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Ruddock, Nicholas

Summary: "Would you help a tiny fragile snake? Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2024

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

Peters, Lisa Westberg

Summary: "If you're a curious child and you get a new dog, you discover all kinds of things. Gravity has new meaning, when you're racing down a slide toward your eager-beaver dog waiting at the bottom (uh-oh!). Friction has a new meaning, when your slippery dog escapes from the bath (soap+fingers=not enough friction). But love has a new meaning too, when you and your cosmic dog become the center of your...

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

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

Levinson, Suzy

Summary: "What? You've never seen animals in pants? A dog in yoga pants, a goat in overalls, a yak in slacks? Animals in Pants presents a parade of impeccable poems about animals wearing perfectly pressed pants." -- inside front jacket flap.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, Cameron + Company 2023

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Emezi, Akwaeke

Summary: "Collection of poems by Akwaeke Emezi"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 EME

Hood, Susan

Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARS

Summary: Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2002

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

El-Kurd, Mohammed

Summary: Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021

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

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GIB

VanDerwater, Amy Ludwig

Summary: "Fascinating information about the animals (yes, sea otters have pockets!) tucked into short, lively poems and bright, bold artwork make this collection perfect for National Poetry Month--or any day of the year. In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, a child imagines the poems animals might carry in their pockets, if they had pockets. What would a hummingbird write? A fox? A sea otter? These...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022

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

Marie, Aurielle

Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MAR

Kooser, Ted

Summary: "A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in a tree, or an empty nest perched on a leafless branch? As poet Connie Wanek alludes to in her afterword--a lively dialogue with former US Poet Laureate...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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

Ondaatje, Michael

Summary: "Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 OND

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Summary: "For many years, "nature poetry" has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes -- both literal and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions, in association with the Library of Congress

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 YOU

Adaf, Shimon

Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADA

Momaday, N. Scott

Summary: "In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth." he writes. Earth Keeper is a story of attachment, rooted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MOM

Pizarnik, Alejandra

Summary: Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 unearths this extraordinary poet for English readers in a bilingual edition that spans the heights of Pizarnik s oeuvre. In her brief life, Pizarnik produced an astonishingly powerful body of work. In her own words, she was drawn to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016

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

Watson, Renée

Summary: "Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection"-- Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 WAT

Wolf, Allan

Summary: Learn vital processes and procedures about gardening through different types of poetry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Bolaño, Roberto

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 BOL

Diaz, Natalie

Summary: "In When My Brother Was An Aztec, Natalie Diaz examines memory's role in human identity. Each section filters memory through specific individuals and settings. The first concentrates on a diabetic grandmother without legs and the landscape, tangible and intangible, of a Native American reservation. The second engages a brother's strife with drug-use and his unraveling of the family, the home....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 DIA

Homer

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Summary: When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOM

Summary: El coro offers proof that Latino/a poetry today is more complex and diverse, more beautiful and powerful, than had been previously acknowledged. Here we find the open expression of anger and grief, self-mocking humor, the music of protest, the quiet assertion of dignity, and the raucous celebration of survival. There are poems about stoop labor and welfare offices and housing projects, but also...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1997

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

Walker, 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 WAL

Bejerano, Maya

Summary: A Winding Line gathers poems from the last decade by three of Israel’s most original and insightful poets, all of whom are women. Biblical and mythological allusions, political concerns, landscapes, and personal experiences figure throughout, while each poet brings her unique voice to the pages. Maya Bejerano’s complex poems often speak to human connection. Sharron Hass brings an interest in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 BEJ

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