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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
This craft of verse This craft of verse Jorge Luis Borges **From Library Journal:** For Borges (1899-1986), the central fact of life was the existence of words and their potential as building blocks of poetry. In this series of six long-forgotten lectures g… OL104898W
Comfort Comfort Carolee Dean Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. OL15854966W
American Negro poetry American Negro poetry Arna Wendell Bontemps With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. OL1946468W
Moví la mano = Moví la mano = Jorge Luján When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world, she discovers her own power and creates everything anew. The poem, written by Argentine poe… OL19991115W
Ten little puppies Ten little puppies Alma Flor Ada Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains. Diez perritos se van, uno tras uno, por varias razones, hasta que queda sólo un perrito. OL24302190W
Caleidoscopio Caleidoscopio Mariana Torres Ruiz Mira a través de este Caleidoscopio y verás poemas multicolores que pueden cambiar de forma si tú quieres. Chicle, futbol, guerra de almohadas, pizza, helado y domingos en pijama son algunas de las c… OL28176813W
Angels ride bikes and other fall poems Angels ride bikes and other fall poems Francisco X. Alarcón A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of fall in the city and growing up in Los Angeles. OL443718W
Borderlands/La Frontera Borderlands/La Frontera Gloria E. Anzaldúa "Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps … OL61326W
Poema de mio Cid Poema de mio Cid Anonymous El *Poema de mio Cid*, o *Cantar de mio Cid,* es un cantar de gesta anónimo que relata hazañas heroicas inspiradas libremente en los últimos años de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de V… OL886738W