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3) If
Author
Language
English
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Description
Presents the poem Rudyard Kipling wrote to his twelve-year-old son John in 1909, offering advice on how to weather adversity and appreciate life's joys and triumphs both big and small, accompanied by watercolor illustrations.
6) Burns: poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems and songs by eighteenth-century Scottish writer Robert Burns.
Publisher
Megan Tingley Books
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
143 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a new collection of poems, from both classic and contemporary poets, which are especially suited for learning by heart and reciting aloud.
"From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for learning by heart and saying aloud. With personal introductions by former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman -- as well as her own time-tested tips and tools...
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
191 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Publication Date
2001
Physical Desc
xviii, 494 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with basic terminology and techniques, Mayes shows how focusing on one aspect of a poem can help you to better understand, appreciate, and enjoy the reading and writing experience.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry...
15) Feel free: poems
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
iii, 77 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. An invigorating and heartbreaking new volume from "an assured and brilliant voice" (Colm Tóibín) in contemporary poetry. Feel Free, the fourth collection from acclaimed poet Nick Laird, effortlessly spans the Atlantic, combining the acoustic expansiveness of Whitman or Ashbery with the lyricism of Laird's forebears Heaney, MacNeice, and Yeats. With characteristic variety, invention, and wit (here are...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
x, 83 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of Strange Beach demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseun's speakers-usually, but not specified, as two men-move between watery landscapes, snowy terrains, and domestic conflicts. Each poem proceeds by way of music and melody, allowing themes of masculinity, sex, parental relations, death, and love to conspire within a voice that prioritizes intimate address"--...
17) What we can know
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Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
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"2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an...