Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Cynthia Griffin Wolff Cynthia Griffin Wolff gives us a brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals the relationship between the poet's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of he… OL149398W
Pain, parties, work Pain, parties, work Elizabeth Winder In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees … OL17311518W
Faithful and virtuous night Faithful and virtuous night Louise Glück Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection… OL19670656W
The Bright Hour The Bright Hour Nina Riggs Riggs provides a memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' after her terminal cancer diagnosis. OL19721897W
The Terrible Stories The Terrible Stories Lucille Clifton The long-awaited tenth collection of poetry from the Shelley Memorial Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton. OL2166423W
Dickinson in her own time Dickinson in her own time Jane Donahue Eberwein,Cristanne Miller,Stephanie Farrar "Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-kn… OL22316012W
Burnt offerings Burnt offerings Cathy Warner "Burnt Offerings is filled with poems about life and death, family and faith, hope and despair, creativity and questions. From Billy Collins and Smokey the Bear to Jesus, from kombucha to the Euchari… OL24189570W
The Body's Alphabet The Body's Alphabet Ann Tweedy “Home is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you,” writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no lon… OL24507359W
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Carol Dommermuth-Costa Examines the life, work, and significance of the visionary poet from Amherst, Massachusetts. OL2727921W
The prodigal daughter The prodigal daughter Margaret Gibson "Gibson recounts her childhood in conservative Richmond, Virginia, and her growing estrangement from her sister and parents. Returning home years later to meet the needs of her stroke-crippled sister… OL3355701W
Recollections of my life as a woman Recollections of my life as a woman Diane di Prima ""My earliest sense of what it means to be a woman was learned from my grandmother, Antoinette Mallozzi, and at her knee.... She smelled of lemons and olive oil, garlic and waxes and mysterious herbs… OL568703W