A collection of poems by Benjamin Franklin, etc.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Joy of Words

Michaela MacColl

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

One day, fifteen-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a mysterious, handsome young man. Surprisingly, he doesn't seem to know who she or her family is. And even more surprisingly, he playfully refuses to divulge his name. Emily enjoys her secret flirtation with Mr. "Nobody" until he turns up dead in her family's pond. She's stricken with guilt. Only Emily can discover who this enigmatic stranger was before he's condemned to be buried in an anonymous grave. Her investigation takes her deep into town secrets, blossoming romance, and deadly danger. Exquisitely written and meticulously researched, this novel celebrates Emily Dickinson's intellect and spunk in a page-turner of a book that will excite fans of mystery, romance, and poetry alike.

Nobody's Secret

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Light scuffing on the edges of the cover and an original page cutting mistake from the printer.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Poetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. "Up jumps the boogie. That's almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn't have a favorite poet for this year: Now I do. But with this kind of verve and intelligence and ferocity Murillo just might be a favorite for many years to come."--Junot Díaz



"The feel of now lives in John Murillo's UP JUMP THE BOOGIE, but it's tempered by bows to the tradition of soulful music and oral poetry. The lived dimensions embodied in this collection say that here's an earned street knowledge and a measured intellectual inquiry that dare to live side by side, in one unique voice. The pages of UP JUMP THE BOOGIE breathe and sing; the tributes and cultural nods are heartfelt, and in these honest poems no one gets off the hook."--Yusef Komunyakaa

Up Jump the Boogie

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Robert Pinksy

Maggie Dietz

Virginia

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

A multimedia collection of poems introduced by American readers, featuring a DVD including a video introduction by Robert Pinsky.

For a reader unaccustomed to reading poetry, or who has fallen away from the custom, this collection offers an inviting way into the art, or back into it. For readers devoted to poetry, it offers illuminating examples of the infinitely various ways a poem reaches a reader.

In both the book and the videos on the accompanying DVD, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine--each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem. Their comments are variously poignant, funny, heartening, tart, penetrating, and eccentric, showing some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers. An Invitation to Poetry will inspire a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.

Invitation to Poetry

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Michigan

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Home Body

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An American Treasury - Poetry And Pose Compiled By Hugh Graham - 1949 Hardcover.

(Pictured) damage to inner pages in back near binding.

Front cover has damage on top and bottom like scratches. Inside pages are in good condition. #poetry 

An American Treasury - Poetry And Pose Compiled By Hugh Graham - 1949 Hardcover 

Rupi Kaur

2nd Poetry book from Rupi Kaur

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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Sandra Martz

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

I Would Pick More Daisies

In stories, poems, and photographs, women reveal their joy of life and examine the choices they have made

If I Had My Life to Live Over

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English

Book of rhymes 

J. D. McClatchy

Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

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#hardcover #poetry# collectors# children's.  

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Garden Poetry Book by Cambridge University Press. Very Good Condition for age. Jacket has light wear especially on the back, and pages are like new for 2008. Perfect for Garden Writers. Medium Size Book. 

Missouri

For centuries, poets have been ensnared - as one of their number, Andrew Marvell put it - by the beauty of flowers. Then, from the middle of the eighteenth century onward, that enjoyment was enriched by a surge of popular interest in botany. Besides exploring the relationship between poetic and scientific responses to the green world within the context of humanity's changing concepts of its own place in the ecosphere, Molly Mahood considers the part that flowering plants played in the daily lives and therefore in the literary work of a number of writers who could all be called poet-botanists: Erasmus Darwin, George Crabbe, John Clare, John Ruskin and D. H. Lawrence. A concluding chapter looks closely at the meanings, old or new, that plants retained or obtained in the violent twentieth century.

The Poet as Botanist

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Vintage 90’s Zen Rock Gardening Book w/ Poetry. Very Good Condition for age. Jacket and pages are like new for 1993 with very little wear as shown. perfect for Japanese Garden enthusiasts. Thin Book. 

Zen Rock Gardening

Sharon Doubiago

Author signed with dedication.  Clean pages - no writing, no highlighting, no folds.  A nice copy for your collection!
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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Wisconsin

The author of this book-length poem has spent much of her life travelling the Americas. Her previous books include the epic poem Hard Country, Psyche Drives the Coast: Poems 1975-1987, and two collections of stories, The Book of Seeing with One's Own Eyes and El Nino.

South America Mi Hija

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Special Franklin library edition with 22k gold sprayed edges and cloth interior. 

New Jersey

The Flowers of Evil

New York

Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

John Hollander

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket.

100 Best Poems to Memorize

Gathers poems by Matthew Arnold, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost

Committed to Memory *1989 edition

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Illinois

This is something about self-exploration--something they don't teach in school. Something that's very hard to learn on your own. This is something about putting yourself first because it's okay to love yourself before anyone else. This is something about doing what's best for you, no matter what people say, because only you know what you deserve. This is something about being real, being real to who you are and accepting things as they come and change. This is something about your mistakes, about your flaws, and about how beautiful it is to get up and try again. This is something about being you, about using your voice when you're afraid. About building enough courage when you feel like standing up to something you don't believe in, something that's wrong. This is about you, and every day should be about you, and that's something you should always consider.

