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102) Heartbeats: poetry
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If you like Robert Service or modern cowboy poetry, you'll like the poetry of Floyd Norskog. His poems run the gamut from the aching loneliness of an old man dying alone to the rollicking Christmas poem about Santa appropriating farm animals to pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve and then borrowing the boozy hired hand so his red nose can light the way. Whatever the subject or mood, Floyd Norskog's poems connect with the reader because of his humanity...
107) The Cat in the Hat
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Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat, who shows them some tricks and games.
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Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith-responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition-might look like.
Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully...
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"Resistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios's sixteenth book, Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting go and holding on. The borderline between Mexico and the U.S. looms large, and Raios sheds lighton and challenges our sensory experiences of everyday objects. At the same time, family memories and stories of the Sonoron desert weave throughout as Raios travels in duality: between places, between...
117) Calliope the muse
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Despite being the muse of epic poetry, Calliope has trouble putting her bright and fun ideas into action.
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