Vanitas

Vanitas
Author: Jane McKinley
Publisher: Walt McDonald First-Book Serie
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780896726840

"This twentieth winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry searches for language and meaning after unspeakable loss. Through memories, myths, and interior worlds, the author creates her own vanitas: a still-life painting symbolic of mortality and mutability"--Provided by publisher.

Poems of New York

Poems of New York
Author: Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002-08-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Presents a collection of poetry that captures the rich diversity of the city from such poets as Dorothy Parker, James Merrill, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, and Wallace Stevens.

Ten to One

Ten to One
Author: Bob Perelman
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780819563880

The first selected poems from one of the most inventive poets writing today.

Lena

Lena
Author: Cassie Pruyn
Publisher: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780896729988

"Twenty-five winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry"--

Here's A Little Poem

Here's A Little Poem
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0763631418

This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one’s library and a gorgeous gift to be both shared and treasured. Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes to A. A. Milne. Greeting the morning, enjoying the adventures of the day, cuddling up to a cozy bedtime — these are poems that highlight the moments of a toddler’s world from dawn to dusk. Carefully gathered by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters and delightfully illustrated by Polly Dunbar, Here's a Little Poem offers a comprehensive introduction to some remarkable poets, even as it captures a very young child’s intense delight in the experiences and rituals of every new day.

War All the Time

War All the Time
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0061882062

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter War All the Time is a selection of poetry from the early 1980s. Charles Bukowski shows that he is still as pure as ever but he has evolved into a slightly happier man that has found some fame and love. These poems show how he grapples with his past and future colliding.

Love Poems

Love Poems
Author: Peter Washington
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1993-11-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0679429069

It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul. Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Sappho, Bhartrhari, Anna Akhmatova, and W. B. Yeats, among many others.

Horse and Rider

Horse and Rider
Author: Melissa Range
Publisher: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780896727854

The redeeming power of love, amid the causes and causalties of violence