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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. BestsellerFrom the devotions: poems
Par Carl Phillips. 1998
Alive 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
Out of silence: selected poems
Par Muriel Rukeyser. 1992
Selections from previously published collections spanning the years from 1935 to 1978. The editors chose pieces representative of Rukeyser's complete…
body of work; many celebrate "the strengths and vision of women."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 herCollection of twenty-two poems describing personal reactions to objects and events such as birds, pebbles, a first kiss, and the…
death of a loved one. The second section provides background information on each poem with an invitation to the reader to write about suggested topics. For junior and senior high readersA 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 languageI, too, sing America: three centuries of African-American poetry
Par Catherine Clinton. 1998
The 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 sourcesWooroloo: 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. 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