Summary: "In Spain in the 1840s, a group of women had begun to publish poetry. Their verse - Romantic, predominantly lyric, and often linked to liberal reform - was novel and controversial because few women had ventured into print. The poets collected in this anthology asserted in different ways their imagination and literary voice." "Anna-Marie Aldaz offers a discussion of Spanish versification as well...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ANTResnick, Seymour.
Contents: Poem of the Cid / Anonymous -- Poema del Cid / Anonymous -- The book of good love / Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita -- El libro de buen amor / Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita -- Mountain song of La Finojosa / Marquis de Santillana -- Serranilla de la Finojosa / Marquis de Santillana -- Ode on the death of his father / Jorge Manrique -- Coplas por la muerte de su padre / Jorge Manrique -- Welcome,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvey House 1962
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 RESNeruda, Pablo
Summary: "Pablo Neruda's debut, never before published in its entirety in English, is the latest volume in Copper Canyon's best-selling series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERNeruda, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Latin American Literary Review Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERDarío, Rubén
Summary: From the Publisher: Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Dario's writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 DARMachado, Antonio
Summary: Machado's lyrical introspective and meditative, revealing an evolution away from his previously ornate, Modernist style. With these magnificent poems, Machado moved toward a simpler, more authentic approach that would later distinguish all his works. This unabridged edition of Machado's landmark Campos de Castilla is presented in a dual-language format which features an excellent new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MACGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARNeruda, Pablo
Summary: Poems explore the depths of the distinguished Chilean writer's love for his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 1986
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Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WALValverde, Fernando
Summary: "In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals--as if from above, and yet also from within--this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to "lone wolf" shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VALAda, Alma Flor
Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: JE VOX ADAMora, Pat.
Summary: In this poem in English and Spanish, lizards, armadillos, and other creatures of the night make merry beneath the desert moon, enjoying the strains of a mariachi band and gobbling lots of delicious food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 MOR SPANISHArgueta, Jorge.
Summary: A little girl chef dons her apron, singing and dancing around the kitchen as she shows us what to do. Argueta's gift in seeing beauty, magic and fun in everything around him makes this book a treasure -- avocados are like green precious stones, salt falls like rain, cilantro looks like a little tree and the spoon that scoops the avocado from its skin is like an excavating tractor. As in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo/House of Anansi Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH J468 ARGNeruda, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NEROlivarez, 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 OLIEngle, Margarita
Summary: Describes how Miguel de Cervantes found refuge from his childhood troubles by daydreaming of a brave knight who would right the wrongs of the world, the inspiration for his famous character Don Quixote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ENGAlarcón, Francisco X.
Summary: Presents a series of brief poems in English and Spanish for each day of the week that celebrate the joys of family and other relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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Summary: Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOLAgosín, Marjorie.
Summary: A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 AGOAlberti, Rafael
Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALBKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: A bilingual collection of thirty-seven political and protest poems about the social conditions of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 KINAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: Ten little puppies are lost, one by one, for different reasons, until only one little puppy remains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ADA SPANISHSummary: The writings of Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda are characterized by their strength, clarity, and contempt for trends. In this program, Gamoneda describes his genesis as a poet, shaped by a childhood of poverty and traumatization by the horrors of the Spanish Civil War; his perception of the radicalizing and revelatory nature and limited influence of poetry; and the relationship he perceives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The writings of Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda are characterized by their strength, clarity, and contempt for trends. In this program, Gamoneda describes his genesis as a poet, shaped by a childhood of poverty and traumatization by the horrors of the Spanish Civil War; his perception of the radicalizing and revelatory nature and limited influence of poetry; and the relationship he perceives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008