The Illustrated Emerson - Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation's first recognized public intellectuals, he championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined on everything from the evils of slav ...Show more
An Open Book by David Malouf
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 1 Poetry
This is only David Malouf's third new poetry volume in nearly 40 years, so it is a significant publishing event. As one of Australia's greatest living poets, Malouf continues to meditate and reflect on themes of mortality and memory. The poems in An Open Bookare attentive and evocative, vital and beauti ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
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Category: Poetry
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects ...Show more
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good-very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Non-Essential Work by Omar Sakr
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Category: Poetry
A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost ArabsIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary experience. Asking questions of timeliness and tim ...Show more
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haiku.HERE DOWN ON DARK EARTHbefore we all go to HeavenVISIONS OF AMERICAAll that hitchhikinAll that railroadinAll th ...Show more
Bloom by Beau Taplin
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Category: Poetry
This is your renewal. This is your regrowth ... You may come into this softly or bristling with thorns, beneath the light of the sun or the moon and the stars, so long as you always remember it is never too late to return to the root of your heart and begin again.Broken hearts, false starts, new beginni ...Show more
Aboriginal Country by Lisa Bellear; Jen Jewel Brown (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Much of Lisa Bellear's poetry is politics made eloquent. In Aboriginal Country many poems seem to spark with frustrated energy over Australia's political crossed circuits regarding a treaty with our First Nations peoples - as promised by Prime Minister Hawke in 1988. Reading the title poem for the first ...Show more
Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart by Courtney Peppernell
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pillow Thoughts Ser.
Courtney Peppernell understands that healing is a process, and Pillow Thoughts II eloquently captures the time and experience that one goes through on their journey to peace through restoration.A collection of inspirational and comforting poems for anyone who is mending from a broken heart.
Pocket Book of Romantic Poetry: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Various Authors
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Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.
This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romanti ...Show more
Injury Time (Rest is Silence) by Clive James
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Category: Poetry
The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental human emotions. Injury Time finds James in a ...Show more