Gonzalez, 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 Display, Call number: 811 GONStoneham, 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 New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 STOCassells, Cyrus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CASSmith, 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 SMIGander, Forrest
Summary: "Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2018
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 GANMort, Valzhyna
Summary: "A new collection of poems by a prize-winning poet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: Poems include meditations in a London park, modern turns on Gregorian chants, and thoughts on life, death, memory, and history
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LYNWooten, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsmith Press 2004
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Limón, 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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Summary: Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. After moving across the country, Layken meets her attractive twenty-one-year-old neighbor who has an intriguing passion for slams....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOReid, C. L.
Summary: Best friends Emma and Izzie take a pottery class together and make a new friend. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE REIHughes, Ted
Summary: Love poems from a husband to a wife who committed suicide. The writer is poet laureate to Queen Elizabeth II. His wife, Sylvie Plath, who was also a poet, gassed herself in 1963 after writing, "Dying is an art, like everything else." The couple are still the subject of controversy in England, some claiming he drove her to it, others that she was an impossible wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 HUGMiller, Lucasta
Summary: "A new biography of John Keats that uncovers the reality of his imagination within the context of his time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEATS, JOHN MILMaddox, Brenda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YEATS, W.B MADSummary: For Angela, it came on the basketball court--while playing on the boys' team. For Penny, it came on a school field trip to the lake (making for some cringeworthy moments of humor). And to Layla's disappointment, it came at the start of her first fasting Ramadan, meaning that she won't be able to fast after all. Whether it spurs silence or celebration, whether the subjects are well prepared or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC CALClark, Heather L.
Summary: "An engrossing new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual growth and achievement, restoring the vivid creative woman behind the longtime Plath myths perpetuated by a pathology-based approach to her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark here brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, MA who had poetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PlathRollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)
Summary: Draws on the recently opened archives of Ted Hughes to offer new insights into the iconic poet's psyche and literary achievements, in a portrait that includes previously unpublished papers and dozens of letters exchanged between Plath and Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLATH, SYLVIA ROLSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESSummary: Beowulf and Grendel are in war-torn Spain, where honor is hard-fought, allegiances are dubious, and the bulls run wild. Amidst it all comes a young knight named Rodrigo, who fights for the name he's lost, the land he loves, and the virtue they've both forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018
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Summary: Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, George M. Johnson, and Jacqueline Woodson.Tony dreams about life after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024