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my dream about being white

By Lucille Clifton
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This poem by Lucille Clifton explores positive racial identity.

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The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature

“I have savored her poems like salt, like honey.

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Denise Levertov
1997
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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America’s foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries.

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Billy Collins (editor), David Allen Sibley (illustrator)
2012
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Cutting Greens: Terrance Hayes Reads Lucille Clifton’s Spare and Stunning Ode to the Kinship of All Creatures

A glorious fifteen-line celebration of “the bond of live things everywhere.”

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Maria Popova
2018
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The Burden of Light: Poems

This 2019 collection of Deena Metzger’s poetry includes her full color photographs of nature and the beauty of the Earth.

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Deena Metzger
2019
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Conamara Blues: Poems

Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O’Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds.

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John O’Donohue
2004
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Our World

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Her partner Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was a photographer and pioneer gallery owner.

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Mary Oliver
2009
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House of Light: Poems

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.

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Mary Oliver
1992
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Thirst: Poems

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet’s work.

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Mary Oliver
2007
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American Primitive: Poems

Mary Oliver’s most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.

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Mary Oliver
1983
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New and Selected Poems (Volume One)

Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country.

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Mary Oliver
2004
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