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by Langston Hughes (Author), Carl Van Vechten (Introduction by)2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. With an introduction by Carl Van Vechten. The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems, immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release. First published in 1926, the collection of poetry remains a critically acclaimed literary work and still evokes a fresh, contempor...

A Light in the Attic with 12 Extra Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Shel Silverstein (Author), Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings--a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old. This special edition contains 12 never-before-published poems.A Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound ...

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems - Paperback

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by Taylor Byas (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Maya Angelou Book AwardWinner of the CHIRBy Award for Poetry Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her power I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film The Wiz to explore a Black woman's journey out of the South Side of Chicago a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor)Poems to celebrate summer. Pour a long drink, take a seat under a shady tree, and lose yourself in this sublime collection of nature poems for summer. From William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, John Keats to Isaac Rosenberg, some of the finest poets that ever put pen to paper describe the slow, languorous, glowing days of the season. With one entry for every summer day, from June 1 to August 31, this collection of 92 poems will p...

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by Dave Oliphant (Author)"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)--public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination....A lengthy proem, set at the grave of Stephen F. Austin in the State Cemetery, contains a brilliant passage about Austin in prison.... The oblique narration is kept on track with masterful tran...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Laudati (Author)Rainbow Road is the fourth book of poetry by Scott Laudati. "Intensely readable and relatable, Laudati manages to reach out to anyone who has felt disengaged and apathetic, and his work is tinged with hope. The poems have a universal resonance not exclusive to New York or America, for that matter. Beautifully executed, this work is indicative of a promising and prolific career for Scott Laudati." - Jack Ashworth (The Mancunion, University ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Gouge (Editor)Welcome to the fourth edition of our New Contexts anthology. Once again we have been able to harvest an eclectic selection of contemporary poetry and short prose from around the world. Authors in this collection are geographically spread across the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as well as Western Europe and Australasia.In curating these collections I am always struck how certain themes seem to emerge in each, as if the autho...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellis Elliott (Author)"A deeply felt collection of candid verse."KIRKUS"Ellis Elliott's compelling Break in the Field creates associations between humanity, nature, and time that deserve not only individual inspection and appreciation, but spirited discussions about contemporary poetry's ability to attract and react to life's events with bigger-picture reflections about growth, freedom, and life lessons."MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW"This gripping, heart wrenching explor...

Let Other Hounds: Poems Breaking Silence Fifty Years After Sexual Abuse at Church

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Report copyright infringementby Lamascus (Author)Betrayed by a trusted adult, an isolated boy holds his Argos close and whispers the truth into that floppy hound's ear. Let Other Hounds is a debut collection mapping the journey of that shamed boy of ten as he moves courageously through a decade of terror toward freedom. Scott LaMascus breaks silence as an accomplished husband and father who has learned much about the aftermath of boyhood sexual abuse. After fifty years, it is a courageous and...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Goldfinger Baker (Author)When the people you love are gone, the world urges you to move on. Grief asks you to stay.Stay Here: On Love, Loss, and Remaining by Karen Goldfinger Baker allows a compassionate opening as grief settles. With honesty and quiet attention, this collection of lyrical poetry reminds us that life exists after loss. Stay Here is a companion for the moments when nothing makes sense, when sorrow meets the everyday, and remembering brings...

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Report copyright infringementby Bahareh Amidi (Author), Adora Adoraarts (Author)This poem talks about death and dying in a very unique way. We hear about death from the person who is dying and then from the person sitting next to the dying and finally from Mother Earth. Come and enter this magical look at what is coming for each of us and also for our loved ones.This is a poem that really helps people relate in an open and kind way to death and dying . Number of Pages: 18 ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Schloss (Author)"Provocations" explores arguments about literary and spiritual Creations, through definitions of selves and others, and the self with others. Questions of resistance and transcendence, both internal and interpersonal, and to the "facts" of our existence are addressed throughout. Questions about mortality are the convergent points, ultimately, of the 'provocations' in the self-questioning that is the central thrust of the text. Author Biog...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), John D. Sinclair (Author)An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism.Back JacketMr...

Rumi's Little Book of the Heart - Paperback

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by Maryam Mafi (Editor), Azima Melita Kolin (Editor)In this slender volume, Rumi explores the joy of friendship and the agony of loss. These poetic meditations on the most profound of human relationships are like crystals: they sparkle with the many hues of the rainbow and contain worlds within, capturing us with their mystery.Here are poems that cause us to reflect on our own relationships, to experience again the intensity of friendship, the ache of loss, and the profundity of immersion.Thi...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Abrams (Author)A collection of poems on love -- romantic love, as well as familial love. It includes reminiscences of lovers lost and relationships bungled. The style of the poems range from free-form to rhyming couplets and quatrains. Some are lyrical, some are written in the language of the street. A sample: when the sickle moon / sweeps across the dawning sky / harvesting the stars, I search among the dewdrops / for traces of you. Number o...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathy Waldrop Burnham Howington (Author)Kathy Waldrop Burnham Howington draws you into her family circle through a series of whimsical poetry and songs. Ms. Howington entertains the reader with her humorous wit and mirthful poetry style. Filled with heart, humor and moments that hit close to home, Familiar Faces is a story with which any reader will identify. This is Ms. Howington's second literary work. Number of Pages: 136 Dimension...

Of Water and Wings: poems of truth and healing between mother and daughter

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Birdsong (Author), Stephanie Schilling (Author)In 2004, my daughter Stephanie and I went to a local fish house to have a bowl of chowder and write. Behind the bar was a chalkboard listing some dozen or so flavors of pie. We started writing about pie, then we started rhyming lines aloud, and we went on and on, bringing ourselves to tears with laughter. I searched my journals for those lines yet only found a few. I wonder how I ever forgot that we love writin...

