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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

poems

It's raining pigs & noodles

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#hardcover #literature #poetry #criticism #humor 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

Quips, Snubs and Jabs by Literary Friends and Foes

The pen is truly mightier than the sword in this collection of more than a hundred digs, jabs, and outright put-downs from the world's most respected writers, about--each other! Vicious Nonsense reveals the acerbic side of beloved authors who became brutal critics when writing about their fellow wordsmiths.

James Baldwin writes on Langston Hughes, "Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed all over again by his genuine gifts--and depressed that he has done so little with them..." Dorothy Parker spares no love for Gertrude Stein: "To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein's which I have ever been able to understand, 'It is wonderful how I am not interested.'" Curated from letters, essays, and reviews, this sometimes stinging, sometimes good-natured, and always delightful collection will ignite the armchair critic in us all.

Vicious Nonsense

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Colorado

New and Selected Poems

In an illuminating collection of selected poems over thirty-five years, one of our most essential American poets casts a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories.

D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures.
 
Whispers of the old country of Estonia provide the backdrop for the boy's baseballs, thrown in the fading twilight of the 1950s ("Secretly, I was proudest of my skill / at standing alone in the darkness"). The young man explores sexual passion and the arrival of a child in a young marriage ("We showed her daylight in our cupped hands"), while the mature poet writes of loneliness and community in our cities ("but on the streets / there was no one"), and the urgent need for us to keep expressing our will as citizens.
 
Throughout this matchless career, over eleven books, Nurkse has crafted visceral lines that celebrate the fragility of what simply exists--birdsong, moonrise, illness, water towers--and the complexity of human perception, our stumble forward through it toward understanding. 

A Country of Strangers

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#hardcover #occasions #poetry #nonfiction 

Delaware

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance-from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry to celebrate a new baby or marriage, toast a colleague, cheer a graduate, honor a birthday, deliver a eulogy, or add zest to a holiday party. It is the perfect solution to the age-old question, What should I say?

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

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Rhode Island

New and Selected Poems, 1972-2004

Offers a collection of poems that explore urban life, travel, and the depths of the human experience.

Crossing the Equator

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VOLUME 4

VICTORIA'S SECRET BEAUTY OF LOVE

Minnesota

And Other Poems by Dogs (Animal Lovers Book, Gift Book, Humor Poetry)

A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren't going to let the cats get away with that! This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, they also reveal their creativity, their hidden motives, and their eternal (and sometimes misguided) effervescence through such musings as "I Dropped a Ball," "I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House," and "Can You Smell That?" Accompanied throughout by portraits of the canine poets in all their magnificence, I Could Chew on This is a work of unbridled enthusiasm, insatiable appetite, and, yes, creative genius.

I Could Chew on This

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#hardcover #poem #poems #poetry #poet #carlsandburg #classic

North Carolina

Selected Poems

#paperback #helenkeller #essays #memoir #poetry #feminist #femaleauthors #biography #autobiography

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Collection of Essays

These poetic, inspiring essays offer remarkable insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Helen Keller relates her impressions of the world's beauty and promise, perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration, together with the workings of a powerful imagination.

The World I Live in and Optimism

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#hardcover #poetry #jewell #home #family #beauty #reflection

Mississippi

Poems

I've learned that not allpoetry lends itself to music -- some thoughts needto be sung only against the silence. There are softer and less tangible part[s] of our selves that are so essential to peace, to openheartedness, to unfolding the vision and the spiritual realm of our lives, to exposing our souls. - Jewel, From the Preface Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic and mundane, loneliness and friendship. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.

A Night Without Armor

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#paperback #fiction #juvenilefiction #newberyhonor #scholastic #poetry 

Michigan

Feathers 

#hardcover #poetry #Fiction #Australia #Australian 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Complete Poetry of A.B. "Banjo" Paterson

A Vision Splendid 

California

The celebrated artist's paintings complement a guide to achieving peace of mind and a simpler way of life.

Simpler Times

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Light wear to dust jacket, else book is clean inside and spine is tight. There are origami pieces throughout book. #poetry #hardcover #fiction #origami #family #relationships

Washington

"Then let us pledge a friendshipwithout human tiesAnd meet again at thefar end of the Milky Way." "Li Po, translated by Joseph LeeThe ancient poets of the Far East have such a way with words and mental images. And so it is with the art from that region. Oriental Love Poems successfully entwines the two in a visual and poetic feast for the senses.This splendid anthology of love poetry makes a beautiful gift book. The volume comes lavishly illustrated in colors of the Oriental palette: lacquer blacks and reds, delicate jade greens, and kingfisher blues. Twelve pieces of intricate three-dimensional origami grace the book"s interior; the jacket includes origami as well. Each paper-folded figure"s symbolism is explained, while the poetry further expands the themes of the picturesque representations of love, passion, and commitment that characterize intimate Eastern expression.The subtlety and tenderness, the reflection and gentleness that emanate from these poems cannot be missed. The artwork"s creativity and precision pull readers back again and again. This collection can be given and enjoyed at a variety of levels, promising a broad appeal with readers everywhere.

