Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

And Other Poems by Kittens (Funny Book about Cats, Cat Poems, Animal Book)

Just when we all thought things couldn't get any cuter, from the author of the New York Times bestselling I Could Pee on This comes I Knead My Mommy, a book of confessional poems about the triumphs, trials, and daily discoveries of being a kitten. From climbing walls to claiming hearts, these little cats bare all in such instant classics as "And Then You Said 'No,'" "Ode to a Lizard I Didn't Know Is Also a Pet in This House," and "I Will Save You." With adorable photos of the poetic prodigies throughout, this volume gives readers a glimpse into their confused and curious feline minds as they encounter the world around them.

I Knead My Mommy

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Oregon

New Poetry

A collection of poems about children features works by Blake, Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others

Poems of Childhood

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Louisiana

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are. This hardcover collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, Light Filters In will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike. it’s okay if some things are always out of reach. if you could carry all the stars in the palm of your hand, they wouldn’t be half as breathtaking

Light Filters in: Poems

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A Book of Poetry

"The personal and poignant debut poetry collection from the award- winning singer, songwriter, and producer revolves around the emotions, struggles, and experiences of finding your voice and confidence as a woman. "I've realized that some feelings can't be turned into a song . . . so I've started writing poems. Just like my songs, they are personal and honest. Just like my songs, they have hooks and rhymes. Just like my songs, they talk about what it's like to be twenty-something trying to navigate a wildly beautiful and broken world." Deeply felt and candid, Feel Your Way Through grapples with the challenges and celebrates the experiences Kelsea faces as she navigates the twists and turns of growing into a woman today. She addresses themes of family, relationships, body image, self-love, sexuality, and the lessons of youth. The poems speak to the often harsh-and sometimes beautiful-onset of womanhood. Honest, humble, and ultimately hopeful, this collection reveals a new dimension of Kelsea Ballerini's artistry and talent"--

Feel Your Way Through

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Twenty-three light poems with bouncing rhythms.

Blackberry Ink

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Arkansas

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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Rhode Island

10 at Night

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Michigan

Prayers and Poems for Children

This delightful collection of poems and prayers offers children and their parents a personal way to draw closer to God and one another. Selections include tuneless verses by Robert Browning and -Ralph Waldo Emerson and modern reflections from Madeleine L'Engle and Nikki Grimes. The innocent prayers of children and the endearing works of new poets are also included. The carefully chosen words help children express their thanks joys, and concerns as the enchanting artwork shows that you can pray about what is in your heart and on your mind -- anytime at all.

⭐ Amazing Graces

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illus. in full color. "These nonsense verses combine the domestic and the gross, deadpan and slapstick, with a lilting rhythm and satisfying rhyme. The poets are well-known contemporaries including Prelutsky, Silverstein, Kuskin, Lobel, Viorst, and many more. The design is ebullient. Start or end story hour with these verses, and kids will know reading's a pleasure."--(starred) Booklist.

For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone

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Maryland

The longest continuously marked footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail spans 2,140 miles across fourteen states--from Georgia to Maine--and travels through vastly different natural and social environments. Now, in a lively and eye-opening introduction to this national treasure, The Appalachian Trail Reader collects trail diaries, historical and personal essays, and poems that reflect the meaning of this great wilderness trail across both time and geography.
Here are the works of both well-known writers and anonymous raconteurs, including Henry David Thoreau, James Dickey, Aldo Leopold, James MacGregor Burns, Richard Wilbur, and many others. The trail's founding fathers Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery speak here, too, about their visions and plans, while excerpts from Appalachian Trail hikers' journals, from the 1930s to the 1990s, provide a firsthand, intimate portrait of walking the trail. And throughout, scientists' close observation of the natural world mingle with poet's evocations of the sweetness or the rigors of the wilderness experience.
A patchwork quilt of voices, both eloquent and raw, The Appalachian Trail Reader presents a rich introduction to the trail for those planning a walking trip, and a vivid scrapbook for those who have already hiked its mountains or valleys.


The Appalachian Trail Reader

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A Library of America Special Publication

No more profound and intimate expression of America's spiritual life can be found than the work of its poets. From Anne Bradstreet to the Beats, from Native American chant and Shaker hymnody to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, religion and spirituality have always been central to American poetry. In this unique anthology, world-renowned scholar Harold Bloom weaves a tapestry from the many strands of American religious experience and practice: the searching meditations of Puritan pioneers, the evangelical fervor of the Great Awakenings, the mystical currents of Transcendentalism, the diverse influences of the world religions that have taken root in modern America.

