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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

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This Vietnam Veteran Found Strength in Sobriety

After transitioning from the Air Force back to civilian life, Jeff started experiencing relationship problems. Eventually he was divorced, homeless, and drinking excessively. With the help of VA, Jeff became sober and reconnected with his family.

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2019
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.

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Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Hirsfield (translator)
1990
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You Were Never Broken: Poems to Save Your Life

Poems for accepting all that you are―including those parts of yourself that you wish you could disown “Give yourself permission to rest, and be silent, and do nothing. Love this aloneness, friend. Fall into it. (Don’t worry. You won’t disappear. I am here to catch you.

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Jeff Foster
2024
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The Aesthetics of Power: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In The Aesthetics of Power, Claire Keyes examines the shape and scope of Rich's poetry as it applies to Rich's female aesthetic. Keyes uncovers the process by which Rich embraces, then rejects, accepted uses of power, achieving a vision of beneficent female power.

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Claire Keyes
2008
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Selected Poems

By 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing across the United States, and more and more African American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social equality for all.

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Gwendolyn Brooks
2006
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Clarity & Connection

In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.

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Yung Pueblo
2021
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I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics.

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Naomi Shihab Nye (editor), Paul B. Janeczko (editor)
1999
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Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems is a collection of poetry that provides a refuge of quiet clarity very much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.

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Phyllis Cole-Dai (editor), Ruby Wilson (editor)
2017
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