Poetry

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by Susan Holbrook (Author)Susan Holbrook's friendly and welcoming introduction to poetry now includes more contemporary poems and updated MLA citation guidance. Back JacketHow to Read (and Write About) Poetry invites students and others curious about poetry to join the critical conversation about a genre many find a little mystifying, even intimidating. In an accessible, engaging manner, this book introduces the productive questions, reading strategies, literary terms, and secondary research ...

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Report copyright infringementby Denise Levertov (Author), Paul A. Lacey (Editor), Eavan Boland (Introduction by)How splendid and impressive to have a complete, clear, and unobstructed view of Denise Levertov. Covering more than six decades and including, chronologically, every poem she ever published, Levertov's Collected Poems presents her marvelous, groundbreaking work in full.Born in England, Denise Levertov emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where she was acclaimed by Kenneth Rexroth...

Poetry Prompts: All Sorts of Ways to Start a Poem from Joseph Coelho

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Coelho (Author), Georgie Birkett (Illustrator), Amanda Quartey (Illustrator)A compendium of poetry prompts from Joseph Coelho (Children's Laureate 2022-2024). *2024 Everymom Best Book for Early Reading**2024 CBC Librarian FAVORITES**2024 CBC Teacher FAVORITES* Each fun and engaging prompt for writing a poem helps children discover how to write poems and then read them out loud. This is a book to build confidence and literacy skills through channeling chi...

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Barnard Booth (Author), Marc Martin (Illustrator)A National Science Teaching Association Outstanding Science Trade Book Follow a stone's journey through time as it faces ice, water, wind, and scorching heat in this beautiful nonfiction picture book that is Seeds Move! meets A Stone Sat Still. "Where do rocks come from?" The answer may be more incredible than you think! After all, a stone is not just a stone: a stone is a story. Embark on a journey across...

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Report copyright infringementby Mahogany L. Browne (Author), Elizabeth Acevedo (Author), Olivia Gatwood (Author)"This collection of poems by women of color covers topics relating to social justice, activism, discrimination and empathy, focusing on the need to speak out and inspiring middle-graders." -Vogue Woke: A Young Poet's Guide to Justice is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists. Historically poets have been on the forefront of social...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."Author BiographyA private pe...

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Report copyright infringementby Pádraig Ó. Tuama (Author)Written by the engaging host of the popular show, Poetry Unbound, the poems of Kitchen Hymns are finely honed melodies of survival--shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.Pádraig Ó Tuama's Kitchen Hymns opens with a question: "Do You Believe in God?" -- but the bee, "gone extinct," cannot answer, and the grass calls believe "a poor verb." This collection trades belief for language, and philosophy is grounded in form and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Siken (Author)*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Finalist*I Do Know Some Things is a brave book, both in content and method.It is brave to write about childhood scars and the heartbreak the dead leave behind. It is brave to reconfigure one's life in the aftermath of a stroke. Richard Siken presents these subjects directly, without ornament, and with nothing to hide behind, confronting the fact that he can no longer manipulate the constructions of form, or speak ...

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Report copyright infringementby Harryette Mullen (Author)Harryette Mullen is one of contemporary poetry's most influential voices, for her inventive language play, keen wit, formal experimentation, and pointed critique of American culture. In Regaining Unconsciousness, her first new collection in twelve years, Mullen confronts the imminent dangers of our present to sound an alarm for our future, to wake us out of our complicity and despondency: Can we, even still, find our way to our unconsci...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Young (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY - WINNER OF THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on the generative cycle of loss and renewal "Kevin Young is a poet of exceptional depth and sensitivity. . . . Let yourself fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Kay Gabriel (Author)Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life.Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And--a classic organizer's question--how do we turn what we have ...

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing - Paperback

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by Kevin Young (Author) "Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets." -Billy CollinsThe Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as we...

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by Eileen Myles (Author)In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--National Public Radio "This is signature Myles: the unconventional syntax, the jazzy rhythms, the total commitment to writing in the heat of the moment, not edited or modula...

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Report copyright infringementby 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 t...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Bradley (Author)If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wor...

The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Addonizio (Author), Dorianne Laux (Author) The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life--including self-doubt and writer's block--are here, along with tips about getting published and writing in the electronic age. On your own, this book can be your "teacher," while groups, in or out of the classroom, can ...

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Report copyright infringementby Child Of God (Author)Whispers of the Holy Spirit - Gentleness is not a manual of instruction, but a sanctuary of stillness. Within these pages, you will not find arguments or noise, but the quiet radiance of Christ's voice - the gentle strength that conquers without violence, and the meekness that inherits the earth.Through poetic meditations, contemplative devotionals, and the tender breath of Scripture, this book invites you into the Lamb's way of love. Each ...

Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics - Paperback

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)A repackaged edition of the revered author's first book--a collection of poems, written in the wake of World War I, in which the young intellectual and soldier wrestles with the perplexing polarities of life, including love and war, evil and goodness, and other complex dichotomies.In 1919, C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce...

