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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born 1951)

poet, musician, teacher, climate activist

  • University of New Mexico, University of Iowa

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Poet Warrior
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
She Had Some Horses
The woman who fell from the sky
Winged words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
How we became human
A Map to the Next World
Secrets from the Center of the World
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Kinship
An American Sunrise
Crazy brave
Poems and Stories
The Good Luck Cat
Conflict resolution for holy beings
Soul talk, song language
The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
For a girl becoming
Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light
Remember
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Catching the Light
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
Living Nations, Living Words
Gatherings
Reinventing the enemy's language
American Sunrise
In mad love and war
What moon drove me to this?
Crazy Brave
Soul Talk, Song Language
The last song
Vastu Astrology
An American Sunrise Lib/E
Bright golden haze
Asrār min qalb al-ʻālam
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Secrets from the Center of the World
Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Land Carries Our Ancestors
Mankiller Poems
Remember 9-Copy Floor Display with Merchandising Kit
She Had Some Horses
Una dona valenta
THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT
Una dona valenta
Spiral of Memory
In Mad Love and War
Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan
How We Became Human
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006)

journalist, human rights activist, peace activist, poet, activist

  • MSU Faculty of Journalism

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Za chto
A Russian Diary
Putinskai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡
A dirty war
A Small Corner of Hell
Is journalism worth dying for?
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940-1980)

record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist

  • Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School

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Lennon remembers
John Lennon in his own words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Yellow submarine
The John Lennon Letters
Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
All We Are Saying
John Lennon
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Imagine
The Lennon companion
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon - Guitar Collection
The Lennon play
Tourism Statistics
Peace at Last
In his own write; & A spaniard in the works
Hospitality management
Great Songs of Lennon and Mccartney
158. The John Lennon Collection
Search for liberation
The John Lennon conversations
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
The Lennon play: In his own write
A Spaniard in the works
John Lennon - Greatest Hits
50 by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ai
The Beatles anthology
The writings of John Lennon
The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
The John Lennon Collection
The Lennon tapes
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon in his own write
EKM #248 - John Lennon - Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Amor verdadero
Power To The People The Hits
The Penguin John Lennon
The lyrics of John Lennon
Society and health in Guyana
Imagine
In his own write ; and A Spaniard in the works
Last interview
The Great Songs of John Lennon
Cal 96 Artwork
Bag one
Lennon on Lennon
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes
John Ono Lennon
Lennon and Mccartney, Together Alone
Imagine John Yoko
Songs of John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
The lyrics of Lennon & McCartney
En flagrant délire
Sometime in New York City
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Lyrics
Por Su Propio Cuento Un Espaolito En Obras
John Lennon Piano Solos
Una Mala Faena
Last Lennon Tapes
Double fantasy
John Lennon
Golden Beatles
Lennon & McCartney
Best of the Beatles Greatest Hits
Beatles Anthology
Shaved Fish
The Beatles, 1962-1966
Hey Jude
Imagine
Muntliga röksignaler och andra stycken, däribland Balladen om John och Yoko
Les Beatles, Yoko Ono et moi
Beatlemania
Lennon and Mccartney
Le yoga des Beatles
Jon renon 120 no kotoba
Penny Lane
Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Oh! Darling
Imagine =
"Gimme some truth"
Lennon and McCartney
Zwei Jungfrauen oder wahnsinnig in Da nemark
Real love
Homenaje a John Lennon
Yellow Submarine
Beatles Piano Solos
Imagine
Plastic Ono Band
A. D. Hope
A. D. Hope (1907-2000)

poet, literary critic

  • University of Sydney

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Chance encounters
Poems
Sightlines 9
A midsummer eve's dream
The cave and the spring
A late picking
Judith Wright
A book of answers
The literary influence of academies
Comadem 89 International
Antechinus
The pack of Autolycus
The age of reason
Ladies from the Sea
Collected poems, 1930-1970
The new cratylus
Collected poems
Dunciad minor
Directions in Australian poetry
Laser Metrology and Machine Performance II
Orpheus
Henry Kendall
Australian literature, 1950-1962
Native companions
Cave and the Spring Essays On Poetry
Poetry and the art of archery
The damnation of Byron
Blaiklock memorial lectures, 1971-1981
A. D. Hope reads from his own work
The scythe honed fine
A.D. Hope
The wandering islands
Collected poems, 1930-1965
The wandering islands
The new cratylus
The cave and the spring
Selected poetry and prose
Duncied minor
Judith Wright
Judith Wright (1915-2000)

poet, human rights activist, historian, literary critic, environmentalist

  • University of Sydney

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Half a lifetime
The double tree
Born of the conquerors
The cry for the dead
The equal heart and mind
We call for a treaty
Charles Harpur
Collected poems, 1942-1970
The generations of men
A human pattern
With love & fury
Poems
Birds
Fourth quarter
The gateway
The other half
Going on talking
Because I was invited
Preoccupations in Australian poetry
Five senses
Alive: poems 1971-72
Tales of a great aunt
The moving image
A human pattern
The coral battleground
Alive
Conservation as an emerging concept
Range the mountains high
The day the mountains played
The nature of love
A book of Australian verse
The river and the road
Judith Wright reads from her own work
Woman to man
Phantom dwelling
A book of Australian verse
Selected Poems
Judith Wright
Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch (1932-2013)

poet

  • University of Tasmania, St Virgil's College

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Crossing the gap
Highways to a war
The year of living dangerously
The doubleman
The year of living dangerously
The memory room
Out of Ireland
Year of Living Dangerously
El Doble
Out of Ireland
The year of living dangerously
Across the sea wall
The many-coloured land
The boys in the island
Der Mitgänger
Highways to a war
The Year of Living Dangerously
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)

poet, journalist

  • Yale University, The Albany Academy

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The lives of Danielle Steel
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
A Subtreasury of American Humor
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
The United States in Literature
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
John Brown's body
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
A book of Americans
The United States in Literature
The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II
Western star
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét on writing
The devil and Daniel Webster
Spanish bayonet
John Brown's Body
Tomorrow's children
Classic American Short Stories. I
Heavens and Earth: A Book of Poems
America
Trailblazer
Twenty-Five Short Stories
John Brown's body
The devil and Daniel Webster
The ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1871
Young Adventure: A Book of Poems
The last circle
John Brown's body
Ballads and poems, 1915-1930
John Brown's body
Burning city
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 8
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The devil and Daniel Webster and other writings
The Beginning of Wisdom
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The devil & Daniel Webster
The beginning of wisdom
America
Jean Huguenot
By the waters of Babylon
Johnny Pye & the fool-killer
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Young People's Pride
Young People's Pride
John Brown's body
John Brown's body
James Shore's daughter
A Book of Americans
Young People's Pride (A Novel)
John Brown's body
Selected letters
Young adventure
Johnny Pye and the fool-killer
Young Adventure a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benet
John Brown's body
Selected Letters
A summons to the free
A summons to the free
Western star
Selected poetry and prose
Variaciones sobre un tema de Durero
Burning city
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benet
Thirteen o'clock
Twenty-five short stories by Stephen Vincent Benét
America
Power and the land
John Brown's body
John Brown's body
John Brown's body
Tiger joy
Western star
We stand united
The last circle
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet Vol. II
Young adventure
Spanish bayonet
John Brown's body: a poem
Twenty-five short stories
America
Burning city, new poems
Stephen Vincent Benét
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet Vol I
Burning city
America
The Political and Military History of the Campaign of Waterloo
Nightmare at noon
The last circle
John Brown's body
Tales before midnight
John Brown's body
James Shore's daughter
[A prayer]
Heavens and earth
The magic of poetry and the poet's art
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benét . Volumn two prose
Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Telo Dzhona Brauna
Zero hour
Historia sucinta de los Estados Unidos
Za zubom k Poli︠u︡ Reviru
Prayer
The ballad of the Duke's mercy
John Brown's body
The devil and Daniel Webster
Listen to the people
My favorite fiction character
The ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1880
Five men and Pompey
Poesʹias escogidas
We stand united
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet Vol I: Poetry
Selected poetry and prose
John Brown's body
The barefoot saint
Benét=dictions from St. Nicholas
From the earth to the moon
Johnny Pye & the Fool-killer
Thirteen o'clock, stories of several worlds
They burned the books
Tales before midnight
James Shore's daughter
Zero hour
Amerika no rekishi
John Brown's body
Twenty-five short stories by Stephen Vincent Benet
The ballad of William Sycamore 1790-1880
The poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét
[Five sketches from the uncompleted torso of a novel]
Prose quartos
A child is born
Our flag
King David
Tuesday, November 5th, 1940
[Western star
John Brown's Body
The devil and Daniel Webster
Jacob and the Indians
The drug-shop, or Endymion in Edmonstoun
The bishop's beggar
Benét=dictions from St. Nicholas, 2.
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)

playwright, actor, film director, theatrical director, poet, director

  • Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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Conversations with Pinter
The birthday party, and The room
The homecoming
Old times
The Proust screenplay
Complete Works
The caretaker
The dwarfs
The Essential Pinter
The birthday party
Various Voices
Ashes to ashes
A night out
Moonlight
Screenplays
No man's land
Plays : three
The hothouse
Other places
War Is Peace
One for the road
Mountain language
The caretaker and The dumb waiter
Three plays
No man's land
Betrayal
The homecoming
Plays one
The lover. Tea party. The basement
Various Voices
Landscape and Silence
The screenplay of The French lieutenant's woman
Celebration
Tea party, and other plays
The collection
Other Places Three Plays
Celebration and The Room
Caretaker
100 Poems by 100 Poets
The birthday party
Poems
Betrayal
Harold Pinter Plays 4
The dumb waiter
The caretaker
Poems and prose, 1949-1977
Collected poems and prose
The French lieutenant's woman
The screenplay of The French lieutenant's woman
Room and the Dumb Waiter
Death etc
Party time ; and, The new world order
The Homecoming
Plays : two
Old Times (Pinter, Harold)
Pinter in the theatre
Remembrance of Things Past
Plays [of] Harold Pinter
The collection, and
Party time
The Lover
Tea Party and The Basement
Information bulletin No.2
Carnage Continuesand Now for the Trident (The Spokesman)
Collected screenplays three
99 poems in translation
Vellos Tempos
Landscape and Silence
Moonlight
A Night out
Plays four
Collected screenplays
War
A Slight Ache
The room
The Proust screenplay
Mac
The Birthday party
Vells temps / Cendres a les cendres
Betrayal
Victoria Station
Landscape and Silence
Complete Works : Two
Modern One-Act Plays - NEU.
Pinter review, 2005-2008
The homecoming
Old times
One for the Road
The collection and The lover
Collected Poems and Prose (Pinter Poetry)
One to Another
Landscape and Silence
The French lieutenant's woman
99 poems in translation
A Night Out. Night School. Revue Sketches. Early Plays.
Press Conference
Seven Plays of the Modern Theatre
Family voices
Plays
Harold Pinter
Landscape
The heat of the day
The French lieutenant's woman, and other screenplays
Other Places
A kind of Alaska
Extraordinary Rendition
99 poems in translation
An anderen Orten. Fünf neue Kurzdramen
No Man's Land
Birthday Party
Harold Pinter : Plays 4 : Betrayal; Monologue; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; a Kind of Alaska; Victoria Station; Precisely; the New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight
Tea Party
No Man's Land
Harold Pinter Plays 3
Lover
Moonlight
Secme Oyunlar
Kutlama
Betrayal (Dramatists Play Service)
Modern One-act Plays. (Lernmaterialien)
The Birthday Party A play in three acts (The Birthday Party A Play in Three Acts)
The comfort of strangers
100 Poems by 100 Poets
Slight Ache
Dumb Waiter (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
A Night Out. Night School. Revue Sketches. Early Plays
Koleksiyon-Tiyatro Oyun Dizisi
Complete Works, Volume III
El Cuidador, Los Enanos, La Coleccion / The Caretaker, The Dwarfs, The Collection
Los enanos
Los Enanos/ the Midgets (Novelistas De Nuestra Epoca)
Harold Pinter Plays 1
Various Voices
Betrayal (Pinter, Harold)
Tea party, and other plays
Poem and Prose, 1949-1977
Degraded Capability
The servant and other screenplays
Mountain Language
The basement;
Terra de ningú
I know the place
Dwarfs
The Heat of the Day (Screenplays)
Pinter Plays
Old Times
The birthday party, and The room; two plays
The Dwarfs and Eight Revue Sketches
OLD TIMES
Other Places
A slight ache, and other plays
Guerra/ War
The Caretaker
The Slight Ache And Other Plays
Complete Works, Volume II
Pres and an Officer
The Lover
The birthday party
The Homecoming; [a Play]
Penguin Plays The Long and the Short and the Tall, The Dumb Waiter, A Resounding Tinkle
Plays four
Die Geburtstagsfeier / Der stumme Diener / Das Zimmer / Die Zwerge
Press Conference
Other Places
Plays
The Birthday Party & Other Plays
The Room And, the Dumb Waiter (A Methuen Modern Play)
Harold Pinter - Plays 2
Die Zwerge
Homecoming
VIEJOS TIEMPOS - TRAICION [Perfect Paperback]
Tornar a casa
The French Lieutenant's Woman, and Other Screenplays
Comfort of Strangers and Other Screenplays
The Homecoming
The Hothouse
Los enanos
The Birthday Party and The Room
Caretaker
El Amante / Escuela Nocturna / Sketches De Revista / The Lover, Night School, Revue Sketches (Gran Teatro / Great Theater)
Celebration and the Room
Mac
The Homecoming; [a Play]
Old Times
99 Poems in Translation
Complete Works, Volume III
The Caretaker
The birthday party, and The room
Betrayal.
La lune se couche
Ten Early Poems (Greville Press Pamphlets)
Three plays
The Lover, Tea Party, the Basement
Tea party
The Trial
The basement
Art, Truth and Politics
Engany
Short Plays of Harold Pinter
Old Times
La Fiesta De Cumpleanos, La Habitacion, Un Leve Dolor, El Blanco Y Negro, El Examen (Gran Teatro)
Various voices
Betrayal A Play
100 poems by 100 poets
Hothouse
Three Plays
The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter
Die Geburtstagsfeier / Der Hausmeister / Die Heimkehr / Betrogen. Theaterstücke
MONTAPLATOS/INVERNADERO/UNA
The remains of the day
Gofalwr, Y
Plays
Poems and Prose, 1949-1977
Pinter
Complete Works, Volume I
The Birthday Party & The Room; Two Plays
Death Etc
Parti Zamani
The Caretaker
Complete Works, Volume IV
Hothouse
No Man's Land
New poems, 1967
Five screenplays
Lanscape
Els nans
Essencial
Betrayal
Complete Works, Volume I
Betrayal A Play
The caretaker and The dumb waiter; two plays
Landscape and Silence
Los enanos
Git Gel Dolap
Stage 3 The Dumb Waiter
No Man's Land
Mondlicht. Und andere Stücke
A night out. Right school. Revue sketches
The Disappeared and Other Poems
The birthday party (Modern plays series)
Complete Works, Volume IV
The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter (Pinter, Harold)
Betrayal
Ashes to ashes and other plays
Mac
ha-Meʼahev
Plays 4
La fiesta de cumpleaños
Menahel ha-bayit
Harold Pinter (Collected Screenplays)
Begidah
No man's land
The homecoming
The lover
Seder ʻolami ḥadash
Family voices
Old times
ha-Yamim ha-hem
Special offer
Menahel ha-bayit
100 poems by 100 poets
Ḥadarim
The caretaker and The dumb waiter
Dwarfs and Eight Review Sketches
Ha-Baitah
The birthday party
A night out
That's your trouble
Mesibat yom ha-huledet
Monologue
Ashes to ashes
Omanut, emet u-poliṭiḳah
100 Poems by 100 Poets
Ḥaḳirah
The homecoming
The birthday party
Harold Pinter with Benedict Nightingale
Party time
I know the place
Plays Three (Master Playwrights)
Le-valot lailah
The New World Order
Landscape and Silence
A Slight ache
Begidah
I know the place
One for the road
Request stop
ha-Maʻalit
Raḳ etmol
Old times
The collection
Night school
Trouble in the works
The new world order
Monologue
Celebration
ha-Ḥeder ṿeha-ḥagigah
Dialogue for three
Le retour
The birthday party and The room
ha-Shivah ha-baitah
Tephra kai skia
Rotsim li-fegosh et Pinṭer be-simṭah ḥashukhah ba-lailah?
Niemandsland
Applicant
Poems
The collection
The homecoming
The basement
The birthday party
Begidah
The caretaker
Miḥush ḳal
Qui A Casa Torna
No Man's Land/Audio Cassette/Swc 369
Victoria Station From Other Places
Moonlight
Homecoming/2 Cassettes (Cdl5 361)
Ten early poems
Ha-Baitah
A slight ache
המאהב
The lover
Dramen
The dwarfs
The room
L' anniversaire
A slight ache, and other plays
Silence
Zeman ʻavar
No Title Exists
Last to go
Mesibat yom huledet
Plays (Master Playwrights)
Five screenplays
Mesibat yom ha-huledet
Other places
The hothouse
The room
That's all
Poems
Night
The dumb waiter
Ḥadarim
Min Alasḳah ; Sheḳeṭ ; Nof
Zimanê çiya
Gorgona 8 1965
Landscape
Interview
Mountain language
Tea party
Family voices
Poems
The French Lieutenant's woman and other screenplays
ha-ʻAlmah Yulyah ; ha-Meʼahev
Maḥazot zikaron
The caretaker and The dumb waiter
The black and white
Monologue
ha-Ḥeder
Tea party
Ḥeder
Polvo eres ; Luz de luna ; Tiempo de fiesta ; El lenguaje de la montan a
The birthday party
The French lieutenant's woman
The birthday party and other plays
Landscape ; and, Silence