Poetry

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by Pádraig Ó. Tuama (Author)In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives.Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Bet...

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by Emily Dickinson (Author), Brenda Hillman (Editor)Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery have had a profound effect on twentieth-century literature. Over a hundred of Dickinson's best poems are collected here. These unique and gemlike lyrics are pure distillations of profound feeling and great intellect. They contain a world of imagination, observation, and precisely articulated spiritual and emotional experience. As editor Brenda Hillman says, this small and succinct collection can serve as a guidebook to readers who are exp...

This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation--Poems, Prose, Practices - Hardcover

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by Jezz Chung (Author)An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself--and the world--through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung. Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making. The interactive healing practices in this book include writing and reflection prompts, somatic exercis...

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by B. N. Helena (Author)B. N. Helena's Soul and Silt, an interwoven cycle of twelve poems, speaks of the inherent unity of nature, language, Spirit, and the seeking soul. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

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by Ollie Schminkey (Author)If Ollie Schminkey's Dead Dad Jokes asks the question, "What was it like to watch my father die?", Where I Dry the Flowers asks "How did watching someone die teach me how to live?" This unrestrained and raw sophomore collection explores themes of grief, healing, and forgiveness while refusing to sacrifice the hard truths that come with addiction, care taking, and the death of a loved one. Ollie opens their heart to readers and tells them that these emotions are okay, no matter how conflicting and confusing they may be. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN

Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! - Paperback

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by Judy Kronenfeld (Author)Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! is a paean to the author's mid-twentieth century Bronx childhood as the sole offspring of warmly loving-if sometimes provincial, overprotective, or embarrassing-immigrant parents. It is also about the wonder of lifelong memory itself, of how the past continually offers itself up as a field to contemplate, a field of rediscovery and new discovery of one's native landscape, and of the actions, rituals, and language-with all their redolence and significance-of those long gone whom one still loves. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 6.5 x 6.5 IN

Sonets from the Chesapeke: American Sonets - Paperback

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by Stephen Evans (Author)Sonets from the Chesapeke is a collection of American sonets by poet, playwright, and author Stephen Evans.From the Prologue: The American sonet is a verse form. I found (or maybe invented) this form years ago and it suits me and my short attention span. This book documents my attempts to explore the possibilities of the form. I have lived most of my life near the Chesapeake Bay, spent summers growing up on it's waters, lived for a decade in Annapolis, Maryland. I have used the antique form of the name for my title, because so many of these poems are, or are inspired by, memories.The American Sonet is a reflection. Americans are Odd, so the stanzas have five lines...

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by Sheleen McElhinney (Author)Winner of 2021 Write Bloody Publishing Book Award. A perfect book for readers searching for the salve of darker verse and recovery poetry. Every Little Vanishing is, at its core, a collection of poetry that will bring you to your knees with its honesty. "...our marriage / a bridge between staying for the children we had or leaving for the people we want to become." "Every Little Vanishing" might change your definition of poetry forever. If you've ever thought of the poem as something that muses and meanders, think again. Sheleen McElhinney writes poems the way novelists write page-turning fiction. Her first lines grab you by the collar and pull you--no--drag ...

Multiverse! A Superhero Poetry Anthology of Superhuman Proportions - Paperback

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by Rob Sturma (Editor), McIntyre Ryk (Editor)Much like Rob Sturma's inaugural anthology Aim for the Head injected depth and humanity into the zombie genre, MultiVerse accomplishes a similar feat for the realm of superheroes.With the combined voices of poets from both the page and the stage, this collection offers an immersive journey into the intricate tapestry of emotion, pathos, and humor that resides within the otherworld inhabited by individuals endowed with superhuman abilities.Get ready to embark on an exploration that unravels the many layers of heroism, showcasing its multifaceted nature in all its splendor and complexity. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9.99 x 7.1 IN

A Constellation of Half-Lives - Paperback

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by Seema Reza (Author) A Constellation of Half-Lives, a captivating collection of poems that beautifully navigates the challenges of living on a troubled planet while celebrating the sheer joy of love and life itself.Seema Reza's poetry prowess shines through as she skillfully writes on the complexities of motherhood, daughterhood, and American identity in an era of conflict.With careful precision, each verse is an exquisite masterpiece. Through thought-provoking second-person poems, Reza leaves the reader longing to discover the answers to life's most profound questions. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN

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by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (Author), Paul Rossiter (Selected by), Eric Selland (Foreword by)Poems: New & Selected includes excerpts from Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's moving new poem, Plan B Audio, together with generous selections from her fourteen previous ground-breaking publications - ranging from Skin Museum (2006) to Distant Landscapes (2017) - and an insightful foreword by poet and translator Eric Selland, who writes: 'Joritz-Nakagawa's poetics is unique among the generation of poets who, like her, came of age during the period when the Language movement was at its peak. Hers is a radically open form - a framework through which the data of life, poetic themes and materials, freely migrat...

