<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for (ca:811* OR ca:821* OR ca:831* OR ca:841* OR ca:851* OR ca:861* OR ca:871* OR ca:881*) AND nw:[0 TO 180]]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for (ca:811* OR ca:821* OR ca:831* OR ca:841* OR ca:851* OR ca:861* OR ca:871* OR ca:881*) AND nw:[0 TO 180]]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/burlingame/rss/search?query=%28ca%3A811%2A%20OR%20ca%3A821%2A%20OR%20ca%3A831%2A%20OR%20ca%3A841%2A%20OR%20ca%3A851%2A%20OR%20ca%3A861%2A%20OR%20ca%3A871%2A%20OR%20ca%3A881%2A%29%20AND%20nw%3A%5B0%20TO%20180%5D&amp;searchType=bl&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;sort=NEWLY_ACQUIRED&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=Poetry&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:18:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Distance of A Shout]]></title><description><![CDATA["The poetry of Michael Ondaatje begins in memory: distant landscapes, myths from childhood, fleeting interactions with loved ones, and characters from history itself. In poems that are spare as often as they are fable-like--as tender as they are heart-wrenching--the poet navigates the past, looks toward the future, and unearths inevitable truths about the world. Assembling Michael Ondaatje's finest poems in one brilliant volume, Selected Poems chronicles the poet's journey--moving book to book, moment to moment, border to border--and leads the reader through the threshold of discovery itself. The Distance of a Shout is a profound and gorgeous collection by an indispensable poet of our time, and proof of why miraculous poetry endures"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3813230</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3813230</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ondaatje, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3813230076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Selected Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593805015/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Inferno of Dante]]></title><description><![CDATA[A verse translation of Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri's story of a man making his way through the torment of Hell in search of Paradise; presented in English and Italian.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3813153</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3813153</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dante Alighieri]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3813153076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A New Verse Translation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374524524/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitations]]></title><description><![CDATA["In these poems, Alvarez traces her life gently, a fingertip following lines on a page, through memories of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, a dictatorship dramatically survived, family and sofrito, tías and the sisters who forged her, her move to America and overcoming English, the search for mental health and beauty, redemption and success. We meet her grandchild and her mother, her lovers and the homes where she grew up and into the formidable writer read in thousands of classrooms across America today. In these poems, her wisdom is as clear and beautiful as the light that shines through crystal and yet grounded through form and the substance of self-knowing."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3788878</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3788878</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvarez, Julia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3788878076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593805039/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[We (the People of the United States)]]></title><description><![CDATA[We (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem made to the measure of the modern world. Composed of 55 sections, it features a breathtaking range of characters and concerns: The Beach Boys, Gwendolyn Brooks, the invention of the typewriter, Zora Neale Hurston, Sun Ra, life on Mars, Robert Frost, experimental physics, The Jackson 5. Throughout the collection, Bennett summons Virgil's Georgics as a lens through which to not only tell the story of his family, but a much larger one about the "form of the American mind," our relationship to the natural world, and the pursuit of a dignified, abundant life. Published the year of the nation's 250th anniversary, it is a collection that is right on time. One that calls us, as Langston Hughes once did, toward a future America that is not yet here, "and yet must be."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811874</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811874</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bennett, Joshua]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811874076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780143138648/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Praise of Late Wonder]]></title><description><![CDATA["In his most personal collection of poems to date, California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick writes with openness about his adoption from Korea in more than 25 new memoir-like prose poems. This expansive collection also includes a section of new poems, as well as highlights from his earlier books."-- page 4 of cover.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811797</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811797</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Herrick, Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811797076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>New and Selected Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781957062174/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[New and Collected Hell]]></title><description><![CDATA["A pathbreaking work from a poet who 'shows us how we need new music and new ears and eyes' (New York Journal of Books) - McCrae takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811724</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811724</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McCrae, Shane]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811724076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Poem</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374615499/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine Persimmons]]></title><description><![CDATA["In Nine Persimmons, Kerry James Evans charts the jagged edges of family, longing, and place, capturing fleeting moments with an honesty that resonates across a lifetime"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811723</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811723</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans, Kerry James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811723076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781496243713/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the Poets