"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...

Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...

"Whether memorized by schoolchildren or used to eulogize a president, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," written in 1922 and published in 1923, has found a place as one of the best-loved and best-known American poems of the last hundred years. Now, six decades after the passing of its author, Robert Frost, celebrated artist P.J. Lynch brings this classic to new life with exquisitely detailed illustrations, evoking its iconic moments and wintry...

"Snowflakes whirling, snow-flocks swirling, streaks of white twirl through the night . . . You've heard of birds who migrate to warmer climates in the wintertime-but what about those who persevere through snowy weather and freezing temperatures? With elegant verse by Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Honoree Kirsten Hall and striking illustrations by award-winning artist Jenni Desmond, Snow Birds salutes the brave and resourceful birds who adapt to survive...

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

A newly illustrated version of the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor. Readers young and old are invited into the enchanting world of Mary Engelbreit in this sparkling edition of Clement C. Moore's classic poem. Readers eyes will widen at Mary Engelbreit's special vision of Christmas. She has filled every page with bewitching details, rich colors, and lively characters, from clever, mischievous elves to an adorable mouse. Full color....

Presents a collection of verses in such categories as "Nature's people," "Meet the family," "Friendship and love," "Earth and sky," "Let's pretend," and "Poems to ponder."

This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry , Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive...

A collection of poems for young children, illustrated in dramatic detail, that celebrates wildlife and the natural world.

"Discover, in these pages, how an enslaved person like Phillis Wheatley confronted her legal status in verse and how an antebellum activist like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voiced her own passionate resistance to slavery. Read nuanced, provocative poetic meditations on identity and self-assertion stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Amiri Baraka to Lucille Clifton and beyond. Experience the transformation of poetic modernism in the works of figures...