Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

A Woman's Journey Through Poems

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey.

The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it's falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old, She Walks in Beauty is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.

She Walks in Beauty

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Original language on left page, translation on right | Translation by Allen Mandelbaum #paperback #fiction #classic #poetry #translation #poem #Divinecomedy #dantealighieri #italy #italian

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Divine Comedy | Inferno

Inferno

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

And Related Readings

Deaf, blind, and mute twelve-year-old Helen Keller was like a wild animal. Scared out of her wits but still murderously strong, she clawed and struggled against all who tried to help her. Half-blind herself but blessed with fanatical dedication, Annie Sullivan began a titanic struggle to release the young girl from the terrifying prison of eternal darkness and silence.

The Miracle Worker

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#paperback #dante #poem #poetry #medieval #literature #good #evil #christianity #history #culture 

Florida

Philosophy

The historical and cultural significance of Dante Alighieri's masterpiece The Divine Comedy cannot be overstated. Dante's poetry takes the reader on a multi-layered journey, one through which he or she experiences this literary master's unique aesthetic and spiritual sensibilities. The Divine Comedy also presents the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of medieval Italian thought and its bearing on Western theology and culture. This lyrical allegory of a journey from the depths of Hell to Paradise is a moving read in its own right and its influence upon world literature unchallenged.

The Divine Comedy

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#paperback #poetry #natemarshall #finna #lyrical #oneworldlit #new #poem

California

Poems

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy “Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country in a strikingly original way.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Tordotcom Definition of finna, created by the author: fin·na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow These poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy, and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets. Finna explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally, how the Black vernacular, expands our notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope: nothing about our people is romantic & it shouldn’t be. our people deserve poetry without meter. we deserve our own jagged rhythm & our own uneven walk towards sun. you make happening happen. we happen to love. this is our greatest action.

Finna

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Random Number Lit - Big Book List
the Letters of Abelard and Heloise is a Penguin Classics edition that captures some of the letters between the forbidden relationship of Abelard, a 12th century French monk, and Heloise, his one time pupil and nun. This collection of the letters includes Alexander Pope, 18th century British poet, which is the height of what this project is about seeing the intersections of where classic literature comments upon itself. Pope, best known for "The Rape of the Lock," also translated a famous edition of The Odyssey and took part in the discourse on the classics.

The relationship of Abelard and Heloise has been viewed and referenced throughout classic literature. The first text that comes to mind that draws upon this story is Matthew Lewis' The Monk which I also read for this project. Lewis takes this story and inverts it but I think Lewis sees inside of this text what is possible as the underside of this tale. Abelard is complicated character and reading his "History" with a 21st century lens reveals a lot of issues in this courtship between tutor and pupil, between power imbalances but even inside the story of their own culture there are issues that arise. It was difficult to read at times and I am not sure I see Abelard through the same eyes that history has adjudicated this story. 

There is also a Youtube Channel, Substack, Twitter and Instagram for this project: randomnumberlit.substack.com and @randomnumberlit – Simply Search for Random Number Lit on Youtube and my playlists will come up. 
 
Every book sold will come with a short reflection on my experience reading the text. I will also include a bookmark and sticker with each volume. Each book bought is an invitation to a conversation with me about your reading experience in whatever method and medium you would prefer. 
 
#classics #classicbooks #classicliterature #classiclit #Alexanderpope #poetry #poem #letters #autobiography #biography #abelard #eloise 

Illinois

Eloisa to Abelard

#hardcover #memoir #culture #nonfiction #poems #poem #cuba


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Two cultures, Two wings: A Memoir

Enchanted Air

Social Studies

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

[This book] is designed to make poetry accessible and inviting to college students. The introductory chapters (Part I) and the anthology (Part II) together present well over 500 poems, consisting of standard literary works as well as a strong representation of recent works by women and minority poets. -Pref.

Poetry

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#poetry #poems #chernobyl #mourning #poem



With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort’s Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts
the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?

Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet’s voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.

Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.

New York

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New York Times

In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.

With shocking, unforgettable lyric force, Valzhyna Mort's Music for the Dead and Resurrected confronts
the legacy of violent death in one family in Belarus. In these letters to the dead, the poet asks: How do we mourn after a century of propaganda? Can private stories challenge the collective power of Soviet and American historical mythology?

Mort traces a route of devastation from the Chernobyl fallout and a school system controlled by ideology to the Soviet labor camps and the massacres of World War II. While musical form serves as a safe house for the poet's voice, old trees speak to her as the only remaining witnesses, hosts to both radiation and memory.

Valzhyna Mort, born in Belarus and now living in the United States, conjures a searing, hallucinogenic ritual of rhythmic remembrance in a world where appeals to virtue and justice have irrevocably failed.

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

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Texas

Stitching the Soul

The final installment in this bestselling series completes the journey that Courtney Peppernell began with Pillow Thoughts. With 600,000 copies sold across the series, Pillow Thoughts continues to inspire all who dip into Courtney's encouraging words. Self-healing is the theme of the entire Pillow Thoughts series. While books II and III focus on healing the heart and mind, respectively, Pillow Thoughts IV offers a balm for healing the soul. Have a cup of tea and let yourself feel.

Pillow Thoughts IV

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Black Women Write about Mothers & Daughters

Maya Angelou provides the foreword for this collection of poetry, fiction, and memoir about mothers and daughters, written by such well-known black writers as Alice Walker, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and others. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Double Stitch

506 pages. Large paperback. Brand spankin' new.

