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Adoption Poem: a Birth Mother’s Hope for Solace and Closure
Having to give your daughter or son up for adoption is a very painful experience. But you are not alone in your emotional turmoil. A lot of birth mothers who have given up their children feel that same pain. How do they cope with it? By sharing their experiences through an adoption poem.
Sharing your personal experience is one of the most therapeutic ways for you to begin the healing process and overcome feelings of guilt and regret. It is one of the most effective ways that women, because of extreme circumstances are forced to give their children up for adoption, can gain closure.
Writing an adoption poem, in particular, begins the healing process that grants them peace of mind. It washes away the guilt and reinforces the knowledge that wherever your child may be, he or she is safe and may be taken cared for by adoptive Parents who can give him or her, a chance at a life you’ve hoped for them. By writing down your experiences and feelings in an adoption poem, you can begin to hope, to start over and be able to carry on with your own life.
There are a lot of things that you can write about in an adoption poem. Birth mothers, who have come to terms with their adoption, often write prayer-poems, asking God to watch over their children. Others write poems wondering who their children are and what they will become in the future. Some dream of meeting their children again, and when that time comes, hope they will understand the choice of adoption.
If you don’t know how to start writing an adoption poem, begin by reading up on poems written by other women. If you are a member of a local adoption support group, ask for help. Chances are, they may have copies of adoption poems that may mirror your very own experience. You may also find poetry anthologies in you local library. Or, you may find adoption poems online. Do a web search and you may find an adoption poem that’s close to your heart.
You can also find many helpful guides for writing your own adoption poem online. You can write an adoption poem about how you felt when you were having your child. You can also write about your worries, your fears, and your hopes of giving your child a good life. Write an adoption poem that says something about why you had to give him or her up.
Writing honestly about how letting go was the only way you could ever hope he or she may be well-cared for. Through your adoption poem, you might be able to share the hope that one day your child may understand your decision and not think less of you.
Start on your own path to self-healing by writing your own adoption poem. Read more about how other birth mothers have written their own poems and start from there. One adoption poem that is well-circulated over the Internet ends with a fervent prayer to a birth mother’s son, that as he looks back and wonders why she gave her up, he would see and understand that it was love that made her let him go.
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Morning Song: Poems for New Parents $4.64 Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the Bible, Sappho, and traditional songs to Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and our outstanding contemporary poets, this beautiful collection summons the cosmic and the comic, the spiritual and the pragmatic, the whimsical and the divine. Sections such… |
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When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along $9.76 In When Parents Hurt, psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parent they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with their child. Through case examples and healing exercises, Dr. Coleman helps parents: Reduce anger, guilt, and shame Learn how temperament, t… |
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Sad Underwear and Other Complications: More Poems fo Children and Their Parents $2.99 Knock, knock. Who’s there? Someone with sad underwear. Sad underwear? How can that be? When my best friend’s mad at me, Everything is sad. Even my underwear. Only Judith Viorst, with the perfect pitch for the trials of childhood that has made her Alexander books modern classics, could create an ode to melancholy unmentionables. But the title poem is just one of the many pleasures in this co… |
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Mom A Gift For A Mother. Touching 8×10 Poem, Double-matted In Burgundy/Dark Green And Enhanced With Watercolor Graphics. $11.95 This quality product is 8 x 10 in size, and is double-matted in a rich burgundy over hunter green.The Verse is ……”Mom” For all the times that I forgot to “thank-you”…… For all the special, little things you do,…… For all the words that sometimes go unspoken,…… I need to say, “I love you, Mom…I do”…… I love you for the way you stop and listen,…… And for your kind support t… |
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5×7 Hinged TO OUR PARENTS ON OUR WEDDING DAY Poem ~ Black Picture/Photo Frame ~ A Wonderful Gift Idea for the PARENTS of the BRIDE & GROOM! $29.99 5×7 Hinged Double BLACK Photo/Picture/Poem FRAME ~ To Our Parents On Our Wedding Day ~ Wonderful Photo & Verse Keepsake for the Parents of the Bride & Groom! Poems are Copyright protected and are not in the public domain. All Rights Reserved. To read poem, click on see larger image below photo. Solid OAK Frame includes double 5×7 hinged frame, glass, verse and backers. One opening holds your … |
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A Mother’s Love Touching 8×10 Poem, Double-matted in Dark Green Over Burgundy and Enhanced with Watercolor Graphics. A Gift For A Mom. $11.95 This beautiful, heart-stirring verse was created by nationally recognized poet, Genie Graveline.This quality product is 8 x 10 in size. It is double matted. The Verse is…… A Mother’s Love…… No gift on earth is greater, …… In spite of how it’s tested, …… |
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For My Son on Graduation Day Touching 8×10 Poem, Double-matted in Dark Green Over Burgundy and Enhanced with Watercolor Graphics. A Graduation Gift. $11.95 This beautiful, heart-stirring verse was created by nationally recognized poet, Genie Graveline. Her work can be found in fine gift stores throughout the country. This quality product is 8 x 10 in size. It is double matted. The Verse is…..”.For My Son On Graduation Day”…… Today, as you graduate, …… |
