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Report copyright infringementby Amy Marie Lange (Author)The sound of holy is never loud, yet it shakes the soul. It comes close, like a breath against your ear, stirring the place in you that remembers Him. It moves through silence, through longing, through the ache of waiting, until it finds the deep place inside you that awakens - the place where heaven's own chorus begins. Where the seraphim cry "Holy, Holy, Holy" without ceasing before the throne, caught in the breathtaking awe of His lov...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcella Durand (Author), Srikanth Reddy (Foreword by)Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, Selected by Srikanth Reddy A poetic exploration that reimagines form and language through celestial patterns Informed by mystery, chaos, order and writing as container, A Winter Triangle explores poetic space and form amid the infinite possibilities of composition and change. Composed of three parts, or "points," like its namesake asterism, this collect...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin M. Arnold (Editor)Step into a compelling anthology that explores the essence of being. Where visual art, poetry, and flash converge to illuminate the fragile, wondrous layers of human existence. This collection traces moments of becoming and unbecoming, offering readers space to reflect on what it means to live, die, and everything in between.Featuring bold artwork and emotionally resonant writing, each piece invites you to witness the rhythms of chaos and...

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Report copyright infringementby Samantha Griffitts (Illustrator)Light Shining Out of Darkness is a vivid and beautifully illustrated edition of William Cowper's famous poem/hymn, "God Moves in a Mysterious Way.' It contains 32 pages of gorgeous illustration by Samantha Griffitts which accompany Cowper's words, as well as a brief biography of the man and other such materials. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 11 IN Publication Date: August 03, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Veronica Cruz (Author)When it rains it pours, but just because it's pouring doesn't mean you should wallow. This is a peek into a mind that's broken, beautiful, and yearning for healing. Sometimes it's happy, other times ugly and devastating, yet equally exquisite. This is life. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Jones (Author)""Join me on a soulful journey of emotion. You'll laugh and cry at these poems from the heart."" Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Harley Grant (Author)Distilled from forgotten fever dreams and strained through your missing sock, Unlikely Rubbish is the collection of amusing (and at times disturbing) poems that you needed to find at this moment. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2023

Rumi: Unseen Poems; Edited and Translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz

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Report copyright infringementby Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Author), Brad Gooch (Translator), Maryam Mortaz (Translator)A beautiful collector's hardcover of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rumi (1207-1273) was trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--and founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Rumi's poetry has long been p...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathalia Crane (Author)This book "" The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of...

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by Sonia Sanchez (Author)Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez's poetry, this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work, including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969), through to 2019, the poet ha...

Rumi Soul Healer: A Transcendental Story of Ecstatic Passion and Mystical Love

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Report copyright infringementby Gabriel Iqbal (Author)"He addressed humanity as a whole" - UNESCO 10th Anniversary Revised Edition: It has been 10 years since the first publication of Rūmī Soul Healer in 2015. Major changes and additions have been introduced in this revised 10th Anniversary edition of 2025. The major changes include a chapter on the relevance of Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī's transformative influence on the modern world and pragmatic solutions for the upliftment of the human condition....

The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Ulrich Baer (Translator)From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. "A great poet's reflections on our greatest mystery."--Billy Collins "A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary."--The Guardian Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends...

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Report copyright infringementby Burton Raffel (Translator), Burton Raffel (Preface by), Brenda Webster (Introduction by)THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE GREEN KNIGHT--STARRING DEV PATEL An epic poem of honor and bravery written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including Beowulf. It is Christmas in Camelot, and a truly royal feast has been laid out for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author), David Raeburn (Translator), Denis Feeney (Introduction by)Ovid's sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending ...

Cigarettes Until Tomorrow: Romanian Poetry

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Report copyright infringementAlong the eastern edge of Europe, Romania's vibrant poetry scene perches on the Black Sea. In Cigarettes Until Tomorrow, eight Romanian poets use black humor searing contemporary language to make everyday scenes profound. Tanks invade while soccer games go down to the last minute. There are lonely cemeteries and urine-soaked sheets and endless Instagram reels. The resulting collection is a stunning portrait of all our lives in the 21st century: the boredom, the ou...

