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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vii, 96 pages : illustrations (color, black & white) ; 28 cm
Description
This inaugural issue of The Madrona Project, a periodical anthology which Empty Bowl will attempt to publish twice a year, offers the best work by poets and writers who are "outsiders"--who write in and of this world: outside of self, outside the mainstream, or simply outdoors--work in keeping with Empty Bowl's mission: literature with the responsibility to speak for human societies in wild places. This issue is a wild gathering of bouquets from sixty...
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, the small town, the people,...
The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, the small town, the people,...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 384 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one place Poetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, conversational, and edifying best. Whether he is considering...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
23 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Segmented into ten subjects, a collection of "poemstarts" provides amusing beginnings to a series of poems and challenges readers to complete the tale in their own special way, enhanced with large text and bold illustrations. When Jack Prelutksy posted the first couplet of a funny poem on a Web site and invited children to finish it, he expected about 100 responses. He got thousands. Now he has come up with an anthology of poems on 10 popular subjects...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Welcome to school, a building of brick full of soul and heart, eager for students and staff to fill its halls with sounds. This anthology of fifteen poems celebrates the grown-up people that children encounter throughout the course of their school day: the school bus driver with her morning smile, the teacher who inspires imagination, the rarely seen, yet caring custodian, and the nurse who heals hurts, big and small.
9) Night wishes
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm.
Description
"How would a clock, nightlight, or teddy bear say good night? In this enchanting poetry collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and thirteen other poets imagine the wishes whispering through a young girl's bedroom as she falls asleep. The bookshelf's stories curl through her head; the pillow transforms into a hot air balloon; the rocking horse waits expectantly for tomorrow's adventures." -- Amazon.com.
12) Collected poems
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxiv, 757, 32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
This invaluable compendium of her work is not only an essential addition to any collection of the world's most moving and memorable poetry but an unprecedented look into the life of Millay. An extensive P.S. section includes personal letters, never-before-seen photographs, information about Millay's homestead at Steepletop, and an original essay by leading Millay scholar Holly Peppe.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham. Much awaited and long needed, From the New World--a sequence of poems from Jorie Graham's prior eleven books--offers more than a retrospect of this major poet's work. This selection, including several revised and new poems, creates a startlingly fresh trajectory...
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"A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry--alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage--remain indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical...
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In Self Love Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. The first poem in each pair is a "thinker" poem that lights up the analytical, more literal, left side of the brain, and the second poem is a companion "feeler" poem that speaks to the creative, more emotional right side of the brain. Combined,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
167 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Aqu̕ era el para̕so / Here was paradise es una selecci̤n de poemas escritos por el gran poeta maya Humberto Ak'abal. Creados primero en k'icǩ, estos poemas evocan su infancia en y alrededor de la aldea maya k'icȟ de Momostenango, Guatemala. Ak'abal es reconocido mundiamente como uno de los grades poetas contemporaneous de la lengua hispana y uno de los m̀s grandes poetas ind̕genas de Am̌rica. Escribi̤ sobre nįos, abuelos, madres, animales,...
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