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[2010]
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English
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"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.
62) Selected poems
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English
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In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature. This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous...
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[2015]
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English
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Here is the library, not just as a place that houses books, but as an experience. Fifteen poems celebrate the thrill of getting your first library card, the excitement of story hour, the fun of using the computer, the pride of reading to the dog, and the joy of discovering that the librarian understands you and knows exactly which books you'll love. The poems, compiled by noted poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins, pay homage to the marvels of...
64) Selected Poems
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English
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Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost's early collections, including A Boy's Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America's...
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English
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In my life I have had a variety of careers filled with many experiences.
From being a Nursing Assistant working in Nursing Homes to being a Health Therapist, A Reiki Master and a Counselor.
I also worked in factories.
I met a variety of people from many different countries. I listened to their stories and experiences.
I was always in Awe of the stories from the many patients in the nursing homes I worked in, the life they had prior to being "put"...
68) Selected Poems
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English
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In the sphere of poets like Swift, Meredith and Kipling, Thomas Hardy is today becoming recognized as one of the greatest English poets of this century. As a young man with interests in journalism, art, and architecture, Hardy achieved greatness in the fiction genre early on, writing novels for a living until his mid-fifties. He then abandoned fiction entirely in order to devote himself to his true passion-poetry. This ample selection of poems demonstrates...
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American poets continuum volume no. 180
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English
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"A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--
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English
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A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance literature.
72) William Blake
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English
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A collection of illustrated poems enjoyable for children selected from the works of William Blake.
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English
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One of the internet's most prominent poets, John Lavan, presents his second book of collected poems. John's distinctive voice, enjoyed by his hundreds of thousands of blog and Twitter followers, carries effortlessly from the personal to the pastoral. Many poems are inspired by family relationships, especially the bond he has with his first son Andrew, who has Down's syndrome. There are also poems on love, our time, a series of haiku, and even poems...
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English
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Etwebi compactly renders experience in a hauntingly classical way. His work is rooted in the landscapes of his country, and in inventing forms in his literary traditions that will capture his engagement with his place and culture. His poetry is intimate but grand, innovative but traditional, influenced by Modernist poetry... yet populist and accessible. His phrasing and syntax are often very unpredictable, risk-taking, experimenting with neologisms,...
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English
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Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon offers fresh interpretations of the most widely read and loved poet of the 20th century- translated and read by a master of poetic expressiveness. Out of the great profusion of Neruda's poetry, Stephen Mitchell has selected forty-nine poems and brought them to life for a new generation of listeners. These are poems of a happy man, deeply fulfilled in his sexuality, at home in the world, in love with...
80) Selected Poems
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English
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This is the most extensive selection in English of poems by one of the all-time great Dutch poets, Herman Gorter (1864-1927). A companion volume to M. Kruijff's translation of the epic May, this book welcomes the reader to the rich spectrum of Gorter's lyric verse.
The selection traces the stages of Gorter's career as a poet. It opens with 22
poems from his introvertive 'sensitivist' Verses (Verzen, 1890) which have been called the beginning of modern...
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