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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"She Walks in Beauty" is Kennedy's selection of poetry that tells the story of a woman's life including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe. She has written introductions to each of the book's sections, highlighting the joys and struggles that are part of every woman's journey.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Following the success of their anthology, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems.0 Ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne and Milton, Plath and Angelou, this is a delightful and accessible introduction...
14) Madness
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition. In this powerful debut collection, Sam Sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet's personal and family histories as...
Publisher
The Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A color-illustrated collection of poetry suitable for memorization by children, arranged according to such themes as "Fur and Feathers" "Peace and Quiet," and "Long and Lingering," and featuring such poets as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, Roald Dahl, and Seamus Heaney.
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