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American poetry African American authors Creative nonfiction Plath, Sylvia Poetry Speeches, addresses, etc., American African American authors Swedish poetry 20th century Tranströmer, Tomas 1931-2015 Tranströmer, Tomas 1931-2015 Translations into English United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Poetry Women poets, American 20th century BiographyStevens, Wallace
Summary: Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 STEStevens, Wallace
Summary: Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC STEVEWhitman, Walt
Summary: A collection of poetry, letters, and prose by Walt Whitman that were inspired by the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 WHIChaucer, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.1 CHABROWNING, ROBERT
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1951
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 BROWhitman, Walt
Contents: Leaves of grass (1855) -- Leaves of grass (1891-92) -- Complete prose works (1892) : Specimen days. Collect. Notes left over. Pieces in early youth. November boughs. Good-bye my fancy. Memoranda -- Supplementary prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 WHIMahmoud, Lena
Summary: Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University Press of Kentucky 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHBrown, Semaj
Summary: In her own words, Semaj Brown ‘is a poet for suffocated voices.’ Not only does Bleeding Fire! Tap the Eternal Spring of Regenerative Light open our veins on the page to resuscitate us all from a sweep of history that is searing and damning but she shakes all the boundaries of what we mistake for reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Lotus Press and Health Collectors LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROWhitman, Walt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Page & CO. 1921
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 WHIMilton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1950
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.47 MILMilton, John
Summary: An anthology of works by the influential poet and author encompasses all of his major narrative poems, his shorter verses, his essays, and such influential treatises as "Areopagitica," a criticism of censorship, enhanced by on-page explanatory notes and scholarly commentary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.4 MILDonne, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 DON(MICHIGAN STATE LIBRARY)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1916
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 929.9 MICYeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Summary: Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats produced important works in every literary genre. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. The Yeats...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Poetry 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 YEADelp, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 DELCrane, Stephen
Summary: Crane's complete novels are accompanied by his poetry and, arranged by place and time, his short stories, sketches and newspaper articles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 CRAMelville, Herman
Summary: "Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 MELSummary: Recognized from an early age as a poet of remarkable ability, the writer who was to become known as Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American woman to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize, in 1945. Composed of archival footage and commentary from scholars and friends who discuss the personal events that affected her life and infused her work with its themes of tragic love and unfulfilled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Recognized from an early age as a poet of remarkable ability, the writer who was to become known as Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American woman to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize, in 1945. Composed of archival footage and commentary from scholars and friends who discuss the personal events that affected her life and infused her work with its themes of tragic love and unfulfilled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Features an assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by famous African-American musicians, writers, and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK EVELanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew)
Summary: "...J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LANContents: I hate myself and want to die (Nirvana) -- Looking down the barrel of a gun (Anthrax) -- Come to Butt-head (Beavis and Butt-head) -- 99 ways to die (Megadeth) -- Bounce (Run DMC) -- Deuces are wild (Aerosmith) -- I am hell (White Zombie) -- Poetry and prose (Primus) -- Monsta Mack (Sir Mix-a-lot) --Search and destroy (Red Hot Chili Peppers) -- Mental *@%#! (Jackyl) -- I got you babe (Cher with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BEATranströmer, Tomas
Summary: "A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023