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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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" In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander--poet, mother, and wife--finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 49. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of her married life that was, grappling with the subsequent void, and feeling a re-energized devotion to her two teenage sons, Alexander channels her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose that describes a very personal and...
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English
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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Draws on exclusive interviews as well as previously unavailable archives to illuminate the writer's life outside of her relationship with Ted Hughes, offering insight into her poetry and prose while revealing the origins of her unique style.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With the publication of her first book of poems, at the age of sixty-three, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years until her death in 1994. Here we have the first full-length study of this patron saint of late bloomers-of her poetry, and of the lifetime it took her to find the true form for her words. "For the ocean, nothing...
10) Indigo
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life's complex grey areas. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife's return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own "succulent skin," the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch....
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect in equal terms. In the years that followed, these two women would not only become iconic figures in literature, but also lead curiously parallel lives haunted by mental illness, suicide attempts, self-doubt, and difficult personal...
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English
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"Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry...
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English
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The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s, she had been the victim of rape, abuse, and trauma, and her path to healing would be long. But in Parton’s words and music, she recognized a fellow survivor. In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration,...
15) Sylvia
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958....
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." —People (Book of the Week)
"Vivid, immediate." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The...
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." —People (Book of the Week)
"Vivid, immediate." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The...
17) Paris, 7 a.m
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Reimagines the experiences of pre-fame poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks spent in Paris on the eve of World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and...
19) Amherst: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the author of Motherland, a novel about two love affairs set in Amherst--one in the present, one in the past, and both presided over by Emily Dickinson. Alice Dickinson is a young advertising executive who works in London and dreams of becoming a screenwriter. She decides to take some time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of a scandalous adulterous love affair that took place...
Author
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned...
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