The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

9 best books like The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Rita Dove): View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, The Return of the Soldier, Young Goodman Brown, Fables, 約束のネバーランド 12 [Yakusoku no Neverland 12], A Rose for Emily, Whiskey Words & a Shovel III, What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter, Mauvaises filles

AuthorWisława Szymborska
ISBN0156002167
Nobel poetry! This got under my skin!

I think I owe it partly to this collection that I started loving modern poetry and sharing this love with the next generation.

I remember a class when we read Szymborska's "Some Like Poetry". We took it apart, and wrote our own poems following the...
AuthorRebecca West
ISBN0812971221
"I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable."

Two women await the return of a soldier, Chris, from World War I. His wife, Kitty, is an upper-class woman, still mourning the death of their child....
Young Goodman Brown
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN1557423628
Such a wonderfully (and eerily) subversive story of a man who sees what lies behind the virtuous facade. A classic "dark romance," it's got all the hallmarks of another kind of classic: that of the "hero cycle" (to use Joseph Campbell's famous phrase), where the hero has to leave society to gain wisdom,...
Fables
AuthorArnold Lobel
ISBN0060239743
I just ♡ Arnold Lobel's books and this is a fav. Anyone can enjoy it. My favorite fable in this book is The Pig and the Candy Store. 5*****.
約束のネバーランド 12 [Yakusoku no Neverland 12]
AuthorKaiu Shirai
ISBN4088816927

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A Peter Pan retelling like you've NEVER seen before!! Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as “Mom,” all the kids have enjoyed a comfortable...
A Rose for Emily
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
ISBN1563127881
Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later...
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
AuthorR.H. Sin
Bestselling poet r.h. Sin completes the trilogy withWhiskey Words & a Shovel III!His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series.
r.h. Sin s final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion...
What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
AuthorSuzy Hopkins
ISBN1632869683
A mother’s advice to her daughter—a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime—with full-color illustrations throughout.

One sleepless night while she was in her early twenties, illustrator/writer Hallie Bateman had a painful realization: Someday, her mother would be...
Mauvaises filles
AuthorAncco
ISBN2360811126
Jin-joo est une mauvaise fille. Elle fume, découche, nargue ses professeurs et cause du souci à ses parents. Son père, un petit patron, n'a que ses poings pour exprimer sa peur de la voir mal tourner. Alors il la passe à tabac, régulièrement. La Corée subit la crise économique de la fin des années...
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