Soto, Gary.
Summary: Book Description: For over two decades, the award-winning poet and author Gary Soto has been offering his readers a vision that transcends the ordinary, making him one of today's most celebrated Chicano writers. New and Selected Poems includes the best of his seven full-length collections, plus over 23 new poems previously unpublished in book form. From the charged, short-lined poems of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SOTOliver, Mary
Summary: One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. . . . These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1992
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Summary: "Zen-like attention-to nature and the human heart-is the through-line in Particles, the life-work of a rare American poet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GERHirshfield, Jane
Summary: "The Asking opens with new and urgent poems by Jane Hirshfield, in which she faces again the contradictions that have shaped her work: "Some take/ in witnessed suffering, pleasure," she writes. "Some make, of witnessed suffering, beauty." The volume then returns to the beginning, carrying us from her earliest volumes (including Of Gravity and Angels; Given Sugar, Given Salt; and After), up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HIRRhodes, Suzanne U.
Summary: "A hopeful belief in heaven and the end of suffering colors these profoundly spiritual, often uneasy, poems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RHODi Piero, W. S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DI PDoty, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DOTEspada, Martín
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ESPSnyder, Gary.
Summary: No Nature marks the first collection from the whole of Snyder's work as a poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SNYDivakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GALGerber, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clark City Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GERWallenstein, Barry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NYQ Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WALJarman, Mark.
Summary: Collects work from over thirty years and charts Mark Jarman's spiritual development as he grows from a poet of childhood and nostalgia to a poet of adulthood and the struggle of faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 JARCollins, Billy
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 COLBreytenbach, Breyten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 BREDuoduo
Summary: While keeping a cautious distance from literary trends and labeling, Duo Duo has emerged as one of the world’s preeminent poets. His poems respond to the Chinese political landscape from the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square tragedy and beyond. Some are written from the vantage point of exile abroad, others in his homeland, but all inscribe an ache for original expression, a sense of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895 KLELux, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LUXLaux, Dorianne
Summary: A collection drawn from Laux's five expansive volumes, and including new poems that pay homage to her mother. Laux finds expression in earthy and lyrical depictions of working-class America, while exploring experiences of survival and healing, of sexual love and celebration. -- adapted from jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LAUMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: "One of the most important and unique voices in American letters, distinguished poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller N. Scott Momaday was born into the Kiowa tribe and grew up on Indian reservations in the Southwest. The customs and traditions that influenced his upbringing-most notably the Native American oral tradition-are the centerpiece of his work. This luminous collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 MOMJackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BRORyan, Kay.
Summary: Kay Ryan is the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. Here is the poet's own selection of more than two hundred poems, offering both longtime followers and new readers a stunning retrospective of her earlier work as well as a generous selection of powerful new poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 RYAHerrera, Juan Felipe.
Summary: "For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his experience as a Chicano in the United States and Latin America through stunning, memorable poetry that is both personal and universal in its impact, themes, and approach. Often political, never fainthearted, his career has been marked by tremendous virtuosity and a unique sensibility for uncovering the unknown and the unexpected....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HERBly, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000