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83) Emily Dickinson
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Follows the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.
86) Imagine
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet." -- Jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A meditation on the value of daydreaming and ease, and the primacy of the imagination, by one of our finest prose stylists Modern life only seems to become increasingly hectic and stressful, as we try to cram more and more into each day. In her new book, acclaimed author Patricia Hampl argues for the necessity of daydreaming and leisure in our over-amped lives. Written out of a lifelong fascination with contemplation, solitude, and silence, The Art...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This beautifully illustrated children's book explores how Walt Whitman was affected by the Civil War and inspired by President Lincoln.
O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America's greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America's greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln's carriage on the road. The...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role-from the postwar years past the turbulent...
94) Little boy
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A novelistic memoir by famed poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"John Berryman was an energetic correspondent. Assembled here for the first time, his letters tell of generosity, ambition, and struggle. He has encouraging words for fellow poets and younger writers and is deeply engaged in literary culture. But also visible are the struggles of a working artist grappling with alcoholism and depression"--
99) Rainbows End
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Appears on list
Description
Hugo Award winner Vinge pens a sci-fi thriller set in San Diego, California, in the year 2025. As world-famous poet Robert Gu regains his faculties from Alzheimer's through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed--and so has his place in it.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This book explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers a new perspective on one of Americas most celebrated but enigmatic...