National Poetry Month

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This compilation of great American poetry contains some of the most fondly remembered works of all time. Representing the earliest days of the Nation through the golden age of the 19th century and up to the present day, this classic collection also includes the lyrics of canonical songs, from "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "This Land is Your Land." Each poet's work is preceded by an introduction.--From publisher description.

2) 1919

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Ewing, Eve L

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The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the "Red Summer" of violence across the nation's cities, is an event that has shaped the last century but is widely unknown. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event--which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries--through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the...

3) Call us what we carry: poems

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Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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"The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that...

4) Chicago poems

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

Series

Classics series (Miami Fla.)
Prairie State books
Dover thrift editions

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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population...

5) The collected poems

Author

Plath, Sylvia

Series

Harper colophon books volume cn900
Harper Perennial modern classics

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Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.

6) The complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

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"The publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson marks a distinct literary event, the first collection in a single volume of all of Emily Dickinson's poetry. The editor, Thomas H. Johnson, the author of Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography, and editor of Emily Dickinson's letters, has assembled a reading text containing all of her 1,775 poems. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson allows the reader to see as a whole the work of an extraordinary...

7) Devotions: the selected poems of Mary Oliver

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Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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"Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work...

8) Foxtales: a collection of fiction & poetry

9) The hill we climb: an inaugural poem for the country

Author

Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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"On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition." -- Provided by publisher.

10) I am Maria: my reflections and poems on heartbreak, healing, and finding your way home

Author

Shriver, Maria

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I Am Maria is a poignant collection of poems by Maria Shriver that explores themes of identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak, and healing. Through deeply personal and vulnerable reflections on life's challenges, transitions, successes, and failures, Shriver offers an inspiring and emotional journey. Her poetry invites readers to connect with their own experiences and reclaim poetry as a tool for self-exploration. I Am Maria serves as a roadmap...

11) I would leave me if I could: a collection of poetry

Author

Halsey, 1994-

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"In this debut collection, Halsey bares her soul. Bringing the same artistry found in her lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, family ties, sexuality, and mental illness. More hand grenades than confessions, these autobiographical poems explore and dismantle conventional notions of what it means to be a feminist in search of power." -- Amazon.com. "Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is...

12) The Iliad

Author

Homer

Series

Penguin classics
Classics of Greece and Rome series
Loeb classical library volume 170-171
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"When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...

13) Leaves of grass

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Series

Vintage classics
Collected writings of Walt Whitman
Alma classics great poets
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"Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is a clarion call to his country's people to join together in the "crowning growth of the United States". Its patriotic zeal made him a symbol of democracy in his country long before he achieved fame there as a poet. The intense emotion of Whitman's verse celebrates the regenerative power of nature and the immortal divinity of the human soul. His passionate beliefs are evident throughout this volume - in the radical...

14) Living nations, living words: an anthology of first peoples poetry

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"A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology...

15) Martyr!

Author

Akbar, Kaveh

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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"-- Provided by publisher. Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was...

16) The Odyssey

Author

Homer

Series

Penguin classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Enriched classics series
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"A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has served to introduce readers to the ancient Greek world of gods and heroes and has been one of the most popular and respected versions of the work. Yet through all those decades, Chicago never published...

17) Ordinary hazards: a memoir

Author

Grimes, Nikki

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...this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand... Nikki Grimes discovered the power of writing at the tender age of six, when, alone in her room, she poured her fears, anger, and tears onto a piece of paper - and felt sweet relief. Words and faith were her most enduring companions as life flung her headlong from one harrowing experience to the next through her childhood and teenage years. Words, spilled into notebook after...

18) The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry

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"Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in [this book]. [This] volume represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-- with varying styles, voices, themes, and cultures-- while balancing important poems with vital periods of each poet. Featuring earlier works by Robert Frost, James Weldon Johnson, and Wallace...

19) The poem I turn to: actors & directors present poetry that inspires them

20) The poetry home repair manual: practical advice for beginning poets

Author

Kooser, Ted

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