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Report copyright infringementby Richard (Dickie) Marks (Author)This is the story of two young kids, Dickie and Marlene, who didn't merely fall, but instead inexplicably plunged headfirst in love the moment their eyes met. The story follows their united paths through life from their first day together, when a spell appeared to have been cast; an unexplainable and illogical magnetic attraction. A bond immediately began to set, evolving nearly daily into total interdependence. That bond soon bec...

The Literary Remains Of The Late Willis Gaylord Clark: Including The Ollapodiana Papers, The Spirit Of Life And A Selection From His Various Prose And

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Gaylord Clark (Editor)The Literary Remains of the Late Willis Gaylord Clark is a collection of works by the American writer and journalist, Willis Gaylord Clark. The book includes a variety of Clark's prose and poetic writings, as well as his famous Ollapodiana Papers and The Spirit of Life. The Ollapodiana Papers are a series of humorous essays that were originally published in The Knickerbocker magazine. The Spirit of Life is a long poem that explores t...

I Survived The Holocaust: My Life In Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Renate Kaufmann (Author)Artist and poet, Renate Kaufmann, expresses what it was like living through the bombing and the hiding and then through all the sorrow and confusion in the war-torn aftermath. She also tells how, later in life, she came to know her Jewish Messiah in a deeper way. Renate did not learn English until she came to America as an adult, yet she writes beautiful poems in what is not her mother tongue-all for the glory of the Lord! Some of the ti...

Come - Sit With Me: Faith Ventures in Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Rodney A. Henrie (Author)Here is a book of ventures for you! These include ventures into nature, self, faith (including Christmas and Christ-following), family love, life, and peace. This is an intensely personal account of memorable experiences captured in a wide variety of verse forms. Each new form's main features are briefly described on the initial page where a new verse form first appears for young or novice readers of verse to appreciate more fully.So I ...

Whispers in the Wheatfield: Finding Inspiration and Purpose in the Wrinkles of Everyday Living

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph M. Korzon (Author)Our Exploration of the Works of Author Joseph M. KorzonWe're thrilled to dive into Joseph M. Korzon's thought-provoking work, especially his book Whispers in the Wheatfield-Finding Inspiration and Purpose in the Wrinkles of Everyday Living. Through memoirs, essays, and short stories, Korzon shares profound insights about finding joy, meaning, and connection in life's everyday moments.Korzon's metaphor of the wheatfield resonates deeply ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Autrey (Author)Vocation is a poetry collection that examines the many ways of viewing the work of a life and all that contributes to it. The book's first section, "The Voices," evokes the various individuals whose lives and voices resonate with the narrator and contribute to his identity. The influence of parents and grandparents, as well as locations and objects associated with them, dominate the initial portion of the book. The second section, "The Callin...

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Report copyright infringementby Luanie Lion Blessup Lambeybermudez (Author)PEACE and blessings reader, welcome to my EXPRESSION OF MENTAL ILLNESS, 2017 was the first glimpse into that expression. PEACE: AN EXPRESSION OF MENTAL ILLNESS is broken down into signs and symptoms and placed into fitting categories; PTSD, BIPOLAR, HYPERMANIA, MEDICATED, and PEACE. Each category represents a reoccurring cycle of mental illness and the struggle for management within that moment. PEACE: AN EXPRESSION OF...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Dankwah (Author)Perspectives of a Black Boy is a stirring, genre-defying collection of poems and reflections that trace the journey of a Black boy reclaiming his name, his history, and his voice. Spanning themes of identity, heritage, love, migration, memory, and spiritual reckoning, this book speaks to the heart of the African and diasporic experience. Each poem pulses with emotion, while the accompanying prose offers powerful context, turning each page...

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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Report copyright infringementby Phillis Wheatley (Author)"Religious and Moral Poems" by Phillis Wheatley stands as a cornerstone of early American and African American literature. This collection showcases Wheatley's profound exploration of faith, ethics, and morality through the art of poetry. As a testament to her talent, these poems offer a window into the religious sentiments and intellectual landscape of 18th-century America. Wheatley's work provides a unique perspective, blending Christ...

