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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.
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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