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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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Treasury of 23 works by American poet renowned for the lyric beauty of her early works. In addition to the title poem, this collection includes "Interim," "Sorrow," "Ashes of Life," "Three Songs of Shattering," "The Dream," "When the Year Grows Old," and others, including 6 sonnets. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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Central Avenue Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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131 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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If you think often about the past or battle with overthinking and self-esteem, “Girl Made of Glass” is for you. This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us but will leave you feeling hopeful about your future.
“Girl Made of Glass” is a poetry collection about how our past-past mistakes, relationships, and regrets-can linger into our future. Broken into four...
10) Collected poems
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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473 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence, and meticulous observation of nature, history, and domestic life. This definitive collection showcases the brilliant career of "a quintessential American elegist""--
16) Babel: [poems]
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University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
c2004
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80 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
17) Thirst: poems
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Beacon Press
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English
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In this collection of 43 new poems the author grapples with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years. She strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not it end. She also chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
18) Ventriloquy
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Tinderbox Editions
Pub. Date
2016
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91 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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95 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion-both toward and away from us-and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Ada Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they've...
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Little, Brown
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English
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Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886-when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered...
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