New Poetry
New arrivals added to the poetry collection in the last 7 days
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| A line of driftwood - the Ada Blackjack story |
"In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue shipfinally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's extraordinary |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| Blue in green |
""Blue in Green"is a book that is equal parts subtle intelligence and generosity of heart. In it, Chiyuma Elliott creates a unique voice that returns again and again to the question of what we expect from one another, and how that question is transformed instead into a question of what we owe each other. This notion of reversal plays out in the construction of the poems where, unlike so many of her contemporaries who come to poetry through prose techniques, Elliott's voice emerges through a comp |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Call Us What We Carry |
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Oct 7, 2021 |
| Collected poems |
"A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning four decades of her literary career"-- |
Oct 14, 2021 |
| Gumbo Ya Ya |
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Oct 12, 2021 |
| In search of Walt Whitman |
An engaging film that tells the story of Walt Whitman's remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic readings with captivating period music, insights from scholars, and photography filmed in key locations, this documentary brings to life Whitman's unique character and poems. The film also explores the mystery of how a seemingly ordinary writer, with little education or training, could have created the lit |
Oct 14, 2021 |
| Mennonite valley girl - a wayward coming of age |
"A funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman's quest for independence in an isolated Mennonite community. Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley--a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands--she knows her destiny is to marry, have babies, and join the church ladies' sewing circle. But she feels an increasing urge to push the l |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| Selected works - including The sorrows of young Werther, Elective affinities, Italian journey, Faust |
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Oct 18, 2021 |
| The Black poets |
Presents an anthology of poetry by African-American poets from slave songs to present day poems. |
Oct 4, 2021 |
| The collected poems of Sterling A. Brown |
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Oct 12, 2021 |
| The divine comedy - the new translation by Gerald J. Davis |
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia [di€vi|na kom€m[|dja]) is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan |
Oct 14, 2021 |
| To float in the space between - a life and work in conversation with the life and work of Etheridge Knight |
"A book of lectures by Terrance Hayes."-- |
Oct 7, 2021 |
| Yellow rain - poems |
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Sep 30, 2021 |