Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6642&N=3+8015+6656 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559064 A comprehensive collection of verses from more than 80 of the worlds greatest poets, spanning from the thirteenth century to the present day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251036 She Walks in Beauty is Kennedys selection of poetry that tells the story of a womans life including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1254471 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=886345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810949 Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. It gathers twenty-nine of literatures most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=933357 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=750790 This translation narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered, and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688534 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609040 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609801 For over two centuries, black poets have created verse that reflects the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their variety of visions and styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry aims to offer nothing less than a definitive literary portrait of a people. Here are poems by writers as different as Paul Laurence Dunbar and W. E. B. Du Bois; Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Barakia; Rita Dove and Harryette Mullen; Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed as a biographer and editor, Arnold Rampersad groups these poems as meditations on key issues in black culture, including the idea of Africa; the South; slavery; protest, and resistance; the black man, woman, and child; sexuality and love; music and religion; spirituality; death, and transcendence. With their often starkly contrasting visions and styles, these poets illuminate some of the more controversial and intimate aspects of the black American experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly a vehicle of protest but also an exploration of the more complex and tender subtleties of black culture. One section offers tributes to celebrated leaders such as Sojourner Truth and Malcolm X, but many more reflect the heroism compelled by everyday black life. The variety of poetic forms and language captures the brilliant essence of English as mastered by black Americans dedicated to the art of poetry.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641799 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614396 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=589900 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=686200 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539447 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=507490 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=533748 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459362 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=537759 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=376713 From Michelangelos Love Misinterpreted to Noel Cowards Mad About the Boy, from May Swensons Symmetrical Companion to Muriel Rukeysers Looking at Each Other, and from Shakespeares sonnets to his young man to Frank OHaras To You, these poems take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender or taunting variety. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=272307 Three Centuries of American Poetry offers a comprehensive overview of Americas vast poetic heritage from 1620 to 1923. Spanning history from the Colonial Era to the early twentieth century, it features the finest work of some 150 poets, including Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein. In addition to these major poets, this collection also celebrates the significant body of work by lesser-known American writers from all walks of life. The editors have selected poets from each era in our nations history, including the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Romantic Era, and the Gilded and Modern Ages, as well as a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols - well-known and less known - that echo through our nations history.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=982012 This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from poverty and motherhood to Van Gogh and Mandela is presented in Tupac Shakurs own handwriting on one side of the page, with a typed version on the opposite side. Targeted mailings. (Poetry) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=190229 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395040 An essential collection for any admirer of Harold Pinter, this brand-new, updated edition of his own selection of his poems and prose includes three never-before-published pieces, the most recent of which he wrote in January 1995. Included are love poems, political diatribes, short stories, character portraits. Some are intimately connected with the plays; others are intriguingly allusive; and all of them share Pinters lean, taut, and sometimes jarringly original use of language.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=18105 When Robert Fagles translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homers best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the worlds greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life. Odysseus reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces is at once the human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are magnificently retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homers original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knoxs superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar, intensifying the strength of Fagles translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homers students.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=573018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=391164 Going into its 30th printing, this is Max Ehrmanns timeless philosophical statement--a collection of poems that speak directly and eloquently to countless readers who seek to fathom lifes mysteries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=143323