Spanning four centuries and more than 200 poets, American Religious Poems is a bountiful and moving gathering of voices that offers countless moments of inspiration, solace, meditation, and transcendence. The poems in this unprecedented volume are a lasting testimony to the American spirit and its unremitting quest for ultimate truth and meaning.

This deluxe collector's edition features:

   * an introduction by Harold Bloom;
   * a reader's guide to significant topics and themes in the poems;
   * Smyth-sewn binding and flexible, leatherette covers; and
   * a ribbon page-marker.

American Religious Poems: an Anthology by Harold Bloom

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

"Beneath the obvious beauty of Lisa Dordal's poetry lies a subtle ferocity that threatens to undo the reader on every page of WATER LESSONS. 'Anyone can become / animal or a flicker of light' warns the speaker as she embarks on a journey of recovery: of the memories surrounding a mother's addiction and death; of a father's dementia, which softens him even as it steals him away; and of the speaker's own complicity in mid-century suburban oblivion, a complicity that makes both a mother's and a Black maid's miseries equally tragic. Dordal demands that we not only see the past, but that we step into its deceptively gentle tide, one that sweeps us back to the people, places, and eras that still haunt us. In these poems, no one is truly safe, no one is truly innocent, and no one is truly gone. WATER LESSONS teaches us that swimming against the current of remembrance is futile. We can only trust the water to hold us without drowning us, and to return us to some shore, even if where we land is not where we were first submerged."--Destiny O. Birdsong"WATER LESSONS provides one of the most profound encounters with the human psyche we've found on the page. If you remember flipping through vintage anatomy textbooks, the kind with transparent pages of organs and muscles and bones, then you might begin to understand how Lisa Dordal's poems work their magic--by clear and accurate layering of what is past pressed against what is present, the inner workings of the human condition are mapped with stunning veracity. At the core of this oscillation between here and there, then and now, is a mother's long-ago but still deeply felt death and a father's dementia--an ache that admits 'there is no such thing / as a half-life for grief,' a confluence of time that can no longer tell the difference between love or death... This book will leave you stunned and aching in its wake. What conjuring. What insight. What truth, unmarred and deeply examined." --Nickole Brown

Water Lessons

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Alabama

Poems

A collection of poems commenting on daily life in New York and Vermont, offering bits of wisdom, humor, political activism, and feminist views.

Fidelity

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Florida

A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles Times).

"We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind." In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South--one poem, "Kith," exploring that strange bedfellow of "kin"--the speaker and his young son wander among the stones of their ancestors. "Like heat he seeks them, / my son, thirsting / to learn those / he don't know / are his dead."
 
Whether it's the fireflies of a Louisiana summer caught in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that makes up our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them--of us--poetry can save.

Stones

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Poetry for Holidays 

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One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete experience and the particulars of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech ― unlike his friend and mentor, Ezra Pound ― and his poems are redolent with a warmth and generosity of spirit. The Beat poets were particularly impressed with the accessibility of his language, and Williams's widely quoted dictum, "No ideas but in things," influenced a generation of American poets.
This fine selection offers readers the opportunity to study and enjoy the richness and variety of Williams's early work. More than 70 poems, published between 1917 and 1921, include "Peace on Earth," "Tract," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "Keller Gegen Dom," "Willow Poem," "Queen-Anne's-Lace," "Portrait of a Lady," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," and many others.

Early Poems

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North Carolina

Inspired by Roget's explanation of the optical illusion that causes spinning wheels to appear to run backward, a lyrical collection by the award-winning poet explores the human pursuit to articulate the world and the perception that words hold greater meaning than their definitions.

Roget's Illusion

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A Book of Hours

Hearkening back to the medieval devotional books of hours used for daily prayer, poet Elizabeth Bodien takes notice of ordinary moments throughout the day, making them into opportunities for extraordinary attention and reverence.

Oblique Music

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Georgia

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Texas

The dynamic, best-selling team of Lin Oliver and Tomie dePaola have created a charming collection of baby poems that makes the perfect gift for baby showers and first birthdays.

