CHILLING AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES
A mix of 32 timeless chillers and personal encounters with the supernatural gathered from Native American storytellers and traditions.
Checkout this book of Native American Legends, Ghosts, Monstors & more... in the DRHS Library!
A THOUSAND BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
By Ellen Oh, Elsie Chapman, Renée Ahdieh, Sona Charaipotra, Preeti Chhibber, Roshani Chokshi, Aliette de Bodard, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, Rahul Kanakia, Lori M. Lee, E. C. Myers, Cindy Pon, Aisha Saeed, Shveta Thakrar, Alyssa Wong
Sixteen extraordinary authors—including New York Times bestsellers Melissa de la Cruz, Renée Ahdieh, and Julie Kagawa—reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. This exquisite paperback anthology includes an original bonus story from Ellen Oh. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called A Thousand Beginnings and Endings a “must-read.” From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile readers from start to finish.
Checkout this book of short stories based on Asian Mythology by Asian and South Asian authors, including New York Times bestsellers and award-winners. In a starred review, Kirkus called it an “incredible anthology that will keep readers on the edges of their seats, wanting more.”
...now available in the DRHS Library!
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings Edited by Ellen Oh Elsie Chapman
SHORT STORIES
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Generation Wonder :
The New Age of Heroes
Edited By: Barry Lyga
A high-flying YA anthology featuring 13 short stories that turn superhero tropes on their head and offer fresh perspectives on modern myths Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake—superheroes don't have to just be generic handsome white dudes. Everyone in the world, no matter their race, sexual preference, pronouns, or level of ability, has dreamed of flying. Contributors include six New York Times bestselling authors, seven multiple award winners, a founder of We Need Diverse Books, and at least one author with millions of books in print in the U.S. alone. The collection is edited by New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga, and it also features illustrations from Colleen Doran—New York Times bestselling cartoonist, and artist of the legendary Stan Lee's memoir. The full list of contributors includes: Barry Lyga, Paul Levitz, Sarah MacLean, Lamar Giles, Elizabeth Eulberg, Danielle Paige, Varian Johnson, Joseph Bruchac, Morgan Baden, Matthew Phillion, Anna-Marie McLemore, Sterling Gates, and Axie Oh.
AND OTHER STORIES.
by Theresa Saldaña
In the title story of this gritty collection, a young girl remembers the night her father almost killed her mother. The characters confront issues relevant to all teens, from friendship to dreams for the future. Many, though, must overcome suffering that impacts their sense of security and well-being.
Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women : A Routledge Anthology
This anthology brings together twenty-eight lively and readable short stories by nineteenth-century women writers, including gothic tales to romances, detective fiction and ghost stories. Containing short fiction by well-known authors such as: • Maria Edgeworth • Mary Shelley • Elizabeth Gaskell • Margaret Oliphant Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women also includes: • a scholarly introduction • biographies for each of the authors • full explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading • a critical commentary, publication details and historical context • a full and wide-ranging bibliography The bibliography of resources and further reading will enable those interested in pursuing research on any author or topic to do so with ease, and a thematic index will enable teachers to select material best suited to their courses.
Published in: Native Storiers, 2009, eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
Edited by: Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor presents in this anthology some of the best contemporary Native American Indian authors writing today. The five books from which these excerpts are drawn are published in the University of Nebraska Press's Native Storiers series. This series introduces innovative, emergent, avant-garde Native literary artists and promotes a sense of survivance over the conventional themes of victimry, historical absence, cultural tragedy, and separation that often accompany Native characters in popular commercial fiction. These original narratives demonstrate a new and distinctive aesthetic in the literature of Native American Indians. The five Native authors in this anthology, drawing from the practices of traditional oral storiers, create an active sense of presence, both in the literary world, and the wider world of cultural studies.Native Storiers includes selections from Mending Skins by Eric Gansworth, Designs of the Night Sky by Diane Glancy, Bleed into Me by Stephen Graham Jones, Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 by Gerald Vizenor, and Elsie's Business by Frances Washburn.
