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Elhillo, Safia

Summary: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 ELH

Summary: Many people in the world today see those who do not look like them, or who speak differently as being separate; as "other." Relations challenges the human illusion of separation, illuminating the connections that link us all as humans, different though equal in every way. In this powerful anthology, new and established storytellers reshape the narratives that restrict and subjugate, revealing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.8 REL

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: "With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Child, Lydia Maria

Summary: "It's Thanksgiving Day, so hop in the sleigh and hold on tight as you journey through shimmering snow and a quiet but lively forest. Though the wind does blow, festive fun awaits at the end of the ride--along with plenty of pumpkin pie!"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CHI

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: "First complete English-language publication of 10 songs published nearly four decades ago (see HLAS 28:2152) in which the great Chilean laureate explores 'landscapes of the heart and mind.' Competent translations in a bilingual edition. Lacks both an introduction and translator's note"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Latin American Literary Review Press 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Ada, Alma Flor

Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX ADA

Bruchac, 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."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BRU

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