Collins, Billy.
Summary: A collection of poetry by American poet Billy Collins which reflects themes on boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: "This book attempts to provide a context for a poetics of resistance and refuge that predates the Trump Age and will be necessary long after it. In order to survive such moments, we need to glean the present and past for what might sustain us for the work ahead. The Sound of Listening gathers ten years of essays on poetry and builds on Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 METRyan, Kay.
Contents: The Niagara River -- Home to roost -- Carrying a ladder -- Sharks' teeth -- Felix Crow -- Weak forces -- The elephant in the room -- A ball rolls on a point -- The best of it -- Chinese foot chart -- Shipwreck -- The other shoe -- Atlas -- He lit a fire with Icicles -- Rats' tails -- Added significance -- Chop -- Desert reservoirs -- Hailstorm -- Expectations -- Green Hills -- Rubbing lamps --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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Summary: Han Han is the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with which he takes on everyone from corrupt politicians to ludicrous protesters. In this collection of essays, he tackles everything from Internet culture in a country that censors the Internet to his own escapades driving around with fake police IDs and a megaphone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 COLCoelho, Joseph
Summary: "Everybody has a poem inside them! Writing one is not as hard as you think, you just need to know how to get started. Discover all sorts of ways to write and perform your very own poems, from found poems, to haikus, to tanka poems, to tongue-twisters!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2023
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Summary: Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unraveled in a series of essential images that are fundamental to an understanding of his mature work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERGilman, Charlotte Perkins
Summary: "Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story "The yellow wall-paper." The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman's mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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Summary: "When Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home every week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way--examining his own healing while praying for hers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 POWGuillén, Jorge
Summary: Jorge Guillen, one of the great poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War, and spent many years in the U.S. and in Latin America. This far ranging selection of poems provides fresh insights into our shared culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GUIRyokan
Summary: Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication (he excelled in scriptural studies, in calligraphy, and in poetry), Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool," refusing to place himself within any established religious institution. In contrast to Zen masters of his time who presided over large...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.6 RYOKeats, John
Contents: Lamia -- Isabella- -- Eve of St. Agnes -- and other poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1902
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 KEAPhillips, Carl
Summary: "Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 SILPearson, Yvonne.
Summary: Presents an overview of prose poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHISummary: In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Combines photography with lyrical text celebrating the animal world, in a compilation that includes works by such poets as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Rudyard Kipling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 NATCallahan, Gail.
Contents: A very reasonable craft. The Big Three : fiber, color heat -- Your dye studio. Setting up your studio ; Safety first ; Be environmentally responsible ; Organizing your supplies ; Heat sources -- Fibers to dye for. What to expect from protein fibers ; The many elements that affect dye color ; Preparing fiber for the dyebath -- Dyes to try. Types of dyes ; Some dying warm ups ; Playing with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2010
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Summary: "Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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Contents: The gypsies -- The bridegroom -- Count Nulin -- The tale of the dead princess and the seven champions -- The tale of the golden cockerel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.713 PUSFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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Summary: Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1984