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"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve the temptation and fall is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking...
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"On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition." --
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Books for Embracing Diversity
Books to Celebrate Black History Month
Engaging Nonfiction Books for Middle Grade
Books to Celebrate Black History Month
Engaging Nonfiction Books for Middle Grade
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...
5) The prophet
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Prose poetry teachings of the prophet Almustafa who speaks to the listener about life, love, good and evil, religion, and death.
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Harvard classics volume 22
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A complete translation of the Greek poem recounting the experience of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
8) The raven
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"Once upon a midnight dreary ..." This strikingly illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven will haunt and thrill readers new and old.--Publisher.
10) The undefeated
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
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"This revised, corrected, and expanded edition of E.E. Cummings's Complete Poems brings together, for the very first time, all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime. In addition, 164 unpublished poems, issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera, have also been included."--Editor's note.
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Harvard classics volume 6
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16) Selected poems
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New Directions paperbook volume 66
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Selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations, covering his entire writing career from his early lyrics and the translations of Provençal songs to his English version of Sophocles' Trachiniae.
18) Milk and honey
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...