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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 The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her letters to friends, family, and colleagues, most notably Elizabeth Bishop.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 ...

Reading Secrets: A Queer Inheritance of Life and Scripture

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Himschoot (Author)A trans pastor's fascination with the Scripture inherited from his closeted, fundamentalist father.When his dad died, Malcolm Himschoot inherited his father's Bibles. He chose to re-read them, examining his dad's notes in the margins, teasing out the details of his upbringing and gender identity amid the structures and forms of biblical narratives. For Malcolm, coming out meant exile and verbal excommunication; he embodied all his gay ...

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Report copyright infringementby Queen Washington (Author)This book shares authentic thoughts from Queen Washington through a poetic and spiritual lens. She believes there is purpose within perseverance and you have to be patient. Her desire to write came from the grief and emotion she experienced from not only losing her mother at such a young age, but also not acknowledging her thoughts and feelings from her experience. While in college she wrestled with grief, womanhood and finding her purp...

A Seat at the Table: Stories and Poems by Veterans (Book V)

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Report copyright infringementby The Veterans' Writing Group San Diego (Author)The fifth book written and published by members of The Veterans' Writing Group of San Diego features a collection of stories and poems from personal experiences serving in the military. Some humorous, some poignant, each contribution represents the creative talent of those individuals who share moments of their lives.Proceeds from book sales support The Veterans' Writing Group of San Diego. We give thanks and apprec...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Campanioni (Author)Death of Art dissects post-capitalist, post-Internet, post-death culture; our ability and affinity to be both disembodied and tethered to technology, allowing us to be in several places at once and nowhere at all. "The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again." "Lately I had been thinking about writing a memoir because everything else I've ever written is a memoir while pretending to be something else an...

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Report copyright infringementby J. D. Waggy (Author)Denomination after denomination makes the news for the latest scandal or squabble around sexuality and identity, and the same Bible verses get thrown around over and over. In this mix of poetry and worship, Waggy offers an invitation to conversation not about proving someone else wrong but about exploring the mystery of grace, belonging, and healing. Written for Christians seeking to understand the LGBTQ+ community and for the community hopi...

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Report copyright infringementby Artress Bethany White (Author), Barbara McCaskill (Foreword by) A Black Doe in the Anthropocene confronts brutal truths unearthed by the present-day descendant of an enslaved American family--author Artress Bethany White. Following her ancestors' enslavement in 1700s Virginia and North Carolina, White weaves together data from Hairston family plantation archives and her Black Hairston mother's inherited oral slave narrative to create searing poems on a history ...

Student of The Game-A Storyteller's Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Brandon Soul Cole Coleman (Author)This captivating memoir, artfully expressed in spoken word, unfolds across nine powerful chapters, each a standalone masterpiece that weaves together to form a coherent narrative. As a trú storyteller, I invite you on a journey that not only reflects my life but also resonates with anyone embracing their path of growth.Each chapter connects the dots of my experiences, leaving you inspired to accept and learn from the ebb and fl...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Nott (Author)A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker).Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippi...

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Report copyright infringementby Noel Aquino (Author)In this collection, Noel Aquino shares his immigrant story from the Philippines to the US, navigating the process of growing up, romance, identity, and culture. Through a blend of poetry, short stories, journal entries, and illustrations, he takes readers on a five-part journey-from Paglisan (Departure) to Pag-unlad (Development)-following the phases of leaving home, growing into adulthood, confronting heartaches, embracing identity, and fin...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Clancy (Author)Ask yourself: "but how the heck did it get this way?" Pondering Minds is the multifaceted, weird, and genre-transcending brainchild of New York-born, Austin-based musician and poet Paul Clancy. At once a tale of his travails hitchhiking across the United States in the late 1970s and a chronicle of late-night subway rides away from ten dollar rooms in Hoboken, Clancy's memoirs reveal a cross-section of American life and love at the tail end o...

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Report copyright infringementby Nella Coiro (Author)Snapshots through Time is an empowering book of poetry about the author's life experiences and transitions which span several decades. This book addresses adversity, trauma, loss, struggle, betrayal and health issues. Other topics include spirituality, inner strength, learning lessons, personal growth, hope, resilience and healing.These poems are meant to find you wherever you might be in your own life journey.Get your copy today and make ro...

