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A Coast of Trees: PoemsOf this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The book is an achievement fully comparable to his Uplands and Briefings. Among the poems likely...
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In a Time of Violence: PoemsThis, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed the meeting place between womanhood and history.Author: Eavan BolandPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 05/01/1995Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.51w x 0.31dISBN: 9780393312980About the AuthorBoland, Eavan: - Eavan Boland (1944--2020) was...
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The Selected PoemsTo the visions of clarity and terror in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work. Among...
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Haiku in English: The First Hundred YearsHaiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking...
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What Have You Lost?What have you lost? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?Each NightImages, dream news, fragments, flashthen fade.These darkened walls.Here, I say.Climb intothis story.Be remembered Jay Bremyer 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field...
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To Repel Ghosts: The RemixRevamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock...
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The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning provocative poetry collection that crossed the line between art and life.I have sat and listened to too manywords of the collaborating muse, and plotted perhaps too freely with my life, not...
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FidelityJust before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont,...
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Star Dust: PoemsIn 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with Star Dust, finally...
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Nativity Poems: Bilingual EditionChristmas poems by the Nobel Laureate To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the steam out of the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the teamof Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar.He was but a dot, and a dot was the...
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The Blue Estuaries: Poems: 1923-1968Honored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of...
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Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by HeartWhen you learn a poem by heart, it becomes a part of you. You know it in your mind, in your mouth, in your ears, in your whole body. And best of all, you know it forever. From the creators of the bestselling You...
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Music's Spell: Poems about Music and MusiciansMusic may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop...
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The Best of James Whitcomb RileyThe best-loved poems by the "Hoosier Poet" are here collected to read and cherish time and time again. Included are some of Riley's most durable and endearing works--poems about nature, home, and country as well as the dialect poems for which Riley is famous.Author:...
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Chicago PoemsNow considered possibly Illinois' greatest poet, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) saw himself as a bard of the working class. Chicago Poems brought him to national attention and is one of the few Chicago classics that can also be termed an American classic. It includes such...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short IntroductionNot for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Black Beauty: Level 4: 1400-Word VocabularyThis award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Anne of Green Gables: Level 2: 700-Word VocabularyThis award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...
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Defiance of the Rose: Selected Poems by Perveen Shakir - Translated from Urdu by Naima RashidBoth for the reader who knows Perveen Shakir as well as the one who does not, the poems in this volume offer a glimpse into the full breadth of her work. Between the chilling piece that opens the collection, and the troubling finale, many...
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Open Closed Open: PoemsIn poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai's...
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