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The Best of Robert ServiceThis new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam...
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Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign CountryRanging from love song to train song to jump rope rhyme, the poems of Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country are voiced by perpetual outsiders searching for a sense of place from small Southern towns to the tunnels and tracks of the...
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In the Light of a Child: A Journey Through the 52 Weeks of the Year in Both Hemispheres for Children"From heaven above comes sunlight streaming;Shining, blistening, and gleaming.My silver crescent-cup is filled, (Be careful that it is not spilled), Such joy weaves round me everywhereIn water and earth and in light-filled air.A wave of joy in me as wellSprings from my heart, a...
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The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual WritingsHow did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world's greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time. Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place...
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Louder Than Hearts: PoemsA contemporary woman makes complex negotiations with history and culture in a voice equally strong, discerning, God-soaked, and edgycreating music out of personal longing and cultural tragedy. Hashem Beck's poems offer a lens through which to see life in the Middle East. They are...
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The Collected Poems of Bertolt BrechtWidely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, "that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath." Hugely prolific, Brecht also wrote more...
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Rebel Poet (Continuing the Oral Tradition): More Stories from a 21st Century IndianThis eagerly anticipated follow-up to the breakout memoir How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century delves more deeply into the themes of family, community, grief, and the struggle to make a place in the world when your very identity is considered suspect....
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The Bees: PoemsA winner of the Costa Book Award, beautiful and moving poetry for the real world (The Guardian) The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture....
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New Poems: A Revised Bilingual EditionThe formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he...
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Revolt Against the SunThe Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. Over the course of a four-decade career, her contributions to both the theory and the practice of free verse (or tafʿilah) poetry confirmed her position as a...
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One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of RyokanThe hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his...
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The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New TestamentHundreds of thousands have already thrilled to this extraordinary retelling of a life unmatched in human history. Through the story of the Singer, his Song and his battles with the World Hater, Calvin Miller has created a work full of life. Now you can...
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Halloween ForestCat bones, rat bones, and bat bones illustrate this spooky Halloween adventure, written by newbery-Honor-winning author Marion Dane Bauer. If you take your trick-or-treat sack and venture into the dark woods on Halloween night, you'll find cat bones, rat bones, and bat bones--and all...
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The Widening Spell of the Leaves"Establishes Levis indisputably and once and for all as one of the younger masters." --North American Review "In this book, Levis descends through memory and history with bravery and authority. He seems to be writing the poems we all need to read right now."...
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Valuing: PoemsIn his second collection, Christopher Kondrich navigates the link between what we see as our inner value and the external world that supplies it. Valuing's deeply personal poems explore faith, love, ethics, and mortality from a variety of angles and through a variety of...
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FallA single word holds a narrative of the human condition.This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its formal structure the 72 definitions for the word "fall." These lovely, accessible poems span a narrative drama--from the creation of the world and the...
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Anarchy: New York City-January 1988A major American thinker of the 20th century muses on anarchism.Winner of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Best Scholarly Typography (2002)"That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it,...
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Leaving Tulsa: Volume 75In her first magical collection of poetry, Jennifer Elise Foerster weaves together a mythic and geographic exploration of a woman's coming of age in a dislocated time. Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the...
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Full ForegroundPoet Roberto Tejada uses lyrical poems to explore and give a voice to the troubles of global citizenship, US-Mexico relations, Latino identity, and the political emotion of queer sexualities. His collection provides a holistic ground-level view of pivotal world events from the mid 1990s...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical EditionEdward FitzGerald's translation of the Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m, perhaps the most frequently read Victorian poem and certainly one of the most popular poems in the English language, poses formidable challenges to an editor. FitzGerald compulsively revised his work, alternately swayed...
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