Famous
by Naomi Shihab NYE
Illustrations by Lisa Desimini
Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved poets in America, and the poem'Famous'is literally her most famous poem. It has been used in countless commencement speeches—from elementary school to university graduations. At once simple and profound, this illustrated version of the poem is a charmingly ironic take on what it means to be'famous.'It is a perfect gift book for people of all ages—for those who need encouragement, who are at a crossroads, who are graduating, who are nervous about the future, or who want to be more or other than they are.
Now Available in EBSCO eBook Collection
International Poem in Your Pocket Day! Monday April 29, 2024
POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
is a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world—to be published by Milkweed in association with the Library of Congress in April of 2024.
“With poems written for vast and inspiring vistas to poems acknowledging the green spaces that flourish even in the most urban of settings, this anthology hopes to reimagine what ‘nature poetry’ is during this urgent moment on our planet.” — Ada Limón
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World is a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world—to be published by Milkweed in association with the Library of Congress in April of 2024. It will feature fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets: Poet Laureate Joy Harjo; Pulitzer Prize winners Jericho Brown, Diane Seuss, and Carl Phillips; National Book Award finalist Carolyn Forché; PEN/Voelcker Award winners Victoria Chang and Rigoberto González; New York Times bestseller Aimee Nezhukumatathil; Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize winner Paul Tran; Whiting Award winner Paul Guest; and many more. Learn more about the anthology, including a listing of all featured poets at Milkweed Editions.
Half a century after Rachel Carson painted in the opening of her epoch-making book Silent Spring a dystopian future bereft of birdsong, Macfarlane opens with an image of a world — this world — bereft of the words for birds (and plants, and other beings), and thus bereft of the regard for and concern with them: (The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature)
Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children. They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed — fading away like water on stone. The words were those that children used to name the natural world around them: acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, conker — gone! Fern, heather, kingfisher, otter, raven, willow, wren… all of them gone! The words were becoming lost: no longer vivid in children’s voices, no longer alive in their stories.
You hold in your hands a spellbook for conjuring back these lost words. To read it you will need to seek, find and speak. It deals in things that are missing and things that are hidden, in absences and in appearances. It is told in gold — the gold of the goldfinches that flit through its pages in charms — and it holds not poems but spells of many kinds that might just, by the old, strong magic of being spoken aloud, unfold dreams and songs, and summon lost words back into the mouth and the mind’s eye. --Robert Macfarlane (The Lost Words)
Victoria Herrmann, geographer and sociologist
As managing director of think tank The Arctic Institute, National Geographic Explorer Herrmann’s work on climate change communications – specifically the use of media and the importance of storytelling in mobilising climate change action – earned her recognition in Forbes’ 30 under 30 list. “I think of myself as first, a listener – then a connector,” Herrmann said in a video for National Geographic chronicling her journey across the United States and its territories, conducting over 350 interviews with local leaders and those experiencing climate change first-hand. “There is hope in every climate change story,” she adds. “It’s just about finding the right solutions.”
“The Quickening took me on an immersive journey through both exterior and interior landscapes, deftly crossing the boundaries between the frigid Antarctic and the warm heart. Elizabeth Rush’s writing is multilayered, from fascinating scientific accounts to intimate human stories and deep examinations of how we live deliberately in a melting world.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of the Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Adapted by Monique Gray Smith
Illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults:
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of the Plants
Now Available in
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National Teen BPL eCard
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BPL’s eCard is always free to teenagers in New York State. Apply here.
American Street by Ibi Zoboi is available in eBook and Audiobook format from the Brooklyn Public Library when you apply via email . See email address above.
Also available with your Dighton Public Library Card (SAILS) online with Libby and on Hoopla. @ Hoopladigital.com with a DPL library card.
Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Conservationist
Description
Women scientists have made key contributions to the pursuit of science and some of the most important discoveries of all time. In Jane Goodall, learn how the British primatologist chose to pursue a career in science and discovered new chimpanzee behavior, changing the way we understand our closest animal relatives.
Explore the ancent world of INUKSUIT with this beautiful book in DR Library! Stop by and check it out today!
"The Inuit are a native tribe found in many parts of the Arctic region. Nowadays, they are considered as one of the most dispersed people of the world. Their population is believed to be around 60,000. Most of them live in Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Siberia. Their languages belong to the Inuit-Inupiaq branch of the Eskimo–Aleut language family, but it is unknown how long these languages have existed. It is possible that the people who created Inuksuit even spoke a similar language to their descendants." --ANCIENT ORIGINS
The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland. In author Norman Hallendy’s forty years of travels throughout the Arctic, he developed deep and lasting friendships with a number of Inuit elders. Through them, he learned that inuksuit are a nuanced, complex and vital form of communication. Hallendy’s dramatic color photos of many different kinds of inuksuit and objects of veneration capture not only a sense of wonder and power but reveal the unfamiliar Arctic landscape in all its magical beauty.
NEW ART BOOKS in Library
Radius Books employee and former DR student, Mat Patalano recommended the Harrington Media Center Library for their book donation program this year!
We are grateful for these terrific art books and are thrilled the second shipment of beautiful art books just arrived in September!
Stop by the Media Center to see these beautiful books!
by Carla Mooney
This book explores academic anxiety and how it affects people both mentally and physically, examining the causes and symptoms of academic anxiety as well as strategies to overcome it. Features include a glossary, online resources, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
by Raychelle Cassada Lonmann
Today's teens are faced with all sorts of decisions, dilemmas and difficulties, from exam worries to friendship and relationship problems. The result is that anxiety is an increasingly common problem, and professionals need practical ways of helping these anxious teens.Teen Anxiety is a practical manual to use with teenagers to help them cope with anxious feelings. With 60 easy-to-do activities based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), teenagers can be helped to understand what triggers their anxiety; the importance of taking care of themselves; how to work through anxious feelings, fear, stress, and panic; and how to accept and manage thoughts and emotions. Part 1 of the book provides a guide to CBT, ACT and what anxiety is, and the manual also includes scaling questions for assessment and graphs to track progress. This ready-to-use manual, packed with information and activities, will be invaluable to professionals working with anxious teenagers.
LaLlorona has roots in Indigenous Native American legends of the Aztec people, as seen in this brief PBS episode of Monstrum: The Legend of La Llorona with Dr. Emily Zarka.
"The origins of the legend are uncertain, but it has been presented as having pre-Hispanic roots. La Llorona is thought to be one of ten omens foretelling the Conquest of Mexico and has also been linked to Aztec goddesses. In the Florentine Codex, an encyclopedic work on the Nahua peoples of Mexico completed during the 16th century by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún, we find two Aztec goddesses who could be linked to La Llorona. The first is Ciuacoatl (Snake-woman), described as ‘a savage beast and an evil omen’ who ‘appeared in white’ and who would walk at night ‘weeping and wailing’. She is also described as an ‘omen of war’. This goddess could also be linked to the sixth of ten omens that are recorded in the codex as having foretold the Conquest: the voice of a woman heard wailing at night, crying about the fate of her children."
Amy Fuller is Lecturer in the History of the Americas at Nottingham Trent University. This piece was originally published with the title ‘The Evolving Legend of La Llorona’ in the November 2015 issue of History Today.
La Llorona (The Crying Woman) is a sad and haunting tale from Mexico. Parents have told the story for hundreds of years to misbehaving children and to guard against vanity. Some say the story is about Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and a native Mexican woman who served as his translator. Her loss can be compared to the loss of native Mexican culture after the Spanish conquest.
National Teen BPL eCard
For a limited time, individuals ages 13-21 can apply for a free BPL eCard, providing access to our full eBook collection as well as our learning databases. To apply, email BooksUnbanned@bklynlibrary.org.
