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American poetry

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Self-portrait in a convex mirror

John Ashbery

1975

Olio

Tyehimba Jess

2016

The Undefeated

Kwame Alexander

2019

The wild iris

Louise Glück

1992 ★ 4.2

The Rooster Crows

Miska Petersham, Maud Fuller Petersham

1973

Joyful Noise

Paul Fleischman

1988 ★ 3.7

John Brown's Body

Stephen Vincent, Benet, Stephen Vincent Benét

1927

A Visit to William Blake's Inn

Nancy Willard, Martin Provensen, Alice Provensen

1981 ★ 4.0

Locomotion

Jacqueline Woodson

2003 ★ 4.5

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

1962 ★ 4.0

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

T. S. Eliot

1982 ★ 4.0

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes

2002 ★ 3.5

A Coney Island of the mind, poems

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1958 ★ 4.0

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Edgar Allan Poe

1980 ★ 4.3

The complete poems

Anne Sexton

1981 ★ 3.7

The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

Emily Dickinson

1890 ★ 4.3

A light in the attic

Shel Silverstein

1996 ★ 4.5

The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition

Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, T. S. Eliot et al.

1973 ★ 4.3

The Raven and Other Poems [adaptation]

Gahan Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe

1990 ★ 4.5

Poems

Mary Oliver

1992 ★ 4.8

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Tupac Shakur

1999 ★ 5.0

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

1860 ★ 3.8

the sun and her flowers

Rupi Kaur

2017 ★ 4.0

Falling Up

Shel Silverstein

1996 ★ 4.1

The song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jeff Ulmer, Alex A. Blum

1855 ★ 2.6

Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur

2015 ★ 4.0

Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [34 stories, 17 poems]

Benjamin F Fisher, Edgar Allan Poe

2004 ★ 4.8

Book of Longing

Leonard Cohen

2006 ★ 3.7

And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou

1978 ★ 5.0

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Eugene Field

1973 ★ 4.3

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