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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman Revised - Hardcover

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by Ada Langworthy Collier (Author)Old rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters various demons outside the garden and what she says and does to Adam and Eve once they too are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Now in larger print Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Oct...

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by Linda Blackmoor (Author)In "Fairies of the Forest," Linda Blackmoor weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of verse and color that invites young readers into the heart of the enchanted woods. With each turn of the page, a new fairy emerges, embodying the spirit and beauty of the forest's myriad elements. From the whispering ferns that unfurl in the dewy morning light, to the mysterious animals that roam the twilight glades; from the silvery moon that bathes the world in a gentle glow, to the humble...

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by Yung Pueblo (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past th...

Help Me Die Well: A Queer Prisoner's Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3 - Paperback

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by A B O Comix (Editor), Oliver Mills (Editor)Our third annual poetry anthology features original work from over two dozen queer and trans incarcerated poets. Proceeds from this anthology support the poets' continued survival, subsidizing everything from commissary packages to legal fees to medical copays. From anthology editor Ollie Mills: "HELP ME DIE WELL is a plea to loved ones, to circumstance - really, to everything - to make one's life worth living." A.B.O. Comix is a collective of cre...

The Tears That Water My Years - Paperback

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by Amber Gibson (Author)""A book of poetry that describes real-life circumstances, feelings, and events throughout the life of a 40-year-old independent woman. Love, loss, grief, change and so much in between. The Girl: The truth is her heart has been crushed more times than anyone reading this could ever fathom, but a girl who gets up every day trying to do the best she can still. A girl who fights so many battles with the corporate world that you never knew about. A girl who will fight to t...

My Little Book of Poems About Tea - Paperback

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by Lisa Spann (Author)This is a small books of poems all about tea. Easy and light to read, ideal as a gift for someone whole loves a good cup of tea. Over 50 poems about the history of tea, the types of tea, specific teas such as Oolong and Pu-erh and more. The ideal read whilst sipping one of your favourite brews. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 21, 2023

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by Safienaaz Chughtai (Author)Hecate: the three faced goddess. Hecate is an anthology of short poems exploring love, loss, and finding home. As Hecate represents the phases of the moon, no matter how it is perceived - whether it be waning, waxing, or completely invisible - it is always there in its entirety. Hecate, like the moon, represents the strength of our roots - even when they seem weak. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2023

Postcards from Mexico: Poems - Paperback

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by Jamie Ross (Author)In the late 1990s, in the shops of Oaxaca, Jamie Ross discovered a series of extraordinary postcards, fascinating photos of people from indigenous Mexico published by a group of equally mysterious photographers. Entranced, he began writing poems inspired by these images. As he did, suddenly, the people in the photos, themselves began to speak-their own stories in their own voices; voices and stories that would take him on a continuing journey into the heart of Mexico. Th...

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by May Sarton (Author)The book celebrates that time, marks its passing, and opens up the poetic vision it left behind. The poems speak of the permanence of the memory of love and of the flowering it brings. They also draw on the rich, sometimes harsh, beauty of nature and its solace. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.17 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2012

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by Margaret Noodin (Author)Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word weweni expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for relatives is nindenwemaaganag: those whose enewewe, or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection. Noodin's warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear translated on facing pages in Engli...

En tus manos abiertas y en mi corazón roto - Paperback

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by José Luis Velázquez Rodríguez (Author)72 poemas que surgen de lo más profundo del corazón, en ese interior ignoto que como sombra golpea nuestra piel, nuestra mente, hace añicos y a la vez da esperanzas. Revuelven nuestras entrañas y se pasea cual diario por los pesares y las ilusiones, por océanos en tempestad y por mares tranquilos. Poemas que martillean nuestras venas, que hacen galopar nuestra sangre, que gime en miles de lágrimas y derraman verdades opacas, sentimientos verdaderos. 72...

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by Robert Frost (Author), J. J. Lankes (Illustrator)First published in 1923, "New Hampshire" by famed American poet Robert Frost, is one of the most beautiful and famous collection of poems in American literature. The book contains many of Frost's most well-known and beloved poems, such as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "Fire and Ice", and "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things". Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for "New Hampshire" and he ...

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by Rose Miller (Author), Sharon Hildebrand (Illustrator), Joshua P. Miller (Designed by)Every Trail Leads Home is an essential book for any West Virginia enthusiast, ideal for both children and the young-at-heart. Unique trails from each region of the state are thoughtfully described in verse while stunning watercolor illustrations feature characters enjoying the wide variety of outdoor activities that make West Virginia famous. The characters' stories will invoke sweet memories for West Virg...

