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61) Happy: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed poet Alex "Happy" Lemon takes listeners on a journey of addiction, tragedy, and survival in this memoir. With an aneurysm in his brain, Lemon becomes trapped within the wreckage of his 19-year-old, stroke-ravaged body. But as he plunges into depression and longs for death, his mom's life-affirming determination urges him to talk and walk and live again.
62) Emily Dickinson
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and kid-accessible biography of one of the world's most famous poets. Emily Dickinson, who famously wrote "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," is brought to life in this moving story. In a small New England town lives Emily Dickinson, a girl in love with small things—a flower petal, a bird, a ray of light, a word. In those small things, her brilliant imagination can see the wide world—and in her words, she...
68) Walt Whitman
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of his poems.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief.
72) Cherry: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The author shares the vibrant, and often hilarious, story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next fourteen years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years-a book in the tradition of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Explores modern American poetry, including biographies of twelve poets such as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes; excerpts of poems, literary criticism, poetic technique, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
79) Walt Whitman
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Biography of Walt Whitman whose poetry in Leaves of grass reflected the great changes that took place in 19th century America.
80) Marianne Moore
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of her poems.