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The sky painter

Louis Fuertes, bird artist
2015
In verse, follows a young Louis Agassiz Fuertes' dream to be a bird artist.

In memoriam

authoritative text : criticism
2004
Presents the annotated text of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam" inspired by a friend's death and his brother's placement in a mental asylum, and includes essays that discuss the poem's backgrounds and sources, as well as a selection of critical commentary.

How I discovered poetry

2014
The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.

To repel ghosts

remixed from the original masters
2005
A collection of poems by award-winning author and poet Kevin Young.

Paradise lost

Samson Agonistes ; Lycidas
1981
Presents three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet, with annotations.

Divine inspiration

the life of Jesus in world poetry
1998

His day is done

a Nelson Mandela tribute
2014
Maya Angelou presents a tribute to Nelson Mandela, the South African president, who spent twenty-seven years in prison for speaking out against discrimination in his country.

Miryam of Judah

witness in truth & tradition
1987
Takes her reader on a journey in time and memory with Mary - woman, mother, faithful Jew.

The singer

1975
A narrative in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien - a retelling of an age-old story whose significance is unmatched in human history.

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