Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
For Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past-- memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith-- winds itself around the present. Hala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
718 pages ; 24 cm.
Appears on list
Description
Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet's own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites,...
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Description
Toast a marshmallow, be a tree in winter, read braille — Paul B. Janeczko and Richard Jones invite you to enjoy an assortment of poems that inform and inspire. "Today I walked outside and spied a hedgehog on the hill. When she and I met eye to eye, she raised up straight and still." Be they practical (how to mix a pancake or how to bird-watch) or fanciful (how to scare monsters or how to be a snowflake), the poems in this book boast a flair and...
46) Harlem: a poem
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
50) All the world
Author
Description
Follow a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night as they discover the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
51) West Portal
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 74 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles--the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that "the local is the only thing that is universal," West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet"...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Thirteen classic poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and David McCord are paired with parodies written by J. Patrick Lewis that honor and play off of the original poems in a range of ways.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
444 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Selected poems by the Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet are taken from Heaney's twelve previous collections and includes work published since 1987. This volume gathers the landmark poems from the poets twelve previous collections, & brings the reader up to date with the work published since 1987. Annotation. As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn...
60) The moon
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
Description
Pictures of a father and child out in the moonlight illustrate Stevenson's poem from A child's garden of verses.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request