Cho, Su
Summary: "From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon. Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle ofnowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 CHOGrinwis, James.
Summary: ""Words are squeezed into usage that had no right to be there-nouns, verbs, who cares what they once were? There is something illuminating at the core of this book, something bright and burning we can carry with us wherever we go."-James TateThese poems pair electrical circuit diagrams with prose poems and create an artful labyrinth of science, intellectual landscapes, and urban scenes.The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Erdrich, Heid E. (Heid Ellen)
Summary: "Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained harassment does to people, especially to women, children, and Native and Indigenous people, how it can lead to the oppression of others and even ourselves, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ERDPérez-Cortés, Alejandro
Summary: "Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés's personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021