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1) Slows: twice
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms. This is a book of slow hours, days, and years--how they can collapse into one another, how it can feel like we are living one day repeating itself. From within this collapse, the speaker seeks connection everywhere. They visit their father's birthplace, Jogjakarta; they listen to a stranger's phone call at the Motel 6 in Alberta; they linger in the so-called ethnic...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedí nezs (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates -- not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy": the family line that cannot...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Larissa Lai's Iron Goddess of Mercy is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dances with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British occupations to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the poem interrogates the complicated notion of identity, offering a prism through which the term "Asian" can be understood to make sense (or...
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Poet Sheree Fitch and artist Yayo take readers young and old on a spectacular ride through the imagination. We fly past illustrations displaying a kalaidoscope of colors. Magical, fun fair creatures appear and disappear in a jungle of cotton-candy trees.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sabrina Benaim has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry, breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now, in seventy-five original poems, she dives into emotional, relatable territory: grief over a relationship's end, loneliness in a world under lockdown, and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious illness."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory...
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