Jarman, 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 JARLawrence, Tim
Summary: "As the 1970s gave way to the '80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. [This book] chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2016
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Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRACollins, 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 COLLux, 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 LUXEgyptian Lover
Contents: Egyptian lover theme -- Spray it super AJ -- Dial-a-freak -- Yes, yes, yes -- Egypy, Egypt -- What is a DJ if he can't scratch? -- And my beat goes boom -- Girls -- I cry (Nigh after night) -- Ultimate scratch -- My house (On the Nile) -- Electric encounter -- Computer love -- Voices -- Computer power -- Dance (Dub mix) -- You're so fine -- Kinky nation (Kingdom kum) -- Freak-a-holic -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone's Throw 2016
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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 LAUMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Contents: A mask for Janus (1952) -- The dancing bears (1954) -- Green with beasts (1956) -- The drunk in the furnace (1960) -- The moving target (1963) -- The lice (1967) -- The carrier of ladders (1970) -- Writings to an unfinished accompaniment (1973) -- The compass flower (1977) -- Opening the hand (1983) -- The rain in the trees (1988) -- Travels (1993) -- The vixen (1996) -- The river sound (1999)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERMerwin, W S
Summary: Following The Second Four Books, this collection returns to print a large body of work by one of the premier poets of this century. W.S. Merwin was the first recipient of the Tanning Prize. "The terms of the Tanning Prize stipulate that it be given to 'a master'... here be fore us, and for many years to come, we have in William Merwin an embodied emblem of the best we can hope for, both as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERCreeley, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CREBass, Rick
Summary: "For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BASJacobsen, Rolf.
Summary: An early champion of modernism, Jacobsen published a body of work that earned him international recognition and established him as one of Europe's great poets. This bilingual collection spans Jacobsen's fifty-year career and includes, for the first time in English, his final poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.82 JACCash, Johnny.
Contents: Vol. 1. Hey Porter 2:12. -- Cry, cry, cry 2:23. -- Folsom Prison blues 2:48. -- Luther played the boogie 2:02. -- Get rhythm 2:13. -- I walk the line 2:44. -- Home of the blues 2:38. -- Give my love to Rose 2:44. -- Rock Island line 2:09. -- Doin' my time 2:37. -- Big river 2:30. -- Ballad of a teenage queen 2:10. -- Guess things happen that way 1:49. -- Ways of a woman in love 2:14. -- Thanks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1998
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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 MOMEspada, 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 ESPGalvin, Brendan.
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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 GALHarrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Pub. Co. 1982
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 811.54 HarriMontale, Eugenio
Summary: An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MONGibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholarly Press 1971
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Summary: "New poems by Patrick Rosal, along with generous selections from his first four collections"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ROSCodrescu, Andrei
Summary: "So Recently Rent a World gathers new poems and selections from the 16 books of verse that Codrescu has published since arriving in the U.S. as a teen refuge from communist Romania...'So Recently Rent a World let me to put a period on four decades writing and the old culture that the writing reflected."--The Times-Picayune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CODDollarhide, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3747 DOLHemingway, Ernest
Summary: "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge Univ Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMSoto, 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