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American poetry -- 21st century

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 139 Collections and/or Records:

Threshold, 2014

 Item — Item 0113503185937: [Barcode: 0113503185937]
Overview

Inspired by the work of American mythologist Joseph Campbell, these poems incorporate the arc of his monomyth to create a hero's journey out of moments in our ordinary lives.--Abstract.

Dates: 2014

Trademark Sunshine, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_kobosko_katherine.pdf
Overview "Trademark Sunshine' is a collection of poems by Kate Kobosko that explores the link between place, history, and memory. The poems are set in wildly different locations from Costa Rica to New England (and numerous places in between). The poet explores geography, literal and metaphorical, and what it means to be a visitor in a place. These poems answer questions about what it means to be 'from' a certain place: both a tangible location that can be pointed to on a map, as well as the...
Dates: 2021

Transitions, 2012

 Item — Item 0113503069370: [Barcode: 0113503069370]
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Transitions is a hybrid memoir of prose poem and verse that explores the complex story of one girl's recovery from sexual abuse. The book explores topics of gender, sexuality, grief, illness, and relationship as the narrator navigates between womanhood, m

Dates: 2012

Tribulation, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_burnette_sally.pdf
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"Tribulation is a pre-apocalyptic collection of poems that experiment with form and genre in examining the intertwinement of various issues, especially religion, gender, and sexuality. At times funny but always serious, it also deals with themes of class, pop culture, trauma, violence, and mental health." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Tripping the light fantastic, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502746713: [Barcode: 0113502746713]
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The purpose of this project was to create a book of poems, and in doing so, analyze the creative and technical processes involved at each stage of the book's development, from conception and writing, to revising, to designing both the interior and exterio

Dates: 2005

Twenty Volume Deathtape, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019fall_latimer_reid.pdf
Overview "Twenty Volume Deathtape is a collection of poetry and experimental prose concerning the alienation, paranoia, and loss inherent under contemporary techno-capitalism. In the face of the looming climate disaster and mass extinction events, this collection grasps at the possibility of new modes of symbolic association via contemporary philosophies, psyc hoanalytic theories, technologies, and the great wealth of information concerning both recent history and deep cosmic timescales. Perhaps this...
Dates: 2019

Under the Honey Locusts, 2021

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Identifier: cw_2021spring_pate_katharine.pdf
Overview "Kakie Pate's Under the Honey Locusts is a collection of poems that largely examines the human experience as it relates to the natural, spiritual and religious world. Topics such as mental and physical health (and the lack thereof) as well as elements of place come into play at times to help explore human to human, human to self, and human to nature relationships. The collection's title stems from Pate's life in Boston living on a hilly street lined with Honey Locust trees, a habitat from...
Dates: 2021

Unexpected mornings, 2008

 Item — Item 0113502964761: [Barcode: 0113502964761]
Overview

New American poetry using a range of open and closed forms in which insight and wit incite an exploration of places, relationships, and memories. -- abstract.

Dates: 2008

Unmonstrous, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_taylor_john.pdf
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"The poems in Unmonstrous chronicle a path through trauma and beyond trauma, through pain and after pain. Issues of identity, faith, and loss are addressed and often in the company of nature: small mammals, maple leaves, hermit crabs." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Waiting for the ice to settle, 2008

 Item — Item 0113502964779: [Barcode: 0113502964779]
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Waiting for the Ice to Settle is a collection of poetry written between 2006 and 2008. Poems explore the poet's childhood and experiences as a young adult in New England and abroad." -- abstract.

Dates: 2008

Waiting in Wally’s, 2017

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Identifier: cw_2017spring_sherodclyburn_shane.pdf
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"This collection of poems chronicles a young man, lost and in love with love, moving from warm bed to warm bed, drinking along the way. He laments the passing of youth and yearns for a promising future, as yet unwritten." --Abstract.

Dates: 2017

Walt Whitman rest stop and other poems, 2006

 Item — Item 0113502851711: [Barcode: 0113502851711]
Overview

A collection of poetry in three parts, headlined by the title poem 'Walt Whitman Rest Stop,' the collection's first section contains poems focusing on art, history, war, and love. The second section delves deeper into these topics. Much of the middle sect

Dates: 2006

Western state, 2008

 Item — Item 0113502964241: [Barcode: 0113502964241]
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Western State is a collection of original poems about innocence and choice, and the boundaries separating the realms of those decisions. With the landscapes of Washington State as backdrop, the poet questions the role of faith and companionship, recalls i

Dates: 2008

We've all been there before : poems, 2014

 Item — Item 0113503152861: [Barcode: 0113503152861]
Scope and Content Note From the Series: The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates: 2014

What the girls do, 2008

 Item — Item 0113502964613: [Barcode: 0113502964613]

Witness, 2010

 Item — Item 0113503032709: [Barcode: 0113503032709]
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Witness is a collection of a poems revolving around familial ties, travel experiences, growing up in different geographies, and how the embodiment of the self changes and matures over time. As the title implies, this selection of work is about watching th

Dates: 2010

Witness and other poems, 2012

 Item — Item 0113503120967: [Barcode: 0113503120967]
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In this poetry collection, 'Witness' refers not only to the act of observing, but a search for vindication of memories, experience, and the importance of the imagined. -- abstract.

Dates: 2012

You, 2004

 Item — Item 0113502728976: [Barcode: 0113502728976]
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A collection of poetry exploring the universal tension between fear and hope through the use of the second person perspective.

Dates: 2004

You can trespass through your own country, 2005

 Item — Item 0113502745889: [Barcode: 0113502745889]
Overview

This group of poems explores ideas of displacement and discovery. -- abstract.

Dates: 2005