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My poetry books

many waters: more poems
Above all: Poems of dawn and more,
My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems,
As with another eye: Poems of Exactitude,
In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears,
Seeing far: Selected poems,
Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups

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	Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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It’s famous, but why? The Gilded Age was allowed to name the infamous late 19th century period of growth and corruption. There were lots of forgettable people and events in that time (the robber barons were real, sad to say). I admit it, I’ve only dabb ...more
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Thinking about writing this review of The Homeplace re-boots the cold explosion in my self. Honestly, there was turmoil in this reading. Marilyn Nelson Waniek is a respected black poet. I’m an old white guy who writes and cares about poetry. I don’t rea ...more
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Merryn Rutledge writes poems like few people write poems. There is no relentless rhyming, no uselessly bizarre collection of unrelated words. These are poems written from the heart. They are invitations to feel what she feels. They are warmly readable, ...more
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Gary Paulsen writes for young people, but any adult reader can readily see that the stories are realistic, and fully readable. It’s good storytelling. Brian’s Hunt is about a teenage boy who is at home in the woods, can survive on his own, and ultimat ...more
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Doyle revived the 19th century Sherlock Holmes stories at the turn of the 20th century. The 13 stories in this collection are notably like the rest of the notable series—can you doubt that Holmes is a masterful detective?! In the first story, “The Adve ...more
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Reading anything by Virginia Woolf for the first time is a brand new experience. I guess that it’s doggone near impossible to pigeonhole her writing style. The critical literary world has determined that Woolf was a “modernist” who characteristically ...more
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This is a great book of great poems that will make little kids laugh, and make big kids laugh, and make parents laugh. Such as: The Seventh Swimming Lesson Stop the presses. Call a reporter. Sally just put her face in the water. How do I know it’s a great ...more
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The Mother Tongue is a fascinating collection of details you haven’t dreamed of about the English language. It’s easy enough to skim the parts that you don’t need to read in detail. If you think that English stands alone as our primary means of commun ...more
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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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¡ POETRY ! — 22485 members — last activity Oct 27, 2026 04:03PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Jan 15, 2018 08:36AM

Majenta wrote: "Hello, Richard! Thanks for contacting me! I hope you're well and that 2018 is going well so far. Congratulations on your book, and I hope you're enjoying working on the next one! Have a great new w..."

thanks, Majenta, always interesting to talk about books with a fellow librophile
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message 2: by Majenta

Jan 14, 2018 07:36PM

Hello, Richard! Thanks for contacting me! I hope you're well and that 2018 is going well so far. Congratulations on your book, and I hope you're enjoying working on the next one! Have a great new week ahead. Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta

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