Neruda, Pablo

Summary: Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unraveled in a series of essential images that are fundamental to an understanding of his mature work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Pérez-Cortés, Alejandro

Summary: "Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés's personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PER

Reed, Justin Phillip

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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 REE

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Summary: Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much - and how little - racism has changed since our country's founding.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SHE

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.8009 SHE

Estrela, Joana

Summary: "16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 EST

Grieg, Edvard

Contents: Peer Gynt, Suite no. 1, op. 46 ; Peer Gynt, Suite no. 2, op. 55 ; From Holberg's time = Aus Holbergs Zeit = Du temps de Holberg = Dai tempi di Holberg, op. 40 / Edvard Grieg -- Valse triste, op. 44 ; The Swan of Tuonela = Der Schwan von Tuonela = Le cygne de Tuonela = Il cigno di Tuonela, op. 22, no. 3 ; Finlandia, op. 26 / Jean Sibelius.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1984

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GRI

Contents: Má vlast. Vyšehrad (14:14) ; From Bohemia's woods and fields (11:14) ; Vltava (11:25) / Bedřich Smetana -- The wood dove (20:40) ; The noonday witch (13:28) / Antonín Dvořák.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SME

Liszt, Franz

Contents: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (30:27) -- Tasso, lamento e trionfo (20:47) -- Les préludes (14:59) -- Orpheus (10:55) -- Prometheus (12:52) -- Mazeppa (16:24) -- Festklänge (19:35).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL LIS