Saenz, Gil
Summary: Gil Saenz writes with graceful admiration of love's passion in his beautiful collection of poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pentland Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAEMadgett, Naomi Cornelia Long
Summary: "You Are My Joy and Pain is Naomi Long Madgett's latest and possibly most endearing poetry collection. Bill Harris, a 2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist, said of the book, "Even with the evidence of over a half-century or more of first-rate poetic artistry by Madgett, this collection is a breath-arresting surprise and delight. Poem-by-poem and section-by-section amaze. Each poem in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MADMora, Pat.
Summary: Presents a collection of fifty poems featuring teen narrators who share their thoughts about love and heartbreak, in a volume that also explores a variety of poetic forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811.54 MORWilson, Karma.
Summary: A collection of eighteen short poems celebrating love and friendship between animals, from cats and sheep to giraffes and crocodiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Wilson 2005Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary Seduction to the tender new poem, Just a Simple Declaration of Love, from the whimsical I Wrote a Good Omelet to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOEpstein, Daniel Mark.
Summary: Describes the life and work of an American woman whose love poetry transformed a generation of writers, drawing on letters, diaries, and journals to depict the world of a woman whose life was dedicated to art and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT EPSGunn, Thom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 GUNOlivarez, José
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 OLIBoynton, Sandra.
Summary: Celebrates the many ways one can express feelings of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BOYArvio, Sarah
Summary: "Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca. "I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart," Sarah Arvio confesses in the poem "small war." The love Arvio traces in these pages is a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger, Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in this stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver s love poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLIMarzollo, Jean.
Summary: A poem with a rebus format, in which the speaker professes love equal to that of a bird for a tree, a flower for a bee, and a lock for a key.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MarLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Weatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEAJess, Tyehimba
Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESHarjo, Joy
Summary: In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9 HARAlexander, Kwame.
Summary: Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. Alexander attempts to deal with the unraveling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER, KWAME ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALEXANDER ALEGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: In this collection of poems, a child expresses love and affection for Daddy and reflects on the many times Daddy talks to God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Grimes 2002Pinkney, 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 PINHerrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HEREwing, 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