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Author
Publisher
Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems by the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, taken from his first three books published between 1913 and 1915, and including eighteen early works that have never appeared in any of Frost's books of poetry.
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Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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An introduction to the writings of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson for young people, featuring over thirty-five poems characteristic of her style, and including illustrations and a biographical profile.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Part of the Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every know tale written by the famous gothic American writer. His often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "Annabelle Lee."
For Poe fans worldwide, this elegant collector's edition includes over 70 of Poe's short stories, more than 40 melodious poems,...
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English
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"Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 70
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
637 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains Emerson's published poetry, plus selections of his unpublished poetry from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's La vita nuova.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door--a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom,...
10) Collected poems
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Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1937
Physical Desc
63 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.
Language
English
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Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
xx, 455 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"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"...
12) Selected poems
Author
Publisher
Houghton
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
148p.
Language
English
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Includes fifty representative poems selected from six earlier collections.
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2002, c1974
Physical Desc
166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
14) Poems
Author
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xv, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This volume contains a collection of some of Emily Dickinson's poetry that illustrates not only her talent as a writer, but her profound love of language, nature, and life. Composing first in a fairly conventional style, the poetess soon began to experiment with her writing; her frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, broken meter, and idiosyncratic metaphors made her work unparalleled for its time. Dickinson's poetry dealt not only...
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Language
English
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When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.
Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the...
Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the...
17) The prophet
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Series
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1923
Physical Desc
107 p. front., plates. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Kahlil Gibran's inspirational masterpiece--the most famous work of spiritual fiction of the twentieth century--a prophet named Almustafa is about to board a ship to travel back to his homeland after twelve years in exile when he's stopped by a group of people who ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. In twenty-eight poetic essays, he does so, offering profound and timeless insights on many aspects of life, including love, pain, friendship,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.
Welcome to the night -- Snail at moonrise -- Love poem of the primrose moth -- Dark emperor -- Oak after dark -- Night-spider's advice -- I am a baby porcupette -- Cricket speaks -- The mushrooms come -- Ballad of the wandering eft -- Bat wraps up -- Moon's lament.
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