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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Krasner (Author)In this collection, poet Barbara Krasner wanders with the ghosts of her ancestors and master artists over past and present, contemplating life's work, appearances, and health. "Barbara Krasner's poetic imagination, curiosity about art, and historical insights prove endless in this stunning collection. We are drawn in to paintings through words that bring them alive in ways we never thought possible. Every poem astonishes with detail and ...

Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Olds (Author)PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - From one of today's best poets--a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surpri...

The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in...

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Report copyright infringementby Krystal Frenchwood (Author), Krystal Frenchwood (Illustrator), Alonzo Archibald (Editor)Author of Metamorphosis: The Awakening (a Poetry book) comes a new inspiring collection of poems as Krystal continues to touch souls through art by inviting readers to release old patterns, trust God, and step into a life of authenticity, forgiveness, and breakthrough."Self-healing takes timeLife can be an emotional roller coaster rideHead face down while curled up in a ball...

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by Rex Ogle (Author)In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction,...

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by Clement C. Moore (Author)A classic tale comes to life in this new edition of The Night Before Christmas. This wonderful new edition of Clement C. Moore's classic "The Night Before Christmas" is a perfect holiday gift. Families who read the poem every year will now have a beautiful hardcover edition to treasure. Moore's poem, faithfully reproduced here, is accompanied by Kai Wuerbs's stunning illustrations.Author BiographyKai Wuerbs is one of the most acclaimed illustrators in Germany. He ...

In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds - Paperback

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by Anna Leigh Knowles (Author)Using family myth as navigation, the poems within In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds rotate between lyric pastorals and narrative forms. The speaker attempts to trace her identity along a timeline and family who remain geographically separate. In doing so, the poems echo toward the past for answers that stand indefinable in the present. The collection weaves a story of family, love, and the inevitability of the kind of loss experienced by rootlessness. Dime...

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Report copyright infringementby Juvenal (Author), Niall Rudd (Author), William Barr (Introduction by)Commonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satires, Professor Rudd combines textual accuracy with colorful poetry, vividly conveying Juvenal's gift for evoking a wealth of imagery with a few economical phrases. About the Series: For over 100 ye...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Nelson (Author)On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, by poet and historian of early modern art Jennifer Nelson, makes exquisite trouble. These poems give voice to Nelson's encounters with turbulent surfaces, from the twisted spectacles of the contemporary world--geopolitical, epistemological, and local--to esteemed artworks inseparable from the legacies of colonialism.Faced with the asymmetrical warfare, incessant pandemics, and climate cala...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Mitchell (Author)In Thomas Mitchell's new collection, paper boats drift in and out of childhood, a red bicycle negotiates the dangerous edges of a neighborhood, voices travel on the wings of swallows. Crows transform in a strange metamorphosis, assume human characteristics and emotions, create their own litany, succeed and fail in love, bemoan the onset of old age. Through an ever-widening range of vision, Mitchell chooses not to withdraw from the world,...

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Report copyright infringementby Brigid Hughes (Editor)This is an issue of weather and misinterpretation, and the unexpected patterns created by these natural forces. --Brigid Hughes Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 6.3 IN Publication Date: December 26, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ruefle (Author)Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and the everyday." With the same curiosity found in Madness, Rack, and Honey and My Private Property, Ruefle's prose here feels both omniscient and especially intimate. "I...

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Report copyright infringementby Cedar Sigo (Author)Cedar Sigo's latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance. Here are poems that speak to Sigo's profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022. In creating this work, the author retraces poetic sources and reexamines style and tone, using a variety of compositional techniques to renegotiate what is at stake in the work. There is a joy in th...

Clumsy Beauty: Poems for Hearing the I Love You in Everything - Hardcover

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by J. K. Kennedy (Author)Filled with warmth, wit, and a dash of irreverence, Clumsy Beauty is a celebration of life in all its messiness. This exquisitely illustrated collection of bite-size poems from J. K. Kennedy invites you to hear the "I love you" in every little moment. An enchantingly illustrated collection of poems designed to inspire and empower, Clumsy Beauty invites you to hear the "I love you" in every little moment. In an age of constant pressure to meet unattainable standards of...

She'll Be the Sky: Poems by Women and Girls - Hardcover

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by Ella Risbridger (Author), Anna Shepeta (Illustrator)From well-loved poets -- including Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Lucille Clifton, and Christina Rossetti -- to newer voices -- such as Amanda Gorman, Yrsa-Daley Ward, and Amineh Abou Kerech -- this outstanding collection from talented anthologist Ella Risbridger has poems for every mood and every moment. Ella's selection is wide-ranging but accessible and will appeal to poetry lovers both young and old alike.Author BiographyElla Risbridger is...

The Flame of Love: Rumi's 100 Most Passionate Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Rumi (Author), Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (Translator)A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by illuminating commentary throughout, The Flame of Love explores the depths of passion, longing, and loss through Rumi's timeless verses. The Flame of Love is an alluring collection of 100 love poems by world-renowned poet Rumi, never before translated for a modern audience. Immerse yoursel...

