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The Best American Poetry 2004by David LehmanISBN 074325757X (0-7432-5757-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Poetry 2004'Book summary:The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. In her provocative introduction, guest editor Lyn Hejinian, herself among the most acclaimed and innovative contemporary writers, expresses the need for this anthology. "Meaning in poetry," she writes, "is created by the linking together of poems to form the large, ancient, and ever new human undertaking of thinking together about the things that matter to us." Through her selections, Hejinian has created an essential nexus -- a meeting place for readers to encounter and commune with an extraordinary range of poets. She has brought together renowned figures such as John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Billy Collins as well as many new and unheralded voices from whom we're going to be hearing a lot more in the future.
With illuminating comments from the poets on their work, and series editor David Lehman's insightful foreword evaluating the current state of the art, "The Best American Poetry 2004" is an indispensable addition to a series that has established itself as the first word on what's new and noteworthy in the poetry of our times.
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The Best of Betjemanby John Betjeman, John GuestISBN 0719535557 (0-7195-3555-7)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997by Harold BloomISBN 0684847795 (0-684-84779-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997'Book summary:Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. But who is to undertake the formidable task of reading all 750 poems anthologized in The Best American Poetry and picking the 75 "best of the best"? The seventy-five poems Bloom has chosen go a long way toward defining a contemporary canon of American poetry. Included are unforgettable poems from A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur, among many others. Diverse in form, style, method, and metaphor, the poems are united in their power to move and enlighten readers. Also included are comments from the poets themselves about their work and fascinating excerpts from the introductory essays of the ten previous editors. The Best of the Best American Poetry reflects not only the taste of the current editor, but the predilections of the all-star list of poets who have contributed their time and intellect to make this series what it is today. [via]
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Bilbo's Last Song: (at the Grey Havens)by J. R. R. Tolkien, Pauline BaynesISBN 0679827102 (0-679-82710-2)
Softcover, Dragonfly Books
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Bilbo's Last Song: (at the Grey Havens)by Pauline Baynes, J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395538106 (0-395-53810-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Blackbird Singing: Poems And Lyrics 1965-1999by Paul McCartney, Adrian MitchellISBN 0756773660 (0-7567-7366-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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A Boy's Will and North of Bostonby Robert FrostISBN 0486268667 (0-486-26866-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Boy's Will and North of Boston'Book summary:Two volumes of early poetry: A Boy's Will was Frost's first collection of poems (1913). North of Boston followed in 1914. Together they contain many of the poet's finest and best-known works, among them "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "The Death of the Hired Man," and more. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of A Boy's Will and North of Boston:
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Cliffscomplete Romeo and Julietby Sidney Lamb, Karin JacobsonISBN 0764585746 (0-7645-8574-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Collected Longer Poemsby W. H. AudenISBN 0394720148 (0-394-72014-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Collected Poems 1908-1956by Siegfried SassoonISBN 0571132626 (0-571-13262-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems 1908-1956'Book summary:Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his own choice of the poems he wished to preserve. It was first published in 1947 and subsequently enlarged to include the late poems in Sequences.[via]More editions of Collected Poems 1908-1956:
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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Early Poemsby Ezra PoundISBN 0486287459 (0-486-28745-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517643588 (0-517-64358-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Edward Gorey - The Gashlycrumb Tinies: 1998 Deluxe Engagement BookISBN 076490096X (0-7649-0096-X)
Hardcover, Pomegranate
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Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Presentby David LehmanISBN 0743243501 (0-7432-4350-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Love Poems of Rumiby Deepak Chopra, Fereydoun Kia, Jalal Al-Din RumiISBN 0609602438 (0-609-60243-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Poems of Rumi'Book summary:Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.This slender, beautiful volume consists of new translations by Farsi scholar Fereydoun Kia, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood and music of Rumi's love poems. Exalted yearning, ravishing ecstasy, and consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on their creation more than 700 years ago. [via]
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My Houseby Nikki GiovanniISBN 0688050212 (0-688-05021-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My House'Book summary:Enter the world of Nikki Giovanni. Writing of mothers and their children, of childhood memories, of black leaders and black Africa, the poems in My House marked a new dimension in tone and philosophy for Nikki Giovanni when they first appeared at the beginning of her extraordinary career. Emotional and autobiographical, Nikki Giovanni personalizes the political--like no one else--and brings her house in all its complexity and glory to our own backyards. At once tough-minded and playful and with such famous classics as "My House" and "Winter Poem," this reissue of Nikki Giovanni's 1972 collection will once again intoxicate those who have always loved her poems--and those who are just getting to know her work.
