Gibson, Andrea
Summary: A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Publishing Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GIBWalker, Alice
Summary: "Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALVázquez Paz, Johanny
Summary: A regular heartbeat is composed of the two sounds made when the blood flows through the organ as the valves contract. To listen to its rhythm through a stethoscope is to appreciate the slight distinction between two movements that are unequivocally connected - one beat calls, the other responds. Similarly, the two sections of Johanny Vázquez Paz's stunning book of poems offer the reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashinc Books 2019
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Summary: "Question: How do we carry our homes with us? Answer: In memory Informed by Yanyi's experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another, these are poems of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder. In his latest book,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 YANLimón, Ada
Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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Summary: The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2010
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Summary: "Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful--the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 REESharif, Solmaz
Summary: "In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that become a relentless experience of America. With resignation and austerity, these poems trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nation-state and the English language, and the realities they impose upon the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: "Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 VUOLimón, Ada
Summary: "The poems in Lucky wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open, honest, and grounded, the poems in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autumn House Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Introduction/editor's note -- Michigan map -- Rooted in geography, natural and man-made landscapes -- Rooted in weather, seasons, and animals -- Rooted in history -- Rooted with others -- [Up]Rooted in a brave, new world -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- About Poetry Society of Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "An anthology of poems edited by Erin Belieu and Carl Phillips"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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Summary: "...J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LANStoneham, Donna
Summary: "A healing balm for anyone recovering from loss, Catch Me When I Fall reveals how our grief journeys can be a powerful transformative force. Through the conversations between mother and daughter that take place in this moving collection of poems and letters, we are provided with the opportunity to explore a beautiful notion: as long as we keep our hearts open to the mystery and power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 STOChristle, Heather
Summary: Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTLE, HEATHER CHRHarjo, 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 HARJoudah, Fady
Summary: "An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the lovely and unlovely, the loved and unloved. Here he celebrates moments of delight and awe with his wife, his mentors, his friends, and the beauty of the natural world. Yet he also finds tenderness for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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Summary: Sarah Kay, in collaboration with illustrator Sophia Janowitz, releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. Her poems celebrate family, love, travel, and unlikely romance between inanimate objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Bloody Publishing, America's Independent Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAYBowman, 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 BOWKaminsky, Ilya
Summary: Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAMOliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: "Rings on every finger. Hood and educated AF. You've met her. Wearing all her feelings and responding with a side-eye or a tongue-pop. You've seen her. At the grocery store. In restaurants. On the subway. At the bus stop. In a car you pulled up next to blaring whatever matches her mood. Hair in some natural or protective style for the Gods. Ebony Stewart. An around the way girl. One part human,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Publishing, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 STEGlück, Louise
Summary: "A new collection from Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 GLUNguyen, Hieu Minh
Summary: "Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2018