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Off to the sweet shores of Africa and other talking drum rhymes

2000
A collection of poems featuring the animals, people, and cultures of Africa.

The Penelopeia

2003
Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, awaits her husband's return, eager to introduce him to the twin daughters he did not know he fathered and learn of the gods' fate for her family.

Native guard

2007
A collection of poems that pays tribute to the history of the American South and to the Native Guard, one of the first African-American regiments in service during the Civil War.

Betty and Rita go to Paris

1999
Presents photographs of Betty and Rita, a pair of black and yellow Labradors, on tour in Paris.

The Heinemann book of African poetry in English

1990
An anthology of African poetry written in English over the last thirty years.

When I dance

poems
1991
A collection of fifty-nine poems for young adults celebrating life in inner-city Britain and in the rural Caribbean.

Traveling America with today's poets

1977
Presents the moods and aspects of America through the eyes of more than 100 poets.

Buffalo dance

the journey of York
2004
A series of poems in the imagined voice of York, William Clark's slave, during and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Early poems

1993
A collection of 134 poems written by William Butler Yeats between 1889 and 1914.

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