What is The Land Back Movement?
A movement that aims to reclaim ancestral lands in order to restore Indigenous governance over them. In other words, it is an effort to get Indigenous land back to Indigenous people. The concept has existed for generations, and current efforts have caught more attention on social media in the last five years, particularly after the No Access Dakota Pipeline protests on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
These three stories explore the Land Back movement in different ways. This episode of Above the Noise explores how can inform environmental and climate change conversations. The documentary Groundworks is a film about some creative practices of California Natives within the movement. In Their Element, from Local, USA, spotlights Indigenous leaders rising up to meet the challenge of the climate crisis. For people whose existence is inseparable from their native land, climate change is not a tale of the future - it is the present.
The Road to the Spring is the first book publication of Mary Austin's (1868–1934) poems. Best known for her prose book The Land of Little Rain (1903), Austin was in fact a poet from the beginning of her career to the end, even though she never published a volume dedicated to her own original poetry. Instead, Austin's work came to light in collections of poetry and in prestigious journals such as Poetry, the Nation, the Forum, Harper's, and Saturday Review of Literature, among many others. The Road to the Spring contains more than 200 poems, most of which can only be found in out-of-print books, magazines, and periodicals, and her unpublished manuscripts archived at the Huntington Library. This singular publication includes her original work, poems she claimed to have written with her grammar school pupils at the end of the nineteenth century, and her translations and're-expressions'of Native American songs, which often diverge greatly from any other known sources. Warren includes an introduction, laying out Austin's place in American literature and situating her writings in feminist, environmentalist, regionalist, and Native American contexts. He also includes notes for those new to Austin's work, glossing Native terms, geographical names, and the ethnological sources of the Native songs she re-creates.
A rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perseverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richness in their lives.
wheels over indian trails... by Gloria Steinem
This is a very important book. It could be the most important of this new century if it were to get the mindfulness it deserves. Wilma Mankiller has brought together wise voices in a conversation about the things for which we long the most: Community, a sense of belonging in the universal scheme of things, support from kin and friends, feeling valued as we are. Balance, between people and nature, women and men, youth and age, people of different skills and colors, past and present and future. Peaceful ways of resolving differences, sitting in a circle, listening and talking, a consensus that is more important than the time it takes. Being of good mind, a positive outlook that energizes positive words and actions. Circle as paradigm, a full range of human qualities in each of us, equal value of different tasks, reciprocity, a way of thinking that goes beyond either/or and hierarchy. Spirituality, the mystery in all living things, the greatest and smallest, and therefore, the origin of balance, a good mind, peace, community.
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2022 Poem in your Pocket Day Friday April 29th!
Students stopped by with their English classes to pick a poem for their pocket, along with many other DR teachers, administrators & staff members.
Celebrated every year in US & Canada, "Poem in Your Pocket Day was initiated in April 2002 by the Office of the Mayor in New York City, in partnership with the city's Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education. In 2008, the Academy of American Poets took the initiative to all fifty United States, encouraging individuals around the country to participate. In 2016, the League of Canadian Poets extended Poem in Your Pocket Day to Canada." (History from poets.org website)
The eBooks below are among the more than 12,000 eBooks available in the DR Media Center's EBSCO eBook High School Collection.
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A collection of fierce, empowering poems by living, self-identified women writers intended for girls age 12-21. Full of advice, critique, reflection, commiseration, humor, sorrow and rage, this anthology includes poems by some of the most exciting female poets writing and performing today. Courage; Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls will live in lockers, backpacks and under beds for years, its pages reblogged, tattooed, dog-eared and coffee stained.
