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Bklyn BookMatch: mythic beings, praying mantises - mostly poetry

This list was created by a librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library for a reader who loved Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings and wants to read poetry on mythic creatures and praying mantises. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit Bklyn BookMatch here: www.bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch

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Anne Carson.
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Monster verse
edited by Tony Barnstone, Michelle Mitchell-Foust.
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A Ted Hughes bestiary
Ted Hughes ; selected by Alice Oswald.
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Dreamtigers.
Introd. by Miguel Enguâidanos. Translated from El hacedor by Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
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Swithering
Robin Robertson.
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The metamorphoses
Ovid ; translated and with an introduction by Horace Gregory and a new introduction by Sara Myers ; with decorations by Zhenya Gay.
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Maldoror ; and, Poems
[by] Comte de Lautreamont ; translated [from the French] with introductions by Paul Knight.
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Ogden Nash's zoo
illustrated by Etienne Delessert ; edited by Roy Finamore.
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