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Report copyright infringementby Marlene Fekete (Author)Proverbs 12:10 "The righteous regards the care of his animals" so shall it be in Heaven.Believing Christians have the authority to call themselves saints.Also, un-aware are angels on Earth among us.Wishing to have the given authority from God to claim myself as one unaware angel instead of Saint on Earth.I could do things needed invisible, unseen and still proclaim the Gospel told!If given the opportunity to live a little longer allowing ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Valéry (Author), Paul Ryan (Author)'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he abruptly abandoned verse for twenty years. If the publication of The Young Fate in 1917 won him immediate and immense acclaim, his status as the outstanding poet of the era was...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Noakes (Author)Chalking the Pavement, written during the first part of the Covid pandemic, includes a number of poems, as well as a long extract from Kate Noakes' daily writings, which take the form of prose poems. Noakes aims to capture the soon-forgotten details of the changes to our lives during this extraordinary period, when living in the city became something of a prison. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Harrison (Author), Joseph Bednarik (Editor)"An untrammeled renegade genius... Here is a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."-Publishers Weekly Starred Review in Booklist: "[C]hoices of poems from each of Harrison's books are passionate and sharp... Of special note is a section from Letters to Yesenin, a book-length poem, and the title poem from The Theory and Practice of Rivers...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Kasischke (Author)"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."--The New York Times Book Review"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."--Austin American-StatesmanLaura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Harrison (Author)"The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars of two poetic lives, his own and Yesenin's, is what makes the poem not only his best but one of the best in the past twenty-five years of American writing."--Hayden Carruth, Sulfur"Harrison inhabits the problems of our age as if they were beasts into which he had crawled, and Letters to Yesenin is a kind of imaginative taxidermy that refuses to...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Swir (Author), Czeslaw Milosz (Translator), Leonard Nathan (Translator)Anna Swir's poetry is featured in the best-selling anthologies Ten Poems to Set You Free and Risking EverythingAnna Swir (1909-1984) famously said "A poet should be as sensitive as an aching tooth." Swir was one of Poland's most distinguished poets, and she was open in her feminism and eroticism, with poetry that explored the life of the female body--from the agonizing depths of wartime...

Touching Greece: Short Stories, Articles, and Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Gordon G. Hall (Author)I am an Englishman in Greece. What brought me here originally was a sense of challenge, to travel alone at the sort of age when most of my countrymen are toasting their slippers in front of a fire - or pruning their roses. I cannot say why I chose Greece. Perhaps it was a sense of solidarity in the face of Crisis, a vague idea that if I was going to spend my English pension anywhere then it might as well be in a country that needed it! Bu...

Kindest Regards: Poems, Selected and New

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Kooser (Author)Four decades of poetry―and a generous selection of new work―make up this extraordinary collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. Firmly rooted in the landscapes of the Midwest, Kooser's poetry succeeds in finding the emotional resonances within the ordinary. Kooser's language of quiet intensity trains itself on the intricacies of human relationships, as well as the animals and objects that make up our days. As Poetry magazine said of hi...

The 100 Best Poems of All Time - Paperback

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by Leslie Pockell (Author)This poetry companion puts favourite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old favorites. Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to carry around their favorite poems, and ideal for the reader seeking an introd...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindsey Goddard (Author)In this no-holds-barred collection of free verse poetry, author Lindsey Goddard delves into disturbing subject matter that's been trapped in her mind for too long. Critics said: "Goddard's prose burns red with the anger of every woman. She speaks for the ravaged voices howling in the dark."-Nora B. Peevy, reviewer for Hellnotes "Lindsey Goddard never disappoints! Trapped Verse delivers thought provoking, evocative, and emotionally drive...

