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Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

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Report copyright infringementby Sholeh Wolpe (Translator)For the first time, the work of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad is being brought to English-speaking readers through the perspective of a translator who is a poet in her own right, fluent in both Persian and English and intimately familiar with each culture. Sin includes the entirety of Farrokhzad's last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most enduring book, Reborn, and selections from her earlier work and creates a collection...

Dante's Inferno In Plain and Simple English

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Report copyright infringementby Bookcaps (Translator), Dante Alighieri (Author)A journey through the nine circles of hell? Absolutely fascinating-if you can actually understand the words. Dante's Inferno is one of the most haunting and influential works in Western literature, but the medieval Italian style and dense imagery can be hard to follow, even in English translations.This edition is designed to help. It presents the original text side by side with a modern, easy-to-follow English tran...

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Report copyright infringementby Raena Shirali (Author)ABOUTIndebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali's summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch ("daayan") hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author's Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- &am...

A Chanuka & Purim Journey: Illustrations & Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Menachem Mendel Gershon (Author)A Chanuka & Purim JourneyWith vibrant pictures and colorful rhymes, this book is sure to make you smile.Get ready for your adventure, learning highlights about Chanuka and Purim! Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 04, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Gorman (Author), Loveis Wise (Illustrator)An electrifying picture book by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman A TOP TEN ALA RISE SELECTION: A FEMINIST BOOK PROJECT Who are we? We are a billion voices, bright and brave; we are light, standing together in the fight. Girls are strong and powerful alone, but even stronger when they work to uplift one another. In this galvanizing original poem by presidential ina...

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Report copyright infringementby Sahar Muradi (Author)Gate: threshold, corridor, barrier. Sahar Muradi engages power, war, illness, and language to evoke the physical and literary passages that accompany individual and collective loss. In [ G A T E S ], the loss of a homeland meets the loss of a dying father meets the loss of meaning amidst war, racism, and environmental degradation. Muradi's highly charged, deeply transformative poems interrogate the contemporary moment's collapsing of space,...

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Sax (Author)From his first appearance on the page, "we knew he was bound for something unsolvable." But a little thing like futility can't stop our hero from holding up a magnifying glass to a world "so bright it's impossible to understand." In this searching, provocative collection of coming-of-age sonnets, the sad boy detective listens close, collects the evidence, and reimagines the strange landscapes of a life, a body, a boy, a self. Through a questioni...

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Manick (Author)"Cynthia Manick's BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor's 'white-toothed love coils on repeat.' Here, we have a gospel of womanly sharpness, a kitchen sinked and hot combed diary of the way Blues grinds into the 21st century. Gifted with the ability to smolder into surprise and swelter, Manick's reflections on discovery and loss will bring you to a 'slow applause under the skin.' Thank you for this bouquet of sheet music f...

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Report copyright infringementby Hala Alyan (Author)Wandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern junkyards, policed checkpoints and boi...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Jeane Pence (Author)"In this marvelous debut collection, Charlotte Pence provides us with all the pleasures of poetic tension. We have the pull of narrative and the flares of the lyric, the graceful rhythm of blank verse and the thrill of innovative forms, the contest for survival both between a father and a daughter and between Homo Sapiens and other species within our genus. The poems explore the idea of survival, not only the survival of a speaker ...

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Report copyright infringementby Cyrus Console-Soican (Author)Poetic ballads that speak to a father's quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse. Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker's attempt to forge a path through the world-both as a father and as an artist-and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall mome...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Dickinson (Author)The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol OatesDiscover the unparalleled brilliance of one of America's most celebrated poets. The Essential Emily Dickinson brings together a carefully curated selection of her most profound and beloved works, capturing the essence of her timeless genius.Dickinson's poetry transcends the boundaries of time and space, exploring themes of love, nature, death, and the soul...

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Report copyright infringementby Colette Bryce (Author)A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.5 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: September 11, 2014 Award: Costa Book Awards (2014)

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Report copyright infringementby Tomas Transtromer (Author)Tomas Tranströmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century.Back JacketTomas Transtr?mer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters,...

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Sawday (Author)Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ariana Reines (Author)Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness. I don't understand the intensity I've hidden here but I know I despaired Of finding a physical place to keep My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise When you stop looking at them . . . Number of Pages: 200 Dimen...

Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works

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Report copyright infringementby William Walsh (Editor) An anthology of a different sort, this volume presents a representative sample of contemporary American poems in 2023, with a road map of their origins. Bringing a diversity of styles and sensibilities, 62 poets from across the United States--some well known, some up-and-coming--illuminate their craft. Each poet contributes one poem, accompanied by an essay discussing their creative process and how the verse came to fruition.Author Biogra...

Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Hass (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Author)For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony. Includes examples of wedding ceremonies from various cultures.Back JacketFor brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gather...

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Report copyright infringementby Fernando Valverde (Author), Allen Josephs (Translator), Laura Juliet Wood (Translator)Born in Granada, Spain, in 1980, Fernando Valverde is widely considered one of the top young poets writing in Spanish today. Valverde is a leading figure in a movement of contemporary poets known as the Poetry of Uncertainty, and he has received some of the most significant awards for poetry in Spanish. This bilingual edition of his book The Insistence of Harm introduces Engli...

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Report copyright infringementby Frances Leviston (Author)A debut collection of remarkable clarity, originality and maturity Number of Pages: 49 Dimensions: 0.25 x 7.79 x 5.26 IN Publication Date: November 02, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Eisner (Author)A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and w...

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Report copyright infringementby Czeslaw Milosz (Author)"One of the century's most important poets."--San Francisco Chronicle"One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest."--Joseph Brodsky"Nobody tells the story of this age better than Czeslaw Milosz."--New RepublicCommemorating the centenary year of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems 1934 - 2004 is a sterling collection of some of the finest works of one the most revered poets of our time--including more tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Hass (Author)Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world--with accompanying photos throughout.What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials, as well as his earlier book of essays, the NBCC Award-winner Twentieth Century Pleasures. Haas brilliant...

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Hood (Author), Greg Dawson (Author)A Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Middle Grade Notable! A Jewish Book Council Award Middle Grade Finalist! The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna's son).She wouldn't be Zhanna. S...

Reflections Off the Lake, Poems on Life, Love and Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Steven O. Ludd (Author), Maurie Harrington (Artist)At a time in American life when citizens are inundated with highly charged sound bites on social media platforms to choose the best product to purchase, to accept the legitimacy of often diametrically opposed political ideologies without critical analyses, or to evaluate their lives compared with "influencers" who create images of the "good life," this little book is offered as a brief respite for all who seek ...

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Report copyright infringementby Impact Jurudawise Poet (Author)"Poetry for the 23rd Century" is a bold collection of spoken-word verses that blend urban sophistication with raw emotion. Written by Janiece Spence, also known as Impact Poet - Ms. JuruDaWise, this anthology spans four evocative chapters-each a unique journey into the themes of love, longing, resilience, and societal critique. The poems invite readers to navigate the complexities of the human spirit, embracing the highs and the h...

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Report copyright infringementby Fleur Adcock (Author)After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style. Dragon Talk, published in 2010, reflected her continuing preoccupations with family matters and her ambivalent feelings about her native New Zealand.Her initial inspirat...

Collected Poems: With Translations from Jacques Prévert

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Report copyright infringementby A. S. J. Tessimond (Author), Hubert Nicholson (Editor)A.S.J. Tessimond (1902-1962) was one of the most individual, versatile and approachable voices in 20th century poetry. Influenced at first by the Imagists, his poetry is remarkable for its lucidity and formal exactness and for its witty, humane depiction of life in the modern city. Out of step with his contemporaries - both Pound and Eliot as well as Auden and his followers - Tessimond was always a marginali...

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Abi-Karam (Editor), Kay Gabriel (Editor), Ari Banias (Contribution by)2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST2021 FINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD FOR TRANS AND GENDER-VARIANT LITERATUREA collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire.Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoin...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Seibles (Author)One Turn Around the Sun is a panorama of poems that attempts to define the first appearances of life's twilight. The book also studies the intricacies of being a self: a particular personality shaped by forces seen and unseen, both knowable and not. At times, the various voices might be considered characters that agree and sustain one perspective. In other cases, contending sensibilities imply an underlying argument. This is especially true ...

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Report copyright infringementby A. C. Blake (Author)Celebrating Maud: A Tribute to L.M. MontgomeryIsn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?L.M. Montgomery's timeless words remind us of the hopeand beauty in the world, even amidst life's challenges. In honorof L.M. Montgomery's 150th birthday, Celebrating Maudbrings together poetry and illustrations that reflect her resilience, love of nature, and enduring imagination. A.C. Blake offers aheartfelt tribute to...