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[2011]
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The second original book to be published since Silverstein's passing in 1999, this poetry collection includes more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the cherished American artist and selected by his family from his archives.
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The poems in Charles Simic's new collection evoke a variety of settings and images, from New York City to small New England towns; from crowds spilling onto the sidewalk on a hot summer night to an abandoned wooden church and a car graveyard overgrown with weeds. His subjects range from a bakery early in the morning to the fingerprints on a stranger's front door; from waiters in an empty restaurant to the decorations in a window of a funeral home;...
13) Scranimals
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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An illustrated collection of poems about the mysterious creatures--jumbles of birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers--that populate Scranimal Island.
14) Animals in pants
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"What? You've never seen animals in pants? A dog in yoga pants, a goat in overalls, a yak in slacks? Animals in Pants presents a parade of impeccable poems about animals wearing perfectly pressed pants." -- inside front jacket flap.
Simple, humorous poems featuring a variety of animals wearing different kinds of pants.
16) Poesía eras tú
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In a series of humorous poems, a pig farmer writes to his former girlfriend, a politician, in an effort to revive their relationship, inadvertantly revealing his own pettiness and spitefulness.
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"Lithgow wields a ... satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few ... years in politics, [taking] readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Pruitt, Paul Manafort, Trump's doctors, and many others. Illustrated from cover to cover with Lithgow's never-before-seen line drawings, the poems collected in Dumpty draw inspiration from A. A. Milne,...