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[2013]
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English
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In The Exchange, poet Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront with stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world-the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion- intrudes. Hers is a look behind the curtain...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Covering a wide variety of STEAM topics, including geology, paleontology, physics, astronomy, creative writing and drawing, this collection of poems is presented in the format of an allegorical house that sparks wonder and shows readers how to kindle it in themselves"--
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"Welcome, friends, and settle in: There's lots to do and see as I tell you the story of our oldest, wisest tree...Join BEAR and his friends through the seasons as they prepare a MAGICAL BIRTHDAY PARTY for GRAND OLD OAK, with lots of THINGS to SPOT along the way"--Back cover.
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2024.
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English
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe's four previous collections-including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the...
12) True life
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English
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In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world’s most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it.
"A stunning, intimate collection by Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021), 'the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time' (Mary Oliver)"--
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry that collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring...
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2023.
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English
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"Everybody has a poem inside them! Writing one is not as hard as you think, you just need to know how to get started. Discover all sorts of ways to write and perform your very own poems, from found poems, to haikus, to tanka poems, to tongue-twisters!" --
15) The way forward
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"In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others. In these rapidly changing times, it is more important than ever to know ourselves well and fully, even and especially in the face of turmoil. The Way Forward encourages readers to connect more deeply to their intuition, using it to remain focused...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Rhymes About Nature, Mostly" explores the traits of dozens of animals, from the smallest monkey, a pygym marmoset, to the biggest creature in the world, a blue whale. Young readers and their grown-ups can use the book's rhymes and illustragions to discover something new about the natural world on every page.
17) Broken places
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English
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A collection of a lifetime of poetry - love, loss, vampires, gardening, bird watching, family and more. In a variety of forms and stanzas, free verse, sonnets, joy, and laughter, sarcasm, anger tied together with a full heart. - Amazon
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"Step right up, animal lovers! It's your turn to judge in this poetic competition of superlative animal abilities. Structured as a guessing game competition, and told through deftly crafted persona poems, the book celebrates animals' standout qualities, from the biggest (blue whale) to the smallest (shrew), with all the favorite creatures (speedy cheetahs, long-necked giraffes) plus some less common animals with equally amazing abilities (long-lived...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Presents literary criticism on the works of poets of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.
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