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Discover Poetry

April is National Poetry Month. Discover the poetry collections available at Sunnyvale Public Library. Descriptions from the catalog and publishers.

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  • In this collection of over 100 poems, Richard Blanco has carefully selected poems from his previous books that represent his evolution as a writer grappling with his identity and bookended them with new poems that address those issues from a fresh,…
    Book, 2023Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023] — 811.54 BLA
  • In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time’s deep isolation and divisiveness and What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? 2024 National Book Award Finalist…
    Book, 2024Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2024] — 811.6 SEU
  • In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.
    eBook, 2022Penguin Publishing Group, 2022
  • The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author, first Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman. This collection explores themes of identity, grief, and memory.
    eBook, 2021Penguin Young Readers Group, 2021
  • Collects essays, poetry, and images that expose the racial tensions in twenty-first century life, highlighting the slights, slips of the tongue, and intentional offensives that pervade the home, school, and popular media. 2014 National Book Award…
    Book, 2014Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014] — 814.6 RAN
  • This imaginative, soulful debut poetry collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and…
    Book, 2018New York : One World, [2018] — 811.6 A
  • Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.
    Book, 2023New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 811.6 SMI
  • If Not, Winter

    Fragments of Sappho

    Sappho
    Critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents a dramatic translation of the poetry of Sappho, presenting all the extant fragments that exist of the ancient poet's works in both English and the original Greek and furnishing an…
    Book, 2002New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002. — 884.01 S
  • Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. She served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London and wrote the poetry for the Peabody Award–winning visual album Lemonade in collaboration with Beyoncé…
    Book, 2022New York : Random House, [2022] — 821.92 SHI
  • In this young adult novel-in-verse, a girl hospitalized for her clinical depression connects with a boy who suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical…
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023. — Y MCBRIDE Amber
  • A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.
    Book, 2023New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — 811.6 OLI
  • Devotions

    the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

    Oliver, Mary, 1935-
    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
    Book, 2017New York : Penguin Press, 2017. — 811.54 O
  • Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company, [2023] — 811.6 BRO
  • A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.
    Book, 2023Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2023] — 811.6 YOU
  • Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. Bringing together Choi's signature speculative imagination with even greater…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 811.6 CHO
  • Suheir Hammad has given us a collection of poems that have their roots in a land near the edge of the sea. Here is the voice of one woman who has not forgotten the plight of her people.
    Book, 2010Brooklyn, NY : UpSet Press, ©2010. — Y 811.54 H
  • The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — 811.54 GLU
  • The Storm brings together fourteen short stories and prose poems from Gibran's Arabic writings, which exhibit several characteristic Gibran themes: the injustice perpetrated by society against the poor, the weak, and the sincere; nature and its…
    Book, 1993Santa Cruz, CA : White Cloud Press, 1993. — 892.735 G