Poetry in the Making

Reducere. The Walter Scott Prize-winning author of }The Gallows Pole{ returns with the story of a young man from a coal-mining background making his way to R...

History in the making -the way history turns in the air like a coin -Cricket was a major part of the poet Zaffar Kunial's childhood when growing up...

Exhilarating, all-new, kid-friendly verses capture the range of emotions, from the thrill of winning to the agony of losing to the sheer joy of par...

Reducere. An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and E...

Reducere. An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels righ...

DescriptionMagic slips between the cracks in real life. One day you will step on it.A monster's lunch, a wolf boy, Monday mornings, monkeys, headli...

Norma and Celia Forte's mother was a beautiful woman with stunning blue eyes, intellectual curiosity, and artistic talents, but she was broken, oft...

In 'The Art of Grieving', you embraced the comfort of sadness. It's about time to not hold on to the melancholy for too long and knowing when to le...

Reducere. From a very young age, Juana In s loved words. When she was three years old, she followed her sister to school and begged the teacher to let her st...

Reducere. George Washington Sears, also known as "Nessmuk, " was a Romantic. He sought to witness the glory and the beauty of nature; to free himself from th...

Reducere. Practice Showing Up is a reckoning with white supremacy, a balm for the tensions of racial justice work, and a manual for white people to practice ...

Reducere. A shark and a robot are unlikely friends. But in this hilarious young graphic novel series, what makes you different makes for an EPIC friendship. ...

Reducere. Our Christmas Tree is a love story on several levels. The greatest level of love is Jesus's everlasting love for mankind symbolized by the nature o...

Reducere. Primary Source presents Jason Schneiderman's most exuberant volume of poetry, as he plays with the literary canon and explores his own personal arc...

'Essential reading' Roger Robinson'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr'Sure, wise and devastating . . . a joy' Caleb Azumah N...

DescriptionMary J. Oliver's debut is an unusual and striking coalescing of prose, poetry, found documents and photographs. It ranges across the his...

Reducere. Carbon is a collection about life in all its smallest details and largest concerns. It spans from positive across negative to the more neutral mome...

Reducere. Karmic Purgatory isn't just a book of war poetry. It's a collection of poems detailing one man's life, making sense of transitions and turmoil now ...

Reducere. A delightful children's picture book told in rhyme about snails and slugs. This little book is filled with colorful pictures and fun facts about th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charlotte MasonEditor: Amy M. EdwardsEditor: Christina J. MugglinElementary Geography was originally written by educator Ch...

Falling Up is a moving personal essay about the struggle to become an authentic, vulnerable, purpose-driven man in the 21st century and, ultimately...

A pioneering new graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of the internationally bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants s...

Victoria Kennefick's daring first book, Eat or We Both Starve, draws readers into seemingly recognisable set-pieces--the family home, the shared me...

Reducere. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journali...

Reducere. The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writi...

Reducere. In many ways making the selection of pieces to include in New Contexts: 2 was a much more difficult task than it had been for the inaugural edition...

As a collection of 66 books spanning thousands of years, the Bible can be daunting in size and scope. In The Heart of It All, the Canterbury Press ...

After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe's most innovative and o...

DescriptionA hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelieversMarianne is in a slump: b...

Reducere. Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassi...

Reducere. Founded in 2010, the Montreal International Poetry Prize has established itself as a major event in contemporary poetry, both in Canada and around ...

Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of The Boatloads is its overt references to church and Christianity. Dan Albergotti's references are not mere p...

Reducere. The debut collection of poetry by Anaïs Duplan. "I have never before read a book like Anaïs Duplan's Take This Stallion. Her major talent is recogn...

Reducere. For Nathan Hoks, a poem is a verbal nest, a weave of various scraps and strands inside of which something incubates. In Nests In Air, he makes this...

Reducere. In Flourish, multiple meanings catch light--as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in d...

Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy, " he descri...

On the battlefield of life, desiring to do our best, how should we act? Which values should we live by? What metaphysical outlook best explains wha...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relat...

Reducere. DescriptionA book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, S...

Reducere. The late W. S. Merwin said Akers's nature poems are a "joy to discover" because they embody a "lost sense of the living world." In Swerve, Akers ce...

Reducere. Emma Serl's exceptional lessons on the English language are designed for those who desire to better their English skills through the use of practic...

DescriptionSpirited and observant, Layla's a child who's been given room to grow, making happiness both thoughtful and intimate. It's her dad talki...

DescriptionIt's 1923 and Annie O'Leary has made a rational and even beautiful life for herself on the back ward of a state asylum, where she's conf...

Reducere. Description"This book of poetry is about stumbling through heartbreak and learning to change and grow from it in the end. It's about holding on and...

Award NameNational Book AwardsAward categoryPoetryDescriptionIn Creatures of a Day, Reginald Gibbons presents intense encounters with everyday peop...

DescriptionWritten over an eight-year period, the poems in State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies chronicle the death of Alexis Rhone Fancher's only ch...

Reducere. Donald Hall's remarkable life in poetry -- a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 -- comes alive in this richly detailed,...

Reducere. Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son and between cultures, old and new. A Differen...

Reducere. "Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." Robert Pinsky, Washington Post"Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning ...

Reducere. JOHN BUNYAN 1628-1888] was C. H. Spurgeon's favorite author and his legendary work, THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, is the most popular book ever written a...

Reducere. As children, we searched for four-leaf clovers and carried a keychain with a rabbit's foot because we were told they were good luck. We were told n...

Reducere. With bold musings about pleasure, pain, life, death, anger, spirituality, nature, compassion, fantasies and daydreams, this compilation is a provok...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trad...

Reducere. Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 - 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his li...

Reducere. DescriptionSaint Worm, Hailey Leithauser's second poetry collection, collects--sometimes warmly, sometime wickedly--glowworm, bookworm, earthworm, ...

Reducere. Poetry. From 1982 until 2002, Joe Weil worked as a tool grinder and union shop steward in a mold making plant in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Many of th...

Reducere. DescriptionYour Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to...

Reducere. Description"Observant, musical, coheres to nature; it's been a pleasure to read Joseph Massey for some years now. A poetry pared down to the essent...

Greg Palmer, an award-winning writer and producer of PBS documentaries and plays for families, chronicles two of the most important years in the li...

Reducere. Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres i...

I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it.Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, i...

"We need poetry as we need love and company, " according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe divorce was just the beginning. . . Kimera Davis had a plan to jump start her life and land on easy street. But a disastrous marriag...

"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the...

Reducere. Where there is food, there will be laughter (and crumbs).In more than 40 exuberant poems and "vandalized" photographs, you'll meet a city kid who f...

Description"Poetic musings on a life well-lived--one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobi...

Reducere. Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British trav...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Reducere. Charlie has a hard time choosing. It doesn't matter if the choice is between flavors of ice cream, pairs of underwear, or whether to sleep with the...

Reducere. When you grow up on a farm, adventures happen all day long--even at night! On a cold winter evening, a father and daughter go out to the barn and a...