Govern]]></title><description><![CDATA["Over the past decade, Camonghne Felix has been at the center of American politics, working in strategy, communications, and as a speechwriter. Throughout it all, she has maintained her unwavering belief in language's foundational revolutionary potential, outside of its deployment for legislative and political ends. In this groundbreaking work of nonfiction, she argues that Black radical poetic traditions can model a new ethical code and overcome entrenched structures of patriarchy and paternalism, inventing a new form that examines the historical and legislative, and the personal and poetic. Felix draws on stories from her life in campaigns and the decisions she has had to make: preparing speeches for candidates, responding to harassment, recruiting staff. She recounts her moving personal history--accompanying her mother, a lawyer, to court, and her father, a participant in the Grenadian revolution of 1983, to protests--as well as her coming-of-age being schooled in a wider tradition of Black radical thinkers, from Gwendolyn Brooks to Audre Lorde. Let the Poets Govern encourages us to hold ourselves to the standards of our highest ideals and embraces our shared humanity"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3781662</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3781662</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Felix, Camonghne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3781662076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Declaration of Freedom</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593242148/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palace]]></title><description><![CDATA["From Puerto Rico to mythological forests, 'The Palace' charts a family's journey to build a life and home in a world of violence and economic collapse, by confronting ghosts and gods, memory and time; The Palace is a testament to splendor and transformation. From Puerto Rico to mythological forests, 'The Palace' charts a family's journey to build a life and home in a world of violence and economic collapse. Amidst real and imagined landscapes the narrator confronts the specters of his ancestors and ancient gods as the family traverses torn villas and labyrinths. Despite a turbulent history scarred by violence, disenfranchisement, and addiction, a path emerges toward redemption through a deep engagement with love and the natural world. The Palace is a testament of love and transformation, a journey toward splendor in a despairing world"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811529</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811529</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cerpa, Andrés]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811529076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781949944877/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal Corner]]></title><description><![CDATA["Dancing at the intersection of melody and humanity, Mitchell L. H. Douglas' Universal Corner imagines what beat moves the world. Douglas' poetry rides the skip and pop of vinyl, radio waves, and mixtape collage through a complex modern life, his voice equally shaped by freestyling and stage diving, having come of age in two seemingly different musical cultures: punk and Hip-Hop. These seemingly disparate genres reveal surprising connections in Douglas' poems, in which he finds that, through the experience of memory and musical communion, common ground abounds. Reconciling rage and joy, public and private, Mitchell Douglas is one of our most vital voices of the urban Midwest, a poet of with both a critical and compassionate perspective on the pulse of America's heartland"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811527</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811527</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas, Mitchell L. H.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811527076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780892556335/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifferent Cities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indifferent Cities is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, migration, and identity across multiple generations between Mexico and the United States. Using a variety of forms--including ekphrasis and epistolary--the work incorporates photographs, postcards, official documents, and personal narratives to examine the consequences of migration, the inheritance of cultural memory, and the complexities of belonging.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811523</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811523</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[García, Ángel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811523076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781961209329/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Suit or A Suitcase]]></title><description><![CDATA["A poetry collection from the New York Times bestselling poet"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3781515</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3781515</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Smith, Maggie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3781515076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668090053/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poems by First Ladies]]></title><description><![CDATA["This first-ever anthology of poetry by First Ladies features captivating poems by fifteen of these remarkable women, including sonnets by Dolley Madison, valentines by Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama, and selections by Louisa Adams, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Edith Kermit Roosevelt"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811353</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811353</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811353076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The First-ever Anthology</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780486853673/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lazarus Species]]></title><description><![CDATA["A formally ambitious second collection calculating the cost of evolution and survival."