Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Abbott (Author)If poets are "liars by profession," Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures, among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, a...

Songs of My Grandmother: On Finding Ourselves, Each Other and the Things That Make Us Come Alive

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Surani (Author)A collection of poetry and prose that offers comfort, community, and belonging through stories of love, loss, change, and rebirth. In this collection of poetry and prose, Sara Surani weaves together the universal songs of her ancestors, voices of women she has met across the world, and her own reflections. These are not songs with music, but melodies of memory and spirit-of love and laughter. Of curiosity and wonder. Of healing and hope. Of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marina Tsvetaeva (Author), I. B. Fishbeyn (Translator), C. D. C. Reeve (Translator)It is 1918 in Moscow. The communist revolution is in full swing. Food is scarce, living conditions harsh. Two women meet on the stage of an empty theater. One is the now famous twenty-six-year-old poet Maria Tsvetaeva, the other the twenty-four-year-old actress Sonia Holliday (Sonechka).The Story of Sonechka, written almost twenty years later, is a vivid account, at once comic an...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Awad (Author)Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Poetry Award In Lebanon during the civil war, a teenage boy and his family witness leveled cities, displaced civilians, the aftermath of massacres. Resources are scarce and uncertainty is everywhere. What does it mean to survive? To leave behind a home torn apart by war? To carry the burden of what you've seen across an ocean? These poems follow a man in search of security as he leaves his country for America, falls ...

Words On: words on grief written in the days, weeks and months following my husband's Stage IV metastatic cancer diagnosis

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Tetlow (Author)"Please come straight away. I have incurable cancer." I never expected these words to leave my 40-year-old husband's mouth when he rang me from the hospital in February 2024.In the time that followed, grief took over regardless of my desire to endure. The single thing that continues to help our family fight Stage IV bowel cancer is knowing that someone, somewhere has already made this journey. We find immense comfort in uncovering stories of...

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Report copyright infringementby Domhnall Mitchell (Author)Emily Dickinson has often been pictured as a sensitive but isolated poet--someone who published very little in her lifetime and limited herself to lyrics, considered to be the kind of poems most removed from social and political life. In recent years, scholars have challenged that view, and this book extends the discussion in valuable new directions. Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena--the railroad, the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marie Howe (Author)Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe's four previous collections--including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss,...

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Report copyright infringementby Lois Perch Villemaire (Author)MY EIGHT GREATS is a hybrid collection of poetry and prose about family. It could be about anyone's family. It might make you wonder who in your family will preserve and pass along important facts, moments, and special stories to the next generations. Lois Perch Villemaire's eight great grandparents immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe for safer and better opportunities. They traveled by rail and ship, all settling i...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Davis (Author)It is often the very things that we think might break us that make us stronger than ever before. Because it is the things that we think might break us that actually allow us to heal. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2024

The First Book Of Milton's Paradise Lost (1861)

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author), John Hunter (Translator)The First Book of Milton's Paradise Lost is a classic epic poem written by John Milton and originally published in 1667. This particular edition of the book was published in 1861 and features the first book of the poem. The story follows the fall of Satan and his followers from heaven, their subsequent arrival on Earth, and their plan to corrupt humanity. The poem is known for its exploration of themes such as free ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Editor)Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative through New Formalism; walloping t...

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Report copyright infringementby Garrett Stack (Author)Garrett Stack's Yeoman's Work mines the richness of life's pitstops--weddings, funerals, trips to the Quik-Fil and Supercuts--and illuminates how closely personal narrative is tethered to place. From cowboys making coffee to doers and dreamers and taxidermists, Stack's work is a vital cultivation of individuality and an homage to the complexity of domesticity. "A place doesn't exist/ until there's a story/ spinning around it," he writes. H...

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Report copyright infringementby Serena M. Johnson (Author)"Journey of Faith: Encouragement & Inspiration Through Life's Challenges" is a smorgasbord of various true stories of experiences I encountered in my life during various stages of my life. The book is broken up into four segments. The first segment is called "Life's Experiences" which are true stories about the death of my child, growing up, accepting Jesus, deliverance from smoking, macular degeneration, breast cancer, heart surge...

