Keats, John
Contents: Lamia -- Isabella- -- Eve of St. Agnes -- and other poems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1902
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 KEAGuillén, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GUIPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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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 RYOSummary: If "The Raven" is not the best-known American poem, then "Annabel Lee" is. Both have endured because they successfully illustrate Poe's esthetic theories of poetics; they use natural, comprehensible language whose music weaves a spell that underscores and heightens the language. These two poems and "The Dream within a Dream" are performed (not merely read!) as Poe himself might have recited...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In these delightful poems, Alexander McCall Smith writes about his travels, from Africa to Greece, London to Dubai, and back home to Scotland. He shares his gentle, inimitably McCall Smith-esque observations on life, love, and beauty, reminding us how deeply satisfying it can be to take in the world around us with all our senses, and with all our mind and heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 SMIShane, Jackie
Summary: A two disc album with twenty five tracks from Jackie Shane includes songs such as Stick and Stones; Walking the Dog; Knock On Wood: and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Numero Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SHADickinson, Emily
Contents: Poems 1890: Life -- Love -- Nature -- Time and eternity -- Poems 1891: Life -- Love -- Nature -- Time and eternity -- Poems 1896: Life -- Love -- Nature -- Time and eternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.4 DICLewis, Robin Coste
Summary: "A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus, ' a riveting narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Wors Poetry LewisCarroll, Lewis
Contents: Alice's adventures in wonderland -- Through the looking glass and what Alice found there -- Sylvie and Bruno -- Sylvie and Bruno concluded -- Stories -- The hunting of the snark--an agony in eight fits -- A wonderland miscellany -- Early verse -- College rhymes and notes by an Oxford Chiel -- Acrostics, inscriptions and other verse -- Three sunsets and other poems -- Prologues to plays --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word CarrollSaenz, Gil
Summary: Gives thanks in the acknowledgment to his brother, Rudolph Saenz for his extensive assistance with the Spanish language translations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris 2018
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAEGinsberg, Allen
Summary: Ginsberg's love for a man with whom he shared some of life's worst experiences is celebrated in poems which were once the subject of a prolonged court trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, c1959. 1956
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Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich
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 PUSMcCullers, Carson.
Summary: Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullerswas equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writingin shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MCCOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Track the facts about the unicorn of the sea--the narwhal--and its closest relatives!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.5 OSBCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.5 OSBSummary: An anthology of modern horror fiction features tales from twenty-five masters of the genre, with such selections as Stephen King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Dan Chaon's "The Bees," and Peter Straub's "Little Red."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POEPowell, Kevin
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 POWPargeter, Edith
Contents: A grain of mustard seed -- Light-boy -- Grim fairy tale -- Trump of doom -- The man who met himself -- The linnet in the garden -- How beautiful is youth -- All souls' day -- The cradle -- My friend the enemy -- The lily hand -- A question of faith -- The purple children -- I am a seagull -- Carnival night -- The ultimate Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARMurray, Albert
Summary: "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURHustvedt, Siri
Summary: In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HUSNeruda, Pablo
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 GILLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000