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My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected PoemsOne of China's most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith *Shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize*Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She...
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Just Us: An American ConversationFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another?...
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Strong in the Rain: Selected PoemsKenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at 37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved children's author whose magical tales have been translated into many languages,...
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The Izumi Shikibu nikkiIzumi Shikibu (978- ), author, femme fatale, and prominent member of the Heian court, was first and foremost a poet--the greatest of her time, perhaps the greatest her country has ever known. Incorporated in numerous imperial anthologies, Izumi Shikibu's work has been admired through...
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Stay SafeAt the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree--and to cope with these very real terrors, the...
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Wicked Enchantment: Selected PoemsONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor,...
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Dancing on the Rings of Saturn: A Poet's Inspiration of Love, Friendship and PraiseLiving with Jesus each day is a joyous occasion. As He has given me the gift of writing, His greatest gift is the gift of eternal life. I proclaim each morning, "This is a day the Lord has made, rejoice and be glad in...
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Otro Dia. Poemas SinteticosOne hundred years after the publication of A day (synthetic poems) by Jose Juan Tablada, Veronica Geber has rewritten the book's haikus. Gerber's haikus are grouped in certain periods of the day: The morning, The evening, The twilight and The night, and are starred...
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Soy Vertical, Pero Preferiría Ser Horizontal / I Am Vertical, But I Would Rather Be HorizontalSylvia Plath, una de las grandes poetas del siglo XX, llega a la colecci n Poes a Port til. Sylvia Plath es una de las poetas m s admiradas del siglo XX. Sus versos, que a lo largo de los a os han ido...
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Tam O Shanter: A Tale by Robert BurnsFunny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o' Shanter is widely regarded as Robert Burns' masterpiece. This magnificent edition of the poem features the work of Alexander Goudie, one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century artists who, over a period of many years, was inspired by...
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Selected Poems of Thomas MertonPoet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view of his varied and progressively innovative work. Selected by Mark Van Doren and James Laughlin,...
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Bird Singing, Bird Winging: Ready-To-Read Pre-Level 1Award-winning author Marilyn Singer takes us on a flight into the beautiful world of birds in this Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read Come see birds of all different kinds in this delightful story that beginning readers will love reading again and again. See them singing, winging,...
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The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by WomenOne of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to...
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Selected Poetry of the First World WarThe First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it...
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A Little History of PoetryA vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New...
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Piece of CakeBernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote Piece of Cake as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976-the bicentennial year of the America's Declaration of Independence. It recounts the...
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Theuerdank. the Epic of the Last KnightThe amazing tales of the knight Theuerdank and his companion Ehrenhold constitute the last great epic verse of the late Middle Ages. The courageous knight's journey to woo his future wife, Mary of Burgundy, and his triumph in battles and other perilous acts of...
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Refugia: Poems Volume 1Winner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Winner of the inaugural Interim 2018 Test Site Poetry Series Prize Refugia is a bright and hopeful voice in the current conversation about climate change. Kyce Bello's stunning debut ponders what it means to inhabit a...
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Gravity AssistPoetry. Martha Silano's latest collection takes celestial flight. GRAVITY ASSIST, the newest collection by Martha Silano, masterfully measures the heights and depths of our earthly visions. Cerebral yet meditative, capacious yet focused, this book soars with investigations and ruminations, love letters, origin stories, and...
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Liking in Silence: Poems of Kim Sa-InKim Sa-in is a devotional poet who ably serves "all the unconsidered things in the world"--a cosmos flower, a turtle dove cooing near a firing range, the way a mourner offers a cup of wine to a widow. His eye for ordinary details that...
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