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vi, 134 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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This book was conceived in the wake of New Mexico's worst natural disaster in written history, a fire and flood, which devastated vast areas of San Miguel and Mora Counties in northeast New Mexico. While the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire consumed more than three hundred thousand acres of forest land and some nine hundred structures, for many it also reduced to ashes a way of life which had lasted for hundreds of years, since the region was on...
2) Wrong Norma
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New Directions paperbook volume 1583
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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget's Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them 'wrong'"--...
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205 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Harold Pinter's plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker. They have become seminal works in our literary canon. Pinter has always been reluctant to comment on his work, preferring to let his writing speak for itself. Now, for the first time, Pinter presents his own selections from a prolific body of prose, poetry, and political writings, offering new insight into the man and his literary and dramatic oeuvre." "Various Voices...
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viii, 93 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux returns with an insightful, compassionate, and spirited volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity. In her seventh collection, Dorianne Laux once again offers poems that move us, include us, and appreciate us fully as the flawed humans we are. Life on Earth is a book of praise for our planet and ourselves, delivered with Laux's trademark vitality, frank observation, and earthy wisdom."--Amazon.com....
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New poets of America volume 50
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98 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Traveling from the corporeal to the cosmic, from life to death and back again, [this book] is a full-throated performance of humanity in search of truth, ancestry, and artistic authenticity. Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles, and longing, Gonzalez's poems are a crescendo of the page. part ecstatic elegy, part spell, this is a betwixt poetics, a kaleidoscopic, disruptive,...
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xix, 426 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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A comprehensive collection featuring over 150 poems, including works that explore joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance...
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151 pages; 23 cm
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English
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"The Infinite Loop/El lazo infinito is a book about pain, love, and hope. The poetic voice bets on an inalienable will to strive for better. Gonzalez chooses the symbol of the infinite loop that, through a dynamic of cause and effect, makes her aware of her own journey. With the agility of her compelling poetic forms, The Infinite Lopp is built from an intimacy that expands toward universal inquiries. Gonzales has said that the publication of this...
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93 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet writes a stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I. Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions memorializes the experience of West Indian soldiers volunteering in British regiments in the Middle East during World War I. The poem narrates the psychic and physical terrors of these young...
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viii, 84 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Levering's Breaking Down the Familiar offers beautiful elegiac reflections on family and the mystery of death. These wry, tender and questioning poems pull us in. We go to hospice and graveyards, journeys we resist but deeply recognize. At a hospital bed the speaker reflects - Not I who woke to diminishment/ though, loving you/ I am wounded too. There is joy, too; father's knuckle balls; mother's cracked hymn singing. The book is a paean to compassion....
14) Suddenly we
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106 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."--
"Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream -- and work -- toward a more capacious 'we'. In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes...
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318 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Jiordan's family was never quite like everyone else's, with her father's mood swings, her mother's attempts at normalcy, and her two older sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in. Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door. After that, her father's mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in court. Soon Jiordan's father would have to leave home,...
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388 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"Presidential inaugural poet and #1 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Christian Robinson have created a timeless message of hope. Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. With intimate and inspiring...
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Deutsch
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Das Komponisten-Paar Schönherz & Fleer ist der Schöpfer des mehrfach preisgekrönten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sänger interpretieren ausgewählte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik - eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEIßE NÄCHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schönheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Hörbuch verströmt...
20) Sonette
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Deutsch
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Wer Shakespeare in heutiger Zeit neu kennen lernen möchte, sollte sich dieses Hörbuch zu Gemüte führen. Ein Mann der Bühne, Martin Flörchinger, hat die 154 Sonette neu übertragen, eine verständliche, bodenständige, kraftvolle Dichtung geschaffen. Der unmittelbare Zugang zum Werk des Klassikers führte den Schauspieler zwangsläufig zu den Sonetten, hinter denen die Persönlichkeit, der Künstler und Mensch Shakespeare, deutlicher hervortritt...
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