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When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices On Youth Incarceration

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Report copyright infringementby Free Minds Writers (Author)This anthology of poetry and personal stories centers the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, this rich collection includes over 100 firsthand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional staff,...

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Report copyright infringementby U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo (Author)Soul Psalms, a collection of poems from Zimbabwean American poet U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo, is filled with lyrical and vivid imagery that takes you on a emotional journey toward finding self. Exploring themes of family, love, body image, acceptance, and belonging, Mhlaba-Adebo's words flow melodically and powerfully, bringing readers to a place of peace. The themes in Soul Psalms may be personal, but they appeal to a universal pull: th...

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Rankine (Author)In her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression. Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are at an impasse from her reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. The couple's journey is charted through conversations, dreams, memories, and meditations, expanding and exploding the emotive capabilities o...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Martelli (Author), Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)In this striking collection of poems, Jennifer Martelli delves deep into the human psyche, exploring themes of desire, self-destruction, and the complexities of human existence. From suffocation to snakes, moon jellyfish to Marcia Brady, Martelli's Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree fearlessly confronts the layers of anxiety that shroud our lives, leaving us spellbound with her ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dzifa Benson (Author)The exciting and complex debut collection from Dzifa Benson, Monster is a bold and lyrical exploration of the Black female body as a site of oppression and resistance. At its heart is a study of the world of Sarah Baartman, aka the Hottentot Venus, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa who was displayed in freak shows in 19th-century Europe. Baartman's voice is framed within the social, political and legal structures of the day, offering a uni...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Bukowski (Author)A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and ...

Meet Me Between Breaths: a love story told in poetry and prose

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Report copyright infringementby J. P. Greene (Author)Meet Me Between Breaths is an exploration of love and depth in the modern world told through a collection of short stories and poetry. Lorenzo meets Eleanore on the fire escape at a Sunday night party, and from the first moments it's clear theirs will be a story for the ages. As they navigate the waters of new love, internet erotica and personal trauma, it's their goodness, no matter how shrouded by pain it might be, that binds them togethe...

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Report copyright infringementby Katharine Coles (Author)In 2010, poet Katharine Coles sailed across the Drake Passage to spend a month at a tiny Antarctic science station under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The Earth Is Not Flat, the collection of poems written out of her adventure, invokes the vast land- and seascapes as well as the fauna-penguins, seals, whales, and scientists--she encountered along the way. Addressing not only the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joy Sullivan (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what's possible when we heed our instincts and honor our intuition, allowing ourselves to strike out for new territories of love, pleasure, and peace. "This empathetic, honest, and intimate collection is chockful of poems reminding the reader to love earnestly, live freely, and pay attention."--Kate Baer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of And Yet and What Kind of Wom...

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Edwards (Author)'Poetic Heart: Journey to Freedom' is a reminder that when life tries to knock you down, captivate your heart with 'what ifs' or hold you in a place of unforgiveness, grace will bring freedom. As long as there is God, there is hope. Hope for a better today and a better tomorrow, hope that God can restore, heal and bring freedom to our hearts regardless of the circumstances.'Poetic Heart: Journey to Freedom' is a collection of poems laced w...

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Report copyright infringementby Butterflies Rising (Author)My first collection of my poetry, quotes, thoughts, and feelings... just little pieces of my soul. I feel so much and so deeply, and then I wrap all those feelings up in words and write them out. The book is a mix of everything from quotes and micropoems to longer prose and background stories about where the poetry comes from. The book has 8 chapters / themes: - self-love- healing- relationships & heartbreak- love- connection- hum...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Bass (Author)"Bass's work--about marriage and parenting, illness and recovery, small daily pleasures--cultivates an exuberance that's born of, and balanced by, close watchfulness." --The New York Times "A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass's lustrous poems." --Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life's complexities. Whether her sub...

mandala of words: a book of invocations, blessings & meditations

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Report copyright infringementby Ayreánna Ross (Author)"mandala of words: a book of invocations, blessings and meditations" is a collection of poems received over the last twenty five years. may they speak to your soul and leave you more spacious, supported and connected. mostly, may they offer a window to your own Divine nature and help you rest in the knowing that you are deeply, widely, eternally loved. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Yajaira Lopez (Editor), Michael Acevedo (Author)Beauty Demands Intimacy is a passionate work of poetry written with the type love only a muse could inspire.This epic work of enchanting encomiums will befuddle you with words and ideas taken right from the ether. The Author Michael Acevedo, fashions a continuous story of subsequent poetic prose, culminating in stoic repose. This work is unbridled, revealing, and laced with hidden techniques, and expatiates in dee...

