Taylor, Courtney Faye
Summary: ". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TAYHarrison, Jim
Summary: Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 HARSummary: "In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TALWiman, Christian
Summary: "Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir. As Marilynne Robinson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "As popular Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols shares glimpses of her story in How Far You Have Come, she inspires us to reframe the stories we tell ourselves so we can see through our own brokenness to the beauty inside."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Poetry NicholsSummary: "Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMESummary: "An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives. Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19697 BETSummary: "As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIV indicates, it is an eclectic and constantly changing community. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSLorde, Audre
Summary: "At once a searing indictment of a racist, patriarchal society and a manual for claiming an intersectional identity, Sister Outsider is a comprehensive collection of the lauded poet and writer Audre Lorde's most famous and influential works of nonfiction prose. Sister Outsider depicts the idea of "difference"--Whether through race, gender, or sexuality--as a powerful tool for empowerment that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 LORBrown, 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 BROSummary: The 46th annual edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Over 60 brilliant stories, poems and essays from dozens of small presses, as selected from 900 presses worldwide by more than 200 distinguished staff contributing editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSSummary: Collects articles, interviews, poems, and stories on romance, friendship, and self-care from the online magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305 ROOBrown, Molly McCully
Summary: "In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persea Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BROOsmundson, Joseph
Summary: "A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish-with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings readers under the microscope...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.2 OSMSummary: "The Pushcart Prize is the only annual anthology to exclusively showcase the very best writing from America's alternative literary presses. Each year contributing editors, whose ranks include the most important writers of today, along with hundreds of small presses, nominate thousands of stories, poems, essays and memoirs for inclusion in Pushcart's collection. This unique submissions process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSField, Thalia
Summary: "Whether exploring refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," or the pathetic fallacy, Personhood reveals that the unmistakable problem remaining between humans and our nonhuman relatives is one of language. Thalia Field's bold and engaging new work takes a wide lens on how power justifies itself at the extremes, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 FIESummary: American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 AMESummary: Here are 70 authors from more than 50 presses as selected from the nominations of 220 distinguished Contributing Editors and 800 participating presses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Pirze Fellowships Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSLawson, Shayla
Summary: This collection of essays that focus on black girl culture features topics such as workplace microaggressions, how to become famous on Twitter, traveling while black, and reversing racist stereotypes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAWMyhre, Kyle Tran
Summary: A sci-fi-flavored exploration of the role that art and artists play in resisting authoritarianism. Featuring new poems, theater elements, and visual art by Casper Pham, the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe ode...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.6 MYHLanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew)
Summary: "From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose. In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through seasonal shifts, societal unrest, and deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LANBelcourt, Billy-Ray
Summary: This brilliant new essay collection on grief, colonial violence, joy, love and queerness from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize touches upon his personal history and demonstrates the power of words to both devastate and console us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BELBishop, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008