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April is National Poetry Month
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New Poetry Selections
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Kevin Young - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect. Here, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young, this precious... |
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Say Her Name
Zetta Elliott - Jump At The Sun
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating... |
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Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
Kwame Alexander - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwins... |
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Home Body
Rupi Kaur
Format: Paperback
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Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. Home Body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love,... |
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Border Lines: Poems of Migration
Mihaela Moscaliuc - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout history. The movement of peoples across borders - whether forcible, as with the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears, or voluntary, as with the great migrations from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin... |
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Summer Snow: New Poems
Robert Hass - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms... |
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The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
Momaday, N. Scott - HARPERCOLLINS
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Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 100 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition. "The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry... |
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Poetry Selections
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman
Various - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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In size and ambition, this may be the largest selection of poetry from our nation's first full century since Edmund Stedman's An American Anthology, 1787-1900, published more than 90 years ago. With its special sections of Native American poems, African American spirituals and hymns,... |
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American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
Robert Hass - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century... |
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The Oxford Book of American Poetry
David Lehman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct... |
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Fear of Description
Daniel Poppick - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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From Midwestern bars to Brooklyn apartments, narrative poems that find millennials adrift--in political upheaval and personal crisis--and trying to find their way back to one anotherWinner of the 2018 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Brenda ShaughnessyThese poems tell the story... |
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The Year of Blue Water
Yanyi - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for selfknowledge reveal art as a site of community Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans... |
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How to Love a Country: Poems
Richard Blanco - Beacon Press
Format: Audiobook
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A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive versesAs presidential inaugural poet, memoirist, public speaker, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting communities... |
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Come Closer and Listen: New Poems
Charles Simic - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our most beloved poets. With his trademark sense of humor, open-hearted empathy, and perceptive... |
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Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Lin-Manuel Miranda - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator and star of Hamilton, with beautiful illustrations by Jonny Sun, comes a book of affirmations to inspire readers at the beginning and end of each day.Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others... |
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Brown: Poems
Kevin Young - Knopf
Format: Audiobook
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James Brown. John Browns raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection."Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed." - The New York TimesDivided... |
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New Poets of Native Nations
HEID E ERDRICH - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first centuryNew Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid... |
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For Every One
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers... |
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Newspaper Blackout
Austin Kleon - Harper Perennial; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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“Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring.” — Ephermerist Newspaper article + sharpie = Newspaper Blackout Poetry: Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent... |
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She Felt Like Feeling Nothing (Volume 1) (What She Felt)
r.h. Sin - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Paperback
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New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of womens strength. There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything its felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish. In She Felt... |
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Americans' Favorite Poems
Robert Pinsky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This anthology embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discover America's beloved poems, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States. The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's... |
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Learn about poetry
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How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
THOMAS C FOSTER - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree... |
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Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets
Josephine Hart - W.W. Norton
Format: Print book
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This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their... |
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