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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 RUDPeters, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 PETLevinson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, Cameron + Company 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Emezi, Akwaeke
Summary: "Collection of poems by Akwaeke Emezi"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 EMEHood, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSSummary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 REVEl-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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 EL-KGibson, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Button Publishing Inc. 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GIBVanDerwater, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 VANMarie, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARKooser, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 KOOOndaatje, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ONDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 ONDSummary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions, in association with the Library of Congress
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 YOUAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAMomaday, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MOMPizarnik, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PIZWatson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 WATWolf, Allan
Summary: Learn vital processes and procedures about gardening through different types of poetry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 WOLBolaño, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOLDiaz, 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....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 DIAHomer
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 883.01 HOMSummary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 EL CWalker, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALBejerano, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr Press 2023