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Publisher
Fitzroy Dearborn
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer...
Author
Publisher
ACS
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
"A picture book for children that illustrates a poem by the American poet William Stafford (1914-1993). This delightful lyric presents some of those things one sees in open country, among forests and mountains and streams, that makes one wonder about Bigfoot and other such crypt-ids, like Sasquatch and Yeti. The illustrations by Angelina Marino-Heidel are vivid, colorful elaborations of the poem, enhancing it with natural landscapes of compelling...
84) All eyez on me
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records. Against insurmountable odds, Shakur rose to become a cultural icon whose career and persona both continue to grow long after his passing.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Radical Hope is a collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
Publisher
Pantelion Televisa + Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
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Description
" ... an inspiring road trip through modern-day 'Mexicanity'. Elders and youth come together to speak about their craft, their homeland and what it means to be Mexican. From poets and singers to actors and cultural leaders, Hecho en Mexico takes you into the inner circle of an extraordinarily rich and diverse culture"--Container.
90) Girlfriends
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring photographer Susan Weinblatt and would-be poet Anne Munroe are best friends and roommates in a five-flight walk-up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. But one day Anne decides to marry and move out. When the best friends go their separate ways, focus on what happens to the one left behind. It's about valuable, delicate and complex ties that bind people, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and lovers.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....
Series
Oregon literature volume 4
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
An anthology of Oregon poetry from Native American tribal lyrics to the present.
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