Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin McPherson Eckhoff (Author), Kevin McPherson Eckhoff (Translator)Kevin McPherson Eckhoff has persisted in reading what was meant to be illegible, or irrelevant, or what Robert Smithson might have referred to as "language to be looked at" rather than words to be read. Undesigning the cipher of a place-holder, the matrix of layout meant merely to give space, he has transformed geometry into signification. In the process he renders "not the euphemism, [but ra...

Alter / Altar Volume 1: Sigil, Soma, Score, Salve

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Report copyright infringementby Kinsey Cantrell (Author), Maddy Durante (Author), Becca Erwin (Author)From the Introduction: This compilation is an outgrowth of the 'alter/altar II: sigil, soma, score, salve' workshop community facilitated by El (Lynne DeSilva-Johnson). We gathered for 6 weeks at Poets House in New York City in the Fall of 2019, in a space dedicated to deconstructing the boundaries of "poetics," and began to explore, to settle inside the vacillating space between representat...

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Avila (Author)Saints of Mary's Projects is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting a city's historical, personal, social, political, and cultural constructs birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by poetry, video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. In the Bronx, St. Mary's Housing project is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern-day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Zach Linge (Editor), Zach Linge (Designed by)This is the eleventh volume of Sagebrush Review, featuring poetry by Ash Connell, Luther Christian, and Ash Connell; prose by Heather Negron, Matt Bizzell, and Daniel Wilcox; and art and photography by Barbara Minarro, John Mitchell, and Kat Weigle, among others. This is the first volume produced under the supervision of managing editor Zach Linge, who succeeded previous editor Sonya Eddy in 2016. Sagebrush Review is...

Leave It Behind You: A License Plate Story

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Report copyright infringementby Barrett Westberg (Author)All over the United States, a story told through license plates.Barrett Westberg has taken hundreds of pictures of custom license plates and arranged them to tell a tale about the earth, spirituality, religion, politics, relationships, work, fortune, family and finally death.Thoughtfully organized by topic, each picture has a story of its own and as a collection is perfect for any coffee table. Number of Pages: 234 ...

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Tove Ditlevsen (Author), Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator), Jennifer Russell (Translator)By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English. It was a meaningless daylike what you calllove It was a ThursdayIn parentheses. The brackets around itHave already fadedLife tastes of ashAnd is bearable. From one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author...

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Report copyright infringementby Donatello Dreakford (Author)Man Enough For Myself: Because I Still Want To Be Seen is a memoir told through poetry.Donatello Dreakford presents a collection that explores memory in fragments, the way it arrives in real life: jagged, unsteady, insistent. These poems move through the families we are born into and the ones we choose for ourselves, through queer friendships, love and loss, silence and recognition.With language that is both direct and lyrical, this ...

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Report copyright infringementby Becca Rae Rose (Author)MOUTH is a lyric essay in small parts: a plastic treasure chest full of all your lost baby teeth; a necklace with a shark tooth dangling; an elephant with a molar ground down to the jaw. These vignettes thread (or, more accurately, layer) narratives held upon the soft meat of the tongue, asking how the machine of language naturalizes the animal body as utilitarian or aesthetic. Breathe, eat, drink, bite, cleave, speak, smile, suck. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Natasha Soregaroli (Author)To the girls who feel alone in their thoughts.This one's for you.I know there is a girl out there who needs this book because this is what I wish I had known when my insecurities were overwhelming me, but no one was talking about it. I needed to feel heard, seen, understood ... NORMAL. My hope is that this book has found you and that sharing my raw, unfiltered self-talk helps you navigate your own journey and that by relating to my ex...

Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Sidman (Author), Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)Told through poetic letters, this inventive collaboration from Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet reveals the everyday conversations between "big" and "little" objects in our ecosystem. Delightful!Dear Sky, Hello! It's me, Bubble!I'm here!Someone's breathed meawake!What is it like to be little? What is it like to be big?Award-winning poet Joyce Sidman explores bot...

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Report copyright infringementby A. J. Barlanti (Author)Through the Death-Dark Valley is a gripping and poetic tribute to one of World War II's most fearless heroes-Corporal Tony Stein. Blending lyrical prose with vivid historical narrative, A.J. Barlanti chronicles Stein's extraordinary courage during the invasion of Iwo Jima, where he single-handedly stormed enemy pillboxes with a customized aircraft machine gun. This immersive biography captures not only the brutality of war but the unshaka...