Beyond the First Whereas: A Lawyer's Odyssey in Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Halliwell Smith (Author) Beyond the First Whereas is a witty, poignant, and refreshingly original poetic journey through the stages of a lawyer's life, from the first tentative steps toward law school to the triumphs, trials, and quiet revelations of practice.With humor, insight, and emotional resonance, Mark Halliwell Smith captures the moments that shape a lawyer's path: the pressure of the LSAT, the camaraderie of study groups, the sting of a bad cold c...

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Report copyright infringementby Eileen Porzuczek (Author)Memento Mori: A Poetic Memoir in Three Parts is a powerful poetry collection, chronicling Porzuczek's visceral journey from naive invincibility to hard-won wisdom. Through three distinct sections, this memoir navigates pivotal moments that reshaped her understanding of mortality and strength: surviving a near-death experience, seeking justice in its aftermath, and ultimately discovering how to heal and find self-love again.From midnight...

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Report copyright infringementby Crow M. Lundervold (Author)Poems of a Queer Neurodivergent Loser with Codependency Issues includes the discovery and loss of friendship, love, and stability as the speaker learns throughout their life. This poetic memoir covers a life from childhood to adulthood. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 17, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author)Explore the complete literary legacy of one of America's most beloved poets with "The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." This comprehensive volume not only includes Longfellow's timeless poems but also offers insightful bibliographical and critical notes to enhance understanding and appreciation. Delve into his life through carefully selected extracts from his personal journals and correspondence, providing a unique window ...

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Schneider (Author)In Worth the Walk, Katie courageously opens up about her path from a childhood marked by trauma to a hard-earned place of healing. Abandoned emotionally by a mother lost to alcohol and devastated by the unfillable void of her sister's suicide, Katie copes by building emotional walls and seeking validation in relationships that only deepen her pain. As she wrestles with the weight of generational trauma, beneath the surface she battles a ...

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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Kernan (Author)The long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Opening...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Vetsch (Author)Tilt-A-Whirl cranks you from the quicksand of innocence to the dark end of the baby boom. Set during the cultural revolution of the 60s and 70s, these stories bridge the Mississippi and generations, in a time that crosses the borders of tradition, music, friendship, and love. From the hope and expectations of home, to the world of psychedelics and rock and roll radio, these poetic snapshots chronicle the trials and experiments of a boy's li...

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Report copyright infringementby Aressa Verdell Williams (Author)In warm, vividly rendered poetry and prose, educator and poet Aressa Verdell Williams takes us back to the 1950s and 60s in the Washington, DC, neighborhood of Deanwood. The tight-knit Black community of professionals and shopkeepers is the backdrop of Williams' childhood as she learns the values of education, integrity, and family. Through her recollections of siblings and schoolmates, everyday meals and unforgettable events, De...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Schipper (Author)An autobiographical book of baseball poems that translates life-- all 9 innings-- into the language of the game. Of interest to all fans. Everything from childhood trauma, to early stardom, love, sex, creativity, meditation, midlife crisis, God and more is batted around, lofted high, and tenderly caught in the lingo and metaphor of playing ball. Even the ghosts of the Holocaust haunt the all-embracing field of play. At once memoir, homage...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Fontenot (Author)Ken Fontenot's The Forests of Autumn celebrates a life lived in poetry. Exploring his Cajun heritage, his struggles with existential angst, as well as his love of classical music, philosophy, the German language, and other writers, Fontenot's poems are "not so much a creation as a discovery." A true original who likes "to be me often rather than sometimes," Fontenot "empoem(s)" us with tenderness, wit, and the mystery of the everyday. -Grac...

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Report copyright infringementby T. Crunk (Author)A memoir in prose poetry, Hopkinsville represents the pinnacle of T. Crunk's skill as a poet, as well as a prose writer. An ode to a place and its people and their shared past, every page both moves and informs the reader. "T. Crunk's masterful memoir, Hopkinsville, reads like sifting through a picture album of his life. Snapshots told in vivid detail with extraordinary vision, Crunk's lens-as through a child's perspective, noticing J C Penney'...

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Report copyright infringementby Nina Zivancevic (Author)In Death of New York City: Selected Poems, Nina Zivancevic's writing straddles two major cultural groups (American/English and European/non English) using English as her medium. Fluent, and having written in her native Yugoslavian, as well as French and English, she is able to bring a wider scope of linguistic references with which to apprehend the psychological and physical phenomena that inform her writing. Nina Zivancevic lives up to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lilian Sauter (Author), Jeffrey S. Reznick (Editor)This biographical volume includes Lilian Sauter's only published collection of poetry, Through High Windows, along with letters, photographs, and extensive biographical material, all framed by a scholarly introduction, detailed annotations, and contextual images. Offering a rich and layered portrait of an overlooked woman writer, this edition brings Sauter's literary and political life into focus-situating her ...

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Report copyright infringementby The Poet Amin (Author)Life, Hell & Heaven is his own personal story, which confronts the pain of being trapped in hell. Before you enter into the ''Heaven'' part of this book, it begins with the poem ''Welcome.'' You will then start traveling into this ''One World of Poetry.'' As he prepares you for future book titles to come, Life, Hell & Heaven is the foundation and is guaranteed to bring an understanding to those who may not know its roots of destruc...

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Report copyright infringementby Rupendra Guha Majumdar (Author)Canary Hill, is explained in an eponymous poem towards the end. Canary Hill is apparently the name of a small, undistinguished hillock near Guha Majumdar's old boarding school where he and his friends would often gather on weekends. The poems of Guha Majumdar are not really narrative, but several do refer to stories, and all are full of metaphors and images, a characteristic of the poet's mind which cannot conceive of a person, pl...

The Key to Everything: May Swenson, a Writer's Life

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret a. Brucia (Author)An intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet May Swenson (1913-1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her letters to friends, family, and colleagues, most notably Elizabeth Bishop. In 1952, Swenson wrote in her diary, "I want to confirm my life in a n...

Subparts of a Life: 40 Stories on Being Human

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Ehrlich (Author)What are the greatest traits we all share? Subparts of a Life tells stories that reveal the abstract virtues within each of us. They make us human. They give us hope and meaning.Subparts of a Life is a positive gift of art and philosophy for anyone to better perceive, understand, and live their sub-life.Subparts of a Life: 40 Stories on Being Human is the sequel to Parts of a Life: 40 Stories on Youth to Adulthood.Contents: 1. Identity 2. ...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq.

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Report copyright infringementby William Cowper (Author)This book comprises the complete works of the esteemed poet William Cowper. Wonderfully translated from Latin and Italian by Milton, this inspiring compendium of poetry is a worthy addition to any bookshelf and a collector of Cowper would be remiss to ignore this comprehensive text. One of the most popular poets of his time, William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist who defined 18th century nature poetry with his poetic illustratio...

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Alexander-Neal (Author)"Verses of Life: Through Chapters of Love" is a deeply personal poetry collection that explores the profound journey of love, growth, and introspection. Each poem, rooted in real events and emotions, is paired with a short narrative that illuminates its inspiration and context. This unique format invites you into my world, offering a window into the pivotal relationships, childhood memories, and transformative experiences that hav...

William Gilmore Simms: The Novelist, The Poet (1896)

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Albert Link (Author)""William Gilmore Simms: The Novelist, The Poet"" is a biography written by Samuel Albert Link in 1896. The book provides a detailed account of the life and work of William Gilmore Simms, a prominent American author and poet of the 19th century. Simms is known for his contributions to Southern literature and his depictions of the antebellum South. The biography covers Simms' early life, his education, and his literary career. Link pro...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Knoester (Author)For author Peter Knoester, putting thoughts on paper isn't as easy as it sounds. Not after ninety years and not after everything he's lived through. Growing up during World War II and enduring the Hunger Winter, the Dutch famine of 1944-1945 in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, have greatly influenced Peter's outlook on life. They shaped who he is as a person-as did his time as a merchant marine and his career outside the navy. Based on the ...