Haiku, Ew!: Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn Brunelle (Author), Julia Patton (Illustrator) Stop right there! If you think poems about nature are all pretty flowers and rainbow sunsets, this book is not for you. If you can't handle giant whale farts, turn back right now. If you don't want to know how lobsters pee, do not read one word further. Seriously, if you open this book, you're going to find out the disgusting truth about where honey comes from!All right, you're in charge. Don't say we didn't wa...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Lehner (Author), Mirna Lturbe (Artist), Joey Dalcin (Artist)A World Without Borders (Un Mundo Sin Fronteras) is a collection of poetry by Daniel Lehner and art created by several contributors, with a focus on the situation happening at the US southern border. All the poems are also translated into Spanish. Other contributors include Mirna Lturbe, Joey Dalcin, Jack Grine, Kathryn Bencriscutto, Luis Lopez, Dora Rodriguez and Barbara With.Proceeds from the ...

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Report copyright infringementby George Jr. Elliott (Author)Growing up on the East Side of Chicago, the streets were homeThese are the stories of my life, my struggles with lossIn 2010, I caught the Coxsackievirus, after that meningitis followedThis left me to learn walking, talking, and reading againThrough these years, I have had fifteen surgeriesIn September 2016, I was diagnosed with first -stage dementiaThat is when I started writing and have not stopped sinceMy goal one day is donating m...

Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism - Hardcover

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by Dalida Agri (Author)This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus...

Ink Stained Love: Desire and Heartache Penned in Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest Federspiel (Author)"In this honest and heartfelt collection, Ernest Federspiel explores the messy beauty of the human heart. With a raw, conversational voice, the poems navigate the highs and lows of love, from the exhilarating rush of first encounters to the aching pain of heartbreak. Through vivid imagery and unexpected turns of phrase, Ernest captures the messy, joyful, and often heartbreaking realities of desire, offering a poignant and relatable ref...

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Report copyright infringementby José Carlos Pedroza (Author)La palabra escrita de José Carlos Pedroza es como la luz que se cuela entre las hojas de un árbol mientras llueve, donde todo es frágil, donde la voz evoca lo cotidiano en el momento justo en que el agua comienza a desvanecer las imágenes de lo real. Entonces qué nos queda? el verso que traza el pasaje, la palabra común del poeta y la imagen de lo que ya fue, ahora permanente. El árbol de la lluvia es la travesía entre paisaje y som...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruben D. Encontrado (Author)This is the poetry of a man who used to busk in Central Park under the name of Ruben De Escapado. He now goes under the name of ruben encontrado. It is a collection of about five years worth of poetry. Beginning from a time of solitude, then that of flattery and love, isolation and betrayal, and the pursuit of redemption. Throughout the course of these five years he frequently wrote until pens ran out of ink. This is a collection of ...

Memory Field: A Travelogue of Forgetting

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Tyler Benick (Author)In Memory Field, Benick recalls objects of consciousness as altered by the materials of space and time and examines the social and ontological imperatives of what it means to be a body at any given moment. A "travelogue of forgetting" in the Proustian sense, Benick's text embraces the impossibility of accurate remembering and concedes to the liminal overlap of fact and fiction. In distilled fractions of experience, Memory Field holds t...

Sun at Midnight: Poems and Letters - Paperback

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by Muso Soseki (Author), W. S. Merwin (Translator), Soiku Shigematsu (Translator)"An undisputed master."--The New York TimesLong out of print, this reissue is the first translation into English of the work of Muso Soseki, the thirteenth-century Zen roshi and founder of the rock garden. A gorgeous introduction by co-translator W.S. Merwin sets the stage for 130 poems and six letters to the Emperor that combine delicacy and lightness with penetrating plainness. Essential for poets, gardeners, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Chang (Author)2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist2026 Kingsley Tufts Award WINNERAn Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family. Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennifer Chang's anticipated third collection, An Authentic Life, offer a bold examination of a world deeply influenced by war and patriarchy...

