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[1982] Gramercy Books
xxx, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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811.4 DIC
1982. Avenel Books :
xxx, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
[2003] Barnes & Noble Classics
xxxv, 361 pages ; 21 cm.
1993. Barnes & Noble Books
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
1983. Chatham River Press :
xxx, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Presents selections of poems along with a chronology of Dickinson's life and an essay offering background information on her works.
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2015. Penguin Books
100th-Anniversary edition.
xxv, 115 pages ; 20 cm.
1993. Dover Publications
Unabridged.
viii, 54 pages ; 21 cm.
eBook
Description
"A deluxe edition of Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents Frost's best-loved poem along with other works from his brilliant early years,...
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2017. Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
xx, 455 pages ; 25 cm
2020. Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
xx, 455 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work...
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811.6 GOR
2021. Viking
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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811.6 GOR
eAudiobook
2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2021 Penguin Young Readers Group
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2021 Penguin Young Readers Group
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[2021] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
241 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that...
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[2019] W.W. Norton & Company
First edition.
xiii, 116 pages : map ; 22 cm
[2019] Blackstone Publishing
Unabridged.
2 audio discs (1 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's...
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[2018] G.P. Putnam's Sons
101 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people"--
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1992. Modern Library
Modern Library edition.
xii, 1026 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Gathers stories, essays, and poems, including "The Gold-Bug, " "The Murders in the Rue Morgue, " "The Cask of Amontillado, " "The Tell-Tale Heart, " "The Raven, " "Lenore, " and "Annabel Lee"
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Women are some kind of magic volume 1
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811.6 LOV
2017. Andrews McMeel
199 pages ; 23 cm
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811.6 LOV
Description
"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration."--Publisher's website.
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811.54 SIM
[2019] Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
First edition.
xiii, 75 pages ; 24 cm
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811.54 SIM
Description
An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic
Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive vision, Charles Simic roots his poetry in the ordinary world while still taking in the wide sweep of the human experience.
From poems pithy, wry, and cutting-"Time-that...
[2020]. Plough Publishing House
159 pages : illustrations some color ; 26 cm
Description
"A fresh twist on 24 classics, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world"--
12) Collected poems
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2011. Harper Perennial
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
xxiv, 757 pages, 32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
[1956] Harper & Row
738 pages ; 22 cm
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811.52 MIL
[between 1990 and 1999?] Buccaneer Books
738 pages ; 22 cm
[1981] Harper
738 pages ; 21 cm.
[1975] Harper
738 pages ; 22 cm.
13) Milk and honey
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[2015] Andrews McMeel Publishing
204 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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811.6 KAU
[2018] Andrews McMeel Publishing
196 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
2016. Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged.
1 audio disc (60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2016 Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2015 Andrews McMeel Publishing
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2015 Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Description
[This book] 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. [This book] 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 to...
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2003. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First edition.
xl, 996 pages ; 24 cm
2005. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First paperback edition.
xl, 996 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Contains a comprehensive collection of poems by Chilean Nobel Prize-winning author Pablo Neruda that chronicle the humanity of nearly every significant historical event of the twentieth century.
2011. Penguin Books
lii, 599 pages ; 25 cm
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811.508 PEN
2013. Penguin Books
Paperback edition.
lii, 599 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in [this book]. [This] volume represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-- with varying styles, voices, themes, and cultures-- while balancing important poems with vital periods of each poet. Featuring earlier works by Robert Frost, James Weldon Johnson, and Wallace...
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811.08 POE
[2010] W.W. Norton & Co
First edition.
liii, 762 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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811.08 POE
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[2020] William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
xii, 124 pages ; 22 cm
[2020] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
2 audio discs (1 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2020 HarperAudio
Unabridged
OverDrive
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Description
The seven-time NAACP Image Award-winning poet unapologetically celebrates her heritage in a deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society and the depths of her own heart.
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810.90054 GIN
2017. Grove Press
First edition ; First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
xxviii, 460 pages ; 24 cm
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810.90054 GIN
Description
"In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl" and Jack Kerouac' On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through this course, which he taught first at the Narope Institute in Colorado, and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present a full history of Beat literature and to record his own stories and memories, ones that might otherwise...
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[2012] Harmony Books
First edition.
124 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Here is the sixth and final book in the Ten Poems series. This last volume helps us find the good in goodbyes through the magic of poetry.
2014. Everyman's Library
256 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Description
"In time for Halloween: a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancient times to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obsession with zombies and vampires is only the latest form of a fascination with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead...