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A collection of twenty-six poems by nineteenth-century American poet Edgar Allen Poe.

This book unfolds a man. Its two hundred poems reveal, in root, bud and flower, a way of knowing how to be alive. In "Open House" Theodore Roethke seeks his essential self, his authentic voice. Next, in "The Lost Son and Other Poems", he creates a place for the naked being to inhabit, a world of plans that struggle for life, of human excitement at natural events, of identity emerging from bereavement. "Praise to the End!" is marked by an extraordinary...

"Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting the power and grace that have become the hallmarks of Oliver's work. The volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning,...

A humorous collection of poetry told from the point of view of both boys and girls who share their emotions about first loves, crushes, and broken hearts.

An autobiographical sequence of poems captures the richness and the pain, the rebellion and the tragedy of growing up in the South, chronicling the lives of two brothers living in a military family

Presents more than two hundred poems written by African-American, Black Arts Movement writer Nikki Giovanni between 1968 and 1998.

A collection of romantic-themed poetry from African-American poet Nikki Giovanni, and features the title selection along with "I am Jazz," "Your Shower," "Gray Clouds Hover," "Friends and Lovers," and others.

A collection of humorous poems for young readers about life beyond the solar system.

"The book now contains selections from the work of forty writers-- the sketches of the poets included have been made critical as well as biographical, and a list of references for supplementary reading has been added."--Preface to revised edition.