Jackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 PLABlair, Dee.
Summary: "It has been said that music is the speech of angels, poetry is vocal painting, and nature is the art of God. With this album I have combined music with some of the world's most beautiful poetry, spanning 2000 years, where flowers, love, life and death are contemplated. These songs soothe and delight, and offer a sense of peace, inviting the listener into that special place where the good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mousehole Productions 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BLAVang, Mai Der
Summary: In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United States abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos starting in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as “yellow rain,” caused severe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021