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1) These many rooms

Author

Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

2) Small gods of grief: poems

Author

Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

Series

American poets continuum volume 67

3) Rooms remembered: poem

Author

Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

4) What breathes us: Santa Barbara poets laureate 2005-2015

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"Celebrating the first 10 years of Santa Barbara's Poet Laureate program, this book collects poems by the first six poet laureates. These poems reflect a community with a commitment to the arts, including literary arts. Barry Spacks, Perie Longo, David Starkey, Paul J. Willis, Chryss Yost, and Sojourner Kincaid Rolle. Preface by Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneinder, with a coda to honor poet David Oliveira. The book includes 6-12 poems by each poet...

5) Moving forward, looking back: poems celebrating nature - a Centennial collection

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"Poems by five Santa Barbara Poets Laureate with twelve color photographs of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Mission Canyon campus in Santa Barbara, California"--

6) Tropicalia

Author

Trelles, Emma

Series

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

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"Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles, winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. The book is a melodic union between the green insistence of the subtropics and the city ensconced within. Trelles's language is detailed and startling, her poems infused with color and light, and the secret beauty of back alleys and parking lots is seamed to sorrow, hope, and land. Rock bands play among odes to Lorca and Chagall, and the hard news of protest...

7) Like a Soprano: poems

Author

Starkey, David

8) Ways of being dead: new and selected poems

Author

Starkey, David

Series

Poetry volume 2

9) Spacks Street: new & selected poems

Author

Spacks, Barry

Series

Johns Hopkins poetry and fiction

10) The hope of the air: poems

Author

Spacks, Barry

11) Call it mist: poems

Author

Brown, M. L

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"In Call It Mist, M. L. Brown practices a kind of lyric distillation, purifying and condensing meaning into a sumptuous sparseness, an almost crystalline austerity. It's matter that gives a word weight, and in her brilliant lines each word is heavy with import, with resonance. She traces a subtle narrative of coming of age, coupling, winter, hunger and distance in these passionate and beveled poems."--Amazon.com.

12) when the big wind comes

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13) Rosing from the dead: poems

Author

Willis, Paul J

14) Say this prayer into the past: poems

Author

Willis, Paul J

Series

Poiema poetry

15) Free at last: a Juneteenth poem

Author

Rolle, Sojourner Kincaid

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On June 19, 1865, the news broke among the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, that they were finally free. Some people prayed. Others celebrated. Many left Texas immediately, while others stayed. Freedom took different forms that echoed across the generations with one constant--Juneteenth was a day to remember.