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Dove, Rita

Summary: "A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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

Dante Alighieri

Summary: In what may be his most ambitious project to date, Merwin has translated, in verse, the central section of Dante's "Divine ComedyQPurgatorio, " a journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls are cleansed in preparation for their ultimate ascent to heaven.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 DAN

Bauer, Marion Dane

Summary: "Since the beginning, humans have created stories about the universe. From early mythology to modern-day science is a long journey, yet 95 percent of the world "out there" remains a mystery. What will we believe tomorrow? Marion Dane Bauer's glowing poetry combines with Hari & Deepti's intricate cut-paper illustrations, dazzling with light and shadow, to celebrate an active, vital, changing,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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Young, C. Dale

Summary: "An unflinching reckoning with the traumas of one's life and those inherited through a history of exacted injustices "Some men find nothing, and others/ find omens everywhere," writes C. Dale Young in Prometeo, a collection whose speaker is a proverbial "child of fire." In poems that thrive off of their distinct voice, the speaker confronts generational and lived trauma and their relationship...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2021

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

Walker, Alice

Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WAL

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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