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Alive 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 languageWorry: controlling it and using it wisely
Par Edward Hallowell. 1997
Dr. Hallowell, an expert on attention deficit disorder, turns to a study on worry, in both its destructive and productive…
forms. Hallowell analyzes the uses and benefits of worry and discusses when to seek help if someone worries too much. Offers recommendations on how to maintain a healthy balanceEffort 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 schoolSigmund Freud: explorer of the unconscious
Par Margaret Muckenhoupt. 1997
A biography of Sigmund Freud, the creator of psychoanalysis, with details of his controversial theories about the human mind. Includes…
some criticism of his ideas, especially about women. Describes his work in the context of his time. For senior high and older readersThe scared child: helping kids overcome traumatic events
Par Barbara Brooks. 1996
Describes types of trauma--injury, illness, physical or sexual abuse, parental divorce, and the death of a friend or relative, as…
well as natural disasters and "trauma by proxy." Assesses the likely effects on children. Explains how to recognize symptoms, debrief the child, and help in the processes of coping and recoveryFinding our way: the teen girls' survival guide
Par Allison Abner. 1995
Advice for teenaged girls on such issues as learning to like and care for their changing bodies, being sexually responsible,…
and coping with and enjoying family members and friends. For junior and senior high readersApril 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."The complete poems to solve
Par May Swenson. 1993
A collection of seventy-two poems celebrating the natural world, including such topics as cats, birds, water, sound, space and flight,…
and creatures. The first group of poems are riddles that challenge the reader to figure out what the poet is describing. For grades 5-8 and older readersTen of Shakespeare's plays retold in simple language. Nesbit compiled the collection after a visit to the poet's home with…
her children. She encouraged them to try reading some of the original plays, only to be told the writing was too difficult to understand. This volume includes Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Othello. For grades 5-8 and older readersDesire
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 MyrrhaWelcome, Dark
Par Charis St. Pierre, Rachel Wada. 2022
A stunningly illustrated picture book that introduces young readers to the importance of night as a time for animals to…
thrive, rains to fall, winds to blow and the world to rest.