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Weaving sundown in a scarlet light

50 poems for 50 years
2023
"In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth"--Provided by publisher.

Pretty boys are poisonous

poems
2023
Deliciously dark and highly addictive, this powerful collection of 70 poems chronicles all the ways in which we mold ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.

Lvoe

poems, epigrams & aphorisms
An exploration of self-love, meditation, meaning, loss, and romance, LVOE. is a look forward, a look backward, but most importantly a look inward to the often confusing yet hopeful human experience.

Autumn

2024
Autumn depicts a dreamy fall day full of jaybird songs and scarlet leaves dancing through the air. In this poem, Muscogee poet Alexander Posey celebrates the changing of the seasons as the golden sun sets on summer and the world prepares for a time of rest.

The festival of lights

16 Hanukkah stories
2024
Celebrate Hanukkah with a diverse collection of stories and poems filled with history, humor, and hope.

Queer and fearless

poems celebrating the lives of LGBTQ+ heroes
2024
"Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the queer community from both past and present. Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones, Pauline Park, Richard Blanco, and Pete Buttigieg are just a few of the . . . figures represented in this . . . picture book with illustrations by Harry Woodgate. An . . . introduction to the people who have stood up for what they believed in, lived lives according to their own ideals, and their partners, friends, and allies, the poetry in this book provides . . . read-aloud potential sure to . . . inform readers of all ages"--Provided by publisher.

Before the ships

the birth of Black excellence
2024
"Takes [readers] back in time to before the advent of the Transatlantic slave trade. We see the grandness of African royalty, the bravery of warriors like the Queen of Kush, and stories being told in song with griots and drums"--Provided by publisher.

The Iliad

2023
"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"--Provided by publisher.

Out of wonder

celebrating poets and poetry
2021
Text and illustrations present twenty poems that look at well-known poets from around the world.

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