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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014A collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her work opens readers...
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Planisphere"Ashbery is a national treasure."--New York Times Book Review The poetry of John Ashbery has been awarded virtually every conceivable literary prize including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Planisphere is a new collection...
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The Wonder BookFrom the beloved New York Times bestselling author of I Wish You More, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, "a joyous, totally original potpourri of stories, poems, lists, palindromes, visual jokes, and random observations about the universal delights and conundrums of childhood."*Reminiscent of classics like Falling Up...
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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook [With CD]From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit.Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms--words or phrases...
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No Other Book: Selected EssaysRandall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a...
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The Lives of the Heart: PoemsA new volume of poems by the award-winning author of October Palace.Author: Jane HirshfieldPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 08/02/1997Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9780060951696Review Citation(s): Booklist 09/01/1997 pg. 53Library Journal 10/01/1997 pg. 86About the AuthorHirshfield, Jane: - The author of five...
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Atlantis: Poems byThe poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist.Author: Mark DotyPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 09/01/1995Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.17h x 6.10w x...
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Road Atlas: Prose and Other PoemsFrom Brazil to Manitoba, Las Vegas to Miami Beach, 1999 MacArthur Fellow Campbell McGrath charts a poetics of place and everyday experience. Road Atlas is personal, provocative and accessible -- the finest work yet from "the most Swiftian poet of his generation" (David Biespiel,...
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SwarmT S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery -- and Jorie Graham. The New Yorker places Ms. Graham in this distinguished line of poets, heralding the Pulitzer Prize winner as a profound voice in American poetry. Now, in her eighth collection, she further enhances her...
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Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997Allen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of...
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Mornings Like This: Found Poems"Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed. Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from sources as diverse as a The American Boys Handy Book (1882) and...
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White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen VendlerAuthor: Allen GinsbergPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 11/11/1987Pages: 89Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Runny Babbit CD: A Billy SookFrom the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry...
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Overlord: PoemsWhat does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How -- in the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual oversimplification and reactive fear -- does one...
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Why War Is Never a Good IdeaThough War is OldIt has notBecome wise.Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem.Stefano Vitale's compelling paintings illustrate this unflinching look at war's destructive nature and unforeseen consequences.Author: Alice WalkerPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 09/18/2007Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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The Tall Book of Mother GooseSimple Simon, Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, and all the Mother Goose favorites are here in this timeless collection. With fifty-one lively rhymes, The Tall Book of Mother Goose is the perfect book for sharing. Ages 4+Author: Public DomainPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 01/24/2006Pages: 80Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes: A Pocket BookA cave is a pocket for a bear, a breath is a pocket full of air.A hat is a pocket for your hair, and a seat is a pocket called a chair...A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes: A Pocket Book is a...
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Edgewater: Poems"In Edgewater, her powerfully moving and redemptive third collection, Ruth L. Schwartz writes with consummate passion, precision, and honesty of the raw hungers that give rise to the world, human and natural. In poems both lyrical and grit-laced, she grapples with her twofold, central...
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The Friendly FourCelebrate friendship with Coretta Scott King Award winners Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist!Drum is worried that summer will be a bummer until Dorene, Louis, and Rae enter his life unexpectedly. Together they embark on an unforgettable summer of discovery and creative play.With free-verse...
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The Place My Words Are Looking for: What Poets Say about and Through Their WorkThe Place My Words Are Looking For is Paul B. Janeczko's collection of the leading poet's and the commentary associated with their work. In this collection of poetry and commentary, 39 of our leading poets share their poems as well as their thoughts, unravelling...
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