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Perdomo, Willie

Summary: Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and complex exploration of self-and/as-other, and of the simultaneous othering, commodification, and spectacularization of Afro-diasporic bodies...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PER

Summary: 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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Ashbery, John.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ASH

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Summary: In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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Metres, Philip

Summary: "This book attempts to provide a context for a poetics of resistance and refuge that predates the Trump Age and will be necessary long after it. In order to survive such moments, we need to glean the present and past for what might sustain us for the work ahead. The Sound of Listening gathers ten years of essays on poetry and builds on Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 MET

Kingston, Maxine Hong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KIN

Waldstreicher, David

Summary: "Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHEATLEY, PHILLIS WAL

Summary: The practical handbook for aspiring poets contains more than 1,200 up-to-date entries including many new ones along with submission information, editorial requirements, interviews with successful writers, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and guidance on how much to charge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2018

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Summary: The practical handbook for aspiring poets contains more than 1,200 up-to-date entries including many new ones along with submission information, editorial requirements, interviews with successful writers, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and guidance on how much to charge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 POE

Phillips, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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McClure, Michael.

Contents: Dolphin skull -- Rare angel -- Dark brown.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MCC

Clark, Patricia

Contents: Hamadryad -- The Exile Speaks -- On the Air, Fragrant -- Two Deaths -- The Secret of Childhood -- Breathing Fire -- Toward Home -- Late Photo of My Mother -- Eavesdropping -- Under the Mead Moon -- Cold February -- The Poplar Adrift -- Feast -- Wych Elm -- Lemon, Olives, Garlic, Oregano -- Tree as Temple -- Burning, Summer 2006 -- Mephitis Mephitis -- Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) -- Homage...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CLA

Whalen, Philip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WHA

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unraveled in a series of essential images that are fundamental to an understanding of his mature work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Summary: A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.54 CAE

Lewis, J. Patrick.

Summary: Borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create humorous verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Ōyama, Sumita

Summary: "Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his 'free-verse' haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals--compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANEDA, SANTOKA OYA

Plath, Sylvia.

Summary: Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1981

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PLA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.81 MAR

Blake, William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1977

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 BLA

Summary: "She Walks in Beauty" is Kennedy's selection of poetry that tells the story of a woman's life, including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W.S....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 SHE

Limón, Ada

Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022

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Sandburg, Carl

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 SAN

Booth, Philip

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986

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