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This amazing world

2002
A collection of poems expressing thanks and admiration for the world around us.

Fruits

a Caribbean counting poem
1997
This poem counts up to ten different kinds of Caribbean fruit, including guavas, jackfruit, and Otaheiti apples.

Caribbean canvas

1994
The artwork of Fran? Lessac accompanies this collection of poems by various Caribbean poets, including Robert Johnson, Edward Brathwaite, A.L. Hendricks, Evan Jones, and others.

Not a copper penny in me house

poems from the Caribbean
1999
A collection of original poems about a child's life in the Caribbean portraying the tropical hurricanes, lazy picnics by the sea, the classes under the trees, and much more.

The surrender tree

poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom = El ?rbol de la rendici?n : poemas de la lucha de Cuba por su libertad
2010
A collection of poems in which Rosa, a healer, describes her experiences trying to help Cuban peasants who have been forced to leave their farms and villages in 1896 and given eight days to find their way to "reconcentration camps" or be killed.

The school among the ruins

poems, 2000-2004
2004
Presents a collection of poetry written about the first four years of twenty-first-century violence, terror, war, corporate greed, lies, and hatred.

Mexico City blues

1990
An epic poem consisting of 242 choruses, written in spontaneous composition style by self-proclaimed jazz poet Jack Kerouac.

New York

poems
1980
An anthology of poems reflecting the various neighborhoods of New York.

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