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the collection in its black modernist roots. In tracing the fascinating and unexpected paths of experimentation these poets explored, however, Nielsen and Ramey reveal the tight delineations of African American poetry that omitted noncanonical forms. This invigorating panoply of work, when restored, brings into focus the creatively elastic frontiers and multifaceted expressions of contemporary black poetry. Several of the poets discussed in What I Say forged relationships with members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement and participated in the broader community of innovative poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and continues to exert a powerful influence today. Each volume can stand on its own, and reading them in tandem will provide a clear vision of how innovative African American poetries have evolved across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. What I Say is infinitely teachable, compelling, and rewarding. It will appeal to a broad readership of poets, poetics teachers, poetics scholars, students of African American literature in nonnarrative forms, Afro-futurism, and what lies between the modern and the contemporary in global and localized writing practices.
by Lewis Carroll
Today, Lewis Carroll is best remembered as a writer of juvenile fiction responsible for such timeless works as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. However, Carroll was also a poet who wove dark visions and supernatural themes into his substantial body of work. Much of the verse collected in Phantasmagoria and Other Poems has a supernatural or visionary theme. A must-read for fans of Victorian ghost stories.
by Gerald Vizenor
MLA 9th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)
Gerald Vizenor. Favor of Crows : New and Collected Haiku. Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)
Gerald Vizenor. (2014). Favor of Crows : New and Collected Haiku. Wesleyan University Press.
Favor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry. In the introductory essay the author compares the imagistic poise of haiku with the early dream songs of the Anishinaabe, or Chippewa. Vizenor concentrates on these two artistic traditions, and by intuition he creates a union of vision, perception, and natural motion in concise poems; he creates a sense of presence and at the same time a naturalistic trace of impermanence. The haiku scenes in Favor of Crows are presented in chapters of the four seasons, the natural metaphors of human experience in the tradition of haiku in Japan.
Vizenor honors the traditional practice and clever tease of haiku, and conveys his appreciation of Matsuo Basho and Yosa Buson in these two haiku scenes,'calm in the storm / master basho soaks his feet /water striders,'and' cold rain / field mice rattle the dishes / buson's koto.'Vizenor is inspired by the sway of concise poetic images, natural motion, and by the transient nature of the seasons in native dream songs and haiku.'The heart of haiku is a tease of nature, a concise, intuitive, and an original moment of perception,' he declares in the introduction to Favor of Crows. 'Haiku is visionary, a timely meditation and an ironic manner of creation. That sense of natural motion in a haiku scene is a wonder, the catch of impermanence in the seasons.' Check for the online reader's companion at favorofcrows.site.wesleyan.edu.
Momoko Kuroda (b. 1938) is a remarkable haiku spirit and a powerfully independent Japanese woman. The one hundred poems here—her first collection in English—show her evolution as a poet, her acute lyricism, and her engagement as a writer in issues central to modern Japan: postwar identity, nuclear politics, and Fukushima. Abigail Friedman's introduction and textual commentaries provide important background and superb insight into poetic themes and craft.I wait for fireflies / I wait as if for someone / who will never returnMomoko Kuroda is one of Japan's most well-known haiku poets.Abigail Friedman lives near Washington, DC, and is author of The Haiku Apprentice.
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry
'The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poetry to appear in years.'--Publishers Weekly
'If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it.'NPR
'The'Collected Clifton'is a gift, not just for her fans...but for all of us.'--The Washington Post
'The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton both the woman and her poetry is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness.' Toni Morrison, from the Foreword
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton's published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965-1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton's lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet's career.
On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose 'lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition,' and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. 'mother-tongue: to man-kind' (from the unpublished the book of days): "all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.''
Marjory Wentworth
New and Selected Poems includes more than fifty poems from Marjory Wentworth's previous three collections, Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity, and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle, plus twenty-eight new poems. This collection serves as a capstone to Wentworth's tenure as South Carolina poet laureate, a title she has held since 2003.
Thematically Wentworth's poems invite us to view nature as a site of reflection and healing, to consider the power of familial bonds and friendships, and to broaden our awareness of human rights and social justice. Regional settings appear throughout, indicative of Wentworth's commitment to represent her adopted home state of South Carolina in her work. She skillfully employs a variety of forms, from prose poems to sonnets to elegies to list poems, making for a rich and interesting trek through this 'best of' collection' of her poems to date.
