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Report copyright infringementby Scott Frey (Author)Taking its title from Whitman's vigil, kept through the night in a field beside a dying soldier, Scott Frey's Strange Vigil spans the three years of his daughter's life, shortened by a brain injury received during her birth and complicated by intensive medical needs. With short prose pieces, lyric essays, and praise poems for G-tubes, nurses, and coworkers, this chapbook invites readers into a wakeful circle of suffering and small heroic gest...

Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy I. Zierler (Author)Featured on Zibby Owens' My Most Anticipated Books 2025 list Interweaving memoir with Hebrew poetry, Going Out with Knots illuminates author Wendy I. Zierler's literary and personal Jewish mourning journey in the aftermath of unremitting personal loss. She begins with her story: the death of both her parents in one year; the challenges she faced as a woman saying Kaddish in an Orthodox synagogue; and her decision to teach a weekly class...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Hill (Author)Remarkable reinterpretation of Milton and his poetry by one of the most famous historians of the 17th Century In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular imagination: instead of a gloomy, sexless 'Puritan', we have...

Poetry by Simon Volume 2: Circle of Life - The VERSHELLE CATO experience

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Jarmon (Author)In Poetry by Simon, Volume 2: Circle of Life, veteran Roy Lee "Simon" Jarmon invites readers into a deeply personal exploration of loss, recovery, and unwavering resilience. This poignant collection of poetry and prose, shaped by Jarmon's own experiences with PTSD and grief, illuminates the emotional currents of life's cyclical journey. Dedicated to his wife, it stands as a moving tribute to the lasting power of love and memory, offering sola...

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Report copyright infringementby Vondell M. Carthran (Author)My interest in poetry began in elementary school. Like many children, it started with love poems. First reciting the dorky "Roses are red" poems, then developed my own distinct lines. I was a quiet and shy kid but when I put pen to paper, I was bold and confident. I had a way of making ideas flow and assembling words into rhymes. As I aged, I noticed that other people also liked my poetry. I began writing poems, upon request, for fri...

Memoir: Moving in Poetry, Prose, and Photos

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Louise Clay Ph. D. (Author)This memoir is about moving from place to place 37 times in my lifetime. My dad was a career soldier, but only four moves were military-connected. I attended 14 primary and secondary schools before completing high school. The constant moving resulted in me losing friends, classmates, playmates, and family. My memoir discusses a few experiences as I moved from place to place, why I had so many addresses, and how the moves impact...

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by Greg Delanty (Author)An important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt. Irish language poetry, long considered the death wail of a dying beast, experienced a remarkable resurgence in the late 60s and early 70s. This emanated mainly from the poetry magazine INNTI, first issued as a broa...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Bobbiesi (Created by)Wild Child is a poetic and artistic odyssey through the creative world of Laura Bobbiesi. This captivating collection of paintings honors the untamed spirit within each of us.Wild Child has forty-three original full color illustrations created with watercolor and ink on paper. Each illustration is a standard 8" x 10" size with 1/4 inch margins that can also be framed and hung on the wall. Number of Pages: 94 ...

Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Frankel-Goldwater (Author), Eric Raanan Fischman (Author)"A groundbreaking collaboration... Rich with mesmerizing phrasing that electrifies and transports... This book is from the future, a future that has arrived."- Amy Catanzano, Associate Professor Of English In Creative Writing & Poet-in-residence, Wake Forest UniversityCan an AI find a poetic voice that is authentically its own? In Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice, co-authors Lee...

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by Katrina Porteous (Author)Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteous's latest collection address current issues of social and environmental change. 330 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close to Katrina Porteous's Northumberland home in the north of England was a tropical swamp inhabited by three-metre long predatory fish with huge tusk-like teeth. They belonged to a family of lobe-finned fishes which evolved ...

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by Adrienne Chung (Author), Solmaz Sharif (Selected by)"Mind detritus becomes the stuff of great art in the hands of poet Adrienne Chung . . . a poet in complete command of her craft." --NPR.org "Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat . . . Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Chung leaves a charred wake." --Solmaz Sharif, author of Customs and Look From National Poetry Series winner Adrienne Chung, a debut poetry collection about psychology, love, and memory Taking its title...

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by J. Michael Martinez (Author)A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valen...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers - Hardcover

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by Fred Rogers (Author), Luke Flowers (Illustrator)The New York Times Best Seller For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly illustrated treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers. It's you I like.It's not the things you wear, It's not the way you do your hair--But it's you I like. From funny to sweet, silly to sincere, th...

