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Autobiography of Death*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before...
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BeowulfComposed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in...
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ParadisoMary Jo Bang's translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante's masterpiece, begun with Inferno and continued with Purgatorio. In Paradiso, Dante has been purified by his climb up the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory, and now, led by the luminous Beatrice,...
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The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer's timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of honor, heroism, and the consequences of unchecked pride....
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The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded EditionCavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes...
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A Golden Treasury of Irish VerseDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...
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Very Collected PoemsOver sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry. Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett's Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist's oeuvre--newly updated since the sold-out first...
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I Climb the Mesas: Selected Poems of Paula Gunn AllenAn overdue retrospective of a pathbreaking feminist Native American poet, with a foreword from activist and educator Lee Francis IV I Climb the Mesas: Collected Poems of Paula Gunn Allen span the landscapes of the Southwest, excavate popular misunderstandings of Native women through history,...
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Nature's ArchitectsBirds build nests. Beavers build lodges. Animals' homes are all different, but they're all built to protect young. Amber Hendricks's short, expressive text lines with repeated action words, together with Gavin Scott's cozy illustrations, make this poem perfect for sharing with babies and toddlers...
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Around the YearA Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Books Recommendation 2023. A charming collection of rhymes and verses for every month of the year from world-renowned Swedish author--illustrator Elsa Beskow in a collectable new edition of the classic picture book. From icy February to the green...
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River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised (Revised)David Whyte's body of work reflects the depth and breadth of a maturing artist, taking its readers on a passage through time and place, allowing us to bear witness to the constellation of difficulties, triumphs, adventures, losses, hopes and revelations that have shaped one...
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Kingdom AnimaliaThis highly anticipated second collection is the winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.Author: Aracelis GirmayPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 09/20/2011Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781934414620Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - FinalistAward: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers...
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No Matter How Dark the Stain: Poems and Inspiration for the Woman in PainAward-winning Canadian poet releases her first full-length book of poetry-inspirational poems for women about self-worth, trauma resilience, and healing. Healing can happen in an instant. Opening this book of poetry for women is like opening your awareness. It's the first step in the direction...
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Poems of the Inner Me from GodThese poems that I have written were from when Satan had me down and I didn't go to God for help. But I praise God for these trials in my life. Because they let me know that the enemy was mighty. But my God...
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Outside the JoyOutside the Joy is filled with poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal loss and environmental collapse. Tracing losses both interpersonal and universal - from a mother's failing heart to environmental and economic decline ravaging ancestral homelands...
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Metates and Other PoemsMetates is a book of poetic landscapes from Virginia and Florida westward to west Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and Hawaii. Urban settings similarly have their place, with examples from Paris and New Orleans. More broadly, the book is about what is given to us in...
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A Beauty in the BreakdownAuthor: Noreen Raja-HalpernPublisher: Bookleaf PublishingPublished: 11/06/2025Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19dISBN: 9798898655082About the AuthorRaja-Halpern, Noreen: - Noreen Raja-Halpern is a mother of three young children, two of whom are diagnosed with PANS/PANDAS. As both a licensed clinical social worker and...
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BucolicsUntitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all. that bare branch...
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The Bounty: PoemsThe Bounty was the first book of poems Derek Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the...
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Eric Carle's Animals AnimalsFrom leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse sources as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Bible verses,...
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