A Child's Book of Poems

A Child's Book of Poems PDF Author:
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402750618
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

A Child's Book of Poems

A Child's Book of Poems PDF Author:
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402750618
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley PDF Author: Phillis Wheatley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115291
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems PDF Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.

99 Poems

99 Poems PDF Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979254
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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So much of what we live goes on inside— The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches Of unacknowledged love are no less real For having passed unsaid. What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. —from “Unsaid” Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of sharp intelligence and brooding emotion with an ingenious command of his craft. 99 Poems: New & Selected gathers for the first time work from across his career, including many remarkable new poems. Gioia has not arranged this selection chronologically but instead has organized it by theme in seven sections: Mystery, Place, Remembrance, Imagination, Stories, Songs, and Love. The result is a book that reveals and renews the pleasures, consolations, and sense of wonder that poetry bestows.

The Thicket

The Thicket PDF Author: Kasey Jueds
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822988372
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world—rivers, birds, stones—and with a “you” that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both. Often speaking of/to the small or overlooked (weeds by a roadside, an abandoned silo), the poems orient themselves toward edges, transitional spaces like the one where fields shift into woods. Where does one body stop? The Thicket takes an interest in becoming, one thing flowing into something else. Excerpt from “At Cape Henlopen” All night wind insists in the trees, its unsteady hush funneling us down into sleep under the tender shelter the oaks, even leafless, make—all night their trunks creak and sigh and speak. Speak to me—I think the word protect until its edges dissolve, inside the tent that wraps us like another, thinner skin, rocked and chastened by the wind that doesn’t cease . . .

Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens

Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens PDF Author: Corey Van Landingham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482617
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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"In a world where drones are named for the messenger god, who is also the god of thieves, where a wedding celebration can be shattered by a missile fired by no one at all, in a world of destruction-by-proxy and a fever dream of omniscience, Corey Van Landingham gives us a beautiful, penetrating book of poems. These pages fairly shimmer with intelligence. And with something more important too: with insight that restores us to our senses."--Linda Gregerson Poetry.

This Art

This Art PDF Author: Michael Wiegers
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619321165
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The centuries have changed little in this art, The subjects are still the same.—Kenneth Rexroth Why poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"? Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement. As Marvin Bell has written, "Writing is all and everything." This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry—which draws widely from Copper Canyon’s 30-year backlist of poetry books—proves him right. Poets write out of love and longing: Lord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem —Cyrus Cassells Poets confront suffering: since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.—David Budbill And poets write in order to live fully: We all stumble into ourselves /like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters,/ while the page gallops out of our reach—Rebecca Seiferle Only poetry lasts.—Ho Xuan Huong Michael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press. CONTRIBUTORS Included: [box] Kay Boyle, Olga Broumas, Hayden Carruth, Norman Dubie, Han Shan, Jim Harrison, Carolyn Kizer, W.S. Merwin, Jane Miller, Kenneth Rexroth, Ruth Stone, Anna Swir

Poems Across the Pavement

Poems Across the Pavement PDF Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher: Tia Chucha
ISBN: 9781882688487
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez's first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez has sincepublished more than fifty poetry collections of quality crosscultural U.S. poets, as well as anthologies, chapbooks, and a CD. Tia Chucha Press is now a project of Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, which Rodriguez helped create in 2001 with his wife Trini. We are honored to announce the 25th Anniversary Edition of Poems Across the Pavement--close to twenty poems of an emerging poet that began a prolific writing career.

For Now

For Now PDF Author: James Richardson
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322269
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Classic meets contemporary in James Richardson’s ninth collection. Writers from Bashō to Hardy, from Merwin to Porchia, inspire meditations on everything from artichokes to cosmology that somehow morph into fables of limitation and desire. This “new poetry made the old way” takes seriously the task of lightening and illuminating our experience, and especially, of distilling it. As Richardson writes, “The road not taken also would have gotten me home.” More than sixty poems of ten lines or fewer, and two sequences of Richardson’s trademark aphorisms and “ten-second essays,” are set alongside surging lyric meditations and odes. For Now celebrates nows of every length, from the sweep of cosmic evolution, to the span of a life, to the glint of dew on a cold shovel.

New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems PDF Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward.