Search Results for Dogs -- Poetry.

All the best dog poems : an anthology of poetry about dogs

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1977.
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After the fire : a writer finds his place

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Zimmer, Paul.
©2002.
"We all dream of finding the place we can be most ourselves, the landscape that seems to have been crafted just for us. The poet Paul Zimmer has found his: a farm in the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin, a region of rolling land and crooked rivers, "driftless" because here the great glaciers of the Patrician ice sheet split widely, leaving behind a heart-shaped area untouched by crushing ice." "After the Fire is the story of Zimmer's journey from his boyhood in Canton, Ohio, and his days as a soldier during atomic tests in the Nevada desert, to his many years as a writer and publisher, and the rural tranquillity of his present life. Zimmer juxtaposes timeless rustic subjects with flashbacks to key moments: his first and only boxing match, his return to the France of his ancestors, his painful departure from the publishing world after forty years. These stories are full of humor and pathos, keen insights and poignant meditations, but the real center of the book is the abiding beauty of the driftless hills, the silence and peace that is the source of and reward for Zimmer's hard-won wisdom. Above all, it is a consideration of the ways that nature provides deep meaning and solace, and of the importance of finding the right place."--BOOK JACKET.
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After the fire : a writer finds his place

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Zimmer, Paul.
©2002.
After the Fire is the story of the poet Paul Zimmers journey from his boyhood in Canton, Ohio, and his days as a soldier during atomic tests in the Nevada desert, to his many years as a writer and publisher, and the rural tranquility of his present life. Zimmer juxtaposes timeless rustic subjects with flashbacks to key moments: his first and only boxing match, his return to the France of his ancestors, his painful departure from the publishing world after forty years. These stories are full of humor and pathos, but the real center of the book is the abiding beauty of the driftless hills, the.
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Mostly void, partially stars : welcome to Night Vale episodes, volume 1

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Fink, Joseph (Fiction writer),
[2016]
First edition.
Mostly Void, Partially Stars introduces us to Night Vale, a town in the American Southwest where every conspiracy theory is true, and to the strange but friendly people who live there.
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Cain named the animal

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McCrae, Shane,
2022.
First edition.
"A new poetry collection by Shane McCrae"--
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2013 Pushcart prize XXXVII : best of the small presses

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c2013.
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Rethinking multicultural education : teaching for racial and cultural justice

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[2014]
Second edition.
This second edition is a collection of articles dealing with race and culture in the classroom that have appeared in Rethinking Schools magazine.
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Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver

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Oliver, Mary,
[2017]
"Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015."--
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The ecopoetry anthology

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[2013]
"An anthology of American poetry about nature and the environment, divided into a historical section with poetry written from roughly the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and a contemporary section with over 300 poems written since 1960 by a diverse group of more than 170 poets. Introduction by Robert Hass"--Provided by publisher.
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The collected poems of Philip Lamantia

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Lamantia, Philip,
[2013]
"The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the United States. First mentored by the San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, the teenage Lamantia also came to the attention of the French Surrealist leader Andre Breton, who, after reading Lamantia's youthful work, hailed him as a "voice that rises once in a hundred years." Later, Lamantia went "on the road" with Jack Kerouac and shared the stage with Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, where Ginsburg first read "Howl." Throughout his life, Lamantia sought to extend and renew the visionary tradition of Romanticism in a distinctly American vernacular, drawing on mystical lore and drug experience in the process. The Collected Poems gathers not only his published work but also an extensive selection of unpublished or uncollected work; the editors have also provided a biographical introduction."--
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The collected poems of Philip Lamantia

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Who needs birds when dogs can fly?

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Robinson, Fay.
c2002.
1st ed.
Humorous poems and photographs celebrate the special relationships between children and their dogs--from the canine point of view.
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It's about dogs

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Johnston, Tony,
c2000.
1st ed.
Presents forty-two poems--some funny, some poignant and philosophical--about dogs and their attributes, including their loyalty to people, their love of food and smells, and their varied appearances and personalities.
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A dazzling display of dogs

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Franco, Betsy.
c2011.
1st ed.
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Dog songs : thirty-five dog songs and one essay

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Oliver, Mary,
2015.
"Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems offer a special window into her world. Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver's relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. To be illustrated with images of the dogs themselves, the subjects will come to colorful life here. These are poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver's well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Dog Songs is a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, from an observer of extraordinary vision"--
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The hound dog's haiku : and other poems for dog lovers

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Rosen, Michael J.,
2011.
First edition.
In simple, haiku poems, about twenty different dog breeds, from the pug to the Dalmatian to the golden retriever, comes with interesting facts about each breed.
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Bark in the park! : poems for dog lovers

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Corman, Avery,
2019.
First edition.
Go on a walk to the park with all different kinds of dogs and their owners in this funny and charming poetry picture book. Enjoy Avery Corman's canine poetry for an Afghan hound, basset hound, beagle, bloodhound, Daschshund, boxer, greyhound, and more as they stroll with their owners to the park.
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Once I ate a pie

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MacLachlan, Patricia.
c2006.
1st ed.
Thirteen dogs tell their stories in simple poems.
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Name that dog!

