Summary: This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of action poems written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poems. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create their effects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 ACTMetres, Philip
Summary: "This book attempts to provide a context for a poetics of resistance and refuge that predates the Trump Age and will be necessary long after it. In order to survive such moments, we need to glean the present and past for what might sustain us for the work ahead. The Sound of Listening gathers ten years of essays on poetry and builds on Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 METCho, 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 Display, Call number: 811 CHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 CHOTomecek, Steve.
Summary: Food explores some of the scientific principles involved in the production, preparation, and preservation of food. Discover why food is a form of stored solar energy and how everything you eat can be traced back to the Sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2010
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Summary: "Presents an overview of haikus, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use haikus to express ideas."--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHIZucker, Rachel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 ZUCSummary: In this program, several contemporary poets read from their poems and discuss why they write, and for whom. Poets include Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Thylias Moss, Pattiann Rogers, Carol Muske, Gerald Stern, and Yehuda Amichai. Poetic themes include death, aging, self-realization, race, and gender. Rogers, Moss, Muske, and poet Brenda Hillman discuss the role of women in the field of poetry. Filmed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Armantrout, Rae
Summary: "A new book of poems by the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner, exploring thought, dialogue, and everyday interactions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2020
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Summary: "While on a family camping trip, Hala teaches her friend Henry how to write haiku, an ancient form of Japanese poetry. Includes creative writing exercises to assist the reader in writing haiku"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KOMMarlowe, Christopher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.3 MARPearson, Yvonne.
Summary: Presents an overview of narrative poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHIArmantrout, Rae
Summary: A collection of poetry organized in two sections. The first section, "Versed," play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. The second section, "Dark Matter," alludes to more than the unseen substance thought to make up the majority of mass in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ARMMataya, Marybeth.
Summary: "Luke and Leo like lively poems. They teach their friend Lizzy about limericks with help from her older sister, Jill. Limericks always have five lines and a bouncy rhythm. It's fun to end them with a funny line. What funny poems will Luke, Leo and Lizzy build next?"--(p.4) of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2011
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Summary: Presents an overview of prose poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHISimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: Presents an overview of acrostic poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHISummary: This program features readings and comments by the late Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg analyzes the poetry of Blake, then reads from his own poems, "Do the Meditation Rock" and "Skeleton. Other poets include Vietnamese-born Le Thi Diem Thuy, Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, Louis Jenkins, and Hass discuss poetic interpretations of personal and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program features the poems of Louis Jenkins, Hal Sirowitz, Philip Levine, Joy Harjo, Robert Creeley, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, and others. In addition, several poets discuss poetry as work and what it's like to share a life of poetry with fellow writers; young winners of a statewide poetry contest read several of their poems; and advice for fledgling poets is offered. Filmed at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Pearson, Yvonne
Summary: "Presents an overview of limericks, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use limericks to express ideas."--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHISimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: Presents an overview of cinquain poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHIArmantrout, Rae
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wesleyan University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ARMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ARMPearson, Yvonne.
Summary: Presents an overview of concrete poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHISimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: Presents an overview of rhyming poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use acrostic poems to express ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 CHITomecek, Steve.
Summary: Examines what music is and how scientific principles help control how it is made, and describes the history of different types of musical instruments and electronic sound synthesizers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2010