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by E. E. Cummings (Author), Mati McDonough (Illustrator)I Carry Your Heart With Me, rereleased as a board book, is a children's adaptation of the beloved E. E. Cummings poem, beautifully illustrated by Mati Rose McDonough. Showing the strong bond of love between mother and child, within nature and throughout life, Cummings' heartfelt words expressed through McDonough's lovely illustrations combine to create a fresh, yet classic, portrayal of love. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.9 x 5...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Rangel (Author) La autora que ha emocionado a 2 millones de seguidores en TikTok!Querido diario: Hoy dejaré que mis heridas sangren, que sangren en tinta negra, yo y mi pluma suelta. Cuántas lágrimas le caben a esta tristeza? Y cuánta tristeza le cabe a este corazón? Y cuánto corazón le quedaa este cuerpo, para creer que vale la penaseguir existiendo? Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.2 x 4.9 IN Publicatio...

My First Book of Haiku Poems: A Picture, a Poem and a Dream; Classic Poems by Japanese Haiku Masters - Hardcover

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by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Author), Tracy Gallup (Illustrator)**Chosen for 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List****Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Award for Poetry****Winner of 2019 Skipping Stones Honor Awards** Escape into a dreamy world of watercolors and nature-inspired haiku. My First Book of Haiku Poems introduces children to this ancient poetry form that's still a favorite among teachers, parents and children. These concise poems are easy for readers of all a...

Autumn (Petite Poems): A Picture Book - Hardcover

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by Alexander Posey (Author), Paige Pettibon (Illustrator)Discover the power of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to Indigenous poet Alexander Posey, featuring an ode to autumn and the changing seasons Autumn depicts a dreamy fall day full of jaybird songs and scarlet leaves dancing through the air. In this poem, Muscogee poet Alexander Posey celebrates the changing of the seasons as the golden sun sets on summer and the world prepares for a time of rest. With stunning illustrations f...

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by Janice N. Harrington (Author)Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.Harrington's speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, ...

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by Tom Haviv (Author)"This is a living and essential book." --sam sax, author of Bury It and MadnessA meditation on historical rupture and political imagination, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, navigating the tides of antisemitism, Turkish nationalism, Zionism, and the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire. Through forms of storytelling that range from allegory to oral history, Tom Haviv investigates the history of IsraelPalestine and the mythologies...

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Report copyright infringementby Lesley Wheeler (Author)Mycocosmic offers intricately woven incantations--prayers, hexes, and charms--all of which call for a transformation of language, grief, and the self. "Good things come to you through fire," a Tarot reader told Lesley Wheeler as she was composing what became her sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic. But how could that be true, while the planet was burning and life slamming her with one loss after another? Then she learned about pyrophilic...

You Stole My Name Board Book Box Set: Poetry Books for Early Learning

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis McGregor (Author), Blue Star Press (Producer)"Poems that will be perfect for animal lovers, with gorgeous illustrations worthy of framing." --starred Kirkus review Collect all three books from the award-winning You Stole My Name series featuring vibrant hand-painted artwork and playful poems by esteemed artist Dennis McGregor Full of vibrant, hand-painted illustrations and rhyming verse, this durable board book set offers an exciting reading experience ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexis Jaimes (Author)The Seeds We Sow is a vulnerable yet resilient collection of bilingual poems that offers readers a glimpse into life as the child of immigrants in a fractured household-and the lasting ramifications of that fracture, both within and beyond the home. The collection moves from confession to testimony to declaration, and finally to proclamation. Each section embodies the seeds we choose to sow, examining the roots of pain and the fruit those ...

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by Lauren Haldeman (Author)"Curious, lonely, mournful, haunted, and strangely funny."--Leslie Jamison, author of the NYT bestseller The Empathy Exams In her extraordinary graphic novel--which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir--Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the...

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by Karisma Price (Author) "I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." --Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extendedmeditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and NewYork City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a culturalreckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone "Autocorrects'Nigga' to Night, '" If Beale StreetCould Talk is recast with characters ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Helen Callier (Author)In her award-winning debut, When the Horses, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the American South.As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater," and it is in this bedraggled theater of memory that Callier stages her poems. A careful, curtained-off darkness lurks at their edges, ...

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by Chelsey Minnis (Author)"One of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I've read in some time."--Dwight Garner, New York Times"In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis approaches her subject from a dizzying array of angles: ironic, celebratory, mournful, panicked, and often funny." --Publishers WeeklyChelsey Minnis's new collection of poems follows the struggle of a flawed character in a cinematic world. Playing with old ideas of wealth and lo...

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by Abraham Smith (Author)A new poetry collection from one of America's most lyric and sonically interesting poets.Abraham Smith's Insomniac Sentinel is a concatenation of sandhill cranes and their haunting deep time dinosaur barking. It is the croon of safety from the heart of Wisconsin. It is an aegis from the violence perpetuated on the young; that the young perpetuate; lurching and launching from tercets, those familiar island letting go sideways, the poems themselves as steady and desulto...

The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History - Paperback

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by Claudia Acevedo-Quines (Author)In this powerful debut, Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, overheard conversations, and flash essays. Organized around six hurricanes that passed through the island with varying degrees of intensity between 1928 and 2017, THE HURRICANE BOOK documents the myriad ways in which colonialism--particularly the relationship between the United States and t...

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by Sin Yong Mok (Author), Brother Anthony (Translator)A debut English-language collection of hopeful and carefully attentive poems by one of South Korea's most lauded young poets.This collection offers a selection of poems from Sin Yong-mok's earlier collections, intended to serve as an illustration of his evolution as a poet, alongside a complete translation of the poems from his fourth collection, When Someone Called Someone, I Looked Back. Beautifully translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé...