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A light in the attic
Par Shel Silverstein. 1981
A fat collection of poems that range from exhilarating nonsense to tender sadness. Includes "How Not to Have to Dry…
the Dishes," "Prayer of the Selfish Child," "Adventures of a Frisbee," and "Hiccup Cure." For grades 4-7 to share with younger children and adultsFalling up: poems and drawings
Par Shel Silverstein. 1996
A collection of brief and humorous poems featuring silly situations and a gallery of zany characters. You will see the…
world from "a different angle" as you meet the Terrible Toy-Eating Tookle, attend the "Rotten Convention," and visit Hungry Kid Island. For grades 2-4 and older readers. BestsellerAlive 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 languageMusic minus one: poems
Par Jane Shore. 1996
Effort 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 winnerWithout: poems
Par Donald Hall. 1998
Hall recalls in poems the illness and death from leukemia of his wife, the well-known poet Jane Kenyon. He details…
their emotions during her struggle at forty-six to stay alive. The last section expresses his grief from missing herA working girl can't win and other poems
Par Deborah Garrison. 1998
Twenty-eight poems expressing a young woman's views on the office world and its male inhabitants, and revealing her private thoughts…
and fantasies. Many of these pieces first appeared in the New Yorker, where Garrison is a senior editor. Some strong languageThe 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 sourcesI love Gootie: my grandmother's story
Par Max Apple. 1998
A grandson's recollections of his grandmother, who grew up in a Lithuanian village and preferred Yiddish to English. Gootie is…
the wife of Rocky, Apple's grandfather portrayed in Roommates (DB 41562, BR 09790)Birthday 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 schoolThe errancy: poems
Par Jorie Graham. 1997
Les secrets de Norah (Témoignage)
Par Norah Shariff. 2007
"Autobiographie de Norah Shariff qui risque de créer des remous, le livre Les Secrets de Norah nous amène dans un…
monde dur, rempli d'obstacles s'interposant entre sa famille immédiate et la liberté. En effet, elle a grandi dans un enfer créé à la fois par les comportements abusifs et violents d'un père dégénéré, les stricts préceptes de ses grands-parents, et dans un système religieux opprimant. Elle-même victime des conjonctures, Norah cherche malgré tout à constamment épauler, voire surprotéger sa mère, qui subit quotidiennement un véritable calvaire où la violence tant physique que psychologique est de mise. [...]" -- 4e de couvLost in the system
Par Charlotte Lopez. 1996
Lopez, who became Miss Teen USA in 1992, tells of spending her entire childhood in foster care after being taken…
as a toddler from a mother she describes as mentally unbalanced. Although her sister is adopted by their foster parents, Lopez is seventeen before she is adopted by another couple. Some strong languageThe author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (BR 09230) offers suggestions on opening one's self to…
love after the death of a mate or after a divorce. Describes the healing process common to both men and women. Explains the differences in the ways males and females resolve loss. BestsellerAnthology of poems by African Americans expressing their views on heritage and race. Originally published in 1968, it included the…
work of thirty poets such as Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Richard Wright. This second edition adds works by nineteen other poets, among them Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, and Maya Angelou. For junior and senior high and older 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 Slote