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The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems
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I am a great admirer of Mr. Collins. His ability to write very personal poems that still manage to draw in the reader and be accessible is amazing. Plus, he has the great ability to use simple language to create powerful images. He uses this ability right at the opening of this volume in the wonderful lead poem, "You, Reader.": "I wonder how you are... »
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
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"Midway life's journey I was made aware/that I had strayed into a dark forest..." Those eerie words open the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno," the most famous part of the legendary Divina Comedia. But the stuff going on here is anything but divine, as Dante explores the metaphorical and supernatural horrors of the inferno.
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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This incredibly precious gem of a book was produced on Broadway back in the late 70's or early 80's but I was too young to see it at the time and probably would not have been able to relate to it anyway. In this prose poem, a "choreopoem" Shange depicts the hardships of African American Women in America. The different perspective of their lives is pr... »
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The Illuminated Rumi
I gave this book to a soul-searching friend this year and a few weeks later was very pleased to get a note saying it was not only beautiful but very inspi... »
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost's well-known poem takes on new life in its first picture-book adaptation. The poem--long appreciated for its strong rhythm and evocative ima... »
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New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that t... »
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