Nye, Naomi Shihab
Summary: "Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including "Famous," "A Valentine for Ernest Mann," "Kindness," and "Gate A-4," as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as acomprehensive edition for classrooms"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 NYELaux, 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 LAUJarman, 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 JARMillay, Edna St. Vincent
Summary: Collected poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; edited by Norma Millay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 MILSnyder, Gary
Summary: "Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets, the "Thoreau of the Beat Generation" and our "laureate of Deep Ecology." Now, for the first time, all of Snyder's poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SNYKinnell, Galway
Summary: "The definitive collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award winner Galway Kinnell. "It's the poet's job to figure out what's happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a certain shape, that have a chance of lasting." --Galway Kinnell. This long-awaited volume brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KINLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: "'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first ad last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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Summary: MacArthur "genius" Douglas Crase is best known for his invocations and revisions of Whitmanian transcendentalism. Out of print since 1987, his book The Revisionist has still been enough in some opinions to establish him as one of the most important poets of his generation; on its strength, says the Oxford Book of American Poetry, "rests a formidable underground reputation." Now, by combining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightboat Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 CRALorde, Audre.
Summary: A collection of over three hundred poems by twentieth-century African-American poet Audre Lorde, featuring works from nine volumes published between 1968 and 1993.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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Summary: The former U.S. poet laureate and best-selling author of Nine Horses and Around the Room presents a new compilation of his acclaimed poems, some of which have never before been published.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 COLWilbur, Richard
Summary: Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate of the United States, Richard Wilbur, continues to explore the interplay between the everyday and the mythic, the sobering and the lighthearted in his new volume of poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WILWalker, Alice
Summary: "Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALPrelutsky, Jack.
Summary: Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 PRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811.54 PREHarrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clark City Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 811.54 Harrrison 1992Ryan, 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 RYAXie, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 XIELimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMDunn, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 DUNLewis, J. Patrick.
Summary: Presents thirteen poems about wacky, imaginative cars, including the "Sloppy-Floppy-Nonstop-Jalopy," the "Bathtub Limousine," and the "High Heel Car."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWPhillips, Carl
Summary: "Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "ongoing quest"; Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: "Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the queer community from both past and present. Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones, Pauline Park, Richard Blanco, and Pete Buttigieg are just a few of the iconic figures represented in this wonderfully designed and colorful picture book with illustrations by Harry Woodgate. A perfect introduction to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 811 SANCollins, Billy.
Summary: In this new collection, "America's most popular poet" covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, life and death, youth and aging, solitude and union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry CollinsKay, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Bloody Publishing, America's Independent Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAYSmith, Tracy K.
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018