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Poetry

Tough boy sonatas

Floyd Cooper, Curtis L Crisler

A collection of nearly forty poems that explores the struggles and joys of poor African-American boys in Gary, Indiana, reflecting the difficult circumstances they face

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1000 years of Irish poetry

Kathleen Hoagland

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1000

An anthology of Irish literature

820.9
ANT

A wreath for Emmett Till

Philippe Lardy, Marilyn Nelson

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955

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Escaping Tornado Season

Julie Williams

Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and tr

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Williams

The Woman I Kept to Myself

Julia Alvarez

Presents a collection of seventy-five poems that provide a narrative of a woman's inner life as she looks back from the perspective of middle age.

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ALV

In their Own Voices Sound Recording

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808.81
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Poetry for Students

Elizabeth Williams Thomason

Profiles sixteen commonly studied poems, providing an author biography, the poem itself, a poem summary, historical context, a critical overview, a critical essay and/or excerpt, and discussion of the

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Poetry for Students

Jennifer Smith

Profiles sixteen classic poems, providing an introduction, author biography, summary, critical overview, essay of criticism, and selected bibliography for each, as well as discussion of each poem's th

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Poetry for Students

Elizabeth Williams Thomason

Profiles sixteen poems often studied in high schools and colleges, providing author biographies, poem texts and summaries, historical context, analysis of themes and style, examples of criticism, and

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809.1
POE
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