Favorite Poems Old and New
Favorite Poems Old and New

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Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Published: 1957-09-01

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0385076967

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"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book

Old and New Poems
Old and New Poems

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780899199542

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Gathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Poems Old and New
Poems Old and New

Author: Pona Mahanta

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-02

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780333937341

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This is a comprehensive anthology that brings into its fold the works of 38 prominent poets of British, American and Indian origin. It thus breaks geographical divides and helps put into perspective, the development of poetry in English as a whole.

Undersong
Undersong

Author: Audre Lorde

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780393309751

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Features poems that affirm the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the poet in words conveying vision and courage

Chosen Poems, Old and New
Chosen Poems, Old and New

Author: Audre Lorde

Publisher: New York : Norton

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 9780393300178

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Here are the words of some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to be, writes Audre Lorde of this volume, in which she brings together many of the most important poems she has written over the past thirty years."

New Addresses
New Addresses

Author: Kenneth Koch

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 030755855X

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Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at Fire Island. Koch, in this new book, talks to things important in his life -- to Breath, to World War Two, to Orgasms, to the French Language, to Jewishness, to Psychoanalysis, to Sleep, to his Heart, to Friendship, to High Spirits, to his Twenties, to the Unknown. He makes of all these "new addresses" an exhilarating autobiography of a most surprising and unforeseeable kind.

You Are Here
You Are Here

Author: Leon Stokesbury

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1682260070

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Winnowed from a distinguished career, then distilled, then polished and winnowed again, the poems in You Are Here are Leon Stokesbury’s best from fifty years of published work. The selections from his earlier volumes are as fully realized as one would expect from the winner of the AWP Poetry Competition and the Poets’ Prize. But it is in Stokesbury’s new work, collected under the heading “These Days,” that he reveals something completely different. From a carnival sideshow to Hitchcock’s Mount Rushmore, from John Keats’s backyard to the miseries of a failed crematorium operator, every turned page divulges a particular we didn’t see coming. You Are Here is like a sideshow of this modern world, even when we discover, amazed, our selves looking back at us. “Why do we still only stand here?” Stokesbury asks in one of his earliest salvos. The poems in this collection give such varied answers that readers will have no idea what the next page holds, only that they will find themselves somewhere new.

Where Shall I Wander
Where Shall I Wander

Author: John Ashbery

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2005-03-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0060765291

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You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate we were called together and where we had been there was nothing there, nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely, leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering, in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there. -- from "The New Higher"

Poems to Learn by Heart
Poems to Learn by Heart

Author: Caroline Kennedy

Publisher: Hyperion

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423108054

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For this companion to her New York Times best-selling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than a hundred of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization. Some are joyful. Some are sad. Some are funny and lighthearted. Many offer layers of meaning that reveal themselves only after the poem has been studied so closely as to be learned by heart. In issuing the challenge to memorize great poetry, Caroline Kennedy invites us to a deeply enriching experience. For as she reminds us, “If we learn poems by heart, not only do we have their wisdom to draw on, we also gain confidence, knowledge and understanding that no one can take away.” Illustrated with gorgeous, original watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Jon J Muth , this is truly a book for all ages, and one that families will share again and again. Caroline’s thoughtful introductions shed light on the many ways we can appreciate poetry, and the special tradition of memorizing and reciting poetry that she celebrates within her own family.

Poems and Prose from the Old English
Poems and Prose from the Old English

Author: Charles Osborne

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0300069944

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In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel's out-of-print classic, Poems from the Old English, Raffel and co-editor Alexandra H. Olsen place the oldest English writings in a different perspective. Keeping the classroom teacher's needs foremost in mind, Raffel and Olsen organize the major old English poems (except Beowulf) and new prose selections so as to facilitate both reading and studying. A general introduction provides an up-to-date and detailed historical account of the Anglo-Saxon period, and concise introductions open the literature sections of the book and many of the translations.