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American poetry American poetry 20th century American poetry 21st century American poetry New York (State) New York American poetry Puerto Rican authors English poetry 20th century Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Poetry Poets laureate United States Puerto Ricans New York (State) New York PoetryMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERMerwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
Summary: Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MERHayden, Robert
Summary: Features the work of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century, containing poems which contemplate the black experience and deal with such themes as dreams, mortality, nature, travel, and memory
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry HaydenKinnell, 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 KINMurray, 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 MURAshbery, John
Summary: Published for his ninetieth birthday, Library of America presents the second volume of John Ashbery’s collected poems, spanning a crucial and prolific decade in the poet’s work. The volume opens with the indispensable Flow Chart (1991), in a complete text for the first time. The other collections gathered here—Hotel Lautréamont (1992), And the Stars Were Shining (1994), Can You Hear, Bird...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ASHCrase, Douglas
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 CRADickey, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DICGinsberg, Allen
Summary: A posthumous collection of more than 100 Ginsberg poems largely comprised of spontaneously penned or forgotten works included in letters or sent to obscure publications. The collection is arranged in chronological order and complemented by extensive author notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GINHerrera, 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 HERCarver, Raymond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CAROliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Contents: Howl -- Footnote to howl -- A supermarket in California -- Transcription of organ music -- America -- In the back of the real -- Strange new cottage in Berkeley -- Europe! Europe! -- Kaddish, part 1 -- The Sunflower Sutra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GINSummary: A volume of top-selected works representing definitive modes of thought during the women's movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s includes pieces by such writers as Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyeser, and Judy Grahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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Summary: The long title sequence of Harrison's seventh poetry collection is a journey upward from tragedy and unconsciousness, a fitful amalgam of memory and myth, meditation and nightmare, lucidity and delirium. It's the life-passing-before-one's-eyes at the precipice of death rendered in tranquility. In "trying to become alert enough to live, '' the narrator sinks and surfaces, clutching at vivid bits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winn Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HAR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 811.54 HAR
Summary: Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.508 POEPiercy, Marge.
Contents: To be of use (2:01) -- No one came home (6:25) -- Choices (1:49) -- Sneak and peek (3:01) -- If they come in the night (1:45) -- What's that smell in the kitchen? (1:21) -- Rape poem (2:45) -- Woman in the shoe (1:33) -- The good old days (2:11) -- The perpetual migration (2:46) -- The market economy (1:04) -- The nine of cups (2:53) -- The token woman (2:13) -- Right to life (3:59) -- For two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leapfrog Press 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN PiercSummary: Collects one hundred poems from the past century that reflect modern culture, including works by William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.91 ONEVarious Authors
Summary: The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Witter Bynner, Max Eastman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007