Poetry

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Have You Ever Stopped To Think - Paperback

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by Sally Wilson (Author), Mark Kruger (Composer)'Have You Ever Stopped To Think, ' the first book in Sally Wilson's 'The LaLa Chronicles series', opens a world where whimsy and wisdom meld seamlessly in the lives of comical characters, including the Zimney, Sozit, Fink, and Moof.An adventure for the young and young at heart into the wild of our own vulnerabilities and strengths, this beautiful, playful poetry embraces the imaginative, messy, and magnificent journey-the shared experiences that...

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth - Paperback

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by Robert Graves (Author), Grevel Lindop (Editor)The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and...

Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words [With CD (Audio)] - Paperback

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by Kim Rosen (Author)Can someone really be saved by a poem? In Kim Rosen's book, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner source of joy, freedom, and insight. Whether you are a lover of poetry or have yet to discover its power, Rosen offers a new way to experience a poem. She encourages you to feel the poem as...

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by Sam Taylor (Author)Powerful debut by poet who splits time teaching at UNM-Taos and caretaking snowbound wilderness refuge.Author BiographyA graduate of Swarthmore College and former Michener Fellow in the MFA Program at University of Texas, his poems have appeared in numerous publications, and received the Florida Review Editor's Poetry 2002 Poetry Prize. He splits his time teaching at UNM-Taos and caretaking for a snowbound wilderness refuge. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.62 x...

The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen - Paperback

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by Rolf Jacobsen (Author), Robert Bly (Translator), Robert Hedin (Translator)Bilingual volume of one of Europe's most reverred poets, with introduction by Robert Bly.Author BiographyRobert Bly is one of the most influential poets, translators, and editors of his generation. He is the author of numerous books, including the National Book Award-winning Silence in the Snowy Fields and the iconic (and best-selling) Iron John. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.54 x 8.94 x 6.02 IN Publication Date...

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by Deborah Landau (Author)Landau creates "a poetry of vibrant physicality, open to joy and to failure."-Mark Doty Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: June 21, 2011

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by Amy Uyematsu (Author)Uyematsu's poems articulate a distinct perspective--a life defined by poetry, mathematics and Asian identity.Author BiographyAmy Uyematsu is the author of two previous books of poetry. In addition to her poetry, she has taught high school math for the Los Angeles Unified School District for the last twenty-six years. A third-generation Japanese American, Uyematsu helped pioneer the Asian American Studies program at UCLA. She lives in Culver City, CA. Number of Pages: 9...

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by Ellen Bass (Author)"Poetry," writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, "is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It's the way I embody my love for the world." The Human Line, Bass' seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life's endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the crucial moral dilemmas of our time--g...

The Dance of No Hard Feelings - Paperback

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by Mark Bibbins (Author)"Mark Bibbins [is a] brilliant young poet." --John AshberyAuthor BiographyMark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings; The Anxiety of Coincidence, a digital-only chapbook; and Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded LIT magazine, and at Columbia University. Bibbins is the editor of the poetry section of The Awl and the recipient of a New York Foundation for ...

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by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Author)Sáenz turns to memory, heritage, and the living desert as he confronts faith and contemporary politicsAuthor BiographyA former Catholic priest, Benjamin Sáenz, has published five books of poetry, four novels, a collection of short stories, and two bilingual children's books. He received the American Book Award, and teaches in the MFA program at University of Texas, El Paso. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2010

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by Nikky Finney (Author)Winner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen...

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by Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Author)Lima:: Limón traces machismo, womanhood, and culture across borders, raising questions to the gods while finding answers within the flesh.Author BiographyNatalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of The Verging Cities, as well as the recipient of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the National Association of Chicano/a Studies Book Award. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.4 x 6.6 IN Publication Date: May...

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by Marlene Fekete (Author)Proverbs 12:10 "The righteous regards the care of his animals" so shall it be in Heaven.Believing Christians have the authority to call themselves saints.Also, un-aware are angels on Earth among us.Wishing to have the given authority from God to claim myself as one unaware angel instead of Saint on Earth.I could do things needed invisible, unseen and still proclaim the Gospel told!If given the opportunity to live a little longer allowing me to acknowledging the mirac...

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by Paul Val?ry (Author), Paul Ryan (Author)'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he abruptly abandoned verse for twenty years. If the publication of The Young Fate in 1917 won him immediate and immense acclaim, his status as the outstanding poet of the era was firmly consolidated with the...

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by Kate Noakes (Author)Chalking the Pavement, written during the first part of the Covid pandemic, includes a number of poems, as well as a long extract from Kate Noakes' daily writings, which take the form of prose poems. Noakes aims to capture the soon-forgotten details of the changes to our lives during this extraordinary period, when living in the city became something of a prison. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 30, 2024

Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems - Paperback

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by Jim Harrison (Author), Joseph Bednarik (Editor)An untrammeled renegade genius... Here is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.--Publishers Weekly Starred Review in Booklist: "[C]hoices of poems from each of Harrison's books are passionate and sharp... Of special note is a section from Letters to Yesenin, a book-length poem, and the title poem from The Theory and Practice of Rivers , which contains these echoin...

