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OverDrive eBooks April 2017
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"Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown." -- Sharon Olds
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April is National Poetry Month
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Stag's Leap
by Sharon Olds
A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.
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City of Eternal Spring
by Afaa Michael Weaver
This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar themes that address the author's personal experience with childhood abuse through the context of Daoist renderings of nature as a metaphor for the human body, with an eye to recovery and forgiveness in a very eclectic spiritual life. City of Eternal Spring chronicles Weaver's travels abroad in Taiwan and China, as well as showing the limits of cultural influence.
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The Door
by Margaret Atwood
The first anthology of poetry in more than a decade from the renowned author of The Handmaid's Tale features fifty richly varied poems that range in tone and subject matter, from the personal to the political, and from the lyric and ironic to meditative and prophetic, as they explore the writing of poetry itself, the passage of time, mortality, and more.
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First of the Last Chances
by Sophie Hannah
Touching and uplifting, this collection of the poems of Sophie Hannah follows traditional rhyming schemes using language that is always realistic and postmodern. Focusing on love and loss, these poems chronicle the different ways that people, for better or for worse, can be significant to one another.
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Night of the Republic
by Alan Shapiro
The author of the National Book Critics Award finalist Old War presents a latest collection of poetry in which he uses surreal, dreamlike language to meditate on the nighttime realities of such public areas as a gas station restroom, a shoe store and a racetrack, in a volume that also explores the historical and personal events that marked his childhood.
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My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems, 1973-1988
by Ana Castillo
A new edition of the classic poetry collection by the author of I Ask the Impossible and Peel My Love Like an Onion presents lyrical, streetwise, frequently autobiographical poems, including an all-new, never-before-published work.
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April is Autism Awareness Month
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The Spark : a Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
by Kristine Barnett
The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of basic life-skills instructors who counseled her family to expect very little of the boy, sharing the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential while describing his current achievements as a paid teenage researcher in quantum physics.
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