poetry

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Beastly boys and ghastly girls

1980
A collection of humorous poetry about naughty, ill-mannered, even cruel, boys and girls.

Kings and queens

1983
A collection of poems about forty-one English kings and queens.

Poets in the garden

an anthology of garden verse
1978

Shaggy Dog's animal alphabet

1979
Shaggy Dog presents a rhymed alphabet of animals.

Why did he die?

1965
This little poem represents one mother's heartfelt effort to speak to her child about the subject of death.

IRL

2016
"Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history"--OCLC.

The please and thank you book

Rhymed poems featuring sloppy pigs, sharing bears, grabby gorillas, and other animals teach young children about proper and improper behavior.

Tamalitos

un poema para cocinar = a cooking poem
2017
A poem about a brother and sister making tamalitos. Presented in English and Spanish.

American diaspora

poetry of displacement
2001
An anthology of American poetry, featuring selections by over 130 poets, in which they explore themes of home and displacement; grouped in the categories of dislocations, American journeys, and invocations.

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