Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Rosalie Moffett (Author)"These are poems--generative, alert, and complex--that make good on the promise of the book's smart and fitting title." --Natalie Shapero, author of Popular LongingA brilliant and lithe collection of poems making space for the resolve and hope of motherhood amid consumerist dreams and nightmares.Consumerism--its privations and raptures--seeps into all aspects of contemporary life. "Who knows me / as the search bar does, which holds / sac...

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Report copyright infringementby Lena Moses-Schmitt (Author)Finalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize In her debut collection True Mistakes, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time. As the poet goes about daily life-taking long walks, painting at her desk, going to work, grappling with the deaths of friends, struggling with anxiety and depression-she ruminates on the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Heideman (Author)Kathleen M. Heideman's The Caving Grounds excavates the rubble of Negaunee, a small town in Upper Michigan hollowed by a century of mining. The extraction of hematite caused underground collapses and sinkholes; undermined neighborhoods were deemed unstable; homes, churches and even cemeteries were moved, and dangerous areas fenced. Thankfully, a guide will emerge: Rusty."Her guide is Rusty, a drinker and a daredevil who travels the dan...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy Parker (Author)An irresistible hardcover collection of the famous humorist's poems that range from lighthearted satire to gleeful dark comedy One of the Jazz Age's most beloved poets, Dorothy Parker earned her reputation as the wittiest woman in America with her popular light verse, which was regularly published in Vanity Fair, Life, and The New Yorker. Her debut poetry collection, Enough Rope, was a runaway bestseller in 1926, and she followed it up in...

Words I Couldn't Find: 150 Love Letters From My Heart To Yours

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Report copyright infringementby Ella Wrenwood (Author)150 Love Letters From My Heart to Yours, by Ella Wrenwood, is the perfect gift to tell your significant other how much you love them.Do you ever struggle to find the words to tell your partner how amazing they are? Feel like you've run out of ways to say "I love you"? This beautiful book is the perfect way to show them how much you care, demonstrate your appreciation, and remind them just how special they are.Make their day, month, and yea...

She Is The Poem: sapphic poetry on love and becoming

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Report copyright infringementby June Bates (Author)She Is The Poem is a love letter to women and a celebration of sapphic joy. This collection tackles topics like love, finding yourself, coming out, self-care, and femininity. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Denise Neita-Chen (Author)A selection of poetry written over a period of almost thirty yesrs of self-discovery, evaluation and evolution. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 16, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Ana Dee (Author)Ana Dee's highly anticipated debut poetry collection, Untouched, is a testament to the beauty of love and its ability to inspire art and create a language of its own. Through mesmerizing verses, Ana embraces the reader, carrying them through moments of passion, tenderness, and vulnerability. This captivating poetry collection showcases the boundless capacity of love to both uplift and devastate us.A must-read for anyone who has ever been touche...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael G. Wright (Author)My creation is about people's emotions during a relationship and possible outcomes. Despite our various backgrounds, we have an intriguing commonality--romantic relationships. Sharing smiles and cries with a partner on an intimate level is a familiar societal structure. This bond can be initiated with a stare, a laugh, or a simple conversation. Then it can evolve in the workplace, gym, nightclub, worshipping center, etc.Nobody truly wa...

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Report copyright infringementby David Trinidad (Author)New Playlist holds a variety of poetic forms: odes, found, haiku, prose, list, collages, one-liners, sonnets, and more. With his trademark wit and inventiveness, David Trinidad "plays" with these forms as if they were toys. He creates a Wikipedia cento in which each line illustrates how little is known of sixty-five ancient Greek poets. He gives us an itinerary of "Things to Do" in ten 1970s disaster films. He catalogs Sylvia Plath's reci...

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Report copyright infringementby Donovan Beck (Author)Sunbreak: Notes on Hope, from breakout social media poet Donovan Beck, is a rousing collection of poetry and prose written in an effort to create a world in which poetry books are not just expressions of grief or loss but also ones of optimism and light. Led by deep curiosity, Sunbreak by Donovan Beck aims to give real and poetic reflections on beautiful moments of hope that can be found even in a challenging world. Donovan Beck is a multi...

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Report copyright infringementby Ghazala Alam (Author), Faiz Nawab (Photographer)On Being Human is a compilation of original poems by Ghazala Alam. Written in modern Urdu and English, each poem is introduced by an English preamble detailing her inspirations and insights. Accompanied by English transliteration, her poetry is informed by her experiences as an immigrant, woman, and a person of color. This distinct lens on life's challenges also reaffirms her faith in the human capacity to empathi...

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Report copyright infringementby Bobby Monterio Jr. Arnold (Author)The Falling Uprise is a collection of poems embracing deeper emotions. Poems that show how on our uprises in life we will still feel like we're falling. This book isn't meant for the light of heart but it is meant to help you connect emotions you've been ignoring. All the pain, anxiety, and other feelings, this book shows emotions that we ignore.The Falling UpriseIs feelings we ignore causing us to fall on our upriseNo chapters...

