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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Nikita Gill · 176 pages
Transformations
Anne Sexton · 111 pages
" ... retelling many of the Grimms' fairy tales in poetry"--Page ix.
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
Christine Heppermann · 114 pages
Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves. There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. Self-doubt and self-confidence. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking. In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. Using fairy tale characters and tropes, Poisoned Apples explores how gir
Instructions
Neil Gaiman · 40 pages
This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost for ever, but it is also a charming metaphor for living courageously and taking risks.
And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou, Linda Sunshine, Diego Rivera · 112 pages
Maya Angelou's third poetry collection, a unique celebration of life, consists of rhythms of strength, love, and remembrance, songs of the street, and lyrics of the heart.
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
Marilyn Singer · 32 pages
A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
Poems
Maya Angelou · 209 pages
Examines the life and accomplishments of the African American writer, performer, and teacher. Includes a selection of her poetry.
Selected Poems
Carol Ann Duffy · 147 pages
This "Selected Poems" contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed volumes, "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan", "The Other Country", and "Mean Time" (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award), as well as six poems from the later "The World's Wife".
Another Birth - Let Us Believe In The Beginning Of The Cold Season
Forough Farrokhzad · 123 pages
Power Politics
Margaret Atwood · 58 pages
When it first appeared in 1971, Margaret Atwood’s *Power Politics* startled readers with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles today, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, dir
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
R.H. Sin, Reuben Holmes · 171 pages
R.H. Sin's second volume of poetry deals powerfully with relationships, love, pain, and fortitude. His message of perseverance in the face of emotional turmoil cuts to the heart of modern-day life.
An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich · 60 pages
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Sonia Sanchez · 162 pages
Covering over thirty years of work, *Shake Loose My Skin* is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.
Questions for Ada
Ijeoma Umebinyuo · 238 pages
"Nobody warned you that the women whose feet you cut from running would give birth to daughters with wings. -- Ijeoma Umebinyuo"--Page 4 of cover.
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
Alice Walker · 79 pages
This new collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet Alice Walker is characterized by a variety of themes spoken in humor, anger, and love. In spare, eloquent language Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all of humankind. She writes of the small joys of life, the blight of racism, injustice and hunger, the need to save the