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1424) The cozy book
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Verses describe a variety of foods, activities, smells, sounds, words, places, people, feelings, and other things perceived as being cozy.
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, "The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today...While readers may question some of the selections--an annual sport with this series--most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology." The...
1426) Barnyard prayers
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A boy's toy farm animals come to life and talk to God in a series of prayers.
1427) Alice Yazzie's year
Author
Pub. Date
[1977]
Description
Twelve free verse poems chronicle the events and feelings of a Navajo girl's eleventh year.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Covering a wide variety of STEAM topics, including geology, paleontology, physics, astronomy, creative writing and drawing, this collection of poems is presented in the format of an allegorical house that sparks wonder and shows readers how to kindle itin themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
1431) Shroud of the Gnome
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Speakers in James Tate's poems are not like those we know: a man's meditation on gardening renders him witless, another traps theories and then lets them loose in a city park, a nun confides that "it was her / cowboy pride that got her through", a gnome's friend inhabits a world where "a great eschatological ferment is at work".
Pub. Date
1997
Description
The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married and single, young and old, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual, the anthology covers historical development and changing mores through the seventeenth...
1433) Eye level: poems
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here--colors, smells,...
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
With more than 150 poems and forty striking photographs, Poetry of the American West chronicles the imagery of the region's long and diverse cultural heritage. Featuring verse by more than seventy poets and spanning a period of more than five hundred years, this is the first anthology to include the wide range of voices from a land where cultural collisions are part of the territory.
Covering the traditional and the exploratory, the ancient and the...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Bao Phi, Kaveh...