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Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938) is a remarkable haiku spirit and a powerfully independent Japanese woman. The one hundred poems here--her first collection in English--show her evolution as a poet, her acute lyricism, and her engagement as a writer in issues central to modern Japan: postwar identity, nuclear politics, and Fukushima. Abigail Friedman's introduction and textual commentaries provide important background and superb insight into poetic themes...
6) Manger
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that describes how, at midnight on Christmas Eve, all creatures are granted the power of speech for one hour. In this collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and a dozen other poets imagine what responses they might offer.
9) Frost: poems
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall", "Birches", and "The Road Not Taken", as well as poems less famous but equally great.
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"From suspicious hot lunches (yuck!), to pop quizzes (oh, no!), to recess and best friends (hooray!), everything you love--and love to hate--about school is front and center in this collection of eighteen poems by thirteen celebrated poets. One thing's for certain: there's no place like school!"--Amazon.com.
12) Milk and honey
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...
13) Poems
Author
Language
English
Description
Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova's work-from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the Stalinist purges-has been newly translated by the American poet Lyn Coffin. In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful in reproducing the directness and striking effects characteristic...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In the delightfully small Pocket Poets format that has proved so popular, comes a selection of the early poems of one of the greatest and most influential poets of our century. This essential collection includes that towering landmark of modernism, "The Waste Land", as well as such keenly ironic classics as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales."
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 180
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--
"How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Clifton's...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An eclectic collection of poetry by one of 17th century England's boldest, smartest, and independent women. Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own, "What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!" Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a groundbreaking writer--a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She interacted with Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, and she produced...
Author
Publisher
The Song Cave
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, PUNKS weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems--from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the...
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