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Incantations for Rest: Poems, Meditations, and Other Magic - Paperback

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by Atena O. Danner (Author)A call to anyone who thought they were alone on the journey, Incantations for Rest is for kindred spirits: neurodivergent folks, parents up late past bedtime nursing resentment, Black people in predominantly white spaces--anyone who has found themselves at the edges of Beloved Community.Incantations for Rest is an invitation to slow down and explore every kind of rest, providing sacred space for those exhausted by the demands of a racist, ableist society. This stunn...

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by Gabriel Gudding (Author)Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one driver's journey to happiness in the face of grief. This book-length poem chronicles the break-up of a family and the separation of a father and daughter, while at the same time recording the rise of jingoism in the ...

Tethered: A Collection of Intimate Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Cissy Stag (Author)I wrote this book is for Celeste... the fictional character who I concocted to replace the toxic idealizations & feelings that I projected onto my "favorite person" as I struggled with maintaining my own identity...And then I found my identity in someone new... and I didn't know what to do.So, I wrote. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 18, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Oluwaseun Olayiwola (Author)A debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform--across oceans and within relationships--told through a queer, Nigerian-American lens At times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of Strange Beach demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseun's speakers--usually, but not specified, as two men--move between watery landscapes, snowy terrains, and domestic conflicts. Ea...

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Report copyright infringementby Amelia Díaz Ettinger (Author)In These Hollowed Bones, birds are the conduit for conversations of internal emotions and the natural world. This collection ties together the themes of loss, marriage, and ecology, topics that are at once personal and universal. The voices contained within these poems speak of the isolation felt by both avian and human due to migration and loss of habitat, loss of home. Nature and bird lovers will find solace and self-recognition w...

Mr. Boddington's Studio: How to Say I Love You: Delightful Poems for Valentine's Day - Hardcover

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by MR Boddington's Studio (Author), MR Boddington's Studio (Illustrator)It's time to celebrate Valentine's Day and all things love with this gorgeous and gifty picture book from Mr. Boddington's Studio. Following the popularity of Mr. Boddington's Studio: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Mr. Boddington's Studio: Valentine's Day features a collection of poems focused on love brought to life by Mr. Boddington's signature art style. Including well-known works like "How Do I Love Thee?" by Eliza...

ABC Cats: An Alpha-Cat Book - Board Book

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by Leslea Newman (Author), Isabella Kung (Illustrator)A beguiling array of felines from A to Z makes learning the alphabet the cat's pajamas. Adorable cat with eyes of gold.Baby cat just two weeks old. From curious to elegant, grouchy to inquisitive, rowdy to tangled to . . . well, unusual (who says cats don't swim in the tub?), these twenty-six charming felines interact with oversize alphabet letters on rhyming spreads. Author Lesl a Newman and illustrator Isabella Kung offer a cat's-eye con...

Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech - Hardcover

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by Ted Kooser (Author), Connie Wanek (Author), Richard Jones (Illustrator)Celebrated poets Ted Kooser along with Connie Wanek, and illustrator Richard Jones, explore figures of speech in a spirited and magical way--and invite our imaginations out to play. A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in...

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by Debra Kempf Shumaker (Author), Jos?e Bisaillon (Illustrator)Poetic text and ethereal illustrations combine with science facts about wind in this delightful informational picture book."You can feel wind ... but you can't see it. What is wind?" This exploration of different types of wind pairs lyrical descriptions of wind types with accessible, informational sidebars about each. The whimsical narrative uses metaphor to help readers visualize wind's characteristics: "Wind is a butterfly - flu...

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by Amanda West Lewis (Author), Oliver Averill (Illustrator)Science and poetry combine in an out-of-this-world exploration of the wonders of our solar system. From a ballad of Earth and an ode to the sun to a villanelle for Venus and a sestina for Saturn, here are 14 original poems about planets and other bodies in our solar system. Each poem is written in a different poetic form that's been chosen to reflect the object's unique characteristics, and each is bursting with intriguing details sur...

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by Pierre Alex Jeanty (Author)Self-made poet and social media sensation Pierre Alex Jeanty provides the final piece to his stunning 3-book collection, HER. The much-anticipated final piece in the HER series, HER III is a collection of poetry written for women in an attempt to capture true resilience. Each poem touches on the trials and tribulations of relationships, the intricate and intimate conversations, the questions that were ignored, and the emotions that were shunned. As with the first...

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by Gregory Pardlo (Author)A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air Traffic Elegant, profound, and intoxicating--Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the movement and milita...

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by Rupi Kaur (Author)A celebration of the journey that started it all. From international best-selling poet Rupi Kaur comes this beautifully designed, three-book boxed set of the poetry collections that solidified her as the poetic voice of a generation. This set includes her striking debut, milk and honey, her transcendent follow-up, the sun and her flowers, and the intimately reflective third chapter, home body. This trilogy follows Rupi through her formative years, exploring themes of love...

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Report copyright infringementby Raegan Fordemwalt (Author)Raegan Fordemwalt--poet and author of the runaway hit Lover Girl--is back with the highly anticipated follow-up collection of poetry and art, Prince of Hearts. Following the success of Lover Girl, Raegan Fordemwalt returns with Prince of Hearts. An indirect sequel to her bestselling debut, this all-new collection of art and poetry takes readers along the narrator's journey through abandonment and dismantled trust following the loss of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alonza Knowles (Author), Knowles Alonza Knowles (Author)Poems of inspiration in real life. Poems that will effect the way you look at the world today. This book of poetry should be a must read for anyone living in the twenty first century and beyond. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 22, 2008

She Felt Like Feeling Nothing: Volume 1 - Paperback

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by R. H. Sin (Author)New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series comes this poetic reminder of women's strength. There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish. In She Felt Like Feeling Nothing, r.h. Sin pursues themes of self-discovery and retrospection. With this book, the poet intends to create a safe space where women can rest their weary hearts an...

