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On the bus with Rosa Parks: poems
Par Rita Dove. 1999
Over forty new poems by the former Poet Laureate celebrating personal freedoms. Several sections explore the African American experience in…
a historical context, while others convey an individual reaction. "Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967" describes the pleasures of voracious readingThe 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 sexThe mercy: poems
Par Philip Levine. 1999
Thirty-seven poems in free verse celebrate human dignity and the value of work on the journey from youth to old…
age, innocence to knowledge, defeat to triumph, and inevitably from life to death. In the title poem, the author's mother arrives in the United States; the final work describes her funeral. 1999Long shadows: truth, lies, and history
Par Erna Paris. 2001
Canadian writer travels to four continents interviewing residents in Japan, Germany, Bosnia, South Africa, France, and the United States to…
observe how each country interprets its painful past. Explores apartheid, ethnic cleansing, slavery, and the Holocaust to analyze collective guilt, shame, power, and denial. 2001A 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 sourcesRecueil agréablement présenté, comprenant plus d'une centaine de textes répondant au titre. On y retrouve sous cinq divisions tant Verlaine…
que Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Corbière mais aussi Chénier, Hugo sans oublier Pétrarque, Shakespeare et Goethe. Un livre de chevet. [SDMOn a voiceless shore: Byron in Greece
Par Stephen Minta. 1998
Retraces Byron's journeys in Greece, providing insight on how the country and its people influenced the poet. Explores his love…
for the Mediterranean area and his reasons for remaining in Mesolongi, where he died in April 1824Reading Rilke: reflections on the problems of translation
Par William Gass. 1999
An interpretive study of the life and works of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1857-1926). Combines an impressionistic biography…
of the temperamental artist, a critical examination of his poetry, various renderings by other translators, and Gass's own translation of The Duino Elegies. 1999Journey through heartsongs
Par Mattie Stepanek. 2001
This second collection of poems expands on the themes of faith and hope found in Heartsongs (RC 53296, BR 13761).…
In "I Could... If They Would," Mattie shares his dreams of what he would do if a cure were discovered for his rare disease. For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2001Léo Ferré, poète et rebelle
Par Jean-Éric Perrin. 2008
"Une biographie à la lumière des témoignages des chanteurs d'aujourd'hui : Cali, Têtes Raides, Miossec, Noir Désir, qui illustre l'impact…
de l'artiste sur la nouvelle scène française. A l'occasion des quinze ans de sa mort, l'ouvrage fait le récit de son parcours articulé autour de thèmes forts qui ont fait le chemin personnel de l'artiste". -- 4e de couvVice: new and selected poems
Par Ai. 1999
Fifty-eight selections from five books published between 1973 and 1993 and eighteen new poems. In dramatic monologs, the speakers explore…
terror, desperation, and other raw emotions on topics such as abortion, beatings, child and wife abuse, politics, and race. National Book Award--Poetry. 1999Ariel's gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the story of Birthday letters
Par Erica Wagner. 2001
An exploration of the relationship between two poets and the revelations in their writing. Examines the marriage and separation of…
British Ted Hughes and American Sylvia Plath, Plath's suicide, Hughes's decades-long silence, and his personal poetic summing-up in Birthday Letters (BR 11462) of 1998. 2000Selected poems
Par Emily Dickinson. 1993
Alice Ramsey's grand adventure
Par Don Brown. 1997
On June 9, 1909, Alice Ramsey left New York City to drive across America in a Maxwell automobile. Accompanied by…
three other women, she had to repair the car several times before finally arriving in San Francisco on August 7, 1909. The book describes the small towns, farms, railroad tracks, rivers, and mountains they passed along the way. For grades 2-4Wooroloo: poems
Par Frieda Hughes. 1998
The daughter of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath expresses herself in forty-six poems. Describes Australian landscapes, animals dead and…
alive, feelings about incidents in her personal life, and women's issuesBirthday 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. BestsellerMidnight salvage: poems, 1995-1998
Par Adrienne Rich. 1999
A collection of fourteen poems concerning the beauty and fragility of life. In "Modotti" Rich evokes the spirit of Tina…
Modotti, a political activist, revolutionary, and photographer, with this opening line: "Your footprints of light on sensitive paper..." Some descriptions of sex. 1999La mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage
Par Benoit Pinette. 2021
Avec bonté et résilience, Benoit Pinette retourne à son enfance - un pays en soi, une trajectoire - et pose…
le doigt sur ses instants douloureux, étudie l'équilibre des époques. Il construit de là sa compréhension des glissements du passé et sa volonté à faire mieux, à offrir le meilleur aux siens. Ce texte lance l'allumette dans le foin sec ; il carbonise des histoires anciennes, des angoisses, des corps pourris. La mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage représente un chantier d'inquiétudes et de certitudes éphémères, mais parions que l'amour l'emportera sur la tâche à accomplir.Ils sont morts pour leur foi: la persécution des chrétiens au XXe siècle
Par Andrea Riccardi. 2002
Un tableau terrifiant mais très documenté sur les persécutions dont ont été victimes les communautés chrétiennes, de quelque confession que…
ce soit, durant le 20e siècle. Du génocide arménien aux violences communistes, des assassinats des dictatures d'Amérique latine aux tragédies africaines, de l'oppression exercée par l'islam intégriste aux crimes de la mafia, plus de trois millions de croyants ont été torturés et exécutés partout dans le monde. [SDMHollander 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 Frost