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A Mother’s Hands. A Gift For A Mom Or A Daughter. Touching 8×10 Verse, Double-matted in Burgundy Over Dark Green and Enhanced with Watercolor Graphics. $11.95 This beautiful, heart-stirring verse depicts a mother’s journey, as she travels through life with her child. If you are a mother, this will surely bring tears to your eyes as you read. It was created by nationally recognized poet, Genie Graveline. This quality product is 8 x 10 in size. It is double matted. The Verse is…… A Mother’s Hands…… When a woman first becomes a mother, her hand… |
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Prenatal prose poem: fetal articles (CD + pregnancy nutrition recipe + parent-child interaction small book) (Chinese edition) $7.99 … |
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Gifts: Poems for Parents $14.94 The over thirty poems in this collection have been written out of the passionate necessity of making sense of our lives as parents. Gifts: Poems for Parents represents the breadth of talent of Canada’ leading writers and poets, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, P.K. Page, Susan Glickman and Bronwen Wallace. These mothers and fathers write wisely about their sons and daughters in language that is engaging, descriptive and moving. Their imagery and insights take us inside the varied experiences of parenting; the birth of a baby and the first moments of connection; a first trip to the beach; the desperate panic of losing sight of a child at a busy fair; hearing first words; offering comfort after a bad dream; watching the transformation into maturity. Black and white photographs combined with an elegant design complement these poems’ graceful charm. Gifts is perfect for Mother’s or Father’s Day, for those new to parenting or those wearied by it, and for any one struggling with the complex joy and labour of raising children in this difficult world. The poems in Gifts form a human and intelligent chronicle of the remedial joys and difficult sorrows that being a parent entails. |
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Morning Song: Poems for New Parents $3.95 Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, "Morning Song "celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the Bible, Sappho, and traditional songs to Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and our outstanding contemporary poets, this beautiful collection summons the cosmic and the comic, the spiritual and the pragmatic, the whimsical and the divine. Sections such as "Conception and Grace," "Waiting," "Sleep and Song," and "Green and Carefree" evoke the breadth of the parenting experience and capture the emotional intensity of this magical time. Among the poets included here are: Billy Collins Mary Oliver Richard Wilbur Sylvia Plath Galway Kinnell Natasha Trethewey Dylan Thomas Pablo Neruda James Merrill John Berryman Kay Ryan Alice Walker Jane Kenyon Rita Dove Mary Jo Salter Sharon Olds An ideal gift book for any parent-to-be, this classic collection will become a treasured companion during the many hours spent waiting and caring for a child. |
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I’m Proud to Be Me!: Poems for Children and Their Parents $13.24 More energetic and insightful children’s poetry from best-selling Irish poet. |
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Baby Haiku: 3-Line Poems for New Parents $3.54 Centering on babies and a mother’s love, Lily Wang’s "Baby Haiku" combines the essence of Eastern and Western poetics to portray the profundity of life and joy. No more than five lines, Haiku is the poetry that fits today’s lifestyle and is perfect for new parents that aspire to read but are short on time. Short and concise, "Baby Haiku" allows the mind to experience Zen, life, and abundance. "Baby Haiku" helps to cleanse the mind and brings about a return to innocence. Wang’s poems focus on the positives and remind us that children are far more powerful than they appear: "’Don’t be fooled by their small sizes The star at night Have the gigantic cosmos condensed into light"" Wang compels you to look at your life differently and appreciate your blessings. Discover harmony with all beings and find peace within your soul with "Baby Haiku," |
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Parents from a Different Alphabet $14.05 Containing a very moving section dedicated to the death of the author’s father, this collection of prose poems considers a variety of forms of love as well as the plights and blitheness of the body, individual and collective. Flourishing under the personal experience of loss, the author uses a broken sentence style that is written in the language of tomorrow as she continues on her trajectory toward new and unexplained horizons in poetry. |
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Sad Underwear and Other Complications: More Poems for Children and Their Parents $3.46 "Knock, knock Who’s there? Someone with sad underwear. Sad underwear? How can that be? When my best friend’s mad at me, Everything is sad. Even my underwear." But sad underwear is just one of the many complications a person has to deal with. There’s the first day of school ("Will they let me go when I need to go to the bathroom?") and pests like Wayne ("a fellow who clogs up life’s drain") and bee stings and liver for supper — and missing your dad. This companion volume to the acclaimed "If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries" has poems for explorers and dreamers, for people who love unicorns, for people who’d rather have pets than baby sisters. Funny, poignant and always true, it examines and celebrates life with all of its perplexing complications. |
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If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries: Poems for Children and Their Parents $3.95 If I were in charge of the worldI’d cancel oatmeal, Monday mornings,Allergy shots, and alsoSara Steinberg.All of us have times when we wish that we were in charge of the world…when we envy girls with ten best friends and gold watches…when we take an eight-block detour to avoid bumping into bullies like Stanley the Fierce…when we question whether princes and princesses really do live happily ever after…when we wonder how grownups ever get to be grown up enough to stop being scared of the dark. This book of poems is for everyone who has ever had trouble apologizing, or loved a cat, or talked too much, or burped. This book of poems is for everyone who could use a little help in turning some of their worries into laughter. |
