Helping the Dreamer
By: Anne Waldman
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"A syncopated web that includes the personal within the metaphysical and the environmental, tying t…
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1. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
By: bell hooks
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more
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"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
2. American Smooth
By: Rita Dove
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her … read more
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- poetry
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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4. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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5. Selected Poems
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipie… read more
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- poetry
6. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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8. Grace Notes: Poems
By: Rita Dove
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-… read more
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9. On the Bus With Rosa Parks
By: Rita Dove
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the… read more
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10. Mother Love
By: Rita Dove
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched… read more
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11. Lucky Wreck
By: Ada Limon
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more
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12. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
13. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
14. Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
By: Bob Kaufman
4.63
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a vol… read more
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15. Helping the Dreamer
By: Anne Waldman
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"A syncopated web that includes the personal within the metaphysical and the environmental, tying t… read more
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16. The Yellow House on the Corner
By: Rita Dove
3.77
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The debut collection of poetry by Rita Dove. read more
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