inspired by Works of ArtWritten by award-winning performance poet Joseph Coelho, Goodnight, Starry Night is a collection of fourteen poems that takes readers on a gentle journey into dreamland. Each poem is inspired by a calming work of art, reproduced in the book alongside the heartwarming illustrations of...
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Film for HerWith her pen and her camera lens, popular writer, poet, and YouTube artist Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story,...
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Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe's Collected Works - Updated EditionOne of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural...
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Exit Opera: PoemsSet in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from an ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, Exit Opera explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal...
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Enough Rope: A Book of Light VerseNow available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about relations between men and women. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder...
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Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet...
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diary of a romantica, vol. II special edition: lovers rememberedWe present the debut poetry book from the viral social media phenom, Celia (ceis) Martínez AKA diaryofaromantica (on Instagram) and powerhouseofthecel (on TikTok). From the head and heart of the hopeful romantica Yale alumna, "diary of a romantica, vol. II" brings to life part...
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Dearly: New PoemsA new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her...
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Close EscapesNavigating a sightless world with intelligence and dark humor, Close Escapes searches for an answer to our earthly existence by way of visions only the blind can see. "Never 'in' time," Stephen Kuusisto's third poetry collection, Close Escapes, moves through a river of memory....
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Chronicle of DriftingChronicle of Drifting enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricismYuki Tanaka's stunning debut, Chronicle of Drifting, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanaka's restless imagination roams among places and personae--a village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a flâneur...
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Brutal HopeBrutal Hope is a collection of poems that explore the delicate dance between grief and joy. Sarah Ashton invites readers to embark on a profoundly personal journey of living with loss. Each piece captures the raw emotions of wrestling with faith, experiencing the heartbreak...
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: PoemsPoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire "The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts."--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "Warsan Shire is our...
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.Author: Lucille CliftonPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70dISBN: 9781880238882Award: National Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1316Publishers Weekly 04/17/2000 pg. 71Library Journal 04/15/2000 pg....
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Blade by BladeBlade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness.Danusha Laméris's third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for...
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Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of YouA powerful, affirming picture book that uplifts, educates, and inspires Black boys to see themselves as heroes of their own story.They are inventors, leaders, athletes, scholars, artists. They are sons, dreamers, and doers. Black Boy, Black Boy is a lyrical celebration of possibility and...
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Between the Joints & the MarrowBetween the Joints & the Marrow is an imaginative guided tour of the Bible. Book by book, moments are projected onto the wall like scenes from Bunyan's House of the Interpreter. Figures are lifted from the pages of Scripture and set down again between...
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