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by Jason Stocks (Author)null Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN

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by Yves Bonnefoy (Author), Hoyt Rogers (Translator), Richard Howard (Foreword by)For decades readers and critics have acclaimed Yves Bonnefoy as France's greatest living poet. His most recent book of verse, The Curved Planks, crowns an oeuvre that has won him the highest international honors. More than any other single work, this sequence embodies the astonishing variety of Bonnefoy's art. A rich fabric of themes, styles, and genres, it balances aesthetic complexity with heartfelt directness. This bilingual edition of The Curved Planks sets the French texts alongside English versions by the noted translator Hoyt Rogers, who has collaborated closely with Bonnefoy in crafting poems that re-...

My Writings: Exploring People, Places, and Events through Poetry - Paperback

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by Victor C. Huron (Author)As we all go through life we are privileged to meet different people from all aspects of life. We witness events as they happen before us, contemplating how it shapes our lives. These collections of poems are about current events, people I've met, emotions many have felt throughout their lives. May they bring back memorable memories of your own life and reflect about the world we live in. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 11 x 8.5 IN

Write about an Empty Birdcage - Paperback

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by Elaina M. Ellis (Author)Write An Empty Birdcage is an unorthodox instruction manual for the broken hearted. Ellis sets out to trace the lineage of various personal disasters. These poems explicitly explore identity, queerness, Jewish heritage, and embodied femininity. They do so with a critique of power that blends humor, the mess of confession, and a reverence for tension. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8.52 x 5.65 IN

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by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (Author)In her third collection of poetry, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz celebrates the ups and downs of being a poet with a day job. Whether exulting the mundaneness of office life ("Rules of Slack"), musing about hidden perks of college poetry gigs ("Ode to College Cafeterias") or hilariously defending the use of humor in poetry ("To the Guy Who Said that Funny Poetry Ain't Poetry"), this book continues Aptowicz's tradition of witty, honest and idiosyncratic work. - her previous Write Bloody book, Everything is Everything, 978-0-9842515 was reviewed widely Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.47 x 5.83 IN

Spectral Realms No. 20: Winter 2024 - Paperback

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by S. T. Joshi (Editor), John Shirley (Author), Kyla Lee Ward (Author)Hippocampus Press is proud to commemorate ten years of our acclaimed journal of weird poetry, Spectral Realms, with the publication of the twentieth issue.As before, it contains a diverse array of poetry by today's leading versifiers in the realm of horror and the supernatural-John Shirley, Scott J. Couturier, Frank Coffman, Manuel Pérez-Campos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Leigh Blackmore, Ann K. Schwader, and a host of others. Maxwell I. Gold and Jay Sturner contribute provocative prose poems, while a cadre of poets pen tributes to Dylan Thomas (Carl E. Reed's Echoing Dylan Thomas"), Robert W. Chambers (David J. Kopaska-Merkel...

When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems - Hardcover

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by Joan Baez (Author)An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her art, this collection is an inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry. While Baez has been writing poetry for decades, she's never shared it publicly. Poems about her life, her family, about her passions for nature and ...

Declaration of Independence for The New Earth - Paperback

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by Anna Rebecca R. Quinn (Author) These days the war drums beat with frightening urgency as another world war looms deadly on the horizon. At the same time, another worldwide call for peace is rising passionately across the threshold of our collective mind. Peace movements always surface when we're on the brink of global conflict, for It's in our nature as humans, to resist the mass destruction of war. I can imagine the technologically advanced people of Atlantis, perceiving their end times much the same way I see our civilization today. In the story of Atlantis, we see a mirror of our current situation, where like theirs, our technology has also outpaced our level of mass consciousness. ...

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by Syeeah Jarrule Bahshay (Author)I scooped out soft buttery tissue and ligaments before my body had a chance to rot.I noticed the air. I could almost taste the sweet clay; my hunger had been breached.A liter of pus landed near a broken tangled cord, at the base of my neck. Cadavers that couldn't be fixed were placed on wooden benches, and their toe tags removed. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN

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by Henrietta Goodman (Author)Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. The ghosts that haunt this collection are phantom islands, moon lakes, lasers used to clean the caryatids at the Acropolis, earlier versions of the self, suicides, a madam from the Old West, petroleum, snapdragons, pets, ice apples, Casper, and a "resident ghost" who makes the domestic realm of "the cradle and the bed" uninhabitable. The ghosts are sons, fathers "asleep in front of the TV," and a variety of exes--"lost boys" with names like The Texan and M...

