Limón, 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.Summary: A collection of twenty-six crime stories, written by top women authors during the past century, includes pieces by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretsky, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, J.A. Jance, and other notables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMLimón, Ada.
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: Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Anderson 2019Aalto, Kathryn
Summary: In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2020
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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: ""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2015
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Summary: Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), regarded by many as her most fully realized volume of poetry, is one of the great Canadian and feminist epics. In 1980, Margaret Atwood's longtime friend, the distinguished Canadian artist Charles Pachter, illustrated, designed, and published a handmade boxed portfolio edition of 120 copies of the poem with silkscreen prints, created as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ATWHarjo, 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 HARSummary: "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 ANTSummary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANTSummary: An anthology of empowering poems grouped into eight themed categories, written by living, self-identified women writers for anyone who is, has been, or knows a teenage girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Bloody Publishing 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 COUWong, Jane
Summary: "Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WONLong, Rachel
Summary: "Each poem in Rachel Long's award-winning My Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell-of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion, or sexual awakening-stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically conscious, wise,funny, and outrageous. Told in three sections, it's a book about growing up, falling in love with not-great men, and girlhood; a collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 LONDove, Rita
Summary: "A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DOVMillner, Maggie
Summary: "A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MILGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: Overview: Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food-food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry GiovanniGiovanni, 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 GIOSummary: A volume of top-selected works representing definitive modes of thought during the women's movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s includes pieces by such writers as Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyeser, and Judy Grahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.8 POEBrown, Renee J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1st Books Library 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: 811.54 BROOliver, Mary
Summary: In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012