Poetry

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by Jim Mervis (Author), Alan Kozlowski (Photographer)Jim Mervis has worked with filmmakers, musicians and scientists for over 40 years, inspiring them to explore opportunities outside of their normal domains of excellence. He likes to say that his career is guided by the desire to learn something new every day. His writing has been inspired by his relationships with those from whom he learned new ideas and those from whom he learned the meaning of love.I write to hear the timbre of words set ...

Releasing the Porcelain Birds - Paperback

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by Carmen Bugan (Author)In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceauşescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500 pages of Securitate files on her father and in 2013 a further 3,000 pages of secret files on her mother, sister, brother and herself. Releasing the Porcelain Birds is about the transformation of that extraordinary history of Cold War Europe into poetry; it is about writing t...

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by Endre Ruset (Author), Harry Man (Translator), Jo Nesb? (Introduction by)Noriaki by Endre Ruset, translated by Harry Man, is a mesmerizing poetry collection that captures the daring spirit of ski jumping through a series of concise, haiku-like poems. Drawing on the rich tradition of Japanese and Norwegian poetry, Ruset's work pays tribute to the legendary ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, whose extraordinary career and resilience are depicted with both reverence and lyrical precision. This book isn...

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by William Archila (Author)S is For is an investigation by poet William Archila of the Central American migrant crisis haunted by the past of the civil war in El Salvador, the meanings of family spirits, and trees disappearing to urban sprawl--always wielding the voice of the immigrant, the refugee, and the ever-present exile as a weapon against invisibility and displacement. Inventive and compassionate, Archila's poems navigate the meanings of family spirits, weeds and wildflowers, and the i...

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by Ian Hutchinson (Author)The potential readership of this book is wide and varied. The book is humorous in places and in others, almost spiritual. It is written for those who have lost a spouse or other loved one, for those with a mum or dad, son or daughter, or grandchild. It is for those who have been to sea and understand this awesome place. It is for those who have thought about their own mortality and those who grieve. It is also for those who have thought about the deeper aspects of li...

The Iliad: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Homer (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Tro...

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by Laura Kasischke (Author)"She has, like all good poets, created a music of her own, one suited to her concerns. When denizens of the 22nd century, if we get there, look back on our era and ask how we lived, they will take an interest both in the strangest personalities who gave their concerns verbal form, and in the most representative. The future will not--should not--see us by one poet alone. But if there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose." --Bost...

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by Richard Horne (Author), Andrew Barger (Introduction by), Edgar Allan Allan Poe (Afterword by)"Orion" is an epic English poem of love and war. It deserves its place next to "Beowulf" in English literature. Its overtones consist of aesthetically pleasing writing with a Shakespearian tinge, all wrapped in classical Greek mythology. It contains a fine introduction by Andrew Barger, a foreword by the author, Richard Horne, and a fantastic review by Edgar Allan Poe. This is all combined with ill...

Connoisseurs of Suffering: Poetry for the Journey to Meaning - Paperback

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by Jason Dias (Editor), Louis Hoffman (Editor)Connoisseurs of Suffering is a powerful collection of poems exploring the potential meanings in suffering. Suffering is an inevitable part of life and, perhaps, a necessary one: if we love enough, we eventually experience loss and get hurt. The choice is not between suffering and not suffering so much as between suffering for something and suffering for nothing. The poets featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering have chosen the former path--to suffer...

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by Marjorie Maddox (Author), Philip Huber (Illustrator)You've probably heard the phrase a school of fish. But what about a rumba of rattlesnakes, an army of ants, or a crash of rhinos? Derived from both oral and written traditions, collective nouns go back centuries. These terms not only charm us with their sound, but they provide a bit of insight into animal behavior. Readers can find these and other terms--from alley cats to zebras--in fourteen thought-provoking poems by Marjorie Maddox. Sh...

