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Appalachian Elegy

Appalachian Elegy : Poetry and Place by Bell Hooks EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Description:
A collection of poems centered around life in Appalachia addresses topics ranging from the marginalization of the region's people to the environmental degradation it has endured throughout history.
Recommended: 21 Jan 2023

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson EN

Rating: 4     87 Votes
Description:
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for... continue

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Conflict Resolutions for Holly Beings

Conflict Resolutions for Holly Beings by Joy Harjo EN

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Recommended: 21 Jan 2023

4.
How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) : Poetry by Barbara Kingsolver EN

Rating: 3.9     4 Votes
Description:
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous. In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all... continue
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

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Noopiming

Noopiming : The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Description:
"Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for "in the bush," and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie's 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. Set in the same place as Moodie's colonial memoir, this genre-fluid novel is offered as a cure for Moodie's racist treatment of Mississauga Nishnaabeg in her writing. The giant Sabe meditates on the gifts and challenges of their recent sobriety. Migrating geese make a case for coordinated formation as a way to get out of "one's own cycling head." Racoons turn Bougie Kwe's Zen-garden pond into their personal urban spa. This is... continue
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

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Omeros

Omeros by Derek Walcott EN

Rating: 4     6 Votes
Description:
A poem of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
Recommended: 08 May 2023

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : Selected Works by Juana Ines de la Cruz EN

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Description:
Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature. Sor Juana (1651–1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her ... continue
Genre Poetry
Recommended: 11 Nov 2022

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The Accident of Being Lost

The Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson EN

Rating: 4.6     4 Votes
Description:
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world w... continue
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

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