A Rare So Fall In To Love: Parts of Gregory J. Schlau Jr. Journals

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory J. Jr. Schlau (Author)Everything in this book is all about me in " A Rare So In To Love," a feeling I've never felt before to run out of reasons to try. Knowing that I need to fix this problem, I am running on my own hurricane mind, so deep inside. Knowing this is no pretend. Wishing for not one more night, I can't imagine having this doubt. To be so tired driving home alone in this dark moment of my life to never feel this way about someone I never fel...

In This Nightmare I'm Living In: Parts of Gregory J. Schlau Jr. Journals

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory J. Jr. Schlau (Author)In a world of uncertainty and stress, we all should stand united, not apart, to make the most of the time we have together.In This Nightmare I'm Living In is a collection of poetry and short essays about how life is so short; it's important to never give up, even when you think that you can't make it; and even in a dark place, you have to go to the light to love more, hate less, and try forgiveness. Number of Pages: 22...

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Report copyright infringementby Mw (Author), Zane Whitcomb (Author)Horrible heartfelt poems written by a not so poetic personIf you're looking for a grammatical masterpiece of the human language seek elsewhereBut if you're looking for something you can interpret your way That will make you smile, laugh, cry, relate to, or just go WTF then please read on. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 02, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Olga Foreign (Author)A Lonely Walk is a visual and poetic odyssey through a woman's life, rendered in several evocative single-panel illustrations and soul-baring poems. Always in her yellow dress, she moves through childhood innocence, first love, heartbreak, friendship, grief, solitude, motherhood, and, ultimately, quiet strength and self-acceptance. Her silence is not absence-it is witness.This is not a collection about survival alone-it is about becoming. I...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel A. Freedman (Author)Imaginative, Evocative and WhimsicalStep into the oversized world of "The Giant's Book of Poems", where towering emotions, playful rhymes, and heartfelt verses come to life.This delightful collection blends imagination and reality, offering readers of all ages a poetic journey that's as grand as a giant's chair--and as tender as his tears.Perfect for dreamers, romantics and anyone who loves a fun poem. This book serves up a giant-size...

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Report copyright infringementby Luigi Coppola (Author), Mark Shuttleworth (Illustrator)Luigi Coppola and Mark Shuttleworth's Even God Gets Distracted Sometimes is a playful yet incisive collection that interweaves poetry and visual art to explore contemporary life through surreal fables, sharp satire, and speculative reimaginings. From meditations on extinction and urban decay to absurd reinventions of myth and folklore, the work moves freely between the comic and the unsettling. Coppola's ve...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Beech Hartz (Author) Lush poems about specific paintings and artists populate The Goldfish Window and leave the reader wanting more. Among the many painters and photographers one can find peering from these poems are Monet, Kandinsky, O'Keeffe, Vuillard, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Stieglitz, and Cezanne. The stunning imagery and lyric voice of Lisa Beech Hartz make this an unforgettable collection. Lovers of art and of poetry will enjoy this poetry book immensely....

Volume 08: A Blueprint Issue: A Blueprint Issue

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Report copyright infringementby Creation Magazine (Editor in Chief)Volume 08: A Blueprint Issue Creation Magazine presents a new collection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, and visual art that explores the theme of blueprints-those we follow, inherit, resist, or revise.This issue asks what it means to build, rebuild, or begin again. From personal histories and family structures to imagined futures and architectural forms, these works consider the frameworks that shape our...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Ann Reed (Author)ART IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTIn contradistinction to the plethora of critical literature that analyzes the oeuvre of Franz Kafka, the poems in this chapbook echo and mirror Kafka's own artist process by which his detached visual descriptions create a sense of the anonymity and alienation of the modern experience. The individuals in Kafka's novels and stories often become mired in or barred from their surroundings, or topographies while try...

Homo Aestheticus: Philosophical Fragments on the Will to Art

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Alexander (Author)This collection of philosophical fragments presents an aesthetics of existence called the 'Will to Art'. Readers are invited to consider the possibility that the universe is fundamentally an aesthetic phenomenon, understood as a process of creative evolution that is moving, albeit agonistically, towards ever-increasing opportunities for artistic expression and aesthetic experience. In Homo Aestheticus, Samuel Alexander offers an underst...