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!: An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year - Hardcover

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by Britta Teckentrup (Illustrator), Fiona Waters (Editor)A lavishly illustrated collection of 366 animal poems--one for every day of the year! The perfect book for children (and grown-ups!) to share at the beginning or end of the day. Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 animal poems--one for every day of the year. Filled with favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets, including William Blake, Christina Rosetti, Carl Sandburg, Grace ...

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by Laura Kasischke (Author)"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."--The New York Times Book Review"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."--Austin American-StatesmanLaura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragm...

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by Jim Harrison (Author)Harrison was suicidal while writing Letters to Yesenin; these poems saved his life.Author BiographyJim Harrison is the author of thirty books, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Shape of the Journey. His work has been translated into two dozen languages and produced as four feature-length films. In 2007, Mr. Harrison was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: ...

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by Anna Swir (Author), Czeslaw Milosz (Translator)With a critical afterword by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and National Book Award nominee Leonard Nathan. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.44 x 5.48 IN Publication Date: April 01, 1996

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by Bell Hooks (Author)The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of 50 love poems by the icon of the feminist movement and most famous among public intellectuals. In beautiful, profoundly poetic terms, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love--tracing...

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by Noor Unnahar (Author)Noor Unnahar is a young female voice with power and depth. The Pakistani poet's moving, personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one's self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult. Tinged with the heartbreak of a broken home and the complexity of a rich cultural background, yesterday i was the moon stands out from the Insta-poetry crowd as a collection worth keeping. yesterday i was the moon centers around themes o...

Touching Greece: Short Stories, Articles, and Poems - Paperback

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by Gordon G. Hall (Author)I am an Englishman in Greece. What brought me here originally was a sense of challenge, to travel alone at the sort of age when most of my countrymen are toasting their slippers in front of a fire - or pruning their roses. I cannot say why I chose Greece. Perhaps it was a sense of solidarity in the face of Crisis, a vague idea that if I was going to spend my English pension anywhere then it might as well be in a country that needed it! But above all there is I think ...

A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year - Hardcover

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by Lou Peacock (Author), Matt Hunt (Illustrator)A collection of 366 hilarious poems about animals, families, school, food, holidays, and much more! From the creators behind the award-winning anthologies Sing a Song of Seasons and Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright, this rib-tickling illustrated anthology is filled with unforgettable classics and new discoveries, including poetry in translation. The spectacular range of poems for children includes work by John Agard Maya Angelou Brian Bilston ...

Kindest Regards: Poems, Selected and New - Paperback

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by Ted Kooser (Author)Four decades of poetry―and a generous selection of new work―make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest, Kooser's poetry succeeds in finding the emotional resonances within the ordinary. Kooser's language of quiet intensity trains itself on the intricacies of human relationships, as well as the animals and objects that make up our days. As Poetry magazine said of his work, "Kooser documents the...

The 100 Best Poems of All Time - Paperback

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by Leslie Pockell (Author)This poetry companion puts favourite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites. Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to carry around their favorite poems, and ideal for the reader seeking an introd...

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by Lindsey Goddard (Author) Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 16, 2025

A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening - Hardcover

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by Jane McMorland Hunter (Author)Poems to celebrate spring. A sublime bedside companion to enjoy as the frost melts and days grow longer, with poems to immerse yourself in the season. From William Blake and Emily Dickinson to Robert Browning and Eleanor Farjeon, some of the finest poets that ever put pen to paper describe this wondrous season of new beginnings. With one entry for every day through spring, from March 1 until May 31, this collection of 91 poems will invigorate you in the warmer...

Haiku, Ew!: Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature - Hardcover

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by Lynn Brunelle (Author), Julia Patton (Illustrator)Nature is beautiful! It's magnificent! It's amazing! And it's also super gross!Fourteen hilariously icky haiku present the grosser side of nature. Check out flamingos that keep cool by pooping on their legs. And butterflies that emerge from oozy caterpillar soup. The haiku are accompanied by additional facts that will delight--and disgust--readers of all ages. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.47 x 10.87 x 8.98 IN Publication Date: April 02...

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by Daniel Lehner (Author), Mirna Lturbe (Artist), Joey Dalcin (Artist)A World Without Borders (Un Mundo Sin Fronteras) is a collection of poetry by Daniel Lehner and art created by several contributors, with a focus on the situation happening at the US southern border. All the poems are also translated into Spanish. Other contributors include Mirna Lturbe, Joey Dalcin, Jack Grine, Kathryn Bencriscutto, Luis Lopez, Dora Rodriguez and Barbara With.Proceeds from the sale of this book go direcly ...

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by George Jr. Elliott (Author)Growing up on the East Side of Chicago, the streets were homeThese are the stories of my life, my struggles with lossIn 2010, I caught the Coxsackievirus, after that meningitis followedThis left me to learn walking, talking, and reading againThrough these years, I have had fifteen surgeriesIn September 2016, I was diagnosed with first -stage dementiaThat is when I started writing and have not stopped sinceMy goal one day is donating my time and money for all ment...

Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism - Hardcover

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by Dalida Agri (Author)This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus...