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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Hadas (Author)By noon, now in mid-September, tall shadows are already looming, dark and melodramatic, striping the lawn and garden. Friendly ghosts remain, but most of the guests have receded, each taking with them a jar of applesauce to taste or inhale and remember. Or to give away. Emptier, the house seems both bigger and smaller. A cycle fills with stillness. Silence grows on the trees. These last mornings I put on the rubber boots I bought at Morriso...

The Foundations of English Literature: An Anthology of Pre-Restoration British Literature

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Report copyright infringementby A. M. Rain (Editor)The best literature holds a mirror up to the society that produces it. By studying early literary texts, we learn about people of the past-from their sacred rituals to their love lives. We watch them handle universal struggles like grief, social change, alienation, doubt, and loss of faith. Likewise, literature can change society. Beowulf helped establish a unified English identity and culture by relaying the adventures of its hero; William S...

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Report copyright infringementby Simone Hall (Author)In the aftermath of heartbreak, when the storm of emotions rages within, how do we find our way back to ourselves? HeartStorm, a poignant collection of poetry, invites readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery and renewal.At its core, HeartStorm is about reclaiming one's identity after love has faded. The poems encourage introspection, prompting readers to reflect on their desires, dreams, and the lessons learned from past relati...

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Report copyright infringementby Chiwan Choi (Editor)This anthology consists of art created and donated by teen writers who answered the call without hesitation. They are from the Los Angeles area and the Bay Area and from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Each one sent in their work with a note wishing for the best for all the victims of the fire. The pieces, stories and poems and essays, are personal and deep and so very human. Profits from book sales will be donated to support LA fire recovery ef...

Crossing the Burnside Bridge & Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Janice D. Rubin (Author)Book DescriptionJanice Rubin's newest book of poems, Crossing the Burnside Bridge & Other Poems, ends with the lines: Loss is a hallmark of identity. We don't have to reclaim everything. What comes before is a vivd collection of poems reclaiming memory, place, history, and love. This collection of poetry is an ode to growing up in Portland, living in Eugene and the Willamette Valley and a pandemic that's survived. The poems reveal a...

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Report copyright infringementby Daisy Dunn (Translator)Written in the twilight of the Roman Republic, the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus offers a delicious insight into the passions and gossip of high Roman society. From the poet and his friends to cultural and political titans, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey, his cutting, modern verse spares no-one. In this new translation by Daisy Dunn, author of Catullus' Bedspread, his obscene honesty, arrogant wit and surprising tenderness captu...

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Report copyright infringementby Roberta Beary (Author)Full-length collection by Roberta Beary, Touchstone Award-winning poet and long-time haibun editor at Modern Haiku, which includes 80 haibun selected from poems written over a 20-year period, 2004 through 2024. Four paintings by contemporary American artist Kevin Beary also appear in this collection, including Widow with Shawl on the cover. With Lew Watts and Rich Youmans, Roberta Beary is co-author of Haibun: A Writer's Guide (2023). ...

Waltharius: The Latin Epic of Walther of Aquitaine

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Report copyright infringementby Leonard Neidorf (Editor), Brian Murdoch (Translator)Waltharius is one of the great monuments of medieval European literature. Set in a fifth-century world of Goths, Huns, Franks, and Burgundians, this poem from the ninth or tenth century tells a lively tale of adventure, treachery, and combat. It recounts the daring escape of Walther and his betrothed, Hildegund, from the court of Attila the Hun, the pursuit of the lovers by Gunther and the Franks, and the mora...

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Report copyright infringementby Catullus (Author), Peter Whigham (Translator), Peter Whigham (Editor)One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the brevity of the epigram to the sustained elegance of the elegy. This collection contains all of Catullus' extant work and includes his lyrics to the notorious Clodia Metelli - married, seductive and corrupt - charting the course from rapturous delight in a new affai...

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Gelman (Author), Ilan Stavans (Editor)One of Latin American's most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930-2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of his poetry dealt with Jewish themes. He established a dialogue across time with Santa Teresa de Ávila and San Juan de la Cruz, the sixteen...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Frost (Author)Robert Frost is one of America's most beloved poets. He won four Pulitzer prizes for his poetry and was invited to read his poetry at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. His life was filled with personal tragedy which his poetry often reflected. Collected here are The Road Not Taken The Death Of The Hired Man The Mountain Fire and Ice The Generations Of Men The Grindstone The Witch of Coös A Brook in the City Design House Fear The Lockless Door...