The Odes of Solomon: Sacred Songs of Devotion and Divine Love

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Report copyright infringementby King Solomon (Early Christian Hymns) (Author), Tim Zengerink (Translator)What if the path to divine love and spiritual joy could be found in ancient hymns?The Odes of Solomon: Sacred Songs of Devotion and Divine Love presents a modern translation of one of the earliest and most beloved collections of hymns in Christian tradition. With its lyrical beauty and profound spiritual insights, this ancient text celebrates themes of love, redemption, and the intimate bo...

The Odes of Solomon: Sacred Songs of Devotion and Divine Love (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

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George Berkeley and Romanticism: Ghostly Language - Hardcover

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by Chris Townsend (Author)George Berkeley's mainstream legacy amongst critics and philosophers, from Samuel Johnson to Bertrand Russell, has tended to concern his claim that the objects of perception are in fact nothing more than our ideas. Yet there's more to Berkeley than idealism alone, and the poets now grouped under the label 'Romanticism' took up Berkeley's ideas in especially strange and surprising ways. As this book shows, the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley focused le...

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by Walt Whitman (Author), Malcolm Cowley (Editor), Malcolm Cowley (Introduction by)"I am large, I contain multitudes" A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but m...

A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry - Paperback

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by Robert Hass (Author)From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms. But the more in...

Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750 - Hardcover

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by Diana Berruezo-S?nchez (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1.04 x 9.37 x 6.44 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Usher (Author)Michael L. Usher is a strong believer that when you know and own your truth, there is nothing you can not do in your life; And with that power, your greatest successes are just around the cornerHe is a New York born Founder who's lived abroad for over 10 years. A Community Builder & Leader, A Business Developer, Product Designer, Writer, Investor and a Business Consultant at - The Usher Agency - Learn more about the author at: theusher...

With My Back to the World: Poems - Hardcover

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by Victoria Chang (Author)A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square. With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writi...

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by Robert Hass (Author)A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass's trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he cas...

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by Charles Bukowski (Author)This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9.1 x 5.86 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2002

The Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems - Paperback

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by Muriel Rukeyser (Author), Natasha Trethewey (Foreword by)The definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha TretheweyEngaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a...

Auguries & Divinations: Poems - Paperback

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by Heather Treseler (Author)Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize.Auguries & Divinations tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, attuned to the unspoken rules (and liabilities) of women's lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman, Lucie, becomes the narrator's Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to New England seasoned and ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on her study of the love lyric--from Catullus to Frank Bidart--an...

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by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Author)The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man--available for the first time in the United States "i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative." Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is "a prayer against breaking," writes trans Anishinaabe and M tis poet Gwen Benaway. "By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with th...

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking

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Report copyright infringementby Lincoln Mary J. (Mary Johnson) (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this w...

I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs - Hardcover

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by Francesco Marciuliano (Author)A New York Times bestseller? Oh, you know the dogs weren't going to let the cats get away with that! This canine companion to I Could Pee on This, the beloved volume of poems by cats, I Could Chew on This will have dog lovers laughing out loud. Doggie laureates not only chew on quite a lot of things, they also reveal their creativity, their hidden motives, and their eternal (and sometimes misguided) effervescence through such musings as "I Dropped a Ball," "I ...

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by Kabir Edmund Helminski (Editor), Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Author)A collection of Rumi's best, most beloved poetry--presented in one pocket-sized volume for on-the-go inspiration The renowned Persian Sufi mystic Mevl na Jal luddin Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the most widely read poets in the world today. His compassionate insight into the nature of human existence, his joyful humor, his deep wisdom, and his ecstatic songs of divine union have endeared him to readers for more than seven hundr...

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by Linda Yeatman (Author)A new collection of old and familiar nursery rhymes -- rhymes that stay alive from generation to generation because they move in lively rhythms. The words of these old favorites roll easily from the tongue, whether they be full of wisdom, humor or just plain nonsense. Many are fine poetry and serve as an important introduction to our literature. Hilda Offen's illustrations are very much in keeping with the spirit of the old familiar words. They will be a lasting joy t...

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings - Paperback

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by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (Author), Dick Davis (Translator), Azar Nafisi (Foreword by)The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran--now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionA Penguin Classic Dick Davis--"our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (The Washington Post)--has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination...

Irish Emigration During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries (1899) - Paperback

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by Thomas Addis Emmet (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x 8....