Thought Here Would Cure Me of There - Paperback

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by Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado (Author), Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)Poetry collection by Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado. This is poetry that takes us to external and internal places both distant and familiar, poems in conversation with what it is like to journey through the world as an intelligent and romantic, multi-lingual, multicultural woman. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.13 x 9 x 6 IN

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by Ron Wallace (Author)While the poetry you'll read in Ron Wallace's latest collection speaks of serious topics such as loss and the inescapable progression of time, you'll also find plenty of humor in these pages. His words bring to life his beloved Oklahoma prairies and skies, and his own family members. Wallace's reflections on childhood, his parents, and, of course, baseball, are heartwarming. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN

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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Translator)A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BCE), considered by many to be one of the greatest poets who ever lived. These poems, with their beauty, wit, tenderness, and heartbreak, are still as alive and moving today as they were two thousand years ago. They are dense, subtle, witty, ardent, fearless, deeply uncensored, nasty (sometimes), petty (sometimes), and always beautiful. It's especially his love p...

One Good Turn - Poetry by Kirston Koths - Paperback

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by Kirston Koths (Author)Winner of the 2016 Blue Light Book Award "One Good Turn, Kirston Koths' debut collection of poems, is a perfect synergy of wisdom, beauty, angst, and the voice of the tribal elder. More than any other poet I know, he freeze-frames the magic of his childhood and renders it eternal. Infused with music and alchemical word magic. A joy to read." --Diane Frank, Author/Editor of River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the Twenty-First Century and Author of Blackberries in the Dream House. "Each reading of One Good Turn deserves another. Prepare to have your passport stamped, as poems transport you to Cuba, Mexico, and Polynesia, as well as the vast landscape of the human he...

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by Michael Delp (Author)null Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN

Libertarian Rants: A Critique of Western Culture from a Libertarian Perspective - Hardcover

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by Michael Schulte (Author)If you believe that individual freedom and liberty must be held sacrosanct, Michael Schulte's sociocultural poetic analysis is the book for you. His favorite poem describes the thought process he follows when contemplating trends in Western culture: Seek truthwith reason your guideYour consciencefor no allegiance set asideAfter two decades in academia, Michael Schulte gathered first-hand experience with cancel culture, trigger warnings, wokeness, and the academic thought police. He's seen victimhood, kindness, and personal feelings consistently garner more consideration than values like courage, honor, personal agency, and the pursuit of excellence. In his eyes,...

My Cemetery Friends: A Garden of Encounters at Mount Saint Mary in Queens, New York - Paperback

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by Vincent J. Tomeo (Author)null Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin - Paperback

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by Barbara Everett (Author)Widely regarded as one of England's most sensitive readers of poetry, Barbara Everett here examines the poetry of Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Pope, Keats, Browning, Eliot, Auden, and Philip Larkin. The implicit argument of these essays is designed to show the way each poet remains an individual--idiosyncratic, odd, rich--while interacting with the conditions of a particular historical context. To this difficult task Everett brings an extraordinary ability to read closely and an intimate knowledge of the period. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.48 x 5.8 IN

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by Caroline Earleywine (Author)Coming April 26th. Pre-orders available now. What does it mean to love someone well? What does it mean to be a good daughter, or a good wife? What does it look like to step outside the way these roles have been prescribed to us?In her debut full-length collection, I Now Pronounce You, Caroline Earleywine explores these questions and more as she takes us on the journey of a daughter processing the emotional landscape of her parents' divorce, an Arkansas public school teacher coming to terms with her queerness, and a wife navigating the vulnerable work it takes to love your partner along with yourself as you both grow and change.Earleywine's lyricism is as sha...

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by Frederick Seidel (Author)A bristling, beautiful new collection from "the Dark Prince of American Poetry" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times). In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, "illegal river to river, wap wap wap WOW!" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning-rod career, but the path from youth to old age is not a straight one. Throughout this book, Seidel smashes the boundaries of youth and age against each other and stirs up a surge of shotguns and wristwatches, late-blooming love and sex, and flashes of the naked face of American life. At its crest stand...

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by Susan Wan Dolling (Author)The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907 AD) is considered to be China's Golden Age of Poetry, and My China in Tang Poetry is a personal celebration of the genius of the Tang poets by writer, teacher and translator Susan Wan Dolling. She provides a feast of new translations of the poems, accompanying them with explanations of the meaning and context of each with an unparalleled depth of knowledge and understanding, as well as an enthusiasm that is infectious. To her, the poems are not only the epitome of culture and art, but also a store of stories and images that remains relevant today. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN