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HIV, mon amour: poems
Par Tory Dent. 1999
An articulate cry from the heart depicting a woman's ongoing battle with HIV. In the section titled "Cinéma Vérité," she…
refers to memorable movie scenes to convey an anguished message to a dead lover. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. James Laughlin Award. 1999West 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 religionThe Odyssey
Par Homer. 1996
Robert Fagles's 1996 translation of the Greek epic poem credited to Homer. Recounts Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness…
in his encounters with Poseidon, god of oceans, and other divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage back to Ithaca after the Trojan WarThe life of poetry
Par Muriel Rukeyser. 1949
Discusses poetry as an exercise that can help people enhance their consciousness of the world around them. The author considers…
great poetry to be a transfer of energy from the poet to the reader. Based on lectures given between 1940 and 1948, first published in 1949Thieves 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 2-4Complete 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 1996Ten 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 lifeTwo 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