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What about This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Stanford (Author), Dean Young (Introduction by)"The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford."--NPR.orgNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist"What About This... introduces to a broader audience an important and original American poet -- sensitive, death-haunted, surreal, carnal, dirt-flecked and deeply Southern -- whose promise, only partly fulfilled, it hurts to contemplate. His poems flick on a her...

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Report copyright infringementby Heekyung Yoo (Author), Stine Su Yon An (Translator)The South Korean poet and playwright explores loneliness, alienation, and flashes of togetherness, creating a world that his translator calls "overcast, yet playful." Yoo writes poems that invite readers to reflect upon daily sorrows, while also illuminating single moments full of strange and arresting images that suggest the passage of time--a hardened piece of bread, a train about to arrive, a crumpled piece ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael M. Weinstein (Author)Michael M. Weinstein's debut poetry collection, Saint Consequence, meditates on the body as a site of continuous change--both painful and beautiful, elected and imposed--to explore the often tangled journeys of physical and spiritual transformation. What does it mean to inhabit a body--and for that body to inhabit our shared world, in all its complexity? Saint Consequence attempts to mine the gap between a life seen from the outside...

Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022

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Report copyright infringementby Major Jackson (Author)A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music through five acclaimed volumes: his Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning debut, Leaving Saturn (2002), which captures the spirit of resilience in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of the poet's youth; ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Ghigna (Author)Discover the captivating allure of the Deep South through the haunting and powerful verses of one of today's most accomplished poets. Southern Bred is a haunting, powerful collection of gothic poems that captivate and transport the reader into the heart and soul of the Deep South. Each poem offers a glimpse into its mystery and enchantment, drawing you in with a blend of beauty and darkness. In the style of a memoir in verse, it showcases...

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Report copyright infringementby John Barr (Author)In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: "Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful." Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds "Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence." And his ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tina Schumann (Author)Poems about life/loss/childhood/concepts of self and the larger meanings of existence. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: July 08, 2019

The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843: Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun

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Report copyright infringementby Percival Everett (Author)AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, JAMESAUTHOR OF ERASURE, now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, AMERICAN FICTIONFeatured in the New York Times!Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document--a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collecti...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Coughlin Hollowell (Author)Across distance, the speaker of these poems wrestles with the way her mother's loss of memory changes the narrative between them. By interrogating the past, fissures in language, and the vagaries of identity, the speaker comes to a recognition that we are all more alike in our humanity than we are different. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2018 ...

Things That Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes on Living - Paperback

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by Mark Nepo (Author)A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives "When we can open our hearts and work with what we're given, loving what's before us, life stays possible. Then, through effort and grace, we do what we can with what we have. And when exhausted by all that's in the way, we're faced with the chance to accept and love what's left, which is everything. This is how we discover that Heaven is on Earth." --Mark Nepo The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again...

Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet: A Springtime Book for Kids - Paperback

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by April Pulley Sayre (Author), April Pulley Sayre (Illustrator)Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature"A splendid marriage of poetry and photography." --School Library Journal (starred review)Acclaimed children's book author and photographer April Pulley Sayre's love letter to Earth is a stunning exploration of the beauty and complexity of the world around us. Remarkable photographs and a rich, layered text introduce concepts of science, nature, geography, biology, poetry, and c...

Oxford Bookworms Library: Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary

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Report copyright infringementby John Escott (Author)This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Limón (Author)The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion--both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbag...

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by John Hodgen (Author)John Hodgen's What We May Be is a cry of love and pain (and he makes them almost indistinguishable) on behalf of the human race, its history, its future, its lovely possibilities that seem always out of reach. The poems of this award-winning poet declare again and again that the reaching itself defines the best in us, and he is cheering us on. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.01 x 7.05 IN Publication Date: April 04, 2024

We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word - Paperback

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by Franny Choi (Editor), Bao Phi (Editor), Noʻu Revilla (Editor)A rich anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" (AAPI) in today's world.Exploring the range of experiences AAPI people endure in a world shaped by colonization and white supremacy, the poems in this collection confront American militarism, reimagine lineage, celebrate queer/trans life, and reclaim in...

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by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Author)Consider the Rooster serves as an ode to a rooster's crow, a catalyst for awakening, both literally and figuratively.Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd's murder by police, and the resulting upsurge in reactionary right-wing militia violence, a neighbor in Kalamazoo, Michigan threatens to call the police after discovering the author's pet rooster. The rooster sounds the alarm and our author wakes to revolutionary transformation. An ecolog...

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Author), Anne Carson (Translator), Anne Carson (Introduction by)Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist Bernard Knox has written, "was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so." His pla...