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Sad Underwear and Other Complications: More Poems Fo Children and Their Parents $3.46 "Knock, knock. Who’s there? Someone with sad underwear. Sad underwear? How can that be? When my best friend’s mad at me, Everything is sad. Even my underwear." Only Judith Viorst, with the perfect pitch for the trials of childhood that has made her Alexander books modern classics, could create an ode to melancholy unmentionables. But the title poem is just one of the many pleasures in this collection, which bursts with wit and understanding — and the occasional poignant note. Sure to delight readers of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Viorst’s own legions of fans, "Sad Underwear" is a perfect companion volume to her celebrated "If I Were In Charge of the World." |
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Poems for the People $3.95 Seventy-three poems from Sandburg’s early years in Chicago, almost all of them never before in print. They show him as a critic of fast-changing conditions in urban America; a walker in the city; a sensitive poet born to immigrant parents. These poems are a reminder of why we revere Sandburg as an authentic American voice. Edited with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick, Sandburg’s most accomplished interpreters. An absolutely exhilarating read…a genuine literary event, a virtual rediscovery of an American treasure. –Michael Van Walleghen |
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Parents $6.61 Table of contents, glossary, bibliography, index – Labeled photographs – Diagrams – Close photo-text matches – Note to Parents and Teachers – Relevant website at www.FactHound.com. |
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Ready for Reading: A Handbook for Parents of Preschoolers $3.95 Improve your child’s chances of success in reading Features sixty book-sharing activities Over 400 books and poems presented This is the essential tool for parents, who are their children’s first and most important teacher This is an introduction to parents and caregivers to over 400 books and 400 poems arranged in 60 book-sharing activities. Parents are provided with more than a year’s worth of books and poems to use with children Each activity features one outstanding children’s book and presents parents with strategies for guiding their children through the book in ways that promote enjoyment and learning. In addition to the featured book there are six additional books and seven poems recommended (in essence, a week’s worth of reading). These all center around a theme associated with the featured book; for example, when "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is introduced, the following poems are about food and/or the weather. This book is truly a handbook, designed to give parents and their children success with formal reading instruction. Dr. Ashley Bishop is a Professor of Elementary, Bilingual, and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. His major research interest is the development of balanced reading programs; specifically, programs that produce students who have personalized the "logic of the code" and use this code as they actively read fine literature. Dr. Ruth Helen Yopp is a Professor of Elementary, Bilingual, and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. Her primary area of interest and expertise is the teaching of reading to young children. Dr. Hallie Kay Yopp is a Professor of Elementary, Bilingual, and Reading Education at California State University, Fullerton. As a mother of two young children and former primary grade teacher, Dr. Yopp brings a practical perspective to her research and writing and is in high demand as a speaker. |
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Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents $12.39 The loss of a child is every parent’s worst nightmare. For Randah Ribhi Hamadeh this nightmare became a reality. The poems in Summer Rays offer consolation to any parent on a grief journey. It is a poetic diary of loss and communication with the eternal soul. Through her poems, all bereaved parents will identify with the heartfelt pleadings of a grieving parent and the connection with her lost child. Readers will find her poetry profound as she describes the familiar, excruciating pain of a grieving parent, in particular on the special occasions where the lost child is missed; birthdays, anniversaries, Mother’s Day and New Year’s Day. They will also relate to her feelings of gratitude towards those who were supportive and frustration with those less understanding. Writings from the soul are cathartic not only for the authors but for all who share their unthinkable sorrow. As with any writing, when the writer takes up the pen, the muse will appear. In this case, the muse is Samar Ahmed Al Ansari, the author’s deceased daughter. |
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Cenotaph: Poems $4.45 Cenotaph is the third panel in a triptych of books that began with Apocrypha and continued with The Late Romances. All contain poems "stained with grief," as Pamela Alexander described Pankey’s work in the "Boston Book Review" — grief for the passing of the poet’s parents, of his teachers and friends, and of his own once-held belief. Pankey’s poetry vibrates with a deep and delicate musicality. The natural world that sustains and buries us here becomes refracted into an intricate web of glinting, harrowing light, into words circumscribing absence. Jeff Hamilton said in "Delmar" that Pankey’s eschatological poems are written from the "vantage of the lapsed sublime." In these extraordinary poems of spiritual crisis, gravity and grace, sacred and profane love, the mythic and the heirloom, are all confronted at the open threshold of an empty tomb — the cenotaph — where doubt, not faith, awaits. "The cenotaph is the perfect figure for these ‘elegiac variations’ by Eric Pankey — variations of elegance, even stateliness, that stand for qualities of craft and metaphysical insight that have become the poet’s standard. Pankey is one of the quiet poets, given to the graces of beautiful, rendered writing burdened by the consciousness that words are never enough. Thus Pankey is one of the honest poets." –Stanley Plumly |
