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For Every Little Thing: Poems and Prayers to Celebrate the Day - Hardcover

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by June Cotner (Editor), Nancy Tupper Ling (Editor), Helen Cann (Illustrator)A Junior Library Guild Selection A Society of Illustrators "The Original Art" Annual Exhibition Selection Kirkus Reviews: "Thoughtfully selected and prettily illustrated." Wall Street Journal: "Illustrated with careful delicacy...With works from a range of cultural and religious traditions, this book will encourage 4- to 10-year-olds to count their blessings." The Inner Source Network: "We suspect that the words wi...

Eternal Rising: Inspiring Your Greater Potential and Illuminating Your Way - Hardcover

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by Johnny Blackburn (Author)Eternal Rising is a collection of inspired writings that may illuminate new perspectives, touch your heart and move you to tears or crack you Open so wide the book drops and all relaxes into the seamless sea of Presence. Blackburn may not follow the poetic proper of rhythm and meter, but his words take readers on a journey deep within and beyond. His deep understanding of the nuances of human development offers a grounded practicality that helps us feel our deeper ...

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by Don Mee Choi (Author)WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War cranes had no place to land.' Devastating and vigilant, this bricolage of survivor accounts, drawings, photographs, and hand-written texts unearth the truth between fact and the critical imagination. We are all 'victims of H...

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by Walt Whitman (Author), Ken Mondschein (Introduction by)A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent almost four decades piecing together the complete work,...

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by Georges Feydeau (Author), Nicki Frei (Translator), Peter Hall (Translator)Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993."Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue" - Sunday Times Author BiographyGeorges Feydeau (1862-1921) is best known for his enduring farces, such as 'A Flea in her Ear', yet he wrote over 20 mono...

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by Tracy K. Smith (Author)Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ** A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs...

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by C. P. Cavafy (Author), Evangelos Sachperoglou (Translator), Anthony Hirst (Author)"A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." E. M. Forster's famous description of C. P. Cavafy--the most widely known and best loved modern Greek poet--perfectly captures the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language. Cavafy wrote about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identi...

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by Muriel Rukeyser (Author), Catherine Venable Moore (Introduction by)"Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the ove...

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by 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

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by 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 Alexie. Collected here are poems...

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by Ruth Stone (Author)Winner: National Book Award and Wallace Stevens Award. "A marvelous tribute to love and survival."--The New York TimesAuthor BiographyRuth Stone is the author of nine books of poetry, for which she has received the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award. She taught creative writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. She lives in Vermont. Number of Pages: 99 Dimensions: 0...

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by Mary Szybist (Author)Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry * An NPR, Slate, Oregonian, Kansas City Star, Willamette Week, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Amazon's Best Book of the Year in Poetry 2013 * In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. One poem is presented as a diagrammed sentence. Another is an abecedarium made of lines of dialogue spoken by girls overheard while assembling a puzzle. Several poems ar...

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by Virgil (Author), Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." --New York Review of Books Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission--translated by Robert Fitzgerald.Front JacketVirgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civili...

Respect the MIC: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School - Paperback

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by Peter Kahn (Editor), Hanif Abdurraqib (Editor), Dan Sully Sullivan (Editor)An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club -- now in paperback! "Poets I know sometimes joke that the poetry club at Oak Park River Forest High School is the best MFA program in the Chicagoland area. Like all great jokes, this one is dead serious." -Eve L. Ewing, award-winning poet, playwright, schola...

Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems - Paperback

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by James Baldwin (Author), Nikky Finney (Introduction by)All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise. These books, among them Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, Giovanni's Room, and Go Tell It on the Mountain, brought him well-deserved acclaim a...

Autumn: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Stories for Young Children - Paperback

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by Wynstones Press (Author), Jennifer Aulie (Introduction by)Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter contain a wide variety of poems, songs, and stories of the seasons and many contributions for festivals. The volume titled Spindrift contains material for use throughout the year, including more than forty stories, many different cultures around the world. And Gateways contains sections on morning, evening, birthdays, and fairy tales.Based on work in Waldorf kindergartens, these books provide inval...

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by Cola Franzen (Translator)These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face. Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring appeal through the versions by Emilio Garc a G mez. This poetry of Arab Andalusia made a profound impact on Spain's Generation of '27. Rafael Alberti says that it was ...

Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science - Paperback

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by Joshua Poteat (Author)In this book-length series, poems with titles such as "Illustrating the theory of interference" and "Illustrating the construction of railroads" are paired with nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics. Yet the poems relate to the images in an oblique rather than a direct way. Poteat uses this framework to construct a mysterious and engaging book that inhabits many worlds at once, bridging the real and the imagined, the ...

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land - Paperback

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by Aimé Césaire (Author), Clayton Eshleman (Translator), Annette Smith (Editor)Césaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of lan...

Martín and Meditations on the South Valley: Poems - Paperback

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by Jimmy Santiago Baca (Author)Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martín & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or detribalized Apache. Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in the stubborn and beautiful world of the barrio. Jimmy Santiago Baca writes with unconcealed passion, Denise Levertov states in her introduction, "but he is far from...

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen - Paperback

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by Wilfred Owen (Author), C. Day Lewis (Editor), Edmund Blunden (Other)Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen's papers in the British Museum and other archives.Back JacketThis definitive edition of Owen's poetry, based on a close study of th...

Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold - Hardcover

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by Joyce Sidman (Author), Rick Allen (Illustrator)In this outstanding picture book collection of poems by Newbery Honor-winning poet, Joyce Sidman (Song of the Water Boatman, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night), discover how animals stay alive in the wintertime and learn about their secret lives happening under the snow. Paired with stunning linoleum print illustrations by Rick Allen, that celebrate nature's beauty and power. Author BiographyThe Newbery Honor Award winner Joyce Sidman...

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by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author), Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)Bilbo's Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien's epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and a tender farewell to friends left behind. Pauline Baynes's jewel-like illustrations lushly depict both this final voyage and scenes from The H...

The Waste Land and Other Writings - Paperback

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by T. S. Eliot (Author), Mary Karr (Introduction by)Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood Introduction by Mary Karr First published in 1922, "The Waste Land," T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemp...

Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy: Including the First English Translation of the Unfinished Poems - Paperback

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by C. P. Cavafy (Author), Daniel Mendelsohn (Translator)Author BiographyDaniel Mendelsohn was born on Long Island and studied classics at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. His reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear frequently in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His books include a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of S...

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained - Paperback

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by John Milton (Author), Christopher Ricks (Editor), Susanne Woods (Introduction by)These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human.Author BiographyJohn Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those am...

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by Raffi (Illustrator), Nadine Bernard Westcott (Illustrator)Raffi's hilarious version of the classic song about strange events that happen down by the bay, where the watermelons grow... Singing supports and encourages even the youngest child's speech and listening skills, which makes Down by the Bay perfect for early learning. In this friendly board book edition, irresistible art by Nadine Bernard Westcott depicts wonderfully amusing creatures such as a bear combing his hair, a goose kissing...

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Brantley (Author) Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2025

Sunlight & Moonbeams - Spells of Times Anew

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Report copyright infringementby Felicia Lang (Author), Sarah Longfellow (Editor)Embark on a journey of self-discovery with Sunlight & Moonbeams: Spells of Times Anew, a uniquely illustrated spell book. Unlock your true identity and ignite an inner revolution. Transform your life and those around you through the power of art, words and emotions. A must-read for spiritual growth seekers and self-help enthusiasts.Sunlight & Moonbeams: Spells of Times Anew is a powerful visual guide that ...

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Report copyright infringementby George MacDonald (Author)George MacDonald's Diary of an Old Soul represents a yearlong poetic conversation with God. MacDonald charts, in one stanza per day, the journey of a faithful heart confounded by the tragic deaths of MacDonald's two children. Diary of an Old Soul is one man's intimate spiritual journey through tragedy toward the certainty of lived faith, where the Holy becomes beloved Friend and loving Father. Number of Pages: 56 ...

Inspirations: Encourage Your Hopes and Dreams

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Report copyright infringementby Publications International Ltd (Author)Discover more than 230 uplifting ideas, affirmation statements, and quotes that will motivate you to achieve your hopes and dreams! Inspirations makes an excellent gift for a friend or family member who is embarking on a new stage in life, such as a graduation or milestone birthday. Chapters include Pursue Your Purpose, Believe in Yourself, Overcome Adversity, Embrace Change, Relieve Stress, Foster Inner Peace, Nurture ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jalaluddin Rumi (Author) Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 12, 2025