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Get a life: you don't need a million to retire well
Par Ralph Warner. 1996
Advises the reader not to focus exclusively on finances when preparing for retirement, but also to consider such equally important…
factors as health, spiritual life, interpersonal relationships, and interests outside of work. Interviews with retirees illustrate the importance of this approachAlive together: new and selected poems
Par Lisel Mueller. 1996
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Includes works published over almost four decades as well as newer works. The…
poems celebrate the human capacity for love and joy, and the experience of family, music, and languageEffort at speech: new and selected poems
Par William Meredith. 1997
Meredith presents selections from his eight previously published collections spanning 1944 to 1987 and twelve new poems. Michael Collier explains…
in the introduction that the title Effort at Speech is more than apt because in 1983 a stroke left Meredith with expressive aphasia--a struggle for speech. National Book Award winnerThe essential Rumi
Par Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. 1995
Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with…
a dervish learning community that was "exploring the mystery of union with the divine." Some descriptions of sexA sample of Native North American song-poems, including an Inuit's song about the first airplane he ever saw, Navajo chantaways,…
hunting songs, and lullabies. The introduction and notes provide background information and sourcesBirthday letters
Par Ted Hughes. 1998
Thirty-five years after Sylvia Plath's suicide, her husband, Ted Hughes, responds with eighty-eight poems. Arranged chronologically, the poems depict their…
courtship, marriage, and an imagined sixtieth birthday reunion in her honor. BestsellerHollander and an eleven-member advisory committee selected favorite poems for memorization or, at least, careful reading. The poems--generally short, rhythmic,…
and with intense imagery--are categorized as sonnets, songs, counsels, tales, and meditations. They include works by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Yeats to FrostOtherwise: new and selected poems
Par Jane Kenyon. 1996
Kenyon made these selections to be included in her last book shortly before her death. They include twenty of her…
more recent poems and favorite choices from four earlier collections. She imparts a special meaning to the everyday objects and events she describes. Donald Hall, her husband, writes an afterwordAn international selection of more than forty poets presented in chronological order. Includes Sappho of Ancient Greece, Charles Baudelaire of…
France, Pablo Neruda of Chile, and J.E. Wei of Taiwan. Editor chose poems the "shook" her. For junior and senior high schoolApril twilights (1903): poems
Par Willa Cather. 1976
Originally published in 1903, this volume of poetry is renowned novelist Willa Cather's first book. These thirty-seven poems contain some…
lines that became well known, such as "I sought the wood in winter/When every leaf was dead" and "Grandmother, think not I forget . . ." Many poems reflect Cather's interest in nature. This edition contains an introduction by Bernice SloteWest wind: poems and prose poems
Par Mary Oliver. 1997
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award presents forty pieces. In "Seven White Butterflies," "Pilot Snake," "Sand…
Dabs, Three," and "Black Snake This Time," among others, Oliver celebrates particular features of nature. In other selections, she ponders love and death while encouraging appreciation of the natural worldSelected poems, 1960-1990
Par Maxine Kumin. 1997
The 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner presents pieces from nine volumes spanning thirty years. Her poems speak of nature, animals, and…
people both dead and alive. Kumin also broaches topics of the soul and religionIn this anniversary anthology, editor Sam Hamill has selected nearly 300 poems by Copper Canyon Press poets. The sampling is…
arranged alphabetically by poet's name and includes Hayden Carruth, Carolyn Kizer, and Pablo Neruda. Hamill's introduction covers the history of the press and its "commitment to publishing poetry exclusively."Desire
Par Frank Bidart. 1997
A collection of poems in two parts: thirteen short poems, many revealing the poet's grief and loss after the death…
of his lover; and one long poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," based on Ovid's story of MyrrhaThe figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996
Par Robert Pinsky. 1996
A compendium of the first four books by the U.S. poet laureate, with twenty-one new poems. The title poem, The…
Figured Wheel, with its image of the wheel of life, illustrates the all-encompassing scope of the poemsAnts on the melon: a collection of poems
Par Virginia Adair. 1996
First collection of poetry from the octogenarian American poet. These eighty-three poems explore a broad range of subject matter and…
are organized into the following sections: "Ants on the Melon," "By Old Maps," "Driving Westward," "The Genesis Strain," "Exit Amor," and "Make Light of Darkness." Some descriptions of sexExtensive collection of poetry featuring the work of fifteen poets, such as Annie Dillard and Daniel Berrigan. Poems are divided…
into the following sections: The Cross, Transformation, Death, Injustice, Presence, God's Body, Fools, Wayfarers, Love, The Dark, Grace, Praise, The Mystical Body, Sacrament, The Leap, and HolyEven in quiet places: poems
Par William Stafford. 1996
Posthumous collection of four chapbooks from 1990 to 1995 by an award-winning poet. Stafford's poem "Pretty Good Day" supplies the…
line for the title Even in Quiet Places, which alludes to secluded areas of retreat. Nature is an important force in many of Stafford's poems. Contains an afterword by Stafford's son, Kim, who is his literary executorNew & selected poems
Par Donald Justice. 1995
Works of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet written between 1959 and 1995. Includes selections from The Summer Anniversaries (1960), Night Light…
(1967), Departures (1973), Selected Poems (1979), and The Sunset Maker (1987), as well as a group of more recent poemsSonnets from the Portuguese: a celebration of love
Par Elizabeth Browning. 1986
These forty-four sonnets by the Victorian author were probably written mostly during her courtship with Robert Browning. They represent one…
of the most famous sonnet sequences executed in English and include the well-known "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." For high school and older readers