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by George Gordon Byron (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Don Juan is a satirical poem inspired by the Spanish libertine, who's known for his romantic trysts, frequent adventures and salacious activities throughout the land. George Gordon reinvents the character, by subverting expectations and changing the narrative. The character of Don Juan has an infamous legacy tied to his relations with women. According to Gordon, his exploits began as a teenager when he engaged in an extramarital ...

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by E. Pauline Johnson (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Canadian Born (1895) is a collection of poems by E. Pauline Johnson. Revered as one the foremost indigenous Canadian poets of her time, Johnson was a prolific writer whose works explored her Mohawk heritage while shedding light on the racism and persecution faced by indigenous peoples across North America. Canadian Born captures Johnson's range as a poet in tune with the Romantic tradition without erasing her dualistic sense of id...

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by E. Pauline Johnson (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The White Wampum (1895) is the debut poetry collection of E. Pauline Johnson. Originally published in London, The White Wampum launched her career as one of Canada's most distinguished artists. Revered as one the foremost indigenous poets of her time, Johnson was a prolific writer whose works explored her Mohawk heritage while shedding light on the racism and persecution faced by indigenous peoples across North America. The White ...

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by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading social movements of the ninetee...

The Book of American Negro Poetry - Hardcover

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by James Weldon Johnson (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) is an anthology by James Weldon Johnson. Alongside some of his own poems, Johnson includes the work of such legendary artists as Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Georgia Douglas Johnson. Carefully selected and supported with a masterful preface by Johnson, the poems herein reflect a range of voices, styles, and subjects drawn from tradition and experience alike. ...

History: The Current and the Truth: This They Cannot Hide - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Gina Luv (Author)Gina Luv is an African American poet, who is a writer/author. In her poetic works as a writer, her focus has been to write Non-Fiction stories based on the issues that surrounds us on a daily basis, in which, is hate. Though that is the case, the goal is to inspire change, by encouraging love. And that encouragement has to also be based on the truth, in which, the truth is, there is no room for what continues to destroy, and that has been the e...

Aurora Leigh: A Poem in Nine Books - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Author)Experience the captivating tale of Aurora Leigh, a young woman navigating the complexities of love, society, and self-discovery in 19th century England. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's timeless narrative unfolds with poetic elegance, inviting readers into a world where passion, ambition, and the pursuit of truth collide in unforgettable ways. Number of Pages: 312 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN P...

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Report copyright infringementby Puran Singh (Author)Nargas: Songs of a Sikh (Translations of Bhai Vir Singh's poems) first published in 1924. Nargas is a book of Sikh poems, which in its original garb has won the hearts of its Indian readers by its imagination, spiritual beauty and natural charm. Its writer, we are told, is "the representative poet of the old order of the Sikh poets, who gathered round the throne of their beloved Master, Guru Nanak, in wonder and worship." One is almost afrai...

Where's my Sparkle?: Sparkle from Within: A Magical Quest for Little Dreamers! - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Pellegrino (Author)Story plus coloring activity! Join the magical journey in 'Where's my Sparkle?' where little ones discover their unique magic in everyday moments. This heartwarming tale celebrates self-discovery, spreading joy and teaching that their sparkle is one-of-a-kind! Plus, enjoy an activity at the end, extending the adventure beyond the pages! Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.08 x 10 x 8 IN Publication D...

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Report copyright infringementby Tanisha Goni (Author)These few poems are a glimpse into my heart of my experiences being a first generation American, growing up in a Desi household, going through heartbreak and the joys and sorrows of a new marriage. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 11, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Dorthy Parker (Author)This definitive collection of Dorothy Parker's poetry showcases the wit and intelligence that made her one of the most renowned writers of the 20th century. With biting irony and keen insight, Parker examines the foibles and follies of love, society, and the human condition. This volume is a must-have for fans of modern American literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge b...

A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse - Paperback

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by Amy Levy (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (1889) is a poetry collection by Amy Levy. Published in the year of her death at the age of 27, A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse is the work of a pioneering writer and feminist whose poetry and prose explores the concept of the New Woman while illuminating the realities of Jewish life in nineteenth century London. "Green is the plane-tree in the square, / The other trees are brown; / They droop and pin...

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by Elsa Gidlow (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose political ideology and sexual identity ran counter to the traditional values of her time.Opening her collection with "The Grey Thread," Gidlow expresses herself with ornamental imagery, decoratin...

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by Alice Duer Miller (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Women Are People! (1917) is a collection of poems by Alice Duer Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage, Miller published many of these poems individually in the New York Tribune before compiling them into this larger work. Focusing on the opposition of politicians and citizens alike, Miller makes a compelling and frequently hilarious case for the extension of voting rights to women across the nation. With ...

