The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse by Geoffrey Bownas, Anthony Thwaite and Geoffrey Bownas
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Category: Poetry & Drama
Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clich s of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic c ...Show more
Leaves of Grass (Word Cloud Classics) by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Word Cloud Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
"Leaves of Grass" is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent ...Show more
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kerouac's first and most important poem, Mexico City Blues, incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format of the blues to create an original and moving epic. This editi ...Show more
Blue Horses by Mary Oliver
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Reading Level: very good
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us. In this stunning collection, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work. Herons, sparrows, owls and kingfishers flit across the page in medita ...Show more
Romantic Poets (Word Cloud Classics) by John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; George Gordon Byron; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Blake
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets. Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement's six most famous poets--William Wordsworth, Geor ...Show more
Writing Wild - Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
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Category: Poetry & Drama
"An exciting, expert, and invaluable group portrait of seminal women writers enriching a genre crucial to our future." --Booklist In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural wor ...Show more
ART by Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
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Category: Poetry & Drama
ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two authors began on paper in False Claims of Colonial Thieves (2018). While ART is a collaborative work, each poet’s contribu ...Show more