Light Theory

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This is something about self-expression--something they don't teach in school. Something that's very hard to learn on your own. This is something about putting yourself first because it's okay to love yourself before anyone else. This is something about doing what's best for you, no matter what people say, because only you know what you deserve. This is something about being real, being real to who you are and accepting things as they come and change. This is something about your mistakes, about your flaws, and about how beautiful it is to get up and try again. This is something about being you, about using your voice when you're afraid. About building enough courage when you feel like standing up to something you don't believe in, something that's wrong. This is about you, and every day should be about you, and that's something you should always consider.

Star Theory

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#paperback #nonfiction #beatles #lyrics #musichistory #rock #rockandroll #60s #songlyrics #poetry #70s #music #songs #musicanalysis #60smusic #70smusic #thebeatles #coffeetable #musicology #popmusic #popsongs #rockmusic 

Arkansas

The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs

The definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America. For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime -- songs we all know by heart often began as a scribble on the back of an envelope or on hotel stationery. These original documents have ended up scattered across the world at museums and universities and with collectors and friends. Many have never been published before. More than 100 songs and lyrics are reproduced in THE BEATLES LYRICS, providing Hunter Davies a unique platform to tell the story of the music. The intimacy of these reproductions -- there are sections crossed out and rewritten, and words tossed into the final recordings that were never written down -- ensures that THE BEATLES LYRICS will be a treasure for musicians, scholars, and fans everywhere.

The Beatles Lyrics

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James Tate

Poems

In this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry; as Charles Simic has observed, "To write a poem out of nothng at all is Tate′s genius...Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction...He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had." Father′s Day My daughter has lived overseas for a number of years now. She married into royalty, and they won′t let her communicate with any of her family or friends. She lives on birdseed and a few sips of water. She dreams of me constantly. Her husband, the Prince, whips her when he catches her dreaming. Fierce guard dogs won′t let her out of their sight. I hired a detective, but he was killed trying to rescue her. I have written hundreds of letters to the State Department. They have written back saying that they are aware of the situation. I never saw her dance. I was always away at some convention. I never saw her sing. I was always working late. I called her My Princess, to make up for my shortcomings, and she never forgave me. Birdseed was her middle name.

The Ghost Soldiers

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Very minor wear on the one corner but otherwise in perfect condition.

The poems in Lynn Xu's striking debut collection, Debts & Lessons, travel under the power of history's illusory engine and echo its ululations of love, violence, and lament. Named after the first part of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this book also finds its way across oceans and between languages, as the poet looks to the dead for guidance amid the abstractions of contemporary life. Xu pays her phantoms (and her readers) with the dream-currency of hallucinatory songs, which balance her finely-tuned ear against a world of awakenings.

Debts and Lessons

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#hardcover #poetry #Texas #BoyceHouse #firstedition #numbered #signed #TexasCentennial Rare; no. 36 of a “de luxe edition consisting of sixty copies numbered and signed.” Book of poetry by Boyce House. Published in 1936 by Dealey and Lowe, Dallas, Texas. This was the same year as the Texas Centennial. A first edition hardcover book in very good condition that has foxing on the inside cover, tanning and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. 7.75"x5.5", 33 pages.  HOUSE, BOYCE B. (1896–1961). Boyce House, author, humorist, and radio personality, son of Noah E. and Margaret (O'Brien) House, was born on November 29, 1896, in Piggott, Arkansas. House was a member of the Texas Folklore Society, the Poetry Society of Texas, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Texas Editorial Association. He was married to Golda Fay Jamison on April 8, 1927; they had no children. House died on December 30, 1961, in Fort Worth.

Texas

Texas Rhythm -Signed, Numbered Edition

Caribbean Canvas by Frane Lessac 

	•  Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1989. 
	•	Language ‏ : ‎ English
	•	Large format vintage Hardcover ‏with Dust jacket in archival sleeve. 24 pages.

	•	ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0397323670 
	•	ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0397323678
	•	Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 years and up

	LIKE NEW CONDITION

The full color artwork of Franâe Lessac accompanies this collection of poems by various Caribbean poets, including Robert Johnson, Edward Brathwaite, A.L. Hendricks, Evan Jones, and others.

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Benjamin Franklin

The Joy of Words

Michaela MacColl

Nobody's Secret

John Murillo

Up Jump the Boogie

Robert Pinksy; Maggie Dietz

Invitation to Poetry

Rupi Kaur

Home Body

Hugh graham

An American Treasury - Poetry And Pose Compiled By Hugh Graham - 1949 Hardcover

Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers

Sandra Martz

If I Had My Life to Live Over

Adam Bradley

Book of rhymes

J. D. McClatchy

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends

M. M. Mahood

The Poet as Botanist

Abd Al-Hayy Moore

Zen Rock Gardening

Sharon Doubiago

South America Mi Hija

Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

John Hollander

Committed to Memory *1989 edition

Robert M. Drake

Light Theory

Robert M. Drake

Star Theory

Hunter Davies (Editor)

The Beatles Lyrics

James Tate

The Ghost Soldiers

Lynn Xu

Debts and Lessons

Boyce House

Texas Rhythm -Signed, Numbered Edition

Frane Lessac, Various

Caribbean Canvas by Frane Lessac