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811273</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811273</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Walker-Figueroa, Devon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811273076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781571315779/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Dis]]></title><description><![CDATA["Randall James Tyrone's debut collection City of Dis is a searing exploration of contemporary existence intertwined with medieval notions of damnation, invoking Dante's "Inferno" to craft a modern-day epic. Doubling as a novel-in-verse, City of Dis follows the unnamed protagonist as they navigate a cityscape that is both a circle of hell and also the urban sprawl of 21st-century America. Amidst the cacophony of sirens, construction, and hurricanes fueled by climate change, Tyrone weaves a tapestry where pop culture, late-stage capitalism, and the daily struggles imposed by inequities of race and class in this urban inferno collide with arcane theology, existential dread, and something like divine comedy. Through forms ranging from epistolary to litany, Tyrone's speaker charts every chaotic inch of this dystopian landscape, encountering Dante himself as they confront the personification of Suicide. City of Dis stands not only as a vivid critique of modern society but also as a haunting testament to resilience in the face of spiritual and environmental decay"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811272</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811272</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyrone, Randall James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811272076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781680034325/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother Tongue Apologize]]></title><description><![CDATA["Preeti Vangani is, as she freely admits, riffing on the African-American poet Amiri Baraka, who once claimed that poems were useless unless they could shoot, or provide us with daggers, or serve as our fists. Pepper spray and cries for change are more humane than fists and daggers, but Vangani's urgency is no less intense than Baraka's. Her poem constantly circle back to the condition of women, both in India and the world, and call for change. She honors her mother, whose struggle with cancer she documents in a number of her poems, but she yearns for a world larger than that which her mother was not permitted to inhabit. Her yearning takes the form of meditations on love and sex, on violence, fear, joy, and death. They are poems of feminist struggle--emphatically so. But it is because, not in spite, of this that they speak so directly and so powerfully to not only to women, and not only to Indians, but to that which is most human in all of us."--Page 7]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811196</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3811196</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vangani, Preeti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3811196076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788193929537/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Holy Dread]]></title><description><![CDATA["A Holy Dread emerges from essential questions and fierce hopes about why we create, who we hold dear, and how we might brave "every small / catastrophe laced with joy." Inspired by his experiences as a Filipino American writer, educator, son, and father, Villanueva's revelatory new book expands on his celebrated debut, Reliquaria, with grace and intensity"--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3791271</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3791271</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Villanueva, R. A.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3791271076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781949944860/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Driving the Beast]]></title><description><![CDATA["Driving the Beast is a book about movement. Christopher Bakken's poems shift between Greece and the American Midwest, tracking the restless nature of selfhood, while seeking glimpses of the sacred in landscapes scarred by history and political turmoil. The book's back-and-forth mirroring invites readers to confront their own reflections in moments of catastrophe and wonder, and to view them alongside those of immigrants and refugees"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790595</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790595</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bakken, Christopher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790595076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807184752/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural History]]></title><description><![CDATA["A research biologist at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Brandon Kilbourne illuminates the intersections between science and poetry in poems that demonstrate the wonder, curiosity, and precision required by both disciplines. Natural History opens by confronting the hidden histories within the study of biology and its links to colonialism, including the revelation that European scientists used slave ships to transport specimens from Africa and the Americas back to Europe. Across the collection, Kilbourne describes how these histories of exploitation are still reflected in dioramas of elephants, rhinoceroses, and African people displayed in natural history museums. Other poems narrate the intricate work of studying fossils, and a longer sequence recounts an expedition above the Arctic Circle to recover evidence of how a fish's fins gave rise to the diversity of limbs found among amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Natural History is a rare and fascinating debut, and Kilbourne's exquisite eye brings the role of the working biologist to life"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790589</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790589</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kilbourne, Brandon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790589076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644453674/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[82nd Division / D.M. Aderibigbe]]></title><description><![CDATA["THE POEMS IN 82ND DIVISION, written in various poetic forms such as the villanelle, sonnet, blues poem, duplex, ode, and dramatic monologue, among many others, are collectively a love song to the author's native Nigeria--a former British colony. In the book, whose title poem chronicles the lives of West African soldiers who fought alongside the British in World War II, Aderibigbe examines his homeland's colonized past with brutal clarity and striking musicality, and considers how this past continues to shape every facet of his life and contemporary Nigerian life--be it the holidays that are celebrated, the preferred language of interaction among peers and friends, how a mother expresses love to her child, or the type of movies and snacks consumed. Beyond its thematic unity, lustrous language, and formal virtuosity, this sparkling collection is tied together by Aderibigbe's graceful exploration of the humanity of the people, landscape, and histories that populate the book's pages." -- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790588</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790588</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aderibigbe, D. M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790588076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781636142425/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bronze Arms]]></title><description><![CDATA["Observing the fragility of the body and soul in a world of threat, these startling