Tracy K. Smith

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Fifty Poems for Our Time

American Journal

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Alice B. Fogel

Excellent condition - no interior markings, very slight cover wear visible in photos. 225 pages

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Poet Showcase: an Anthology of New Hampshire Poets

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#paperback first paperback edition, Daley Archive, 1989

For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal's dictum for writers of "twenty lines a day, genius or not." What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer's manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews's life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.

20 Lines a Day

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Illona Linthwaite

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World

Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to tenth-century Japan, from nineteenth-century Chile to Zindziswa Mandela's twentieth-century South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, injustice, motherhood, and loss, and the oppressions of race and sex. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the many poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Judith Kazantzis, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy, Irina Ratushinskaya and Alice Walker. Illona Linthwaite began gathering this collection several years ago, initially for a theatrical performance. Here, in this unique exchange between women of many races, affirming their differences and what they have in common, are more than 150 poems which assert the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth's challenge, "Ain't I a Woman!" In addition to the poems, there are biographies of the 91 contributors.

Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World

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Nuar Alsadir

New York

Original and ambitious poetry that makes readers pay attention to the current conversation about the nature of lyric and human relationships in the 21st century.

Fourth Person Singular

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Megan Fox

North Carolina

Poems

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. “These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,” says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

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Najwa Zebian

From bestselling author, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a collectible treasury of her most beloved poetry and prose. Selected by the author and organized by topic, the pieces in this collection address themes such as letting go, understanding self-worth, and stepping into your own power.

Perfect for readers looking to overcome pain, heal from trauma, and rebuild a strong sense of self, The Book of Healing contains Najwa’s favorite pieces from her three bestselling books—Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix.

This gift-worthy selection of poems gets straight to the heart of Najwa’s message. A keepsake or a broad introduction, The Book of Healing is a worthy companion for anyone looking to cultivate emotional resilience.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Puerto Rico

Selected Poetry and Prose

From bestselling author, speaker, and educator Najwa Zebian comes a collectible treasury of her most beloved poetry and prose. Selected by the author and organized by topic, the pieces in this collection address themes such as letting go, understanding self-worth, and stepping into your own power. Perfect for readers looking to overcome pain, heal from trauma, and rebuild a strong sense of self, The Book of Healing contains Najwa's favorite pieces from her three bestselling books--Mind Platter, The Nectar of Pain, and Sparks of Phoenix. Beautifully packaged with foil-stamping and a ribbon marker, this gift-worthy selection of poems gets straight to the heart of Najwa's message. A keepsake or a broad introduction, The Book of Healing is a worthy companion for anyone looking to cultivate emotional resilience.

The Book of Healing

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Cooper Edens

Used with Sonlight curriculum. Charlotte Mason.

Georgia

A Classic Illustrated Edition

Here is a classic, illustrated edition of one of the best loved poetry collections in the world. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 pictures by the most distinguished children's book artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this edition ofA Child's Garden of Verses contains all the poems that appeared in the original book, published over 100 years ago.

This is a volume to be cherished for a lifetime: by parents and by grandparents who grew up with the poems and, most of all, by children who are being introduced to this extraordinary collection for the first time.

A Child's Garden of Verses

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Opening A Chestnut Burr

Elise Paschen

Charles Osgood

Hear great poets read their work from
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Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath

Combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken, this collection features the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Contributors range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes. Additional poems in print form allow the reader to further explore the poets' works.

Poetry Speaks

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Virgil

Robert Fagles

Bernard Knox

Comes with Kolbe Academy Study Guide (FREE)

Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold more than a million copies and become classics in their own right. With this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles introduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation of readers and completes the classic triptych at the heart of Western civilisation. The Aeneid tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to found the Roman people. A stirring tale of arms and heroism, dispossession and defeat, and an unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, The Aeneid brings to life a whole world of human passion, nobility, and courage.