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Easy: Poems $16.99 Leave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her late eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, "Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it." In this celebratory collection, Ponsot makes light, in both senses, of all she touches, and her pleasure in offering these late poems is infectious. After more than a half century at her craft, she describes her poetic preferences unpretentiously thus: "no fruity phrases, just unspun / words trued right toward a nice / idea, for chaser. True’s a risk. / Take it I say. Do true for fun." Ponsot is accepting of what has come, whether it’s a joyous memory of her second-grade teacher in a New York public school or the feeling of being "Orphaned Old," less lucky in life since her parents died. She holds herself to the highest standard: to see clearly, to think, to deal openhandedly and openheartedly with the world, to "Go to a wedding / as to a funeral: / bury the loss" and also to "Go to a funeral / as to a wedding: / marry the loss." She confides that she meets works of great art "expectant and thirsty." Indeed, Ponsot’s thirst for life and its best expression, for the sprightly phrase and the deeper understanding running beneath, makes this book a transformative experience. The wisdom and music of "Easy, " like all of Ponsot’s poetry, will remain with her readers for decades to come. "From the Hardcover edition." |
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Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents and Teachers: Plays, Poems & Songs $3.95 For nearly two years, Fringe Benefits, a team of professional artists, teachers, parents and youth, have been working to concoct "Cootie Shots," a delicious assortment of plays, songs and interactive performance pieces that promote tolerance and celebrate diversity by presenting role models of people of many different races, classes, genders, abilities, sexual orientations, religions, shapes and sizes. In all, "Cootie Shots" is comprised of about 50 2-15 minute educational plays for Elementary School audiences. The lessons covered are: o Love is what makes a family o Children should feel free to play with whatever toys appeal to them, study whatever subjects interest them and choose career paths unhindered by gender stereotypes o Name-calling is never acceptable o Putting people down because how they look and whom they love is neither kind nor fair. The cast of characters includes: Rapunzel Rosa Parks Cesar Chavez Harvey Milk Emily Dickinson Alexander the Great The Statue of Liberty and more |
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Poems for Wedding Receptions – And Poems Definitely Not for Wedding Receptions! $48.19 Humorous, zany, sweet, and romantic wedding readings or speeches illustrating the foibles and eccentricities of the marrying kinds. Something for almost everyone’s funny-bone. Sports fanatics, in-laws, romantics, blended families, hypochondriacs, rappers, sugar-dads, snorers, chauvinists, feminists, fatophobes, pet-lovers, car-lovers, paranoids, parents desperate for their children to leave home, the trials and tribulations of courting, and much, much more. |
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A Manual of Special Education Law for Educators and Parents $5.54 "A Manual of Special Education Law" for educators and parents is designed for school districts, students studying special education in colleges and universities, and parents of special education students. It is a complete overview of the Federal law including IDEA 1997 and the 1999 Regulations, illustrated with up-to-date cases. The focus is preparation and collaboration — not litigation. Important portions of the law are highlighted in "Noteworthy" footnotes, and the text is further enhanced with quotations, poems, and illustrations by children with disabilities. This concise guide to the law is a well-organized, easy-to-read reference. |
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One Hundred Poems of Kabir $14.15 The poet Kablr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of I ndian mysticism. Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably about the year 1440, he became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic Ramananda. Ramananda had brought to Northern India the religious revival which Ramanuja, the great twelfth-century reformer of Brahmanism, had initiated in the South… |
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Pretty Poems and Wonderful Words $3.46 Parents and children will discover the magical world of poetry through the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson. This charmingly illustrated book with companion lift-the-flap surprises will help children understand the meaning of words by matching them to objects. The simple text featured in these classic poems will also help children to expand their vocabulary, as well as increase their sight and sound recognition of words.The simple joy of reading poetry aloud will become a shared experience parent and child will treasure for a lifetime with Baby Einstein’s "Pretty Poems and Wonderful Words." |
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Tim and Sally’s Year in Poems $3.95 Written in verse and perfect for early readers, Tim and Sally’s Year in Poems highlights the order and rhythm of a year, focusing on a sense of place and the importance of tradition. Author Grady Thrasher showcases the details and events – from robins, bunnies, and daydreams to beginnings, endings, and holidays – that mark the passage of time and help give us our sense of who we are. This is a book that will help children and their parents remember their own good times – and perhaps make some new memories as they read together. |
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The Paintings of Our Lives: Poems $3.46 Grace Schulman’s fourth collection of poetry, THE PAINTINGS OF OUR LIVES, celebrates earthly things while discovering inner lives. Here are poems of love and marriage — including a psalm for the poet’s anniversary and a portrayal of her parents dancing during the Depression — and poems identifying with the hungers, sorrows, and joys of Chaim Soutine, Margaret Fuller, Paul Celan, and Henry James. In the final sonnet sequence, Schulman confronts her mother’s death, calling on the art of many cultures to illuminate the universality of grief. |
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Insect Soup: Bug Poems $17.47 This book of charming poems by three-time Parents Choice Award Winner Barry Louis Polisar features in the funniest bugs on the planet. From the praying mantis to chiggers to millipedes, kids will discover that the weird and wacky bugs are the most fun. Even the dung beetle, brilliantly illustrated in a tuxedo and with formal serving tray, finally gets the recognition he deserves as one of the top insects to inspect. An index of the featured creatures rounds out the fun with scientific fact. |
