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How to ReadIn his debut collection How to Read, Thomas Richardson argues that the human journey is a lifelong exercise in understanding our world. This elusive goal-further complicated by the poet's Southern origins-takes shape through juxtapositions of irreverence with serious theological exploration, and love with the...
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A House of Many RoomsA House of Many Rooms is a glittering memory palace filled with treasures that capture in splendid poetic words and images, "emotion recollected in tranquility". Some of the rooms echo the New England pastoral tone of Robert Frost while others contain the murmurs of...
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Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak OutThis anthology conveys the enormity of Fukushima, the first nuclear disaster of the 21st Century, on both the environmental and human scale. Contributions by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Helen Caldicott, Fairewinds Energy Education founder Maggie Gundersen, and professor emerita Dr. Norma Field discuss...
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Windrush SongsThese poems gives voice to the people who came on the first ships from the Caribbean, whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages which had brought ancestors from Africa to the slave plantations. James Berry - from Jamaica - was one of...
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Hit Points Red: An anthology of video game poetryVideo games and poetry are unlikely bedfellows, if video games are one of the most popular imaginative forms in contemporary culture, then poetry real poetry as apposed to the kind you find by the sad flowers in service stations] could be one of the...
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To Root, to Toot, to Parachute, 20th Anniversary Edition: What Is a Verb?To root, to toot, to parachute, / To play the flutophone or flute, / To dare, defend, descend, disturb--/If it's an action, it's a verb In this 20th anniversary edition of To Root, to Toot, to Parachute, author Brian Cleary and illustrator Jenya Prosmitsky...
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Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know, 20th Anniversary Edition: What Is a Synonym?Because there are synonyms, you get to choose/from a whole list of possible words you can use./ They're words that are practically, nearly the same, /like, gentle, subdued, or incredibly tame. In this 20th anniversary edition of Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know, author...
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I and You and Don't Forget Who, 20th Anniversary Edition: What Is a Pronoun?Just like a substitute teaches your class, /when she's asked to fill in for your teacher, /a pronoun steps in as a sub for a noun, / becoming the star of the feature. In this 20th anniversary edition of I and You and Don't...
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ColorColor (1925) is a collection of poems by Countee Cullen. Published the same year Cullen entered Harvard to pursue a masters in English, Color was a brilliant debut by a poet who had already gained a reputation as a leading young artist of the...
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Many Colors Of Mother GooseThe illustrated rhymes in this collection capture the range and fun of childhood. Yet, they are presented in a contemporary setting where children can see themselves reflected in a diverse, colorful and multi-faceted world. From Little Boy Lou to Ole King Cole, from Zack...
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As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth: And Other PoemsA hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou. These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. Mabanckou's poetry is frank and...
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Uncertain AcrobatsThese poems address the universal experiences of death and loss, putting the complicated feelings of grief into words. Uncertain Acrobats evokes the feeling of unraveling. The central concern of this narrative is the death of a parent and the fumbling for balance a dying...
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ImperfectaImperfecta is a bilingual book composed of poems, dialogues, and meditations exploring the intersectionality of our experiences as women, daughters, friends, Latinas, and immigrants. This book is a tribute to women and families impacted by femicides and gender violence. We are perfectly imperfect.Author: Alejandra...
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That Time on the MountainMy family has been a great influence on my reading & writing my entire life. Born in a small town in Northern Minnesota during the Great Depression, my 9 brothers & sisters & I grew up in a one-room house. Mom read to Dad...
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The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Trojan War: Tragedy and AftermathThe Iliad dealing with the final stages of the Trojan War and The Odyssey with return and aftermath were central to the Classical Greeks' self identity and world view. Epic poems attributed to Homer, they underpinned ideas about heroism, masculinity and identity; about glory,...
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Lecciones de NataciónNo necesito escuchar "te amo" todos los d as o despertar a tu lado cada ma ana. Dime solamente que ves mi rostro cuando contemplas el amanecer, entonces lo sabr . Lecciones de nataci n explora los inicios euf ricos del amor joven, la...
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Guidance from the God of SeahorsesGuidance from the God of Seahorses is a collection of prose poems about Earth's ongoing sixth mass extinction. The poems are written as advice columns from a series of Gods, each of whom speaks as the creator of a particular species. Through profiling fifty...
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The Atlas of Lost BeliefsCommenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website, the poet and editor Arundhathi Subramaniam observes: "His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote's metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous, combining an artisanal virtuosity with passion,...
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This is Not About Love: PoemsKrystal A. Smith's bold new work explores the depths of our most revered human emotion: love. This is Not About Love: Poems explores the complexities of our capacity or inability to love via memory, experience, and imagination. Smith reminds us that love is not...
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PaxPax is a book of peace, a book of love poems to the world. The poems within these pages ask us to wake to our own remarkable lives and our undeniable connections, to look with a steady eye at the demands of love. Whether...
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