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Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet-upon his death, President Lyndon Johnson said "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as...
2) The prophet
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Read Gibran's masterpiece in print! Set in the mythic city of Orphalese, The Prophet is a poetic treatise on all facets of life, from the daily realities of clothes and houses, to questions of love, beauty, and self-knowledge. Featuring 12 original illustrations by the author, Gibran's lyric exploration of the human condition is as relevant today as it was nearly a century ago.
Author
Publisher
Dover Pub., Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Shakespeare's "When, in Disgrace with Fortune
Author
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The moral landscape to which David Citino refers is informed by the experience of war. These poems deal iwht the loss of Walt McDonald's father in WWII as well as with his own experiences in Vietnam. They tell of living with the memories of war, of celbrating and coping with the fact of survival, in the context of love of one's family in a place at aonce harsh and beautiful.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
In his poetry, Robert Frost made plainspoken men and women eloquent philosophers on the human condition. Robert Frost: Selected Poems is a unique collection of more than 100 poems by this well-known twentieth-century American poet. It includes the full contents of his first three volumes of poetry-A Boys Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval-and such beloved poems as "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "The Death of the Hired Man." This...
10) Illuminations
Author
Series
New American translation volume 1
Publisher
distributed by the Book Bus
Pub. Date
c1957
Language
English
Description
This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of "Illuminations" are collected together here in this edition. Of...
12) The poems
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A complete standard edition of the Nobel laureate's verse, including poems from the plays and essays.
14) Felicity
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems explores the mysterious landscape of the human heart, describing the meaning and wonder of loving another person.
18) I didn't do it
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Excited puppies relate such new discoveries as the mailman comes every day and food tastes better eaten off a human's plate.