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Book of Pooh: Picture Poems $3.95 Sometimes chidlren’s desire to read precedes their ability. Rebus books, in which pictures substitute for nouns, can ease this potentially frustrating situation. In this charming collection of Pooh verses, while parents decipher the words, children have a part to play as they decode the pictures. The poems’ simple rhythms provide additional support so that, before long, children will be able to read the words, too. |
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Tomie’s Little Book of Poems $3.95 Having delighted a generation of readers with Tomie dePaola’s Book of Poems, beloved author/artist Tomie dePaola now selects twenty-five poems from this wonderful collection for a charming new board book perfect for very young children. Featuring subjects that any toddler can recognize-such as nature, the seasons, loving parents, and bedtime&150 and Tomie’s classic illustrations, "Tomie’s Little Book of Poems" will quickly join "Tomie’s Little Mother Goose" and "Tomie’s Little Christmas Pageant" as a nursery favorite. |
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Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems $5.39 On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundationas Neglected Masters Award. The award brings renewed critical attention to the life’s work of a significant but under-recognized American poet. The Library of America is proud to publish "Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems, " edited by English Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in conjunction with the award. Stevenson was born in England of American parents in 1933, grew up and received her schooling in New England and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has spent most of her adult life in England. This is the first American edition of her work in more than a generation. |
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The Oxford Treasury of Children’s Poems $3.95 "I should like to rise and go where the golden apples grow." For the child entering the world of poetry for the first time, The Oxford Treasury of Children’s Poems will prove both delightful and illuminating. Beginning with limericks and tongue-twisters, word-plays and nursery rhymes, we are led into the world of children’s poetry. Here are poems about giants and dragons, fairies and trolls; about parents and neighbors, spiders and alley cats; about the seaside and windy walks, food and parties. You’ll also find poems about naughty children, poems to make you laugh, and poems for bedtime. Beautifully illustrated by a variety of artists, it’s a collection to start any child off on a lifetime’s enjoyment of poetry. |
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Imperfect Fit: Selected Poems $3.61 Poetry. History as content has a sharper feel to more Americans post 9/11. Martha King’s work shivers with awareness of mortality and the echoes of history’s violence. Wars-even those removed in time by generations-dislocate the present in many of these poems. In others, war is the long loving/hating war of parents and children, or the imperfect fit between human activity and what is called the natural world. These poems, written over the past 20 years, celebrate the ability of humor to squelch sentimental responses and the requirement of wit for free-range chickens. As the late Paul Metcalf commented, Martha sure can be funny about death." |
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Inspirational & Educational Poems $13.03 The title of this book of poetry says it all. The poems will inspire and educate both teens and adults. Many of the youth and social issues we deal with every day are creatively addressed through poetry. It is a collage of over twenty of Gary’s best poems. Here are just SOME of the social issues addressed: Teen Pregnancy Domestic Violence Teen Alcohol Abuse Teen Smoking Drug Abuse Drug Dealing Gang Banging Unprotected Sex / HIV Saggy Pants The book is good for everyone who enjoys poetry. It is a powerful educational tool for Educators and Parents. Finding creative yet positive ways of addressing these social issues is important. Gary has accomplished that with this book of poetry. It is also quite evident that he did his homework before he addressed these social issues. |
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Black Box: Poems $6.4 A powerful new collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. Featuring 68 poems on family, place, identity, and social justice, Black Box continues the brilliant autobiographical journey of Affrilachia, the author’s groundbreaking first volume of poems. "The work of Frank X Walker is an eclectic, powerful mixture of liberating style, profound insight, and unwavering organic connection to the intellectual, political, and cultural struggles of a people. He stands in the tradition of DuBois, McKay, Robeson and Hughes." — Ricky L. Jones, Black Haze."The spirit of a child runs through the poetry of Frank X Walker’s latest collection, ‘Black Box’. A young, rural black boy recalls his parents, grandparents and ancestors who originally settled the land, built the rock walls and dug in the coal mines. close-to-the-bone poetry . a poet for all generations." — Mary Popham, Louisville Courier-Journal |
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A Yes-Or-No Answer: Poems $3.46 In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature new phase as a member of the baby boom generation. Recalling her Jewish childhood in New Jersey, living in the apartment above the family’s clothing store, Shore lovingly imagines her parents, now gone, reunited with relatives over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. The poet’s teenage daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of her mother’s own hippie days. Cherished items left behind — an address book, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll — continue to haunt the living. The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory through precise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a generation at a crossroads. |
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Words Alive!: Poems to Perform $3.95 Would you like to make your friends laugh, make your teachers cry and terrify your parents? This book can show you how to do all these things – with poetry Words Alive is an invaluable resource for oral work and contains a wide range of material from a variety of times and cultures. Words Alive has been written by Barry and Jill Wilsher, actors who have spent thirty years bringing poems to life for primary school audiences. The Wilshers’ work has been proved time and time again to make children enthusiastic about poetry Words Alive is one of eleven books that make up Extended Reading Level A, for children in Year 5/Primary 6. This phase of Cambridge Reading aims to develop children’s knowledge about language, its vocabulary, forms, structures and styles. This book has an accompanying cassette, and is available in a pack of 6 for guided group reading. |
