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Distributed by Viking Press
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c1982
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1380 p. ; 21 cm.
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This is the most comprehensive volume of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. This is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass. This was the book, a commercial failure, that prompted Emerson's famous message to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career". These twelve poems,...
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This modern edition of "Twas the night before Christmas," features four different homes and families, each on Christmas Eve, that reflect the diverse world we live in, lush landscapes and charming scenes capture the wonder and magic of Christmas. What do these four homes share? The excitement and anticipation of the most splendid night of the year. In this tale, the illustrator reminds us that no matter where we live, all children share the same wish...
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including "Famous," "A Valentine for Ernest Mann," "Kindness," and "Gate A-4," as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as acomprehensive edition for classrooms"--
8) Walt Whitman
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 2
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"Capturing the shock and reverberations of the COVID-19 pandemic through poetry, as Garvey's life goes into lockdown and his father becomes sick, Garvey must find a way to use his newfound musical skills to bring hope to both his father and himself"--
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Whether memorized by schoolchildren or used to eulogize a president, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” written in 1922 and published in 1923, has found a place as one of the best-loved and best-known American poems of the last hundred years. Now, six decades after the passing of its author, Robert Frost, celebrated...
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Alice James Books
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[2021]
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79 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this...
18) For every one
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"Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. Jump Anyway is for kids who dream. Kids who dream of being better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than they almost dare to dream....
19) Tongue of a crow
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Four Way Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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82 pages ; 23 cm
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"Peter Coyote's first collection of poetry takes us on a whirlwind tour of an eclectic and exciting life as an actor and Zen Buddhist priest, meandering from love affairs to marriage to divorce to the Sixties to psychedelic spirituality and beyond. Written over several decades, these poems read as a collage, each piece distinct and contributing to a cohesive lyric narrative." --
20) Carl Sandburg
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Presents a collection of poems by the beloved American author who, as a young man, travelled across the Midwest as a hobo.
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