Tal National (Musical group)
Contents: Kaani -- Zigda -- Wongharey -- Nouvelles -- Tchana -- Sarkin fada -- Kountche -- Banganésiba.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: FatCat Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TALMarie, 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 MARJess, Tyehimba
Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUTLewis, Robin Coste
Summary: "A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus, ' a riveting narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Wors Poetry LewisGilmore, Brian G.
Summary: "Come see about me, Marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for real people. In the collection, brian g. gilmore seeks to invite the reader into a fantastical dialogue between himself and Marvin Gaye--two black men who were born in the nation's capital but moved to the Midwest for professional ambitions. In trying to acclimate himself to a new job in a new place--a place that seemed so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GILHayes, Terrance
Summary: "A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead. In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HAYBamba, Sorry
Contents: Yayoroba -- Boro -- Gambari -- Astan kelly -- Sekou amadou -- Sayouwe -- Porry -- Aisse -- Bayadjourou -- Sare mabo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thrill Jockey 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN BAMOryema, Geoffrey.
Contents: Rwot obwolo wan (4:47) -- Spirits of my father (4:30) -- Listening wind (4:11) -- Mara (4:28) -- Omera John (5:122) -- Save me (6:26) -- No ballads ballad (7:00) -- See me Lakayana (4:03) -- Magical stone (4:08) -- I struck the wall (3:50) -- John mon frere (3:38) -- Lapin au sesame (2:30)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ORYLiebler, M. L.
Summary: In I Want to Be Once, M. L. Liebler approaches current events with a journalistic eye and a poet's response. Part autobiographical, part commentary, the lines of Liebler's poems come hard-hitting, but not without moments of great tenderness and humanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIEJackson, Fleda Brown
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Watershed Center 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word BrownSummary: The degradation of a great family, set against the historical background of the "Night of the long knives" and the rise of Nazism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMVarious
Contents: Mbube (Wimoweh - The lion sleeps tonight) (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (3:10) -- Tambala moja (Jean Bosco Mwenda) (4:27) -- Lakutshona llanga (Angelique Kidjo) (2:15) -- Tabali te (Bassekou Kouyaté, Ngoni Ba) (1:45) -- Simbo (Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté) (3:59) -- Masikini (Eyuphuro) (5:07) -- Guisa (Sara Tavares) (4:32) -- Huwaiahuwa (Saba) (1:39) -- Mother's love (Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ROUFipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPDiaz, 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 DIAGatwood, Olivia
Summary: One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GATUrban Village
Contents: Indhold: Izivunguvungu(4:17 min) -- Dindi(3:09 min) -- Ubaba(4:37 min) -- Ubusuku(4:12 min) -- Madume(4:21 min) -- Sakhisizwe(3:05 min) -- Marabi(4:20 min) -- Umuthi(4:04 min) -- Inkani(4:25 min) -- Makolo Yanga(5:38 min) -- Empty K-Set(2:24 min) -- Umhlaba Wonke / feat. Msaki(3:40 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: No Format 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN URBSvoboda, Terese.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arkansas Press 2009