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Christmas Stories and Poems for Children $12.88 This is a collection of short stories and poems about make-believe people and animals. The stories deal with love and relationships and how things might be in a better world. The author created these stories for parents and guardians to read to Little Ones and for older children to read by themselves and hopefully talk about with family and friends. Hopefully, the stories will stimulate imaginations and generate communication between children and readers and develop meaningful conversation. And poetry is an excellent expression to which all children should be exposed and encouraged to read and write. There are few things more rewarding than reading to a child and few things which will create more lasting memories. A child who is read to at bedtime goes to sleep happily and wakes happy What can be more fulfilling to a caretaker? Take the time, they grow up fast. |
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The Complete Poems of Hart Crane $16.27 This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, an apparent suicide. A born poet, totally devoted to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long periods of a hand-to-mouth existence. He suffered also from his honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation. Despite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Crane achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central to American tradition. His visionary epic, The Bridge, is the most ambitious and accomplished long poem since Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. Marc Simon’s text is accepted as the most authoritative presentation of Hart Crane’s work available to us. For this centennial edition, Harold Bloom, who was introduced to poetry by falling in love with Crane’s work while still a child, has contributed a new introduction. |
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On Keeping Things Small: Poems $3.46 "Outweighing what we cannot change, and growing, " Marilyn Bushman-Carlton considers how the landscape of one’s life evolves. Her children are growing up. One plays violin, and the music he chooses "turns him inside out, / becomes a voice to find himself." She watches him leave for school in the morning, "the crotch of his X-tra Large pants swinging / between the clothespins of his knees, / the waist nearly a foot south / and cinched like a knapsack." When did the neighborhood lose its innocence? she wonders. She notices the twisted trunks of century-old shrubs. In her day she "tried not to stare / in the open door of the beer joint / on my way to Linda’s house, " imagining what it was like heavy thick mugs, / sloshing the counter / with bubbly brown sin." Instead, she and Linda sat "beneath a sycamore … almond arms bared, jeans rolled thin / above the knees. Whispered news / Suzanne’s parents getting a divorce"; hope "it isn’t so." "We’ve circled back, " she tells her husband. Their daughter has left for college. "We’ve learned that pausing helps us see. / We bend toward, and cherish, / the few things we’re sure of." |
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The Poems of Georg Trakl $15.46 This collection of Trakl’s essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, Gedichte (Poems’, 1913) and Sebastian im Traum (Sebastian in a Dream’, 1914), together with the later poems published in the magazine Der Brenner which might have formed the nucleus of a third collection. His starkly beautiful, musical poems are rightly regarded as being among the early twentieth century’s most original poetry. From a life marred by drug addiction and breakdowns, he created work of great depth and power, brought hauntingly to life in Margitt Lehbert’s close and sympathetic versions. Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was born in Salzburg, Austria, where he lived apart from spells in Vienna. After qualifying as a pharmacist he spent his year of military service in the Innsbruck garrison hospital pharmacy. In the wake of the Battle of Grodek, he died of a drug overdose in a military hospital in Krakow. Margitt Lehbert was born in Geneva, Switzerland, to German parents in 1957. She grew up in the United States and Germany, studied in Konstanz and Iowa City, and translates into German as well as English. In 2006 she founded Edition Rugerup, which publishes mostly poetry in translation. She lives in south Sweden. |
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Loss of a Father: A Collection of Poems $13.94 "Loss of a Father" is a collection of poems about fate, loss, and how we deal with the memories of those we loved but to whom we never got to say goodbye. Franklin Ross wrote the poems a year and a half after his father Richard B. Ross died on American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11th 2001. The poems include reflections on the memories of one’s parents and their transcendence into one’s own psyche. They explore the role of fate and death, whether it be the fragility of one’s time on Earth or the unimaginable death of the Sun. They recount a son’s search for meaning and the human need for something enduring in the face of grave loss. The book reminds us to stop and remember the value of life and those we love. Franklin Ross is an entrepreneur and investor who was raised and resides in Boston, MA. He graduated high school in 2002 from the Noble and Greenough School. Franklin entered Brown University in the fall of 2003. After he graduated in May 2007, he went to work for two years as a financial analyst. He loves to spend time with his family and play golf. |
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The Farm at Richwood: And Other Poems $4.74 In his Afterword to this finely honed and memorable collection, written over some 40 years’ time, Hazard Adams characterizes these poems as "those I am willing to stand by." He has chosen well. This is a radiant volume, rich with imagery and enlivened with a wry and witty sensibility, its five parts charged with the sweep of a small drama. These are poems that wear well and welcome repeated reading. They are a pleasure to read aloud. Adams opens with a series of strong, spare, bittersweet elegies to his parents and grandparents and to his own rural beginnings as he wrestles with the shifting roles of child and man, actor and observer. He ranges over many subjects and themes, through the bemused "Nine Academic Pieces" ot the late 1960s and the marvelous absurdist "Rhinoceros Who Became Dean, " through the insightful perspective of times abroad and at home, through such deeply moving and contemplative pieces as his elegy on the death of a small child. He is a persuasive and versatile master of the poetic line, moving with skill between deftly rhythmical free verse and trenchantly epigrammatic observations, to the lyrical sonnet whose grace notes conclude the book. |
