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Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? - Paperback

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by Maya Angelou (Author)"Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival."--JAMES BALDWIN Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time.Front JacketTenderly, joyously, sometime...

The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies - Hardcover

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by Cicely Mary Barker (Author)Enjoy the classic, complete collection of Cicely Mary Barker's original Flower Fairies books in this brand-new edition. This collector's favorite has been redesigned and now features a lavish, eye-catching jacket with silver foil. The interior still includes all of the well-loved illustrations and poems from Barker's eight original books, as well as a selection of fairy rhymes.Author BiographyCicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and died i...

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God - Paperback

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by Anita Barrows (Author)A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating...

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by Horace (Author), John Davie (Author), Robert Cowan (Author)Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and his pervasive humanity. Boasting famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse and the grotesque dinner party given by the nouveau-riche Nasidienus, these poems influenced not only contemporaries such as Juvenal, but also English satirists from Ben Jonson to...

These Immortal Creations: An Anthology of British Romantic Poetry - Paperback

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by Sylvia Hunt (Author)This is the most diverse anthology of British Romantic poetry: out of twenty-seven authors, fifteen are male and twelve female. The reader will be able to see how the female poets of the Romantic Movement found self-empowerment in the construction, articulation and publication of a feminized poetic identity. This accessible anthology provides all the necessary tools a newcomer to the Romantic movement needs: an excellent introduction, a chronology of the time, all the g...

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by Layli Long Soldier (Author)Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don't worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a...

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by Caroline Earleywine (Author)Coming April 26th. Pre-orders available now. What does it mean to love someone well? What does it mean to be a good daughter, or a good wife? What does it look like to step outside the way these roles have been prescribed to us?In her debut full-length collection, I Now Pronounce You, Caroline Earleywine explores these questions and more as she takes us on the journey of a daughter processing the emotional landscape of her parents' divorce, an Arkansas public sc...

Everything Is Waiting for You - Paperback

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by David Whyte (Author)The title of David Whyte's fifth volume of poetry is an apt description of its contents. Everything, he points out, is indeed waiting for us, including our own demise and the demise of those we love. In less eloquent hands, this wisdom might feel burdensome, but in Whyte's language and imagery, these poems convey the beauty inherent in impermanence. Its second chapter, Thresholds, charts the experience of death of a loved one, and Friends, Marriage, Chances and Returns ...

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by Anis Mojgani (Author)Songs from Under the River is a best-of collection, curated after six captivating years of national performances, features cherished verses carefully selected for Mojgani's third Write Bloody release.This compilation is not limited to the well-known hits, it also houses hidden gems, personal favorite poems, and never-before-seen works, unveiling the artist's Nola spirit in its entirety.Mojgani's words will hit deep within your heart, leaving you in awe of this strange ...

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by Derrick C. Brown (Author)Praised and celebrated throughout the poetry underground, Brown has honed his craft to perfection, and with Hello. It Doesn't Matter., he takes us on a breathtaking rollercoaster ride of emotions, humor and economical power.In this extraordinary collection, Brown's words explode like short bursts of dazzling light. His dark humor adds an electrifying edge, leaving you turning pages for more. And when it comes to delving into the depths of sorrow and the heights of ...

Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year - Hardcover

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by Frann Preston-Gannon (Illustrator), Fiona Waters (Editor)Sing a Song of Seasons is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems -- one for every day of the year. Filled with familiar favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets, including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Updike, Langston Hughes, N. M. Bodecker, Okamoto Kanoko, and many more, this is the perfect book for children (and grown-ups ) to share at the beginning or the end of the day.Author B...

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Paperback

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by Pablo Neruda (Author), W. S. Merwin (Translator), Cristina Garc?a (Introduction by)Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael Garc a Bernal and directed by Pablo Larra n A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flapsFirst published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canci n desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passio...

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by Jenny Lewis (Author)A new translation of Gilgamesh by a leading female poet uncovers new thematic depths.Author BiographyJenny Lewis is an Anglo-Welsh poet, playwright, songwriter, children's author and translator who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She has worked as an advertising copywriter and a government press officer for, among others, the Equality and Human Rights Commission. ...