poems stem from a central boyhood memory-the author's near-drowning in a swimming pool on Crete. The observant child was troubled that none of the statues they saw had arms-and then it was his father's arms lifting him from the water, saving his life. Hofmann balances elegance and brutality as he explores the fables of that childhood as well as the contours of sex and relationships in modern cities, in order to write his own personal history of love and survival: "Masculine arms lifted me. / Masculine arms held me while I slept." The poems navigate primordial desire, risks, abandonments, and rescues, moving through a series of mazes that become a labyrinth of erotic awakening, with quick turns and dangerous diversions. In poems that alternately sear and crush delicately, we wander the ruins where the self is lost and broken and ultimately reclaimed: at the dark center, in the heart of the past. A triumphant follow up to the fetching catalogue of lovers in Hofmann's last book, this poetry collection, a queer coming of age story tinged with myth, thrills with its archaeology of self, its notes of austerity and decadence"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790581</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790581</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hofmann, Richie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790581076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593804742/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Late Invocation for Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA["In poems selected from his long career, Jim Daniels focuses on Detroit and other Rust Belt cities, where issues of class and race and justice play out in the streets and kitchens and backyards and garages of the Americans trying to live and make a living there. Known for his courage, clarity, and accessibility, Daniels examines the tension between our idealized country and the messier cultural and economic divides, often focusing on those who can't afford or have access to "magic.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790561</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790561</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniels, Jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790561076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>New and Selected Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781611865745/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving the Shore]]></title><description><![CDATA["Leaving the Shore is a collection of poems with the intent of creating contemplative experiences for readers. The author has added guided Lectio Divina (sacred readings) and writing/journaling prompts, so that readers can pray and reflect with the poems. Each poem is about some aspect of living the spiritual path: the desire to reach beyond what we know, the longing to step into the Divine Mystery, and the commitment to live in an intimate exchange of love with the Holy. An experienced spiritual director, Lafia draws on her commitment to the contemplative life. These poems are an expression of contemplation in action as they explore the Holy in moments of daily living: within a marriage, while assisting a loved one dying, in the creative act of painting, and more. They are inspired by writings of the mystics, in particular Mechthild of Magdeburg and St. John of the Cross, and suffused with surrender, love, and awe. They invite the reader into prayer, self-reflection, and seeing their own lives as sacred texts"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790296</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790296</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lafia, Colette]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790296076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Experiencing Poetry as Prayer</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781966608035/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Cemetery]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the poet's home county of West Yorkshire a few years ago, the Local Authority began converting a series of cow fields at the top of the road into a new cemetery. These poems, in regular, cascading tercets, sparked into being as Simon daily walked the site, with moorlands rising beyond it and the wind turbines of Brontë country to the north, watching the land tamed: eventually the muddy construction scene gives way to fresh headstones and mown lawns, and, during the Covid-19 lockdown, the spectacle of grave-diggers in Hazmat suits and socially distanced funeral services. These terse, sharply observed lyrics-each fancifully named for a species of moth, a creature whose numbers the poet sees dwindling across a lifetime of night walks-remind us to turn a cool eye on the doings of man, and yet to embrace all we love while we still can, as "Time, what else," stands "propped in a corner / like a cricket bat.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790247</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3790247</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Armitage, Simon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3790247076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593804018/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone Else's Hunger]]></title><description><![CDATA["Dislocated in her own skin after a sexual assault, Isabella DeSendi wrestles with the thorny border between desire and appetite in her incandescent debut collection. Poised between her Cuban matrilineage and her first-generation adolescence in America, between assimilation and reclamation, between owning her own cravings and becoming a sacrifice to "someone else's hunger," these poems dissect our human obsession with beauty and the body. The poems in this collection use the lyric form to enact destruction and reparation as they attempt to reverse the vector of aesthetic power toward grace. Because Someone Else's Hunger is beautiful, devastatingly so, it surveys violence, romance, eating disorders, structural racism, and socioeconomic inequality, all while yearning to still find beauty everywhere. At the nail salon, the speaker chooses red lacquer and the tech "paints the color of / anger or desire across the long lake of [her] nail"; in the city, where she feels like "an animal caught / in the sewer of [her] life" with "spring's pink garbage / strewn into the streets while petals performed / their daily adagio down the avenue"; and behind her mother's house, where she used to vomit at the lip of the reservoir, "where the water would congeal / then break like dough under [her] body's simple rot.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3758723</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3758723</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[DeSendi, Isabella]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burlingame.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3758723076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781961897588/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>