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The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid Box Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Boxed Set

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by Homer (Author), Virgil (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator)A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles's interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each v...

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? - Paperback

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by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), Jeffrey Sacks (Translator)Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul. -- Elias Khoury The book tugs at the reader's heart page after page, poem after poem, line after line, you cannot remain apathetic for a moment... --Haaretz At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Darwish's intertwined poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the hu...

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by Ann Fisher-Wirth (Editor), Laura-Gray Street (Editor), Robert Hass (Introduction by)Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world and inquires of our human place in a vastness beyond the human. To establish the antecedents of today's ...

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by Wu Ch'êng-Ên (Author), Arthur Waley (Translator), Hu Shih (Introduction by)Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies. This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Wal...

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by Rudy Francisco (Author)Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With every book, the author utilizes various tools and methods to excavate his experiences and find poetry in everyday things. Rudy believes that poetry can be found in our immediate surroundings at any given moment and poignantly includes this idea as the foundation of his work. In this book, Rudy Francisco bravely explores poetic forms such as the contrapuntal, golden shov...

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things - Paperback

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by Amanda Lovelace (Author)in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems. within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is no need to choose one or the other.Author Biographyamanda lovelace is the author of several bestselling poetry titles, incl...

A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke - Hardcover

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by Anita Barrows (Author), Joanna Macy (Author)One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, ...

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music - Hardcover

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by Margarita Engle (Author), Rafael López (Illustrator)Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule--until the drum dream girl.In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.Inspired by the childhood of Mil...

What I Lick Before Your Face: And Other Haikus by Dogs - Hardcover

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by Jamie Coleman (Author)"The one book every dog lover should have at their fingertips for an instant smile." --The New Barker The perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere--a heartwarming and hilarious collection of sixty-four haikus and gorgeous color photographs celebrating man's best friend. From the perks of face licking to considering what constitutes a good boy, these charming and laugh-out-loud funny haikus take us into the minds of our beloved pets. Capturing the quirky personalities of...

Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them - Hardcover

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by Emily Dickinson (Author), Cristanne Miller (Editor)Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand--presumably to preserve them for posterity--from the ones she kept in rougher for...

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by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...

William Blake: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by William Blake (Author), Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour" William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. This edition presents Blake's poem...

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by Lauren K. Watel (Author)Winner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.Written with tremendous urgency and ferocious candor, the prose poems of Book of Potions captures a woman caught in the middle of life: no longer young, not yet old, trapped between generations, locked in stereotyped roles and stultifying social norms, confined by other people's expectations and their projections of what a woman should be.By turns enraged, funny, frustrated, astute and j...

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by Nikki Grimes (Author), Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)Award-winning poet Nikki Grimes presents a tender poetry collection where a young girl learns about her mother, the child of an Air Force serviceman.During a visit to her grandma's house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mother when she was growing up. Her mother's family often moved around the United States and the world because her mother's father was in the Air Force. Over the years, her mother u...

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by Mohammed El-Kurd (Author), Aja Monet (Foreword by)Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd's ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 'Jerusalem is ours.'Author BiographyMohammed El-Kurd is an internationally-touring poet and writer from Jerusalem, Palestine. His work has been featured in The Guardian, The Nation, This Week In Palestine, Al-Jazeera English, and the forthcoming Vacuuming Away Fire anthology, among others. Mohammed graduated from the Sav...

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by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (Author), Robin Myers (Translator), Hector Abad (Afterword by)A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for readers of Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, and fans of the earth-body artwork of Ana Mendieta The Brush is an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma - and its horrific relevance in today's Colombia, where mass killings continue. Told from the voices Pablo, Ester, and the Brush itself, Hernández-Pachón's poem is an astoun...

Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005-2022 - Hardcover

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by Durs Grünbein (Author), Karen Leeder (Translator)A dazzling selection of more than one hundred poems that trace the development of Durs Grünbein's work over the past two decades. Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Since 1988, when the then-twenty-five-year-old burst onto the scene with his poetry collection Grauzone morgens--a mordant reckoning with the East Germany he grew up in--Grünbein has published more tha...

The Odyssey: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

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by Homer (Author), Emily Wilson (Translator)This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are carefully chosen passages from (mainly) ancient texts that provide insight into The Odyssey...

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by Diana Khoi Nguyen (Author)Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids, and her family captured around an empty space.Author BiographyBorn in Los...

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by Various (Author), Christopher Wait (Editor)Our canine companions offer us friendship, love, understanding, all unadulterated. They are our joyful playmates and our furry shoulders to cry on, from the cradle to the grave. This book brings together some of the finest poems on dogs by a range of poets from Diogenes to Dorothy Parker, from Chaucer to Clarice Lispector. Gertrude Stein once said, "I am I because my little dog knows me," and this collection proves it: with their wit, their wisdom...

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by Brian Lies (Author)FromCaldecott honor-winning and New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Brian Lies, a charming and lyrical beachy read perfect for summertime--or anytime. The first of many nighttime adventures with the award-winning Bat Book series. Quick, call out! Tell all you can reach: the night is just perfect for bats at the beach! So pack your buckets, banjos, and blankets--don't forget the moon-tan lotion--and wing with this bunch of fuzzy bats to where foamy sea and so...

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by Sue Williams (Author), Julie Vivas (Illustrator)A child discovers a parade of animals in this vibrant board book filled with playful humor and rhyme.This simple, funny read-aloud follows a boy's exciting stroll through the countryside. The boy sees a black cat, then a brown horse, then a red cow, and so on, and before he knows it, he's being trailed by the entire menagerie!Big type, repetition, lively art, and the visual guessing game created by introducing each animal only partially at fi...

Switch: The Complete Catullus - Paperback

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by Isobel Williams (Author)During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021, finally surrendered to her. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents, not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The conflict wa...

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Hardcover

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by Emily Dickinson (Author)This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections -- some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems -- did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bo...

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by Bob Ambrose (Author) "Bob Ambrose writes poetry that is a perfect combination of intellect and soul. He may be talking about mathematical equations, and he is also talking about warm suns and drifting down whole days. He writes poetry that is a perfect connection between dailiness and existential realities. Bob's poetry always reminds us that the earth is a gateway to eternity and that it is for eternity that we are built."- Elizabeth Harper Neeld, Ph.D., author"Seven Choices: Finding Dayl...

Goodnight, Veggies Board Book - Board Book

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by Diana Murray (Author), Zachariah Ohora (Illustrator)★ "The childlike approach, appealing art, and relatable worm character...connect story and audience." --The Horn Book, STARRED reviewEvery veggie needs their shut-eye in this bedtime book that celebrates community, the joys of a small garden, and the importance of taking care of ourselves. Illustrated by New York Times bestselling artist Zachariah OHora, Goodnight Veggies is perfect for fans of the Llama Llama series and will keep emergin...

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.Author BiographyYUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University. He is the author of seven Wesleyan titles including Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (2001), Thieves of Paradise (1998), Magic City (1992), and Dien Cai Dau (1988). Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.48 x 5.55 IN Publication Date: April 30, 1993 Award: Pulitzer Prize (1994)

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry - Paperback

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by Rita Dove (Editor)Penguin's landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award (Dove) Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Now available in paperback, this indispensable volume represents th...

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by David Whyte (Author)In this book, poet David Whyte turns his attention to the deepest longing of human beings - the desire to belong to people and places and the many ways of experiencing a sense of home. The House of Belonging has sold over 50,000 copies and contains some of his most beloved poems, such as The Truelove, The Journey, and Sweet Darkness. The deeply moving title poem reads as balm and benediction to wherever one finds one's home in the world, and taken together, the collecti...

Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry - Paperback

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by Cmarie Fuhrman (Editor), Elizabeth Bradfield (Editor), Derek Sheffield (Editor)Have you ever been so filled up with the wonder of a place that it wants to spill out as a song? Well, here is the songbook. I imagine walking through a forest and pausing to read these illuminating pages aloud to a listening cedar or a dipper. There are field guides that help us to see, and to name, and to know; Cascadia Field Guide does all of that and more. This is a guide to relationship, a gift in reciproci...

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by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author)Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This new edition includes a comprehensive introduction that summarizes som...

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin - Paperback

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by Terrance Hayes (Author)Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of ...