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American poetry Children's poetry, American Children's poetry, English English poetry Owen, Wilfred 1893-1918 Picture books for children Poètes anglais 20e siècle Biographies Poésie anglaise 20e siècle Histoire et critique Voyages and travels Juvenile poetry Voyages and travels PoetryFilter By Series
6 poets, searching for rhyme and reasonXie, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 XIEMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In these delightful poems, Alexander McCall Smith writes about his travels, from Africa to Greece, London to Dubai, and back home to Scotland. He shares his gentle, inimitably McCall Smith-esque observations on life, love, and beauty, reminding us how deeply satisfying it can be to take in the world around us with all our senses, and with all our mind and heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 821 MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 SMIWheeler, Lisa
Summary: Moo dreams of becoming a sailor. Little does she know, when she sets off toward the sea, that the first crew she joins will be composed of cats. Or that she herself will be hailed by a shipload of pirate steers as their captain?s dairy queen. It's amoozing where a dream can take a girl -- a truth which Lisa Wheeler and Ponder Goembel relish here in rollicking words and witty, windblown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WHEMacfarlane, Robert
Summary: "A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane's travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"-a path used by walkers and riders for so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.23 MACSummary: Synonymous with metaphysical poetry, John Donne combined wit with passion, startling diction with curious contrasts. This program chronicles his extraordinary life as lawyer, lover, sailor, father, preacher, and poet. Manuscripts and paintings are combined with readings from many of Donne's most famous writings, including "The Flea," "Elegy XX," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Calm,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Oso, Maisha
Summary: "Before the Ships is a powerful and poetic celebration of the early roots of Black history."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OSOKorda, Michael
Summary: "His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 KORGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Go on a journey to unknown, but strangely familiar, lands and then travel home again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010