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83) Heartland
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Evokes the land, animals, and people of the Middle West in poetic text and illustrations.
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A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readersNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T.S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer...
85) Surprises
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A collection of short poems by Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marchette Chute, Myra Cohn Livingston, Aileen Fisher, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and others.
Publisher
Walker [distributor]
Pub. Date
2009
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A collection of lively rhymes and tricky tongue twisters, poems for more than one voice, bilingual poems -- from classic Shakespeare and Lear to anonymous rhymes to contemporary riffs on everything under the sun. These poems just might inspire kids to memorize them!
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
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The author is the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States from 2008-2010. Here are her own selections of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of new poems.
Kay Ryan's recently concluded two-year term as the Library of Congress' sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible,...
95) American poetry
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1965]
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Nearly 700 poems by fifty poets, from colonial times to the present.
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This new Jeffers "Selected Poetry" includes poems from the last quarter century of his life (the previous "Selected Poetry" included poems only through 1937). It derives from the monumental five-volume "The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" (Stanford, 1988-2000), edited by Tim Hunt, and includes a sampling of the poems Jeffers left unpublished, along with several prose pieces in which he reflects on his poetry and poetics.