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Report copyright infringementby Ann T. Power (Author)So often one hears the question ""What can we do?"" More often than not, it remains a question without the effort of an answer. Yet in the turbulence and terror of the French Revolution, a time much like today, when the new sacrificed the old, when man insisted on replacing God, a community of Carmelites offered the oblation of their lives for peace, not without imagined horror, anxiety, and misgiving. The nuns were expelled from their conv...

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Thomas (Author)In Joyce Thomas's third book, the beauty, wonder, and marvel of the natural world are memorably evoked in meticulously crafted poems. At times elegiac, at times playful, poems take inspiration from-and hold witness to-the natural world as it is, as well as the abuses to which humans have subjected it. Calling on the past and foreseeing into a future, both grappling with extinctions, Some Things in This World uses the power and transcendent ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ashley Celeste (Author)In This Light is a collection of poems written in trains, in mountains, and alongside rivers; collected in journals and on scraps of notebook paper. They explore one woman's exploration of herself after becoming a wife and mother. Who are women supposed to become once they give away all the pieces of themselves to make other people whole? Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Faith Quackenbush (Author)Where the Stars Still BurnIn Where the Stars Still Burn, the light of the human experience shines through the darkness, exploring the quiet beauty and the haunting complexities of life. This collection of poems captures fleeting moments-an unspoken word, a fleeting glance, a heartbeat-woven with themes of nature, love, loss, and the transformative power of memory.From the fire of spider lilies blooming in the night to the stormy depths...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Burrell (Author)This is a collection of musings from a heart that is healing and slowly blooming back to life. These pages are a tonic of comfort and understanding to take refuge in until you remember your own beautiful glow from within. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2025

The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces

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Report copyright infringementby Marianne Boruch (Author)Exploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.Marianne Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary. A gathering of journal entries, lyrical prose, poetry, and sketches from the author's "Life Drawing" notebook, this hybrid collection recounts the unnerving and otherworldly experience of studying Gross Human Anatomy and life-dra...

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Larson (Author)In this electrifying collection of twenty-one poems, authenticity clashes with expectation as the author navigates modern life with unflinching honesty. From digital-age anxiety to generational trauma, these verses capture the millennial experience through structured sonnets, playful haiku, and social media-inspired pieces. The collection celebrates being "too much" in a world that demands less-embracing what it means to live boldly and ...

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by Cal Bedient (Author)The brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems.Candy Necklace ushers an intense new voice onto the field of American poetry. Lush and turbulent, the poems collected here expose the violence underlying all acts of union and creation, a violence for which poetry might be a redemptive language but in which language itself is always implicated. Cal Bedient explores a wide range of familiar emotional landscapes -...

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Report copyright infringementby Grace E. Kelley (Author)Daughter of Breath is a timely voice calling those lost in the wilderness created by church-sponsored patriarchy, misogyny, and queer phobia, to grieve, heal, and reclaim their authentic voices. Born from the ache of deeply personal, yet all too common experiences-the poems in Daughter of Breath will help you: create space to name what aches and to grieve the harm that has been caused you. reclaim your divinely given identity as Beloved...

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Report copyright infringementby Dani Marie (Author)This poetry book is a collection from throughout the years during the passing of the authors parents from her father in 2019 to her mother in 2023. These poems discuss the grief and depression that follow, and the slow acceptance that starts to happen over time. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 26, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Martin (Author)A rich collection of poems inspired by the Persian lyric tradition.In The Khayyam Suite, acclaimed poet Charles Martin explores both the profound and the personal in verse that celebrates the spectrum of human experience. At the heart of this collection is a study of the Rubaiyat, the renowned poem cycle attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. Martin pays homage to Khayyam's classical Persian poetic form--the ghazal--by infusing it w...

Haven: An Anthology of Love & Loss - Paperback

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by Jennifer Sims (Author)I build a havenaway from the painI live in silenceaway from the hurtDark forms reach for meI lieI cry for safe prayersaway from my sicknessPositivity falls from meI wonderI die for desire of loveaway from being aloneBut I live- J.S. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 25, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Mp Carver (Author), Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)"Rich people spend their money / on other money. / I spend my money on string, colorful string"-- How can poetry about poverty and the injustices of late-stage capitalism contain so much joy? How can poems court absurdism without cynicism? How can poetry be both empathetic and irreverent? I wish we all knew what M.P. Carver knows. -J.D. Scrimgeour, Salem, MA Poet Laureate, author of Lift...

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Report copyright infringementby Ibe Liebenberg (Author)Ibe Liebenberg's first book-length collection of poetry, Birds at Night, explores themes of loss, trauma, PTSD, indigeneity, and familial relationships. These brief, intense poems amplify the sensations and silences of interior moments of crisis and catharsis. A haunting meditation on what keeps us up at night, Liebenberg invites the reader to contend with their own responses to exigent circumstances. Drawing on the resiliency of the natu...

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Report copyright infringementby Tyler J. Thompson (Author)Back to the Garden is an emotional, spiritual and observational journey through Tyler J. Thompson's mind and heart poured straight out onto the page. Through poetry and free flow, the author vulnerably gives the reader a look into his heart and mind as he speaks of hope and change for the human condition. Number of Pages: 292 Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2022 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Bukowski (Author)This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.Back JacketThis collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and t...

