Helen Plum Library

"For many years, "nature poetry" has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes--both literal and literary--are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously...

A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...

"Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan...

"A boy and his family's hike to the peak of Oregon's South Sister volcano is narrated in a series of haikus"--

My head lies between headphones, instead of your thighs I've compiled fantasies together, to make out your image I still can't think of what you look like I'm isolated. I'm writing when I'm not playing video games and playing video games when I'm not writing My everyday routine. I wanna add you to my way of living, but I haven't seen you yet Give Me Memories ~ Sakari A poetry collection that creates an atmosphere of helpless vibes can be found behind...

Winner, IP Rolling Picks 2013, Best Creative Non-Fiction. Deborah Kay teams up with award-winning social issues journalist Barry Levy to provide a courageous and compassionate account of what happened to her, and how she avoided being warped by her experiences, allowing, as she puts it, pockets of sunlight to shine through her. Sexual abuse of children is all too common in society today. Media reports focus on the crime and its consequences...

Savor the delicious flavors of joy, inspiration, and inner fulfillment with "Bite-Sized Bliss," a delightful poetry book that serves up delectable nuggets of happiness and wisdom. In these verses, words are the sweet morsels that tantalize the senses, offering readers a taste of the simple pleasures and profound insights that make life truly blissful. "Bite-Sized Bliss" is a poetic confectionery that celebrates the beauty of the everyday and the transformative...

you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Maori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they are just as restless, taking in those times when life...

These haikus deviate innintions from the traditional Japanese style while they try to follow the presctobed 5-7-5 rhythym. They are short thoughts which came to me biking my torturous miles or, sometimes, at the very early morning before I opened my eyes. They are reminiscence of everything, natural events, snapshot from books o read, some are even tinted political, because trooting in Keys hamok I can't escape. My suspicious hypocampus still projects...

Inspirations is a collection of photographs, each accompanied by a poem depicting Constanze Hawkins' love of the natural world. The poems capture the thoughts and wonder inspired by the photos. Constanze herself took all of the photographs, mostly near her Perth home on the grounds of the University of Western Australia. Even the photo of the peacock was taken at UWA, which has a few peacocks and peahens roaming freely in its gardens. The photos...