Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

poems

The odd last thing she did

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THE ENEMY JOY

Sunday skaters

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The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day

Offers a collection of myths, poems, and prayers that deal with the subject of the eternal cycle of light, including pieces by Roethke, Louise Bogan, Machado, Sappho, Emily Dickinson, and Octavio Paz

Changing Light

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Amanda Gorman

Oprah Winfrey

New York

An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, 'The Hill We Climb,' is now available to cherish in this special edition"

The Hill We Climb

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Pennsylvania

Poetry

If We Live Again, or, Public Magic and Private Love

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Ralph Fletcher

Oregon

Poems about Family

A collection of poems that describe the experiences and relationships in a close-knit family.

Relatively Speaking

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with others. This elegantly designed chapbook collects several dozen poems by the world's greatest poets on the natural world, both flora and fauna. There are poems on nature in general as well as nature in all of its beautiful specifics: birds, wildlife, flowers, trees, the land, and the sea. Poets represented include John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Andrew Marvell, Stephen Crane, William Blake, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and Sarah Teasdale. A dedication page makes this anthology suitable for gift giving.

Poems on Nature

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Charles Olson

Merton M. Sealts

One of the most stimulating essays ever written on Moby Dick, and for that matter on any piece of literature, and the forces behind it."—San Francisco Chronicle First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences—especially Shakespearean ones—on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville's reading King Lear for the first time in between the first and second versions of the book had a profound impact on his conception of the saga: "the first book did not contain Ahab," writes Olson, and "it may not, except incidentally, have contained Moby-Dick." If literary critics and reviewers at the time responded with varying degrees of skepticism to the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.

Call Me Ishmael

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Matt Mason

Witty, nostalgic, rhythmic and forlorn, Matt Mason's poetry calls on the classic rock music that shaped him. Mason laments on his childhood in the 80s and addresses the graduating preschool class of 2023, as he takes us on the coming-of-age roadtrip of a lifetime. An ode and ovation to what our ears taught us before we knew what to say, Rock Stars riffs on all things music, poetry, sports, and more. You'll be itching with anticipation to flip over the tape, and see what the next track has in store.

Rock Stars

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Adam Vines

Poems

Written almost exclusively in traditional, modified, and nonce forms, the poems in Lures renegotiate grief, trauma, southern masculinities, and fatherhood with unflinching resolve. This new collection by Adam Vines draws much of its subject matter and imagery from fishing, revealing how close observations of species, spawning cycles, predation and feeding patterns, underwater topographies, water clarity, and lure choice reflect larger themes of what it means to be lured through memories of those who have passed and those who remain present. With Lures, Vines proposes that by reconstructing the stories from our past, we gain a greater understanding of our cultural identities and inheritances from those who made an impact on our lives.

Lures

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Nikki Grimes

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Texas

This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself. Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading—anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus, Garvey finds a way to accept himself, and a way to finally reach his distant father—by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports.

Garvey's Choice

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Dahlia Adler

13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales, and how they’ve been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways. Contributors include Kendare Blake (reimagining “Metzengerstein”), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morge”), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait”), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee”), Tiffany D. Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado”), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart”), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter”), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death”), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog”), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum”), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher”).

His Hideous Heart

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Charles Wright

Missouri

A collection by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and other prestigious accolades meditates on life and nature while exploring the author's restless pursuit of a divine reality.

Caribou

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Patricia McCormick

Mississippi

The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award Finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph


Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.

He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.

An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave.

Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words-Simply to endure is to triumph-and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision-will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life?

Written in spare and evocative vignettes by the co-author of I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition), this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.


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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

A Tribute to the Source

Fifty-three of Frost's outstanding poems are combined with forty-four color photographs and a biographical text to illuminate the connections between the poet and New England and the natural sources of his inspiration

Robert Frost

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#hardcover #fiction #poetry #jewel #singer #songwriter #anightwithoutarmor #folksinger #folksy #folksongs

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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Jewel

Teacher’s name on the top (see photos). Deckle edges. I’ve had this book since it came out in 1998. 

New Hampshire

Inscription on face page (see photos). #mothergoose #poetry #nurseryrhymes #hardcover #classic #children #childrens #toddlers #babies #kids 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Real Mother Goose

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#hardcover #poetry #lindabierds #nonfiction #poems

Georgia

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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Indiana

New Poems

A crackling, moving new collection from one of America's greatest living poets.

In over twenty-six original books, the poems of John Ashbery have long served as signposts guiding us through the delights, woes, hypocrisies, and uncertainties of living in the modern world. With language harvested from everyday speech, fragments of pop culture, objects and figures borrowed from art and literature, his work makes light out of darkness, playing with tone and style to show how even the seemingly frivolous stuff of existence can be employed to express the deepest levels of feeling.

Commotion of the Birds showcases once again Ashbery's mastery of a staggering range of voices and his singular lyric agility: wry, frank, contemplative, resigned, bemused, and ecstatic. The poet in this new collection is at once removed from and immersed in the terrain of his examination. Disarmingly conversational, he invites the reader to join him in looking out onto the future with humor, curiosity, and insight. The lines of these poems achieve a low-humming, thrilling point of vibration, a jostling of feathers before flight.

Commotion of the Birds

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Caroline Kennedy

Louisiana

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy and is illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy clan. This is a wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself and a meaningful gift or keepsake for Mothers Day.

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #hardcover #amandalovelace

Massachusetts

"What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?" Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you've been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?

To Make Monsters Out of Girls

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Selected Poems

Labour with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun.
--from "Something Left Undone"



From his youthful works to his final, mature poems, the breadth and beauty of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry is on display in this wonderful compilation. “A Psalm of Life,” which opens the collection, comes from Longfellow’s very first book, while “L’Envoi” captures the chill feel of oncoming death. Also included are the ever-popular “Evangeline,” “The Song of Hiawatha,” “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” and more.


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The odd last thing she did

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Mary Jo Salter

Sunday skaters

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Changing Light

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The Hill We Climb

Jane Roberts

If We Live Again, or, Public Magic and Private Love

Ralph Fletcher

Relatively Speaking

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Poems on Nature

Charles Olson; Merton M. Sealts; Merton M. Sealts

Call Me Ishmael

Matt Mason

Rock Stars

Adam Vines

Lures

Nikki Grimes

Garvey's Choice

Dahlia Adler

His Hideous Heart

Charles Wright

Caribou

Patricia McCormick

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Robert Frost

Jewel

A Night Without Armor

Jewel

A Night Without Armor

Grace Maccarone (Editor); Blanche Fisher Wright (Illustrator)

The Real Mother Goose

Linda Bierds

Roget's Illusion

John Ashbery

Commotion of the Birds

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Caroline Kennedy

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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To Make Monsters Out of Girls

Henry Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow