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Brings together ninety-seven poems by the respected twentieth-century writer as culled from her published collections of poetry as well as twenty-three works from her unpublished manuscripts. Reprint.

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For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. Here is the first anthology of love poems written only by women. Poets from all ages and all parts of the world, expressing love not only for their male and female lovers, but for parents, children, friends, for art, God, nature, and homeland, are collected here, and include the works of: Sappho, Emily Dickenson, Ono no Komachi, Shadab Vajdi, Alice Walker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and many more.

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"Silverstein's book . . . deserves to be placed along-side Mother Goose. Popular with adults and youngsters alike, the poetry encompasses satires, limericks, ballads, questions, tall stories, ridiculous situations, and a deft way with language."--"Language Arts." An ALA Notable Children's Book; "School Library Journal" Best Books of 1981. Full-color illustrations.

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Hand-selected by a Tony Award-winning actor, a volume of family-appropriate classic works of poetry is accompanied by a CD recording of poetry readings by Lithgow as well as such actors as Morgan Freeman, Glenn Close, and Gary Sinise.

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This is a unique collection of hundreds of jisei (death poems) composed by Japanese zen monks and haiku poets on the verge of death. Background information adds depth and understanding to this moving look at enlightening deaths. Yoel Hoffman lives in Tel Aviv.

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This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes published during his lifetime, and nearly 300 that have never before appeared in book form.

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Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold. So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Hoarse, eat in the Strange Restaurant, and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind.

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If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer,
A wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er,
A magic bean buyer . . .

Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.

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Cavafy's poetry and the stories he tells brilliantly explore, with striking universality, longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, and all with a profound, human sympathy, whether advising Odysseus as he sets out for Ithaca, or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the night of his death.

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Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in SEX AT NOON TAXES mix straightforward narrative, midwestern vernacular, and linguistic ambivalence, embedded in which is a struggle between the mind and the body...A preoccupation with the visual, artists, and artwork seeps through many of these imagistic minitexts. These poems look for release in descriptions of physical acts and in intricate manipulations of language. Sometimes they find it...Gender identification blurs as the poems probe theories of articulation and investigate the geographies of language and love. Through wordplay and word work, these poems travel a tightly crafted sphere of emotions and ideas.

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Including 12 New Poems!

If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer,
A wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er,
A magic bean buyer . . .

Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.

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This collection of poems from one of the 20th century's most distinguished American authors was completed only weeks before his death in January 2009, and is being released just in time for National Poetry Month in April.

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When a group of fifth grade students asked fifty celebrities what their favorite poem was and why, the answers they received became a beautiful collection of some of history's most beloved poetry, which continues to resonate from one generation to the next.

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Twenty easy-to-read poems for beginning readers offers a fun perspective on exciting school events, such as spelling bees, preparing for the school play, or taking turns to tend to the classroom pet.

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