Don't read poetry: a book about how to read poems

In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to con…

The unsent concolences

This collection of poems is the work of former refugee, Abdul Samad Haidari. The poems, grouped in five sections, give expression to the author's experiences of flight from war torn Afghanistan to Iran as a child of the oppressed Hazara ethnic group, and later travel by boat to Indonesia where he remained as a 'stateless' refugee without his family for 10 years until being accepted in 2023 to l…

Love, spelled in poetry

Here's to planes you missed. the tickets ripped away. and the lands left unexplored. Here's to the boxes left unopened. the keys thrown away. and the treasure left untouched. Here's to the 2 AM thoughts. the songs of what ifs. and the chances i missed.

And still i rise

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9780860687573

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100 p. ; 20 cm

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811 ANG s

Classic Poetry

from the back cover: "Walker Illustrated Classics" are some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read.

Memories

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9781449472399

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821.92 LEA m

Never Stare at A Grizzly Bear : Animal Poems

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9780330391214

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53 p.; ilus.; ppbk

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821 TOC n

Poetry : Reading, Writing and Perfoming Poetry

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9781850082712

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400 GRE P

The Classic Poems

Robert Burns is one of the world’s greatest poets. Known as “The Ploughman Poet” or simply “The Bard” in his native Scotland, Burns translated a life of poverty and hardship into lines of verse which still touch everybody who reads them. The work of Robert Burns has a uniquely wide appeal. Abraham Lincoln knew many of his verses, and Bob Dylan recently admitted that it was “A Red Ro…