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Earth's Breath
By Susan Hawthorne. 2009
Situated between the realms of the real and the fantastic, this collection of eco-poetry relays the ferocious power and long-lasting…
effects of extreme weather events such as cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons. Exploring the period before, during, and after a cyclone's arrival, these emotionally charged poems travel from trampled forests and torn rooftops to the inner heartache and emotional distress felt among disaster survivors. This poetic and psychological journey through trauma explores the deep connection between human beings and their environment.Bird: And Other Writings
By Susan Hawthorne. 1999
Birds don't fly with leads, says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by the limitations imposed on her at school. She has…
epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne captures the voice and longings of a child at the edge of self-realisation.This collection draws on the experience of epilepsy mixed with imagination, mythic consciousness and an intense realisation of life.Blood Relations
By Sandy Jeffs. 2000
These poems are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home.…
Pain and bitterness accompany the conflicting emotions of growing up in a family torn apart by domestic violence and alcoholism.Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
By Virginia Hamilton, Nikki Giovanni, George Ford. 1993
Poems of the Great War: An Anthology 1914-1918 (RP Minis)
By Edited by Christopher Navratil. 2014
People Kill People
By Ellen Hopkins. 2018
Weekly Someone will shoot. And someone will die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins tackles gun violence and…
white supremacy in this compelling and complex novel. People kill people. Guns just make it easier. A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression? One tense week brings all six people into close contact in a town wrought with political and personal tensions. Someone will fire. And someone will die. But who? A New York Times BestsellerThis book sheds new light on the work of Robert Hayden (1913–80) in response to changing literary scholarship. While Hayden’s…
poetry often reflected aspects of the African American experience, he resisted attempts to categorize his poetry in racial terms. This fresh appreciation of Hayden’s work recontextualizes his achievements against the backdrop of the Black Arts Movement and traces his influence on contemporary African American poets. Placing Hayden at the heart of a history of African American poetry and culture spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip-Hop era, the book explains why Hayden is now a canonical figure in 20th-century American literature. In deep readings that focus on Hayden’s religiousness, class consciousness, and historical vision, author Derik Smith inverts earlier scholarly accounts that figure Hayden as an outsider at odds with the militancy of the Black Arts movement. Robert Hayden in Verse offers detailed descriptions of the poet’s vigorous contributions to 1960s discourse about art, modernity, and blackness to show that the poet was, in fact, an earnest participant in Black Arts-era political and aesthetic debates.Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners
By Naomi Shihab Nye. 2018
Acclaimed and award-winning poet, teacher, and National Book Award finalist Naomi Shihab Nye’s uncommon and unforgettable voice offers readers peace,…
humor, inspiration, and solace. This volume of almost one hundred original poems is a stunning and engaging tribute to the diverse voices past and present that comfort us, compel us, lead us, and give us hope. Voices in the Air is a collection of almost one hundred original poems written by the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye in honor of the artists, writers, poets, historical figures, ordinary people, and diverse luminaries from past and present who have inspired her. Full of words of encouragement, solace, and hope, this collection offers a message of peace and empathy. Voices in the Air celebrates the inspirational people who strengthen and motivate us to create, to open our hearts, and to live rewarding and graceful lives. With short informational bios about the influential figures behind each poem, and a transcendent introduction by the poet, this is a collection to cherish, read again and again, and share with others.The Last Girl: Poems
By Rose Solari. 2014
A shimmering girl who disappears in daylight. A boy who goes to war and comes back forever broken. New landscapes…
in which old ghosts appear, telling their bits of stories. Lovers and losses, visions and dreams--such are the people, places, and images who fill Rose Solari's third collection of poetry, The Last Girl. Moving beyond the often-narrative constructions of her previous collection, the poems in this collection tell their truths slant-wise, in spiky, inventive lines that sing their way under the reader's skin. Solari's whole-hearted lyricism of her elegiac moments, linguistic inventiveness, and range of tones sweep the reader from dark to light, from pain to joy, from unbearable loss to giddy delight. The poems in this collection represent a writer working at the peak of her powers, possessed of technical mastery, fierce perception, and a tender but unsentimental heart.Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Browning. 1979
A novel in blank verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published in 1857. The first-person narrative, which comprises some 11,000 lines,…
tells of the heroine's childhood and youth in Italy and England, her self-education in her father's hidden library, and her successful pursuit of a literary career. Initially resisting a marriage proposal by the philanthropist Romney Leigh, Aurora later surrenders her independence and weds her faithful suitor, whose own idealism has also since been tempered by experience. Aurora's career, Romney's social theories, and a melodramatic subplot concerning forced prostitution elicit the author's vivid observations on the importance of poetry, the individual's responsibility to society, and the victimization of women.This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries…
and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.The Regret Histories
By Joshua Poteat. 2015
R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry (Everyman Poetry Ser. #No. 7)
By Anthony Thwaite, R. S. Thomas. 1996
A best of R.S. Thomas's poems in a beautiful new gift editionR. S. Thomas (1913- 2000) was born in Cardiff.…
He studied classics, then theology and, after ordination, served six rural Welsh parishes for most of his life. His first book of poems was published in 1946. He won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964 and published regularly, Collected Poems 1945-90 marking his eightieth birthday.William Wordsworth: Selected Poems
By William Wordsworth, Stephen Logan. 2008
Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Everyman's Poetry Ser.)
By Thomas Hardy, Norman Page. 1998
William Cowper: Everyman's Poetry
By William Cowper, Michael Bruce. 1999
John Skelton: Everyman's Poetry (Everyman's Poetry Ser.)
By Greg Walker, John Skelton. 1997
Women In Love: Heroines In Verse (Everyman Poetry Ser. #No. 73)
By David Hopkins. 2000
This unique anthology presents depictions of female figures in a wide range of English verse - narrative, dramatic and lyric,…
original and translated - from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the variety of women's reactions to the passion of love - whether joyful, idealizing, horrified, deceitful, resigned, noble, curious, or reflective. The collection juxtaposes familiar material with less well-known items, and encompasses a wide variety of tones and moods, from heroic pathos to bawdy comedy. The passages all present moments in which a woman's thoughts are rendered, or her presence imagined, with particular dramatic vividness. The women depicted range from nobly born heroines of myth and legend to more ordinary and everyday figures. The result is a comprehensive presentation - moving, sobering and amusing by turns - of the joys, fears, hopes and disappointments of women in love.John Milton: Everyman's Poetry (Everyman Poetry Ser. #No. 2)
By Gordon Campbell. 1996
Best known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subtle lyric harmony. He is one…
of the greatest writers of the 17th century, and of all time.Stevenson: Everyman's Poetry
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenni Calder. 1997