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Jul 3, 2006 · 4.6 220 ratings. See all formats and editions. Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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Selected Poems. Langston Hughes. 4.31. 7,971 ratings445 reviews. Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career.
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13,975 ratings382 reviews. The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets.
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Selected Poems. Gwendolyn Brooks. 4.20. 2,670 ratings221 reviews. Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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Selected Poems includes many of her best-loved poems, including "The Jerboa," "No Swan So Fine," "The Steeple-Jack," and "To a Snail." Also included in the volume, is her famous lyric "Poetry," which begins: I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in. it after all, a place for the genuine.
Rita Dove's selected poems in order of publication. 1980s. “ The Breathing, the Endless News ” (1989) Receptacle. for wishes, each god is empty. without us. Mysterious and macabre, this poem’s world is as stark as the titular news. When nature appears, it is dead: the horn and hoof of an elk presumably hunted and piles of autumn leaves.
Robert Frost: Selections. An introduction to one of America’s most popular poets. By Benjamin Voigt. Illustration by Sophie Herxheimer. [Jump to poems by publication year: 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1960s ] Robert Frost (1874–1963) may be not only the most famous American poet but also the most misunderstood.
