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Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.
The book carries new work as well as selected poems from eight previous collections, and avant-garde pieces, such as a ...
For nearly 200 years, only a select few people had read the contents of a tiny collection of poems written by an author who later became a household name. Charlotte Brontë was just 13 when she ...
What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.
The book, authored by Th.H. van de Velde, a Dutch doctor, was due to the Mid-Manhattan Library on Aug. 17, 1959, but was just received at the library in May of last year.
What was significant about “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a 1773 collection by Phillis Wheatley? It’s thought to be the first book published by a woman in America.