Danez Smith

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Poems

Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family—blood and chosen—arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.

Homie

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Michael Salinger

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Vocabulary in Rhyme

Presents humorous and ironic rhymes with lighthearted illustrations that provide an amusing introduction to vocabulary words that students should know.

Well Defined

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#hardcover #latin #hispanic #hispanicheritage #history #historical #nonfiction #art #picturebook #poetry

Florida

Poems about Amazing Hispanics

Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot--the Latinos featured in Bravo!, by author Margarita Engle and illustrator Rafael López, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds.

Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive today!

Biographical poems include: Aida de Acosta, Arnold Rojas, Baruj Benacerraf, César Chávez, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Félix Varela, George Meléndez, José Martí, Juan de Miralles, Juana Briones, Julia de Burgos, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Paulina Pedroso, Pura Belpré, Roberto Clemente, Tito Puente, Ynes Mexia, Tomás Rivera.

Bravo! también está disponible en edición en español.

Bravo!

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Minnesota

In the Heart of the Light 

Blue Mountain Arts® Collection Staff

Wear along edges of dust jacket. Specks of discoloration on hardcover. No damage to pages. Appears unread.

Virginia

A Contemporary Collection of Romantic Love Poems

This contemporary collection of romantic love poems speaks to the desire of today's couples for lasting, meaningful relationships. It makes an ideal Valentine's Day gift that will be treasured for many years.

This Valentine's Day, I Promise You All My Love

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Eric Kincaid

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A Children's Book of Verse

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Alvin Schwartz

Ex library copy, with expected markings and stamps, but it’s still in very good condition. 

Folk Poetry from Everyone

From autograph rhymes to street rhymes, from riddles to jump-rope chants, here is a wonderful collection of more than 250 folk poems to share with friends & family. Understand, rubberband?

And the Green Grass Grew All Around

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Joanna Cole

Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front and back cover. Interior pages are in good condition. One section has some binding issues (as pictured).

Missouri

An anthology of more than 200 old and new poems for preschool through adolescent readers.

New Treasury of Children's Poetry

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Walt Whitman

Texas

Walt Whitman experienced the agonies of the Civil War firsthand as a volunteer in Washington's military hospitals. This superb selection of poems, letters, and prose from that era includes "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.

Civil War Poetry and Prose

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Kevin Young

There is some pencil marks throughout that could be erased - otherwise in like new condition :)

Pennsylvania

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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#hardcover #christian #religious #childrens #boardbook #poetry #picturebook #babybook #baby #church

Jesus Loves Me

Edgar Allan Poe

A Miscellany of Macabre Musings

An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context. This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from Poe's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Quotes will be organized in thematic chapter groupings, and each chapter will be prefaced with several introductory paragraphs that discuss Poe's preoccupation with their subject matter in a lighter vein. Chapter subjects will include such themes as "Madness," "Dreams," "Revenge," "Mortality," and "Premature Burial." Spot illustrations will be distributed through the text.

Poe Knows

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Rhode Island

Poems discuss such conflicting concerns as the social and spiritual life, the desire for company and for solitude, and youth and the ravages of disease

The Look of Things

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HENRY PURCELL IN JAPAN 

#hardcover #HumptyDumpty #Kindergarten #Elementary #Humor #Song #Poetry￼ please note pictures. Towards the end there are a few pages that have been bent. Price reflecting. Box 3￼

Follow this beloved childhood nursery rhyme character through adventure after adventure as he tries, in vain, to keep himself together!

Fans of Kin Eagle's previous extended nursery rhymes (It's Raining, It's Pouring, Rub a Dub Dub, and Hey, Diddle Diddle), will again delight in this fun-filled tale.

Humpty Dumpty

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#paperback #Folklore #Fairytale #Elementary #Illustrated #Adventure #Poetry #Song #Teacher￼ box 20

The Frog Who Stirred the Cream

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#hardcover #poetry #margaretwisebrown #wonderful #storybook

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Stories and poems of animals, bathtubs, steamrollers, night, farms, and other experiences familiar to a child.

Margaret Wise Brown's Wonderful Storybook

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Arizona

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today. In We Inherit What the Fires Left, award-winning poet William Evans embarks on a powerful new collection that explores the lived experience of race in the American suburbs and what dreams and injuries are passed from generation to generation. Fall under the spell of Evans’s boldly intimate, wise, and emotionally candid voice in these urgent, electrifying poems. This eloquent collection explores not only what these inheritances are composed of, but what price the bearer must pay for such legacies, and the costly tolls exacted on both body and spirit. Evans writes searingly from the perspective of the marginalized, delivering an unflinching examination of what it is like to be a black man raising a daughter in predominantly white spaces, and the struggle to build a home and a future while carrying the weight of the past. However, in beautiful and quiet scenes of domesticity with his daughter or in thoughtful reflection within himself, Evans offers words of hope to readers, proving that resilience can ultimately bloom even in the face of prejudice. Readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hanif Abdurraqib will find a brilliant, fresh new talent to add to their lists in William Evans.

We Inherit What the Fires Left

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#paperback #religious #poetry #goldenpoet #pastor

Idaho

His way made known

Hawaii

My First Book of Nursery Rhymes

#hardcover #humor #cats #fancycats #memes #poetry 

The Original Book of Cat Humor

A humorous gift book featuring the original pre-internet cat memes

Ye Olde Cat Memes

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#anightwithoutarmor #fiction #hardcover #poems #jewel #poetry #nonfiction 

Louisiana

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 #10

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

Michigan

Feathers 

Retired school library and Jefferson City public library book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front and back covers. Interior pages are in fair condition.Book was printed in 1969.

Poems for young readers, chosen by David Powell, and introduced by Naomi Lewis Poems for young readers, chosen by David Powell in introduced by Naomi Louis

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Homie

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In the Heart of the Light

Blue Mountain Arts® Collection Staff

This Valentine's Day, I Promise You All My Love

Eric Kincaid

A Children's Book of Verse

Alvin Schwartz

And the Green Grass Grew All Around

Joanna Cole

New Treasury of Children's Poetry

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Civil War Poetry and Prose

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Stones

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Henri Cole

The Look of Things

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The Frog Who Stirred the Cream

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His way made known

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