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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]

  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

    • ASIN: 0393320979
    • ISBN: 9780393320978
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age i... [Read More]

  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    • ASIN: 0147515823
    • ISBN: 9780147515827
    • Brand: Puffin Books
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she share... [Read More]

  • A Light in the Attic Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems

    • UPC: 201561905852
    • ASIN: 0061905852
    • ISBN: 9780061905858
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

  • Cry, the Beloved Country

    • ASIN: 0743262174
    • ISBN: 0743262174
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inherito... [Read More]

  • To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

    • ASIN: 0385522274
    • ISBN: 0385522274
    • Brand: Doubleday Books
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

    From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives.John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In ... [Read More]

  • Love Her Wild: Poems

    • ASIN: 1501171232
    • ISBN: 1501171232
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and S... [Read More]

  • Seeds and Trees: A children's book about the power of words

    • ASIN: B07DH86HFL
    • Manufacturer: The Treasured Tree Digital

    Words are powerful. They can hurt or they can heal.It’s time to tell a special tale that will warm the hearts of readers of all ages. Seeds and Trees revels in the power of words. It explores their effects on feelings and emotions. And it does so through the journey of two different seeds.In Seeds and Trees, discover a young prince who gathers se... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • The Rose That Grew From Concrete

    • ASIN: 0671028456
    • ISBN: 9780671028459
    • Brand: MTV Books
    • Manufacturer: MTV Books

    Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded -- a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- as vibrant and alive today as it... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 1492238287
    • ISBN: 1492238287
    • Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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  • The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

    • UPC: 787721907510
    • ASIN: 0062509594
    • ISBN: 0062509594
    • Brand: HarperOne
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

    The best-selling Rumi book ever is now better than ever! This revised and expanded edition of the comprehensive one-volume edition of America′s most popular poet includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks, and 57 new poems never published before. The ecstatic, spiritual poetry of Rumi is more popular than ever, and The... [Read More]

  • The Iliad of Homer

    • ASIN: 0226470490
    • ISBN: 0226470490
    • Brand: University of Chicago Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twe... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • Her

    • ASIN: 0997426586
    • ISBN: 0997426586
    • Manufacturer: Jeanius Publishing LLC

    "Her" is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of "Her."

  • 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]

  • Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

    • ASIN: 0525577157
    • ISBN: 0525577157
    • Manufacturer: Crown Archetype

    Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the MachineSongs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless... [Read More]

  • The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)

    • ASIN: 0872864286
    • ISBN: 0872864286
    • Brand: Brand: City Lights Publishers
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid,... [Read More]

  • A Thousand Mornings: Poems

    • ASIN: 0143124056
    • ISBN: 0143124056
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog... [Read More]

  • New and Selected Poems, Volume One

    • UPC: 046442068772
    • ASIN: 0807068772
    • ISBN: 0807068772
    • Brand: Oliver, Mary
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books.Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantl... [Read More]

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