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Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Poems about Creatures That HideFind me if you can. . . for if you don't, I'll be here tomorrow . . . you won't. Animals and insects use camouflage to hide from hunters or to ambush prey. Stealth is a very useful technique when it comes to survival....
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Alphabet TrucksPerfect for the lover of all things that go, ALPHABET TRUCKS provides a fun and accessible way for the littlest of readers to learn their trucks and their ABCs. Each letter of the alphabet is accounted for in this introductory concept book for young...
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Conversations with Audre LordeAudre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of...
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Skywriting: Poems to FlyEver since people have walked, they have dreamed of flying. Prepare to soar in this poetic celebration of dizzying heights and human innovation.Author: J. Patrick LewisPublisher: Creative EditionsPublished: 09/01/2010Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 11.00h x 7.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781568462035Audience: Ages 4-8Award: Independent Publisher Book...
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Social PoeticsSocial Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people's history of the poetry workshop from the founding director...
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Body ClockLauded by Michael Ondaatje as an "unforgettable" writer and praised by The Washington Post for her ability to capture "the subtlest shades of the emotional palette," Eleni Sikelianos now charts the curvature of growth and time, encompassing the bewilderment and delight of a new...
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The Book of MedicinesNational Book Critic's Circle Award finalist, 1994. Colorado Book Award winner....elemental and direct with a tremendous evocative force of imagery...--Publisher's WeeklyAuthor: Linda HoganPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.09w x 0.23dISBN: 9781566890106Review Citation(s): Booklist 06/01/1993 pg. 1773Publishers Weekly 05/03/1993Library...
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4:56: PoemsThese poems by Carlos Fuentes Lemus (1973-1999), son of the author of Terra Nostra and Christopher Unborn, are an introduction to the unique voice of a sensitive but unsentimental young poet who became aware of his mortality at a very early age. A hemophiliac...
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Modern Poetry of PakistanThe first anthology of its kind to appear in English, Modern Poetry of Pakistan brings together not one but many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan, with 142 poems translated from seven major languages, six of them regional (Baluchi, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Pashto, Seraiki, and Sindhi)...
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When Love Was Reels: PoetryThis poetry collection tells the story of a young boy and his fascination with films that feature Latino icons.Author: Jose B. Publisher: Arte Publico PressPublished: 09/30/2017Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30dISBN: 9781558858503This title is only available via back order
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El Desierto Es Mi Madre / Desert Is My MotherRecipient of a 1995 Skipping Stones Award.Included in the Houston Area Independent School Library Network (HAISLN) Recommended Reading List for 1999.Author: Pat MoraPublisher: Pinata BooksPublished: 11/01/1994Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.70h x 11.20w x 0.30dISBN: 9781558851214Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 4-8Review Citation(s): Booklist 01/15/1995 pg. 932Publishers...
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Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New PoemsAfter this all-but-unknown poet was called an "American master" in a long, gorgeous review in The New York Times, Tom Hennen was finally discovered, and his book became a poetry best-seller"It's hard to believe that this American master--and I don't use those words lightly--has...
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ShallcrossThrough more than a dozen collections, C.D. Wright pushed the bounds of imagination as she explored desire, loss and physical sensation. Her posthumously published book, ShallCross features seven poem sequences that show her tremendous range in style and approach. As she considers, among other...
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Happy Life"David Budbill is a no-nonsense free-range sage who celebrates tomatoes in September, the whistle of a woodcock and sweet black tea and ancient Chinese poems." --New York TimesBudbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort.--Wendell Berry Budbill] can...
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Saving DaylightNamed to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association."Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."--The Times (London)"This is Harrison's] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date."--BooklistJim Harrison--one of America's most...
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Cooling Time: An American Poetry VigilC. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of...
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The Lichtenberg FiguresThe Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. "Lichtenberg figures" are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck...
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Resurrection Update: Collected Poems, 1975-1997The complete works of an extraordinary poet who consistently refines the notion of what constitutes an American sound.Author: James GalvinPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 04/01/1997Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.85dISBN: 9781556591228Review Citation(s): Booklist 04/01/1997 pg. 1277Library Journal 02/01/1997 pg. 84About the...
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Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul WhipA New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995-2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past -- its ideas, its personages, its syntax...
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Disintegrate/DissociateIn her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of grief, trauma, displacement, and identity. Weaving together a past...
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