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9780965396660 | Karmichael Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780965396677 | Karmichael Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Book by Flannery, Maureen Tolman

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9780934272803 | John Gordon Burke Pub, July 1, 2004, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Book by Flannery, Maureen Tolman

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Product Description: “This is my favorite book by Debra Nystrom so far. It’s beautiful.”––Ann Beattie“A fearless and elegiac book, deriving from those struggles which many of us know all too well—the final illness of the poet’s mother, the physical and mental decline of her father, and the emotional sufferings of her imprisoned brother...read more

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9781932511710, titled "Bad River Road: Poems" | 1 edition (Sarabande Books, April 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “This is my favorite book by Debra Nystrom so far.

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Product Description: The “black river” of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 months, these poignant poems vividly explore the poet’s feeling of frailty following a stroke, which temporarily impaired his ability to read or write, and the subsequent excitement of recovery...read more

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9781869403850 | Auckland Univ Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The “black river” of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C.

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Product Description: Humes employs language that is always direct, full of zinnias and mine acid, bakery trucks, red-tailed hawks, and maggots. Out of these concrete images, he builds structural and emotional tensions that give his poems a powerful presence...read more

Hardcover:

9781557283771 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Humes employs language that is always direct, full of zinnias and mine acid, bakery trucks, red-tailed hawks, and maggots.

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9781557283801 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Humes employs language that is always direct, full of zinnias and mine acid, bakery trucks, red-tailed hawks, and maggots.

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9780820331195 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Celebrate your cherished family and experience new appreciation for those dear to your heart with this delightful gift book, featuring the popular verse of Helen Steiner Rice. Dozens of devotional readings are paired with inspirational poetry for a unique package that is sure to bring delight and warmth to your spirit...read more

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9781602608757 | Gift edition (Barbour Pub Inc, July 1, 2010), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Celebrate your cherished family and experience new appreciation for those dear to your heart with this delightful gift book, featuring the popular verse of Helen Steiner Rice.

Product Description: A collection of original sonnets, dedicated to and about the poet's family members.

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9780773434196 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of original sonnets, dedicated to and about the poet's family members.

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Product Description: Book by Jones, Arlene Swift

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9781932339161 | Wordtech Communications Llc, May 31, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Book by Jones, Arlene Swift

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Product Description: A collection of poetry on the subjects of death and grieving, written as a series of family portraits. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780877456520 | Reprint edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry on the subjects of death and grieving, written as a series of family portraits.

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A hilarious holiday songbook for the entire dysfunctional family features a a wide array of Christmas song parodies that includes 'Grandpa Fell,' 'Slutty Night,' and other soon-to-be classics. By the authors of Where's Saddam? 75,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780767919074 | Broadway Books, November 2, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A holiday songbook for the entire dysfunctional family features a wide array of Christmas song parodies that includes 'Grandpa's Drunk,' 'O Holy Fight,' and 'Silent Wife.

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9781931038102 | Cascadia Pub House, November 1, 2002, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: Poetry. Photographs. A hardback original, EN FAMILLE includes 22 color photographs.

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9781887123266 | Granary Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: THE 128 POEMS IN Enduring Ties celebrate family life, collecting in a single anthology the human story through poetic glimpses of our most intimate and committed relationships. Organized in sections that track the course of a single life — growing up, marrying, childbearing, parenting, growing older, parting, and inheriting — these short and accessible poems are drawn from twenty-five-hundred years of world literature: from Sappho to Nikki Giovanni and Elizabeth Bishop, from John Donne to Yehuda Amichai and James Merrill...read more
By Grant Hardy (editor)

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9781586420642 | 1 edition (Zoland Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: THE 128 POEMS IN Enduring Ties celebrate family life, collecting in a single anthology the human story through poetic glimpses of our most intimate and committed relationships.

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Product Description: Though Eve may be seen as a symbol of the demonization of women, she shares many characteristics with the ancient mother-goddesses worldwide from whom her story derives. Like her predecessors, Eve brought both death and life to humanity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781885266460 | Story Line Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Annie Finch's debut book of poetry, Eve, is a classic collection of passionate, vibrant poems by a poet who has come to be widely known for her musical ear and painstaking craft.

