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African American men Illinois Chicago Biography American poetry American poetry 21st century American poetry Women authors Families Illinois Chicago Biography POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica Poetry American Hispanic American Poetry Subjects and Themes Family Poetry Subjects and Themes Love & Erotica Poetry Women AuthorsAlexander, Kwame.
Summary: Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. Alexander attempts to deal with the unraveling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company, Hachette Book Group 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER, KWAME ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALEXANDER ALELimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018