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81) Poems, 1962-2012
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 634 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Explores the author's transfigured landscapes and offers insight into her unique form created to reflect the human drive to release the past in order to realize the yet-unimagined.
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Although Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, only a handful were ever published in her lifetime, and those anonymously. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, one whose unconventional use of language and rhyme anticipated the break with tradition of much modern poetry written after it. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson collects more than 150 of Dickinsons brief but memorable poems....
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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.
89) Pet sounds
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A love poem about reflecting back on one's complicated sexuality, partnerships and relationships to kin.
91) Caribou
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"Charles Wright's truth--the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging--is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is an elegy to transient beauty, a song for the "stepchild hour, / belonging to neither the light nor dark, / The hour of disappearing things," and an expression of Wright's restless questing for a reality beyond the one before our eyes ("We are all going into a world of dark... It's okay....
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Publisher
Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
80 pages ; 22 cm
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Through love, loss and the struggles of disordered eating, 'If My Body Could Speak' uses sharp narratives and visceral imagery to get to the heart of a many-layered existence, speaking to many generations at once.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"An illustrated collection of comically irreverent rhyming poems for readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas to zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts)."--
97) Beautiful chaos
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Chaos is not pretty. It's like feeling a hundred things. Hearing a hundred voices, and somewhere in the riot we tend to lose ourselves. And as we depart reality we find the truth. This book is the truth, it's everything we've been feeling for so long.
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Penguin Workshop
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 21 cm.
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"For Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School's Spoken Word Club, there is one phrase that reigns supreme: Respect the mic. It's been the club's call to arms since its inception in 1999. As its founder Peter Kahn says, "It's a call of pride and history and tradition and hope." This vivid collection of new poetry and prose--curated by award-winning and best-selling poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, and Dan "Sully" Sullivan--brings...
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