Summary: An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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Summary: A selection of works from American and British poets. It includes the poetry of William Blake, Robert Burns, George Crabbe, Philip Freneau, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, William Cullen Bryant, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Darley, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 AUDSummary: This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther King called the "beloved community," a place where we see each other as the neighbors we already are. Healing the Divide urges us, at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Writers Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 HEAFrost, Robert
Summary: "Poet and Frost biographer Jay Parini selects sixteen poems by Robert Frost to learn by heart. Each poem is accompanied by a short interpretative essay by Parini illuminating the poem's stylistic and imaginative features"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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Summary: Collection of 80 new poems and prose pieces including some about slavery, Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Nina Simone, Dorothy Height, Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, Richard Fewell, the Ishley Brothers, Jackie Robinson, librarians, and libraries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOSummary: The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, letters, scholarly essays, news articles, excerpts from plays, mission statements, lyrics, and herstories looking across time, generational, and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. Together they open a window that reveals a range of Latina perspectives on important contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8092 LATKerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990