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Sixty-seven examples of Japanese verse celebrating nature and people. Divided into spring, summer, fall, and winter. For grades 5-8
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This sequel to Judy Scuppernong (RC 35091) continues, in a series of narrative poems, the tale of three young girls…
in a small Georgia town in the early 1950s. During the summer, Lala, Stacy, and Deanna and her visiting cousin Rusty have a dog wedding, go on a hay ride and picnic, swim, catch caterpillars, and build a city out of boxes and scraps of paper. For grades 4-7
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The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34…
free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.Praise for The Absence of Zero:"The interiors of R. Kolewe's epic poem The Absence of Zero, are anything but ... observance upon observance then another, continuous action … past and continuing, teeter, falter, tick by, lob between thoughts, threads, memories, what is, what was, what might befall, or. "Read again. Nothing beautiful." and absolutely absorbing, returning again and again to this place, this street, this window, this room. Know that once you enter, there is no going back. The presence of absence, all too familiar, begins to read, occupy you. It's a glorious achievement. Prepare to be mesmerized." —KIRBY, author of Poetry is Queer"Ralph Kolewe's The Absence of Zero is a daring, daily progression that depends upon return as palimpsest. Call it what it is. Gorgeous. Steadfastly urgent. Patient as dawn." —Margaret Christakos, author of charger and Dear Birch
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Autobiographical poems that starkly depict the harsh plight of Hispanics as victims of political oppression and as impoverished immigrants. One…
of the works relates a Chilean man's harrowing experience of lying his way out of being shot by a firing squad. Violence
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PERIODS, SEX AND ONLINE SHAMING. AN EXTRAORDINARY VERSE NOVEL FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN FICTION. During astronomy-lover Frankie’s first…
sexual experience with the quiet and lovely Benjamin, she gets her period. It’s only blood, they agree. No shame. But soon a graphic meme goes viral, turning their fun, intimate afternoon into something disgusting, mortifying and damaging. As the online shaming takes on a horrifying life of its own, Frankie begins to wonder: is her real life over?
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Poems by an African American writer exploring motherhood, religion, and racism. The collection is divided into four parts: "Mama and…
Daddy," "Homeplace," "Hermitage," and "Still Faith." Also includes the author's notes about her work. National Book Award finalist
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The story of a championship high school basketball team told in free-verse poems. Follows the home and school life of…
the players and coach until tragedy strikes on the way to the final game. For grades 6-9
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Rich's first six books of poetry, along with additional entries from this time frame, are presented in chronological order. These…
writings from her youth offer fresh and direct perceptions of new experiences as she travels and encounters people and places during the 1950s and the turmoil of the 1960s. Includes nine translations of Dutch poetry
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The 1993-1995 U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner collects poems previously published elsewhere into a volume focusing on the…
myth of Demeter and Persephone. Loosely following the sonnet form, the poems express a mother's anxious care for her daughter and a daughter's experience in leaving her mother for the wider--and more dangerous--world
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Religion, Poetry
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Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with…
a dervish learning community that was "exploring the mystery of union with the divine." Some descriptions of sex
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Fifty-four poems by an award-winning African American writer celebrating love in its many manifestations: for a lover, for a friend,…
for a member of the family, in the abstract, and in the concrete. Grouped in three sections: "I Hope It's Love," "And Yeah . . . These Are Love Poems," and "I Take Master Card (Charge Your Love to Me)." For senior high and older readers
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Rodrigo Cortés regresa a las librerías con Verbolario: diccionario satírico, humorístico y poético, que, con sus más de dos mil…
definiciones y siete años de trabajo a la espalda, se atreve a enmendarle la plana al diccionario. «Verbolario es un milagro sostenido».Manuel Jabois Toda palabra tiene su significado oculto —su significado verdadero— acechante entre sus pliegues con la astucia del salteador de caminos; se desvela sólo con el uso y sólo ante la perspicacia y el oído, que son el mismo sentido. Rodrigo Cortés reinventa el lenguaje y hace confesar a cada voz su auténtico propósito. Verbolario no define las palabras: las desnuda. La crítica ha dicho:«Selvático y misterioso antidiccionario en que las palabras vuelven a ser territorios a la espera de ser explorados».Laura Fernández «Verbolario es el saloncillo antes de la obra, los camerinos llenos de secretos del diccionario».José Luis Garci «Cortés desvela una realidad que nadie había visto en el lenguaje: las palabras también juegan con nosotros».Jesús García Calero, ABC Cultural «¿Puede un libro ser a la vez diccionario, manual de humor, tratado filosófico y poemario? En manos de Rodrigo Cortés puede».Juan Gómez-Jurado «Con talento y picardía, Rodrigo Cortés logra ponerle a cada palabra de este Verbolario la espina precisa para que el pinchazo nos resulte puñeteramente gozoso».Fernando Aramburu «Enciclopedia ilustrada que mira el mundo con la sabiduría del viejo y la inocencia del niño».Ana Iris Simón «Carcajadas, sonrisas y la leve incomodidad que produce la verdad cuando anda desnuda».Sergio del Molino
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Journals and memoirs, History, Poetry, Philosophy, Politics and government
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Examines the concepts of secular nationalism and modernity as conceived by Arab intellectuals of Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. Provides…
insights into the Middle East from Arabic sources: fiction, poetry, memoirs, and political commentaries. c1998.
