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Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
528 page ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries, its heart beating to the stamp and thrum of the printing presses in the Printing Quarter.
Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city’s poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil, the looming...
4) Frederick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although Frederick appears to be the laziest member in a family of busy field mice, he makes valuable contributions in the middle of winter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Poet Amanda Gorman delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 presidential inauguration, winning wide acclaim. Read about Gorman's early life, her children's and poetry books, and what she plans to do next"--
6) Paris, 7 a.m
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
9) Priestdaddy
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972." His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves...
10) Memoirs
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1977
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Blake
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 212 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is a memoir by a working nurse. As a child, the author dreams of growing up to become a saint or, failing that, a nurse. She idolizes Clara Barton, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Molly Pitcher, whose biographies she reads and rereads. But by the time she follows her calling to nursing school, her beloved younger brother is diagnosed with cancer, which challenges her to bring hope and healing closer to home. His death leaves her shattered, and she...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect in equal terms.In the years that followed, these two women would not only become iconic figures in literature, but also lead curiously parallel lives haunted by mental illness, suicide attempts, self-doubt, and difficult personal...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and kid-accessible biography of one of the world's most famous poets. Emily Dickinson, who famously wrote "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," is brought to life in this moving story. In a small New England town lives Emily Dickinson, a girl in love with small things 'a flower petal, a bird, a ray of light, a word. In those small things, her brilliant imagination can see the wide world' and in her words, she takes...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy."--Dust jacket.
20) Wings of fire
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English