Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disci...
These poems explore and express emotional depths of familial bonds, memory, resiliency and transformation. Written with minimalistic words and structure, they layer emotions, ideas and word-images. Nature's solacing power winds throughout the poems that are more about exultations than expirations. They were written during a severe illness and subsequent death of a loved one and are presented in mostly chronological order. The author is an art therapist, visual artist, poet and educator.
"Outspoken Thoughts". Some of these thoughts you will need to consider carefully; take time to look into them. Always remember that most thoughts have deeper meaning than what is on the surface. So read deeply, read well, and enjoy.
The poems in Manuel Paul López's The Yearning Feed, winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. López, an Imperial Valley native, considers La Frontera, or the border, as magical, worthy of Macondo-like comparisons, where contradictions are firmly rooted and ironies play out on a daily basis. These poems synthesize López’s knowledge of modern and contemporary literature with a border-c...