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bibliography Essays. Interviews. Juvenile works. Livres d'images. Poetry Poetry. poetry. Poésie. Short stories.Crase, Douglas
Summary: MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, "rests a formidable underground reputation." Now, by combining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightboat Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 CRAYoung, Alora
Summary: "A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 YOUBramer, Shannon
Summary: "A collection of poems that explore childhood experiences--from the whimsical to the poignant--by Shannon Bramer, with magical art by Irene Luxbacher. Shannon Bramer's follow-up to her much-loved poetry book Climbing Shadows is a collection of poems that explore a range of childhood experiences. Many poems reveal what it feels like to be a child--to pretend and dream and play with abandon, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BRAKrasner, Barbara
Summary: The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City's Lower East Side; she dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming Julius Rosenberg. Both are ardent supporters of rights for workers, but are they spies passing atomic secrets to the Soviets? As she faces the electric chair in 1953, she tells her story through an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for young readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ROSGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARFlorian, Douglas
Summary: A collection of poems celebrating animals, from weasels to hammerhead sharks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 FLOJackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: "Golda Meir once said, "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do." The poems in Fleda Brown's brave collection, her thirteenth, take readers on a journey through the fury of this storm. There are plenty of tragedies to weather here, both personal and universal: the death of a father, a child's terminal cancer, the extinction of bees, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JACMora, Pat
Summary: "An inspiring collection of the author's own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, singing, and storytelling. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used in the poems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 MORSidman, Joyce
Summary: "Poems addressed to the earth itself explore scientific concepts including plate tectonics, water cycles, and the creation of tides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811 SIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SIDEgger, Lara
Summary: Wrestling with desire, shame, and the complications of attempting to resist one’s own nature, How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It offers a tragicomic tour of a heart in midlife crisis. Populated by unruly angels, earthbound astronauts, xylophones, wordplay, and glitter glue, these wildly associative poems transform the world line by line, image by image. Part confessional, part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 EGGBenson, Fiona
Summary: "Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into an "addictive, thrilling, sickening" (John Self, Guardian) sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponized. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage. In the book's second half, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson shifts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 BENLord, Ellen
Summary: "An elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan's north country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LORSummary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018