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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Anne Sexton	Anne Sexton	A collection of letters written by poet Anne Sexton in which she describes her life, thoughts and feelings, with previously unpublished poems and family pictures and memorabilia.	OL11600588W
The poets and poetry of the West	William Turner Coggeshall	Editor William T. Coggeshall (1824-1867) was a journalist and publisher, and editor of The Genius of the West, a literary magazine in Cincinnati. He served as State Librarian of Ohio from 1856 to 186…	OL143332W
Life is a poem-- often set to music	Evelyn Brill Stark	252 p. : 24 cm	OL14852722W
Langston Hughes	Patricia McKissack,Fredrick L. McKissack	Simple text and illustrations describe the life of the Harlem poet whose work gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.	OL14860538W
Emily Dickinson	Cynthia Griffin Wolff	Cynthia Griffin Wolff gives us a brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals the relationship between the poet's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of he…	OL149398W
Gwendolyn Brooks	Jill C. Wheeler	A biography of the African American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 and whose poems reflect the experiences of African Americans.	OL1830733W
The riddle song & other rememberings	Rebecca McClanahan	"In this ensemble of beautifully personal, interrelated essays, writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan weaves together threads of stories and common experiences to create a meditation on family life. She…	OL1991258W
Lives of the poets	Michael Schmidt	A dazzling account of the entire history of poetry in the English language -- from the fourteenth century to the present -- by one of the most intelligent and passionate critics in the field. …	OL2004345W
The mystery of Emily Dickinson	Laura Benét	A biography of the American poet whose great love and life as a recluse have remained a mystery to scholars.	OL2217802W
The life of Langston Hughes	Arnold Rampersad	Inscribed and signed by the author Arnold Rampersad.	OL2632746W
Life Work	Donald Hall	"Trust a poet to write a memoir that is not a memoir but a series of reflections organized around a theme—in this case, the pleasures of work. Hall, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle…	OL2658823W
Robert Frost, America's poet	Doris Faber	Brief biography of the New England farmer and teacher who became one of America's best known poets.	OL2678974W
Coming Unbuttoned	James Broughton	In his memoir Coming Unbuttoned (1993), Broughton recounts his childhood, reflects on his work, and remarks on his love affairs with both men and women. Among his male lovers were gay activist …	OL2732062W
Free to dream	Audrey Osofsky	A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.	OL2919422W
A lucky American childhood	Paul Engle	xxiv, 192 p. ; 25 cm	OL2939702W
A revolution in taste	Louis Aston Marantz Simpson	Simpson shows how Dylan Thomas reminded American poets of the importance of the personal voice, the poetry of feelings and inner needs. He then moves to three American poets, examining how they respo…	OL2942660W
A fly in the soup	Charles Simic	I believe it's about a boy who grew up in a war torn Serbia and managed to survive with his family through some horrifying times. This is just my opinion.	OL30497W
The other Carl Sandburg	Philip Yannella	Carl Sandburg is most remembered as a biographer of Lincoln, as the author of such schoolroom poems as "Chicago" and "Fog," and as a popular-culture hero who lent his name, fame, and homey charm to t…	OL3266129W
The wonderful pen of May Swenson	R. Rozanne Knudson	A biography of the American poet with excerpts from her poems and photographs from her personal collection.	OL3297606W
Robert Creeley	Maria Trambacco,Ekbert Faas	"Robert Creeley, one of the most revered voices of contemporary American poetry, has attained an almost legendary status, based on his role in such avant-garde movements as Black Mountain, Tish, and …	OL3857844W