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: Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances; blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 EWILimón, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMSummary: Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWALimón, Ada
Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMStoneham, Donna
Summary: "A healing balm for anyone recovering from loss, Catch Me When I Fall reveals how our grief journeys can be a powerful transformative force. Through the conversations between mother and daughter that take place in this moving collection of poems and letters, we are provided with the opportunity to explore a beautiful notion: as long as we keep our hearts open to the mystery and power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 STOKaminsky, Ilya
Summary: Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAMSummary: An anthology of empowering poems grouped into eight themed categories, written by living, self-identified women writers for anyone who is, has been, or knows a teenage girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Bloody Publishing 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 COUGonzalez, 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 GONFoster, Linda Nemec
Summary: The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a new tale that feels familiar. The breeze off the lake, the sand underfoot, the supreme sadness of being young and not in control-these sensations come rushing back page-by-page, bringing to life an ancient myth of coming of age in a troubled world. Freed from the minds of Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen, the Lake Michigan mermaid serves as a voice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 FOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Poetry FosterFox, Megan
Summary: "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men; my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 FOXJohnson, Javon
Summary: "Johnson takes us on a journey and each poem serves as a guide to understanding black life in America... Ain't never not been black is a healing salve, a sonic ointment that soothes the wounds of white supremacy and daily pricks of antiblack racism, reminding us of the beautiful bounty that blackness always has been and always will be"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JOHMillner, Maggie
Summary: "A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone"--
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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 MILOliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: "Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALGibson, 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 GIBLatham, Irene/ Waters, Charles/ Lp̤ez, Merc (̈ILT)
Summary: Twenty poets each share a poem about a mistake they made as a young person and also provide a short statement on what they learned from it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: ""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMXie, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 XIESummary: "With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 INKLittle, Margaree
Summary: Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LITSummary: "A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 LIVSummary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2015Dove, Rita
Summary: "A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021