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Audiobooks. bibliography Historical poetry. History. Juvenile works. Poetry Poetry. poetry. Poésie. Translations.Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Summary: "A knife-sharp new collection about getting lost from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SIMBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BRUSummary: "These are the stories, poems and images that echo the lives of contemporary American Indians living in Michigan. The contributors' narratives and art address themes of the land, the lakes, family, the search for center, ideas of time and the past, communalism and our Native communities on and off reservation homelands, along with story-telling, Indian education, the Michigan urban Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 VOICESummary: "A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 LIVDiaz, Natalie
Summary: "In When My Brother Was An Aztec, Natalie Diaz examines memory's role in human identity. Each section filters memory through specific individuals and settings. The first concentrates on a diabetic grandmother without legs and the landscape, tangible and intangible, of a Native American reservation. The second engages a brother's strife with drug-use and his unraveling of the family, the home....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 DIAMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: "In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth." he writes. Earth Keeper is a story of attachment, rooted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GANHarjo, Joy
Summary: A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: "One of the most important and unique voices in American letters, distinguished poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller N. Scott Momaday was born into the Kiowa tribe and grew up on Indian reservations in the Southwest. The customs and traditions that influenced his upbringing-most notably the Native American oral tradition-are the centerpiece of his work. This luminous collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 MOMLeón, Amyra
Summary: The author takes readers on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem. León explores love and loss, melody and bloodshed as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. She invites readers to dream with abandon-- because it is a privilege to dream at all. -- adapted from front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEOErdrich, Heid E. (Heid Ellen)
Summary: "Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained harassment does to people, especially to women, children, and Native and Indigenous people, how it can lead to the oppression of others and even ourselves, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ERDPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: The New York Times best-selling and award-winning duo present this celebration of Black and Brown babies and the happiness, gentle moments and endless love shared between children and their caregivers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PINBowman, L. E. (Lauren E.)
Summary: "What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities. With a backbone rooted in primordial imagery and allegory, and a focus on how the growing disconnect with our own wants, needs, and fears creates deeper divides in our relationships, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 BOWLewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWHarjo, Joy
Summary: A collection of poems from the first Native American US Poet Laureate, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land, that opens a dialogue with history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 811 HARKooser, Ted
Summary: "A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in a tree, or an empty nest perched on a leafless branch? As poet Connie Wanek alludes to in her afterword--a lively dialogue with former US Poet Laureate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: "A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLISoliman, Moheb
Summary: "Moheb Soliman's HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands of eastern Ontario. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experience as Soliman drives his Corollapast exquisite vistas and abandoned mines, through tourist towns and midwestern suburbs, seeking to inhabit an entire region as home. Against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SOLSidman, Joyce
Summary: "Poems addressed to the earth itself explore scientific concepts including plate tectonics, water cycles, and the creation of tides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811 SIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SIDHogan, Linda
Summary: Linda Hogan explores new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings in A History of Kindness. Throughout this clear-eyed collection, Hogan tenderly excavates how history instructs the present, and envisions a future alive with hope for a healthy ans sustainable world that now wavers between loss and survival.--Front cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey House Press 2020
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Summary: A bilingual collection of thirty-seven political and protest poems about the social conditions of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 KINSeuss
Summary: "The one and only Dr. Seuss dispenses invaluable advice about life in this collection of his most memorable quotes. Featuring over sixty pages of cherished Seuss art and quotes from such classics as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and many more, this humorous and inspiring collection is, indeed, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 SEUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SEUHarjo, Joy
Summary: A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HAREwing, Eve L.
Summary: Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances; blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2017