Pizarnik, Alejandra
Summary: Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 unearths this extraordinary poet for English readers in a bilingual edition that spans the heights of Pizarnik s oeuvre. In her brief life, Pizarnik produced an astonishingly powerful body of work. In her own words, she was drawn to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PIZPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PLAPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Brings together Poe's stories and poems in one volume.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1966
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 POELimón, Ada.
Summary: The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMCummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
Summary: One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 CUMWiman, 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: From the Publisher: Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the magnificent sustained Exile cycle, Almond Blossoms holds an important place in Darwish's unparalleled oeuvre. It distills his late style, in which, though the specter of death looms and weddings turn to funerals, he threads the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 892.7 DARYolen, Jane
Summary: Nineteen poems about grandmothers from around the world. This sweet collection features grandmas who dream and those that sing crying babies to sleep; nanas who hold hands crossing the street and some who learn hopscotch; nanas who color with you and some who go to zoos; and other nanas spending precious time with their precious little ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moonshower, an imprint of Bushel & Peck Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 YOLFrost, Helen
Summary: When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs -- a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the pollinators, small and mighty, who hold the world together with their work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024