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dandelionIn beautifully lyrical language, Heather Swan evokes both the broken human world of self-inflicted damage (pesticides, herbicides, "the noise of industry and ego") and the healing natural world of replenishment and repair (rock, bird, water, animal, plant, air). If, for Swan, the human body...
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Collected Poems"One of the greatest American poets of her time."--New York TimesCollected Poems features Edna St. Vincent Millay's incisive and impassioned poetry and sonnets, as well as the poet's last volume, Mine the Harvest, compiled and published in 1956 by her sister Norma Millay. Alongside...
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But GOD: Hope that Never FailsBut God is a collection of poetry fashioned to engage the minds, hearts, and spirits of people of all ages, especially young adults and older. With over a hundred selections, readers will find themselves amongst the joys, disappointments, and struggles sometimes experienced on our...
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Break the Glass"[Valentine's] minimalist, elided style is like the quiet concentration of a bank robber trying to crack a safe." --Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Jean ValentinePublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 06/05/2012Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 7.55h x 5.54w x 0.34dISBN: 9781556593949About the AuthorJean Valentine: Jean Valentine was the State...
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Blue PasturesBlue Pastures collects fifteen prose works from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver."This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft."--Library JournalWith consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself...
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Blood Sugar CantoAuthor: Ire'ne Lara SilvaPublisher: Saddle Road PressPublished: 01/15/2016Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24dISBN: 9780991395286
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Birthday LettersFormerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage...
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Barely Amazing: Selected PoemsBarely Amazing: Selected Poems is an anthology of some of Shane's most requested poems on tour. This collection spans decades and includes works from many of his books. In this collection, Shane skillfully takes the readers on a trek through deserts of loneliness, labyrinths...
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At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World PoetsNew poems from 100 of the world's brightest contemporary poets, all about a common subject: the Louvre--exploring the many pleasures, provocations, and surprises that the museum and its collection inspire. Of the world's great museums, the Louvre is the most encompassing, a sumptuous collection...
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A Study Guide for the New Edexcel IGCSE Anthology Non-Fiction for the English Language Exam: A Line-by-Line Analysis of the Non-Fiction Prose ExtractsA guide to mastering the new Edexcel IGCSE Anthology Non-fiction prose extracts, for first examination in 2017, for the English Language exam. This book has a line by line analysis of all the extracts, with a detailed explanation of all the literary techniques. It...
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A Responsibility to AweRebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her...
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Antonia's Poetic HeartAntonia's Poetic Heart is a chapbook of heartfelt poems that are among the authors's favorite. This book is part of a commitment to herself to keep writing and publishing without pressure of deadlines. There is no theme to the whole book. She believes small...
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Anishinaabe Songs for a New MillenniumPoem-songs summon the voices of Anishinaabe ancestors and sing to future generations The ancestors that walk with us, sing us our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them audible to people today. In Anishinaabe Songs for a...
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All the Sonnets of ShakespeareHow can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved,...
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After Prayer: New Sonnets and Other PoemsThis major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert's exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each...
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America AnthologyA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets...
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Actual AirReleased in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker and GQ), David Berman's first (and only) book of poetry was and is a...
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A Cruelty Special to Our Species: PoemsA piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talentIn her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called "comfort women,"...
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A Burst of Light and Other Essays"Lorde's words -- on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice -- burn with relevance 25 years after her death." -- O, The Oprah Magazine Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build...
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33 Sonnets of the Resistance & Other PoemsAn extraordinary collection of sonnets composed while the poet was in solitary confinement and deprived of writing materials in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942, in a new prize-winning translation. Introduction by Alistair Elliotwith an original introduction byLouis AragonAuthor: Jean CassouPublisher:...
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