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Muse of fire : World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets

Korda, Michael, 1933- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

821.912 KOR

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:707780

Tanya : poems

Shaughnessy, Brenda, 1970- author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.54 SHA

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SD_ILS:675033

The poetry book

Blakemore, Elizabeth, contributor.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

808.81 POE

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SD_ILS:719310

William S. Burroughs [digital video].

Vallée, Jean-Francois, film director.

Publication Date

2017

Format:

Digital

Access immediately on Kanopy

Call Number

GM I0N A

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SD_ILS:653636

How to love the world : poems of gratitude and hope

Crews, James, 1980- editor.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.6 HOW

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SD_ILS:658048

Best Canadian poetry 2021

Thammavongsa, Souvankham, editor.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.6 BES 2021

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SD_ILS:641756

Kitotam = (he speaks to it)

McDonald, John, 1981- author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.6 MCD

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SD_ILS:615991

Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

306.362 WEA

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SD_ILS:556884

I hope we choose love [DAISY talking book] : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world

Thom, Kai Cheng, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Digital

Call Number

814.6 THO

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SD_ILS:661345

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No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history

Metcalf, Lindsay H., editor.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.608 NOV

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SD_ILS:589015

11.

Best Canadian poetry 2020

Dumont, Marilyn, 1955- editor.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.6 BES 2020

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SD_ILS:602244

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A portrait in poems : the storied life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

Robillard, Evie, author.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

818.5209 ROB

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SD_ILS:602655

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One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

Grimes, Nikki, author.

Publication Date

2017

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.54 GRI

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SD_ILS:454856

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Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph

Orgill, Roxane author.

Publication Date

2016

Format:

Book

Call Number

811.6 ORG

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SD_ILS:414881

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