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by Anna Blackmer (Author)These Hexagrams, written over a period of 30 years in response to the great Chinese book of divination and cosmology, the I Ching, or Book of Changes, form an autobiography of sorts. They also operate as meditations on the landscape, ciphers yearning to be free, arguments with the self, and snapshots of ordinary moments in flux. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2019

A Modicum of Solace: One Woman's Political Despair - Paperback

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by Sue Robin (Author)I have voted in every election since turning twenty-one. There were winners and losers in those fifty years, but until Number 45 was elected in November of 2016, I have never felt the despair and anguish for my country that washed over me. The pain roiled in my heart and then demanded to be let out. In the years since 45's election many poems have poured through my heart and out my fingers providing a modicum of solace. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publ...

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by Benjamin Mueller (Author)Benjamin Mueller's debut poetry collection, To Where Are We Bound, examines coming-of-age in a dying steel town, the desire for escape, and the power of place to shape our lives. The collection uses images to tell the story life in a small, rural Pennsylvania town. From Friday night football, to the shuttered steel factory, to the closed Main Street store fronts, Mueller's poems echo the voices of a past that is very much still present. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensio...

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by Ashlyn M. Mason (Author), Thomas Jasmine (Illustrator)Ashlyn Mason is the author of Growing Fruit, a 7 chapter poetry book designed to uplift, affirm, and encourage readers. In Mason's debut novel, she delicately unpacks womanhood while exploring mechanisms for coping with hurt from imperfect relationships and grievances.The poetry in this novel tells a story of triumph and is intentional, reflective, and interactive. The tone of the book is described as "gentle as a summer breeze and smoo...

Her(e): A Collection of Queer Caribbean LGBTI Affirming Poems and Short Stories - Paperback

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by Lysanne Goddesseye Charles (Author)This is the first collection of poetry and short stories from Caribbean poet and writer Lysanne "GoddessEye" Charles. This collection focuses on affirming LGBTQI experiences in the Caribbean region and Charles hopes that it will be a collection in which Caribbean Queer folx can find pieces of themselves. The collection contains 30 poems covering four areas warrior, lov(h)er, sweetjuice and rainbow and 2 short stories. The poems are a journey through the c...

Poetry Through The Eyes of a Black Woman - Paperback

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by Deloris A. Anderson (Author)These collections of poems tell a beautiful story of what it means to be a Black woman in America. Each poem in the collection is loaded with timeless wisdom for generations to come. The reader will gleam from the wisdom of an elder, while being challenged to embrace blackness in all forms.In the era of Black Lives Matter, Deloris Anderson makes her contribution to the movement and lets her voice be heard in these riveting poetic stories. "Poetry Through the Eye...

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by Robert MacLean (Author)In Wintermoon Robert MacLean distils twenty-five years of living in Kyoto, Japan, into a single seasonal cycle seen through the radically minimalist lens of haiku. Here are 119 precise instants of focus, divided into eleven sequences - 'stepping stones / leading to / a waterfall'. Each set of poems arrives at an awareness different from the one with which the set began, and the book as a whole maps a transformative journey filled with Zen practice, loneliness, univer...

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by Jim Dunn (Author)Like modest courage teachers, Dunn knows to work on the other side of time, as a guest of eternal space. Join him here, in this shadow of an open book, in this place where silence speaks. The publication of Jim Dunn's first poetry book in more than a decade is reason to rejoice. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.34 x 6 x 4 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2022

Unspoken: A Poetic Walk Through the First Year of My Spiritual Awakening - Paperback

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by Yanexy Vera (Author)An unexpected encounter sparks one woman's spiritual awakening, transformation, and passion. Faced with rejection and silence from a person with whom she feels an uncanny spiritual connection, she follows her drive to go inward, revisit past hurts, and put to paper all that she feels has gone unexpressed. Her journey through the first year of her awakening is depicted in this collection of poems. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Februar...

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by Jeannette Viirpuu (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 20, 2024

Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Bruce Weigl (Author)With Song of Napalm, Bruce Weigl established himself as a poet of incomparable power and lyric fury whose work stands as an elegy to the countless lives dramatically altered by war. Archeology of the Circle brings together the major work of one of America's greatest poets. Collected here for the first time, from eight volumes of poetry and spanning two decades, the poems in Archeology of the Circle also include Bruce Weigl's most recent work, which takes a dramatic turn...