As a witness to three generations, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and poetically recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self. When her poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately became a celebrated and controversial poet of the era. Written in one of the most commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century, Nikki Giovanni's poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which she is beloved and revered.
Nikki Giovanni is one of the most influential black writers writing today. This, her second book of poetry, marked a new dimension in tone and philosophy-personal and autobiographical rather than political; it is also lively, loving, witty, and occasionally tough-minded. Divided into two sections, the poems center around "her" house-the rooms inside as well as outside. She writes of mothers and their children, of childhood memories, of black leaders and black Africa. This is an important book by a black woman written in and of the '70s."Nikki Giovanni has . . . become one of the most potent voices of our time. Her message is universal and the rhythm and language of her poetry can be compared favorably with that of the finest poets of the past. She is a beautiful and complete human being with a genius for describing the human condition." Minneapolis Tribune
"Talent is light, but mature talent is a beacon and Nikki Giovanni has, by her own words, joined that small band of talented people who try to show us all the way to go home." Los Angeles Times [via]
My House Nikki Giovanniby Giovanni NikkiISBN 0613072049 (0-613-07204-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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New Selected Poems, 1957-1994by Ted HughesISBN 0571173780 (0-571-17378-0)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Poe Short Storiesby Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur RackhamISBN 0706426517 (0-7064-2651-7)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poe Short Stories'Book summary:Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. [via]
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Poemsby Anne MichaelsISBN 0747547181 (0-7475-4718-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Poems and Propheciesby William BlakeISBN 0460007920 (0-460-00792-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Introduction by Kathleen Raine [via]
The Poems Of Marianne Mooreby Marianne Moore, Grace SchulmanISBN 0670031984 (0-670-03198-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Poetry and Prose of Alexander Popeby Alexander PopeISBN 0395051568 (0-395-05156-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Poetry Proseby John KeatsISBN 0394602730 (0-394-60273-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Ravenby Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave DoreISBN 0486290727 (0-486-29072-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Raven and Other Favorite Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486266850 (0-486-26685-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Youngby Jack Prelutsky, Marc Tolon BrownISBN 0394872185 (0-394-87218-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Youngby Marc Brown, Jack Prelutsky, Jim TreleaseISBN 039497218X (0-394-97218-X)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young'Book summary:Poems about picnics, pretending, and puppies make this book the book to introduce little ones to poetry about the world around them. Jack Prelutsky, one of today's most respected children's poets, has selected more than 200 short poems--old favorites, traditional rhymes, and humorous verses--that will delight young listeners. The poems cover a wide range of experiences in a young child's life, from everyday events to special days to the world of the imagination.
