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Rums and Funs: Poems of a Life Yet to Unfold

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Report copyright infringementby Bobby Smalls (Author)Bobby Smalls, the most prolific poet in his own backyard, is back with yet another collection of his favorite poems. These works again cover the whole range of the human experience, describing adventure, a coastal life, every emotion imaginable, and imagination itself. Readers of this collection will be going on a fun journey through over 80 poems that will help them reconnect with themselves and the relaxed person we're all meant to be. Th...

A Book of Poems of Life and Love - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gary T. Miner (Author)Love, family, and unselfish hard work form the cornerstone of author Gary T. Miner's life. In this collection of poems, he communicates these universal themes through a variety of rhyming verses. A Book of Poems of Life and Love explores true human emotions as it follows a life's journey of joy and hope, illness and loss, and the power of faith and love. "Reflections" shares Miner's desire to comfort and protect his family: My life is pass...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Bodor (Author)More than two dozen poets musing on the subject of Florida. Edited by Chris Bodor and featuring a foreword by Glenda Bailey-Mershon. With poems, instead of cameras, poets take snapshots of life. Writers from across America point their lyrical lens on Florida - the Sunshine State. Hand-picked, like Satsuma oranges from wind swept branches, every poet has contributed a unique snapshot. Northerners like Alan Catlin, Sean Flaherty, and Lewis Fre...

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Report copyright infringementby Lani Cordero (Author)""In """"Whispers of Seasons,"""" embark on a poetic exploration of the human experience through the lens of seasons. This collection of heartfelt verses takes readers on a transformative journey, capturing the essence of inspiration and the ever-changing seasons of life. From the vibrant blossoms of spring, symbolizing new beginnings and growth, to the warmth and abundance of summer, representing joy and fulfillment, each season serves as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Denison Zapata (Author)This will be a project that I've always wanted to publish for those who've suffered in silence. The message is no matter what you've been through, you're still here. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Niesha Steinke (Author)We each have a song to sing. Poet Niesha Steinke invites you into a personal collection of her "songs," which span the themes of letting go, transition, self-acceptance and everyday joy. Leaning heavily on metaphor, there is often layers of meaning, and more left unsaid than the words on the page. This book is an invitation to hear another's song so you can find the courage to sing your own. Number of Pages: 32 D...

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Report copyright infringementby Toni Gray (Author)"Poetic" thoughts of a typical, busy mom on life, kids, pregnancy lose, marriage and some teenage angst from 16 years ago. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Phillips (Author)I have been writting these poems as part of what I call the aftermath of the pandemic. Certainly nothing will be as it was and we are all trying to figure out what the possibilities are. They are songs of hope and loneliness, pain and joy. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Miles Merrill (Author), Narcisa Nozica (Author)No props. No music. No costumes. Just you, your words and a mic-you've got two minutes to make the crowd scream your name.Miles Merrill, spoken word artist and founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award-winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take you from novice to spoken word superstar in no time. Twenty years after Merrill introduced poetry slams to Australia, there's a national competition with a live audience of...

Verses, Voices, & Visions of Vallejo: A Poetry Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Lei Kim Sawyer Chavez (Author), Erika Snyder (Author), Carol Pearlman (Author)An anthology featuring writers from Vallejo, California: Diana Alden, Olivia Anderson, Kyrah Ayers, Daniel Badiali, Vallejo Poet Laureate Emerita Genea Brice, Jessica Brown, Lei Kim Sawyer Chavez, G.O. 284, Morgan Hannigan, Travis Jackson, Jr., Kathleen, Jeffrey Kingman, Chuck Lamplighter, Vallejo Poet Laureate D.L. Lang, Lady-D, Lee Lee, Lucinda Lees, Aqueila M. Lewis, Carol Pearlman...

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Report copyright infringementby Maya Oeverman (Author)""Have you ever wondered why humans where the way they are? Ever noticed how certain things always stay the same no matter how advanced we get? Deep in a long lost woods, seven statues stand in a ring. Each one contains a being who has a piece of that answer. They have not awoken since the ancient times, but their influence is still felt today. They bide their time and wait. They wait for anyone brave enough to find them. So search for the...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Walters (Author)A collection of my thoughts through a new lens Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.Author BiographyMary Oliver (1935-2019), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is one of ...

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Report copyright infringementby W. S. Merwin (Author)A volume of poems concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and with history and how the world endures it--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch). A literary event--a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry--The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication of his Opening the Hand. Almost no other poet of our time has...

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Report copyright infringementby Fahima Ife (Author)In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about beyond what history tells us. As both poet and scholar, ife unsettles the history and idea of black fugitivity, troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives ...

