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61) West Portal
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles-the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that "the local is the only thing that is universal," West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of humorous and heartfelt poetry for children and adults"--
"Emmy Award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer, comedian, and actor Bob Odenkirk and his daughter, illustrator Erin Odenkirk, present poetic nonsense for all ages perfect for fans of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky! Bob Odenkirk began writing these poems with his children when they were little, compiling the poetry into a homemade book entitled Olde Time Rhymes....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This book is powered by 100% natural POETROLIUM" A verse-based energy source (with verbal synergy, of course) This stupendous poetry collection is full of zany charactersfrom Sleepy LaFeete, who chooses to snooze in the busiest spots, to Mister Adam Hatter and the Lovely Lady Wigg, who had a fig banquet and danced a fancy jig, to a guy named Rexx who uses exxtra Xs every now and then. Its an irresistible feast: whimsical, hilarious, and always inspired....
69) At the pond
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Witty poems and luminous illustrations celebrate a day at the pond." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
I found two books, three towels, some long-thought lost remotes, cereal and sunscreen and two fall-and-winter coats, pizza crust, some pants and shirts, some shorts and underpants, socks and shoes, a sticky, swirly sucker...and some ants. Book jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleiades Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In GEOGRAPHIC TONGUE, an important addition to the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, Rodney Gomez weaves together themes of loss, identity, ethnicity, heritage, and the mechanics of contemporary life to create a collection as lyrically arresting as it is asthetically stunning. These visual poems, crafted with both restraint and vitality, are visceral in their depiction of creulty at the US-Mexico border. And yet, this charged landscape also gives...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"...Galápagos tells the complex story of a young volcanic ecosystem influenced by seasonal ocean currents, where food energy moves through integrated land and sea communities, each in its own season of growth and renewal. Millions of years ago, undersea volcanos in the eastern Pacific Ocean erupted, spewing up lava, rocks, and ash that eventually formed a cluster of islands: the archipelago known as the Galápagos Islands. Over time, castaway plants...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Juan Francisco Manzano was born in 1797 into the household of wealthy slaveowners in Cuba. He spent his early years at the side of his owner's wife, entertaining her friends. His poetry was his outlet, reflecting the beauty and cruelty of his world. Written in verse.
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
There is something about the boy. When he is angry, clouds darken. When he cries, rivers burst their banks. And when he touches a basketball, deities want courtside seats. Half Nigerian mortal, half Grecian God: Demi is the Half-God of Rainfall. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows that Gods are just like men: the same fragile egos, the same subsequent fury, the same sense of entitlement...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others tussle it out. Vamos! Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning and end of each day. He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms, and poetry for himself as much as for others. But as Miranda's audience...
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