Poets
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Starflower: The Making of a Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay
$18.99 Read moreJ. M. Farkas and Emily Vizzo’s Starflower is a lyrical picture book biography about Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s childhood and the two sisters who inspired her.
Good things c- Author: Farkas, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1951836510
- Language: English
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Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart
$32.00 Read moreA memoir of an extraordinary life–poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politi… [more below]
- Author: Styron, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0525659021
- Language: English
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Poeta Chileno
$27.95 Read moreAlejandro Zambra returns to the novel with this magnificent book. A beautiful, cheerful but seriously funny declaration of love to poetry. For a good part of this novel Gonzalo is a step poet who want… [more below]
- Author: Zambra, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 2020
- ISBN10: 8433998935
- Language: Spanish
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Freedom’s Pen: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Freed Slave and Poet Phillis Wheatley
$8.99 Add to cartDaughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.
1761–Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Africa and brought to America as a sl
- Series: Daughters of the Faith
- Author: Lawton, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0802476392
- Language: English
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The Poem Forest: Poet W. S. Merwin and the Palm Tree Forest He Grew from Scratch
$18.99 Read moreVibrant art and a poetic narration tell the tale of a US Poet Laureate who spent forty years planting the world’s most comprehensive palm tree forest–and then gave it all away.
All his life, William- Author: Fountain, Carrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1536211265
- Language: English
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Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
$9.99 Add to cartA celebration of our nation’s melting pot, this beautifully illustrated origin story of the Statue of Liberty honors a poet who has advocated for the voiceless.
“Give me your tired, your poor
Your h- Author: Glaser, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0544105087
- Language: English
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
$5.99 Read moreHow did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library
Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Anderson, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0399543988
- Language: English
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Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese-American Poet Khalil Gibran
$18.99 Read moreA lyrical biography of Kahlil Gibran by award-winning writer Cory McCarthy, with glorious illustrations by Caldecott Honoree and two-time Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Ekua Holmes.
Befor- Author: McCarthy, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1536200328
- Language: English
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Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?
$6.99 Read moreFilled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Gigliotti, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0448483114
- Language: English
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A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
$7.99 Add to cart“Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley’s life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world.” — Booklist
In 1761, a young girl was sold to the Wheatley family in- Series: Candlewick Biographies
- Author: Lasky, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0763660914
- Language: English
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The Dreamer
$21.99 Read morePura Belpré Award Winner
Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner
A tender, transcendent, and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter SÃ
- Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 19, 2010
- ISBN10: 0439269709
- Language: English
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Being Reflected Upon
$20.00 Read moreA memoir in verse from one of America’s legendary poets
In a New York Times review of Alice Notley’s 2007 collection In the Pines, Joel Brouwer wrote that “the radical freshness of Notley’s poems stem- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0143137972
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
$30.00 Add to cartAn expression of an extraordinary poet’s life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and student
- Author: Ames, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 433
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0618492429
- Language: English
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Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie
$17.95 Read moreLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima’s cla
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 087286880X
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cartNominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Priz… [more below]
- Author: Middlebrook, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741828
- Language: English
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Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
$26.00 Add to cartA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018
In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was
- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1571313699
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254761
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$15.95 Add to cart‘An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself’
The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to re- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199646031
- Language: English
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Cherry
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars’ Club left off, Karr dashes down the tr… [more below]
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0141002077
- Language: English
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreIn her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizo- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1629798819
- Language: English
