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This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether you're looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you're feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are at your fingertips.
From the Romantic poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats to the Transcendentalists like
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The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) is an anthology by James Weldon Johnson. Alongside some of his own poems, Johnson includes the work of such legendary artists as Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Georgia Douglas Johnson. Carefully selected and supported with a masterful preface by Johnson, the poems herein reflect a range of voices, styles, and subjects drawn from tradition and experience alike. In his preface, Johnson...
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"Every new book by Jorie Graham is worth reading. . . . Frustrating, frustrated, afraid, panicked, pleading, Graham has once again written the poems of our moment." - NPR.org
"This engaging, evocative collection from Graham explores the experience of struggle in a rapidly-changing world plagued by existential threats. The poems consider the present and interpret it through a critical eye, carefully mindful of each subject's impact on daily lives....
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This collection of modern Japanese poetry presents carefully selected works for Western readers. The state of Japanese poetry in the twentieth century, its high quality and individuality is clearly shown in this book. The introduction gives a brief, lucid history of poetry in Japan, with the emphasis on modern poetry. The body of the book is taken up with the translation of the work of forty-nine widely acclaimed poets: free-verse poets, tanka poets,...
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Examines "the life and work of [the WWI poets--many of whom were killed--which shows not only the war's tragedy but also the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men]: Wilfred Owen with his flaring genius; the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon; the composer Ivor Gurney; Robert Graves, who would later spurn his war poems; the nature-loving Edward Thomas; the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert Brooke; and the shell-shocked Robert Nichols--all...
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Following the success of Poetry Out Loud (now in its eighth printing), an affectionate celebration of the declaimed poem, Love Poetry Out Loud now turns to the choppier waters of affection itself. From Hello, I Love You to Pleasures of the Flesh to Loves Me Not, this collection of one hundred poems shouts out life's grand passion with the help of the voices of poets old and new.
Rubin's informed, irreverent style skillfully reveals the humor, beauty,...
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Nous livrons des bruits récoltés en passant au tamis la clameur du monde. Bruits de l'enfance, bruits de la vie,
bruits de la mort, bruits des pas, bruits des rêves, bruits des langues, bruits du désir, bruits du silence, bruits du soleil... Voix fragiles, peuplées de rivières, de vies cheminant dans les mêmes sentiers, les mêmes résonnances. Peu importe si l'on vient d'Amérique, d'Europe, d'Asie,
d'Océanie ou d'Afrique. Nous mêlons les...
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Poetry can lift our spirits and inspire our daily lives. William Blake's "The Tyger," Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," and John Keats's "A Thing of Beauty" (from Endymion) are among the classic poems collected in this pocket-sized edition. Now you can readily spend a few moments each day with these timeless verses because Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems fits easily into any size...
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Change is natural-it's beautiful, it's cathartic, it's necessary. But change is also painful, and ugly, and destructive. It's one of life's only constants. You can either embrace it or struggle against it but it's unlikely you could ever stop it.
Inside this anthology we are confronted with many different forms of transformation. Some lift the spirit, some crush the soul, and some show the pathway to the future.
It's difficult to capture...
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Eco-Tesoros, Cuentos y Poemas es una obra extraordinaria en Antologa, escrita por inspirados Nios, Jvenes y Maestros dando seguimiento a la idea original de la escritora Rosa Mara Ramrez Moya. En este libro se presentan: Cuentos mensajeros y edificantes, algunos Proyectos y un ramillete de bellos Poemas que invitan a cimentar, a trabajar con amor y con calidad en bien de la Naturaleza. Es un tema capital para lograr el equilibrio entre los seres que...
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Once Bukowski was asked: Do you believe in God? He replied: No, I believe only in horses. I do not know why we always realize things when it is too late. Ive also bet on horses for a period. But, differently from Bukowski whom I respect so much, I quit horses and bet on God. Really, I think it is for this faith that I found myself with my back against the wall. Against the wall was the first title I wanted to give to this book. There are a lot of...
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Annotations of a Complex Adolescent Mind is a trip geared to full throttle right from the start and Daniel Bernardo Macaluso is the pied piper for this fearless exploration. During those crucial formative years when expressing yourself is key, an often frustrated young man seeks understanding, and his place within a society he feels forced to be a member of. This book offers a rare glimpse into a way of thinking that we all share, but are often too...
15) Poems of Feeling
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This book contains a selection of English, Russian and German short poems with translations where appropriate. Some of the contents were put together in moments which I was able to snatch from a very busy and demanding career at the English Bar and some have been added after retirement. The translations are original translations by myself [to ensure that they really are original I have been totally resolute in restraining myself from reading any other...
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A collection of poems celebrating life, nature, spirituality and humor. Here you will find verses from infamous poets such as John Keats, Emily Dickinson and Rudyard Kipling on a range of joyful subjects including the natural world, faith, inspiration and irreverence and satire. For the religious and no religion alike, you are sure to find something to get your soul singing.
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A collection of poetic reflections on life and death. Ranging from musings on youth and age, and elegies on bereavement and grief to meditations on the nature of mortality, these are poems that explore our precious time on this earth and perhaps even offer some comfort for those seeking consolation.
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This anthology spans the first ten years of the poetry series at Paraclete Press. Included are poems by Phyllis Tickle, Scott Cairns, Paul Mariani, Anna Kamienska, Fr. John-Julian, SAID, Bonnie Thurston, Greg Miller, William Woolfitt, Rami Shapiro, Thomas Lynch, Paul Quenon, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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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...
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From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this sixth volume, the series has showcased the work of some of the most exciting and interesting new poets writing in English from around the world, many of whom have subsequently gone on to achieve notable success: Sophie Hannah, Vona Groarke, Patrick McGuinness, Kei Miller, Caroline Bird, David Morley, Jane Yeh, William Letford, Tara Bergin, and many others. Crucially, the New...
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