A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997

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Report copyright infringementby Wendell Berry (Author)This collection of Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life--beauty, death, peace, and hope In his preface to A Timbered Choir, Berry writes about the audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the poem. These Sabbath Poems were written "in silence, in solitude, and mainly out of doors," and tell us about "mome...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Dealey (Author), Joseph Cowman (Illustrator)A is for at last! Kindergarten is almost here! Whether your little reader is counting down to the first day or making their way through the school year, K is for Kindergarten will help guide them with silly rhymes and fun activities from A to Z. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.3 x 11.2 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 15, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Laidlaw (Author)"THE EARTH BROKE OPEN CAUSE WE BROKE IT OPEN," blares the first line of this enrapturing debut collection mapping the myth of Narcissus and Echo and the Iron Range roots of Bob Dylan onto a world growing increasingly self-obsessed.Against the backdrop of the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota, Brian Laidlaw examines the ways narcissism has flooded culture. Much like a "hawk has a horizontal sweet spot on its retina / for spotting prey on th...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Bazzett (Author)From the author of You Must Remember This, an uncanny collection of poems that plumbs our capacity for cruelty and for wonder.Who? A speaker at once questioner and questioned. An artist who embraces and resists what his work requires of him. "A naked / man in a crowd."What? Poems at once surreal and vulnerable, refusing to hide their uncomfortable truths behind their wildest imaginings.Where? In the mind, where "Nobody fails at meditatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Heid E. Erdrich (Author)A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first centuryNew Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Ale...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Purdie Salas (Author), Mercè López (Illustrator) you gasp as I roar, my mane exploding, sizzling-- lion of the sky! Haiku meet riddles in this wonderful collection from Laura Purdie Salas. The poems celebrate the seasons and describe everything from an earthworm to a baseball to an apple to snow angels, alongside full-color illustrations. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.8 x 9.9 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Blaeser (Author)Copper Yearning invests itself in a compassionate dual vision--bearing witness to the lush beauty of our intricately woven environments and to the historical and contemporary perils that threaten them. Kimberly Blaeser's fourth collection of poetry deftly reflects her Indigenous perspective and a global awareness. Through vividly rendered images, the poems dwell among watery geographies, alive to each natural nuance, alive also to the u...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Walter (Author)In award-winning poet Robin Walter's debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and looking--seeing feelingly--become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm, the self found in other, the river in vein of wrist. Attuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world, Walter's poems are often glancing observatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Fariha Róisín (Author), Monica Ramos (Illustrator)A poetry compilation recounting a woman's journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, t...

¡Un Día Una Señora Se Tragó Una Caracola! (There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell!)

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Report copyright infringementby Lucille Colandro (Author), Jared Lee (Illustrator)A wacky spin-off on the classic "There Was an Old Lady" song. No vas a creer por qué esta señora se tragó una concha, un cangrejo, un pez, una gaviota, un balde, un poco de arena y una ola! Pero ten cuidado cuando eructe con resultados divertidísimos!You won't believe why this old lady swallowed a shell, a crab, a fish, a gull, a pail, some sand, and a wave! But watch out when she burps with hilarious results!A...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Munro (Author)In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature themes--dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world--with an urgent, more directly political voice. False Creek, Munro's eighth collection of poetry, responds to the discovery of sodded-over graves around residential schools and the elimination of Sən̓aʔqʷ, home to fifteen thousand Sḵwx̱wú7mesh before the deaths caused by E...

The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-Century America

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Report copyright infringementby Nick Ripatrazone (Author)Something of a minor literary renaissance happened in midcentury America from an unexpected source. Nuns were writing poetry and being published and praised in secular venues. Their literary moment has faded into history, but it is worth revisiting. The literary creations of poetic priests like Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., and Robert Southwell, S.J. have been both a blessing and a burden--creating the sense that male clergy alone have w...

Cherry Moon: Little Poems Big Ideas Mindful of Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Zaro Weil (Author), Junli Song (Illustrator)Winner of the CLPE Award for Children's Poetry 2020. This dazzling poetry collection bubbles with excitement and creativity, capturing the sheer joy of the natural world. Discover parades of beast-doodles, preposterous penguins, talking blossoms, playful birds, humble fleas and a host of other exotic and everyday creatures who jump off the page and into our hearts.Thought-provoking, delightfully original and beautiful...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorie Graham (Author)Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2024 FinalistGriffin Poetry Prize, 2024 ShortlistPublishers Weekly Best Books of 2023Library Journal Best Books of 2023Guardian Best Books of 2023Financial Times Best Books of 2023Electric Lit Best books of 2023It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe--in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do.Jorie Graham's fifteenth poet...