Benaim, Sabrina
Summary: Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry, Exploding Pinecone Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 BENGonzalez, Elisa
Summary: Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GONMcKinney, Jane
Summary: From a mother and daughter comes a book in prose and poetry about change, loss, and the joy they discover in small things, including a daily ritual they call their “chair chat.”After losing her husband of sixty-three years and six weeks later, her beloved dog, Jane McKinney finds solace in writing poetry. Feeling isolated from her six children, she relocates from Arizona to an independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MCKMiller, Natasha T.
Summary: "Butcher is a book about love & loss--about being unapologetic and transparent in grief. Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, using the cuts of the cow as a metaphor, Miller explores addiction, family & tragedy. Butcher takes the body of a cow and cleaves it into 5 parts: envisioning the cuts as relationship with family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 MILStoneham, Donna
Summary: "A healing balm for anyone recovering from loss, Catch Me When I Fall reveals how our grief journeys can be a powerful transformative force. Through the conversations between mother and daughter that take place in this moving collection of poems and letters, we are provided with the opportunity to explore a beautiful notion: as long as we keep our hearts open to the mystery and power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 STORikkers, Laing F.
Summary: "Steeped in lush art and poetry that invites reflection, Morning Leaves is the perfect gift for those grieving the loss of a loved one."--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collective Book Studio 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RIKSchminkey, Ollie
Summary: Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schminkey’s debut. Every page is raw, honest and unforgettable. Dead Dad Jokes brings the impact of addiction into crisp focus while also shattering our simplistic TV preconceptions about it. Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche - instead they guide us through the realities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 SCHSok, Monica
Summary: "In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime, memory that is both real and imagined, according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SOKSmith, Crystal Simone
Summary: "With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising exploration of collective mourning and crafts a masterwork that resonates far beyond the page. These poems are visually stark, a gathering of gripping verses that unmasks a dialogue of tragic truths--the stories of lives taken unjustly and too soon. Bold and deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 SMIApol, Laura
Summary: "A Fine Yellow Dust is a collection of autobiographical poems that records the first year of grieving after the loss of Apol's daughter by suicide"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 APORivera, Sara Daniele
Summary: "Sara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone -- all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 RIVMansbach, Adam
Summary: "Adam Mansbach--a young and mostly unknown jazz musician, rapper, poet, screenwriter, and novelist - had just had his first brush with fame from a most unlikely source: a book of rhyming couplets about putting his young daughter to sleep that had improbably sold millions of copies and shot to the top of bestseller lists. Just as his dreams of writing success were coming true - interviews on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MANDooley, Sarah
Summary: "After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J FIC DOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOOLimón, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMSummary: Ordinary. Typical. Routine. NORMAL. These are the words we often use to describe our lives, until… the accident, the diagnosis, the discovery, the death. Until The Thing That Changed Everything. Only then do we understand what we thought was normal was in fact Before, and we are now living After. The true stories and poems collected here are stories about life after loss—but these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnwood Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 AFTGrimes, Nikki
Summary: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Grimes 2019Nardo, Don
Summary: Describes the events in Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," from the causes of the Trojan War to the legendary Greek and Trojan characters, the end of the war, and Odysseus's harrowing journey home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2012