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21) 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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Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
©2004
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xii, 87 pages ; 23 cm.
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From the Publisher: Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life. Quotidian objects like a pegboard, creamed corn and a forgotten salesman's trophy help reveal the remarkable...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
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ix, 60 pages ; 21 cm
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In this late-in-life collection, the award-winning Jack Gilbert gives us characteristically bold and nuanced poems as he revisits the passions of a lifetime -- the women, the places, and the mysterious and lonely offices of poetry itself. -- Publisher's description.
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In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties Americas contemporary moment both to our nations fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy.
28) Leaves of grass
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As energetic and diverse as the American life it describes, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has been loved by generations for its celebration of a brash young nation and one man's exuberant spirit.
29) Turtle Island
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New Directions
Pub. Date
1974.
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114 pages ; 21 cm
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These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Naature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.
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Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886-when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
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xix, 261 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
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175 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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A treasury of more than two hundred poems includes classics as well as contemporary works, and features original illustrations from award-winning artists such as Dan Yaccarino, Nancy Tafuri, Chris Raschka, Ashley Bryan, and Lois Ehlert.
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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"--
37) Face
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Hanging Loose Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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159 p. ; 23 cm.
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"In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: 'Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xii, 356 pages ; 24 cm
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I Must Be Living Twice brings together selections from the poet?s previous work with a set of bold new poems that reflect her sardonic, unapologetic, and fiercely intellectual literary voice.
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