The Bitch, The Dowager and The Raconteur: A Love Story

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Report copyright infringementby Debby Hughes (Author), George R. Hughes (Author)While caring for an aging circle of love, one woman considered the meaning of life and discovered how to live As a caregiver to her ailing husband, Debby Hughes found moments of refuge by sitting at her keyboard and allowing the mystical to flow through her fingers. Pondering existential questions, such as "What is this all about?", "How can I better manifest love?", and "Why me?", Hughes took comfort in the quir...

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Hall (Editor)American children's poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with "A Visit from St. Nicholas," expanded widely in the 20th century, and continues with vigor into the new millennium. Some of the best of these poems, however, have been neglected or forgotten. This collection, edited by acclaimed children's author and poet Donald Hall, returns the forgotten treasures of America...

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Report copyright infringementby William Blake (Author), Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour" William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. This ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stuart Friebert (Author)Stuart Friebert's First and Last Words entwines memoir and stories, shifting seamlessly between first and last person, as memoir in 1949, an American exchange student shipping to Allies-occupied Germany, "Moonily in love, I was largely oblivious to most of what had happened as a result of Nazi crimes, not to mention the German I was taking in with every breath, trying to navigate its foreign waters."A year abroad in Europe changes his li...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Christy (Author)Heart of the World, is a perfect example of the well written memoir in poetry form worthy of any poetry lovers attention. Jim Christy, a true road scholar, is the master of biographical hyperbole. The stories he tells of the people he meets, on the journeys he has taken, woven through his peripatetic life are astonishingly well written. Every word is true except for those that are not. This book, Heart of the World, deserves your applause Ji...

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Report copyright infringementby Abigail George (Author)Pushcart Prize nominated Abigail George is a South African blogger at Goodreads, essayist, poet, playwright, short story writer and novelist. She briefly studied film at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies in South Africa and online in e-zines across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. She is the recipient of writing grants from the National Arts Council in Johannes...

My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood

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Report copyright infringementby Ann-Marie Priest (Author)The first biography of Gwen Harwood (1920-1995), one of Australia's most significant and distinctive poets.Harwood is renowned for her brilliance, but loved for her humour, rebellion and mischief. A public figure by the end of her life, she was always deeply protective of her privacy, and even now, some twenty-six years after her death, little is known of the experiences that gave rise to her extraordinary poems. This book follows Harwo...

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Report copyright infringementby Kiri Atawhai Dewes (Author)Follow Kiri Atawhai Dewes journey, from her early years, in a farming community in the north east of Aotearoa (New Zealand), where her adoptive parents owned a dairy farm, through her early adult years and then to her life in Australia, where she has come to be known and loved by many through her work, generosity, compassion and loving spirit. Kiri is a wealth of knowledge, a visionary and gifted writer. Her poetry has achieved intern...

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Report copyright infringementby Paige A. DeLozier (Author)A poem from the perspective of a parent thinking of what matters most in the life of her child. After considering many distinguished careers the child might one day have, the parent decides what matters more than any title or achievement is simply love--feeling loved in every way and showing love to others. With brightly colored pages, doodled illustrations, and a pleasant rhyming pattern, the author of "Feel Love, Give Love" will give...

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Report copyright infringementby Camille Soleil (Author)Chronically Beautiful II by Camille Soleil is a poetic journey through resilience, introspection, and finding beauty in the face of chronic illness. Soleil's verses offer readers glimpses into the everyday struggles and triumphs of navigating a world complicated by health challenges, from personal reflections on family and friendships to grappling with one's own identity amid pain and strength.With poems like Sometimes, The Little, and NF...

