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Tal National (Musical group)

Contents: Kaani -- Zigda -- Wongharey -- Nouvelles -- Tchana -- Sarkin fada -- Kountche -- Banganésiba.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: FatCat Records 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TAL

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MAR

Jess, 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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Butts, 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 --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUT

Lewis, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Wors Poetry Lewis

Gilmore, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hayes, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Bamba, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN BAM

Oryema, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ORY

Summary: Award-winning series of classic and contemporary fiction performed by acclaimed actors.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SEL

Liebler, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Jackson, Fleda Brown

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Watershed Center 2010

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BRO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word Brown

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAM

Summary: Award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.0108 WIL

Various

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ROU

Fipps, 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 FIP

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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Gatwood, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Urban 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN URB

Summary: "A comprehensive selection of work by 106 important American poets"--Page [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Autumn House Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Svoboda, Terese.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arkansas Press 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SVO

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