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Florida

A Dictionary Of Rhyming Slang

Helen Steiner Rice

Oklahoma

Poems of Love and Friendship

Everyone Needs Someone

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Juniper Klatt

Oregon

to the water signs who made me to the loves & lovers who've held me to every version of my self I am trying to love this is how I feel the world

I Was Raised in a House of Water

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Andrew Carroll

California

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Casey at the Bat," "Fog," "The New Colossus," "Chicago," "I, Too, Sing America," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Road Not Taken," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter."

101 Great American Poems

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Claudia Rankine

An American Lyric

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.

Citizen

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New York

Poems You Can Use

Motherless Child

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One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) wrote verse firmly rooted in concrete experience and the particulars of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech ― unlike his friend and mentor, Ezra Pound ― and his poems are redolent with a warmth and generosity of spirit. The Beat poets were particularly impressed with the accessibility of his language, and Williams's widely quoted dictum, "No ideas but in things," influenced a generation of American poets.
This fine selection offers readers the opportunity to study and enjoy the richness and variety of Williams's early work. More than 70 poems, published between 1917 and 1921, include "Peace on Earth," "Tract," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "Keller Gegen Dom," "Willow Poem," "Queen-Anne's-Lace," "Portrait of a Lady," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," and many others.

Early Poems

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South Dakota

To a Very Special Mom 

Johnny Cash

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Unknown Poems

Present a collection of previously unpublished poems and lyrics by the legendary music icon that is complemented by original handwritten documents sharing insights into his observations about culture, family, fame, freedom, mortality and Christmas.

Forever Words

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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Jack Prelutsky

South Carolina

How to Write a Poem





Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza How about a pig How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents

Jack Prelutsky has written more than a thousand poems about all of these things--and many others. In this book he gives you the inside scoop on writing poetry and shows you how you can turn your own experiences and stories about your family, your pets, and your friends into poems. He offers tips, advice, and secrets about writing and provides some fun exercises to help you get started (or unstuck). You'll also get a behind-the-scenes look at the ingredients of some of his most popular poems. If you are a poet, want to be a poet, or if you have to write a poem for homework and you just need some help, this is the book for you!

Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry

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Twelve illustrated  free verse poems chronicle the events and feelings of a Navajo girl's eleventh year. 

Ohio

illustrated poetry

Alice Yazzie's Year : Gift Edition

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Dreamy Illustrated Poetry

A collection of fourteen poems, including "Calling the Sun," "Showing the Wind," and "Invitation from a Mole."

A Lucky Thing

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Amazing condition for a book from
1968.
Even includes receipt from 1975, and dust jacket.


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Collection of Poems 

Wonders and Surprises 

Worn but readable copy of Major American Poets. Some pages have pen notes in the margin, marker cross outs of names in the interior cover. 

Maryland

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

Gabbie Hanna

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and an adult all at once, revealing her own longings, obsessions, and insecurities along the way. Adultolescence announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice with a magical ability to connect through alienation, cut to the profound with internet slang, and detonate wickedly funny jokes between moments of existential dread. You’ll turn to the last page because you get her, and you’ll return to the first because she gets you.

Adultolescence

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Lili Reinhart

The book is in a fair condition. The back cover is no longer white. I received the book in this condition. 

Tennessee

Poems

The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own.

Swimming Lessons

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Georgia

Philip Smith

Popular, well-known poetry: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Fog," "Chicago," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!" "The Road Not Taken," "Musee des Beaux Arts," "Ozymandias," "Sonnet 73," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter."

100 Best-Loved Poems

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Teresa James

Wisconsin

Short Poems & Thoughts of Poetry - Beauty and intensity of emotions expressed by words - Poetic

A Little Poetic

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Michigan

The complete one prose tales of alexander sergeyevitch

Robert Frost

Unabridged version. Very minor wear and a small stain. Other than that, it looks very good.

Kept in a smoke-free and pet-free home. 

Unabridged

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Now a selection of the best of his early works is available in this volume, originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval. Included are many moving and expressive poems: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting In the Seed," "A Time to Talk," "The Hill Wife," "The Exposed Nest," "The Sound of Trees" and more. All are reprinted here complete and unabridged. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken."

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

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Poetry for Holidays

Insights and Poems along the Way

This collection of poems and photographs invites the reader on a deeply felt, sensitive and insightful journey of a soul's growth through seasons of life. Notice a rosebush that blooms whether or not people notice, trees that join earth with sky, a lost little girl, glints of gold suspended in a lake, the call of distant stars - all part of the journey. The path of a soul's growth, like a labyrinth, folds over itself and retraces familiar steps in an unfamiliar way. It's a progression in reference point over time. We revisit earlier scenarios and see them from a different point of view.Join the author in this journey as it winds outward, and also takes us within, to the core of our self. The seed place. This collection of insights, offered from that seed place, falls loosely into a cycle of seasons as well as cycles of growth. May these insights provide some light for the reader's own journey.Genie Lester, editor of Infinity Limited says: "Nancy Schluntz is a keen observer of two worlds, the physical and the metaphysical. In her poetry she shares with us her insight about the ways in which these worlds interact. Her work brings into consciousness unspoken understandings of the patterns of life and nature. This is a book for moments of quiet pleasure."

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Motherless Child

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To a Very Special Mom

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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

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