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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...

Veinte Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperada Y Cien Sonetos de Amor / Twen Ty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and One Hundred Love Sonnets - Hardcover

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by Pablo Neruda (Author)Premio Nobel de Literatura"El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma". --Gabriel García Márquez Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las colecciones de poesía más leíd...

Footprints: An Interactive Journey Through One of the Most Beloved Poems of All Time - Hardcover

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by Margaret Fishback Powers (Author)Footprints: An Interactive Journey Through One of the Most Beloved Poems of All Time explores each line of Margaret Fishback Powers' timeless poem that highlights the ways God cares for people who are hurting or lonely. Now with a repackaged four-color design and new journaling and list prompts, the poem that has touched so many lives is available for a new generation of readers.Inside this new edition you'll find: a feature spread containing the entire "F...

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by Kim Fernandes (Author) One of the most familiar popular poems and stories for children is Clement C. Moore's 1823 work A Visit From St Nicholas, which begins: 'Twas the night before Christmas When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse. . . . and it is so familiar that phrases from it -- like "visions of sugar plums danced in their heads" have become part of our shared memories of warm holidays of the past. Kim Fernandes has illustrated Moore's poem with am...

Eat the World: A Collection of Poems - Hardcover

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by Marina Diamandis (Author)For the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of the human heart through poetry; this collection is essential. Marina's talent for powerful, evocative song lyrics finds a new outlet in her poetry. Each poem resonates with the same creative melodies and emotional depth that have made her an artistic sensation. Hailed by The New York Times for "redefining songs about coming of age, and the aftermath, with bluntness ...

Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood - Hardcover

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by Valarie Pfundstein (Author), Aaron Anderson (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.4 x 11.6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2024

Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity - Hardcover

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by Stanley Bill (Author)This book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive "biologization" of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Soviet regimes in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. The book argues that his ...

The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry - Hardcover

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by Daniel Matore (Author)Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth century. While the visual experiments of European poets have been well documented, the typographical explorations of poets writing in English have been largely negle...

Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading - Hardcover

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by Ilaria Marchesi (Author)Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close readings of Martial's poems and their contextualization through legal, historiographic, rhetorical, and grammatical discussions. This book discusses the social roles assigned to women in Roman soc...

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by Cecil Gray (Author) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2014

Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light - Hardcover

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by Kelvin Everest (Author)Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry. Some of the essays have been previously published and are established as classic studies, which have strongly influenced scholarly interpretation of the poems they discuss, including landmark readings of Shelley's Pro...

What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse - Hardcover

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by Paul J. Hecht (Author)What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line. What are these people so angry about? Thus begins a journey into a world where the details of poetic form and vagaries of Latin translation are caught up in the dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and power, ...

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by Diane Raptosh (Author)Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directional teaches us how to be free. With the deadly precision of the fey, it reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our world by exploring--and often exploding--its most sacred memes. Diane Raptosh writes for lovers of poetry, books, words, mountains, and people who are worried about the world.Diane Raptosh's American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Aw...