Struggles Overcome By Faith: Feelings, Emotions & Praises

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Report copyright infringementby Cathy Jones Easterling (Author)Overcoming adversity requires great faith and courage. Cathy Jones-Easterling's autobiography, Struggles Overcome by Faith, reminds us that our faith in God can work miracles in our lives, no matter what roadblocks life throws our way. Growing up in an abusive and broken home, Cathy found the Grace of God and transformed herself from a shy little girl from a small Town, who had struggled most of her life, later became a woman of t...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindsay Waxman (Author)In this inspiring memoir, Lindsay shares her journey of overcoming a quantity of medical, health, and mental challenges, as well as navigating the complexities of friendship, family, and relationship issues. With raw honesty and vulnerability, Lindsay rations the hardships she has faced and the lessons learned along the way. Through her unique perspective, readers will be inspired to find strength in the face of adversity and embrace the ...

The Best American Poetry 2005: Series Editor David Lehman

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Report copyright infringementby David Lehman (Editor), Paul Muldoon (Editor)This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of...

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Report copyright infringementby Allie Ryan (Author)Insignificance: a collection is a stirring exploration of the quiet moments that shape us, the spaces between connection and solitude, and the search for meaning in a world that often feels too big. With tender honesty, the poems navigate themes of doubt, self-reflection, and the desire to be seen while embracing the delicate beauty of imperfection. Each verse draws readers into the inner world of a narrator who seeks not grandeur but the qui...

Three Sisters Ponds: My Journey from Street Cop to FBI Senior Executive - from Baltimore to Lockerbie, Pakistan and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip Reid (Author)In September 2000, I was sitting on a bench facing the Mediterranean Sea in the French Riviera town of Nice. I had flown there during a three-day break in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in Camp Ziest, Netherlands, where I was expected to testify. As I sat on this bench eating lunch, I suddenly found myself overwhelmed by emotion. It was an awakening: I realized that my being there was the fulfillment of one of my many life dreams and g...

Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben No Naishi Nikki - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Naishi Ben No (Author), S. Yumiko Hulvey (Translator)Ben no Naishi (1228-1270), a descendant of a literary branch of the Fujiwara family, created an innovative poetic account focusing on her public personae as a naishi serving at the court of Go-Fukakusa (r. 1246-1259). Traditional scholarship regards Ben no Naishi Nikki as a naive record of court minutiae written without any literary purpose, but Ben no Naishi's text is constructed consciously by her devotion ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dave C. Joseph (Author)Wilderness Whispers: Poems of Solitude, Surrender, and the God Who Speaks in SilenceBy Dave Joseph Jr.In the stillness of dry seasons and the silence between answered prayers, there is a whisper.Wilderness Whispers is a soul-stirring collection of poems and reflections that guide readers through the quiet, aching spaces of life where God seems most distant-but is often closest. With lyrical grace and prophetic depth, Dave Joseph Jr. invit...

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Report copyright infringementby Will Averill (Author), Kent Smith (Artist)In Day After the Waste Land, Will Averill transforms T.S. Eliot's modernist epic into a Midwestern fever dream. Lawrence, Kansas becomes the new "Unreal City"-where basketball courts replace chessboards, dive bars hum with verse, and local legends collide with pop culture.Not parody but echo, this is Eliot refracted through the cracked mirror of small-town America: part homage, part reinvention. With annotations, wit, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Reinhart (Author), Matthew Reinhart (Illustrator)Matthew Reinhart's phenomenal paper engineering, as evidenced in Cinderella and The Jungle Book brings an added dimension -- literally -- to the classic telling of Mother Goose's most treasured nursery rhymes. With six spreads of of pop ups and and mini book, this book is a phenomenal family keepsake to read for years to come. Six spreads with full pop ups on each spread and mini books with pops throughou...

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Report copyright infringementby High Shelf Press (Developed by), C. M. Tollefson (Editor), David Seung (Editor)A Monthly Collection of Art, Photography, Poetry, and Satire. High Shelf Issue XII (November 2019). 86 pages of poetry, art, photography, and satire. Featuring works by artists and writers from across America and beyond. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 15, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Guyon James Prince (Author), Guyon James Prince (Artist)Exploetry is a vivid collision of original poetry and visual art by Guyon Prince, a combat veteran, educator, and lifelong creator. Born of grief, wonder, rebellion, and quiet grace, each piece is paired with an image drawn from the artist's own hand. With themes of mortality, spiritual hunger, and radical presence, Exploetry invites readers to slow down and take a look around. Includes QR codes for free a...