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by Billy Collins (Author)A wondrous collection from Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of The Rain in Portugal "The poems are marked by his characteristic humor and arise out of small, banal moments, unearthing the extraordinary or uncanny in the everyday."--The Wall Street JournalWhale Day brings together more than fifty poems and showcases the deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made Billy Collins one of our country's most celebrat...

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Report copyright infringementby Shane McCrae (Author)Shane McCrae, "peer to the peerless" (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell. Of death the muse is death the muse of HellIs death the muse of Heaven I don't knowO muse of where howcan I hope to goTo where I pray I'll go sing at least tell Shane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has created a twenty-first-century epic in New an...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Burgess (Author), Doug Salati (Illustrator)THREE STARRED REVIEWS! - From award-winning author Matthew Burgess and Caldecott medalist Doug Salati comes a spellbinding collection of poems for young readers that celebrates the power of words to awaken the imagination and alchemize the everyday. A gorgeous gift book for fans of Shel Silverstein with seven die-cut spreads throughout. Beyond the doorway of the first page of this collection awaits a dragon piñ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aharon Shabtai (Author), Peter Cole (Translator) WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for stocktaking and peace, Requiem cries out for an end to carnage and slaughter: "The horror / the calamity / the disgrace, / the rubble of folly / and religion's stupidities, / the dimness of vision / and violence of despair / won't be repaired by an officer, / a bomb or a plane, / and not by still more blood. / ...

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Report copyright infringementby W. J. Lofton (Author)51 achingly eloquent poems from a young Cave Canem fellow: W. J. Lofton's verses explore Black queer Southern identity, grief, love, and intimacy while enduring and witnessing unfreedom in America W. J. Lofton writes vivid, accessible poems that channel the energy, urgency, ambitions, joys, and sorrows of a young Black queer artist. They are about love and flirtation, sweet tea and hot sauce, God and family, life and death, police brutality...

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by Ocean Vuong (Author)The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016 New York Times, Critics Pick Boston Globe, Best Books listing Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year Library Journal, Best Books of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly thin...

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Ginsberg (Author)Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs.One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Ginsberg became internationally famous not only for his published works but for his actions as a human rights activist who championed the sexu...

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

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Report copyright infringementby Nikita Gill (Author)Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesses, both great and small, in their own words. With lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill (Fierce Fairytales, Wild Embers) uses the history of Ancient Greece and beyond to explore and share the stories of the mothers, warriors, creators, survivors, and destroyers who shook the wor...

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Report copyright infringementby D. J. Steinberg (Author), John Joven (Illustrator)A book for all preschoolers-to-be from the author of Kindergarten, Here I Come! Now includes a sheet of stickers! From saying goodbye to parents on the very first day of school to watching butterflies hatch in spring, D. J. Steinberg celebrates all the landmark moments of preschool. Because the year is full of so many firsts, this collection of funny, joyful poems is a must-have for all small scholars in the mak...

Stripped: A Collection of Poems Written in Recovery

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Report copyright infringementby Cissy Stag (Author)Hi. I'm Cissy. I started a business making glitter heels for strippers and pole dancers in July 2023. I failed epically during my first year of business. My content struck a nerve with my new community in North Carolina. I was intensely cyberbullied and ostracized. By August 18, 2023, I had my first stalker on Instagram.Triggered by stress from being cyberbullied and stalked, I experienced my first psychotic episode. I developed intense surve...

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Report copyright infringementby L. E. Bowman (Author)L.E. Bowman's latest collection Shapeshifter aches with the soft sorrows and hard-won joys of life.Melodic and introspective, Bowman's poems converse--struggling with grief and hopelessness while fighting for love and recovery. Shapeshifter grounds the reader in the body, ever transforming with age and experience. Reckoning with self-image, heartbreak, and motherhood, this collection emphasizes the beauty in mundanity--the journey that is l...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Patrick Parker (Author)Are you carrying everyone else while your own healing goes undone? Are you carrying the silent ache of being misunderstood by the ones you love the most? Have you longed for the freedom to simply be, rather than a version of yourself shaped by others' demands? Are you ready to live fully, unapologetically, and finally with clarity?In his debut memoir, UNMASKED: A Poetic Memoir through Trauma, Identity, and the Sacred Work of Healing,...

Wildflower Emily: A Story about Young Emily Dickinson - Paperback

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by Lydia Corry (Author), Lydia Corry (Illustrator)Emily Dickinson is one of America's greatest and most original poets of all time. When you hear her name, you may imagine the famous recluse whose withdrawal from society became legendary. But it's time to meet a new side of Emily, one that is powerful, adventurous, and joyful. Follow along as we delve into Emily Dickinson's childhood, revealing a young girl desperate to go out exploring--to meet the flowers in their own homes. Wade through ta...

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Report copyright infringementby Teresa J. Scollon (Author)FINALIST, Foreword INDIES Book of the YearFrom Anne-Marie Oomen, Michigan Author Award Winner: "With immense compassion and gentle humor, Scollon weaves these poems out of a love for the world and grief for its losses. Offering readers a fierce and close attention, she witnesses wonder, geraniums, love, turtles, and the tenderness we crave if we are human. . . . Without ever denying the terrible injustices of our time, but with a lyric...