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Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
Experience the beauty and the magic of Cicely Mary Barker's famous Flower Fairies, with a new edition of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Summer. The magic and loveliness of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies is being reissued with an updated, contemporary look that is a perfect gift for Flower Fairies fans and a new generation of readers.
44) The moon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 25 cm.
Language
English
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Pictures of a father and child out in the moonlight illustrate Stevenson's poem from A child's garden of verses.
Series
The Library of America volume 66-67
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This...
47) The raven
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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Description
Presents an illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."
48) Happy life
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Budbill continues his popular poetic ruminations on life in remote New England—an outward survey of a forested mountain and an introspection of self-reliance, anonymity, and the creative life. Inspired by classical Chinese and Japanese poets, Budbill contemplates the seasons, ambition, his questionable desire for fame and fortune, and simple, focused contentment: "Weed the beans. Pick the peas."
David Budbill is the author of poems, plays,...
Author
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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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"...
50) Paradise lost
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents John Milton's epic poem, which chronicles man's fall from grace and Satan's rebellion against God, with extensive notes, a chronology of events in Milton's life, a scholarly essay, and a 1694 biography of Milton.
51) Casey at the bat
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new rendering of the poem comes alive with the Mudville 9 portrayed as a group of multiracial inner city kids playing ball in an urban jungle of concrete buildings.
52) A Shropshire lad
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The charms of the poems in A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896, continue to resonate today. Housman's first collection and his signature work, the poems here mix the styles of traditional English ballads and classical verse, and evoke the idyllic English countryside, explore the nature of friendship, bravery, and the passing of youth, among other themes.
Author
Series
Ark volume 15
Publisher
Ark
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
111 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
For the first time ever, the complete poetry collection spanning three decades from Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet and one of America's national treasures. When her poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, in the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni immediately took her place among the most celebrated, controversial and influential poets of the era. Now, more than thirty years later, Giovanni still stands as one of the most commanding, luminous voices...
56) The undefeated
Author
Language
English
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Black History Month
Black History & Activism: Recommended Reading for MLK Day
Black History Month 2023
DAML Black History Month Picture Books
Black History & Activism: Recommended Reading for MLK Day
Black History Month 2023
DAML Black History Month Picture Books
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Description
"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
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.
58) Time is a mother
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...
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