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Best New Poets 2018: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
- ASIN: 0997562323
- ISBN: 0997562323
- Manufacturer: Samovar Press/Meridian
"[A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow."-- Publishers Weekly"This collection stands out among the crowd claiming to represent emergent poets. Much of the editing and preliminary reading was done by emerging poets themselves, which results in an anthology that's fresh and eclectic, and may actually r... [Read More]
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The Poet X
- ASIN: 0062662805
- ISBN: 0062662805
- Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with bl... [Read More]
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- ASIN: 0399563245
- ISBN: 0399563245
- Manufacturer: Penguin Press
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the pow... [Read More]
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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
- ASIN: 0307278441
- ISBN: 0307278441
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the f... [Read More]
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide
- ASIN: 0313322325
- ISBN: 0313322325
- Manufacturer: Greenwood
Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago. But aside from a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in thei... [Read More]
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Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life
- ASIN: 0008359628
- ISBN: 0008359628
- Manufacturer: HQ
Forget what you think you knowInfluencer, rapper and spoken word artist Humble the Poet is here to revolutionise your life and help you reach your full potential.Full of insights, wisdom and clarity, Unlearn is a brutally-honest, empowering book that defies conventional thinking. You will shed the sabotaging habits, fixed mindsets and past regrets ... [Read More]
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Orphan Train
- ASIN: 0061950726
- ISBN: 0061950726
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
The #1 New York Times BestsellerNow featuring a sneak peek at Christina's forthcoming novel A Piece of the World, coming February 2017.Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel—the captivating story of a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her ... [Read More]
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Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
- ASIN: 1501127756
- ISBN: 1501127756
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Tre... [Read More]
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Citizen: An American Lyric
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ISBN: 1555976905
- Brand: Graywolf Press
- Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe,... [Read More]
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Love That Dog
- ASIN: 0064409597
- ISBN: 9780064409599
- Brand: Joanna Cotler Books
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins
The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, brings readers a story with enormous heart.Love That Dog shows how one boy named Jack finds his voice with the help of a teacher, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog. Written as a series of free-verse poems from Jack's point of view, and with classic poetry included in... [Read More]
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Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)
- ASIN: 1501127802
- ISBN: 1501127802
- Manufacturer: Scribner
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry... [Read More]
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- ASIN: 155659495X
- ISBN: 155659495X
- Brand: Ocean Vuong
- Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things."--Michiko Kakutani, The New... [Read More]
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The Poet: A Novel
- ASIN: B000FC1MMI
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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A Clockwork Orange
- ASIN: 0393312836
- ISBN: 0393312836
- Brand: Anthony Burgess
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the cen... [Read More]
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Sula
- ASIN: 1400033438
- ISBN: 9781400033430
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures ev... [Read More]
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Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (The Best of the Best)
- ASIN: 1451658885
- ISBN: 9781451658880
- Brand: Scribner Book Company
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denou... [Read More]
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Dog Songs: Poems
- ASIN: 0143125834
- ISBN: 0143125834
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her wor... [Read More]
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Chameleon Aura
- UPC: 050837426221
- ASIN: 1449499376
- ISBN: 1449499376
- Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Zimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude to survive and prosper. Chameleon Aura presents a harmonious blend of experience and advice through a ... [Read More]
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The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
- ASIN: 0143118528
- ISBN: 0143118528
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's ti... [Read More]
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The Power of One: A Novel
- ASIN: 034541005X
- ISBN: 034541005X
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”–The New York Times“Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.”–Cleve... [Read More]
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