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"The capstone of a quarter-century career in poetry, To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto González since 1999, including selections from five previous books as well as new work. Mirroring González's personal trajectory, the arc of this work articulates the course of a life: these poems recall leaving a beloved homeland, confront masculinity and sexuality in new adulthood, imagine the earth devoid of human inhabitants,...
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The poems selected in this book – taken from Thérèse Corfiatis's four published books, and a Pocket Poet – convey striking images of landscape, childhood, travel and place. Some of the poems have a mystical element. Colour, light and sound weave together the threads of human experience. This book resonates with a multitude of richness gathered over the years, and offers the reader insights into fundamental values reflecting our world.
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This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas captures a child's-eye view and an adult's fond remembrance of a magical time of presents, good things to eat, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow - its wonder, silence, and snowball mischief. --Back cover.
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This volume presents an exploration of poetry and feeling, introducing poems selected by the author as emblematic because they suggest something crucial about the nature of poetry itself, and offering his insights on how the poems should be read. In this guide, the author reaches out to all those who may be disaffected by the mere mention of poetry and instructs the reader to focus on a personal, emotional response.
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This book contains sixty-fi ve poems selected from many poems written by Jiten Borkakoti during 1964 and 2011. It is hoped that people from all walks of life will enjoy reading the poems that deal with human emotions of love in its multifarious dimensions, and also with the wider questions of human existence and timeless eternity. Hence, the title of the book aptly is Love & Life. Some poems are relatively more abstract than others, but abstraction...
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"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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A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins's poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back-in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today,...
69) Blooming Roses
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Blooming Roses is a collection of 108 poems selected by me. The poet himself says his creative verses are like blood flowing in his veins. Ideas of poetry and his philosophy will be appreciated by the thinkers and citizens, including young youths of college and schools alike. His poems have attracted the attention of the entire world. So we request only to read and have across to Sumiraskos wonderful world of creations. Your feedback to me and publishers...
70) Nasty bugs
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A whimsical tribute to naughty and mischievous insects features sixteen pieces by children's poets.
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An ode to my teenage-hood and the evolution of my writing, 'memoirs from the moon' is a confessional, coming-of-age anthology which depicts themes of queer love, existentialism and trauma. An accumulation of five years of work, this collection is the result of my findings of catharsis in writing during my formative years. The poems selected have been arranged in three sections to document my personal stories of the relationships that helped to shape...
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"As is our tradition, After Hours magazine held a contributors' reading in August of 2015, celebrating the release of Summer Issue #31. Quraysh Ali Lansana was the featured writer in that issue, and was also the featured reader at the event. This contributors' reading, however, was a little different, because it also celebrated the poetry of After Hours regular contributor, featured writer (Issue #17), and friend Mary Blinn. Mary's sudden death just...
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A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.
Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem...
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Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne and other notable...
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The poems selected for A Treasury of Classic Poetry span nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. More than 300 of the best-loved poems in the English language are featured, representing more than fifty of the world's greatest poets, including:
• Lord Byron
• Emily Dickinson
• T.S. Eliot
• Robert Frost
• John Keats
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• John Milton
• Edgar Allan Poe
• William Shakespeare
• Percy...
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The sixty poems selected for Pocket Book of Poetry span more than four centuries and some rank among the greatest works of literature in the English language. Many are popular favorites and several represent the best works written by their authors, among them William Shakespeare’s sonnets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan," John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn," William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming," and Robert Frosts "The Road Not Taken."...
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This collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang-era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their status in Tang dynasty society: women of the court, women of the household, courtesans and entertainers, and women of religion. While each poet's concerns vary with their social status, common thematic threads include heartbreak and the mysteries of the natural world. Thumbnail biographies of each poet and notes regarding...
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Hood Is Gonna Love This - #HiGLT is a 2-part book with part 1 being poems selected for BE's 1st recorded album. The book talks about the human experience from the perspective of a Black person, a woman, a Black woman, yet universally receivable, written in a language the people overstand. The poems are of discovery and entering consciousness as it chronicles my life in my early 20's, lessons that I learned, the states of being between start and finish,...
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When Robert W. Service was transferred to the Whitehorse Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the Yukon Territory in 1904, six years after the Klondike Gold Rush, his career as a world-famous poet would soon begin. Inspired by the beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service would write some of the most expressive poetry of the age depicting the trials and tribulations of the Yukon gold mining life. "Best Tales of the Yukon" collects together forty-seven...
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