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Report copyright infringementby Reinhold Grimm (Editor)Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative introduction by Reinhold Grimm, the volume includes German and English poems on facing pages.Author BiographyReinhold Grimm is on the board of The Germany Library and lives in Riverside, CA. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.18 x 5.46 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gabi Palomino (Author)Amen con fuerzaAmen con ganasAmen de llenoAmen sin miedosAmen sin dudas Poemas de amor para decir te amo cuando estas palabras no son suficiente. Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.35 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Janice Northerns (Author)It's not often you see a whole life that's gone into a book, but here we have just that. Janice Northerns lives this life intensely, and lives intensely in language. At the core of this book are the raw elements of birth, love, and death; while surrounding them are sophisticated yet impassioned readings of the violence of history, class, and social codes. These are poems to be read both largely and closely, for the stories they tell, an...

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by Martha Collins (Author)A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel archwith electric lights, and later a lamppost, thiswas a modern event, the trees were not involved.--from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000...

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Report copyright infringementby Maestra (Author)Maestra's first collection of poetry combines artistic ballads, dramatic lyrical works and original philosophical concepts to explore a variety of contemporary topics with a pensive and metaphorical approach. There are several encryptions throughout this volume and its cover, including the author's real name in the last poem 'Untitled'.The theory of binary existance, as mentioned in the preface, suggests that we exist as two entities: the public...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Bradley (Author)City Sonnets presents a poet's view of modern city life in all its variety. Thirty-six sonnets written in traditional form explore the dark and the light, the rich and the poor, the ugly and the beautiful. There are poems about a beggar, cathedrals, van drivers and concert halls, cats and rats and many other topics. Each one has a colour illustration that complements the vivid evocation of urban existence in the verse. The writing explo...

Das Stundenbuch: Vom mönchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author)Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Stundenbuch. Vom mönchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode Erstdruck: Leipzig (Insel) 1905. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Rainer Maria Rilke: Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben vom Rilke-Archiv in Verbindung mit Ruth Sieber-Rilke, besorgt von Ernst Zinn, Band 1-6, Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a.M.: In...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Laws (Author)Gears of uncertainty turn, revealing outcomes better or worse than expected. We confess what we long to say, hoping our lives endure - only to drift apart, each facing an uncertain fate. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 07, 2022

Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), M. D. Herter Norton (Translator), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by)This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husb...

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Wisner (Author)FINALIST, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year (2024)With fear, joy, ambivalence, and wonder, this braided collection of poems by Wendy Wisner explores motherhood through the lens of a fractured childhood and intergenerational trauma. As the past collides with the present, Wisner moves through the intense years of early motherhood and marriage, to the turmoil of raising children in a volatile, violent world. Shot through with sensuality and sex...

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Report copyright infringementby Endi Bogue Hartigan (Author)Poems that break down, expose, and reconsider our notions of time. This collection speaks the language of the clock as a living instrument, exposing the sensory impacts of our obsession with time. In oh orchid o'clock, lyrics wind through histories like a nervous system through a body. The poems speak to how we let our days become over-clocked, over-transactional, and over-weaponed. With an instrumental sensibility, Endi Bogue Harti...

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Reyes (Author)A collection by award-winning poet Kimberly Reyes that explores erased histories. Through her latest collection, Kimberly Reyes navigates the physical, hereditary, and liminal worlds between land, time, and memory. The poems in vanishing point. take us to San Francisco, Ireland, and the Atlantic Ocean, reclaiming and examining contested space as the poet seeks to revive left-behind histories, reconsider what we see, and reveal what we ca...

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Report copyright infringementby Lyn Hejinian (Author)The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry ar...

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Report copyright infringementby David Koehn (Author)Poetry that explores wildness and composes a landscape of complex human emotions. Drawing on a range of stylistic influences, the poetry of Sur takes on the essence of connection and the ways in which we continually develop meaning about others and to the natural world. With this collection, David Koehn paints a landscape where wilderness intertwines with human emotions and grows between ill-fitting interpersonal connections. Sur invites re...

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by Michael Swanton (Author)New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources. Prose translation.Front JacketNew, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory...

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Report copyright infringementby W. S. Merwin (Author)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryFeatured on NPR's "Fresh Air" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS.Honored as one of the "Best Books of the Year" from Publishers Weekly."A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory." --Pulitzer Prize Committee"In his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth, and his heartache at time's passing, Merwin has become insta...

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Evans (Author)Using a mixture of poetic forms varying in subject, shape, style, and size, purl reimagines timeless myths from Homer's Odyssey. Stitched from classical translations, this poignant collection from Michele Evans, resurrects feminine forces from ancient Greek mythology and relocates them in modern portraits and landscapes, pastoral and urban. Invoking Phillis Wheatley Peters as her muse, Evans amplifies a chorus of the marginalized: queens a...