This collection includes a foreword by the poet Carol Ann Davis, author of Psalm and Atlas Hour and an assistant professor of English at Fairfield University.
As She Preserved Them
Cristanne Miller's major edition of Dickinson's poems presents the 1,100 poems the poet retained during her lifetime, in the form she retained them. Dickinson took pains to copy these poems onto folded sheets in fair hand, arguably to preserve them for posterity. Included are Dickinson's alternate phrases and the editor's notes and Introduction.
by Wayne Miller
“[A] wide-ranging, fascinating series of poems that [has] the city as character at its center, the city as a collective soul, the city as idea.” —Sycamore Review
A William Carlos Williams Award Finalist
A Kansas City Star Top Book of the Year
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on “the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city—past, present, and future—ring out with urgency. These poems—in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful—give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City's immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
Eat That
Frog!
For Students
Adapted from Brian Tracy's international time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog!, this book will give today's stressed-out and overwhelmed students the tools for lifelong success.Like adults, students of all ages struggle with how to manage their time. Encountering the necessity of time management for the first time, high schoolers juggle classes, extracurricular activities (all but mandatory for college admissions), jobs, internships, family responsibilities, and more. College brings even more freedom and less structure, making time management even more critical.Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog! has helped millions around the world get more done in less time. Now this life-changing global bestseller has been adapted to the specific needs of students. Tracy offers readers tips, tools, and techniques for structuring time, setting goals, staying on task (even when you're not interested), dealing with stress, and developing the skills to achieve far more than you ever thought possible. This is the book that parents and teachers have long been wishing Tracy would write.
A Teen's Guide to Getting Stuff Done :
Discover Your Procrastination Type, Stop Putting Things Off,
and Reach Your Goals
Do you procrastinate? And if so, what's your procrastination type? In this fun and illustrated guide, author Jennifer Shannon blends acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral strategies to help you recognize your procrastination habits, discover the strengths of your unique procrastination type, and find the motivation you need to meet important deadlines and reach your highest goals.In the midst of modern-day distractions like smartphones, social media, and endless hours of movie and television streaming, it's no wonder you procrastinate! But despite what you may have heard, procrastination doesn't make you a bad or lazy person. In fact, procrastination may even work for you sometimes—creating a sense of urgency that can help you focus. But if procrastination doesn't work for you, it can get in the way of meeting your full potential—in high school, college, your career, and life. So, how can you get things done and be your very best?In A Teen's Guide to Getting Stuff Done, you'll discover your procrastination type—warrior, pleaser, perfectionist, or rebel—as well as the unique strengths inherent in each type. If you're a warrior, you love a good challenge, but may not be able to complete tasks you find uninteresting. If you're a pleaser, you may be so concerned about disappointing others that you postpone doing something. If you're a perfectionist, you may put things off because you're worried about your work being judged by teachers, parents, or peers. And finally, if you're a rebel, you're driven by a strong sense of independence. By understanding your type and using the practical strategies laid out in each chapter of this book, you'll be able to break the cycle of procrastination once and for all.This isn't a manual on how to please your parents, teachers, professors, or friends. This is a book to help you understand why you procrastinate, and how to improve your work habits and really get things done. By helping you uncover your own unique strengths, this book will help you master your to-do list—and your life! This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation.
Every Day Is A Good Day is a rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in their lives.
When you take this well-made book into your hands, please feel the heft of voices, the experience, the diversity within the term Native woman, and the joy of being who you are, and who we are. All of that lies within, and much more. Lastly, one of Wilma’s greatest accomplishments was this: she went home and she made a positive difference. It is true, she left again last year. Again, she went home. To many of us, the sky looks brighter because she’s up there still making a positive difference.—Louise Erdrich, Gakaabiikong (Minneapolis), 2011
Library Media Specialist: Ms. Peloquin-Burns
March is Women's History Month!!!
