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African Americans Intellectual life African Americans Race identity African Americans Social life and customs American poetry 20th century History and criticism American poetry Appreciation American poetry Explication American poetry History and criticism English poetry 20th century History and criticism English poetry History and criticism Jefferson, Margo 1947-Summary: Poets, public figures and members of various communities join series creator Elisa New to engage in close readings of a single American poem. Each episode mixes lively discussion with archival materials, location footage, and vivid animation. The series offers audiences an immersive and accessible experience in reading poems that touch on many aspects of American life, past and present.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POENew, Elisa
Summary: People from all walks of life discuss various American poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POEMayes, Frances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWAHirsch, Edward
Summary: "We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HIRFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINBurt, Stephanie
Summary: "In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 BURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry BurtHall, Donald
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HALPaglia, Camille
Summary: America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 PAGMoyers, Bill D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MOYBennett, Paula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1986
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry, anything but nature poetry. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BLAHeaney, Seamus
Summary: From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 HEAEpstein, Daniel Mark.
Summary: Describes the life and work of an American woman whose love poetry transformed a generation of writers, drawing on letters, diaries, and journals to depict the world of a woman whose life was dedicated to art and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT EPSJarman, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Story Line Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.509 JARJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022