poets

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Voices & visions, Wallace Stevens

man made out of words
1988
Presents the life and works of poet Wallace Stevens.

Emily and Carlo

2012
The only sibling left in the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1849, Emily gets a dog who becomes her constant companion and who is featured in some of the poems she writes. Includes brief notes on the life and work of Emily Dickinson.

Lord Byron's novel

the evening land
2005
Presents a story that deals with the supposed discovery of a novel by Lord Byron that was hidden away by his daughter Ada about Ali, the illegitimate son of the demonic Lord Sane, who was taken from his life in Albania to be raised as a proper English gentleman.

My life as a fake

a novel
2003
Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, accompanies the famous and infamous John Slater on a trip to Malaysia, hoping to find out how he destroyed her parents' marriage, but instead finds herself drawn into a dangerous mystery abroad.

What is a poem?

2014
Included in the Common Core standards, poetry was one of the earliest genres of literature and remains one of the most important today. Rhythm, word stress, and the other central elements of poetry are explained, as well as themes that are common in this sensory-based form of writing.

History of the rain

a novel
The bedridden daughter of a dead poet struggles to find her father through the stories that are central to her world, an effort that takes her through family writings, oral traditions, her father's library, and her own writing.

Nobody's secret

a novel of intrigue and romance
When Emily Dickinson meets a young man who refuses to tell her his name she is intrigued, so when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.

El so?ador

2010
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

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