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Report copyright infringementby Cedar Sigo (Author)Cedar Sigo's latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance. Here are poems that speak to Sigo's profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022. In creating this work, the author retraces poetic sources and reexamines style and tone, using a variety of compositional techniques to renegotiate what is at stake in the work. There is a joy in th...

Clumsy Beauty: Poems for Hearing the I Love You in Everything - Hardcover

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by J. K. Kennedy (Author)Filled with warmth, wit, and a dash of irreverence, Clumsy Beauty is a celebration of life in all its messiness. This exquisitely illustrated collection of bite-size poems from J. K. Kennedy invites you to hear the "I love you" in every little moment. An enchantingly illustrated collection of poems designed to inspire and empower, Clumsy Beauty invites you to hear the "I love you" in every little moment. In an age of constant pressure to meet unattainable standards of...

She'll Be the Sky: Poems by Women and Girls - Hardcover

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by Ella Risbridger (Author), Anna Shepeta (Illustrator)From well-loved poets -- including Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Lucille Clifton, and Christina Rossetti -- to newer voices -- such as Amanda Gorman, Yrsa-Daley Ward, and Amineh Abou Kerech -- this outstanding collection from talented anthologist Ella Risbridger has poems for every mood and every moment. Ella's selection is wide-ranging but accessible and will appeal to poetry lovers both young and old alike.Author BiographyElla Risbridger is...

The Flame of Love: Rumi's 100 Most Passionate Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Rumi (Author), Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (Translator)A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by illuminating commentary throughout, The Flame of Love explores the depths of passion, longing, and loss through Rumi's timeless verses. The Flame of Love is an alluring collection of 100 love poems by world-renowned poet Rumi, never before translated for a modern audience. Immerse yoursel...

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by E. E. Cummings (Author), Mati McDonough (Illustrator)I Carry Your Heart With Me, rereleased as a board book, is a children's adaptation of the beloved E. E. Cummings poem, beautifully illustrated by Mati Rose McDonough. Showing the strong bond of love between mother and child, within nature and throughout life, Cummings' heartfelt words expressed through McDonough's lovely illustrations combine to create a fresh, yet classic, portrayal of love. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.9 x 5...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Rangel (Author) La autora que ha emocionado a 2 millones de seguidores en TikTok!Querido diario: Hoy dejaré que mis heridas sangren, que sangren en tinta negra, yo y mi pluma suelta. Cuántas lágrimas le caben a esta tristeza? Y cuánta tristeza le cabe a este corazón? Y cuánto corazón le quedaa este cuerpo, para creer que vale la penaseguir existiendo? Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.2 x 4.9 IN Publicatio...

My First Book of Haiku Poems: A Picture, a Poem and a Dream; Classic Poems by Japanese Haiku Masters - Hardcover

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by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Author), Tracy Gallup (Illustrator)**Chosen for 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List****Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Award for Poetry****Winner of 2019 Skipping Stones Honor Awards** Escape into a dreamy world of watercolors and nature-inspired haiku. My First Book of Haiku Poems introduces children to this ancient poetry form that's still a favorite among teachers, parents and children. These concise poems are easy for readers of all a...

Autumn (Petite Poems): A Picture Book - Hardcover

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by Alexander Posey (Author), Paige Pettibon (Illustrator)Discover the power of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to Indigenous poet Alexander Posey, featuring an ode to autumn and the changing seasons Autumn depicts a dreamy fall day full of jaybird songs and scarlet leaves dancing through the air. In this poem, Muscogee poet Alexander Posey celebrates the changing of the seasons as the golden sun sets on summer and the world prepares for a time of rest. With stunning illustrations f...

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by Janice N. Harrington (Author)Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.Harrington's speaker is a chronicler of yesterdays, ...

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by Tom Haviv (Author)"This is a living and essential book." --sam sax, author of Bury It and MadnessA meditation on historical rupture and political imagination, A Flag of No Nation traces the stories of Turkish Jews in the twentieth century, navigating the tides of antisemitism, Turkish nationalism, Zionism, and the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire. Through forms of storytelling that range from allegory to oral history, Tom Haviv investigates the history of IsraelPalestine and the mythologies...

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Report copyright infringementby Lesley Wheeler (Author)Mycocosmic offers intricately woven incantations--prayers, hexes, and charms--all of which call for a transformation of language, grief, and the self. "Good things come to you through fire," a Tarot reader told Lesley Wheeler as she was composing what became her sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic. But how could that be true, while the planet was burning and life slamming her with one loss after another? Then she learned about pyrophilic...

You Stole My Name Board Book Box Set: Poetry Books for Early Learning

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis McGregor (Author), Blue Star Press (Producer)"Poems that will be perfect for animal lovers, with gorgeous illustrations worthy of framing." --starred Kirkus review Collect all three books from the award-winning You Stole My Name series featuring vibrant hand-painted artwork and playful poems by esteemed artist Dennis McGregor Full of vibrant, hand-painted illustrations and rhyming verse, this durable board book set offers an exciting reading experience ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexis Jaimes (Author)The Seeds We Sow is a vulnerable yet resilient collection of bilingual poems that offers readers a glimpse into life as the child of immigrants in a fractured household-and the lasting ramifications of that fracture, both within and beyond the home. The collection moves from confession to testimony to declaration, and finally to proclamation. Each section embodies the seeds we choose to sow, examining the roots of pain and the fruit those ...

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by Lauren Haldeman (Author)"Curious, lonely, mournful, haunted, and strangely funny."--Leslie Jamison, author of the NYT bestseller The Empathy Exams In her extraordinary graphic novel--which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir--Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the...

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by Karisma Price (Author) "I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." --Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extendedmeditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and NewYork City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a culturalreckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone "Autocorrects'Nigga' to Night, '" If Beale StreetCould Talk is recast with characters ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Helen Callier (Author)In her award-winning debut, When the Horses, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the American South.As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater," and it is in this bedraggled theater of memory that Callier stages her poems. A careful, curtained-off darkness lurks at their edges, ...

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by Chelsey Minnis (Author)"One of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I've read in some time."--Dwight Garner, New York Times"In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis approaches her subject from a dizzying array of angles: ironic, celebratory, mournful, panicked, and often funny." --Publishers WeeklyChelsey Minnis's new collection of poems follows the struggle of a flawed character in a cinematic world. Playing with old ideas of wealth and lo...

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by Abraham Smith (Author)A new poetry collection from one of America's most lyric and sonically interesting poets.Abraham Smith's Insomniac Sentinel is a concatenation of sandhill cranes and their haunting deep time dinosaur barking. It is the croon of safety from the heart of Wisconsin. It is an aegis from the violence perpetuated on the young; that the young perpetuate; lurching and launching from tercets, those familiar island letting go sideways, the poems themselves as steady and desulto...

The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History - Paperback

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by Claudia Acevedo-Quines (Author)In this powerful debut, Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, overheard conversations, and flash essays. Organized around six hurricanes that passed through the island with varying degrees of intensity between 1928 and 2017, THE HURRICANE BOOK documents the myriad ways in which colonialism--particularly the relationship between the United States and t...

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by Sin Yong Mok (Author), Brother Anthony (Translator)A debut English-language collection of hopeful and carefully attentive poems by one of South Korea's most lauded young poets.This collection offers a selection of poems from Sin Yong-mok's earlier collections, intended to serve as an illustration of his evolution as a poet, alongside a complete translation of the poems from his fourth collection, When Someone Called Someone, I Looked Back. Beautifully translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé...

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by Christopher Merrill (Author)The richly imagined fables, vignettes, and prose poems of Flares reveal the elementary strangeness of this world. Here is the improvised travel record of a poet haunted by history, who documents what he discovers in foreign lands with an exacting and hallucinatory eye. Composed in transit, on diplomatic missions to scores of countries, Flares will endure in the reader's imagination as a series of signals in the night, illuminating the hidden corners of our time ...

The Amateur Scientist's Notebook - Paperback

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by Jesse DeLong (Author)Jesse DeLong's full-length debut, The Amateur Scientist's Notebook, is a collection of poems set among the mines and farmlands of Idaho. The severe landscapes move the speaker to investigate his romantic and familial relationships through lyric considerations of the natural world and scientific concepts. Like the seeds on the face of a sunflower, each poem is both whole and a piece of a whole. Mimicking this structure, or the "struggle of scale," these poems combine lo...

Dresses from the Old Country - Paperback

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by Laura Read (Author)In Laura Read's second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait of a life in progress. As the speaker looks back on her life, she exists simultaneously as all the selves she has ever been: a lost child, a lonely adolescent, a teacher, a daughter, a friend, a wife, a mother--a woman continually shaped and reshaped by memory and experience. Deeply rooted in a particular time and place, Read's poems st...

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by Asiya Wadud (Author)FINALIST FOR THE 2019 HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARD An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises Crosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders' tentacles: mother tongue, language and mastery, citizenship and nationality, migration and flight. These poems are concerned with the demands we make on our body, the limits of those demands, and ultimately...

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by Er Zhang (Author), Joseph Donahue (Translator)The poet travels from her home in the United States to her ancestral village in Shanxi province to bury the ashes of her paternal grandparents in a ritual lasting several days. The narrative arc of the story movingly explores death and life, a multi-branched and multi-generational clan, and ancient and modern belief systems, as it moves toward a tragic climax. First Mountain is Zhang Er's third book to be published by Zephyr Press, and includes...

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by Jeremy Radin (Author)The poems in this series are based on Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Talley's Folly." The play takes place in rural Missouri on July 4, 1944 in a boathouse belonging to the Talley family. It is the ninety-seven minute courtship of Sally Talley, a nurse's aide from a Protestant family, by Matt Friedman, an accountant and German-Jewish refugee. One year before the events of the play, the two had met and had a week-long affair, during which they'd fallen in...

Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George - Hardcover

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by Olivia Harrison (Author), Martin Scorsese (Foreword by)'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' - Olivia Harrison Olivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems dedicated to George, marking the twentieth year since his passing. As a contributor to the book Concert for George, the revised edition of I Me Mine, and George Harrison: Living in the Mater...

West-Eastern Divan: Complete, Annotated New Translation (Bilingual Edition) - Paperback

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by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Eric Ormsby (Translator)In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of his native Germany and that of Pe...

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by Connie Roberts (Author)Author BiographyConnie Roberts, a County Offaly native, emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1983. Her poetry has been published in journals in the U.S. and Europe. She teaches creative writing at Hofstra University, New York and is part of Hofstra's Irish Studies program. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.55 x 5.49 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2016

Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (Loa #96) - Hardcover

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by Wallace Stevens (Author), Frank Kermode (Author), Joan Richardson (Editor)"Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced." -- Library Journal Wallace Stevens's unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called "the essential gaudiness of poetry" in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration and influence for generations of poets and readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America's suprem...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Malik (Author)I am a published author whose works over the years have brought me to a place where I was ready to share with an audience a different style of my writing. More poetic and inspired from my time as a wife and Mom. This work has special meaning and I hope it brings joy into your families the way it did mine. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: May 04, 2026

The Mobius Strip Club of Grief - Paperback

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by Bianca Stone (Author)The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay--dearly, with both money and conscience--to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: "$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own," one ghost says. "I'll tell you you were good to me." Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a feminist Limb...