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Archer, Peggy.
2010.
Gives one dog's name for every letter of the alphabet with an accompanying poem.
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Farmer's dog goes to the forest : rhymes for two voices

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Harrison, David L.
2005.
1st ed.
A curious dog carries on conversations with creatures of the forest in this picture book featuring verse with questions and answers.
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Farmer's garden : rhymes for two voices

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Harrison, David L.
2000.
1st ed.
A curious dog asks various animals what they are doing in the garden. Features verse with questions and answers.
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Little Dog and Duncan

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George, Kristine O'Connell.
2002.
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Dog poems

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Crawley, Dave.
2007.
1st ed.
An illustrated collection of humorous poems about dogs.
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Unleashed : poems by writers' dogs

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1999, ©1995.
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Husky song

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Shannon, Patsy.
©1996.
Through the medium of poetry, the author puts into words many of the hard-to-describe, wonderful aspects of running sled dogs.
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I could chew on this : and other poems by Dogs

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Marciuliano, Francesco,
[2013]
Dogs celebrate their obsessions about food, chasing cars, and barking, and about their undying love for their owners.
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Doggerel : poems about dogs

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2003.
A collection of poetic works paying tribute to the canine companion includes such pieces as Margaret Cavendish's barking chorus of hunting beagles and Jane Kenyon's verse on her grinning and nuzzling dog.
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All dogs are good : poems & memories

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Peppernell, Courtney.
2021.
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The digging-est dog

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Perkins, Al.
[1967]
Scorned by his new dog friends because he never learned to dig, Duke suddenly discovers his inherent dog talent and turns the countryside into a series of ruts and holes.
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Dog songs [large print] : thirty-five dog songs and one essay

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Oliver, Mary,
2014.
Large print edition.
Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems open a window into her world. Collecting cherished poems together with new works, Dog Songs captures Oliver's relationships to the companions that have warmed her home and inspired her work. These poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief, are a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange from an observer of extraordinary vision. (Bestseller)
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Dog Songs : thirty-five dog songs and one essay

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Oliver, Mary,
2013.
"Beloved by her readers, special to the poet's own heart, Mary Oliver's dog poems offer a special window into her world. Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver's relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. To be illustrated with images of the dogs themselves, the subjects will come to colorful life here. These are poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver's well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Dog Songs is a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, from an observer of extraordinary vision"--
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Bestolkovy? ryzhik

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Barto, Agnii?a,
c1999.
A poem, in Russian, about a confused red dog.
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Dogs rule!

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Kirk, Daniel.
c2003.
1st ed.
A collection of twenty poems from a dog's perspective, such as "Bad Dog, " "Dog Bone Blues, " and "Purple Rhinestone Collar, " set to music on an accompanying CD.
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Zhizn? sobach?i?a : stikhi

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Valakhanovich, Ksenii?a Leonidovna,
2019.
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Good dog : poems

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Gottfried, Maya.
2005.
1st ed.
In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It?s a doggie delight! These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will be your best friend?
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Every day's a dog's day : a year in poems

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Singer, Marilyn.
c2012.
1st ed.
A lighthearted treasury of canine-themed poems presents a year's worth of seasons and holidays as experienced by dogs and celebrates such special occasions as Hole Digging Day and the dreaded Visit to the Vet Day.
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The wanderers

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Dodge, Larry,
1990.
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Back to dog-gone school

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Schmidt, Amy,
[2016]
"From the bus stop to the last bell, this photographic Step 2 early reader--consisting of school-themed poems--is sure to delight dog lovers and those anxious about going back to school. Most of the poems are from the hardcover picture books by husband-and-wife team Ron and Amy Schmidt, Loose Leashes and Dog-Gone School, and there are a few new poems and photos, too! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help"--
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Little dog poems

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George, Kristine O'Connell.
c1999.
Short poems present a day in the life of a little dog and its owner.
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I am puppy, hear me yap : ages of a dog

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Shaff, Valerie.
c2000.
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Puppy love : the story of Esme and Sam

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Shields, Gillian.
2009.
When posh pooch Esme Lamour finds herself lost in the park at night, she's terribly frightened. That's until Samuel Bloom, a downtown dog, comes to her rescue. It's the beginning of an adventure and a great romance. But when the canine couple is torn apart, will Esme be brave enough to face the big city and find her true love?
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The dogs of Hughes

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[2018]
Limericks are used to tell stories about the various dogs who live and play in Hughes, Alaska. The poems are presented in an interactive digital book created by students from Johnny Oldman School and local community members during a series of 'Book Slam' workshops
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Unleashed : poems by writers' dogs

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c1995.
1st ed.
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The comic adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog

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Martin, Sarah Catherine,
c1981.
1st ed.
Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog.
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Dog-gone school

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Schmidt, Amy,
2013.
First edition.
Collects poems about dogs who go to school.
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Bow wow meow meow : it's rhyming cats and dogs

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Florian, Douglas.
2003.
1st ed.
Presents a collection of twenty-one poems and paintings about dogs and cats, including poodles and dalmatians, and cheetahs and lions.
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The gingham dog and the calico cat : a poem

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Field, Eugene,
c1994.
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Meow ruff

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Sidman, Joyce.
2006.
A story in concrete poetry in which a dog slips out of his house and meets a white cat left alone on the street. Together their adventure begins.
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Kermit the hermit

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Peet, Bill.
[2009].
[Paw Prints ed.]
After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness.
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Raining cats and dogs

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Yolen, Jane.
©1993.
1st ed.
A collection of nine poems about cats and nine poems about dogs, bound together in an upside-down book.
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Dogku

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Clements, Andrew,
c2007.
1st ed.
A haiku poem about a loveable dog.
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Block city

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Stevenson, Robert Louis,
c1988
1st ed.
A child creates a world of his own which has mountains and sea, a city and ships, all from toy blocks.
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Old Mother Hubbard

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Martin, Sarah Catherine,
2001.
1st ed.
Light-hearted illustrations accompany this version of the familiar nursery rhyme about an old woman and her playful dog.
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Ten little puppies / Diez perritos ; adaptación de una canción infantil tradicional.

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Ada, Alma Flor.
c2011.
1st ed.
Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains.
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Life doesn't frighten me

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Angelou, Maya.
1993
Presents Maya Angelou's poem illustrated by paintings and drawings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Features biographies of both the author and artist.
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It shouldn't have been beautiful

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Purpura, Lia,
[2015]
" Lia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in this, her fourth collection, reach back to an early affinity for proverbs and riddles and the proto-poetry found in those forms. Taking on epic subjects--time and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of being--each poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or shock or revelation. Purpura reminds us that short poems, never merely brief nor fragmentary, can transcend their size, like small dogs, espresso, a drop of mercury"--
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Dogs don't wear sneakers

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Numeroff, Laura Joffe.
c1993.
In a child's imagination, animals do wacky things, including ducks riding bikes, yaks skiing, and fish eating bagels.
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I could pee on this, too : and more poems by more cats

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Marciuliano, Francesco,
[2016]
"There's a new cat in town! This feisty sibling of the international bestseller I Could Pee on This will be making its own sensational mark in the cat-poetry world. I Could Pee on This, Too explores fresh feline emotions and philosophical musings through cats' own poetry, such as "Welcome New Cat," "Sleeping My Life Away," and "You Also Live Here." Any cat lover who's longed for a deeper look into the enigmatic world of their cats will fall whiskers over paws for this well-versed follow-up"--
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Can I be good?

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Taylor, Livingston.
©1993.
1st ed.
Although he wants to be good, a big dog keeps doing things that get him into trouble.
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W is for woof : a dog alphabet

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Strother, Ruth.
2008.
1st ed.
"Using the alphabet format learn about dog behavior, domestication, grooming, K-9 police dogs, and much more. Simple poetry for each topic is paired with detail-filled expository text. Realistic illustrations complement the text"--Provided by publisher.
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The best worst poet ever

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Stohler, Lauren,
[2020]
First edition.
"Cat and Pug are each determined to become the World's Best Poet, no matter what it takes. But can these two rivals discover the wonderful joy of writing together?"--
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Thinker : my puppy poet and me

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Greenfield, Eloise,
2019.
Thinker isn't just an average puppy--he's a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together they turn the world around them into verse. here's just one problem: Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can't go to school with Jace. That is, until Pets' Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret...
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Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration

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Roberts, David,
2014.
On 17 January 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Then Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had detached from the flesh beneath. On 8 February, he staggered back to base, his features unrecognisably skeletal. Illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley's Antarctic photographs, this thrilling, almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders.
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Dogography : the amazing world of letter art dogs

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Coote, Maree,
2020.
"How do you spell DOG? In this brand new collection of typographic doggy delights this award winning illustrator show you a whole new way to spell your best friend. Each picture is created using only the letters that spell each dog's name, and is partnered with a brief, amusing verse. The exact fonts used are provided in a key on each page to help readers find all the letter shapes and that spell each dog.
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Dixie and the best day ever

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Gilman, Grace,
[2014]
First Edition.
Emma needs to write a poem for a school assignment, but she would rather go outside with Dixie and enjoy a snowy day.
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I didn't do it

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MacLachlan, Patricia.
c2010.
1st ed.
Excited puppies relate such new discoveries as the mailman comes every day and food tastes better eaten off a human's plate.
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Straw dogs : thoughts on humans and other animals

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Gray, John,
2002.
"Straw Dogs is a work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. Even in the present day, despite Darwin's discoveries, nearly all schools of thought take as their starting point the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. John Gray argues that this humanist belief is an illusion. The aim of Straw Dogs is to explore how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned." "Straw Dogs explores philosophical issues such as the nature of the self, free will, morality, progress and the value of truth. Drawing his inspiration from art, poetry, and the frontiers of science as well as philosophy itself, John Gray presents a post-humanist view of the world and of human life. Straw Dogs is an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing book that leads the reader to question their deepest beliefs."--Jacket.
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The $30,000 bequest and other stories

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Twain, Mark,
1996.
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Won Ton and Chopstick : a cat and dog tale told in haiku

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Wardlaw, Lee,
2015.
First edition.
Won Ton and his boy are enjoying a fine life until "Doom" arrives--a dog that is smelly and steals his dinner, but soon the disgruntled cat learns that his new family member might have some good points, too.
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Pippa & Percival, Pancake & Poppy : four peppy puppies

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Diesen, Deborah,
[2018]
Poppy the puppy meets three other pups while out for a run, but a surprise they find in a quiet alley sends them scrambling for home in this rhyming tale.
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Cosmopolitan belongingness and war : animals, loss, and spectral-poetic moments

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Leep, Matthew,
[2021]
Electronic resource

The wave in the mind : talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination

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Le Guin, Ursula K.,
2004.
The author presents a collection of nonfiction writings, including essays on such topics as Tolstoy, Tolkien, women's shoes, Mark Twain, family life, and beauty, as well as autobiographical writings and reflections on the arts of reading and writing.
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Little Poems for Tiny Ears

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Oliver, Lin.
[2014]
A collection of poetry for toddlers that celebrates the everyday things that fascinate them.
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Ten little squirrels : an old counting rhyme

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Martin, Bill,
[2022]
Ten little squirrels brainstorm a way to evade their natural foe until one of them sneezes. No need to get squirrely--practicing classic rhythm and rhyme while teaching children to count has never been more fun! "Ten Little Squirrels" by New York Times bestselling authors Bill Martin Jr and Michael Samson follows the "tail" of these furry friends as they determine what to do when a dog approaches their tree. Readers can enjoy the charming illustrations, count each of the colorful squirrels, and go nuts rereading to their hearts' content.--Publisher.
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Dutch contributions to the fourteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, September 10-16, 2008. Literature

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JLC Corporate Author International Congress of Slavists (14th : 2008 : Ohrid, Macedonia)
©2008.
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Wind, trees

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Freeman, John,
[2022]
"A collection of poems written by John Freeman"--
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Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey

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Bunnell, David,
[2017]
First edition.
"Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell shares treasured memories of his time living on and teaching at the reservation... Substantive and at times disturbing, Bunnell reflects back to his time on the rez during the violent 70s when he smuggled food to radical Indians at Wounded Knee. Peppered with Vernell White Thunder's spellbinding stories of growing up in a one-room log house with his medicine man grandfather, Bunnell begs the reader to join in on the poignant conversations about present-day Native Americans."--
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Forest echoes : poems

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Alembong, Nol.
©2010.
Forest Echoes is a literary quilt revealing a mature poet bestriding generations as he patches together a people's culture, their philosophy, history, along with their attendant woes into a subtle, sometimes disillusioning even, yet purposeful and poignant whole. Nol Alembong is not afraid to be himself in this work: a scholar, teacher, parent, traditionalist and, above all, an Anglophone-Cameroonian. Whatever the case, these are magisterial and equally influential individual traits that have merged into a united whole in forging this poet's identity and concerns as evident from the thematic panorama of the poems. In "Forest Echoes", the title poem, for example, one encounters a poet who, though steeped in his people's struggles, has been able to stand back, watch and evaluate the effects of the interactions of time, events, and society. It is this ability of his, as an involved yet detached observer, along with the trend of events that have scarred his people's lives, which have yielded the powerful emotions that he has assembled in this thematically lush, historically nostalgic, and overwhelmingly evocative collection. - Dr. Emmanuel Fru Doh.
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Particles

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Penny, Michael,
©2011.
Michael Penny addresses his poems directly to the reader, challenging you to satisfy your need to investigate and understand the sensory and intellectual assumptions we use to make sense of our world. Balanced between abstract metaphysical challenges and the concrete and commonplace, Penny's poetry considers a range of topics, including cars, bruises, lotteries, pine needles, and dogs, infusing each with strangeness and unexpected intrigue. A lively and surprising collection, Particles joins together inner and outer space and suggests that you might not know what you think you know.
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The dark end of the street : margins in American Vanguard poetry

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Damon, Maria,
©1993.
In this volume, Damon adds an important dimension to cultural theory, revealing the struggles of one group of artists as they address important questions about art, social life, and the oppression they encounter. The author foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Discussing avant-garde poetry as writing that pushes at the limits of experience as well as at the limits of conventional form, Damon argues that the marginalized and oppressed, ostensibly the most expendable members of American society, have produced its truly vanguard literature.
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Seven minutes from home : an American daughter's story

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Richardson, Laurel,
[2016]
"Seven Minutes from Home: An American Daughter's Story is a collection of linked stories written chronologically from 1980-2015. They create a multifaceted narrative of how the public and the private, the past and present, the local and global, intersect. With earnest reflection, modesty and humor, Laurel Richardson introduces the reader to her Ohio neighborhoods, friends, family, writers and therapy dogs. She ages, retires and frets over her droopy eyebrow. Her town's local stores close; police bust heroin dealers; September 11th happens; universities corporatize; poetry venues transform. All this and much more as Richardson honors the complexity and vibrancy of America, and her life within it Richardson's renowned book, Fields of Play (1997) is about constructing a life inside the academy; Seven Minutes from Home is about constructing a life outside the academy."--Back cover.
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American fanatics

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Barresi, Dorothy,
2010.
"American Fanatics is driven by a diction that is electrifyingly alive with the idiosyncratic pulse of our strange particular historical moment that includes pet dogs slaughtered by coyotes, mystical Vietnamese nail salon workers, and ephebiphobiacs wandering our sunny streets; these poems enchant and inspire. Part hip metaphysician, part late corrupted dharma bum, Dorothy Barresi is also Simic- or Marquez-like in her regard for the world, which allows her to evoke a magically realistic panarama that comes to resemble, as we make our way through this wonderful book, our own entropic world. I haven't been this excited an optimistic about the state of American poetry in a long time, and I can't wait for you to read this book."--Bruce Weigl.
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Islam on the street : religion in modern Arabic literature

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

M?saw?, Mu?sin J?sim.
[2009]
Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, from among the more militant groups in Islam, and by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectual and the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street and what these secular intellectuals can do to reconnect with the masses.
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Up verses down : poems, paintings, and serious nonsense

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Brown, Calef,
2019.
First edition.
Presents a collection of poetry that is full of zany characters, including Sleepy LaFeete, who chooses to snooze in the busiest spots, and Mister Adam Hatter and the Lovely Lady Wigg, who had a fig banquet and danced a fancy jig.
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The black bear inside me

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Becker, Robin,
[2018]
Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family "sacrifices one member, / as plants surrender leaves in times of drought." Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present
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Tiger Heron.

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Becker, Robin.
2014.
Appearance and disguise--in a Costa Rican rainforest, a West Village repair shop, or an intimate relationship--reveal the turbulence that undergirds daily life, as families and places undergo change. In "Elegy for the Norther Flying Squirrel" and "Divers," Becker takes up the science of climate change and habitat loss. "Language that is by turns virtuosic and quiet, astonishing and accurate," writes a reviewer of Becker's 2006 collection, Domain of Perfect Affection for Jewish Book World Magazine. The challenge of "aligning loss with love" exerts a potent tension in Tiger Heron, as age comprises mortal bodies and intimacies end. A self-mocking wit propels characters "to find and lose and find each other again"--In the imagination and in the stories these poems tell. The final line of "The Sounds of Yiddish"--"Spare us what we can learn to endure"--closes a playful send-up, dramatizing language, culture, and power. Writing in The Washington Post, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky praises Becker's "comic timing." Longtime readers of Becker's work will delight in poems cast in a variety of stanzas and experimental forms. Their occasions are diverse--an animal shelter, a failed trip to Venice, a hospice bedside--but Becker ultimately yokes a language of praise to our stumbling, humble, human efforts.
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The winter road : prose poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Jenkins, Louis,
2000.
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Modern Jewish literatures : intersections and boundaries

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2011.
Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? The authors of the fifteen essays in this volume find the answer in a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.
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On the turn : the ethics of fiction in contemporary narrative in English

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2007.
On the Turn: The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English is an attempt to listen to the various voices that participate in the current dialogue on the relationship between fiction and ethics. The editors' introduction investigates the current state of affairs on the return to ethics in critical and literary consideration, and it opens up the way for the variety of approaches that follows. Participants include internationally recognized scholars like Andrew Gibson, Patricia Wau ...
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Scott's last biscuit : the literature of polar travel

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Moss, Sarah.
2006.
"Thematically arranged, Scott's Last Biscuit considers the morbid fascination of expeditions that go horribly wrong and the even greater interest attached to those that are rescued at the last minute, paying particular attention to the impulse to find and even exhume long-lost travellers. Looking at risks ranging from frostbite and polar bears to starvation, cannibalism and insanity, it also analyses the enduring appeal of romanticized polar landscapes, the relationship between nationhood and exploration and literary approaches to polar travel from Winnie the Pooh to Frankenstein." "Sarah Moss considers the representation of indigenous communities as well as women's writing about the far north. She discusses Jenny Darlington's unjustly neglected American 1950s autobiography, My Antarctic Honeymoon ("for protection against the polar winds I applied lipstick"), Letitia Hargraves' moving and likeable journal of life as the wife of a Hudson's Bay Company factor in the early nineteenth century, and Isobel Hutchinson's solitary travels around Greenland in the 1930s as a botanist for Kew Gardens."--BOOK JACKET.
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The black bear inside me

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Becker, Robin,
[2018]
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One hidden stuff

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Ras, Barbara,
2006.
"Using long-lined, imaginative leaps to connect the everyday with the miraculous, the intimate with the visionary, Barbara Ras's poems surge across the page like waves crashing on a beach. She crafts the forty-one new poems in this collection with a zany and spacious cunning that reaches from family to community, from what's cherished to what's lost, from culture to nature"--
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Home burial

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

McGriff, Michael,
c2012.
Michael McGriff's second full-length collection explores interior landscapes and illustrates life in a rural community in the Pacific Northwest. Whether tender or hard-hitting, McGriff juxtaposes natural images of deep forests, creeks, coyotes, and crows against the harsher oil-grease realities of blue-collar life, creating poems that read like folk tales about the people working in grain mills, forests, and factories.
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Beautiful old dogs : a loving tribute to our senior best friends

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2013.
"A charming, delightfully photographed tribute to the older dog, with essays and poetry. Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way that its animals are treated." How people regard older animals is especially revealing. Beautiful Old Dogs is a heartfelt, emotional, passionate tribute to old dogs. It will inspire many readers to get involved in senior dog rescue and adoption, as it honors our senior best friends and explores their current state of care and custody in an informative appendix. This book features the exquisite photography of the late Garry Gross, a noted fashion photographer during the 60s, 70s and 80s who, after becoming a highly successful dog trainer in New York City, turned his camera lens towards dogs. Gross, along with Victoria Stilwell from Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog, founded Dog Trainers of New York in 2002, and became devoted to highlighting the plight and value of senior dogs. "The older the better, " Gross said. "Dogs with soul in their eyes."David Tabatsky has collected Gross's photographs here, and carefully curated an accompanying selection of moving, insightful, funny, and uplifting essays and short pieces by a range of writers, with contributions from Anna Quindlen, Ally Sheedy, Christopher Durang, Doris Day, Dean Koontz, Marlo Thomas, and many more. "--
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Scotland : the making and unmaking of the nation, c.1100-1707. Volume 3, Readings : c.1100-1500

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2006.
Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland's relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel long-established myths and preconceptions which continue to exert a firm grip on public opinion. Especially in a post-devolution era, Scottish history and Scotland deserve better than this.Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 is certainly designed to provoke but need not be taken to indicate a nationalist view of 1707 as a moment of eclipse. Scotland's history, like all histories, resists simple generalisations. Were it otherwise, its study would not be so rewarding.
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One thousand and one-second stories

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Inagaki, Taruho,
c1998.
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Creeland

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Hunt, Dallas,
2021.
Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing--or at least attempting to. The poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that everyday Cree economies enable, and the words that try--and ultimately fail--to articulate them. Hunt gestures to the movements, speech acts and relations that exceed available vocabularies, that may be housed within words like joy, but which the words themselves cannot fully convey. This debut collection is vital in the context of a colonial aesthetic designed to perpetually foreclose on Indigenous futures and erase Indigenous existence."--
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The crack in everything

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Ostriker, Alicia.
©1996.
This newest volume of poetry from Alicia Suskin Ostriker is her most ambitious to date, ranging from laments and celebrations for a flawed world to meditations on art and artists, to a powerful exploration of illness and healing.
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In dogs we trust : an anthology of American dog literature

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

[2019]
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Saving daylight

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Harrison, Jim,
c2006.
Although best known for his fiction, Jim Harrison's poetry has earned him recognition as an "untrammeled renegade genius." This, his tenth collection of poetry--and first in a decade--is grounded in thickets and rivers, birds and bears, and the solace of dogs in a crazed political world. Whether contemplating the ephemerality of 90 billion galaxies or the immediate grace of a waitress, Harrison relishes the art and mysteries of being alive. "I'm enrolled in a school without visible teachers, " he writes in the title poem, "the divine mumbling just out of ear shot." Mr. Harrison divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.--From publisher description.
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45 Mercy Street

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Sexton, Anne,
1976.
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City creatures : animal encounters in the Chicago wilderness

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Van Horn, Gavin,
2015.
We usually think of cities as the domain of humans - but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but might be surprised to learn about all the leafhoppers and water bears, black-crowned night herons and bison, beavers and massasauga rattlesnakes that are living alongside them. City Creatures introduces readers to an astonishing diversity of urban wildlife with a unique and accessible mix of essays, poetry, paintings, and photographs. The contributors bring a story-based approach to this urban safari, taking readers on birding expeditions to the Magic Hedge at Montrose Harbor on the North Side, canoe trips down the South Fork of the Chicago River (better known as Bubbly Creek), and insect-collecting forays or restoration work days in the suburban forest preserves. The book is organized into six sections, each highlighting one type of place in which people might encounter animals in the city and suburbs. For example, schoolyard chickens and warrior wasps populate "Backyard Diversity," live giraffes loom at the zoo and taxidermy-in-progress pheasants fascinate museum-goers in "Animals on Display," and a chorus of deep-freeze frogs awaits in "Water Worlds." Although the book is rooted in Chicago's landscape, nature lovers from cities around the globe will find a wealth of urban animal encounters that will open their senses to a new world that has been there all along. Its powerful combination of insightful narratives, numinous poetry, and full-color art throughout will help readers see the city - and the creatures who share it with us - in an entirely new light.
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The true account of myself as a bird

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Wrigley, Robert,
[2022]
"From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling us Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation between human beings and the perilously threatened planet on which they love and live, proceeding from a line from Auden: "All we are not stares back at what we are." In language that is both elegiac and playful, declarative and yet ringingly musical; in traditional sonnets, quatrains, and free verse, Wrigley transcribes the consciousness and significance of every singing thing-in order to sing back"--
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Paris spleen : little poems in prose

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Becoming Ebony

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh.
©2003.
Recapturing the celebratory voice of Africa in poems that are both contemporary and traditional, Liberian-born Patricia Jabbeh Wesley weaves lyrical storytelling with oral history and images of Africa and America, revealing powerful insights about the relationship between strength and tragedy-and finding reason to celebrate even in the presence of war, difficulties, and death. Rooted in myths that can be traced to the Grebo tradition, Becoming Ebony portrays Liberian-born Wesley's experiences of village talk and civil war as well as her experiences of the pain of her mother.
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West wind : poems and prose poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Oliver, Mary,
1997.
The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. And what did you think love would be like? A summer day? The brambles in their places, and the long stretches of mud? Flowers in every field, in every garden, with their soft beaks and their pastel shoulders? On one street after another, the litter ticks in the gutter. In one room after another, the lovers meet, quarrel, sicken, break apart, cry out. One or two leap from windows. Most simply lean, exhausted, their thin arms on the sill. They have done all they could. The golden eagle, that lives not far from here, has perhaps a thousand tiny feathers flowing from the back of its head, each one shaped like an infinitely small but perfect spear.--
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Homie : poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Smith, Danez,
2020.
"Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family--blood and chosen--arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez's friends and for you and for yours."--
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Rainbow soup : adventures in poetry

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Cleary, Brian P.,
©2004.
An introduction to poetry that uses humorous poems, illustrations, and annotations to clarify terms and explain different types of poems, such as macaronic verse, concrete poems, and limericks.
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In the words of E.B. White : quotations from America's most companionable of writers

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

White, E. B.
2011.
The author of Charlotte's Web and One Man's Meat, coauthor of The Elements of Style, and columnist for The New Yorker for almost half a century, E.B. White (1899-1985) is an American literary icon. Over the course of his career, White inspired generations of writers and readers with his essays (both serious and humorous), children's literature, and stylistic guidance. In the Words of E.B. White offers readers a delightful selection of "ations, selected and annotated by his granddaughter and literary executor, Martha White. The "ations cover a wide range of subjects and situations, from Automobiles, Babies, Bees, City Life, and College to Spiders, Taxes, Weather, Work, and Worry. E.B. White comments on writing for children, how to tell a major poet from a minor one, and what to do when one becomes hopelessly mired in a sentence. White was apt to address the subject of security by speaking first about a Ferris wheel at the local county fair, or the subject of democracy from the perspective of roofing his barn and looking out across the bay-he had a gift for bringing the abstract firmly into the realm of the everyday. Included here are gems from White's books and essay collections, as well as bits from both published and unpublished letters and journals. This is a book for readers and writers, for those who know E.B. White from his "Notes and Comment" column in The New Yorker, have turned to The Elements of Style for help in crafting a polished sentence, or have loved a spider's assessment of Wilbur as "Some Pig." This distillation of the wit, style, and humanity of one of America's most distinguished essayists of the twentieth century will be a welcome addition to any reader's bookshelf.
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Luck is luck : poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Perillo, Lucia,
c2005.
1st ed.
From the snowy egret to a woman's floating rib, nudism in America to Holy Communion, Simone de Beauvoir to Nathan's hot dogs-the subjects in Lucia Perillo's fourth collection of poetry lift off from surprising places and touch down on new ground. In "To My Big Nose, " she muses: "hard to imagine what the world would have looked like / if not seen through your pink shadow. / You who are built from random parts / like a mythical creature-a gryphon or sphinx-."
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Yellowrocket : poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Boss, Todd.
©2008.
1st ed.
"Todd Boss' first collection of poems, set in rural Wisconsin, features a benighted childhood farm, the storm whose "dark musings" destroyed it, and the turbulence of daily life in its many guises. These are poems to rouse and overturn our expectations. Whether they're dealing with a rural youth, the tensions of marriage, or the loneliness of disappointment, a zest for life hums beneath the surface."--BOOK JACKET.
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Peach state

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Su, Adrienne,
[2021]
"Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas--they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience"--
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Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Weatherford, Carole Boston,
2015.
First edition.
"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson’ s interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats.
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The year's best fantasy & horror. 2008 : twenty-first annual collection

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2008.
1st ed.
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Antarctic antics. [DVD]

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

A thousand miles of stars

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

McDonald, Walter.
©2004.
A West Texas starscape, stunning by any measure, is emblematic of Walt McDonald's plains. A lifelong celebration culminates in this, his best-and perhaps last-collection of new poems. At seventy, the poet affirms, we live by the mystery of grace even as we watch familiar stars blink out at dawn. For he believes "God knows we are dust / and counts our steps." In "Leaving the Middle Years," he writes, "At our age, / every day is grace and every breath / a blessing. Life is grass, stunningly brief / but abundant in so many ways." Walt writes about heroes-a mother who taught tumbling; family and friends gone to war; the brave at home who heal or console; others who rescue from war zones as many children as they can. Heroes, too, are those whose fidelity and joy find faces in these poems.
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The romantic dogs : 1980-1998

