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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration. -- adapted from jacket and perusal of book
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave Americans a new way to serve their country: the Peace Corps. In its 60-year history, 200,000+ volunteers have traveled to more than 140 countries to carry out the organization's mission of world peace and friendship a towering task, indeed. Through interviews with Corps volunteers, Heads-of-State, scholars, journalists, and host country nationals, the film explores how this uniquely American government agency...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Con la lectura de su poema "La colina que ascendemos" en la ceremonia de investidura del presidente Biden, la joven Amanda Gorman ofreció a un mundo herido un nuevo lenguaje de esperanza. En Mi nombre es nosotros, la autora explora la memoria, el dolor y la identidad, y parte de la reciente experiencia colectiva de la pandemia para tratar de arrojar luz sobre el futuro. Sus versos nos hablan de marginalidad, crisis climática, justicia social,...
4) Balladz
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 171 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A new poetry collection from Pulitzer and T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sharon Olds. "At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: "she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me") and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence...
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