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English
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The text of this facsimile of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published by Whitman in Brooklyn in 1855, is reproduced from a copy in the Library of Yale University. The eight pages of first comments and reviews, added to later copies of the first edition by Whitman and containing a review in The American Phrenological Journal specifically attributed to the poet himself, are from a copy in the collection of The Pierpont Morgan Library. The printed...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Language
English
Description
"In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love--teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics--couple with moments of wrenching grief--a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother's waist; Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police...
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HL 800L
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English
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
Author
Series
Women are some kind of magic volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now--indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience and embolden women to take control of their own stories. Enemies try to judge, oppress, and marginalize her, but the witch doesn't burn in this one"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (82 pages)
Language
English
Description
This collection is "an astonishing achievement" that renders grief and illness in "supremely lyrical, brilliantly imagined . . . poetry of the highest order" (Connie Wanek).
A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick's Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the "emotional core of the self," and central to the process of memory.
In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality,...
8) Ariel
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Language
English
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An acclaimed anthology of vivid and emotionally shattering poems, written during the last months of Plath's short life, is accompanied by a brief author profile and an incisive foreword by Robert Lowell.
9) Evangeline
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Language
English
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Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. The poem then follows Evangeline across the landscapes of America as she spends years in a search for him, at sometimes being near to Gabriel without realizing he was near.
10) And yet: poems
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The second full-length poetry collection from the ... author"--Back cover.
Kate's second full-length book of traditional poetry, And Yet, dives deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of her writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss. Taken together, these poems demonstrate the remarkable evolution of a writer and an artist working at the height of her craft, pushing herself and her poetry in a beautiful and impressive way.
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Series
You are your own fairy tale volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxi, 133 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the 'Women are some kind of magic' poetry series, presents a new companion series, 'You are your own fairy tale.' [This] first installment ... is about overcoming those who don't see your worth, even if that person is sometimes yourself. In the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character, while everyone is but a forgotten footnote--even the prince"--
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From famous spoken word poet, artistic educator, and founder/CEO of 'Called to Move' Brandon Leake comes his debut poetry collection Unraveling. In an era of self love, the ability to love oneself is only as effective as the ability to know oneself. Throughout his collection, Leake asks readers to look at something beautiful, yet still see its flaws. On the flip side, he encourages readers to look at something evil, and yet still see the beauty it...
13) The waste land
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Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
75th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
47 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruelest month", "I will...
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From "with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan": They give the kids candy to bet. My daughter loses the first four rounds, she's a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece. When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again. No! she shouts, grabbing her candy, I want to go home! True...
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Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
x, 76 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This masterpiece of eighteenth-century English poetry tells the epic tale of a sailor who endures a fate worse than death for killing an albatross.
After callously shooting an albatross with his crossbow, a sailor is doomed to a nightmarish voyage from the Antarctic to the Equator before returning home as the sole survivor of the journey. When the haunting figure Life-in-Death wins his soul in a game of dice, the sailor is doomed to forever roam...
16) Obit: poems
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 113 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural...
17) Home body
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Rupi explores a variety of themes in her work ranging from love, loss, trauma, healing, femininity, migration, and revolution. Shes a storyteller and chronicler--a repository of community and history, with a simplicity and nuance to her work that has found a home in the hearts of millions. --
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising exploration of collective mourning and crafts a masterwork that resonates far beyond the page. These poems are visually stark, a gathering of gripping verses that unmasks a dialogue of tragic truths--the stories of lives taken unjustly and too soon. Bold and deeply affecting, Dark Testament is a remarkable reckoning with...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
100 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--