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Report copyright infringementby Katharine Coles (Author)In her seventh collection, Wayward, Katharine Coles uses small poems to take on big questions, including love, aging, death, the permeable boundaries of self, and how we know what we know. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: June 25, 2019

Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Mortenson (Editor), Tomasz Sawczuk (Editor)This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the 20th century's most emblematic but often misunderstood American writers. Despite amassing a substantial body of influential work and...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Gluck (Author)Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey.Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timele...

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Report copyright infringementby William Wordsworth (Author), Mark Van Doren (Editor), David Bromwich (Introduction by)Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and even...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Goldman (Author)Charles Goldman wrote the first nine parts of Empathy Road in 2010, out of a deeply felt inspiration. The source of this poem, as with many of his poems, comes from what the poet describes as "an engulfing presence of love and insight from beyond myself." In a world of poems composed from the need to juxtapose words in novel forms, it is gratifying to find poems still written in a romantic tongue, about the nature of the human struggle.E...

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Report copyright infringementby Natasha Trethewey (Author)The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States.Natasha Trethewey's poems are at once deeply personal and historical--exploring her own interracial and complicated roots--and utterly American, connecting them to ours. The daughter of a black mother and white father, a student of history and of the Deep South, she is inspired by everything from colo...

I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Knott (Author)A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring, "thorny genius" (Robert Pinsky)Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest.They will place my hands like this.It will look as though I am flying into myself. For half a century, Bill Knott's brilliant, vaudevillian verse electrified the poetic form. Over his long career, he studiously avoided joining any one school of poetry, preferring instead to freewheel from French surreal...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), John Kerrigan (Editor), John Kerrigan (Introduction by)Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Teri Dourmashkin (Author)In "Elixir of Love: Versus To Mend the Soul," the poet invites readers to explore the depths of their hearts, to embrace their humanity with all its flaws and beauty, and to find solace and strength in love's transformative power.This collection is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, a celebration of the capacity to love and be loved, and an ode to the healing journey each of us undertakes in the quest for wholeness and ful...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Clark Patrick (Author)In Songs Presidential, Jonathan Patrick weaves together a deep knowledge of American history with the story of three generations of the poet's family. This book offers moving and enlightening insights into what has shaped the United States on both a global and a personal level. -Zack Rogow, author of Irreverent Litanies and editor of The Face of Poetry Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Clark Patrick (Author)In Out of Nashoba, Jonathan Clark Patrick tells the stories of his childhood in a small New England town that was evolving from a rural community of orchards, quarries, and farms into a Boston suburb and that sculpted him as a young person. He lovingly recreates the details of his youth, from discovering a shed full of vintage radios, to playing pick-up ice hockey games on frozen ponds. But these poems are filled with much more th...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Blackwell Ramsey (Author)Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey's A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, literary history, popular culture, and more. Everything is fair game for Ramsey, who finds poetry in love and sickness and life, of course, but also in knitting and unreliable bladders and the pecul...

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Report copyright infringementby Rod Martin (Author)Painted Poetry is a stunning collection of poems by Rod Martin, accompanied by the evocative artwork of Vivienne Shen. This work offers a rich tapestry of emotions and reflections that will resonate with anyone who values family, contemplates their personal journey, or finds beauty in the small, everyday moments that make life extraordinary.The collection is deeply artistic, blending introspective reflections with vivid imagery and layered me...

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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Report copyright infringementby Mosab Abu Toha (Author)Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist"Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."-The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a child, and then as a young father. A survivo...

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Report copyright infringementby Toussaint St Negritude (Author)Poetry Winner, 2025 International Firebird Book AwardsFormer poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones the late Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks once called "full of sweet sounds and surprises."Through the inspiration of life, jazz, and nature, Mountain Spells is about th...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Nordbrandt (Author), Patrick Phillips (Translator)"Henrik Nordbrandt's poems pour out as cold, clear, and mineral-tanged as spring water. . . . Nordbrandt is a master, masterfully reborn in English. This is a book of signal beauty and mystery."--Rosanna WarrenAlthough most of his life has been spent abroad in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Henrik Nordbrandt has simultaneously and undeniably emerged, next to Inger Christensen, as one of Denm...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael R. Howard (Author)The cover is a beautiful depiction of Scotland's iconic Helix Kelpies, the world's largest equine sculptures, created by artist Andy Scott. He has captivated the imagination as they "pay homage to the horses that once powered Scotland's industrial might." Although I was nearly killed on a horse at a young age, I remain loyal to and love all things related to horses. Several poems in this collection have footnotes at the end of the poem...