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Dance Me to the End of Love
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Leonard Cohen, Linda Sunshine (Editor), Henri Matisse (Illustrator)
The perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and other lovers as well, this evocative, lyrical tribute to love and its healing, restorative powers, is complemented by 21 diverse works by Henri Matisse, including oils, line drawings, paper cut-outs, book illustrations, and linocuts.
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
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Anne Carson
This novel in verse by poet Anne Carson is based on the ancient Greek legend of a winged monster named Geryon. Here, he discovers photography and becomes fascinated with it, and with a young man named Herakles. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Best of Robert Service
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Robert Service
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Ballads of a Cheechako
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Robert W Service
BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO ROBERT W. SERVICE - To the Man of the High North MY rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming Ive drifted, silver-sailed, on seas of dream, Hearing afar the bells of Elfland chiming, Seeing the groves of Arcadie agleam. I was the thrall of Beauty that rejoices From peak snow-diademed to regal star Yet to mine aerie ever ...
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Hey World, Here I Am
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Jean Little
Eighth-grader Kate Bloomfield, the character who also appeared in "Look Through My Window" and "Kate", shares her thoughts on life in this collection of poems, vignettes, and observations. Her topics include family, religion, dating, and love. Illustrated with gray line-and-wash drawings.
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Alligator Pie
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Dennis Lee
"Alligator pie, alligator pie, / If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die." So begins one of the most beloved of modern children's rhymes, first introduced in 1974 by Dennis Lee and now reinvented for a new generation of children. Nora Hilb's witty, vibrant artwork makes the speaker's plea for "alligator pie," "alligator stew," and "alligator ...
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Jelly Belly
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Dennis Lee
A collection of humorous poems about all sorts of unusual people and situations.
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Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
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Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Quinn (Editor)
This revelatory and moving selection brings readers into the poet's laboratory, showing the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime, and revealing the kind of artistic resolution she exercised.
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
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Anne Carson
This book-length lyric essay by MacArthur Grant-recipient Anne Carson, written in 29 small chapters which the poet calls "Tangos," emotionally chronicles the history of a marriage gone bad. Carson's fragmentary style is joined by excerpts from love letters and classical texts. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book.
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie
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Margaret Atwood, Charles Pachter (Illustrator)
This 1970 volume, illustrated with silkscreen prints, is a feminist epic based on the autobiographies of a famous Canadian pioneer woman, who immigrated from England to the backwoods north of Toronto in the 1830s.
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Men in the Off Hours
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Anne Carson
The poems in this volume blend the classical rigor and disciplined thought of scholarly work with the unpredictable turns and loops of postmodern life, setting Thucydides and Virginia Woolf in conversation, for instance, or putting Catullus in the driver's seat of a Red Cross ambulance.
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The Circle Game
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood
This early volume represents Margaret Atwood's first major poetry collection--witty, strongly emotional poems about love and its difficulties, and about the necessity for self-knowledge. Winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award for Poetry.
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Whylah Falls
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George Elliott Clarke
The mythic community created within these poems is populated with larger-than-life characters: lovers, murderers, musicians, and muses. Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry, Whylah Falls has inspired a drama, a stage play, and a feature film, One Heart Broken into Song. This Tenth Anniversary Edition includes "Apocrypha" - a section of ...
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Eunoia
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Christian BOK
Each section of this collection of rigorously formal poems is named for a different vowel, and the words therein contain only the vowel named. This volume was nominated for a 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
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The Ice Cream Store: Poems
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Dennis Lee, David M. McPhail (Illustrator)
In this kid-pleasing poetry collection, Dennis Lee delves into the special and imaginative world of children. Young readers will enjoy reading poems that address their concerns and curiosities, from digging holes to foreign lands to searching for the perfect pet. Full color.
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Dinosaur Dinner
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Dennis Lee, Debbie Tilley (Illustrator)
A collection of poetry spanning such subjects as food, school, mud puddles, and rainy days. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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The Best of Robert Service: Illustrated Edition
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Robert W Service
A deluxe edition of the works of Service, with stunning period photographs of the Yukon territory he immortalized through his incomparable verses. Photos are from the famed Kinsey collection, taken in the 1890s during the height of the Klondike gold rush.
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
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Michael Ondaatje
Poems written between 1963 and 1990, including "A Dog in San Francisco," "The Goodnight," "King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens," and "Proust in the Waters."
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If You're Not from the Prairie
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David Bouchard, Henry Ripplinger (Illustrator)
A picture-book poem that celebrates the home of the author. The artwork depicts scenes such as children boarding a school bus and having a snowball fight, while the text extolls the virtues of prairie living.
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Power Politics
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are ...
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The Unseen
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Janet Lunn
A collection of short stories and poems about spooky experiences. Contributors include L.M. Montgomery, Kit Pearson, and Tim Wynne-Jones.
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The Best of Robert Service
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Clarke Kinsey (Photographer), Clarence Kinsey (Photographer), Tam Mossman (Preface by)
"In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the f"
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The habitant and other French-Canadian poems
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William Henry Drummond
William Henry Drummond was a 19th century Irish born Canadian poet. He trained to be a telegraph writer after leaving school at age 14 to help support his mother and brothers. He returned to school and became a well loved compassionate doctor. His most famous poem was "The Wreck of the 'Julie Plante." Drummond loved the French Canadians and wanted ...
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Midsummer Night's Dream for Kids
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Lois Burdett
This guide to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" brings fairies to life for youngsters, as it presents rhyming couplets in a rendition suitable for staging in the classroom.
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Ballads of a Bohemian
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Robert W Service
1921. Service, the celebrated bard of the Yukon, is most remembered for his tales of The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Harpy, The Spell of the Yukon. During WWI he worked as a stretcher bearer and ambulance driver with the Ambulance Corps of the American Red Cross. The Contents of this volume are divided into the ...
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