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Poetry speaks who I am / editor: Elise Paschen ; series editor: Dominique Raccah.

Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2010]

©2010

136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (63 min. : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)

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Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.

American poetry.

English poetry.

Poetry.

Paschen, Elise, editor.

Raccah, Dominique, editor.

"Hear the poets read their own work" -- Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eternity / Jason Shinder -- Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Cinderella's diary / Ron Koertge -- Vampire's serenade / Dana Gioia -- Alone / Edgar Allan Poe -- Alone / Siegfried Sassoon -- Caroline / Allison Joseph -- "What are friends for ..." / Rosellen Brown -- I loved my friend / Langston Hughes -- In the fifth-grade locker room / Rebecca Lauren -- Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones -- Blood charm / Annie Finch -- Pause / Nikki Grimes -- The delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- Indian education / Sherman Alexie -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- Here / Arthur Sze -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- Good girl / Molly Peacock -- Bad boats / Laura Jensen -- No images / Waring Cuney -- won't you celebrate with me / Lucille Clifton -- What I'm telling you / Elizabeth Alexander -- How I learned to sweep / Julia Alvarez -- Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- Litany / Billy Collins -- A teenage couple / Brad Leithauser -- Free period / David Yezzi -- Zodiac / Elizabeth Alexander -- The Skokie theater / Edward Hirsch -- Valentine / Wendy Cope -- An angry Valentine / Myra Cohn Livingston -- What great grief has made the empress mute / June Jordan -- Mad girl's love song / Sylvia Plath -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- The gladiator / Kevin Prufer -- Worth / Marilyn Nelson -- I am a Black / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Flash cards / Rita Dove -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Dream variations / Langston Hughes -- Dreams / Langston Hughes -- Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney -- Manners / Elizabeth Bishop -- Mascara / Elizabeth Bishop -- from For a girl beginning / Joy Harjo -- Every day it is always there / Rainy Ortiz -- Dear Mama (4) / Wanda Coleman -- A boy in a bed in the dark / Brad Sachs -- The talk / Sharon Olds -- A small poem / Calvin Forbes -- Fears of the eighth grade / Toi Derricotte -- When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats -- Death of a snowman / Vernon Scannell -- Oatmeal / Galway Kinnell -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- The bagel / David Ignatow -- Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson -- If I can stop one heart from breaking / Emily Dickinson -- The Duke's castle / John Fuller -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The sacred / Stephen Dunn -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Prowess / Samuel Menashe -- What we might be, what we are / X.J. Kennedy -- Sideman / Paul Muldoon -- XVIII. Oh, when I was in love with you / A.E. Housman -- Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman -- In the desert / Stephen Crane -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie -- Permanently / Kenneth Koch -- A dog on his master / Billy Collins -- Mowing / Midge Goldberg -- Seal / William Jay Smith -- Seahorses / Brad Leithauser -- So far / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The germ / Ogden Nash -- Baseball / Bill Zavatsky -- Poetry slalom / Mary Jo Salter -- How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson -- Used book shop / X.J. Kennedy -- The survivor / Marilyn Chin -- New clothes / Kay Ryan -- Mediation / Kim Stafford -- A fable / Louise Glück -- Houses / Nancy Willard -- Snowmen / Agha Shahid Ali -- The floral apron / Marilyn Chin -- Abuelito who / Sandra Cisneros -- Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- Instead of her own / Molly Peacock -- Tia Chucha / Luis J. Rodriguez -- The adversary / Phyllis McGinley -- What your mother tells you now / Mitsuye Yamada -- 33 / Philip Schultz -- 49 / Philip Schultz -- What are heavy? / Christina Rossetti -- The wind / Sara Teasdale -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- When you are old / W.B. Yeats -- "Nobody can counsel and help you" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- "Live a while in these books" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton -- Sedna / Kimiko Hahn -- The writer / Richard Wilbur.

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