Peters, Lisa Westberg
Summary: "If you're a curious child and you get a new dog, you discover all kinds of things. Gravity has new meaning, when you're racing down a slide toward your eager-beaver dog waiting at the bottom (uh-oh!). Friction has a new meaning, when your slippery dog escapes from the bath (soap+fingers=not enough friction). But love has a new meaning too, when you and your cosmic dog become the center of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 PETSebree, Chet'la
Summary: Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet'la Sebree's Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others--a meditation on desire, race, loss, and survival.--Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive. Chet'la Sebree's Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SEBArgueta, Jorge
Summary: In this new cooking poem, Jorge Argueta brings us a fun and easy recipe for a yummy salsa. A young boy and his sister gather the ingredients and grind them up in a molcajete, just like their ancestors used to do, singing and dancing all the while.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PIEGuillén, Jorge
Summary: Jorge Guillen, one of the great poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War, and spent many years in the U.S. and in Latin America. This far ranging selection of poems provides fresh insights into our shared culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GUIAbraham, George
Summary: Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing. Birthright begs readers to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it knows now is all we are guaranteed. As trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020