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A Boxful of Poetry
Three Contemporary Anthologies with Four Illustrated Poem Cards; How to Love the World, The Path to Kindness, and the Wonder of Small Things
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James Crews's three anthologies of contemporary poems celebrating hope, wonder, kindness, and connection packaged in a beautiful gift box set with the addition of four illustrated poem cards suitable for framing. A Boxful of Poetry offers the poems our world needs now. Together, the three books...
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See moreJames Crews's best-selling anthologies of contemporary poetry-How to Love the World, The Path to Kindness, and The Wonder of Small Things-in a collectible boxed set, with a special set of four poem prints suitable for framing.
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Description
James Crews's three anthologies of contemporary poems celebrating hope, wonder, kindness, and connection packaged in a beautiful gift box set with the addition of four illustrated poem cards suitable for framing.
A Boxful of Poetry offers the poems our world needs now. Together, the three books include over 300 poems by a diverse selection of leading and emerging contemporary poets, including Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, Jane Hirshfield, Tracy K. Smith, Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Danusha Laméris, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Joseph Bruchac, Nikita Gill, Linda Hogan, Mark Nepo, Alberto Rios, and others.
Special bonus feature: four frameable prints of poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Kimberly Blaeser, Paula Gordon Lepp, and a new poem by James Crews.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781635868630
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 December 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC
Contributors:
- Foreword by Nikita Gill
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 50.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 182.0mm
Weight: 820g
Pages: 656
About the Author
James Crews is the editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies, including The Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness, and How to Love the World, which has over 100,000 copies in print, Healing the Divide, and is the author of is the author of the essay collection, Kindness Will Save the World. He has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, and in People Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and other journals. Crews lives with his husband in the woods of Southern Vermont. jamescrews.net
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