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The Aeneid
Par Virgil. 1992
Roman epic based on the legend of Aeneas, the Trojan prince whose descendants were supposed to have founded Rome. Traces…
the ancestry of Julius Caesar to the gods, and makes the greatness of Rome the subject of divine intervention and prophecyPhenomenal woman: four poems celebrating women
Par Maya Angelou. 1994
The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RC 24959) and the poem read at President Clinton's inauguration,…
On the Pulse of the Morning (RC 36169, BR 9188), presents four poems that celebrate women. The collection includes "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers." BestsellerStudy for the world's body: new and selected poems
Par David John. 1994
The title poem, written as a coda to the entire collection, is a duet between "The Body of Desire" and…
"Of Time and the Body," one evocative and the other elegiac. In "Study," selected poems are gathered from "Hush" (1976), "The Shore" (1980), "No Heaven" (1985), and "Terraces of Rain: An Italian Sketchbook" (1991). In "Merlin," new poems that appeared first in 1991, St. John pays homage to some of his idolsBreaking free: an anthology of human rights poetry
Par Robert Hull. 1995
Most of these poems about the search for human dignity and equality were, or still are, banned in the country…
in which they were written. In one, people appreciate the right to sort peas and to cup water in their hands. In another, a man's son has been missing since May of the previous year although "they took him just for a few hours." For junior and senior high and older readersEarthly measures: poems
Par Edward Hirsch. 1994
Poems that relate to the natural face of the earth in places as far apart as factory towns in Ohio…
("In the Midwest") and sacred monuments in Italy ("Roman Fall"). Hirsch also muses on ancient Greek gods in a contemporary setting ("Orpheus: The Descent") and a single female tourist adjusting to the strangeness of a tropical island ("Traveler")The simple truth: poems
Par Philip Levine. 1994
In the title poem Levine suggests "some things you know all your life." But little is "simple" in this collection…
of poetry about the past. These mainly narrative poems mix real-life images like "small red potatoes ... boiled ... in their jackets" with life as lived inside the mind, as in "I remember the room ... how close the moon, how utterly silent the piano."This anthology presents African American poets whose works are "ethnically unidentifiable" as well as those whose poems are "identifiably black."…
A profile introduces each poet. Some poets are represented by a single poem, others by a generous sampling. All the poets were born between between 1913 and 1962, and all have published at least one bookRegard d'Annie Dillard (Contre jour)
Par Thomas Mainguy, Guillaume Asselin, Jean-François Bourgeault, Gabrielle Chevarier, Sara Danièle Bélanger Michaud. 2023
Dans Une enfance américaine, Annie Dillard se remémore sa jeunesse et discerne les étapes de construction de sa vie intérieure.…
Elle raconte avoir dessiné à répétition, durant un été, son gant de baseball. Cet exercice rappelle l'une des forces de son imaginaire, à savoir l'action du regard. Dessiner un objet, c'est se conduire à l'oubli de soi. Le présent ouvrage tente ainsi de cerner les vertiges que l'écrivaine explore depuis les années 1970Always a reckoning, and other poems
Par Jimmy Carter. 1995
Poems about people, places, politics, and private lives by the thirty-ninth president of the United States. In "Rachel," Carter reflects…
on his tender feelings toward a neighbor when he was a child. In "My First Try for Votes," a constituent humbles and amuses the candidate in one bold stroke. And in the title poem, an autobiographical narrative, he speaks of learning the need in "all things ... to balance out."The October palace: poems
Par Jane Hirshfield. 1994
This collection reveals the poet's commitment to Buddhist meditation and her serious reflection on nature. Often the two are joined,…
as in "Perceptability Is a Kind of Attentiveness," in which Hirshfield likens the inner being to an apple tree in which "we can see with our own, the black roots twisting down from the heart."And the green grass grew all around: folk poetry from everyone
Par Alvin Schwartz. 1992
A delightful collection of nearly three hundred folk poems--poetry that is usually unwritten and is made up by ordinary people…
to meet everyday needs. Included are street rhymes, nursery rhymes, parodies, autograph rhymes, nonsense verse, and riddles arranged under fifteen topics, such as "Food," "Teases and Taunts," "Fun and Games," and "Animals and Insects." All agesOn the pulse of morning
Par Maya Angelou. 1993
The inaugural poem created and read by noted African-American poet Maya Angelou for President William Jefferson Clinton on January 20,…
1993. She speaks of a rock, a river, and a tree as symbols of a land once inhabited by now-extinct species. The messages that these symbols deliver through the ages is that each dawn brings new hope, especially the morning whose pulse can be felt on "this fine day." BestsellerThe Iliad
Par Homer. 1951
Richmond Lattimore's introduction and translation of the Greek poem written during the eighth century B.C. and attributed to the Ionian…
poet, Homer. Drawn from the legends of the final days of the Trojan War, the poem relates Achilleus's wrath against Agamemnon. Although Achilleus withdraws from the fight only temporarily, the campaign falters and the results are disastrousIn memoriam, Maud and other poems
Par Alfred Tennyson. 1974
"In Memoriam" is a series of poems inspired by the changing moods of the author's regret for his dead friend.…
It describes the gradual transformation of this sorrow into a wider love of God and humanity. "Maud" is a monodrama in which the narrator, a man of morbid temperament, describes significant events in his life. Also includes some of Tennyson's best-known works, such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade."Collected verse of Edgar A. Guest
Par Edgar Guest. 1934
The color of Mesabi bones: poems and prose
Par John Caddy. 1989
John Caddy is a third-generation native of the Mesabi Range, a string of iron-ore mining towns in Minnesota. Sections of…
this book of poems and prose are entitled "Something for Everyone," "The Marriage of Salamanders," "The Color of Mesabi Bones," "Finding the Snake," "Changeling," "Bracken Time," and "Gyrfalcon." Caddy articulates his bittersweet feelings for the people and the harsh reality of the placeI shall not be moved
Par Maya Angelou. 1990
And so this is christmas: 51 seasonally adjusted poems
Par Brian Bilston. 2023
It's that time of year again . . . With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This…
is Christmas , fifty-one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to the office Christmas party; from voting day for turkeys to the impossible art of gift-giving. So hang your stockings, grab your mistletoe and curl up with this heart-warming collection of Christmas crackersL' Horizon par hasard
Par Anne Parent. 2023
Depuis l’enfance, une femme avance, se perd, se métamorphose jusqu’à la disparition, ses pieds dans le sable, ses cheveux au…
soleil, ses mains ouvertes, son corps fatigué. L’intimité de sa chambre abandonnée explose de mystère et révèle à voix basse l’histoire de ses joies et de ses douleurs. En un réseau serré d’échos poétiques, Anne Martine Parent intrique silhouettes et fantômes, constellations, forêts, villes de sable et plages en ruines. Les peaux raccommodées de feuilles mortes, les corps féminins trahis et disloqués, qui se défont et se recomposent, deviennent autant de lieux de réparation, d’horizons fulgurants qu’on échafaude en retenant son souffle.New and collected poems
Par Richard Wilbur. 1988
Includes the poet's six earlier volumes in their entirety, along with twenty-seven new poems and a cantata written in collaboration…
with the composer William Schuman. This latter poem celebrates the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. The poet's work is characterized by nature themes and a rich imagination