Poets
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The Upside Down Boy / El Niño de Cabeza
$11.95 Add to cartBilingual English/Spanish. The Upside Down Boy is award-winning poet Juan Felipe Herrera’s engaging memoir of the year his migrant family settled down so that he could go to school for the first time.
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Herrera, Juan Felipe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0892392177
- Language: Spanish
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The Illustrated Emily Dickinson: 25 Essential Poems
$18.99 Add to cartIn this gorgeous collection, twenty-five of Emily Dickinson’s most beloved poems are illustrated with stunning, full-color collage artwork.
Poems include “Hope is the Thing with Feathers,” “I’m Nobod
- Series: The Illustrated Poets Collection #1
- Author: Van Cleave, Ryang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1638191077
- Language: English
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Just Kids
$45.00 Add to cartPatti Smith’s National Book Award-winning memoir, now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs
“Reading rocker Smith’s account of her relationship with photographer Rober
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0062873741
- Language: English
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Catching the Light
$10.95 Add to cartUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274068
- Language: English
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Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
$17.00 Add to cart“This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, I felt tucked-in with him, along fo
- Author: Purnell, Brontez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0374612692
- Language: English
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How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
$19.99 Add to cartPoet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia
- Author: Keith Jr, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063296004
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson Face to Face
$18.00 Add to cart“Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though millions of pages have been written about Dickinson . . . few have provided such a th… [more below]
- Author: Bianchi, Martha Dickinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022586
- Language: English
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The Book of Disquiet
$21.00 Add to cartThe prizewinning, complete and unabridged translation–“the best English-language version we are likely to see for a long time, if ever” (The Guardian)–of a work of unclassifiable genius: the crownin
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0141183047
- Language: English
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Who Was Langston Hughes?
$6.99 Add to cartFind out how a young boy from the Midwest became one of the most important writers and activists of the Harlem Renaissance in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series!
Langston Hughes- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Merrell, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059365854X
- Language: English
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The Savage Detectives
$23.00 Add to cartThe Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.
National Bestseller
New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belan- Author: Bolaño, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: March 04, 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427484
- Language: English
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The Cancer Journals
$14.00 Add to cartMoving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.
A Penguin Class- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0143135201
- Language: English
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Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder
$17.95 Add to cartNamed a Best New Children’s Book of 2023 by NCompass Live
Long before Ted Kooser won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, served as the U.S. Poet Laureate, a
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People Winner- Author: Ketner, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236777
- Language: English
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The Liars’ Club: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cart#4 on The New York Times‘ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a ge- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 31, 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035746
- Language: English
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
$24.00 Add to cartThe complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath–essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet’s life and work.
“A genuine literary event…. Plath’s journals contain ma- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0385720254
- Language: English
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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“Reading rocker Smith’s account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it’s hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter t
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 02, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060936223
- Language: English
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The Prisoner’s Wife
$15.99 Add to cartThe Prisoner’s Wife is a beautiful story about love that overcomes every obstacle and thrives against all odds.
“A powerful and provocative book–everyone should read it.” –Angela Y. Davis “Romantic- Author: Bandele, Asha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0671021486
- Language: English