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by Dorianne Laux (Author)From "a poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes), Finger Exercises for Poets is an engaging and inspiriting invitation to practice poetry alongside one of its masters. With wide-ranging examples from classic and contemporary poets, Dorianne Laux demystifies the magic of language that makes great poetry and offers generative exercises to harness that magic. She explores the syllable and the line, the use of form, poetic responses to contemporary event...

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by Hanna Helimets (Author)In "Passionate Curiosity," Hanna Helimets weaves an enchanting tapestry of thoughts and observations, drawing readers into a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary through the lens of poetic introspection. With each poem, Helimets explores the delicate interplay of emotion and intellect, inviting us to question and marvel at the layered complexities of life.This collection is a journey through the nuances of human experience-love, loss, joy, and discovery-eac...

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by Radnyi Jagtap (Author)Tacenda, a whisper from Latin's heart, translates to the things left unspoken, and the flowers left unbloomed. Yet, within this hushed realm lies a vibrant garden, where unspoken experiences, emotions, and desires bloom in the fertile soil of the human heart. Radnyi, acts as your guide, a poet wielding evocative language like a gardener's trowel. Delving beneath the surface of our daily routines, these poems unearth the complexities of unspoken truths, the yearning fo...

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by Karen Arnold (Author)Loss figures into our lives in a wide arc: change of seasons, migration, coming of age, physical and emotional changes, death of a loved one, loss of a sense of safety. Each shift has effects we recognize, resist, must learn to bear or cherish or be defeated by. These poems muse over what triggers memories, remind us of nature's role in life's balance, catalogue the random ties between past and present that weave our lives into whole cloth. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensi...

Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic - Hardcover

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by Tim Stover (Author)This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid), and Claudian (De Raptu Proserpinae). It sheds new light on the importance of Valerius' poem and enhances our understanding of the intertextual richness of imperial Latin epic. The readings offered in this book provide new evidence to support the view that Valerius' Argonautica predates the Punica and Thebaid, t...

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by Rebecca Winn (Author)21 poems, written in 21 days. This book is meant for anyone that feels lost, heartbroken, or left out. This is for the hearts that are still healing, and the inner child that seems to have gotten lost throughout the years. For the hopeless romantics that can't seem to find the fairytale. For the teenagers that are struggling to find their way. For the innocence lost. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 22, 2024

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by Caroline Sands (Author)Enjoy your path you take as no two lives will tell any story in equal lights. Remember to enjoy what you can and to take matters that are only of matter into your own hands. Time does not reverse or rewind. Cherish what we all have. Precious as it comes, it is too valuable to waste away. Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.36 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 22, 2024

Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination - Paperback

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by Giulia Sissa (Editor), Anna Collar (Editor), Francesca Martelli (Editor)This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal bo...

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by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author)A PRAYER O Lord, the hard-won miles Have worn my stumbling feet: Oh, soothe me with thy smiles, And make my life complete. The thorns were thick and keen Where'er I trembling trod; The way was long between My wounded feet and God. Where healing waters flow Do thou my footsteps lead. My heart is aching so; Thy gracious balm I need. PASSION AND LOVE A maiden wept and, as a comforter, Came one who cried, "I love thee," and he seized Her in his arms and kissed her ...

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by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Author)"The Tale of Balen" is a narrative poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, a 19th-century English poet, playwright, and critic. This work, published in 1896, represents Swinburne's engagement with Arthurian legends and medieval romance. "The Tale of Balen" is one of Swinburne's later works and is influenced by the Arthurian legends, particularly the story of Balin and Balan. The poem explores themes of chivalry, honor, and tragic fate, common elements in Arth...

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by Julie Stevens (Author)The poems in Journey Through the Fire speak of a troubled childhood with domineering parents and school bullies. Later, the years are plagued with chronic illnesses, that in time helps lead to a reconciliation.'From within the confides of a difficult illness Julie Stevens gives voice to experience that is commonly hidden away behind labels and closed doors. She fights for recognition, the relief of expressing herself and the elation of small personal triumphs. She is ...