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African Americans Poetry American poetry Juvenile poetry Black people Poetry Noirs américains Poésie pour la jeunesse Personnes noires Poésie pour la jeunesse Poetry Poetry Black authors Poetry Collections Poésie Auteurs noirs Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Spanish language materials BilingualAgosín, Marjorie.
Summary: A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 AGOPizarnik, 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 PIZDamezin, Yann
Summary: "It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAMSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024