Filter By Genres
American poetry. Autobiographies. bibliography Essays. History. Poetry Poetry. poetry. Poésie. Short stories.Filter By Genres
American poetry. Autobiographies. bibliography Essays. History. Poetry Poetry. poetry. Poésie. Short stories.Brown, Jericho
Summary: "Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown;s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROJoudah, Fady
Summary: "An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates moments of delight and awe with his wife, his mentors, his friends, and the beauty of the natural world. Yet he also finds tenderness for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JOUWright, Charles
Summary: "Over the course of his work--more than twenty books in total--Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century" (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: "language, landscape, and the idea of God." No...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WRIOliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Herrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino Poet Laureate of the United States and son of Mexican immigrants, grew up in the migrant fields of California. Exuberant and socially engaged, reflective and healing, this collection of new work is brimming with the wide-open vision and hard-won wisdom of a poet whose life and creative arc have spanned chasms of culture in an endless crossing, dreaming and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HERGlück, Louise
Summary: "A new collection from Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GLUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 GLUSummary: "As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIV indicates, it is an eclectic and constantly changing community. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSSummary: "The Pushcart Prize is the only annual anthology to exclusively showcase the very best writing from America's alternative literary presses. Each year contributing editors, whose ranks include the most important writers of today, along with hundreds of small presses, nominate thousands of stories, poems, essays and memoirs for inclusion in Pushcart's collection. This unique submissions process...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSYanyi
Summary: "Question: How do we carry our homes with us? Answer: In memory Informed by Yanyi's experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another, these are poems of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder. In his latest book,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 YANSummary: Edited with the assistance of over 200 distinguished Contributing Editors, including Poetry Editors Kim Addonizio and David Bottoms, Pushcart Prize XL celebrates 65 stories, essays and poems from dozens of little magazines and small presses. This 40th Anniversary Edition continues as a testament to the flourishing of American literature in our independent presses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSSummary: Here are 70 authors from more than 50 presses as selected from the nominations of 220 distinguished Contributing Editors and 800 participating presses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Pirze Fellowships Inc. 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSSummary: The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from dozens of small presses, as selected from 900 presses worldwide by more than 200 distinguished staff contributing editors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSHarris, Francine J.
Summary: "A new collection of poems from the author of allegiance"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARKay, Sarah
Summary: Sarah Kay, in collaboration with illustrator Sophia Janowitz, releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. Her poems celebrate family, love, travel, and unlikely romance between inanimate objects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Write Bloody Publishing, America's Independent Press 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAYLimón, Ada
Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMRosal, Patrick
Summary: "New poems by Patrick Rosal, along with generous selections from his first four collections"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ROSSummary: "With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Harjo, Joy
Summary: A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023