Neruda, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERPérez-Cortés, Alejandro
Summary: "Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés's personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PERMenzel, Emilie
Summary: "The Girl Who Became a Rabbit, is a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story. Examining reclaimed narratives of embodiment, gentle hauntings, and fables of the body, Emilie Menzel approaches the body as a home we consciously build, spinning myths and fairytales as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MENCurrie, Andrea (Andrea M.)
Summary: "Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Métis, meaning 'the people who own themselves.' Andrea Currie was born into a Métis family with a strong lineage of warriors, land protectors, writers, artists, and musicians--all of which was lost to her when she was adopted as an infant into a white family with no connection to her people. It was 1960, and the Sixties Scoop was in full swing....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURRIE, ANDREA CURReed, Justin Phillip
Summary: "Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful--the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 REEShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much - and how little - racism has changed since our country's founding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.8009 SHEEstrela, Joana
Summary: "16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ESTGrieg, Edvard
Contents: Peer Gynt, Suite no. 1, op. 46 ; Peer Gynt, Suite no. 2, op. 55 ; From Holberg's time = Aus Holbergs Zeit = Du temps de Holberg = Dai tempi di Holberg, op. 40 / Edvard Grieg -- Valse triste, op. 44 ; The Swan of Tuonela = Der Schwan von Tuonela = Le cygne de Tuonela = Il cigno di Tuonela, op. 22, no. 3 ; Finlandia, op. 26 / Jean Sibelius.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GRILiszt, Franz
Contents: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (30:27) -- Tasso, lamento e trionfo (20:47) -- Les préludes (14:59) -- Orpheus (10:55) -- Prometheus (12:52) -- Mazeppa (16:24) -- Festklänge (19:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Má vlast. Vyšehrad (14:14) ; From Bohemia's woods and fields (11:14) ; Vltava (11:25) / Bedřich Smetana -- The wood dove (20:40) ; The noonday witch (13:28) / Antonín Dvořák.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SMEDebussy, Claude
Contents: Music for King Lear / orch. Jean Roger-Ducasse (5:00) -- Children's corner / orch. André Caplet (18:00) -- Première rapsodie for clarinet and orchestra (8:51) -- Six épigraphes antiques / orch. Ernest Ansermet (16:00) -- La mer (25:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001