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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Reynolds (Author)When I decided to write poetry, a flood of ideas and emotions surfaced. Some memories were comforting, while others were things I hadn't yet learned to release. This collection reflects an old soul with a youthful heart, exploring the depths of life and loss. It celebrates quiet, simple moments and uncovers the meaning hidden within them. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publicatio...

Spirit Matters: White Clay, Red Exits, Distant Others - Paperback

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by Gordon Henry (Author)"Spirit Matters is haunted by people whose voices are so indelible they speak from a world beyond this one--a powerful country where stories are spells that inhabit the living. Gordon Henry has created a compelling, uncanny book."--Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Night Watchman, a novelA major new collection of dazzling, surrealistic, entirely original poems by an American Book Award-winning Ojibwe author, whose work appears in two new Joy Harjo-edited an...

Poéticas de José María Lima. Tradición y sorpresa

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Report copyright infringementby Áurea María Sotomayor (Author)José María Lima (1934-2009), Puerto Rico, es una de las figuras claves de la poesía puertorriqueña y latinoamericana en el siglo XX. Matemático, ajedrecista, dibujante y poeta, inaugura un espacio poético inquietantemente revolucionario. Este volumen contiene diez entradas ensayísticas a su arte poético y a su personalidad de outsider, así como una excelente muestra de su obra poética y un índice cronológico de su poesía.Participan...

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by Sarah Holland-Batt (Author)With its rich selection from each of Sarah Holland-Batt's books of poetry up to her Stella prize-winning collection The Jaguar (2022), this volume will introduce one of Australia's best-known and widely read poets to American readers for the first time.Marked by her distinctive lyric intensity, metaphorical dexterity and linguistic mastery, Holland-Batt's cosmopolitan poems engage with questions of loss and extinction, violence and erasure. From haunted post-colo...

Music-Making in U.S. Prisons: Listening to Incarcerated Voices - Paperback

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by Mary L. Cohen (Author), Stuart P. Duncan (Author)The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons and punishment keep societies safe. The book's synthesis of historical research, contemporary practices, and pedagogies of music-making inside prisons reveals that, prior to the 1970s tough-on...

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by Deborah Kerbel (Author), Miki Sato (Illustrator)Sunnyrain sparkling showers Waterfor our trees and flowers Forpreschoolers, rainy weather is full of possibility. A puddle in the back yardis just waiting for a stomp in rubber rain boots. A light drizzle is perfectfor a search-and-rescue mission for worms and snails. And watching a heavyrainfall makes sitting inside with a warm bowl of soup all the cozier. In RainyDays, author Deborah Kerbel once again captures the magic of earlychildhood aw...

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by Khodi Dill (Author), Awuradwoa Afful (Illustrator)Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. "Welcome to the cypher! Now huddle up nice and snug. You feel that circle around you? Well, that's a hip hop hug!" Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator introduces kids in his community to the powerful possibilities of rap, from turning "a simple phrase/into imagery that soars" to proclaiming, "this is a voice that represents me!"...

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Report copyright infringementby Grant Gosch (Author)An intimate and immersive collection of heartfelt letters that capture the essence of romance through tender and sensual exchanges between lovers, self, and even pets. Dear Love is a collection of heartfelt love letters written by request from people from across the globe. Each letter is an answered call between lovers, self, and even pets. Sometimes erotic, sometimes funny, always sincere, Dear Love expresses connection through one of the m...

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by Madeleine Cravens (Author)An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debut collection, Madeleine Cravens explores desire in all its transgressive power and wildness. Pleasure and pain are inextricable in these carefully observed poems, capturing a young woman on the threshold of adulthood as she seeks to understand herself. With a hard-edged vulnerability and singularly bold style, Cravens is unsparing about the struggle to make sense of o...

The Book of Wounded Sparrows: Poems Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Octavio Quintanilla (Author)2024 National Book Award Longlist in Poetry In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream. This is a book within a book, a memory within a memory, a future within a past, and most urgently--a journey to reclaim the self for what it was and to proclaim what it could be. Nested within one another, the English and Spanish, the poetry and art, cr...

I Love Hearing Your Dreams: Poems - Hardcover

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by Matthew Zapruder (Author)From one of contemporary poetry's most playful and original minds, an enchanting and harrowing journey through the landscape of dreams and twenty-first century hopes and disillusions. "Your dreams have no hidden agenda to be wise they are made to be forgotten so something can be known" I Love Hearing Your Dreams is a book of reveries, of failed elegies, of "the last time that things were real" and the moments that come afterward. These are dream songs for an age o...

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by Jeremy Corbyn (Editor)Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's election slogan "For the many, not the few." That slogan, inspired by Shelley's famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for poetry. In this sparkling anthology they discuss the p...