For babies and toddlers, each moment is full of wonder and discovery. This delightful collection of original poems celebrates the everyday things that enthrall little ones, such as playing peekaboo, banging pots and pans, splashing at bath time, and cuddling at bedtime. Full of contagious rhythm and rhyme, this inviting picture book introduces young children to the sound of poetry, and beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola's engaging children are the perfect match for Lin Oliver's lighthearted poems. Together they've created a book to be treasured that captures the magic and fun of being new in the world.

Little Poems for Tiny Ears

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Children instinctively love poetry, with its appealing mixture of rhythm and rhyme. And Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with his suspenseful narrative verse, deceptively simple structure, and powerful images of 19th-century United States, makes an especially suitable subject for the critically acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Brilliant, specially commissioned artwork brings to life all the atmosphere, drama, and emotion of his writing: the vital energy of "The Village Blacksmith," the urgency of "Paul Revere's Ride," and the sorrow of "The Wreck of the Hesperus." An opening essay tells of Longfellow's life: his childhood in Maine, his family history (the Longfellows played a major role in New England politics), his success as a professor of foreign languages, and his often-tragic personal life. More than just a biography, it reveals the inspiration for many of Longfellow's most popular works. Nearly 30 poems appear, most in their entirety, including "The Arrow and the Song," "The Rainy Day," "Woods in Winter," "The Forest Primeval" (from "Evangeline"), "Hiawatha's Childhood" (from "Song of Hiawatha"), "A Psalm of Life," and the abolitionist "The Witnesses." As always in this series, supplementary word definitions give children the knowledge they need to fully understand the poems. 48 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Indiana

"So many times, I think of myself as a strong and independent person, filled with confidence and pride. And sometimes I forget that? It's all because of you, Mom." - Judith Hintz TanakaThis book brings together some of the best contemporary poetry and writings about a mother and her importance in our lives, in a collection destined to be treasured by mothers everywhere for many years to come.This book is more than a tribute to a mother. It is also an eloquent expression of our appreciation for all that she has done since the day we were born. It conveys our thanks for the lifetime she has invested in raising us to be the people we are today. It holds a promise that we will never forget all she has taught us, shared with us, and sacrificed for us -- instead, we will value her legacy forever and strive to hand it down to future generations. Most of all, this book is a gift of love for the one woman to who we owe everything... Mom."I can never thank you enough for all that you have taught me, and done for me. I can never repay you. All I can do is tell you that I love you with all my heart, that I'm grateful for you, and that I cherish you and the closeness we share." - Deborah A. Brideau

I Love You, Mom

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Every Child's Book of Poems

Sing a Song of Popcorn

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A Book of Poems

There is a special kind of quiet
every household knows
we hear it in our sleep
the first night it snows


In her first book written for beginning readers, Charlotte Zolotow's poetry evokes -- with her signature warmth and insight -- the highlights and emotions of a child's year. Erik Blegvad's drawings masterfully portray the scenes of nature, family, friendship, and solitude.

Francesco Marciuliano

I Knead My Mommy

Gail Harvey; Random House Value Publishing Staff

Poems of Childhood

Caroline Kaufman; Yelena Bryksenkova (Illustrator)

Light Filters in: Poems

Kelsea Ballerini

Feel Your Way Through

Eve Merriam; Hans Wilhelm (Illustrator)

Blackberry Ink

Francesco Marciuliano

I Could Chew on This

Laurie Sheck

10 at Night

June Cotner; Jan Palmer (Illustrator)

⭐ Amazing Graces

Jack Prelutsky (Selected by); Marjorie Priceman (Illustrator)

For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone

David Emblidge (Editor)

The Appalachian Trail Reader

Harold Bloom

American Religious Poems: an Anthology by Harold Bloom

Lisa Dordal

Water Lessons

Grace Paley

Fidelity

Kevin Young

Stones

Nancy Larrick

Poetry for Holidays

William Carlos Williams

Early Poems

Linda Bierds

Roget's Illusion

Elizabeth Bodien

Oblique Music

Linda Bierds

Roget's Illusion

Lin Oliver; Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)

Little Poems for Tiny Ears

Henry Longfellow; Frances Schoonmaker (Editor); Chad Wallace (Illustrator)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gary Morris (Editor)

I Love You, Mom

Beatrice Schenk De Regniers; Eva Moore (Editor); Mary Michaels White; Jan Carr (Editor); Nine Caldecott (Illustrator); Ed Moore

Sing a Song of Popcorn

Charlotte Zolotow; Erik Blegvad (Illustrator)

Seasons