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Before she was Harriet

2019
"Moses, General Tubman, Minty, Araminta, the woman we know today as Harriet Tubman went by many names. Each represented one of her many roles as a spy, as a liberator, as a suffragist, and more."--Provided by publisher.

How to be an Indian in the 21st century

(continuing the oral tradition) : tales of an Iroquois storyteller
"Oneida author and . . . poet Louis V. Clark III (Two Shoes) weaves verse and prose to capture the alienation, audacity, and triumph that have defined his life experience"--Back cover.

American sonnets for my past and future assassin

2018
"In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form"--Provided by publisher.

Let's let that are not yet

inferno
""You've been thinking to yourself that it all feels very American." Ed Pavlic's tireless, resourceful speaker is American, of indeterminate race, implicated at every conceivable point of entry into the struggles that go on "here," which is everywhere, the Inferno of the title: "if an //analogy affects an enemy then let's let // inferno the enemy inferno the enemy.""--Amazon.com.

This window makes me feel

"Written in the long shadow of 9/11, This Window Makes Me Feel replaces the individual poet's response to catastrophe with a collective, multi-vocal chorus of everyday articulations. Never before published in its entirety, This Window... is one of the earliest examples of a long poem solely composed with repurposed web language."--Page 4 of cover.

Welcome, baby!

baby rhymes for baby times
2002
A collection of more than thirty rhyming, illustrated poems about the daily life of babies, from birth to toddlerhood.
Cover image of Welcome, baby!

The secret history of the Mongols

the origin of Chinghis Khan : an adaptation of the Y?an Ch'ao Pi Shih, based primarily on the English translation by Francis Woodman Cleaves
1998
An English adaptation of the thirteenth-century Chinese version of "The Secret History of the Mongols".

Eye level

poems
2018
A collection of poems about traveling and finding oneself.

Three little kittens

a folk tale classic
2011
Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens.

The owl and the pussy cat

2017
After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

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