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The World Is Full of Poetry: Books of Poems

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Book	Author	Dewey Number	Description
Sailing Alone Around the Room	Collins, Billy	811 COL	Former US Poet Laureate offers the lyric equivalent of a best hits album.
The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt	Clampitt, Amy	811 CLA	Late distinguished American poet with a style that ran “counter to the prevailing taste for pared-down, plain speech.”
On Wings of Song	McClatcht, J.D., editor	811 MCC	Edited collection of poems about birds for spring.
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes	Hughes, Langson	811 HUG	A classic collection of poems by a master of American verse.
White Apples and the Taste of Stone	Hall, Donald	811 HAL	A collection by much honored former US and New Hampshire Poet Laureate.
Given	Berry, Wendell	811 BER	Poems by environmental activist, farmer, cultural critic and poet, perhaps best known for his poem, The Peace of Wild Things.
Americans’ Favorite Poems	Pinsky, Robert, editor	808.81 AME	A collection edited by former poet laureate, Robert Pinsky that draws from his Favorite Poem Project.
Poems Seven	Dugan, Alan	811 DUG	Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s last collection: called in his NY Times obit “The Barbed Poet of Life’s Profundities”.
To New Jersey With Love and Apologies	Clift, Elayne	811 CLI	Local Vermont intersperses poems with essays about growing up Jewish in small town 1950s America.
Other People, Other Lands	Clift, Elayne	811 CLI	Another volume by Clift.
Fire Inside The Fur	Ellsworth, Priscilla Wear	811 ELL	First collection from Connecticut poet twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize for her poems.
She Walks In Beauty	Kennedy, Caroline, editor	808.81 KEN	Collection of poems about womanhood selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.
A Cartography of Peace	Connor, Jean	811 CON	A slim volume by a retired librarian living in Vermont, written between her 75^th and 85^th year.
Interstate	deNiord, Chard	811.54 DEN	Former Poet Laureate of Vermont and West West resident.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson	Dickinson, Emily	811 DIN	Poems by one of the world’s most famous poets.
Poetry 180	Collins, Billy	811.608 POE	Edited and introduced by Billy Collins and inspired by his Poem-A-Day program.
Blue Horses	Oliver, Mary	811.54 OLI	A collection by the master of close attention: beloved poet Mary Oliver.
Evidence	Oliver, Mary	811.54 OLI	Another volume from a poet not afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry.
Swan	Oliver, Mary	811.54 OLV	This volume by Oliver contains poems and prose poems.
What Do We Know	Oliver, Mary	811 OLV	More poems and prose poems.
The Poetry of Robert Frost	Frost, Robert	811 FRO	One of America’s greatest poets.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry		821.009 NOR	From Beowulf to Louise Erdrich—this is a vast anthology.
The Best Poems of the English Language	Bloom, Harold, editor	821.008	Six centuries of British and American poetry edited and introduced by Bloom.
Opened Ground	Heaney, Seamus	821 HEA	Nobel Prize winner and Irish poet.
In this Moment, Passing	Karpin, Florence Baker	VT 811 KAR	Grafton’s own poet.
Another Time, Another Place	Karpin, Florence Baker	VT 811 KAR	Another volume by Karpin. J
Before Life Hurries On	Field, Sabra and Jenepher Lingelbach	VT 811.54 FIE	A collaboration by Vermont artist Sabra Field and Vermont naturalist poet Lingelbach.
Vermont Voices: An Anthology		VT 820 VER	A collection by Members of the League of Vermont Writers that includes poetry.
Collected Poems 1909-1935	Eliot, T.S.	811 ELI	You’ve probably heard of him. Eliot’s poems “explore the subtleties of the unconscious with a caustic wit.”
Leaves of Grass	Whitman, Walt	811 WHI	You’ve probably heard of this poet too. This is his classic work. It is daunting, but start with “I Sing the Body Electric” or “I Hear America Singing.”
Various collections upstairs	Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Emerson…		Ask me about what is housed upstairs at the library…