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• Goldenrod

  Poems

  Smith, Maggie, 1977-

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  With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving , Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod , the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poems for a Small Planet

  Contemporary American Nature Poetry

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  Eight-three poets forge a vision of nature for the post-industrial age.

• Black Nature

  Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

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  This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gift of Animals

  Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection

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  This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. Animals have long been a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bright Wings

  An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

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  In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

  Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  Harjo, Joy,

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  In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Snow

  New Poems

  Hass, Robert

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  A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass's trademark careful attention to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Carry Water

  Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

  Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010,

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  How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Floaters

  Poems

  Espada, Martín, 1957-

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  Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Horses

  Poems

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life's work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature. Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hurting Kind

  Poems

  Limón, Ada,

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  An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón. "I have always been too sensitive, a weeper /…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance

  Poems

  Baez, Joan,

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  An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Headwaters

  Poems

  Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943-

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  Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages--owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills--and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Water, Water

  Poems

  Collins, Billy,

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  In this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it begins in clarity but ends with a whiff of mystery. In Water, Water , Collins combines his vigilant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

  New Poems

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us up to feeling and understanding with poems that cover a broad spectrum of emotions. With profound…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dearly

  New Poems

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

  Poems

  Giovanni, Nikki

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  A pivotal work in Nikki Giovanni's career, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day is one of the most poignant and intorspective of all Giovanni's collections. Moving from the emotionally fraught political arena to the intimate realm of the personal, the poems…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Stilts

  Poems

  Kooser, Ted,

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  Red Stilts finds Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser at the top of his imaginative and storytelling powers. Here are the richly metaphorical, imagistically masterful, clear and accessible poems for which he has become…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light

  Poems

  Piercy, Marge,

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  Another winning collection from one of our most read and enjoyed poets- a bountiful group of poems that reflect on language, nature, old age, young love, Judaism, and our current politics--all in her usual direct and mind-tingling fashion. "Words…Read moreRead more of this annotation