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by Ovid (Author), A. D. Melville (Author), E. J. Kenney (Introduction by)Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small revisions he has made will enhance the reader's admiration for Moore's achievement. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World...

Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation - Hardcover

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by Ovid (Author), David Raeburn (Translator), Denis Feeney (Introduction by)Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with th...

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by Louise Greig (Author), Helen Musselwhite (Illustrator)This stunning gift book, with hand-cut paper art and lyrical text by an award-winning poet, leads you deep into the forest . . . and out again into the light. Listen: the forest is calling. Take a quiet walk through the woods, where shadows fall in the darkness, eyes peek out, and some animals sleep while others run and leap. Simple, poetic text and intricate papercut illustrations introduce children to a deer, black rook, fox, rabbit,...

The Waste Land and Other Poems - Paperback

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by T. S. Eliot (Author)A Vintage Classics edition of T. S. Eliot's most groundbreaking poems "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper." Those famous concluding lines of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" have resonated with readers for nearly a century. As with "April is the cruelest month," from The Waste Land and "Do I dare disturb the universe?," from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot's words have permanently entered our cultural bloodstream. Through the poems...

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by Arthur Sze (Author)Arthur Sze incorporates history and science, Native American and Asian perspectives, into a transformative vision.Author BiographyArthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts, former poet laureate of Santa Fe, and a corresponding editor for Manoa. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2009 Award:...

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...

The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness - Paperback

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by Charles Trinkaus (Author) Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 07, 2008

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works - Paperback

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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author), H. J. Jackson (Editor)Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English thought. This collection represents the best of Coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific early years, whi...

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by Mez Breeze (Author)Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists." (Florian Cramer). Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 02, 2012

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by Isabelle Simler (Author), Vineet Lal (Translator) "[A] beautiful work of natural history." -- The Wall Street Journal "Astounding, unusual, and breathtaking dwellings."-- Shelf Awareness (STARRED REVIEW) "Stunning . . . An exceptional exploration." -- Booklist (STARRED REVIEW) A spectacular tour through the dwellings of twenty-seven different animals, from a hermit crab's secondhand shell to a beaver's lakeside dam to a comet moth's silk cocoon. Acclaimed creator Isabelle Simler presents...

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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 Anne Waldman (Author)A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poetAcclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical spirit in lockdown, dominated by "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the future of poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter "Anne" is a succubus, and the original Anne has to break free from a metaphorical castle of torture and psychologi...

Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love - Hardcover

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by Pádraig Ó. Tuama (Author)"What is prayer? It's not a passport to heaven. If anything, it's a way of seeing here, a way of being here." In Being Here, acclaimed poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama offers a thoughtful collection of prayers and essays to focus attention in a world full of distractions. Featuring thirty-one collects--an ancient five-fold form of prayer--this unconventional devotional invites readers into a daily rhythm of connection and creativity. "The hope is that you can...

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by Homer (Author), Richmond Lattimore (Translator), Richard Martin (Introduction by)"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation--the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century--while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in anci...

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by Andi Landes (Author), Jacqueline East (Illustrator)Families will enjoy reading this sweet story about a parent's ever-growing love for their child in this book with rhyming text and beautiful illustrations. This small, padded board book is the perfect size for little hands and is a wonderful gift for parents and their babies. A precious love poem written from parent to child, I'll Love You More is a sweetly illustrated board book that will melt hearts. Parents will enjoy sharing these remi...

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by Kahlil Gibran (Author), Kahlil Gibran (Illustrator)Read Gibran's masterpiece in print! Set in the mythic city of Orphalese, The Prophet is a poetic treatise on all facets of life, from the daily realities of clothes and houses, to questions of love, beauty, and self-knowledge. Featuring 12 original illustrations by the author, Gibran's lyric exploration of the human condition is as relevant today as it was nearly a century ago. Dimensions: 0.63 x 7.64 x 4.57 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication...

Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Paperback

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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author) Number of Pages: 496 Dimensions: 1 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

William Morris, Poet, Craftsman, Socialist; By Elizabeth Luther Cary. - Paperback

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by Elisabeth Luther Cary (Author) Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. - Paperback

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by Robert Burns (Author) Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.14 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2006