Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love
10 best books like Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love (Pat Mora): The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Selected Poems, Take Me with You, Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream, The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation), Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters, Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces, New Poems of Emily Dickinson, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping
| Author | Jeanne Marie Beaumont |
| ISBN | 1586540270 |
Writers and readers have long been inspired by the haunting wisdom and sheer imaginative power to be found in the fairy tales of the immortal Brothers Grimm. The editors have collected more than a hundred poems inspired by Grimm tales and written by our finest living poets. A brilliant and informative...
| Author | Lord Byron |
| ISBN | 0140424504 |
Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his...
| Author | Andrea Gibson |
| ISBN | 0735219516 |
For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Cheryl Strayed, a book small enough to carry with you, with messages big enough to stay with you, from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time.
Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness...
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu,...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 1402202466 |
The poetry on the page wasn't very good. A DVD goes along with it. I enjoyed that more, which is the point of spoken word poetry.
Here is one example:
"The Foxhole Manifesto"
by Jeffrey McDaniel
There are no atheists in foxholes.
--old Christian proverb
The...
| Author | Jeannine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0805089349 |
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.
Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own...
| Author | Roy Peter Clark |
| ISBN | 0316126713 |
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.
In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0807844160 |
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
I’d always been vaguely or half aware of at least some of the lines contained in this poem – embedded such as they now are in our popular culture and so often used (in film, TV, radio etc). I had however neither read the poem in full, nor made any attempt to understand it, nor even knew that it was written...
The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping
| Author | Alan Ziegler |
| ISBN | 1933368705 |
If you've never been in a writing workshop before, this book will help you know what to expect and how to get the most out of the experience. If you've already figured out the workshop gig, you'll know a lot of this stuff already. (It gave me plenty of flashbacks to my college days.) Similarly, his advice...
Leap Write In!: Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind
| Author | Karen Benke |
| ISBN | 1611800153 |
Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all...
Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander
| Author | Adam Kirsch |
| ISBN | 1590517345 |
August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and critics
Through his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August...
| Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| ISBN | 0674007913 |
"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over...
I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
Introduce young children to the timeless poetry of William Wordsworth, whose traditional verse is accompanied by vivid oil paintings inspired by the poem's original themes. These beautiful images create a parallel story accessible to children: Lonely little Robot doesn't have much to be happy...
