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Audiobooks. bibliography Love poetry. poetry Poetry. Poésie d'amour. Poésie. Queer poetry. Sonnets. Translations.Foster, John L. (John Lawrence)
Contents: Some rather lively lines (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs inscribed on an earthen vessel (Cairo ostracon 25218)--Songs of the garden (Papyrus Harris 500)--Songs of great heart's ease (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs from a faded papyrus (Papyrus Harris 500)--Stanzaic love song (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs of the orchard (Papyrus Turin 1966)--Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter (Papyrus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493.1 FOSNeruda, Pablo
Summary: Poems explore the depths of the distinguished Chilean writer's love for his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERMora, Pat.
Summary: Presents a collection of fifty poems featuring teen narrators who share their thoughts about love and heartbreak, in a volume that also explores a variety of poetic forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811.54 MORSummary: From Sappho to Shakespeareto Cole Porter--a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.81 LOVWhyte, David
Summary: Requited or unrequited, to love is to move between homecoming and exile, between the presence and absence of our beloved as well as ourselves. In this new collection, human desire pulls with the force and rhythm of a sea tide, emerging from and receding into mysteries larger than any individual life. The book begins with the reverential title poem and concludes with four works that reflect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Many Rivers Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WHYSaenz, Gil
Summary: Gil Saenz writes with graceful admiration of love's passion in his beautiful collection of poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pentland Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAEMadgett, Naomi Cornelia Long
Summary: "You Are My Joy and Pain is Naomi Long Madgett's latest and possibly most endearing poetry collection. Bill Harris, a 2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist, said of the book, "Even with the evidence of over a half-century or more of first-rate poetic artistry by Madgett, this collection is a breath-arresting surprise and delight. Poem-by-poem and section-by-section amaze. Each poem in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MADWilson, Karma.
Summary: A collection of eighteen short poems celebrating love and friendship between animals, from cats and sheep to giraffes and crocodiles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION Wilson 2005Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILGibson, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GIBAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This collection of poems addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and, zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House, Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 ATWAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This collection of poems addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and, zombies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 ATWSummary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE POSGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOGunn, Thom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 GUNKeillor, Garrison.
Contents: 1. Prayer -- Supper -- Guardian -- Hoops Shall I -- Bad news -- Holsteins -- Updike -- Skeptic -- This life -- Manhattan -- Room 704 -- Self portrait -- Chopin -- Nude study -- Lent -- Freeway -- A couple on the street -- Boom -- Ulysses 2. -- Radio man -- First reader -- Long career -- My girl -- So much -- Midwest -- Columbus, Georgia -- Baltimore -- In a cab -- Anniversary -- Frankie -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Common Good Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 KEIOlivarez, José
Summary: "A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLIAntrobus, Raymond
Summary: "On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory in All The Names Given, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. The collection opens with poems about the author's surname-one that shouldn't have survived into modernity-and examines the rich and fraught history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 ANTEpstein, Daniel Mark.
Summary: Describes the life and work of an American woman whose love poetry transformed a generation of writers, drawing on letters, diaries, and journals to depict the world of a woman whose life was dedicated to art and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT EPSGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary Seduction to the tender new poem, Just a Simple Declaration of Love, from the whimsical I Wrote a Good Omelet to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1997
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Summary: A poem with a rebus format, in which the speaker professes love equal to that of a bird for a tree, a flower for a bee, and a lock for a key.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MarBrowning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.8 BROShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents a collection of love poems written by the great English writer, William Shakespeare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 ShakeArvio, Sarah
Summary: "Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca. "I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart," Sarah Arvio confesses in the poem "small war." The love Arvio traces in these pages is a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021