Limón, Ada.
Summary: The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2010
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Summary: "A collection of poems by Kelli Russell Agodon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 AGOBlackhawk, Terry
Summary: With great tenderness, Terry Blackhawk has woven both nature and art into her poems of love and grief. They share crystalline memories that span locations and times with her lost lover: a painting seen, words spoken, words unspoken but heard, and always, the river. Maumee, Maumee‘s cover is a painting from Neil Frankenhauser’s portfolio and the interior images are details from his works. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice Greene & Co. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BLAScott-Heron, Gil
Contents: Introduction ; The revolution will not be televised -- Omen -- Brother -- Comment #1 -- Small talk at 125th & Lenox -- The subject was faggots -- Evolution (and flashback) -- Plastic pattern people -- Whitey on the moon -- The vulture -- Enough -- Paint it black -- Who'll pay reparations on my soul? -- Everyday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Dutchman 1970
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Summary: "A collection of poems by Jorie Graham"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 GRAGonzalez, Elisa
Summary: Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GONRatushinskaya, Irina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 RATÓ Tuama, Padraig
Summary: "Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 O TUCollins, Billy.
Summary: Presents a collection of poems that explores the minutiae of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 COLSeuss, Diane
Summary: "Diane Seuss's signature voice--audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude--has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMCollins, Billy.
Summary: Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares 24 of his poems and also spends some time in question and answer session where he reflects on what makes good poetry, his own process of reaching his audience as a poet, the success of his Poetry 180 programs in schools nationwide, and an amusing sidebar on his memories of growing up as an only child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ColliLovelace, Amanda
Summary: "From bestselling poetess Amanda Lovelace comes she followed the moon back to herself, an autobiographical standalone poetry collection that follows a woman who-through heartbreak, bottles of rosé, & the general messiness of life-felt like she completely lost who she was. Each bitesize poem shines a light on where she's been & how she's managed to overcome it all, offering a dose of hope &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Since its inception in 1972, Copper Canyon Press has remained dedicated to publishing poetry from a wide range of styles. The Gift of Tongues is drawn from among more than 150 books and chap-books of poetry published by the Press. Features Sam Hamill's in-depth personal introduction about Copper Canyon's path and dedication to the poetry of many cultures, as well as an annotated bibliography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIFKaufman, Caroline
Summary: In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman--known as @poeticpoison--does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 KAUSummary: These poems are not the poems you studied in school. They are the creations of the people you see pictured in this book. These poets are the new generations and very interesting!
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Publisher / Publication Date: World of Poetry Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.81 GREHeaney, Seamus
Summary: From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 HEAHogan, Linda
Summary: Linda Hogan explores new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings in A History of Kindness. Throughout this clear-eyed collection, Hogan tenderly excavates how history instructs the present, and envisions a future alive with hope for a healthy ans sustainable world that now wavers between loss and survival.--Front cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey House Press 2020
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Summary: A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 YOUSmith, Clint
Summary: Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SMIAtwood, Margaret
Summary: The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 ATWBrodsky, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1986