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An alphabet for Joanna : a portrait of my mother in 26 fragments / by Rogers, Damian,author.;
"Throughout her life, acclaimed poet Damian Rogers was never given a satisfactory account of the circumstances around her birth. The "truth" behind the stories she was told by her mother--the free-spirited, beautiful and often troubled Joanna--constantly shifted, and Damian could collect only fragments: a trip to California, a mysterious trauma, a miscarriage followed by a psychotic break, and a dramatic return to Detroit, pregnant. Now, in the present day, as 40-year-old Damian copes with Joanna's debilitating frontal-lobe dementia, she realizes she may never truly uncover the full story. At once a riveting portrait of a time and place (Detroit and Southern California from the mid-1960s to the late-1980s), an unconventional mother-daughter saga, and an exploration of how memory constantly shapes and reshapes our intimate relationships, at its heart An Alphabet for Joanna is a meditation on the relationship between mental illness and creative life. Damian Rogers writes effortlessly across genres, including lyrical memoir, investigative reporting, and powerful philosophical reflection, as she pieces together the ways we build lives out of stories. And by tracing her mother's deterioration into the present day, she poignantly shows how, even when memory fails, we remain connected through art, empathy, and imagination."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Rogers, Damian.; Rogers, Damian; Children of mentally ill mothers; Mentally ill mothers; Mothers and daughters.; Poets, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Remembering John McCrae : soldier, doctor, poet / by Granfield, Linda.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: McCrae, John, 1872-1918; Physicians; Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918; Poets, Canadian (English);
© 2009., Scholastic Canada,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Good as gone : my life with Irving Layton / by Pottier, Anna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Layton, Irving, 1912-2006.; Pottier, Anna.; Authors' spouses; Poets, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A history of my brief body : a memoir / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A profound meditation on queerness and indigeneity from the youngest ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Billy-Ray Belcourt begins A History of My Brief Body with a letter to his nohkom, his grandmother. "In the world-to-come," he writes, "everyone is loved by an NDN woman like you whose soft voice reminds us that we can stop running now." What follows is a charting of the distance between the world he was born into and the world he wants--a book as beautiful as it is devastating. Reflecting on his personal history, Belcourt maps his "un-Canadian and otherworldly" desire to love at all costs. We're taken to his birthplace in Joussard, in northern Alberta, where he and his twin brother come to exemplify opposites: hard and soft, masculine and feminine. To his high school graduation, where a hug from his father teaches him how to hold and be held. To a hotel room in Edmonton, where destroying the photographic evidence of his adolescence is an act of self-abolition and of making himself anew. Blending memoir and essay, and with a poet's delight in language, A History of My Brief Body is both a grappling with a legacy of trauma and a record of the joy that flourishes in spite of it."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray; Gay men; Sexual minorities; Indigenous peoples; Poets, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Conversations with a dead man : the legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott / by Abley, Mark,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1862-1947.; Canada. Department of Indian Affairs; Indians of North America; Poets, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Poem-a-day : 365 poems for every occasion / by Academy of American Poets.;
LSC
Subjects: American poetry.; English poetry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice / by Hohn, Nadia L.; Fernandes, Eugenie,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references.A look at how as a child Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley was caught between writing the English she was taught at school and the Jamaican patois she heard around her. LSC
Subjects: Bennett, Louise, 1919-2006; Women poets; Authors, Jamaican;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Poets and Writers
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: Crafts & Hobbies;
© , Poets & Writers, Inc.
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Euphoria / by Cullhed, Elin,1983-author.; Hayashida, Jennifer,translator.; translation of:Cullhed, Elin,1983-Eufori.English.;
A woman's life is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more. The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life, re-imagined in fictive form, which lends a voice to women everywhere who stand with one foot in domesticity and the other in artistic creation.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Plath, Sylvia; Marital conflict; Motherhood; Poets, American; Women poets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The poets' corner : the one-and-only poetry book for the whole family / by Lithgow, John,1945-;
"John Lithgow has hand-picked some of the best poems ever written in this quintessential collection for the whole family to treasure"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: American poetry; English poetry;
© c2007., Grand Central Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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