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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 David Constantine (Author)When I Was Touched By Love is a book of poems divided into six chapters about love, heartache, pain and the beauty of both life and art. It depicts the rise and fall of a man mentally and emotionally heart broken, yet full of sunshine. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 7 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 08, 2018

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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 Mary Oliver (Author)"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly. Swan is Oliver's tribute to "the mortal way" of desiring and living in the world, to which the poet is renowned for having always been "totally loyal."Author BiographyA private person by nature, Mary Oliver (...

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by Etel Adnan (Author)Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned miss...

Tyrannosaurus Rex (Storybots) - Paperback

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by Storybots (Author)The wacky robots from the award-winning apps, videos, and Netflix show, Ask the Storybots, now star in their own early readers. This one is about everyone's favorite dinosaur Fans of the StoryBots will recognize the colorful art from the hugely popular dinosaur video "Tyrannosaurus Rex" on YouTube. A gigantic body and super-sharp teeth make the Tyrannosaurus rex the most fearsome of the dinosaurs. Just don't make fun of those tiny arms This rhyming Step 1 Science Reader...

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by Tim Seibles (Author)2012 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry"Crisply comic, disarmingly frank, and aurally bold ..."--Publishers WeeklyThis collection by African American poet Tim Seibles explores a range of poetic form, including lyric, ode, narrative, and mystical. Like a fast animal, the poet's voice can swiftly change direction and tone as he crisscrosses between present and past."Built like one single sustained song, Fast Animal is alive with music, ardor, and wit that flow in utte...

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by Stephen Vincent Benet (Author)One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Benét's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience. "Magnificently readable."-New Statesman. "It is not...

Stuck! the Story of La Brea Tar Pits - Hardcover

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by Joyce Uglow (Author), Valerya Milovanova (Illustrator)A one-of-a-kind STEM gem! Join fellow science lovers in this creative, non-fiction, poetical exploration surrounding the history and little-known origins of the ice age and the La Brea Tar Pits."Playful language and masterful illustrations make for a compelling read instead of a dry scientific tale...This stirring story and its dynamic illustrations may manage to enthrall even the least nature-focused kiddo."--The Bulletin of the Center...

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by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Peter Washington (Editor)A gorgeously jacketed hardcover collection that draws on a wide variety of translations of Rumi's deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry. The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us ...

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by Matthew 'Cuban' Hernandez (Author), Robalu Gibson (Artist), David A. Romero (Prepared by)This book is dedicated to every kid told who they were, before discovering on their own. It's for the teachers and mentors praying their students won't fall into the traps the world has set for them. These poems are for liberation, and those who strive for peace by any means. For the ones who feel like a mistake, the ones riddled with grief and self-doubt. This book is for Duval County and every poet w...

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Paperback

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by Seamus Heaney (Editor)Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at ...

Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works - Paperback

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by Alfred Tennyson (Author), Adam Roberts (Editor)Tennyson was the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters of the music and mood of verse. This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry and prose, spanning his entire career, from his striking juvenilia, through his career as Poet Laureate, to the powerful poetry he wrote in his ninth decade. It contains such classics as "The Lady of Shalott," "Morte d'Arthur,"...

Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing - Paperback

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by Coleman Barks (Author)Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks.Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of these poems in delightful and wise render...

Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison - Paperback

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by Ted Kooser (Author)A collection of poetry by Ted Kooser.Author BiographyTED KOOSER's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah and dozens of other literary journals. Kooser has won the Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, the Kunitz Prize from Columbia, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He has published eight full-length collections of poetry and a number of chapbooks and special editions. He lives on an acreage near the...