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Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?: A Book about Children and Parents $3.95 A new and updated edition of this classic collection.This volume of stories, essays, prayers, and poems portrays children and adults as they grapple with the deep realities of life. This new, updated edition contains twelve new stories. |
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My Family Book of Poems $23.94 I would like to tell anyone who has lost a loved one or might be sad for any reason, write your feelings down. It doesnat have to be a poem or even make sense to anyone but you. Even if itas just something you didnat get a chance to tell that person, itas just one more way to vent your emotions. To bottle them up is not good. And it doesnat cost any more than just some ink and a piece of paper. You have the power to share your feelings and your memories or to keep them to yourself. It truly helped me a lot and I hope these poems will help you with whatever you might be feeling or even to help someone you know. I would like to dedicate my book to my parents, who are with me every waking moment of every day: Bernard and Betty Glover. I wrote this book to help me get through the loss of my father and mother. My first poem was written right after my dad passed away. At that time I took my mom in to take care of her so she wouldnat be alone. She passed away in 2004. When she passed on, it was so much harder for me to handle. In a matter of just a few days I started to write things down in fear that if I didnat I would lose her forever. |
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The Crooked Inheritance: Poems $3.46 In these powerful, often funny, sometimes lyrical, and down-to-earth poems, Marge Piercy writes of her "crooked inheritance"–physical and personality traits from wildly mismatched parents, and in a larger sense the marvelous half-broken world we inherit. Even her hometown Detroit provides a double legacy–a slum girlhood that breeds in her both wild ambition and, where you would least expect it, a love of nature, which she discovers in the city’s elms, "the thing of beauty on grimy smoke-bleared streets." Some of Piercy’s strongest poems have always been political, and here are important new verses raging against the war in Iraq, the abandonment of Katrina’s victims ("People penned to die in our instant / concentration camps, just add water"), and the ongoing attempts to suppress women–their rights, their bodies, their minds, their very being: "The CIA should hire as spies / only women over fifty, because we are the truly invisible." Other poems are about her life on Cape Cod, where she finds sanctuary in the long natural rhythms of the year’s cycle–gardening, making pesto, hearing coyotes in the winter "yelping in chorus after a kill," a place where after weeks of rain and snow, the "sun gives birth to rosebushes," and "everything revealed is magical, splendid in its ordinary shining." Here, too, are wonderful love songs, about friends, lovers, a beautiful day, animals, making bread. Deep connections to Jewish life and ritual reveal themselves in poems about her Lithuanian grandmother, about holidays, about the peace in a time of war that ceremony can bring, "an evening of honey on the tongue . . . a puddle of amber light . . . faces of friends . . . darkness walling off the room from what lies outside." These marvelous poems remind us anew of the breadth and strength of Marge Piercy’s poetic vision. A superb collection to read and treasure. |
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The Devil’s Workshop: Poems $3.95 "I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Martinez, "than mystics can light." Don’t believe it for a minute. In this collection of fifty-three poems, the author of the award-winning novel "Mother Tongue" explores the themes that have long characterized her writing: the creative and destructive powers of romantic love, the failure of political systems, the spiritual life, and the need to forgive oneself in order to move on with the work of transformation, both social and personal. Through poems that confront mortality even as they demand social justice, Martinez writes of surviving in a culture where traditional values often get lost in the complexities of everyday life. Of nurturing relationships with nieces, nephews, and parents while pondering questions of life and death, love and loss. Of caring for one’s own body when "each cough is an underground nuclear explosion, / Unraveling your body’s hard-won peace accord." Martinez cauterizes old wounds inflicted by various agents: death, political repression, betrayal, and of course failed romance: "Don’t bother, I did it / First. Broke my own / Damn heart." Here are "kernels of loneliness too stubborn to grind / Down to blue meal," and the struggle for a renewed sense of self as middle age approaches: "At this age you touch what little sanctity you can muster. The yearning burns to do more, to do more by hand. To thread your very life through a needle’s eye." Martinez serves up a heady blend of political and sensual imagery. Her keen observations and compassionate voice lead the reader on a journey of self-exploration, of coping with life’s mundanities as well as its heartaches: "I could use a loving word, / A loaf of bread, a rose, / Help with the laundry." Through her unquenchable passion for life, Demetria Martinez leaves the devil’s workshop and brings us closer to an understanding of what is real. |
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The Poems of a Cowboy Preacher $17.36 Lee Brock was born in Lamesa, Texas, in October 1923. His parents were cotton farmers on the plains of Texas where he learned about hard work, wind, windmills, horses, cattle and the beauty of nature. In school he learned to express his thoughts about his life in poems. He was saved, baptized, and called to preach in a revival at Seminole, Texas, in 1938, and a spiritual element was added to his poetry. Thus began a lifetime of poetry writing from the perspective of a cowboy preacher. Lee graduated from high school in Hermleigh, Texas in 1941 and was ordained to preach on December 7, 1941-the same day that Pearl Harbor was attacked. He enrolled in Wayland Baptist College in January 1942. There he met Frances Patterson, and they married eighteen months later. He attended Baylor University for two years before graduating from Howard Payne University in 1947. He pastored churches in Rockdale and Thorndale while going to school and after graduation moved on the field at Mountain Home, Texas. It was ranch country and the cowboy helped the local ranchers with their work while he ministered to their spiritual needs as pastor. But in 1952 under the leadership of the Lord he moved to Camas, Washington to start a new church. As a bi-vocational pastor, he helped the people move from Sunday meeting in a Seven Day Adventist Church (who meet on Saturdays) to having a nice building on the outskirts of town. Several leaders in the Northwest Baptist Convention today came from that church. Lee’s ministry stretched over fifty years and across pastorates in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Williams Lake, British Columbia, The Dalles, Oregon, Goldendale, Washington and Rufus, Oregon. People were blessed by his leadership, his loving spirit, and, of course, his poetry. |
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Poems to Our Daughters $3.95 ‘Poems to Our Daughters’ is an inspirational book that should be read by mothers-to-be as well as young and old parents and grandparents. It is indeed refreshing to hear the positive reflections brought to the forefront of this publication as well as reading each poem at the end of the chapters. Zonya Brewton’s writing is indeed inspired by God and I recommend her work as a "must read" for generations to come. -The Honorable Andrew Young, Chairman Good Works International & Former Ambassador to the United Nations under President James "Jimmy" Carter Former Mayor, City of Atlanta, Georgia USA If every daughter could experience the level of unconditional love and unwavering commitment as expressed in the pages of ‘Poems to Our Daughters, ‘ all of our girls would grow up to be exceptional women who hold their heads high and stand tall. "Poems to Our Daughters" is a must read. It is vital in a time when the denigration of morals, values, and women is so prevalent. -Lisa S. Clark, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist Unfortunately in today’s society we encounter many situations where negativity is more the norm than positive reinforcement. After reading ‘Poems to Our Daughters’ I would highly recommend this book as a source of hope and inspiration to our present day society. ‘Poems to Our Daughters’ is a positive attribute of a mother who wants more for her daughter. Thank you, Ms. Brewton, for being led by God to share your stories and poems with the world. -Pastor Magdalene D. Womack ‘Poems to Our Daughters’ was born out of Zonya’s love for writing and her desire to encourage her daughter to be all that she can be and to influence women across the world to help foster healthy self-esteem amongyoung girls. Most importantly this book shares lessons learned and taught. |
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Love Poems of a Philanderer’s Wife $6.09 Love Poems of a Philanderer’s Wife by Henny Wenkart, translated by Mindy Rinkewich She is a secure little Jewish girl, daughter of a lawyer in beautiful Vienna before the Nazis – a city full of palaces, parks and music. He is a litle boy in Nazi Frankfurt, where Jews like him are already beaten up, and all little boys, even Jewish ones, admire the tall, black-clad SS. Both families come ot America, where at first theya re very poor. The boy and girl grow up knowing one another and later, in college, fall in love. But German Jews don’t like Jews from Vienna. He is not supposed to date, much less marry, her. So they elope, love each other, work hard, give grandchildren to their parents, are faithful to each other, and for a long time all seems well. His father always taught him that real men are not monogamous. The young couple think this is nonsense – at least, she believes that they both think this. Very gradually she starts to sense that something is wrong – then WHAT it is – then WHO it is. Nowadays first wives don’t die young, as they did centuries ago. They live and sometimes are discarded for "arm candy" – and they, not the candy or the man, are supposed to feel shame. These poems develop the courage and good sense to reject that role. Born in Vienna, Henny Wenkart arrived in the United State on a children’s transport. She was educated at Pembroke College, Columbia University (M.S.), Radcliffe (M.A.) and Harvard (Ph.D.). She taught both Philosophy and Writing at Harvard and at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. She and her German-Jewish husband have three married children and a number of grandchildren. Henny is Editor of the Jewish Women’s Literary Annual and theanthologies Sarah’s Daughters Sing and Which Lilith? Her translation and re-editing of Pauline Wengeroff’s nineteenth-century memoir was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award and has been translated into Russian. Her papers about the philosopher George Santayana appear in scholarly journals, her poems in literary magazines. She often lectures at various universities; is writing a novel. The Jewish Women’s Poetry Workshop she leads in New York has been meeting every month for two years. CYCO, the publishing arm of the Congress for Jewish Culture, is one of the oldest Yiddish publishing houses in continuous operation; and is New York’s oldest and currently only book store dedicated exclusively to Yiddish. |
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The Healing Heart: Poems of Loss and Life $3.95 Eleanor Koldofsky has suffered the death of a son, parents, siblings, friends, and a divorce. In The Healing Heart she expresses herself with unflinching honesty — her poems an authentic reflection of the pain of loss. This beautiful and accessible volume will help us all confront death, loss, and life’s dramatic changes. |
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Poems $13.43 Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels "Steppenwolf "and "Siddhartha," among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume–filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons–that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse’s novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving. |
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