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The Unboxing of a Black Girl - Hardcover

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by Angela Shanté (Author)Written as a collection of vignettes and poetry, The Unboxing of a Black Girl is a creative nonfiction reflection on Black girlhood. The debut YA title, by award-winning author Angela Shanté, is a love letter to Black girls set in New York City and serves as a personal and political critique of how the world raises Black girls. As Shanté navigates the city through memory, she balances poetry with vignettes that explore the innocence and joy of childhood eroded by adul...

New & Selected Poems of John Weier - Paperback

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by John Weier (Author), Nathan Dueck (Editor)In the second volume of the Lyrik Poetry Series, honouring Canada's foremost Mennonite poets, CMU Press presents the fine poetry, past and present, of Manitoba's John Weier, who has been publishing poetry, creative non-fiction, experimental fiction, memoir, naturalist writing, and children's books in a writing career of more than 40 years. The poems are lyrical, reflective, often dealing with travel and the natural world, but always against a backd...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Leather

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Michael A. Cramer (Introduction by)No library is complete without the classics! This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language's greatest writer. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth--the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations four centuries after they were written. The timeless characters and the...

While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World - Paperback

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by Ahmed M. Badr (Author), Ben Stiller (Foreword by)A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller. Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr--an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee--traveled to Greece, Trinidad & Tobago, and Syracuse, New York, holding storytelling workshops with hundreds of displaced youth: those living in and outside of camps, as well as those adjusting to li...

Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems - Paperback

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by Naomi Shihab Nye (Author)"Emotionally resonant and stirring."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting."--Horn Book MagazineThis celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems; an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a foreword and writing tips by the poet; ...

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by Iain Haley Pollock (Author)This collection highlights the complexities of fatherhood and how to raise young kids while bearing witness to the charged movements of social injustice and inequities of race in America. Memory, culpability, and our very humanness course through this book and strip us down to find joy and inspiration amid the darkness.Author BiographyIain Haley Pollock's second collection of poems, Ghost, Like a Place, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in September 2018. His...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (in One Volume); Introduction by Eugenio Montale - Hardcover

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Allen Mandelbaum (Translator), Eugenio Montale (Introduction by)This Everyman's Library edition-containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso-includes an introduction by Nobel Prize--winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Com...

A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening - Hardcover

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by Jane McMorland Hunter (Author)Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest poets that ever put pen to paper describe this wondrous season of new beginnings. With one entry for every day through spring, from March 1 until May 31, this collection of 91 poems will invigorate you in the warmer...

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age - Hardcover

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by John Lithgow (Author)New York Times Bestseller Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproa...

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by Delmar Daystar (Author)This collection is dedicated to you. To those who strive and struggle, who dream and despair, who love and lose, who fight and fail and rise again. "Gutter I" is not just a collection of poems but a reflection of our shared experiences, our collective highs and lows, and the intricate dance between hope and reality that defines us all. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2024

The Poetry Anthology: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine - Paperback

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by Joseph Parisi (Author), Stephen Young (Author)Publishing monthly without interruption since 1912, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record. Decade by decade, this ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents, along with several lesser known. Poetry is an American institution. -T. S. Eliot Number of Pages: 50...

Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes - Hardcover

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by Langston Hughes (Author), Danez Smith (Editor)Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works--both polished poems andraw, unfinished, work-in-progress written from 1921-1927--curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith. Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking fu...

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by Anne Carson (Author)Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: The Glass Essay, a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Brontë sisters; Book of Isaiah, a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and The Fall of Rome, about her trip to find Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible ali...

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by Philip Smith (Editor)Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits. Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" ("Death, be not proud...

Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture - Paperback

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by Khadijah Queen (Author)Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often rooted in harmful assumptions. Instead of operating from a base of un...

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Anthony Esolen (Translator), Gustave Dore (Illustrator)An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succee...

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author - Paperback

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by Sophus Helle (Author)The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian "Helle's translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives all of us readers a chance to discover another lineage--and to bring this poet and her imagination flashing back to life again."--Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived...

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by Ovid (Author), A. D. Melville (Translator), E. J. Kenney (Introduction by)Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics ha...

Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespearethe ^Acomplete Sonnets and Poems - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Colin Burrow (Editor)This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism. About ...

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Paperback

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Robin Kirkpatrick (Introduction by), Robin Kirkpatrick (Translator)A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literatureAn epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and furnished wit...

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly - Paperback

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by Denis Johnson (Author)Back JacketFrom the award-winning poet and novelist--a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.01 x 5.68 IN Publication Date: September 25, 2023

Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Hardcover

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author) This collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some of his timeless masterpieces namely ' Annabel Lee', ' The Raven', ' To Helen', ' MS. Found in a Bottle', ' The Fall of the House of Usher', ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue', ' The Tel...

A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year - Hardcover

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by Liz Ison (Author)A beautifully packaged anthology of poems from around the world and throughout history, all especially selected for reading aloud, with one glorious poem for every day of the year. Everyone benefits from reading aloud, whether it's a bedtime story with Dad or Granny, an intimate moment with a loved one, or a performance to a group of people. Both the reader and the listener gain a far greater understanding of the poem, its subject matter, and the mood the poet wants to con...

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by Ariana Reines (Author)Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness. I don't understand the intensity I've hidden here but I know I despaired Of finding a physical place to keep My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise When you stop looking at them . . . Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 03,...

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Paperback

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by Nikki Grimes (Author)"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." - Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators. Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes us...

Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm - Hardcover

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by Laura Purdie Salas (Author), Elly MacKay (Illustrator)Explore the life cycle of a thunderstorm in this informative and engaging picture book. Morning's calm. Outside is still. A blue-forever day until . . . The real beginning of a thunderstorm happens long before the first raindrop falls. No rain yet. It's just a threat-a rising cloud, a towering plume, then . . . Follow along as the weather changes, from a blue-sky day to a brewing storm, from a brewing storm to a dazzling downpour, and ...

So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and Translation - Paperback

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by Anne Wright (Author), Saundra Rose Maley (Author), Jeffrey Katz (Author)How a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry. The book draws on memoir, archival research, interviews, letters, and previous unpublished journal excerpts, presenting a scrupulous and intimate rea...

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays - Paperback

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by A. C. Cawley (Editor)God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow n...

Hearing Voices, Women's Voices - Paperback

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by Susan M. King (Author)A collection of poetry reflecting the author's journey of finding her own voice, listening to the voices of women and giving voice to women of the Bible. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 29, 2024

Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition - Hardcover

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), M. D. Herter Norton (Translator), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by)This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, William Warder Norton, f...

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Robert Frost (Author), David Orr (Editor), David Orr (Introduction by)Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem along with ot...

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems - Paperback

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by E. Hughes (Author)A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California. Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, a debut collection by E. Hughes, marries personal narrative with historical excavation to articulate the intricacies of Black familial love, life, and pain. Tracing the experiences of a southern Black family, their migration to the San Francisco Bay area, and the persistent anti-Blackness there (despite the state's insis...