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Poetry, Women biography, Humour
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Humorous essays, poems, and cartoons by women arranged by themes such as men, family, rights, and politics. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
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Serious and literary fictionPoetry
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Selected poems by seventeenth-century English poets, including John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell. Contains an introduction and biographical notes
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When they went to my fatherto see if he wanted to raise his twelve-year-old son he couldn’t pass the simple…
test of not having needles strewn all over the floor.The words are sometimes harsh and the visualizations raw, but so is reality for Jesse-Ray Lewis. He grew up in Appalachia surrounded by violence, drug dealing, and addiction.I held her for hours.There was foam at her mouth and blood as I cradled her.I am the one who closed her eyes.He entered foster care at age 12 and aged out of the system in 2016 at age 18. I thought, I want that.I want to live without walking from nowhere to nowhere.His poems rise up out of that shattered childhood as a quest for answers and a search for a new beginning. Hillbilly drug baby? Maybe that’s who I came out as. But it’s not who I want to be. In these poems, you see a young man on a precipice, wooed by drugs and forgetfulness, but longing for something bigger and better. I find a single droplet of hope and choke on it." Unafraid, he probes our deepest fears---what would it be like to live that life? To plumb the depths of hell?" - Saundra Kelley, author of Southern Appalachian Storytellers
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Alaskan songwriter presents 109 poems. In these autobiographical pieces, she expresses her feelings about love and lovers, places visited, and lessons learned from personal experience. Bestseller
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Religious biography, Women biography, Food and drink, Family and relationships, History, Asian history, European history, Music, Poetry, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sports and games
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TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the…
extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so much more. The book is difficult to put it down'Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York'The ultimate book about Great Britain's capital'Dagbladet'One of the best books of the year! . . . This is a book about what a city is and can be'AftenpostenIs there a street in London which does not contain a story from the Empire? Immigrants made London; and they keep remaking it in a thousand different ways. Nazneen Khan-Østrem has drawn a wonderful new map of a city that everyone thought they already knew. She travels around the city, meeting the very people who have created a truly unique metropolis, and shows how London's incredible development is directly attributable to the many different groups of immigrants who arrived after the Second World War, in part due to the Nationality Act of 1948. Her book reveals the historical, cultural and political changes within those communities which have fundamentally transformed the city, and which have rarely been considered alongside each other.Nazneen Khan-Østrem has a cosmopolitan background herself, being a British, Muslim, Asian woman, born in Nairobi and raised in the UK and Norway, which has helped her in unravelling the city's rich immigrant history and its constant ongoing evolution.Drawing on London's rich literature and its musical heritage, she has created an intricate portrait of a strikingly multi-faceted metropolis. Based on extensive research, particularly into aspects not generally covered in the wide array of existing books on the city, London manages to capture the city's enticing complexity and its ruthless vitality.This celebration of London's diverse immigrant communities is timely in the light of the societal fault lines exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit. It is a sensitive and insightful book that has a great deal to say to Londoners as well as to Britain as a whole.
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A new translation of work by one of the Netherland's most innovative, exhilarating poets, a poet who draws on everything…
from economics to parables to world history. The Dutch poet Nachoem M. Wijnberg is one of the most inventive, surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking poets writing today. He is also remarkably productive, so that up to now only a small portion of his extensive body of work has appeared in English translation. This new selection of poems draws on all twenty volumes Wijnberg has published to date, constituting an indispensable introduction to this wry, off-kilter, spellbinding modern master. Wijnberg, not only a poet but a professor of business studies—hence his persistent concern with questions of value, real and false—writes only in the plainest language while displaying a formidable erudition. His poems engage economics, philosophy, and history; he writes Chinese poems and Jewish poems and classic songs; he tells stories that may or may not be parables; he writes from where the mind meets the heart. &“Tell all the truth but tell it slant,&” Emily Dickinson enjoins. Wijnberg for his part has said, &“Alienation is the last thing I am trying to achieve. The world is strange enough as it is and my poems help in dealing with that strangeness by bringing it close and as far as possible trying to understand it.&”
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A celebrated poet returns with a vibrant and kaleidoscopic improvisation on the broken body and questing spirit. “I was living…
in a high-maintenance loneliness,” Alice Fulton writes of a devastating accident, and her poems express both reverence and impatience as they search for a brightness palpable as the dark. The result is a brilliant coloratura on the senses. Fulton evokes phantom aromas of vanished perfumes, flowers fragrant only at night, and the ozone scent of snow; marvels at velvet paintings and chimerical colors outside the spectrum; and riffs on a mixtape of ambient sounds: applause, clinking glasses, spectral voices on the radio, and the whispers of a mother to her children. Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems extends these tactile mysteries to existential questions of invisible miracles, connection, and faith in the face of silence: “By praying you, I create you,” the poet informs an elusive God. Reveling in the stunning possibilities of language, Fulton seeks joy to counteract trauma and grief, empathizes with the silent pathos of animals, and finds solace in art, friendship, and the mysterious power of gifts. Without denying suffering, this enthralling volume extends a fervent prayer for gratitude and healing.