Vanitas


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"This twentieth winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry searches for language and meaning after unspeakable loss. Through memories, myths, and interior worlds, the author creates her own vanitas: a still-life painting symbolic of mortality and mutability"--Provided by publisher.




The Andrew Poems


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This is poetry about a parent losing a child -- and so much more. The author takes us on a journey through sorrow and love into healing and understanding.







Ten to One


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The first selected poems from one of the most inventive poets writing today.




Lena


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"Twenty-five winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry"--




Poems by Emily Dickinson


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Chasers of the Light


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The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything. He fell in love. Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter Series: a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.




Here's A Little Poem


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This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one’s library and a gorgeous gift to be both shared and treasured. Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes to A. A. Milne. Greeting the morning, enjoying the adventures of the day, cuddling up to a cozy bedtime — these are poems that highlight the moments of a toddler’s world from dawn to dusk. Carefully gathered by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters and delightfully illustrated by Polly Dunbar, Here's a Little Poem offers a comprehensive introduction to some remarkable poets, even as it captures a very young child’s intense delight in the experiences and rituals of every new day.




The Niobe Poems


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Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the final effect of the book is not, since Daniels's central theme is endurance, the discovery of what we need to survive.




Horse and Rider


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The redeeming power of love, amid the causes and causalties of violence