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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The Norton Introduction to Poetry offers a complete course in reading and writing about poetry that is designed to appeal to students of all backgrounds, abilities, and interests. It not only sharpens students? close-reading skills and deepens their appreciation for the emotional power of poetry, but also connects poetry to the larger world by providing a thorough introduction to poetry?s authorial, cultural, and critical contexts" -- publisher website...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate...
23) Robert Frost
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kids will discover the poetry of Robert Frost in this installment in the Poetry for Kids series. Professor, poet, novelist, and Frost biographer Jay Parini has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families, including "Mending Wall," "Birches," "The Road Not Taken," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and many more of Frost's favorite and most accessible works"--
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
Pub. Date
1999, 1989.
Language
English
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Storytime @ Home: Tails and Tales Summer Reading Challenge
Description
An illustrated collection of poems by a variety of authors describing the peculiarities of pets and wild and domestic animals.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This great English poetry anthology contains 150 of the most famous poems of the last centuries. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these famous poems remain masterpieces of English literature and continue to inspire and influence people all over the world."--
30) Read-aloud poems
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of verses in such categories as "Nature's people," "Meet the family," "Friendship and love," "Earth and sky," "Let's pretend," and "Poems to ponder."
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This collection of classic children's poetry, adapted to music by Natalie Merchant, opens the door to a wondrous world filled with witches and fearless girls, blind men and elephants, giants and sailors and dancing bears. Leave Your Sleep features a daring and delightful selection, ranging from the beloved (e.e. cummings, Edward Lear, and Jack Prelutsky) to the undiscovered (the young Nathalia Crane). Natalie Merchant's brilliant musical renderings,...
Series
Best American poetry volume 30
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Collects poems chosen by editor Natasha Trethewey as the best of 2017, featuring poets such as Bruce Bond, Vievee Francis, Jamaal May, and Danez Smith.
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene"...
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