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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
Category: Poetry | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.
FLYING CREATURES OF FRA ANGELICO by TABUCCHI ANTONIO
Category: Fiction | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
Hypochondria, insomnia, restlessness, and yearning are the lame muses of these brief pages. I would have liked to call them Extravaganzas . . . because many of them wander about in a strange outside that has no inside, like drifting splinters. . . . Alien to any orbit, I have the impression they navigat ...Show more
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton; Aracelis Girmay (Editor)
Category: Education | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, ...Show more
Song - The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them by Toby Creswell
Category: Poetry | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.... Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the s ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton; Toni Morrison (Foreword by); Kevin Young (Editor)
Category: Education | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years.--Publishers WeeklyAll poetry readers will want to own this book; almost everything is in it.--Publishers WeeklyIf you only read one poet ...Show more
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Category: Poetry | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
Richly allusive, the poems in Brigit Pegeen Kelly's The Orchard evoke elements of myth in distinctive aural and rhythmic patterns. Her poetic strength lies in her ability to cast poems as modern myths and allegories. Propelled by patterned repetitions and lush cadences, the poems move the reader through ...Show more
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
Category: Education | Series: American Poets Continuum Ser.
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asia ...Show more
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