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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 B145
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811 B145
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A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a wife, and a woman.
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"Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution....
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
808.81 R312
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808.81 R312
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"With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and by some of the most exciting voices today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, indigenous, urban, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 B811t
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811 B811t
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Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 B811t
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811 B811t
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WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award
"100 Notable Books of the Year," The New York Times Book Review
One Book, One Philadelphia Citywide Reading Program Selection, 2021
"By some literary magic—no, it's precision, and honesty—Brown manages to bestow upon even the most public of subjects the
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Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 M317
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811 M317
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"A literary coming-of-age poetry collection, an ode to the places we call home, and a piercingly intimate deconstruction of daughterhood, Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing. As a competitive spoken-word poet who draws large crowds of people, Jasmine Mans's collection is divided into six sections, each with a corresponding active telephone...
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 L84w
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811 L84w
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This volume confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through an array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created an innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing,...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 G439 M
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811 G439 M
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Display
811 G439 M
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811 G439 M
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 G439 M
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811 G439 M
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The seven-time NAACP Image Award-winning poet unapologetically celebrates her heritage in a deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society and the depths of her own heart.
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
811 R167c
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811 R167c
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Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 R167c
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811 R167c
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"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
808 O19
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808 O19
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The author offers reflections on fifty powerful poems.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
808.81 On
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808.81 On
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100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem --
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
821 M9648
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821 M9648
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"The final collection of poems by the great Australian poet Les Murray"--
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
811 C4521
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811 C4521
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Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 Sm61c
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811 Sm61c
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A debut collection of poems draws on personal, political, and social histories to address black humanity and ideas of lineage and tradition.
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"A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone"--
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Display
811 OL41
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811 OL41
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"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 promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions...
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Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
811 Sh182
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811 Sh182
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"In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles the poet's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - Display
811 Sm537
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811 Sm537
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
811 Sm537
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811 Sm537
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South Side Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
811 Sm537
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811 Sm537
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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 children, as they discover it for the first time. There are...