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9781885266361 | Story Line Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Though Eve may be seen as a symbol of the demonization of women, she shares many characteristics with the ancient mother-goddesses worldwide from whom her story derives.

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Product Description: Original poems and prose take a fun look at different types of family members. Illustrations are made of torn paper collages. The verse includes pre-primer and vocabulary words and aligns with English Language Arts standards for reading and literacy. Includes a word list.

Hardcover:

9781904668831 | Mercury Books, April 30, 2005, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Young children describe the jobs and activities of different family members.

Paperback:

9781603578011 | Norwood House Pr, June 15, 2015, cover price $10.60 | About this edition: Original poems and prose take a fun look at different types of family members.

Library:

9781599537115 | Norwood House Pr, June 15, 2015, cover price $22.60 | About this edition: Torn paper collages and simple, rhyming text portray children interacting with family members, from Uncle Ray who teaches one about cars, to grandparents who love to go dancing.

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The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other. Like all relations, the extended family in Fred Chappell’s Family Gathering has its foibles and strengths―oddballs and know-it-alls, hussies and historians, sparring spouses and model marriages. More than anything, this family loves gossip. Chappell portrays its members one and all in a series of sharply limned character sketches. In this crowd of strangers we may find personalities familiar, maybe too familiar. Perhaps we may even find a glimpse or two of ourselves.Framed by the observations of Elizabeth, “age eight, / Priss-proud in her finery and bored / Bored bored,” the collection introduces ebullient Cousin Marjorie, self-satisfied Uncle Einar, evasive Cousin Lilias, cunning Aunt Wilma, aged Uncle Nahum, convivial Uncle Hobart, confusing Aunt Alicia―set down in poems terse, witty, sympathetic, thoughtful, and satiric. Cousin Elmer “tends the family tree, / Shaping it to topiary rare / And strange as he trims a little here and there / And lops some ugly branches drastically.” Cousin Lola “charts her paramours / On a performance scale from One to Ten / And then announces publicly the scores.” Uncle Brit “cuts you off before you say / Two sentences and lets you know / He knows already what you think / And what you think is pretty dumb.” And Aunt Agnes, ever forgiving, “recognizes what we are, / Yet holds us in affection / As steadfast as the morning star, / As if our faults had no connection / With the persons we are within.”Although there is no continuous story line, the poems in Family Gathering almost amount to a piece of fiction. We leave these lines with full knowledge of the characters―their personalities, prejudices, idiosyncrasies, and intricate relationships with one another. Chappell gives us gossip, but also gossip parodied. If your family is like most, sparks of recognition will leap from every page. With results like those of the Polaroids taken by the family photographer, Chappell “makes us look as scary / As old woodcuts in a bestiary― / But maybe, after all, that’s us.”Varied, humorous, and, above all, true, Family Gathering is pure mean fun. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780807126257 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780807126264 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other.

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By Ann Smith (editor) and Larry Smith (editor)

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9780933087958 | Bottom Dog Pr, January 1, 2005, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Exhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we have come to associate with Dabney Stuart’s work, this volume, Stuart's fifteenth, weaves a series of finely delineated portraits into a complicated fabric of relationship...read more

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9780813923284 | Univ of Virginia Pr, March 31, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Exhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we have come to associate with Dabney Stuart’s work, this volume, Stuart's fifteenth, weaves a series of finely delineated portraits into a complicated fabric of relationship.

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Product Description: Poetry. "For anyone who has grown children, or for anyone who is a grown child--or on the way to being one--FAMILY REUNION captures the frustrations, anxieties, perplexities, heartaches and, yes, the pride and joy and tenderness that go, inevitably, both ways...read more
By Sondra Zeidenstein (editor)

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9781887344074 | Chicory Blue Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Matt Simpson's poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present. In the present collection Simpson continues his journey into his family history. He has also been on other travels: there are poems about Japan, Tasmania, Ireland and the Greek islands of Aegina and Leros...read more

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9780853239574 | Liverpool Univ Pr, December 15, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Matt Simpson's poetry has among its principal themes one of coming to terms with the past as a way of understanding the present.

Paperback:

9780919897892 | Wolsak & Wynn Pub Ltd, August 1, 2003, cover price $15.00

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