Oriental Love Poems

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Binding is tight, there is no writing in the book. There is general cover wear/ some marks and “crushing” to corners. #hardcover #childrens #icanreadbooks #picturebooks #kids #humor #animals #classics #poetry #adventure 

A Fly Went By 

Kentucky

Hannah works as the only female river-rafting guide in her closed-minded small town. Labeled a tomboy, she often struggles to reconcile the way she fits into normal gender stereotypes. Hannah meets Ezra, who blurs the lines between woman and man. They begin an exciting new relationship, but soon Ezra starts pushing Hannah's limits and her definition of love.

I Am Water

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100 Best Poems to Memorize

Gathers poems by Matthew Arnold, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost

Committed to Memory

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#hardcover #nonfiction #mayaangelou #poetry 

Louisiana

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them. She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild. She continues to sing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, but more and more she begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. She helps organize a benefit cabaret for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and then is appointed Martin Luther Kings Northern Coordinator. Shortly after that, through her friend Abbey Lincoln, she takes one of the lead parts in Genet's The Blacks (it was a remarkable cast, including Godfrey Cambridge, Roscoe Lee Brown, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Raymond St. Jacques, and Lou Gossett), and even writes music for the production. In the meantime her personal life has taken a tempestuous turn. She has left the New York bail bondsman she was intending to marry and has fallen in love with a South African freedom fighter named Vusumzi Make, who sweeps her off her feet and eventually takes her to London and then to Cairo, where, as her marriage begins to break up, she becomes the first female editor of the English-language magazine. The Heart of a Woman is filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous people, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, but perhaps most important is the story of Maya Angelou's relationship with her son. Because this book chronicles, finally, the joys and the burdens of a black mother in America and how the son she had cherished so intensely and worked for so devotedly finally grows to be a man.

The Heart of a Woman

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Maryland

Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else

A collection of more than one hundred poems for teenagers features the works of classic and contemporary poets, including Emily Dickinson, Nikki Grimes, Langston Hughes, and Seamus Heaney.

Poetry Speaks Who I Am

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#hardcover #fiction #booksaboutbooks #contemporaryromance #booksbybarthe #poetry #matthewdicks #twentyonetruthsaboutlove 

Florida

A Novel

From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn’t doing well. Financial crisis is imminent. Dan doesn't know how to fix it. 5. Dan hasn’t told Jill about their financial trouble. 6. Then Jill gets pregnant. This heartfelt story is about the lengths one man will go to and the risks he will take to save his family. But Dan doesn’t just want to save his failing bookstore and his family’s finances: 1. Dan wants to do something special. 2. He’s a man who is tired of feeling ordinary. 3. He’s sick of feeling like a failure. 4. He doesn't want to live in the shadow of his wife’s deceased first husband. Dan is also an obsessive list maker; his story unfolds entirely in his lists, which are brimming with Dan’s hilarious sense of humor, unique world-view, and deeply personal thoughts. When read in full, his lists paint a picture of a man struggling to be a man, a man who has reached a point where he’s willing to do anything for the love (and soon-to-be new love) of his life.

Twenty-One Truths about Love

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#youngadultfiction #hardcover #poetry #historical #joanofarc #davidelliott

New York

The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

"David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse."--Provided by publisher.

Voices

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And Other Poems

From the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes this fabulous collection of poetry--his first--that is sure to charm and delight his fans old and new alike and reveal another side of this beloved writer. In these delightful poems, Alexander McCall Smith writes about his travels, from Africa to Greece, London to Dubai, and back home to Scotland. He shares his gentle, inimitably McCall Smith-esque observations on life, love, and beauty, reminding us how deeply satisfying it can be to take in the world around us with all our senses, and with all our mind and heart.

In a Time of Distance

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#hardcover #poetry #poems #beauty #fairytale #bodyimage #mentalhealth

Idaho

Poems for You, My Pretty

Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale. Christine Heppermann's collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales right beside the life of the modern teenage girl. With piercing truths reminiscent of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins, this is a powerful and provocative book for every young woman. E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars, calls it "a bloody poetic attack on the beauty myth that's caustic, funny, and heartbreaking." Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves. There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. Self-doubt and self-confidence. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking. In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. Using fairy tale characters and tropes, Poisoned Apples explores how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, and their friends. The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales, and from deadly funny to deadly serious. Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists, this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured, shared, and paged through again and again.

Poisoned Apples

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Never read. #NovelInVerse #Poetry #BlackYA #BlackPoetry #BlackAuthor

Jack Prelutsky

It's raining pigs & noodles

Kristen Hewitt (Editor)

Vicious Nonsense

D. Nurkse

A Country of Strangers

Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Nicholas Christopher

Crossing the Equator

UNKNOWN

VICTORIA'S SECRET BEAUTY OF LOVE

Francesco Marciuliano

I Could Chew on This

Carl Sandburg

Selected Poems

Helen Keller

The World I Live in and Optimism

Jewel

A Night Without Armor

Jaqueline Woodson

Feathers

A.B. "Banjo" Paterson

A Vision Splendid

Thomas Kinkade (Illustrator); Anne C. Buchanan

Simpler Times

Michelle Lovric

Oriental Love Poems

Mike McClintock

A Fly Went By

Meg Specksgoor

I Am Water

John Hollander (Introduction by)

Committed to Memory

Maya Angelou

The Heart of a Woman

Elise Paschen; Dominique Raccah

Poetry Speaks Who I Am

Matthew Dicks

Twenty-One Truths about Love

David Elliott

Voices

Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)

In a Time of Distance

Christine Heppermann

Poisoned Apples

Sophia Thakur

Somebody Give This Heart a Pen