Nevada

Life and Times

This book contains the most definitive biography of Francis Scott Key ever written; a portrait of "an unusual character-a lawyer, orator, churchman, statesman, and poet, who was deeply patriotic and deeply religious." "Certain it is that the fame of Francis Scott Key flowed almost entirely from the fact that he wrote The Star Spangled Banner. Yet his life is significant for many other reasons. For many years, from the time when he first appeared before Chief Justice Marshall to plead for the release of Aaron Burr's messengers, Key was one of the leaders of the American Bar. He defended Sam Houston in his dramatic trial in the House of Representatives; he figured in Peggy Eaton's quarrel; he opposed Nullification and the United States Bank; and he was Andrew Jackson's conciliator in Alabama in one of the most stirring episodes in the history of the State." Illustrations, poems, "all the important utterances of his known public speeches," a bibliography, and an index to full names, places and subjects enhance this exceptional work.

Francis Scott Key

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New Jersey

Expressions of Love in Poems & Letters

Critically acclaimed poet and anthologist Paul Janeczko has turned his attention to a new compilation of love poems for teens. This book collects the most poignant and moving musings about love from a diverse group of classic poets and writers like Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Angelous, and many more.

Blushing

A collection of poetry by Nobel prize winning authk Seamus Heaney. His writing style is very similar to that of the musician Hozier.

 #paperback #poetry #seamusheaney #poem  #lyrics

"Between my fingers and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it."

Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost.
Helen Vendler called Heaney "a poet of the in-between," and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections, Selected Poems 1966-1987 presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who "emerged from a hidden, a buried life" in Death of a Naturalist (1966), with his cherished poems "Digging" and "Mid-term Break"; the poet of conscience "as bleak as he is bright" in "Whatever You Say Say Nothing" and "Singing School"; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behind Field Work (1979) and Station Island (1984)--an artist uncannily attuned to the "music of what happens," restlessly searching "for images and symbols adequate to our predicament."
This volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation.

Selected Poems 1966-1987

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Girl from Detroit

This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman's struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit. Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's paternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with her immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America. She yearns for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman--much to the chagrin of her parents, who want her to be a "good Greek girl." Mary's story is peppered with flashbacks to her parents' childhoods in Greece and northern France; their stories connect with Mary as they address issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and yearning to grow beyond one's own culture. Though Call Me Athena is written from the perspective of three profoundly different narrators, it has a wide-reaching message: It takes courage to fight for tradition and heritage, as well as freedom, love, and equality.

Call Me Athena

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#hardcover #fiction #juvenilenonfiction #memorable  #ya #youngadult #poems #poem #POC #awardwinning

Georgia

In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.

Brown Girl Dreaming

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New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. One of the most acclaimed YA novels of the year, this New York Times and USA Today bestseller is a must-read for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo and is now available in paperback! The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then, one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth in a system designed to strip him of both.

Punching the Air

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Great Condition. New. All Offers Considered, Just Send a Message. #bodymindspirit #nonfiction #selfhelp #selfdevelopment #poem #motivation #inspiration #creative #life 

Oklahoma

Poems, Prompts and Inspiration to unlock your creativity and unfiltered joy

Miracle in the Mundane

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#poem #poems #heartbreak #romance #spiritual #inspiration #relatable #adults #teens #emotional

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most. Make a cup of tea and let yourself feel.

Pillow Thoughts

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#hardcover #poetry #poem #poems #classics #old #vintage

Connecticut

Art-Type Edition. The World's Popular Classics.

Poems of Whittier

#paperback #fiction #poem #poetry #bukowski 

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

You Get So Alone at Times

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Poem collection! Only wear and tear is from it sitting on my shelf. Beautiful matte feel cover. For lovers of rupi kaur and modern poetry. #paperback #poetry #poem #poems #rupikaur 

Poise and Arrows

#hardcover #prose #poetry  #poetrycommunity #poem #writer #poems #writing #writerscommunity #poetryisnotdead #poet #spilledink #love #creativewriting #wordporn #instapoetry #words #writers #poets #art  #poetrylovers 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

3 volume set, all signed by author

Wherein all action takes place on the Virgin American Prarie around the year 1868, save for the end which takes place in the Deutschland in the year 1928. Oakmot is a tale of epic proportions involving pride & prejudice.

Caroline Kennedy

She Walks in Beauty

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

William Gibson; McDougal-Littell Publishing Staff (Prepared for Publication by)

The Miracle Worker

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Nate Marshall

Finna

Alexander Pope

Eloisa to Abelard

Margarita Engle

Enchanted Air

Margarita Engle

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

Jill P. Bamgaertner; Linda A. Dover

Poetry

Valzhyna Mort

Music for the Dead and Resurrected

Courtney Peppernell

Pillow Thoughts IV

Patricia Bell-Scott

Double Stitch

Edward S. Delaplaine

Francis Scott Key

Paul Janeczko

Blushing

Seamus Heaney

Selected Poems 1966-1987

Colby Cedar Smith

Call Me Athena

Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

Ibi Zoboi; Yusef Salaam

Punching the Air

Tyler Knott Gregson

Miracle in the Mundane

Courtney Peppernell

Pillow Thoughts

John Greenleaf Whittier

Poems of Whittier

Charles Bukowski

You Get So Alone at Times

Kimberley Elyse Castlemain

Poise and Arrows

Crispin H. Glover

Oak-Mot Bundle