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bibliography Graphic novels. Poetry Poetry Poetry. poetry. Poetry. Poésie. Short stories, American Short stories.Summary: The Poetry Hall of Fame showcases more than 130 of the world’s best-known poems cleverly performed and artistically interpreted by The First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests. Simply an incredible collection of great writers and a wonderful journey through great poems. Within these words one may find all the love, joy, hope, fear, enchantment, and humor that is the human spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1993
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Coelho, Joseph
Summary: "Everybody has a poem inside them! Writing one is not as hard as you think, you just need to know how to get started. Discover all sorts of ways to write and perform your very own poems, from found poems, to haikus, to tanka poems, to tongue-twisters!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 COEOliver, Mary
Summary: "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 powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PLAPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Brings together Poe's stories and poems in one volume.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 POE1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 POE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 POEYolen, Jane
Summary: Nineteen poems about grandmothers from around the world. This sweet collection features grandmas who dream and those that sing crying babies to sleep; nanas who hold hands crossing the street and some who learn hopscotch; nanas who color with you and some who go to zoos; and other nanas spending precious time with their precious little ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moonshower, an imprint of Bushel & Peck Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 YOLAshbery, John
Contents: 1956-1987 : Some trees / selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets. The tennis court oath. Rivers and mountains. The double dream of spring. Three poems. The Vermont notebook / with [the original art by] Joe Brainard. Self-portrait in a convex mirror. Houseboat days. As we know. Shadow train. A wave. April galleons. Uncollected poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ASHJackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BRODickinson, Emily
Contents: Poems 1890: Life -- Love -- Nature -- Time and eternity -- Poems 1891: Life -- Love -- Nature -- Time and eternity -- Poems 1896: Life -- Love -- Nature -- Time and eternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.4 DICMerwin, W S
Summary: Following The Second Four Books, this collection returns to print a large body of work by one of the premier poets of this century. W.S. Merwin was the first recipient of the Tanning Prize. "The terms of the Tanning Prize stipulate that it be given to 'a master'... here be fore us, and for many years to come, we have in William Merwin an embodied emblem of the best we can hope for, both as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERPizarnik, Alejandra
Summary: Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 unearths this extraordinary poet for English readers in a bilingual edition that spans the heights of Pizarnik s oeuvre. In her brief life, Pizarnik produced an astonishingly powerful body of work. In her own words, she was drawn to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PIZSummary: The Best American Poetry is not just another anthology; it serves as a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry and is an eagerly awaited publishing event each year. With Trethewey’s insightful touch and genius for plumbing the depths of history and personal experience to shape striking verse, The Best American Poetry 2017 is another brilliant addition to the series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BESJarman, Mark.
Summary: Collects work from over thirty years and charts Mark Jarman's spiritual development as he grows from a poet of childhood and nostalgia to a poet of adulthood and the struggle of faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 JARSummary: Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWAMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: "One of the most important and unique voices in American letters, distinguished poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller N. Scott Momaday was born into the Kiowa tribe and grew up on Indian reservations in the Southwest. The customs and traditions that influenced his upbringing-most notably the Native American oral tradition-are the centerpiece of his work. This luminous collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 MOMMilosz, Czeslaw.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.1 MILDrake, Molly
Contents: Happiness(1:50 min) -- Little Weaver Bird(1:51 min) -- Cuckoo Time(1:38 min) -- Love Isn't a Right(2:04 min) -- Dream Your Dreams(1:54 min) -- How Wild the Wind Blows(1:18 min) -- What Can a Song Do to You?(2:29 min) -- I Remember(3:04 min) -- A Sound(1:54 min) -- Ballad(1:57 min) -- Woods in May(1:10 min) -- Night Is My Friend(1:39 min) -- Fine Summer Morning(1:20 min) -- Set Me Free(1:29 min)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bryter Music 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DRASummary: This book celebrates 20 years of Poets' night out featuring some of the best poems of those 20 years from local authors,
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kwik Print, 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 POE1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 811 POE
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
Summary: One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 CUMPeacock, Molly
Summary: Poet Molly Peacock teaches readers how to read, understand, and truly experience the beauty of poetry and discusses how poetry lovers can start their own poetry circle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.1 PEAOliver, Mary
Summary: The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. And what did you think love would be like? A summer day? The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 OLIScollon, Teresa
Summary: This is Teresa Scollon’s third collection of poetry and her first with Alice Greene & Co. In Trees and Other Creatures, she deftly loosens the boundaries between ourselves and those who share our world. Her layered vignettes explore the spirits of the animate and inanimate – chickens, dogs, a trumpeter, trees, a sofa, rocks – and we are given a path of fresh imagery into the emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice Greene & CO. 0000
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SCO1 available in Local Author, Call number: 811 SCO
Bolin, Donald W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Private Printing 1991