Tagore: Gitanjali or Song Offerings: Introduced by W. B. Yeats

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Report copyright infringementby Rabindranath Tagore (Author)Written by the most famous Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into international prominence when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. For the Bengali public, Tagore has been, and remains, an altogether exceptional literary figure, towering over all others. His poems, songs, novels, short stories, critical essays, and other writings have vastly enriched the cultural environment in whic...

All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Anderson (Editor), Kristen Tapson (Author)All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic movements by looking for radical poetics in the everyday. This collection of letters provides insight...

Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under Sentence of Death

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Report copyright infringementby George T. Wilkerson (Author), Robert Johnson (Author), Kat Bodrie (Author)In this collaborative work, death row prisoner George T. Wilkerson, criminology professor Robert Johnson, and poet Kat Bodrie use poetry, prose, and fiction to explore the dynamics of life under sentence of death. Grounded in the first-hand experiences of the authors, and enriched by interviews and surveys with prisoners on death row, Bone Orchard examines the ways a death sentence poses ...

You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Waxler (Author), David Beckman (Author)In September, 1962, two 18-year-old freshmen at Brown University named Bob Waxler and David Beckman first crossed paths. They quickly discovered they had a lot in common, especially an abiding fascination with language, literature, and the life of art. Four years later, as college seniors, they collaborated on a small book of poems, which brought them a flurry of attention, then faded into memory as the two friends ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Viet Thanh Nguyen (Foreword by), Calin-Andrei Mihailescu (Editor)"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." --Steven Poole, The Guardian Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries. For more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges's Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, the tapes gathered dust in a library vault until th...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Smith (Author)"All of the poems [in Hungry Ghosts] have Smith bearing witness to a time of moral, intellectual, and ethical crises, which, I'm sorry to say is OUR time. But unlike other "political" poetry-a kind of talk poetry where poets state their outrage with randomly right-justified line breaks-Smith's poems are as stylistically challenging as they are disturbing.-Peter Johnson, Old Man Still Howling at the Moon (Substack)"The work is not trying to d...

Breaking Up on X: 20 Poems for a Nation in Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby James W. Gaynor (Author), Nola Saint James (Foreword by)"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night." Angela Davis. Breaking Up on X: 20 Poems for a Nation in Crisis is a collaborative response to our current national crisis. Dedicated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in appreciation for their century-long work defending the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, all profits from the sale of this book will help suppo...

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Report copyright infringementby Heid E. Erdrich (Author)Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich's artistic collaborations with choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, galleries, and museums. Erdrich pairs her poems with reflections on these collaborations and with prompts for readers to generate their own art-inspired poetry. Art from Jonathan Thunder, a frequent collaborator with Erdrich, appears on the cover and throughout the bo...

Flurry, Float, and Fly!: The Story of a Snowstorm

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Purdie Salas (Author), Chiara Fedele (Illustrator)Explore the science of snow in this informative picture book with a lyrical read-aloud from award-winning author and poet Laura Purdie Salas. Stars and columns fill the skywith dreams to flurry, float, and fly. When the first flakes of snow swirl toward the ground, it almost feels like magic. But in fact, it's science: a delicate process where cold air and moisture high in the sky work together to create ...

Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs

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Report copyright infringementby Mélina Mangal (Author), Sun Yung Shin (Author), Leslie Barlow (Illustrator) Revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. This was a core belief of activists and married couple James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs. James Boggs was a worker from rural Alabama in the segregated South. Grace Lee Boggs was a philosopher from urban Rhode Island and New York City. Both found their life's work, and each other, in Detroit. James and Grace were drawn to civil ...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Frankel (Author), Jasu Hu (Illustrator)ABA 2025 Best Book for Young ReadersCCBC Choices 2026 This lyrical picture book biography of beloved American poet Mary Oliver shows young readers ages 7 - 10 how her love of nature and sense of wonder inspired her art. Young Mary Oliver was enthralled by nature. In the forest, she wondered about the birds and the lilies and the water in the stream--about all the things that cannot speak yet somehow spoke to Mary. She...

