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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song2020
Summary: Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American... more »- place hold (0)
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The best of the best American poetry2013
Summary: 100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series.- place hold (0)
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Good poems2003
Summary: Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor... more »- place hold (0)
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Leave this song behind : teen poetry at its best2016
Summary: This anthology of poems written by teens was selected and assembled from the 27 years of submissions to Teen Ink magazine.- place hold (0)
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Love in verse : classic poems of the heart1998
Summary: The world for me, and all the world can hold, is circled by your arms. . . . --James Weldon Johnson [p. 48]True love is eternal--and in... more »- place hold (0)
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Good poems, American places2011
Summary: An anthology of poetic works celebrates the American landscape with diverse selections by such contributors as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Naomi Shihab Nye.- place hold (0)
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Good poems for hard times2005
Summary: When Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter... more »- place hold (0)
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Collected poems & translations1994
Summary: The most comprehensive collection ever assembled gathers every poem Emerson published during his lifetime along with the best of the unpublished verse from his manuscripts, journals, and notebooks to... more »- place hold (0)
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Complete poetry and collected prose1982
Summary: Contains the first and "deathbed" editions of "Leaves of Grass," and virtually all of Whitman's prose, with reminiscences of nineteenth-century New York City, notes on the Civil... more »- place hold (0)
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Collected poems of Emily Dickinson1982
Summary: Emily Dickinson was a prolific writer and yet, with the exception of four poems in a limited regional volume, her poems were never published during her lifetime. It was indeed fortunate that her... more »- place hold (0)
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Selected poems1994
Summary: One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet.- place hold (0)
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Collected poems, prose & plays1995
Summary: A scholarly, annotated, and uniquely comprehensive edition gathers all of Frost's major poetry, a selection of previously unanthologized poems, and the most extensive offering of his prose writings... more »- place hold (0)
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Early poems1981
Summary: This volume presents Frost's first three books, masterful and innovative collections that contain some of his best-known poems, including "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "After... more »- place hold (0)
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The prophet2011
Summary: 2010 Reprint of 1926 London Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Gibran [1887 - April 10, 1931] was a Lebanese American artist, poet,... more »- place hold (0)
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Collected poems2013
Summary: Features the work of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century, containing poems which contemplate the black experience and deal with such themes as dreams, mortality, nature, travel, and memory.- place hold (0)
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The collected poems of Langston Hughes1995
Summary: "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious... more »- place hold (0)
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The best of Ogden Nash2007
Summary: It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in... more »- place hold (0)
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Shout : a poetry memoir2019
Summary: Author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has... more »- place hold (0)
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Mother : a cradle to hold me2006
Summary: Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why... more »- place hold (0)
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Amazing peace : a Christmas poem2005
Summary: In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and... more »- place hold (0)
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Dearly : new poems2020
Summary: In this book of poetry, Margaret Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but... more »- place hold (0)
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The dream songs2014
Summary: The complete Dream Songs-hypnotic, seductive, masterful-as thrilling to read now as they ever wereJohn Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of... more »- place hold (0)
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Star dust2005
Summary: In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the... more »- place hold (0)
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Poems2011
Summary: Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display... more »- place hold (0)
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Love is a dog from hell : poems 1974-19772002
Summary: Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.- place hold (0)
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The collected poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-20102012
Summary: The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than sixty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished works feature early... more »- place hold (0)
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The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings2018
Summary: This is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private... more »- place hold (0)
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The rain in Portugal : poems2016
Summary: "Billy Collin's first new book in three years contains more than forty new poems that showcase the generosity, playfulness, and wisdom that have made him one of our most beloved poets" --- place hold (0)
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Aimless love : new and selected poems2013
Summary: Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic language.- place hold (0)
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Mornings like this : found poems1995
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers a new approach to poetry by going through old nonfiction books, finding passages that amuse or interest her, and rearranging them into poems that range from... more »- place hold (0)
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Soaring earth : a companion memoir to Enchanted air2019
Summary: In this follow-up to her memoir "Enchanted Air," Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable verse, she addresses the... more »- place hold (0)
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Enchanted air : two cultures, two wings : a memoir2015
Summary: In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island... more »- place hold (0)
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The blue Buick : new and selected poems2014
Summary: "[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic."-New York Times Gathering works from five of B. H. Fairchild's previous volumes... more »- place hold (0)
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Collected poems, 1947-19972006
Summary: Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among... more »- place hold (0)
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Fast2017
Summary: The first new collection of poetry in five years from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham "Graham's great body of work has more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing.... more »- place hold (0)
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American sonnets for my past and future assassin2018
Summary: A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of "Lighthead." In seventy poems bearing the same... more »- place hold (0)
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A night without armor : poems1998
Summary: I've learned that not all poetry lends itself to music -- some thoughts need to be sung only against the silence. There are softer and less tangible part[s] of our selves that are so essential to... more »- place hold (0)
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Valentines2008
Summary: For Valentine's Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote "Pocket Poem" and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one... more »- place hold (0)
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Delights & shadows : poems2004
Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in PoetryTed Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility, so that each distinctive poem appears to... more »- place hold (0)
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Ballad to an Iowa farmer and other reflections1991
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