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Revolutionary Petunias: Poetry

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By Alice Walker — 1973

These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers—about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love, even while facing the firing squad.

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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day

Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience.

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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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Hope