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by Melissa Green (Author)Renowned poet Melissa Green returns to the literary stage with her new and selected poems, Magpiety, a profound and evocative exploration of memory, nature, and the nuances of human emotion. Created to captivate both longtime admirers and new readers alike, this collection showcases Green's unparalleled talent for weaving together the spiritual and the earthly with a voice that is both tender and fierce. Green's poems traverse landscapes both external and internal, un...

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry - Paperback

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by Martha Amore (Editor), Lucian Childs (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures o...

Basement Sentiment: Poetry from the Dark - Paperback

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by Kate Phillips (Author) Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 13, 2024

Attention Seeker: A Book of Poetry - Paperback

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by Harry Ward (Author)Attention Seeker is the first collection of poems by UK poet Harry Ward. Touching on subjects ranging from break-ups and depression to war and bad teeth. Poetry highlighting the comedy and tragedy that is life, with a few haiku thrown in. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 27, 2024

Amor Entre Aguaceros/Love Between Downpours - Paperback

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by Jean-Pierre Rueda (Author)Amor Entre Aguaceros/Love between downpours is a bilingual poetry collection dedicated to all those who use their imagination to return to their countries of origin when migratory circumstances prohibit them from doing so. Nostalgia, homesickness, immigration, family friendships, and the deep appreciation for what and who becomes a memory. My newest collection speaks through and about such topics in Spanish and English. EARLY PRAISE FOR AMOR ENTRE AGUACEROS/LOVE B...

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by Sarah Marchant (Author)This collection is about toxic female friendship, how everyone and no one is to blame, and how the memories reverberate through the rest of your life. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2024

Brendan Constantine Is My Kind Of Town - Paperback

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by Rick Lupert (Author)Rick is a poet with a real genius for the subtle ironic humor of absurd situations. He holds all the wild cards. He even violates the rules of agreement in the next to last line of Freeway of Love - to underline the aesthetic paradox of "relationship" in a universe of radical solpsism. And that is truly surreal. People are travelling everywhere in this book: Chicago, San Francisco, Istanbul. But the best trip of all is the fishing poem: an hallucinatory plunge into the ...

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by Juliana Spahr (Author)Lyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populismDuring the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer that Brecht provides is that yes, that poets will sing of the dark times...

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Mary Jo Bang (Translator), Henrik Drescher (Illustrator)An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been rendered Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto I Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, autho...

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by Andrea Gibson (Author)Step into the enchanting world of Pansy, where author Andrea Gibson creates a tapestry of emotions and experiences that will leave your your mind craving more.With an artful hand, Gibson seamlessly blends themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, and forgiveness, painting a vivid portrait that will stay with you long after the last page is turned.Through stunning imagery and a fearless exploration of healing, each moment spent immersed in these pages will be a reve...

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by Allen Ginsberg (Author)"Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades." -- The New YorkerThis magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. A chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and e...

The Canterbury Tales: (Original-Spelling Edition) - Paperback

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by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Jill Mann (Introduction by), Jill Mann (Notes by)One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy, and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and tricke...

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by Jason Reynolds (Author)"A lyrical masterpiece." --School Library Journal (starred review) Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the young dreamers of the world. For Every One is just that: for every one. For every one person. For every one dream...

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by Emily Austin (Author)Interviewed on Q with Tom PowerA collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers does not mean that this collection is irreverent. On the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for ...

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)A repackaged edition of the revered author's poetry--a collection of verse that exemplifies and celebrates his breadth of knowledge, his wide-ranging interests, both spiritual and earthly, and his never-ending search to find God and understand the mysteries of the world.Known for his fiction and philosophical nonfiction, C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Scre...

Nkjv, Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Teal, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version - Imitation Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even though this Bible is small, you don't have to compromise size for readability. Plus, thousands of cross references are conveniently located at the end of verses to help you make connections throughout Scripture.Trusted b...

Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown - Paperback

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by Malathi Michelle Iyengar (Author), Jamel Akib (Illustrator)A poetry collection that explores the spectrum of beautiful shades of brown.When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Tan, sienna, topaz, or tamarind? Poet Malathi Michelle Iyengar sees a whole spectrum of beautiful shades of brown. Swirls of henna decorate ocher hands and feet at an Indian wedding. Cinnamon lips smile over a cup of café con leche. And maple leaves drift like stars onto upturned russet faces in fall. This warm ...

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by Patricia Smith (Author)In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched it on television.Assuming the voices of flailing poli...

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by Taisia Kitaiskaia (Author)Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, Taisia Kitaiskaia's debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language, and the mysteries of our world with wide, witchy eyes.Author BiographyTaisia Kitaiskaia was born in Russia and raised in America. She is the author of Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles and its follow-up, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times from Ask Baba Yaga, as well as Literary Witches: A Celebr...