Marc Brown, author and illustrator of the popular Arthur series, uses colored-pencil illustrations and borders to unify the poems, helping to create a pleasing, lively collection to carry children from their preschool years into the early elementary grades. As Jim Trelease tells us in his introduction to the book, "Unlike the toys we buy our children, poems cannot break." (Ages 2 to 7) [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0486275574 (0-486-27557-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521532531 (0-521-53253-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo And Juliet: ISBN 0521618703 (0-521-61870-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521667690 (0-521-66769-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0553213059 (0-553-21305-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0582527295 (0-582-52729-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0743477111 (0-7434-7711-1)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0743482808 (0-7434-8280-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0748702555 (0-7487-0255-5)
Softcover, Nelson Thornes - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0764120859 (0-7641-2085-9)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0789160870 (0-7891-6087-0)
Softcover, Perfection Learning - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0416178502 (0-416-17850-2)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521825466 (0-521-82546-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0613527232 (0-613-52723-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Romeo And Juliet: ISBN 0735820902 (0-7358-2090-2)
Hardcover, North South Books - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0413619109 (0-413-61910-9)
Softcover, Heinemann - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0415027535 (0-415-02753-5)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 041617860X (0-416-17860-X)
Softcover, Methuen - Romeo And Juliet: ISBN 0451516354 (0-451-51635-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0451521366 (0-451-52136-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0460871773 (0-460-87177-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521094976 (0-521-09497-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521294053 (0-521-29405-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521395747 (0-521-39574-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521634970 (0-521-63497-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0582088364 (0-582-08836-4)
Softcover, Copp Clark Professional - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0590418645 (0-590-41864-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0517050579 (0-517-05057-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521222230 (0-521-22223-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521661153 (0-521-66115-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 067964220X (0-679-64220-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0780770382 (0-7807-7038-2)
Hardcover, Perfection Learning Corporation - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0486275574 (0-486-27557-4)
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- Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0521532531 (0-521-53253-1)
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Romeo and Julietby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, William ShakespeareISBN 0671042882 (0-671-04288-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Romeo and Julietby Billy AronsonISBN 0785713557 (0-7857-1355-7)
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Romeo And Juliet: Internet Referencedby William Shakespeare, Jana Costa, Anna ClaybourneISBN 0794512402 (0-7945-1240-2)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo And Juliet: Internet Referenced'Book summary:Product Details Reading level: Ages 7 and up Hardcover: 64 pages Publisher: Usborne Pub Ltd; New edition (June 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0794512402 ISBN-13: 978-0794512408 Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces [via]
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Romeo and Juliet : The Contemporary Film, the Classic Playby William ShakespeareISBN 0440227127 (0-440-22712-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet : The Contemporary Film, the Classic Play'Book summary:Award-winning director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) has updated Shakespeare's classic tragedy of young love and teen suicide in a unique new film, in which the warring Capulets and Montagues are gangsters who carry guns instead of swords. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries) and Claire Danes (My So-Called Life, Little Women) as the doomed lovers, the film is set in a modern city. The actors speak Shakespeare's words--but with their own American accents.
Readers can now experience this new vision of Shakespeare's violent, tragic play alongside the Bard
s original text, in a special single volume that features an introduction by the film's director. [via]More editions of Romeo and Juliet : The Contemporary Film, the Classic Play:
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Romeo Y Julieta Julio Cesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0606161031 (0-606-16103-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Selected Poemsby Galway KinnellISBN 0395320461 (0-395-32046-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Read A New Selected Poems to catch Galway Kinnell's myriad fine-tunings of poems decades old; read it for the pleasure of watching his early formalism blossom into long, joyous, almost Whitmanesque lines; but most of all, read it for the eagle's-eye view it provides of one of our finest American poets. Well into his 70s, Kinnell is still producing poetry as visceral as it is philosophical, forging the universal from the fleshy, messy specifics of life. "Lieutenant! / This corpse will not stop burning!" comes the cry in "The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible," a remarkable war poem that literally embodies his political anger. Throughout A New Selected Poems, which Kinnell has culled from eight previous collections spanning 24 years, that corpse burns fiercely, fiercely, as if to heed the poet's own warning from "Another Night in the Ruins":
How many nights must it take
Kinnell is a poet who feels life most keenly as it slips through his fingers. Nothing lasts, but this is less cause for lament than for celebration; after all, he tells us, "the wages / of dying is love." Before we break out the booze and have ourselves a ball, however, there are the poems from his brutal Book of Nightmares to consider, with their apocalyptic howling; his Vermont poems, with their "silent, startled, icy, black language / of blackberry eating in late September"; the noise and clatter of his early New York poems, "Where instants of transcendence / Drift in oceans of loathing and fear..." Kinnell is a poet with a leg in each world, one up above where the bears and porcupines live, and one down below, in what we might call the imaginative underworld. Witness the stunning progression of "When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone," in which he is both Orpheus and a misanthropic Eurydice, singing himself back to the company of the human. How glad we are that Kinnell failed to look back! In the tender "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight," the poet advises his infant daughter, "Kiss / the mouth / that tells you, here, / here is the world." After reading these poems, you might feel like doing the same. --Mary Park [via]
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work
is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?
