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On 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 1824Vice: 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. 1999Wooroloo: 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. BestsellerLa 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.Hollander 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
Anthology covering more than two centuries of African American poetry. Includes well-known poets Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes,…
Gwendolyn Brooks, and Rita Dove as well as lesser-known ones. A profile introduces each writer. 2000Black zodiac
Par Charles Wright. 1997
An anthology of twenty poems examining man's place in the universe. In the title piece, Wright interweaves memories with descriptions…
of the physical world searching for meaning. 1998 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle and the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryPoems, new and collected, 1957-1997
Par Wisława Szymborska. 1998
The lifework of the Polish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One hundred poems were previously published in View…
with a Grain of Sand (DB 43576), while sixty-four are new translations. Also contains Szymborska's Nobel lecture presented in 1996Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems
Par William Williams. 1994
Selection of twelve love poems written by the American poet between 1930 and 1962. The title piece, addressed to his…
wife, Floss, seeks a love that will outlast mortal death. An introduction by Herbert Leibowitz provides biographical and literary contextTwenty-seven poems describing the wind written by such poets as John Ciardi, Karla Kuskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, A.A.…
Milne, Carl Sandburg, and Russell Hoban. Kaye Starbird's verses tell about grown-ups and kids having different reactions to the spring wind. For grades 4-7Anthology 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 Slote10 commandments: poems
Par J. D McClatchy. 1998
Ten three-poem sets arranged to correspond to the biblical precepts in the decalogue. In "My Mammogram," when a middle-aged man's…
breast exam shows no cancer but an excess of estrogen, he experiences "the end of life as I've known it, that is to say--testosterone sported like a power tie." 1998The complete poems of Michelangelo
Par Michelangelo Buonarroti. 1998
Three hundred poems--sonnets and madrigals--about love express mostly its torments and the personal feelings of the Renaissance Italian artist. Arranged…
chronologically as far as possible. Preface and notes by the poet and translator John Frederick NimsHow to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry
Par Edward Hirsch. 1999
A poet explores the nature of poetry by quoting and explaining a broad range of international poems written across many…
centuries. He advocates participatory poetics and encourages the reader to engage full attention and wrestle with interpretation. Contains a glossary and a reading list of works citedParadise lost
Par John Milton. 1993
An epic poem based on the theme of mankind's fall from grace, loss of innocence, and the struggle to return…
to paradise. Elaborate symbolism is used to portray Satan's battle with God, decent into Hell, and seduction of Adam and Eve