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Thieves of paradise
Par Yusef Komunyakaa. 1998
Collection of more than sixty works by a prize-winning American poet. The section "Debriefing Ghosts" is a series of prose…
poems about the aftermath of military service in Vietnam. Other selections reflect the writer's broad range of interests, including jazz and the bluesMarvelous math: a book of poems
Par Lee Hopkins. 1997
Fourteen poets present their feelings about numbers, measurements, and mathematics in the everyday world. Betsy Franco writes "Math Makes Me…
Feel Safe" in praise of consistent answers. But in "Near the Window Tree" Karla Kuskin admits that she would rather play outside than do multiplication. For grades 2-4Sybil
Par Flora Schreiber. 1973
In an account of the first psychoanalysis of a person with multiple personality disorder, the author relates the eleven-year treatment…
of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym), who unknowingly assumes sixteen different personalities. During her treatment, assisted with drugs and hypnosis, Sybil's illness is traced to a battered childhood tied to a schizophrenic mother and a derelict father. ViolenceImperfect control: our lifelong struggle with power and surrender
Par Judith Viorst. 1998
Discusses issues of control that permeate nearly all facets of human existence. In ten chapters covering different phases of life…
from birth to death, Viorst examines situations to determine what is uncontrollable and when to exert choice. Topics include self-possession, sex, couples, parenthood, and the workplace. Some strong languageComplete poems of Emily Dickinson
Par Emily Dickinson. 1890
Report from part one
Par Gwendolyn Brooks. 1972
Autobiographical writings and interviews with the poet laureate born in 1917. Contains a brief account of her childhood, marriage, family,…
and career. Describes her increasing awareness of her racial heritage and her role as an African American poet. Includes an appendix of personal entries entitled "Collage."Edna St. Vincent Millay (Poetry for young people)
Par Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1912
Thirty-four poems by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her works describe events and experiences from…
the everyday world around her with titles like "Afternoon on a Hill," "City Trees," "The Snow Storm," and "Men Working." Includes an overview of the poet's life. For grades 6-9. 1999In 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 readersThe bird catcher: poems
Par Marie Ponsot. 1998
A collection of fifty-two poems, some of which were previously published in periodicals. Grouped under four headings, each bearing the…
title of a poem in that section: For My Old Self; Separate, In the Swim; The Split Image of Attention; and Explorers Cry Out Unheard. Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award. 1998The collected poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Par Paul Dunbar. 1993
Poetry by a nineteenth-century African American writer whose works transcend race. Includes the entire contents of a 1913 collection; sixty…
other poems, some found in manuscript form after Dunbar's death at thirty-three; and a biographical introduction by Braxton. "Sympathy" was authored during an assignment at the Library of Congress. 1993Report from part two
Par Gwendolyn Brooks. 1996
A selection of essays and poems about events, people, and travel that were important to Brooks. In "Keziah," she pays…
loving tribute to her mother. These writings are a continuation of themes found in Report from Part One (RC 47475) (BR 11948)Seamus Heaney
Par Helen Vendler. 1998
A guide to understanding the works of the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Explains…
the background and evolution of his poetry from Death of a Naturalist in 1966 through The Spirit Level in 1996The complete poems of Winnie-the-Pooh
Par A. A Milne. 1998
Originally written to entertain the author's son, Christopher Robin, some of the verses are about the boy's stuffed animals. This…
volume contains both the first collection, When We Were Very Young, published in 1924, and the second, Now We Are Six, published in 1927. For grades K-3. 1927Heureux comme un roi: Robert L'Herbier
Par Robert L'Herbier. 2000
Un ouvrage écrit simplement et qui relate la vie et la carrière de Robert L'Herbier. Son fils Benoît rapporte ses…
paroles et y va de ses commentaires et observations. On y découvre également les débuts de la première station de télévison privée francophoneTen 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 readersVain empires: poems (Penguin poets)
Par William Logan. 1998
Thirty-one poems on disparate topics, many of which depict historical figures and events from Pliny the Elder to Keats in…
India. The work "Van Gogh in the Pulpit" issues a harsh pronouncement on sin, penance, and self-abasement. 1998Selected poetry (Oxford World's classics)
Par William Wordsworth. 1997
Works of the English Romantic, including lyrical poems arranged in order of composition. Also presents portions of Wordsworth's introspective The…
Prelude, which was written from 1799 to 1805, and a chronology of his lifeTaking responsibility: self-reliance and the accountable life
Par Nathaniel Branden. 1996
Two hundred poems selected by Americans as their favorites in response to an appeal from poet laureate Pinsky to mark…
the bicentennial of the Library of Congress. Each work is preceded by comments on why it was chosen. Writers represented include Anna Akhmatova, John Ashbery, Andrew Marvell, Pablo Neruda, W.B. Yeats, and others. 2000