Choi, Franny
Summary: "Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. They explore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 CHONguyen, Diana Khoi
Summary: Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnidawn Publishing 2018
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Summary: "National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 CHACho, 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 CHOChin, Staceyann
Summary: "Crossfire collects world-renowned lesbian poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activism-driven poetry for the first time in a single book."-- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A unique collection of intersectional feminist poetry-in-comics, a collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World 2021
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Summary: A collection of poems that celebrates the seasons, with illustrations for each season by a different Minnesota artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 ESBLing, Nancy Tupper
Summary: "ONE: The Bible's Big Story in Tiny Poems retells multiple Bible stories in tiny but mighty poems. From Creation to The Fall, the stories of God's faithfulness in the Old Testament to the birth of the Savior, the miracles of Jesus to the spread of the Gospel, and ultimately God's promise for our redemption and restoration, young readers will have a better understanding of the full story of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2023
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Summary: "An illustrated collection of comically irreverent rhyming poems for readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas to zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017