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Report copyright infringementby Reetika Vazirani (Author)Born in India and raised in the U.S., Reetika Vazirani is at the forefront of a group of young immigrant writers who are questioning citizenship and the effects of migration and immigration on the discovery of one's self. The topics she writes about--eastern culture meeting west--are both timely and timeless, as she demonstrates a love for storytelling, delights in the music and flavors of the world, and displays a subtle understanding ...

Of This World: New and Selected Poems 1966-2006

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Stroud (Author)"A book by Joseph Stroud is a rare and exciting event."--The Bloomsbury Review"In just four books since the 1960s, the calm, California-based writer--whose works also describe his travels in Vietnam, Laos, India and even the Solomon Islands--has gathered devotees to his pellucid free verse with its unpretentious, unbuttoned feel and its Buddhist overtones." --Publishers Weekly"(Stroud's) poems speak from around the globe: Venice, London, S...

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Skoog (Author)"Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water." --Boston Review"Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection." --Prairie Schooner"Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away." --The Stranger"Run the red lights" were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Ed Skoog's new book the poems are running all the lights, the way that talking c...

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Report copyright infringementby C. D. Wright (Author)Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright--with her Southern accent and cinematic eye--couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning."from "Our Dust"You didn't k...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ann Hoberman (Author), Michael Emberley (Illustrator)When you learn a poem by heart, it becomes a part of you. You know it in your mind, in your mouth, in your ears, in your whole body. And best of all, you know it forever. From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for learning by heart and saying aloud. With personal introductions by former Children's Poet Laureate ...

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Report copyright infringementby David L. Harrison (Author), Kate Cosgrove (Illustrator)One tree supports an ecosystem of life-insects, mammals, and even humans. Discover the surprising biodiversity of trees in this science picture book from award-winning creators of And the Bullfrogs Sing and The Dirt Book. A tree is more than just a plant, but a whole ecosystem hiding in plain sight, on street corners and in backyards everywhere. Discover how one tree provides shelter, food, and clean air to...

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Report copyright infringementby Tureeda Ture Mikell (Author)She is Cosmic Mother, Iyami Aje. Poems of pain, as presented by Mikell, sting as they heal; even the funny ones slap. The subcutaneous wounds of memory can hide no longer-- Mikell ruthlessly opens them with pure warrior priestess fire for complete healing. Behold her medicine of word: Nothing less than transcendence.- Youssef AlaouiAuthor BiographyTureeda Mikell, story medicine woman, poet educator, visionary, performer, an activist ...

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems - Paperback

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by Charles Bukowski (Author)The second of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet -- 143 never-before-seen works of gritty, amusing, and inspiring verse. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.84 x 8.98 x 6.4 IN Publication Date: January 04, 2005

Gratitude Haiku: Surviving COVID in Photographs & Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Rae Berg (Author)This book is both gift and invitation, written in the midst of our generation's biblical-like plague, where haiku has become, for many including myself, an angel of mercy.Gift to you. From me, a happily-retired pastor, who, in 35 years of ministry preached from various pulpits in excess of two million words, and now am drawn to the "less is more" life. In all sorts of ways, this philosophy permeates my being, my decisions, and my weeks. Specifi...

Black Rootedness: 54 Poets from Africa to America

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Report copyright infringementby Karla Brundage (Compiled by), Stephanie Aoun Bou Karam (Designed by), Iman Gibson (Photographer)West Oakland to West Africa (WO2WA) provides a sustained exchange to connect members of the African Diaspora and Africa through creative writing. Our core values are to create a safe place for the transparent healing and growth of Black people; to deliver innovative and authentic forms of writing and to engage the medium of spoken word to shape and define the narrati...

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Report copyright infringementby Ivonne Gordon (Author), Diego E. Fernandez (Translator), Gayle Baird (Artist)Salt Oracle is a collection of poems about the earth, the home, and the ancestral memory of the human body. It celebrates the connection of that body with the contents of its environment-with the body's movement and grace; with food that unfolds into generational tales; and with the dreams that, like memory, bridge the divide of human existence.Estrellas de marLa espuma salada del marc...