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Report copyright infringementby E. E. Cummings (Author), Blanca Gómez (Illustrator)Welcome to a marvelous almanac of E. E. Cummings's poetry, from the showers, puddles, and birdsong of spring to the beaches and sun of summer, Halloween, November sunsets, snowfalls, and little silent Christmas trees. Now published as the first-ever picture book collection of Cummings's poems and imagined for contemporary readers with beloved artist Blanca Gómez's sprightly and charming illustrations, when the ...

The Big Empty: A Sagebrush Survival Story

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Report copyright infringementby Kirbi Fagan (Author), Kirbi Fagan (Illustrator) People passing by call this land the big empty. / But I call it home. In spare, poetic text written from the point of view of big sagebrush, readers are transported to the vast landscape of western North America. This incredibly resilient plant, which can live as long as one hundred years, provides food and shelter as well as shadows to conceal both predators and prey. After a wildfire passes through, it grows a...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Mole (Author), Adam Ming (Illustrator)Huge bird-eating spiders. Massive teams of tiny termites building high-rises out of mud. Get ready for a big, bold compendium of bugs sure to have kids gleefully shouting "Eww!" Whether you're nibbled by a lizardor you're gobbled by a frog, for a bug, being eaten is part of the job! What was the first animal to walk on land? Or fly through the sky? The answer is a bug--and for every human on earth today, there are mor...

Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying (the Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series)

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca E. Hirsch (Author), Sally Soweol Han (Illustrator)From the swooping bat to the buzzing honeybee, kids will delight in learning about the many wondrous wings of our world in this nonfiction picture book guessing game from critically acclaimed creators Rebecca E. Hirsch and Sally Soweol Han Wings can soar and wings can skim. Wings can hover, hum, and swim. Small wings, big wings, near and far. Can you guess whose wings these are? Some wings make music, s...

Rose Unfolding: Poems Honoring the Journey from Maiden to Mother

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Report copyright infringementby Stacey Maney (Author)Rose Unfolding invites readers into an intimate journey of voice and transformation. Gathered from sketchbooks spanning college days through the initiation of motherhood, these poems trace the passage from Maiden to Mother, honoring each stage with honesty and wonder.Alongside the words, Stacey's black-and-white illustrations pulse like abstract energy maps-fluid yet grounded; weaving realistic forms into the unseen currents of our consciou...

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Kooser (Author), Matt Myers (Illustrator)"Kooser's picturesque poetry vividly shapes his living sky metaphors. . . A lofty concept and radiant illustrations will leave readers on cloud nine." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The skies are hanging their freshly washed--and sweepingly illustrated--clouds out to dry in Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser's celestial ode to an approaching rainstorm. One sky unpins damp sheets of cirrus. Another wads cirrocum...

The Gift of the Broken Teacup: Poems of Mindfulness, Meditation, and Me

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Report copyright infringementby Allan Wolf (Author), Jade Orlando (Illustrator)"A terrific exposition of mindfulness, perfectly distilled for curious kids." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Warm, witty poems by the acclaimed Allan Wolf bring mindfulness to the younger set - one simple, nurturing practice at a time. An om is a poem without any words. It acts as a voice so the heart can be heard. Have you ever let your thoughts just float into the sky? Why is today the very best day of the year...

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Report copyright infringementby Iza Trapani (Author), Iza Trapani (Illustrator)A young child observes and admires a friendly ruby-throated hummingbird in this poetic love letter to the smallest birds in the world. A perfect rhyming and informative picture book about hummingbirds for curious 4-7-year-old backyard birders. Hummingbird, you nectar lover, how you dash and dart and hover--forward, backward, upside down.I love to watch you zip around. Admire a playful ruby-throated hummingbird alon...

Black Diamond Kings: Heroes of Negro League Baseball

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Report copyright infringementby Charles R. Smith (Author), Adrian Brandon (Illustrator)"Each spread is a celebration of the skill and power displayed on the field...but the book takes care to balance that joy with an acknowledgement of the larger societal context in which the men played and the discrimination they faced." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)From Charles R. Smith Jr., with striking artwork by Adrian Brandon, comes an exuberant collection of poems hono...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Kulekjian (Author), Zoe Si (Illustrator)This fun, informational picture book expertly pairs poetry and science to explain how a cloud experiences the water cycle.Here's an innovative story about the water cycle - told by a cloud! The cloud describes the process in lyrical prose, complemented by side commentary from a clever bird who fills in the science facts. First, the cloud soaks up moisture, gathering "steam from a cup of tea" and "vapors from salty...