Oliver, Mary
Summary: In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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Summary: "Provincetown, eccentric, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. 'It is the only small town I know of where those who live unconventially seem to outnumber those who live within the prescribed bounds of home and licensed marriage, respectable job, and biological children,' says Cunningham. 'It is one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 CUNSinger, Marilyn
Summary: "This warm and engaging poetry collection that follows a family of five as they discover and celebrate all of the Jewish holidays"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Holiday SingerLisicky, Paul
Summary: "When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time. In this idyllic haven, known for its values of inclusion, acceptance, and art, Lisicky searches for love and soon finds a sense of belonging. At the same time, the community is consumed by the AIDS crisis, and the very structure of Town life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greywolf Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISICKY, PAUL LISEl-Kurd, Mohammed
Summary: Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESGrass, Günter
Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRALongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Summary: The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.3 LonLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Summary: The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.3 LONRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILAlarcón, Francisco X.
Summary: Presents a series of brief poems in English and Spanish for each day of the week that celebrate the joys of family and other relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ALALongfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Summary: "The poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 20 miles from the poet's home in Cambridge, and a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College. The narrators are friends of the author who, though they were not named, were so plainly characterized as to be easily recognizable. Among those of wider fame are Ole Bull, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longfellow's Wayside Inn 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LONMerrell, Billy
Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Following a great tradition of poetry throughout history, this book shows the vast conscience and lyrical spirit of resistance on the part of poets in support of the dignity, rights, and humanity of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2007
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Summary: "This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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Summary: Poems penned by cats reveal their every desire, their every conflict, and their every moment of neurotic genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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Summary: "Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids -- who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent -- shortly turns into something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SKEMacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: Collects poems from the perspective of various cats who love, stalk, and sleep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 MACFlynn, Nick
Summary: "Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Nick, his own life precariously unsettled (his mother committed suicide when he was in his late teens), was living alternatively in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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Summary: "Whether you start your day with something sweet, finish it with something sweet, or make sure sweets are within reach all day long, you'll find serious inspiration in the pages of Salma Hage's latest cookbook for home cooks. The Middle East's wide rangeof cultures, ingredients, and influences informs the array of dishes she includes -- spiced cookies, cream-filled pancakes, aromatic pastries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 HAGHood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSHarjo, Joy
Summary: In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022