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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages
Language
English
Description
Reimagines the life of rebel poet Forugh Farrokzhad, a passionate young writer in search of freedom and independence from the restrictions imposed on women in mid-twentieth-century Iran
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary story about the insular world of writers, centering on a notable female poet and the young woman to whom she reveals her long-guarded secret about a famous manuscript"--
24) The box garden
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poet's struggle to make something of herself after her creative juices run dry. Although she has a son and a man who loves her, Charleen Forrest is still obsessed by the thought that she is a failure. The novel follows Charleen as she tries to sort herself out. By the author of The Stone Diaries for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" 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...
Author
Publisher
R. L. Crow Publications
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
10 unnumbered pages, 71 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poetry. Native American Studies. nila northSun's LOVE AT GUNPOINT is written with emotional honesty and biting elegance, embracing her tribal identity and confronting the challenges of being a contemporary American woman. Her poems are a confession of the extremes of her life: the highs of a first kiss, the lows of coming home to an empty house. "nila northSun's new poems are funny and brutal. In short, direct lines, she tells the story of a life...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI"--
29) The cemetery yew
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
384 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Series
Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
p. (large print) cm.
Language
English
32) Nappy edges
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Distribution Childrens
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
336 pages
Language
English
Description
"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
34) Mrs. Poe
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author
Publisher
Shifting Plates Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 336 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California's First Poet Laureate is a new biography about a pioneer poet, Oakland's first public librarian, and the most popular literary ambassador in the early American West. In post-Gold Rush San Francisco, she was known as the pearl of her tribe, a tribe that included Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and John Muir. Jack London and Isadora Duncan considered her their literary godmother, and John Greenleaf Whittier...
36) Emily Dickinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Emily Dickinson, whose poetry is known for its emotional depth as well as its unconventional rhythms and structure"--
Author
Series
Sheila Malory mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
1995, c1992
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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