Fagles's new translation retains all of the gravitas and humanity of the original as well as its powerful blend of poetry and myth. Featuring an illuminating introduction to Virgil's world from noted scholar Bernard Knox, this new Aeneid lends a vibrant, contemporary voice to the literary achievement of the ancient world.

The Aeneid

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Eighteen Years

South Carolina

Keats

Wilder Poetry

Experience a cosmic love story like no other, told through a collection of stunning poetry and enchanting imagery. Eclipse, a collection of poetry and art from Wilder, illustrates a magical journey of love between the sun and moon. Readers will experience firsthand the dichotomy of night and day, light and dark, presence and absence, and how one doesn't exist without the other. Separated into three parts--"Stars," "Between," and "You & Me,"--Eclipse dives into the abundant emotions someone experiences only when in the throes of passion.

Eclipse

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Washington

In Prose and Verse Dear to the American People

Heart Throbs

Houdini Houdini

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Robert Fitzgerald

Virgil's poem about the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy

Rupi Kaur

Minnesota

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Susan Ranson

Marielle Sutherland

Alabama

With Parallel German Text

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations.

Selected Poems

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Traci Kato-Kiriyama

tkk is super unique loaded with layers of meaning from the microessays and poems themselves to the format in which the book is sectioned. read for a asian american lit survey course and she was my favorite by far ❤️
perfect condition minus the back which is pictured

With their second book, Navigating With(out) Instruments, traci kato-kiriyama uses her present-political unrest, family love and loss, her own cancer diagnosis-to join the traumas of the past generations with the hope of the future ones. Often seamless, often with a loud bang, kato-kiriyama moves from genre to genre, from poetry to essays to plays and to letters, framed by the history of US colonialism and war mongering, to urge readers to protect and to share their legacies, both personal and communal, as a means of global survival.

Navigating with(out) Instruments

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rupi Kaur presents guided poetry writing exercises of her own design to help you explore themes of trauma, loss, heartache, love, family, healing, and celebration of the self.
 

Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing.
 
This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page.
 
You don't need to be a writer to take this walk; you just need to write--that's all.
 
 

Healing Through Words

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Amanda Gorman

The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, 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, these poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.

Call Us What We Carry

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William Langland

Elizabeth Ann Robertson

Stephen H. A. Shepherd

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Norton Critical Editions

Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class.E. Talbot Donaldson's translation of the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because of its skillful emulation of the original poem's distinct alliterative verse. Selections of the authoritative Middle English text are also included for comparative analysis."Sources and Backgrounds" includes a large collection of contemporary religious and historical documents pertaining to the poem, including selections from the Douai Bible, accounts of the plague, and legal statutes."Criticism" includes twenty interpretive essays by leading medievalists, among them E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson, and Elizabeth D. Kirk.A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Tracy K. Smith

American Journal

Alice B. Fogel

Poet Showcase: an Anthology of New Hampshire Poets

Harry Mathews

20 Lines a Day

Illona Linthwaite

Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World

Nuar Alsadir

Fourth Person Singular

Megan Fox

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

Najwa Zebian

The Book of Healing

Robert Louis Stevenson; Cooper Edens

A Child's Garden of Verses

E. P. Roe

Opening A Chestnut Burr

Elise Paschen; Charles Osgood

Poetry Speaks

Virgil; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox

The Aeneid

Madisen Kuhn

Eighteen Years

Keats

Keats

Wilder Poetry

Eclipse

Joe Mitchell Chapple (Compiler)

Heart Throbs

Lynn Luria-Sukenick

Houdini Houdini

Virgil; Robert Fitzgerald

The Aeneid

Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers

Rainer Maria Rilke; Susan Ranson; Marielle Sutherland

Selected Poems

Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Navigating with(out) Instruments

Rupi Kaur

Healing Through Words

Amanda Gorman

Call Us What We Carry

William Langland; Elizabeth Ann Robertson; Stephen H. A. Shepherd

Piers Plowman

Gary. Snyder

Mountains and Rivers Without End