The Book of American Negro Poetry - Paperback

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by Georgia Douglas Johnson (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Bronze (1922) is a collection of poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson. As Johnson's second published volume, Bronze is an invaluable work of African American literature for scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike. Comprised of some of Johnson's best poems, and graced with a foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois, Bronze showcases her sense of the musicality of language while illuminating the experiences of African American women of the early ...

Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems - Paperback

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by Claude McKay (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems (1920) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published toward the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems is the first of McKay's collections to appear in the United States. As a committed leftist, McKay-who grew up in Jamaica-captures the life of African Americans from a realist's point of view, lamenting their exposure to poverty, racism, and violence while...

A Minor Poet and Other Verse - Paperback

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by Amy Levy (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1884) is a poetry collection by Amy Levy. Published when the poet was only twenty-three years old, A Minor Poet and Other Verse is the work of a pioneering writer and feminist whose poetry and prose explores the concept of the New Woman while illuminating the realities of Jewish life in nineteenth century London. "I am sad / Here in this gracious city, whose white walls / Gleam snow-like in the sunlight; whose ...

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by Sara Teasdale (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Rivers to the Sea (1915) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's third collection, published several years before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Rivers to the Sea revels in the mystery of existence itself. "The park is filled with night and fog, / The veils are d...

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by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) is a collection of poems by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at a turning point in his career as one of the nation's leading black poets, Lyrics of Lowly Life combined his hugely successful volumes Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), establishing his reputation as an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and e...

Frances Harper: Poems, Prose and Sketches - Paperback

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by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading social movements of the ninete...

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems - Paperback

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by Aldous Huxley (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third poetry collection. "The Defeat of Youth" is a moving sonnet sequence on the passage of innocence to experience, on familiar transformation of lo...

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II - Paperback

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by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II (1914) compiles some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known works as a leading poet, playwright, and political thinker of the nineteenth century. As a leading figure among the English Romantics, Shelley was a master of poetic form and tradition who recognized the need for radical change in the social order. His work has influenced such writers and intellectuals as Karl ...

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by Virgil (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)"In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and represents such central European values..." -T.S. EliotThe Georgics (29 BC) is a poem by Roman poet Virgil. Although less prominent than The Aeneid, Virgil's legendary epic of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his discovery of what would later become the city of...

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by Robert Frost (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Mountain Interval (1916) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Having gained success with his first two collections, both published in London, Frost returned home to New Hampshire and completed his third volume, Mountain Interval. The book opens with "The Road Not Taken," and though this would become Frost's most famous poem, the collection is not defined by it. Here we find the hallmarks of Frost's work: rural landsca...

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by Ovid (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." -Michel de MontaigneRemedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. A sequel...

Speakin O' Christmas and Other Christmas Poems - Hardcover

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by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)When he died at just thirty-three years of age, Paul Laurence Dunbar had achieved more than any African American poet before him. Speakin' O' Christmas and Other Christmas Poems is a posthumously published collection of his most festive-holiday themed verses, including, "Chrismus is A-Comin'," "Soliloquy of a Turkey," "Christmas in the Heart," and the titular, "Speakin' O' Christmas." Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8 x 5...

The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey - Hardcover

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by Alexander Lawrence Posey (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)"He was a poet of the first order, a humorist, a philosopher, a man of affairs. He achieved fame as an English-Indian dialect writer and journalist. He was the leading man of the Creeks and the one great man produced by the Confederacy known as the Five Civilized Tribes."Published posthumously in 1910, The Poems of Lawrence Alexander Posey both a collection of poetry and short memoir by one of the late nineteenth century's l...

The Weary Blues: Large Print Edition - Paperback

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by Langston Hughes (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, was a leading Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance Hughes invented jazz poetry Regardless of whether he was gay, bisexual, or asexual (all of which have been debated), Langston Hughes was certainly a prominent LGBT figure in the 1920s. The Mint Editions edition of The Weary Blues will be a premiere title in our Harlem Renaissance library.Back Jacket"Sweet Blues! / Coming from a Black man's soul...

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by Edmund Spenser (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)"The general end, therefore, of all [The Faerie Queene], is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read."Hailed as one of the most influential poems in the English language, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene is an epic masterpiece of Arthurian romance...

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by Amy Lowell (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) is a poetry collection by Amy Lowell. Published at the beginning of her career as an influential imagist devoted to classical poetic themes and forms, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed is an agile and promising work from a pioneering poet of the early twentieth century. The title poem of Lowell's collection is an imaginative voyage into the mind of a poet struggling with writer's block, who scans the city for ...

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by Sara Teasdale (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Love Songs (1917) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's fourth collection, for which she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Love Songs revels in the mystery of existence itself. From despair to elation, confusion to security, Sara Teasdale captures the many emotions at...