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Appalachian Region Economic conditions Appalachian Region Social conditions Appalachians (People) Social life and customs Bukowski, Charles Alcohol use Economic history Mandelʹshtam, Osip 1891-1938 Translations into English Marriage customs and rites Poetry Authorship Juvenile literature Vance, J. D Wedding etiquetteChaucer, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 CHADonne, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DONMilton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1950
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.47 MILMilton, John
Summary: An anthology of works by the influential poet and author encompasses all of his major narrative poems, his shorter verses, his essays, and such influential treatises as "Areopagitica," a criticism of censorship, enhanced by on-page explanatory notes and scholarly commentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MILYeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Summary: Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats produced important works in every literary genre. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. The Yeats...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 YEACrane, Stephen
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 CRAMelville, Herman
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 MELRoney, Carley.
Summary: "Since 2000, THE KNOT GUIDE TO WEDDING VOWS AND TRADITIONS has been a classic part of the Knot's bestselling wedding book library. With 130,000 copies in print, it continues to sell despite the fact that the most contemporary music suggested includes "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" from The Lion King. Brides today crave fresh ideas, and the #1 wedding brand in the world is ready to deliver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 392.5 RONDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Most people know Coretta Scott King as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader. Coretta's march on freedom road made her a great leader, too. Alice Faye Duncan blends poetry and prose to follow Coretta from a challenging childhood in segregated Alabama, to music training in Boston, to her brave years as a wife, mother, and activist fighting for equal rights and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING DUNKerouac, Jack
Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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Summary: Using current critical perspectives, this introduction to John Milton, and to his prose and poetry, presents him as a radical social theorist. Its emphasis is on a clear presentation of this complex and sophisticated author and his works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackwell Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 FLAKenyon, Jane.
Summary: From the Publisher: In this enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry, the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Kenyon is one of the most beloved poets on the contemporary American scene; this book shows us why and how this came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 KENsimpson, jaye
Summary: "it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightwood Editions 2020
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Summary: "In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 TOISchoenbaum, David.
Summary: Traces the history of the instrument, from its first appearance in the mid-sixteenth century to its modern use by artists, writers, and Hollywood and discusses how the affordable, portable instrument can be used to play Beethoven, jazz, and indie rock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.209 SCHDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Combining poetry, prose and stunning illustrations to shine light on a forgotten slice of history, this civil rights book examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement of the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote.
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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 Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 DUNBukowski, Charles
Summary: "The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol. Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BUKMandelstam, Osip
Summary: "Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times he lived through during the Stalinist era. It was while exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, that his poetry, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, transformed into "a poetry of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.71 MANSummary: Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Virginia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 HARPearson, 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