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81) Jazz A-B-Z
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English
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A collection of poems and biographical sketches about different jazz singers.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe, and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciously rejected less-than-sterling poems when assembling his Selected. Pastoral Habits is a Selected of carefully chosen poems from fifty years and five volumes of poetic harvests. If “pastoral” connotes good shepherding, or good harvesting, then George Drew’s collection with, like various varieties...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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American Psalm, World Psalm takes the original rhythms of the Biblical Psalms and reimagines them through the scope of contemporary Amerian music - blues, jazz, folk, hip-hop, world music. Samaras turns in a massively ambitious - and hugely successful- project of writing one-hundred and fifty contemporary psalms, to mirror the Old Testament, that evoke the spiritual hunger of our modern world. His is a lyricist, a political writer, and social critic...
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Five Little Monkeys volume 1
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English
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A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of war, industrialisation...
89) Dogku
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Language
English
Description
Shows how a stray dog finds a family to love him even though he is sometimes bad.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices. The book also includes interview excerpts from her public radio series, The Poet & the Poem. Her incisive interviews with Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Josephine Jacobsen offer profound insights...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own a good camera, didn't know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone. Could he pull it off? In a captivating collection of poems, Roxane Orgill steps into the frame of Harlem...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott...
97) A rock can be
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Rocks may seem like boring, static objects--until you discover that a rock can spark a fire, glow in the dark, and provide shelters of all shapes and sizes. Laura Purdie Salas's lyrical rhyming text and Violeta Dabija's ... illustrations show how rocks decorate and strengthen the world around them"--Amazon.com.
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English
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"Rich and lively illustrations bring to life a classic song for today's kids and families. In this stunning book, birds soar, bugs burrow, elephants dance, plants grow--the whole world sings in praise of their Creator God. With the lyrics to this well-known classic tune, kids and parents can sing along. Jean Claude's charming illustrations are lush and lively, filling each page with interesting, creative characters and scenes. Every time kids open...
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