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By Karine Tuil. 2023
Le kaddish est l'une des prières de deuil que les juifs récitent plusieurs fois par jour. Il n'existe pas de…
kaddish pour l'amour. La femme doit l'écrire pour l'homme dont elle est séparée. A partir de réflexions métaphysiques, la poétesse renoue avec une tradition poétique hébraïque et offre une prière universelle pour le retour de l'être aimé.By Nathalie Handal. 2023
Une des grandes voix de la poésie contemporaine palestinienne, Nathalie Handal invoque la sensualité et le désir dans De l'amour…
des étranges chevaux. Ancrée dans les mythes et la musique de la Méditerranée, la poésie de Handal dessine l'amour à la fois comme sens et quête absolueBy Pierre De Ronsard. 1997
A collection of sixty poems from various Native American groups. Concise, eloquent phrases convey a respect for nature and for…
human qualities. Many reveal the spiritual aspects of tribal life. For grades 5-8 and older readersAn international selection of more than forty poets presented in chronological order. Includes Sappho of ancient Greece, Charles Baudelaire of…
France, Pablo Neruda of Chile, and J.E. Wei of Taiwan. Editor chose poems that "shook" her. For junior and senior high readersAn annual collection of short stories, essays, and poetry published in magazines and by small presses. In "Grounded," a mother…
joins her son, who is running away from home. In "Oxygen," a man recalls one summer he spent delivering oxygen tanks to dying people. Descriptions of sex and strong languageBy Naomi Shihab Nye. 1992
Anthology of pieces by 129 poets from sixty-eight countries other than the U.S. The poems express a universal spirit through…
themes including dreams, families, nature, loss, and human mysteries. For grades 5-8Anthology of twenty-four poems about people who occupy your thoughts, especially friends but also enemies. Titles like "Another Poem to…
Send to Your Worst Enemy," and "If I Could Put a Curse on You," are balanced by "Friendship," "Summertime Sharing," and "To You." For grades 3-61999
Selections from 140 contemporary poets expressing their thoughts and observations in free verse on the theme of loss--of objects, people,…
places, or concepts. Many of the poems are first-time publications. Biographical notes on the contributors are included. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Collection of poems spanning the stages of emotional recovery from heartbreak. Selected mainly from the work of such twentieth-century poets…
as Margaret Atwood, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, and Robert Frost, the sequence of topics takes us through rage, sadness, self-hatred, false hope, resolve, relapse, real hope, and moving on. 2002By Louis L'Amour. 1990
In 1939, Louis L’Amour first gave public voice to his now-celebrated spirit of wanderlust in SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR. Like…
many of his stories, the poems in this book are inspired by his experiences and memories of his journeys across oceans and continents. It is vintage L’Amour storytelling — in verse — about nature, the land, and the people who loved and braved it.By Arlene Hirschfelder, Beverly Singer. 1992
A collection of poems and essays written by young Native Americans between the late 1800s and 1990. Included is a…
nineteenth-century piece by a Chippewa girl who describes the heartbreak of returning home a stranger from seven years of boarding school and a poem declaring "Indians are native people...Yet, we are treated as though we just got here." For grades 5-8 and older readersBy Nancy Larrick. 1992
The night has held a special, magical appeal to poets throughout the ages all over the world. This collection of…
more than thirty such poems includes the works of Carl Sandburg, Eve Merriam, Ted Hughes, Langston Hughes, and Jane Yolen. For grades 3-6 and older readersBy Nadine Bernard Westcott. 1994
A collection of nearly sixty humorous poems about food and eating. There are poems about school lunches, picnics, and manners…
and about baloney, a sliver of liver, oodles of noodles, and fudge. For grades K-3 and older readersSixty-five selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial American presses and magazines. "My Father, Dancing" by…
Bliss Broyard is her first published work. "A Thousand Buddhas," an essay about giving and receiving a massage, is by Brenda Miller, who once worked as a massage therapist. "Night Singing" is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.S. Merwin. Some strong languageBy Paul B. Janeczko. 1993
Anthology of poems by contemporary writers. Focusing on conflict in a range of situations, the poems are designed to evoke…
strong emotions. The opening poem recalls a first-grader's eagerness in raising his hand to be called on for the answer. Other poems deal with such topics as suicide, AIDS, nuclear accidents, and the swift passage of life. Some strong language. For high school and older readersBy Lee Bennett Hopkins. 1994
Seventy-eight poems written by poets including Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost tell of the history of…
the United States. The collection begins with pieces about the pilgrims in the 1600s, and one of the final entries is a poem about sending mail to relatives in space. For grades 4-7By David Lehman. 1996
Seventy-five poems by American writers. Includes Sherman Alexie's thoughts on the death penalty in "Capital Punishment"; Margaret Atwood's reflections on…
her youth amidst the torched remains of a home in "Morning in the Burned House"; and Jane Kenyon's meditation on mortality in "Reading Aloud to My Father." Some strong language