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Black SundayBlack Sunday transports readers into the world of the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma where desperation, darkness, and despair reign, though hope lingers, too. The series of sonnets follows four characters through their experiences during one of the most trying times in our nation's history....
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What Is Otherwise Infinite: PoemsWritten in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone's What Is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. "I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols and tongues,"...
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BloodmercySelected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Bloodmercy is a must-read debut that reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters."Violence is a failure of communication" opens this book as an omen and foregrounds a family...
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Fablemaker: Poems"A blazing display of bravura and bravado . . . each of [Tu's] utterances [is] a lesson in runic risk." -ko ko thett, poet and translatorSelected by Ng Yi-Sheng as the winner of the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize.Born out of a myriad...
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Ledger of Tiny Losses: poemsWinner of the 2025 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition, Ledger of Tiny Losses is a collection of poems that speak to the universal human desire for constancy and stability amid the realities of our temporal existence, our lives rooted in time and personal vulnerability. As...
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Footprints in the GardenLife and breath and beauty are found in the simplest of things. "Footprints in the Garden" speaks to the very heart of embracing a life connected to nature and rooted in love. Through quiet reflections and tender observations, this collection of poetry invites readers...
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In All Things: An ABC devotional for children on honoring God in all that we say, do, and think.In All Things is a unique A-to-Z devotional designed to help children and adults alike explore their emotions through a biblical lens. From Angry to Zealous, each letter of the alphabet highlights a different emotion-some that need to be surrendered, others that should be...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionIn 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture...
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Words Under the Words: Selected PoemsWords Under the Words gathers into a single volume the finest poems by one of the most exciting, accessible poets in America today. This long-awaited collection draws from Naomi Shihab Nye's three critically acclaimed books: Different Ways to Pray, Yellow Glove, and National Poetry...
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In Search of Small GodsNamed a "Top Ten Bestseller" by the Poetry Foundation and "highly recommended" in Library Journal's starred review. Now in paperback.Author: Jim HarrisonPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 08/17/2010Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781556593192About the AuthorJim Harrison: Jim Harrison, one of America's...
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It's Christmas!: A Christmas Holiday Book for KidsIt's Christmas! Merry Christmas! Here are twelve funny, silly, sweet, and very merry poems to celebrate the season.Author: Jack PrelutskyPublisher: Greenwillow BooksPublished: 09/25/2012Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9780060537081Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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Women in Praise of the Sacred"Hirshfield's current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."-- Library Journal"Destined to become a classic. . . . An anthology of women's spirituality on this scale...
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Revolting RhymesMaster storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darkly comic twists to six favorite tales in this irreverent and hilarious collection! Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Complete...
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The Illuminated RumiRise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings... In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams...
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens: The Corrected EditionAn essential book for all readers of poetry, and the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called "the best and most representative American poet." Originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens's seventy-fifth birthday, the book was rushed into print for the occasion...
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The Essential W.S. MerwinThe Essential W.S. Merwin traces a poetic legacy that changed the landscape of American letters: seven decades of audacity, rigor, and candor distilled into one definitive volume curated to represent the very best works from a vast oeuvre, from his 1952 debut, A Mask...
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For This and Other CrueltiesThe shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak's For This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of maternal paradoxes in all their impossible double binds, monstrous...
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Map: Collected and Last Poems"Both plain-spoken and luminous . . . Szymborska's is the best of the Western mind--free, restless, questioning." -- New York Times Book Review A New York Times Editors' ChoiceOne of Europe's greatest poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner...
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BeastPoetry Book Society RecommendationMythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit's Beast, a collection that ranges from the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian tiger forests, the Amazon rainforest, to her home by Bodmin...
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PeasantPeasant takes its title from a poem by Nikki Giovanni: "peasant food . . . must be mixed with your hands. Grandmother taught us that." These poems aspire to the richness of peasant food (and assert that there is a culture in poor rural...
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