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Bolaño, Roberto,
2008.
Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.
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Revenge and forgiveness : an anthology of poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2004.
1st ed.
A collection of nearly sixty poems dealing with revenge and forgiveness, plus suggested readings about each contributing poet. Revenge and forgiveness are two of the most prominent elements in the history of human interaction. With each generation, one or the other may seem to increase or diminish in importance, but across continents and centuries, the fierceness with which people long for both remains undiminished. Acclaimed anthologist and teacher Patrice Vecchione has put together an immensely powerful group of poems, gathered from different eras and cultures, all of which address the timeless and uniquely human desires for revenge and for forgiveness. "When you seek revenge, dig two graves."--Anonymous. A poetry anthology for teens on a perennially important topic. Acclaimed anthologist and teacher Patrice Vecchione has put together an immensely powerful group of poems, all of which address the timeless and uniquely human desires for revenge and for forgiveness. "The events of September 11th inspired this book. I wanted to create a tangible forum, a book to hold in our hands, to help frame and think not just about terrorism but about who we are as individuals and who we are as a country. It's been gestating in me for all this time. Finding these poems was like turning little lights on to illumine the dark. How can beauty be made out of ugliness and fear? Can it rise from ash?"-Patrice Vecchione.
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Sestets

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Wright, Charles,
2009.
First edition.
The nineteenth book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
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Lapham's quarterly : rivalry & feud

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

[2018]
"The Fall 2018 issue of 'Lapham's Quarterly' is dedicated to strife. We live in contentious times, and we often lament the lack of comity and cooperation in our social realm. Yet--as the 'Rivalry & Feud' issue shows--not all opposition is bad, and not all feuds are destructive. Contributors to the 'Rivalry & Feud' issue--including Sigmund Freud on sibling rivalry, Mary McCarthy on the nature of cultural rivalry, Andrew Carnegie on the virtues of business rivalry, and Joanne B. Freeman on the caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate--show not all opposition is bad, and not all feuds are destructive. 'To outwit an enemy,' writes Plutarch, 'is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.' 'Rivalry & Feud' shows us how humans can rise to challenges and make the best of their myriad disagreements."--Publisher description.
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The Oxford illustrated book of American children's poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

c1999.
An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.
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Poems I wrote when no one was looking

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Katz, Alan.
c2011.
1st ed.
Presents a treasury of more than one hundred whimsical poems that frolic on the lighter side of everything from school and siblings to sports and friendship, in a volume complemented by black-and-white illustrations.
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Poetry speaks to children

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

©2005.
A collection of poems that can be read or listened to with the accompanying CD. The poems on the CD are read by the poets themselves.
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Thirty years of maximum R & B

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

?1994.
CD

Candace Waugaman Collection ca. 1880-

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Waugaman, Candy.
The Candace Waugaman Collection consists of historical manuscripts, memorabilia, ephemera, and photographs. The bulk of the materials relate to the history of the Fairbanks region; however, parts of the collection relate to events around Alaska as a whole and to the history of the Yukon Territory. Examples of materials in the collection include playing cards, poems, pamphlets and brochures, postcards, business records, and advertisements. Highlights of the collection include the personal papers of Harvey Carlisle, humorous lyrics and poems, and historical postcards.
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Till I end my song : a gathering of last poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

©2010.
1st ed.
A collection of poems by one hundred poets, including pieces from T.S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W.B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Conrad Aiken, George Meredith, and others. Features critical commentary from Harold Bloom on each poem.
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One-hundred-and-one African-American read-aloud stories

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

©1998.
This collection includes African-American legends, songs, poetry as well as biographies of heroes and haunting stories of slavery.
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The best-loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2001.
Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems organized Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems organized and love, refection, and two original poems by her mother.
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Versus.

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Nash, Ogden,
1949.
[1st ed.].
"Who would be so rashery To rhyme on ogdonnashery, (Which is a climate Most sublimate For verses awfully dashery)? On themes quite indefatigable His latest book's compatible -- No stone unturned -- No turn unstoned -- On questions burned On facts unknowned. You'll turn this Nash Right into cash."--Kirkus Reviews.
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Collected poems

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

Auden, W. H.
©1976.
First trade edition.
Contains all the poems that W.H. Auden wished to preserve including three poems printed for the first time and four poems he previously rejected.
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Julie Andrews' treasury for all seasons : poems and songs to celebrate the year

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

2012.
1st ed.
A collection of illustrated poems and songs for children, celebrating holidays and events throughout the calendar year, including verses Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, and others, and featuring introductions by Julie Andrews, in which she describes memories of holiday and family moments.
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London : a history in verse

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

c2012.
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The Random House book of poetry for children

2024-06-02T00:52:25Z

[1983]
Synopsis: This deceptively slender volume contains a treasure-trove of poems. Each page is crammed with verse and illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel. Everyone's favorite poems are complemented by fresh new voices and organized into such unusual themes as food, the city, spooky poems, and word play.
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