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Report copyright infringementby Delilah Klug (Author), Aaliyah Klug (Author)A gentle story of love, loss, and remembering.When a young girl misses her daddy, she discovers that even though he's no longer here the way he used to be, his love still lives inside her, in her laughter, her memories, and the little moments that remind her of him.Through swings, stars, stories, and summer days, she learns that love never leaves.It simply finds new ways to stay.My Heart Still Remembers Daddy is a ten...

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Stack (Author)For the ones who are still learning to breathe around the absence.Grief doesn't arrive in stages. It arrives in a Tuesday morning. In a grocery list written for two. In the silence after a joke that only one person would have understood.I'm Still Here was written inside that silence.A collection of poems, letters, and reflections that don't reach for the sky to find the people we've lost. They look for them where they actually live. In the o...

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Report copyright infringementby Christy Hale (Author), Christy Hale (Illustrator)A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play.Cupon cups tacking up, smaller, smaller, and growing taller! Children building-Concrete poetry- Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children's constructions taken to the level of architectural treasures. Here is a unique celebration of children's playtime explorations and the surprising ways ch...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Chiltern are publishers of beautifully crafted editions of the World's finest literature.Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf.William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era. He was an important member of the King's Men company of theatrical playe...

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Report copyright infringementby Ariana Moulton (Author)Set against the seasons of Chicago and the shifting landscapes of the body, Lessons in Light explores what it means to endure. Ariana Moulton's poems weave together nature, feminism, motherhood, and mental health to tell a story of resilience shaped by time, place, and persistence. With clarity and compassion, this collection honors survival not as triumph, but as daily practice. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0...

Mastering the Art of Being Broken: A Lyric Memoir in Poems and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Erickson (Author)Mastering the Art of Being Broken is a deeply personal collection of poems and lyrical prose exploring grief, family, identity, and survival in the aftermath of loss.Moving through five distinct sections-Inheritance, Fracture, Catastrophe, Reconstitution, and Continuance-the book traces one man's journey through childhood trauma, the silence of family rejection, the devastating loss of a brother to suicide, and the long, uneven path toward ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Curtis Morgan (Author)The Love Within is a journey through fire, heartbreak, silence, and grief. It's about losing yourself along the way - but also finding who you truly are.This book speaks to anyone who's ever loved too deeply but didn't show it, or stayed silent when they needed to speak. It's for the brokenhearted, the ones who gave too much, and the ones searching for healing in their pain.This isn't just poetry - it's a story of raw emotion, surviv...

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Report copyright infringementby Kylla Mariguelle Remolino (Author), Kylla Mariguelle (Author)In this deeply personal and evocative collection of poetry, the author, Mariguelle, takes us on a journey through the darkest corners of heartbreak and betrayal. With raw, emotive language and unflinching honesty, these poems capture the full range of emotions that come with being cheated on: from the initial shock and denial to the anger and despair, and ultimately the journey towards healing and for...

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Kay Wolchansky (Author)Molly Kay Wolchansky, a young eighteen year old progressive writer, has created a writing repertoire that includes poetry, prose, and playwriting. She attended arts magnet school at Booker T. Washington in Dallas, Texas, where she earned an award for Great Achievement in Playwriting her senior year. Her plays were chosen and produced in the presence of selective audiences in theatres. Though this is her first published work, she del...

The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Anna (Author)Phantom Beneath The Opera is a haunting re-envisioning of the classic gothic tale known through The Phantom of the Opera, restored with a darker, more intimate emotional core. In this remastered interpretation by Jo Anna, the story descends further into the psychological and romantic depths of the figure who dwells beneath the grand stage, shifting the focus from spectacle to the raw humanity of the phantom himself.Set within the decaying splend...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Marlowe (Author), George Chapman (Author)"Hero and Leander" is an enduring classic of English literature, a poem begun by Christopher Marlowe and completed by George Chapman. Based on the Greek legend, the poem tells the tragic love story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, and Leander, a young man from Abydos. Their clandestine meetings are fraught with danger, as Leander must swim the Hellespont each night to be with his beloved.Marlowe's contribut...

Grief is a Hurricane: Poems of Empowerment in the Face of Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Robin A. Gillette (Author)Every soul has been grazed by loss and grief at some point in life. Daily, you make a choice on how you will live your life alongside that grief: in silent pain or opening yourself up to life's creative outlets to express that pain. One thing that is known for sure, is that it is love and understanding that helps us persevere. Grief Is a Hurricane: Poems of Empowerment in the Face of Loss by Robin A. Gillette conveys the message that l...

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Report copyright infringementby William Butler Yeats (Author), Walter Morse Rummel (Created by), Edmund Dulac (Author)Four Plays for Dancers presents a collection of dramatic works by the renowned Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats. This edition showcases Yeats's innovative approach to theater, blending poetry, music, and dance into a unified artistic experience. Included are 'At the Hawk's Well, ' 'Fighting the Waves, ' 'The Only Jealousy of Emer, ' and 'The Dreaming of the Bones...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Trott Dickman (Author)To someIt is the world.Oblate spheroid of red, crownedin stars, vined galaxies of juicy perfection.Add toast, mayonnaise, lettuce, bacon; a feast.An eyes-closed bite of Heaven, dripping, over the borders of my mouth, the bread, the plate, leaving me with the joyful aroma, sublime taste, a wanton desirefor more, and more and more. This queen ofthe garden, this multi-chambered heart of so much flavor: the tomato. Number of...