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2) Sports pages

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Adoff, Arnold

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Poems about the experiences and feelings of young athletes involved in various sports.

3) Love letters

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Adoff, Arnold

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c1997

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A collection of twenty poems written by kids and klutzes, secret admirers and detractors, friends, enemies, and skeptics to the objects of their affection--or aversion.

4) Roots and blues: a celebration

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Adoff, Arnold

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[2011]

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Lyrical text explores how Blues have been part of everyday life throughout history, from its origins in the sounds of the earth, through slaves' voices singing of freedom, to today's greatest performers--and listeners

5) Touch the poem

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Adoff, Arnold

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[2000]

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A collection of poems about the sense of touch including a baby's foot in one's palm, peach fuzz on the lip, and the forehead against a cold window.

6) My Black me: a beginning book of Black poetry

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Adoff, Arnold

Pub. Date

[1974]

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A compilation of poems reflecting thoughts on being black by such authors as Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.

7) Black out loud: an anthology of modern poems by Black Americans

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Adoff, Arnold

Pub. Date

[1970]

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A collection of poetry by twentieth-century black Americans expressing what it is like to be black in the United States. Includes capsule biographies of the poets.