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Report copyright infringementby William Hazlitt (Author), Arnold Glover (Author), A. R. (Alfred Rayney) Waller (Author)Explore the brilliance of 19th-century English literature with this carefully restored edition of "The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 5 of 12." William Hazlitt, a master of the English essay, delivers insightful literary criticism and philosophical reflections that continue to resonate today. This volume showcases Hazlitt's enduring wit and profound understanding of...

My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Hirsch (Author)From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age. "My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them into the water. . . . They didn't expect an entire book," Hirsch says in the "prologue" to this glorious festival of knife-sharp observations. In mic...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Bukovec (Author)From the author of Crusty Bits of Scrapple: comes a new volume that celebrates his journey from the urban-melting-pot of north Jersey, across decades, continents, relationships and kitchens. The volume begins with an ode of gratitude for the many diverse confluences and influences that advanced the author on his journey. He follows with a grouping of noir-ish-memoir-ish pieces portraying scenes from his upbringing in north Jersey; loving, f...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerry Kelly (Author)A hitchhiking memoir by a writer who began hitching at age 12 (locally, to and from the beach near his Long Island home, early 1960s). Later, as a means of cheap or free travel for a young impoverished student, hitchhiking had practical value and, when time allowed, offered opportunities for road adventures in a widening world. Hitch Haikoo began as a long series of short poems written while the writer was hitchhiking around Ireland, in 2000...

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Report copyright infringementby Lena A. Robinson (Author)A Mother's Love: Poems of Devotion and Strength by Lena A. Robinson is a soul-stirring collection that weaves together the heartbeats of mothers, daughters, and women everywhere who carry unseen burdens with unshakable grace. In these pages, Robinson captures the sacred, often unspoken realities of womanhood-resilience born in silence, strength forged through adversity, and love that transcends hardship and time.With lyrical honesty and...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Rogers (Author)Ron Rogers has lived a gypsy's tale, captured in the lines of verse and prose he wrote over the course of his life. Collected and edited by his son, narrated by his children, this book peels back the cover of an old-fashioned bard and shows the man beneath. At the same time, life itself is exposed in a way that reveals the best and worst in each of us. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.36 x 7 x 5 IN Pu...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan McDermott (Author)"Few war memoirs achieve the level of literary depth and emotional resonance of Downriver." - General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret.)Downriver is a powerful story about leadership, trauma, and the long journey home-told by an officer who fought in some of the most consequential battles of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.As a platoon leader in the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, Ryan McDermott fought in several key engagements, including the...

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Report copyright infringementby Sebastian Matthews (Author)The Patient Body: A Personal Narrative in Pieces chronicles one man's journey as he attempts to lead a balanced life as a father, husband, friend, and literary citizen during traumatic times. Written as a mosaic of 'flash' encounters, meditations, memories, and travel pieces, The Patient Body explores the ways the past resides inside the present and the present points to an uncertain future. An abecedary lies at the center of the boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Franklin Abbott (Author)My Ordinary Life is a book of story poems, a blend of genres. The heart of the book takes us through the beginnings of the Covid pandemic through the waves of vaccinations and variants to the point where Covid was no longer seen as a deadly threat.Interwoven are stories of friends who were lost, the pain and fear of isolation, the confusion of the world opening and closing again. Abbott interweaves his own aging, the deaths of both of hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Camille Naomi (Author)he Perfect War is a gripping, fast-paced dystopian thriller and the first novel in the Perfect War trilogy. Set in a near-future America devastated by a catastrophic meteor event, the story follows young Will Light as he searches for his family and uncovers the harrowing truths behind the global disaster. Blending coming-of-age introspection with military suspense and raw survival, this debut by Apollo Diaz explores resilience, loyalty, an...

We're Put Here to Love: A Memoir with Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Bickel (Author)A shy, lonely child becomes an even lonelier adolescent. Straight A's do not save her from a secretarial desert. She marries her high school sweetheart, then almost loses her marriage to alcoholism. Once in recovery, and without a guide, she becomes a leader in medical education and a nationally recognized leadership coach. Her story is one of discovery-of how locks can become keys, of how courage can transform relationships, of how befrie...