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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores the...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise...
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise...
Author
Series
A. Poulin Jr. new poets of America volume 39
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family -- the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes -- all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities....
Author
Publisher
Thought Catalog Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The strength in our scars is Bianca Sparacino's reminder to you: No matter what you're going through, no matter where you are on your healing journey-you are strong. Through poetry, prose, and the compassionate encouragement you would expect from someone who knows exactly what you're working through, Sparacino is here with the words you need. The strength in our scars tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nací en Ohio, pero las historias de Carolina del Sur corrían ya, como ríos, por mis venas. Hablan de crecer en distintos hogares, de una época que arrastra todavía los residuos de las leyes Jim Crow y del movimiento de los derechos civiles como respuesta.
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,...
7) Un-American
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Poetry that investigates definitions of belonging in relation to migration, religion, language, and loss, tracing a family history between Nigeria and the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Diode Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke howls and hungers. This collection, which won the Diode Editions 2021 Full-Length Book Prize, grieves a lover lost to addiction and also swims in the intoxication of desire. While the poems in Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke portray a yearning for intimacy, they create spaces to experience the duality of pleasure and mourning. Even when Tran writes under formal constraint, like the crown of sonnets, these poems struggle and break and,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful collection of curated poems, individually selected to provide the perfect balm for every emotional need Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark. Whatever you're facing, there is a poem in these pages that will do the trick. This pocket-size companion presents...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles the poet's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Presidential inaugural poet and #1 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Christian Robinson have created a timeless message of hope. Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. With intimate and inspiring...
12) Eye level: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here--colors, smells,...
Author
Publisher
Word Galaxy Press, an imprint of Able Muse Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Red Ear Blows Its Nose is an illustrated collection of poems for children and others covering thinking and the brain, identity and what it means to be a person, and nature and the seasons"--
14) Poūkahangatus
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The American debut of an acclaimed New Zealand poet as she explores her identity as a 21st-century indigenous woman"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Con una sensibilidad exquisita, rupi kaur aborda en todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores obras como el feminismo, el trauma, la pérdida o el amor, pero en esta ocasión da un paso más allá y revela, en un ejercicio único de generosidad y honestidad, experiencias muy personales como el modo en que ha lidiado los últimos años con la depresión, el éxito o la presión a la...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Collects the best poems from the author's award-winning books, along with new poems that confront America's historical and contemporary racism and injustices while urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it.
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