poetry

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Undercover

2007
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing and going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parents' marital problems draw her out of herself.

The rag and bone shop of the heart

poems for men
1993
Presents poems by a variety of poets, drawn from around the world and throughout the ages, selected especially for their appeal to men.

100 great poems of the twentieth century

2005
Presents a collection of one hundred poems of the twentieth century by such noted authors as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Ogden Nash, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others.

An invitation to poetry

a new Favorite Poem Project anthology
2004
Contains a collection of two hundred poems and accompanying DVD that features twenty-seven Favorite Poem Project documentaries as seen on PBS read by a cross-section of the American populace, each speaking about his or her connection to the poem.

Comfort

2002
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison.

What have you lost?

poems
1999
A collection of poems by 140 authors that deal with different kinds of loss.

Light-gathering poems

2000
A collection of poems which deal with light coming from the sun, moon, and stars. Includes poet biographies.

Sleeping on the wing

an anthology of modern poetry, with essays on reading and writing
1982
Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including translations of poems by five European poets.

News of the universe

poems of twofold consciousness
1980
An anthology of 150 poems written by poets of many different times and places and concerned with the various kinds of consciousness in the natural world and in the universe.

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