poetry

A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

A collection of sixty-five original poems that depict people and events throughout the history of the United States.

Poems that give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans.

A poet's evocation of animals and plants which live on the moon of his imagination.

Presents a comprehensive collection of poetry originally written by Herman Melville shortly after the Civil War.

A verse translation of the classic Old English poem "Beowulf," in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. Includes more than one hundred illustrations.

A company of thirty-one pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury. Includes an introduction and notes.

A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum; includes notes and archival photos.

An illustrated collection of poetry about the people who live along the border between the United States and Mexico. Presented in English and Spanish.

Poems that describe the landscape, people, and animals of the American Southwest.