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"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...
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Graywolf Press
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Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. Carmen Giménez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to cry out into a dream of rebellion--against compromise, against inertia, against self-delusion, and against the ways the media dream up our complacency in an America that depends on it. This...
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Presents a collection of poems by the beloved American author who, as a young man, travelled across the Midwest as a hobo. The surrealistic illustrations, which appear to be rendered in pastels, are appealing; the soft edges and warm tones work well with Sandburg's imaginary. The full-color illustrations are nothing short of breathtaking. Displays the range of everyday topics in which Sandburg found beauty, humor, or pathos. Unfamiliar words are helpfully...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
9) Walt Whitman
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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"Layering joy and urgent defiance -- against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone -- Natasha Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, her first retrospective volume, draws together verses that delineate the stories of working-class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in casta paintings,...
15) Popcorn: poems
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Greenwillow Books
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A collection of short poems with such titles as "Popcorn," "Driftwood, " and "My new bird book."
16) Corn chowder
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Greenwillow Books
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A collection of short poems with titles such as "In the Morning at the National Zoo," "Cell Phone," and "Backpack Mystery."
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English
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Treason - Human in Shape - Desperate Talk - The Memory Place - Plan B - The Lost Tribe - The New Horses - The Native Americans - Two Visions - Nothing is What it Seems - "Honey, Can You Hear Me?" - A Boy and His Cow - Duct-Tape Celebration - The Wrong Door - The Rules - Abducted - The Government Man - The Restorative - The Ghost Soldiers - Cricket Cricket - Father's Day - Waylon's Woman - My Cattle Ranch - Heather's Men - Uneasy About the Sounds of...
18) The diggers
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Verses describe the holes that a mole, dog, worm, and rabbit dig, but none can compare with the work of a man and his steam shovel.
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