The Art of Correspondence: A Letter Is Practically a Gift - Hardcover

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by Melissa Lester (Editor)The editors of Victoria cordially invite you to savor quiet moments of bliss as you discover kinship and joy in The Art of Correspondence.Since its inception, Victoria magazine has embraced the pursuit of loveliness through composing letters and journaling. In this hardcover volume, leadoff chapters "Sincerely Yours" and "Room for Writing" encourage readers to create space in both their calendars and homes for putting pen to paper, with ideas for arranging a full-siz...

Zong!: As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng - Paperback

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by M. Nourbese Philip (Author)A new and expanded edition of one of the essential works of twenty-first-century literature Zong! is a haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry. In November 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre--Zong! t...

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by Eric Gansworth (Author)NOW IN PAPERBACK! WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONOR, MICHAL L. PRINTZ AWARD LONGLIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD TIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year NPR Best of the Year Shelf Awareness Best of the Year Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon Best Book of the Month American Indians in Youth Literature Best of the Year CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of the Year "Stirring.... Raw and moving."--TIME "Beautiful ima...

The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose - Hardcover

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by Arnold Lobel (Author), Arnold Lobel (Illustrator)A stunning and picture book reissue of the "brilliant" (The New York Times Book Review) classic Mother Goose collection of over 300 rhymes illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Arnold Lobel. This treasury of 302 timeless rhymes includes both favorite and less familiar verses that are the foundation of any child's language development, such as "This little pig went to market" and "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe." In a starred revi...

The Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Deluxe Slipcase Edition - Hardcover

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by W. B. Yeats (Author)The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. - W.B. Yeats This beautiful silkbound hardback contains the complete poetic works of W.B. Yeats. One of Ireland's greatest writers, Yeats helped to revive the fortunes of Irish literature through his poetry. Ranging from enchanted tales of dreamlike beings to impassioned polemics, the Irish bard leads you through the irresistible landscape of Ireland - past, present and future - while h...

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Edward Snow (Translator)Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness, ...

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by Mahogany L. Browne (Author)Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks," she writes in tribute to those who came before her. Browne captures a quintessential girlhood through the pleasures and pangs of young love: the thrill of skating hip to hip at the roller rink, the heat of holding hands in the dark, and, sometimes, th...

Seafarer: New Poems with Earthling and Forever - Hardcover

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by James Longenbach (Author)Standing on the shore, preparing to journey into the unknown, James Longenbach wrote these final poems with astonishing courage and clarity. Seafarer opens with a gorgeous sequence in which the poet looks down on his life from above, as if he's already left it behind. With prophetic perception, Longenbach reflects on the encroaching tide of mortality through myth and memory. This volume unites Seafarer with Forever (2021) and the National Book Critics Circle Award ...

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by Rex Ogle (Author)In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction,...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Lim (Author)Truthful, sensuous, and intellectually relentless, the poems in The Curious Thing are compelling meditations on love, art making, solitude, female fate, and both the mundane and serious principles of life. Sandra Lim's poetry displays stinging wit and a tough-minded approach to her own experiences: She speaks with Jean Rhys about beauty, encounters the dark loneliness that can exist inside a relationship, and discovers a coiled anger on a hot...

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by José Olivarez (Author), David Ruano (Translator)LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNamed one of NPR's Books We Love "How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love--but what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all along--cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant." In this groundbreaking collection of poems, José Olivarez explores every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the con...

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by Eleanor Spencer-Regan (Author)This book features a collection of essays on some of the key poets of post-war America, written by leading scholars in the field. All the essays have been newly commissioned to take account of the diverse movements in American poetry since 1945, and also to reflect, retrospectively, on some of the major talents that have shaped its development. In the aftermath of the Second World War, American poets took stock of their own tumultuous past but faced the future...

Days Like These: An Alternative Guide to the Year in 366 Poems - Paperback

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by Brian Bilston (Author)A brilliant way to brighten each day. In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the Rubik's Cube to the first appearance of the phrase, 'the best thing since sliced bread'. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with...

Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood - Paperback

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by Hollie McNish (Author)'This book should be required reading for anyone thinking of having a baby, or even anyone who knows someone who is thinking of having a baby'Scotland on Sunday 'Fascinating and honest'Mumsnet 'Like talking to a friend'ObserverWinner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stom...

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by Liz Ison (Compiled by)Soothe your spirit with this emotional, romantic, must-have collection, an homage to some of the poets and writers who have inspired Taylor Swift. This collection of timeless poems is a beautiful introduction to the passionate words that have inspired artists and lyricists for generations. Discover poetry that overflows with folklore, love, heartbreak, revenge, and peace - the perfect balm for any tortured soul. Featuring poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dick...

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales - Hardcover

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by Nancy Mason Bradbury (Author)In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer's last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer's contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.In order to understand Chaucer's use of proverbs and their reception by premodern readers, we must set aside post-Romantic prejudices agai...