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Follow the tale of the soul's transformation in St. John of the Cross's celebrated poem, The Living Flame of Love. The spiritual journey described reveals something about the relationship of happiness to goodness; the necessity of detachment from self; the proper order and meaning of love for neighbor in a framework presuming a committed overarching love of God; and the intimate link between the transformation of the self in goodness and the transformation...
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Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the...
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reading List - 2023
Best of 2023: Adults
Best of 2023: Adults
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"Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. They explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating...
4) John Keats
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Douglas Dodge modulates his voice beautifully to capture the slightly varied emotions of many poems. This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'On a Grecian Urn,' along with many lesser-known short poems such as 'To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat' that exhibit the poet's more fanciful side. Library Journal
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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer confesaba al escribir la «Introducción» de Rimas y leyendas, tan solo dos años antes de morir, que no quería llevarse consigo,
«el tesoro de oropeles y guiñapos que ha ido acumulando la fantasía en los desvanes del cerebro».
De modo que Rimas y leyendas reúne poesías y prosas simplemente porque todas ellas son criaturas de la misma imaginación que anhela liberarse para «dormir en paz».
La influencia en el imaginario...
7) Good poems
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Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written...
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"The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that...
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2024 FPPL National Poetry Month
Adult - National Poetry Month
HPL 2024 National Poetry Month
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Adult - National Poetry Month
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In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood's fiction--including...
10) Milk and honey
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[This book] is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. [This book] takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to...
11) The tradition
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"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive....
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August 16th is Tell a Joke Day
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Poetry Month - Kids (April 2024)
Poetry Month for Kids
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
Poetry Month - Kids (April 2024)
Poetry Month for Kids
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"More than 100 funny new poems from Jack Prelutsky, the nation's first children's poet laureate, in a wide array of poetic forms, from haiku to concrete poems and everything in between, and hilariously illustrated in black-and-white on every page"--
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OBD National Poetry Month - ADULT (April)
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National Poetry Month 2024
OBD National Poetry Month - ADULT (April)
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The seven-time NAACP Image Award-winning poet unapologetically celebrates her heritage in a deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society and the depths of her own heart.
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Author Marilyn Singer celebrates the joy of movement and the community of dance with a spirited collection of poems. When read aloud, the rhythm of each dance is reflected in the meter of the poem. The CD features Singer reading the poems set to music for each dance.
17) Hey Black child
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"A lyrical, empowering poem that celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young ones to dream big and achieve their goals"--
19) Robert Frost
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"Kids will discover the poetry of Robert Frost in this installment in the Poetry for Kids series. Professor, poet, novelist, and Frost biographer Jay Parini has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families, including "Mending Wall," "Birches," "The Road Not Taken," "Fire and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and many more of Frost's favorite and most accessible works"--
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
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