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Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 14
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton's career-Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman-as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 21
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 28
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 38
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton.
6) Fuel: poems
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 47
Publisher
Boa Editions
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Naomi Shihab Nye focuses on ordinary people and ordinary situations, which, when rendered through the poems in Fuel, become remarkable. The poet imagines the border families of southern Texas, small ferns and forgotten books, Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East. Nye has written, "Lives unlike mine, you save me."
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 60
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Overview: Winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 is the culminating achievement of Lucille's Clifton longstanding poetry career. This long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets writing today includes poems written during the past four years as well as generous selections from Lucille Clifton's award-winning collections Next: New Poems, Quilting and The Terrible Stories....
8) Smoke: poems
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 62
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Dorianne Laux's long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully crafted-poetry that "gets hard in the face of aloofness," in the words of one reviewer. In Smoke, as in her previous work, Laux weaves the warp and woof...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 61
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In this new collection by the author of the award-winning The Philosopher's Club, Kim Addonizio takes the grist of the world and transforms it into poems of transcendent beauty. The dual themes of love and loss are pervasive in Addonizio's poems, made poignant by her keen eye and wise observations.
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 68
Publisher
BOA Editions
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
14) Selected poems
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A devout Quaker who became a passionate poetic spokesman for the antislavery movement, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92) was one of the most beloved American poets of his era. In the years before the Civil War, he campaigned tirelessly against slavery in poems that include "Ichabod," his famous denunciation of Daniel Webster for his support of the Fugitive Slave Law. In the long poem "Snow-Bound" (1866) he created a warm and enthralling portrait of...
15) Selected poems
Author
Series
American poets project volume 13
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
American poets project volume 19
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet and winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize that represents her technical mastery, her compassionate and illuminating response to a world that is both special and universal, and her warm humanity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevated conversational tone, which flows from intimate secrets to wider social concerns. The poet has faith in economy and trusts in images to transfer knowledge that speech cannot. In Curses and Wishes the short, simple lines add up to a thoughtful book possessed with lyrical melancholy, a harmony of sadness and joy that sing: "May happiness be a wheel, a lit throne, spinning...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 170
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Jihad Ayyad, the 'Youngest Journalist in Palestine,' who at age 7 began capturing videos of anti-occupation protests using her mother's smartphone. Nye draws upon her own family's roots in a West Bank village near Janna's hometown to offer empathy...
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