48th street: prose poems and paintings - Hardcover

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by Annepeck (Author)annEpeck's father promised her they would move to Colorado "as soon as she didn't need a mother." He also took her into his bed for years until she was ten. This is the story of her remembering, her artistic birth and the woman she fought to become. The prose poems and drawings are an uplifting, inspiring testament to the power of the human spirit and the power of art to heal any wound. Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Dante (Author), Robert Pinsky (Translator), John Freccero (Foreword by)This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The r...

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), C. H. Sisson (Author), David H. Higgins (Editor)This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance. Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason an...

I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Halsey (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of their generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, they reveal never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder. In this debut collection, Halsey bares their soul. Bringing the same artistry found in their lyrics, Halsey's poems delve into the highs and lows of doomed relationships, fa...

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Report copyright infringementby Aja Monet (Author)I am 27 and have never killed a man but I know the face of death as if heirloom my country memorizes murder as lullaby --from "For Fahd" Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters, the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemen...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Van Camp (Author), Julie Flett (Illustrator)"You are life and breath adored. You are us and so much more..." Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns, has partnered with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates the potential of every child. With its delightful contemporary illustra...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Seibles (Author)In this nimble, turbulent collection, one of America's foremost African American poets probes the skin between childhood and adulthood.Author BiographyTim Seibles is an American poet born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his BA from Southern Methodist University and his MFA from Vermont College. Currently he teaches English and creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia. He also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program in C...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Vincent Benet (Author)One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Benét's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience. "Magnificently readabl...

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Report copyright infringementby Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Peter Washington (Editor)A gorgeously jacketed hardcover collection that draws on a wide variety of translations of Rumi's deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry. The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism--a mystic tradition within Islam--Rumi founde...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew 'Cuban' Hernandez (Author), Robalu Gibson (Artist), David A. Romero (Prepared by)This book is dedicated to every kid told who they were, before discovering on their own. It's for the teachers and mentors praying their students won't fall into the traps the world has set for them. These poems are for liberation, and those who strive for peace by any means. For the ones who feel like a mistake, the ones riddled with grief and self-doubt. This book is for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Seamus Heaney (Editor)Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In th...

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by Akwaeke Emezi (Author)The first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine. In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi--award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji, and Dear Senthuran--imagines a new depth of belonging. Crafted of both divine and earthly materials, these poems travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival, while mapping out a chos...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Zapruder (Author)"Charming, melancholy, hip."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."--Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun." The title poem is an elegy for the heroes an...

Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities

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Report copyright infringementby Olena Kalytiak Davis (Author)"[Shattered Sonnets] breathes life into American verse . . . [an] urgent and unrepentant collection."-Rick Moody, Poetry"This convulsive book [Shattered Sonnets]--at times funny, at times sick at heart--refracts and defends a wondrous light."--Edward HirschOlena Kalytiak Davis's Shattered Sonnets has earned "cult classic" status and is an unremittingly electrifying collection brimming with intelligence, humor, and ardor. Drawing on ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Budbill (Author)"Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort." --Wendell Berry"David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage." --Dana Jennings, The New York Times"Looking at the reality closely, he sees parts move in a unison--sometimes graceless, sometimes ugly, always resolved in a human wholeness." --Donald Hall"David Budbill's . . . poetry is as accessible as a parking lot and as plain as a pair of Levis." --Parnassus Ap...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A master of poetic tradition and form, Longfellow wrote The Song of Hiawatha in trochaic tetrameter, the meter of such classical epics as the Finnish Kalevala. Inspired by stories from Ojibwe oral tradition, for which he consulted Ojibwe chief Kahge-ga-gah-bowh and other indigenous sources, Longfellow composed his Americ...

Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

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Report copyright infringementby E. P. Thompson (Author)Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the "Antichrist" embodied by contemporary s...