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Report copyright infringementby Kris Bertolini (Author)This is a collection of poems that I wrote after my husband left. It's an expression of my faith in and love of Jesus. I have been able to grow into and accept the beauty of who God created me to be. Through these poems, I hope you feel and receive the love of Jesus. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Mtende Roll (Author)Poetic Persona is a captivating collection of poetic expressions that delves deep into the intertwining themes of spirituality, Black identity, womanhood, and relationships. With evocative verse and poignant imagery, Poetic Persona takes readers on a profound journey. Within these pages, author Mtende Roll navigates the complexities of spiritual connection, drawing from her journeys and universal truths to illuminate the soul's yearning for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Henry (Author)Heeding St. John Cassian's call, The Third Renunciation rejects classic depictions of divinity and religious dogma to see God more fully. Each poem begins with a proposition (e.g. "Say God is the music we strain to hear"), or an explanation for a Biblical story (e.g. "maybe Jesus was having an off day"). Henry's poetry offers answers to the myriad whys at the center of faith and doubt, gives voice to the notion that both singing and scream...

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Report copyright infringementby William Blake (Author), Patti Smith (Selected by)William Blake is one of England's most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith brings together he...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Sheetz (Author)Phoenix by Lauren Sheetz is a captivating collection of poetry that takes readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery. With exquisite craftsmanship, Sheetz's evocative verses delve into the depths of the human experience, exploring themes of resilience, love, and personal growth. Through her lyrical prowess, she weaves words into a tapestry of emotions, igniting a spark within the reader's soul. Each poem is a testament to the po...

To Be Seen: Poems Meant To Understand You

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Report copyright infringementby Bri Anora (Author)A captivating, poetic, and visual journey, Bri's debut book To Be Seen explores multiple themes relative to the human experience.She speaks of introspection, love, grief, hope, and finding yourself amongst it all. With poems and photographs meant to encourage every feeling, this is a story of reflection. It is a turbulent ride of emotions and thought-provoking perspectives. One meant to unite many common thoughts, including your own. To Be See...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan King (Author)This short collection of poetry chronicles a portion of the journey of self discovery we must all take during one time or another in our lives. Sometimes dark, and usually unpredictable, a part of life is deciding who you are, over and over again. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 06, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Brittany Yarbrough (Author)This collection of poetry is told through the eyes of a once wild, barefoot girl who grew up and realized her greatest dream - raising her own family out in nature. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 27, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Mattie McClane (Author)Occupying Nazareth is the story of Horace Bain, a midwestern mayor who tries to lure climate change's weather-weary people to a once prosperous town with the offer of $50,000 per family. Bain envisions a return to the city's past glory before manufacturing plants went away and left the town poor. He hopes wealthier citizens will infuse cash and that "Train Town" will be resurrected from its rustbelt status and will again be a place where ...

Saturdays: Observations at the Intersection of Life & Art

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Report copyright infringementby Lyn Asselta (Author)Saturdays is a collection of prose, poetry, and creative encouragement that's meant to be read in bits and pieces, time and again, with morning coffee or at the quiet end of a busy day. It's meant to be savored or gifted or shared. It's meant to be opened to random pages, on random days, for inspiration and for hope, and it's meant to be a reminder of the gifts that the world gives us every day. It is for artists and non-artists, for anyo...

Thunder, Perfect Mind: Mystical Wisdom of the Divine Feminine

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous Gnostic Tradition (Author), Tim Zengerink (Translator)Who is the voice that speaks of both light and darkness, strength and weakness? How does divine wisdom reveal the paradoxes of existence?Thunder, Perfect Mind: Mystical Wisdom of the Divine Feminine presents a modern translation of one of the most profound and poetic texts from the Gnostic tradition. Attributed to the 2nd-century CE, this ancient work explores the divine feminine's multifaceted nat...

The Prophet (Reader's Library Classics) (Illustrated)

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Report copyright infringementby Kahlil Gibran (Author)The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.Through the voice of the prophet AlMustafa, Kahlil Gibran touches on the many intricacies of life and the human condition. Love, marriage, children, friendship, joy and sorrow - just a sample of the wide ranging thoughts that effortlessly touch on the mind and soul.An inspiration to millions of people, The Proph...

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by Taisia Kitaiskaia (Author)Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, Taisia Kitaiskaia's debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language, and the mysteries of our world with wide, witchy eyes.Author BiographyTaisia Kitaiskaia was born in Russia and raised in America. She is the author of Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles and its follow-up, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times from Ask Baba Yaga, as well as Literary Witches: A Celebr...

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Hauser (Author)How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one--aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek literature as one of gender, arguing that the ways ...

Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women (Hardback)

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Report copyright infringementby Drea Brown (Author)What does it mean to live as a ghost, to live with ghosts, and how might ghosts lead to a path of healing and reimagining? Through an investigation of the intimate relationship between haunting and grief, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women posits that for Black women, haunting is both a condition and a strategy in lived experiences and literary productions. Looking at the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Ntoz...

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Report copyright infringementby Bijan Jalali (Author), Adeeba Shahid Talukder (Translator), Aria Fani (Translator)Shape of Extinction brings together 59 short poems by the modernist Iranian poet Bijan Jalali, the first book-length selection of his meditative yet quietly radical approach to poetry. A critical introduction situates Jalali's work within the broader currents of modern Persian poetry and politics. With bilingual Persian-English texts presented in parallel, this volume invites read...

Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Waley (Author), Juyi Bai (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this ...

Vampires & the Shadow World: An Anthology of Classic Poetry & Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Aurora Thorne (Author)A captivating collection of dark poetry and prose, perfect for fans of gothic romantasy and twisted tales. Dive into the shadowy depths of Vampires & the Shadow World, a mesmerizing collection of classic poems and stories that pulses with the lifeblood of gothic romance and eternal desire. This anthology invites you to explore the laments of ancient vampires, whose sorrowful verses reveal the agony and ecstasy of immortal existence. ...