The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanniby Nikki GiovanniISBN 0688140475 (0-688-14047-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry, with Essays on Reading and Writingby Kenneth Koch, Kate FarrellISBN 0394743644 (0-394-74364-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Something Big Has Been Hereby Jack Prelutsky, James StevensonISBN 0688064345 (0-688-06434-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Something Big Has Been Hereby PrelutskiISBN 0590455095 (0-590-45509-5)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Big Has Been Here'Book summary:In this delightful companion to Jack Prelutsky's The New Kid on the Block, an early worm frightens the early bird, four vain and ancient tortoises race to see who can get to the finish line last, and outrageous imaginary characters such as the "Know-Nothing Neebies" ("We're perfectly pompous, / indelibly dense, / we haven't a trace / of a semblance of sense") pop up as magically as any creature from The Phantom Tollbooth or The Wizard of Oz ever did.
In "Captain Conniption," young readers will giggle to meet the self-professed "scourge of the sea." "I'm Captain Conniption, / and up to no good, / you'll soon walk the plank / if I think that you should, / I'd show you right now / how I vanquish a foe, / but I hear my mother, / so I have to go." Other subjects near and dear to children's hearts make fabulous fodder for fun, including sibling rivalry, bad table manners, meatloaf, and bats. Illustrator James Stevenson's lively line drawings capture Prelutsky's goofy poetic antics perfectly, making this collection another essential addition to any child's library. (Ages 4 to 12) [via]
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Stanyan Street and Other Sorrowsby Rod McKuenISBN 0394404505 (0-394-40450-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Stevensby Wallace Stevens, Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0679429115 (0-679-42911-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stevens'Book summary:These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler, of over sixty of Stevens's poems, revealing with renewed force his status as our supreme acrobat of the imagination. [via]
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Graham ClarkeISBN 0460873423 (0-460-87342-3)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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- Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0582528917 (0-582-52891-7)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0794501869 (0-7945-0186-9)
Softcover, Usborne Pub Ltd - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0517118173 (0-517-11817-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0517606089 (0-517-60608-9)
Hardcover, Avenel Books - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0517643030 (0-517-64303-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: ISBN 0460873423 (0-460-87342-3)
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, J.A. BryantISBN 0451526864 (0-451-52686-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:classic romantic romeo and juliet [via]
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Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin - The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0451524381 (0-451-52438-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0671722859 (0-671-72285-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 0451526864 (0-451-52686-4)
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The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0762401788 (0-7624-0178-8)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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Weight of Oranges & Miner's Pondby Anne MichaelsISBN 0771058780 (0-7710-5878-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poemsby Marge PiercyISBN 0679765948 (0-679-76594-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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What My Mother Doesn't Knowby Sonya SonesISBN 0689855532 (0-689-85553-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What My Mother Doesn't Know'Book summary:Meet Sophie. She sees herself as the too-tall "Mount Everest of teenage girls," who, along with her friends, often suffers from "lackonookie disease." She's dating smoky, sexy Dylan, covertly chatting online with "cybersoul"-mate Chaz, and secretly nursing a crush on sweet, geeky Murphy. Her two best friends are closer to her than sisters, and she "hates hating" her soap opera-addicted mom, wishing "she would show half as much interest in my life as she does in Luke and Laura's." In other words, Sophie is a typical teenage girl. What is not so typical is how author Sonia Sones records all of Sophie's thoughts in a freewheeling verse that is such a naked outpouring of inner longing, most readers will blush in embarrassed recognition of their own remembered or current teenage desires. Sones gently leads both the reader and Sophie towards an understanding of the difference between love and lust as Sophie slowly comes to realize that Dylan's outsides are no match for Murphy's insides. Autobiographical of Sones, perhaps? The author claims it isn't so, and she's probably right. With her frank manner, lusty thoughts, and hidden insecurities, Sophie reflects many teenage girls, past and present. No woman will be able to read this heartfelt verse novel and not find a bit of herself in Sophie's secret, sexy thoughts. Sones's decadent, almost shamefully delicious collection of angst poems is a loving and amazingly accurate tribute to adolescent girlhood. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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