Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry PDF Author: Nikky Finney
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books
ISBN: 9780810142015
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of "docu-poetry."

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry PDF Author: Nikky Finney
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books
ISBN: 9780810142015
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of "docu-poetry."

First Loves

First Loves PDF Author: Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684864398
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary PDF Author: Laura Shovan
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0553521403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Book Description
An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class’s poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli. Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill’s fifth-grade class has plans for you. They’re going to speak up and work together to save their school. Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear it. Honors and Praise: Winner of a Cybils Award in Poetry Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year An ILA-CBC Children’s Choice Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List “This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut.” —School Library Journal “Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.” —Mark Goldblatt, author of Twerp

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

The Norton Anthology of Poetry PDF Author: Ferguson, Margaret
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393979202
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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Book Description
The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

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.

Love and the Turning Year

Love and the Turning Year PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.

Critical Companion to Walt Whitman

Critical Companion to Walt Whitman PDF Author: Charles M. Oliver
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108583
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Book Description
Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.

In Full Velvet

In Full Velvet PDF Author: Jenny Johnson
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 194141138X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Book Description
These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "natural" world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community. They contain a sinuous, shape-shifting quality that makes her explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant. Jenny Johnson won a 2015 Whiting Fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pearl Verses the World

Pearl Verses the World PDF Author: Sally Murphy
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763648213
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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Book Description
Since Pearl's grandmother's became seriously ill, Pearl's world view has changed, causing her to feel like an island in school, isolated and alone, especially when her teacher keeps asking for poems that rhyme and Pearl's somehow, seldom do.

The Early Popularity of Milton's Minor Poems

The Early Popularity of Milton's Minor Poems PDF Author: George Sherburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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