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by Paul Celan (Author), Jason Kavett (Translator), Bertrand Badiou (Editor)Insightful and provocative letters by a great twentieth-century poet to his artist wife about life and, revealingly, his own writing. An intimate look at this canonical poet's process, mental health, and quotidian moments during the early 1950s. One of the most significant European poets of the twentieth century, Paul Celan came from an Eastern European Jewish family and lost his parents to the death camps of World War...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Padgett (Author)Ron Padgett is one of America's best-known and most acclaimed poets. Admired by John Ashbery, Jim Jarmusch, and Anne Waldman, his poems have moved and delighted generations of readers with their inventiveness, their gentle humor, and above all their ability to elicit wonder. These qualities are as evident as ever in Pink Dust, whose title refers to the residue from all the author's erasers, swept away or blown into the air. Like that dust, t...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Prudence Arceneaux (Author)Proprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weight of responsibility, of the burdens of age--trying to find a way to breathe every day in a now permanent upset of an already shaky imbalance, to find new position in spaces erupting with old hate, old jealousies, old greeds. Author Bi...

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Report copyright infringementby Joaquín Zihuatanejo (Author)Occupy Whiteness is a collection of hybrid erasure poems from inaugural Dallas Poet Laureate and multi-world slam competition winner Joaquíiacute;n Zihuatanejo.Starting from long-form works of literature by straight, white men, Joaquín Zihuatanejo occupies their pages, erasing words and sections, leaving only his poetry behind - the white space that remains becoming colonized Brown verse. Occupy Whiteness is an act of rebellion that ...

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by Mona Damluji (Author), Innosanto Nagara (Illustrator)A breathtakingly simple poem of universal experience shows us the transformative power of collective action. "Together offers a vision of the world we want for our children, one in which all living things flourish, our communities thrive, and justice prevails." --Ibram X. Kendi, author of Antiracist Baby In Together, social justice kids book pioneer Innosanto Nagara teams up with poet and activist Mona Damluji for a stunningly tender and...

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by John Farris (Author)The first major and only available collection from John Farris, a seminal Black voice in downtown New York City poetry, featuring his final poems transcribed and in manuscript form, along with the self-portraits and drawings he made at the same time. "Here! This book proves it! John Farris reigns! All hail the Poet Laureate of the Lower East Side!" --BOB HOLMAN "John Farris' poetry masterfully demonstrates the unifying principles of jazz improvisation and poetic transc...

The Soldier's Friend: Walt Whitman's Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War - Hardcover

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by Gary Golio (Author), E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)Walt Whitman is celebrated as an iconic American poet, but few know of the crucial and heroic role he played tending to the wounded and dying in Civil War hospitals. This nonfiction picture book highlights Whitman's compassion and teaches an important lesson about empathy, making this a perfect social-emotional learning title for young readers. In December of 1862, Walt Whitman left Brooklyn, New York, for the war-torn South after seeing his br...

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by Azad Sharma (Author)A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writer's compulsion towrite.Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism: to be as boiled as an owl, to be drunk. Azad Ashim Sharma turns the phrase into a surrealist exquisite corpse in which the body and mind of a drug addict melt into the seams of personhood, spreading out into the wider worl...

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by Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (Author)"Madness pays homage to all poets whose work goes underappreciated."--The New York TimesFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Set in a speculative present, Madness alternates between poetry and editorial commentary to investigate how language spans a life.Madness is a selected poems for a fictional poet: Luis Montes-Torres, a gay Cuban exile who makes a minor name for himself in the world of poetry before the con...

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by Brian Teare (Author)WINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD Doomstead Days is a lyrical series of experiments in embodied ecological consciousness. Drafted on foot, these site-specific poems document rivers, cities, forests, oil spills, mountains, and apocalyptic visions. They encounter refineries and urban watersheds, megafauna and indus...

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by Diane Thiel (Author)Diane Thiel's eagerly anticipated collection of poems, Questions from Outer Space, explores fresh and often humorous perspectives that capture the surreal quality of our swiftly changing lives on this planet. The poems travel through questions on many fronts, challenging assumptions and locating unique angles of perception. This thought-provoking book reflects a deep engagement with the natural world, a questioning of our built systems, the expansive wilderness of paren...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Grimes (Author)Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes introduces Glory, Too, a soul-stirring collection of poetry that delves into the depths of faith, hope, and the human experience by one of America's preeminent black poets. In a marriage of poetry, faith, and worship, Ms. Grimes' poems illuminate the Scriptures that grace every Sunday of the year. Her inimitable voice and imagination offer glimpses o...

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Report copyright infringementby Luci Shaw (Author)"Luci Shaw is a legend" --Christianity TodayThis captivating collection of poems by beloved author Luci Shaw, reflects on daily ideas and activities as they arrive, bit by bit, to illuminate us with their wisdom and enlarge on the meanings of human experience. Like small messages from beyond, these incidents call us to pay attention. In An Incremental Life, Shaw breathes life into the simpleness of the every-day and finds God in the memory of ...