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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema. A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass's trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone -- all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, The Blue Mimes is a book of grounding and heartening...
Author
Publisher
City Lights
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance, Mimi Tempestt writes poems that are by turns cerebral, profane, revolutionary, comedic, erotic, and sentimental. the delicacy of embracing spirals is her second book, an investigation of the ways in which the personal narrative of Black womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lens. With a visual sensibility that eventually explodes across...
Author
Publisher
Andrew McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This completely original collection of poetry and prose will not only delight her avid fans but is sure to capture the imagination of a whole new audience. With the turn of every page, Sea of Strangers invites you to go beyond love and loss to explore themes of self-discovery and empowerment as you navigate your way around the human heart."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei. One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Looping through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Biography in free verse of United States Army soldier, Pete Seibert, who fought with a division of ski troops in World War II.
Ever since he first strapped on his mother's wooden skis when he was seven, Pete Seibert always loved to ski. At 18, Pete enlisted in the U.S. Army and joined the 10th Mountain Division, soldiers who fought on skis in World War II. In the mountains of Italy, Pete encountered the mental and physical horrors of war. When he...
Author
Publisher
Moon Shower, an imprint of Bushel & Peck books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Author Jacqueline Jules, who was a school librarian in Arlington, Virginia on 9/11, tells the story of that day through a tapestry of poems. These poems tell the stories of young people from all aspects of the Arlington and Pentagon communities and are composites drawn from personal experiences with students and friends residing in Northern Virginia at the time of the attack." --Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Betita, de nueve ąos, y sus padres huyeron de M̌xico despǔs de que los c̀rteles mataran a su t̕o, y se establecieron en Los ℓngeles en busca de asilo pol̕tico y seguridad en lo que su padre llama Aztl̀n, la tierra de las grullas; Pero ahora han sido barridos por el Servicio de Control de Aduanas de Inmigraci̤n del gobierno, su padre deportado a M̌xico y Betita y su madre confinadas en un campo de detenci̤n familiar - Betita encuentra coraz̤n...
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