Spanish Roses: Poetic Revelation of the Spanish Mystics

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Report copyright infringementby Ronnie Smith (Author)Following his first two mystical poetry books, Roses for the Most High and Mystic Land and Celtic Saints, Ronnie Smith has composed his third mystical poetic account, this time on the Spanish Mystics. Hispanic contribution to the mystical path of Christianity is pronounced in the Spanish Golden Age of literature and the arts, the 16th and 17th centuries, where the preponderance of the saintly personages in this book lived out their lives of...

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Report copyright infringementby R. E. DeLuca (Author)This book is a compilation of poetry competing for a place in the reader's life, divided into three as follows: a chapter of Enchanting Love; a chapter of Impermeable Darkness; and the small Grey Area that divides the invisible good and bad forces at work. As each person has highs and lows, Heart's Apothecary reflects it in each poetic capture, deeming it relatable to every direction we take. It encompasses our most basic thought, "Is there...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Stanton (Author)Joseph Stanton, author of this impressive collection of poems, is a masterful practitioner of art-inspired poetry. His commitment to the ekphrastic genre is evident in Kaaterskill Clove, a collection of poems inspired by artists associated with the Hudson River School. Stanton evokes works by the best of these artists. This collection captures the landscape wonders of the Hudson River School and the varied personalities of the artists who...

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Report copyright infringementby Lois Henman (Author)This book is a powerful collection of poems that spark enlightenment, spirituality, and intellectual liberty. Every poem explores the intricacies of politics, love, dementia, sexuality, Africa, and international conflict, presenting raw and unfiltered visions of the world and ourselves.Each poem constructs a solid, thought-provoking image, challenging our assumptions and triggering critical examination. This is not a poetry book; it's an app...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Finlay (Author), Ursula Clidière (Author)A book of poems by Tom Finlay, with illustrations by Ursula Clidière.This collection invites the reader to explore. It may be a poem that has a particular salience or resonance, it may be one of the illustrations, or it may be the combination of both that invites thoughts and reflections into a different space. While the illustrated poems (pairings) are a curated co-creation of poetry and visual imagery, they are not...

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Report copyright infringementby Josef Albers (Author)In "Poems and Drawings," first published in 1958, Josef Albers attempted to penetrate the meaning of art and life by the simplest, most disciplined means. This project was extremely important to Albers, who used its format to create complementary forms in both word and line that appear deceptively simple until they begin to disclose the author's insights into nature, art, and life. Conceived as a kind of artist's book, the publication featu...

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Report copyright infringementby Hailey Spencer (Author)From the author of Stories for When the Wolves Arrive and Out of Love in Spring, comes a unique "choose a pathway" poetry collection. Flip through the pages in a guided sequence by the author and follow alternate pathways to the conclusion. Whether it's your first venture into the Glass Labyrinth, or fourth, Spencer's ephemeral poetry and storytelling contain many surprises and sublime charm. A rising poet not to be missed. N...

Inner Space Awakening Through Art and Poetry: Mother Licensed Psychotherapist & Artist Daughter with NSA Status

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Report copyright infringementby Teresa P. Espinoza (Author)Have you ever wondered about the ways of thinking, that still in the 21st Century, keep individuals and their partners, employers and employees, religious systems, and some nations, fighting, with each other, without an apparent solution?In this book, a mental health trauma specialist presents capsules of wisdom to stimulate thinking, clarify perceptions, and possibly influence the reader to think, search for and apply, new creative s...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Pobo (Author)The poems in Kenneth Pobo's Loplop in a Red City spring from artworks old and new, figurative to abstract, Vincent Van Gogh to Leonora Carrington to Max Ernst. Like those works, the poems in Loplop are agonized and idyllic, uneasily at home in the surreal, animated, beautiful, and complex.Praise for Loplop in a Red City: Not only does Pobo's work lead me to visualize new works of art ... but it also gives me works that are known in a new wa...