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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How does life survive on Earth? Why is Pluto no longer considered a planet? And just how big is Jupiter, really? The answers to these questions and more are explored in this innovative non-fiction book featuring 14 beautifully written poems about space. Every object in our solar system is paired with a different kind of poem, from lyrical sonnets to bouncy rhyming couplets, twisty sestinas to joyful free verse. As they explore the solar system, readers...
2) Quiet as mud
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Quiet as Mud is a sweet poem about being introvert in a big loud world"--
Author
Publisher
FootHills Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This is Franklin's sixth full-length collection of poems. It contains a wide variety of styles and artful expressions unified by a fresh view of the commonplace and its potential for love, magnificence and sorrow."--Amazon website.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? "It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem," Seuss writes. "You can't hide / from what you made / inside what you made." What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love"--
5) White horses
Author
Publisher
Mojave River Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A brave collection of memory, love, loss, and nature--adapted from publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Poet and Frost biographer Jay Parini selects sixteen poems by Robert Frost to learn by heart. Each poem is accompanied by a short interpretative essay by Parini illuminating the poem's stylistic and imaginative features"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A unique and artful blend of poetry, science, and activism, this picture book shows how city dwellers can intervene so that nature can work her magic. Perfect for fans of The Curious Garden and Harlem Grown.
9) Whereas
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Publicada en 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada es uno de los máximos exponentes del modernismo literario latinoamericano, que colocó al joven Pablo Neruda en la vanguardia de la poesía en lengua española, en un fascinante recorrido que culminó con la obtención del premio Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1971.
"Published in 1924, Twenty love poems and a song of despair is one of the greatest exponents of Latin American literary...
13) Home
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Hope is the Thing with Feathers, readers follow the story of a little bird who brings joy to everyone through his song. When a storm hits, the little bird's song is diminished, but he never gives up, and when the storm passes he is there to give joy again as people rebuild."--Amazon.com.
15) Hoop queens 2
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twelve poems that celebrate contemporary women basketball stars, including Sue Bird, Candace parker, and Brittney Griner.
16) Inner sunset
Author
Publisher
Blue Light Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Heather Saunders Estes grew up in a small New England town and now lives in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. The blue jays look different, but crows are the same. Fog has replaced winter snow. She transitioned to poetry in 2017 from her long-term career as CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California. Her writing is inspired by experiences as a social worker and activist, as well as early studies in ceramics and elementary art teaching....
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Pablo Picasso's relationships with both his children and his female companions were often tempestuous and destructive, but they provided the drama on which he fed as he created one groundbreaking work after another. From ceramics to print making to sculpture to photography to poetry, Picasso had a huge appetite for expressing himself through every kind of artistic medium, and he is now considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. With...
20) Cloudbreak
Author
Publisher
Poetic Matrix Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Heather Saunders Estes shows, through Cloudbreak, the capacity to live and work at something important; something that advances the social life of the community (women/men) all of us and as well find the beauty of place. Her 37 years as CEO of Planned Parenthood Northern California put her in the middle of some of the most significant social conversations of our time. And, as Kim Shuck noted, she finds the beauty of San Francisco and lets all this...