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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. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Abū Zayd Al-Anṣārī (Author), David Larsen (Translator)Named a Best Book of 2025 by Books Without BordersA vivid translation of Abū Zayd alAnṣārī's early Arabic weather lexicon, Book of Rain reveals a richly detailed linguistic landscape devoted to the many forms of rain.The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabi...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ashbery (Author), Stephanie Burt (Foreword by)"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." --Charles Simic, New York Review of Books The most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. John Ashbery was the quintessential "difficult poet." When asked to explain his work, he typically responded by insisting that his poetry was ...

Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming

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Report copyright infringementby Eli Clare (Author)A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with th...

Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

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Report copyright infringementby Kristin Grogan (Author)The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vision of writing and the writer, arguing that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This relationship provoked powerful political and aesthetic experiments--and allowed modernist poets to imagine ways of life beyond the demand to earn a l...

Poem a Day: 366 Poems, Old and New - One for Each Day of the Year

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Report copyright infringementby Karen McCosker (Author), Nicolas Albery (Author)Fill your life with more poetry, every day of the year! Read it daily by yourself or use it to connect with friends or your book club A book for self-discovery, and also sharing, with more than 100,000 copies sold! "This book is a dream, a revivalist campaign, a challenge, a book of days, and an anthology, all in one." -- The Guardian Features 366 poems old and new, one for each day of the year, each worth discove...

Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series

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Report copyright infringementby Kwame Dawes (Author), Chris Abani (Author), Siwar Masannat (Editor) TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build--meticulously and with principled care--a vision of a pluralistic literary community in which poets may thrive. Over more than ten years, D...

Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Bowman (Author)Starting in 1995, NPR's All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by "poetry DJ" Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child pla...

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Report copyright infringementby C. S. Lewis (Author)A repackaged edition of the revered author's set of dueling critical essays with fellow scholar E. M. W. Tillyard in which they debate the role of an author's biography in the critical appraisal of literature.C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved cl...

A Crumpled Swan: Fifty essays about Abigail Parry's 'In the dream of the cold restaurant'

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Report copyright infringementby David Collard (Author)A year of intensive close reading and personal reflection led to this uniquely entertaining collection of essays about poetry in general and one remarkable poem in particular: 'In the dream of the cold restaurant' by Abigail Parry.Whether you're a seasoned poetry reader or a curious newcomer, this engaging and constantly surprising book offers a generous, idiosyncratic take on what poetry is, what it does, and what it's for.From the author...

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Report copyright infringementby Zachary Yonko (Author)Sixty-Six Reveries: A Poet's Walk Through the Field of Scripture is a unique and evocative collection of poetry that invites readers on a reflective journey through the entire Bible. With one poem dedicated to each of the sixty-six books of the Bible, this work blends theological insight with the art of poetic expression, offering a fresh way to engage with the Scriptures. Each poem serves as a reverie--a thoughtful and imaginative meditat...

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Report copyright infringementby Dale M. Smith (Author)Originally from Canada, Norma Cole is a revered writer and visual artist who has authored and translated over thirty books and chapbooks. Though highly esteemed internationally in both visual art and poetry circles, Cole's association with the New College of California and her influence on artists and poets has been overlooked by scholars. In "That Tongue Be Time," Dale M. Smith seeks to remedy this oversight by bringing together sixteen n...

Henry David Thoreau: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Buell (Author)"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's...