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1) Daughters of Harriet: poems

Author

Parker-Ohene, Cynthia

Series

Mountain west poetry

Description

"Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, these poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks mislaid in potters' fields and catalogued with other misbegotten souls, now unsettled as the unknown Black denominator. Who loved them? Who turned them away? Who dismembered their souls? In death, they are the institutionalized marked Black bodies assigned to parcels, scourged beneath plastic sheets identified as a...

2) Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: poems

Author

Mulalu, Tawanda

Series

Princeton series of contemporary poets

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"Please make me pretty, I don't want to die is the first book of poetry by Tawanda Mulalu. In four parts named for the seasons, these poems bring together descriptions of everyday experiences and sensory memories with an overarching focus on the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy and the anomie of United States culture. An immigrant to the U.S. from Botswana, Mulalu explores facets of his life and identity in a powerful first-person voice, including...

3) Concentrate: poems

Author

Taylor, Courtney Faye

Description

". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of Empire liquor store, now a Numero Uno Market, and outside...

4) Spine poems: an eclectic collection of found verse for book lovers

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"A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems--a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines"-- Provided by publisher.

5) Girls that never die: poems

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"In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings...

6) Grocery shopping with my mother: poems

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Book, eAudiobook

Description

"When Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home every week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way-examining his own healing while praying for hers"-- Provided by publisher.

7) Raven's echo

Author

Hoffmann, Robert Davis

Series

Sun tracks volume 91

Description

"In Raven's Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann's poetry grapples with reconstructing a life within Tlingit tradition and history. The destructiveness of colonialism brings a profound darkness to some of the poems in Raven's Echo, but the collection also explores the possibility of finding spiritual healing in the face of historical and contemporary traumas"-- Provided by publisher. "In Raven's Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert...

8) Lvoe: poems, epigrams & aphorisms

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

An exploration of self-love, meditation, meaning, loss, and romance, LVOE. is a look forward, a look backward, but most importantly a look inward to the often confusing yet hopeful human experience.

9) 100 poems that matter

Description

"100 Poems That Matter examines universal themes of love, loss, and the experiences that define us. At turns moving, thoughtful, and thrilling, 100 Poems That Matter feeds into the connections we all have to poetry and encourages us to bring a deeper sense of honesty into our lives. Featured poets include Emily Brontë, E.E. Cummings, Kahlil Gibran, Audre Lorde, and Emily Dickinson" -- Publisher.

10) Whale day: and other poems

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Description

"Billy Collins's thirteenth collection, and first in four years, contains more than fifty new poems that showcase the playfulness, wit, and wisdom that have made him one of our most celebrated and widely read poets. This collection covers many themes, including Collins's profound insights on aging and mortality"-- Provided by publisher.

11) Cotton candy on a rainy day: poems

Author

Giovanni, Nikki

Description

Giovanni's most introspective and personal collection of poems to date.

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If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger, Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in this stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver s love poems.

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here."--Amazon.com

14) The selected poems of Emily Dickinson

Author

Dickinson, Emily

Series

Poetry bookshelf

Formats:

Book, eBook, Large Print

Description

"Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.

15) 100 poems to break your heart

Description

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

16) The complete poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

Author

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Description

"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion."–Edgar Allan Poe. Containing such famous works as "The Raven", "Lenore", "Annabel Lee", and "To Helen", this complete collection of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe encapsulates the career of one of the best-known and most read American writers. Laden with tones of loneliness, melancholy, and despair, the poetry contained in this volume exerted great influence on the American Romantic and the French...

17) Somebody give this heart a pen

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy. From youth to school to family life to falling in love and falling back out again--the poems draw on the author's experience as a young mixed-race woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy,...