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Report copyright infringementby Grant Snider (Author)From the creator of Incidental Comics, Grant Snider, comes a fun and imaginative book that combines poetry and comics in a whole new way. Perfect for poetry lovers and reluctant readers alike. A 2025 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry Honor Book "A poetry-filled graphic novel that is powerful in its simplicity." ―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Personal but personable, too, with glints of quiet humor." ―K...

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Report copyright infringementby Alison Thumel (Author)Finalist, 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Award "When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life," writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect. In this debut collection, the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright become a blueprint for elegy, as Thumel overlays the language of architecture with the language of grief to raze and reconstruct memories, metaphors, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paolo Javier (Author)The dualities in Paolo Javier's deceptively slim new volume of poetry span the formal and topical, featuring a serial poem that revels in/reveals the slipperiness of desire and separation from place and language in the Dreaming, and a long poem that roars at white supremacy, misogyny, and horizontal hate in our nightmare moment of late US American empire. Oneiric and concrete, modular and incantatory, Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) takes r...

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Report copyright infringementby Flor Ana (Author)Here is every cavity-every artery-of my heart, displayed for the hearts still longing to feel some semblance of love. For those who believe that LOVE still matters, I lay my longing on this written platter.In her sixth poetry collection, Flor Ana diverts from her nature-driven imagery to present a work that explores the tender and bold facets of love and limerence. Serving as a companion to The Truth About Love, Vocabulary Lessons offers a dict...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Viera (Author)Reclamation by Nancy Viera is a powerful and deeply intimate collection of poems and reflections that delve into themes of identity, resilience, healing, and love. This evocative work captures the journey of reclaiming oneself in the face of generational pain, abandonment, and personal loss. Each poem offers a glimpse into moments of vulnerability and strength, inviting readers to reflect on their own stories of survival and self-discovery. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nora Hikari (Author)Still My Father's Son by Nora Hikari weaves a complex & delicate tale of love, religious trauma, queerness, and self/selves. As we are systematically walked upstream through a shimmering river in which shrewd emotion and aching observations cascade, we bear witness to God & the lessons of his son, Uriel; to the speaker declaring that "Every person you have been deserves a burial and a headstone;" to the Vicious Self pleading to the S...

Wise Up! Wise Down!: A Poetic Conversation

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Report copyright infringementby John Agard (Author), Jonarno Lawson (Author), Satoshi Kitamura (Illustrator)Funny, thought-provoking, and bursting with curiosity, Wise Up! Wise Down! is a lively conversation between two internationally known poets, illustrated by acclaimed artist Satoshi Kitamura. How can laughter be more powerful than a sword? Why do days have names but not weeks? And do pigeons ever get a craving for cake? Two friends, esteemed poets John Agard and JonArno Lawson, take us o...

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Report copyright infringementby Reginald Dwayne Betts (Author)Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic--but equally rich--lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghaz...

Up Close and Personal: The Poems and Photographs of Arnold David Richards

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold D. Richards (Author)It is hard to define what poetry is but one thing is certain: the experience of reading a poem should not leave you cold. A poem may be the artful arrangement of words on a blank page but some emotion must be aroused in the reader. Up Close and Personal by Arnold Richards suggests that spontaneity and intimacy are the poet's goal: the poems must appear to be casual when in fact they have been carefully constructed. "Art abhors the con...

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Report copyright infringementby Elton Glaser (Author)Translations from the Flesh, Elton Glaser's seventh full-length collection of poetry, is driven by the powerful engines of love and desire. In poems long and brief, playful and intense, Glaser evokes what it feels like "to fall into / Love and its infinite mistakes." In a style that might be described as "flamboyant stoicism" (a phrase from Simon Callow, ) he explores our human urgencies and weaknesses, following wherever our appetites lead...

The Gathering of Voices: The 20th Century Poetry of Latin America

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Gonzalez (Author), David Treece (Author)During the last hundred years, the private and public voices of Latin American poetry have offered a wealth of imaginative responses to the region's social and political experiences. In the face of capitalist modernization, dictatorship and imperialist domination, poets have fought back. The Gathering of Voices argues that the best of Latin American poetry has set out to rediscover its roots in local experience and t...

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by Jan Silverman (Author)Based on the classic stories of Rudyard KiplingAdaptation, TYA 6 - 22 actors Simple Set Playwright Jan Silverman adapts the much beloved Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling into a theatrical and strikingly imaginative stage play that can be performed for and by young theatre lovers. Including favorites tales such as "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "The Elephant's Child," "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo," "The Beginning of the Armad...

Dimensions: Poetry and Shorts Collection - Paperback

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by Shahidah Janjua (Author)DIMENSIONS is a selection of Poetry, Prose and Shorts charting a personal and political journey. With examples of work written over the past 20 years, reflecting life's joys and sorrows. Written with passion, anger, sadness and irony, this collection is beautiful, funny and startling in equal measure. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 02, 2014

The Child's Voice: Its Treatment With Regard To After Development (1885) - Paperback

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by Emil Behnke (Author), Lennox Browne (Author)The Child's Voice: Its Treatment With Regard To After Development is a book written by Emil Behnke and first published in 1885. The book focuses on the development and treatment of children's voices, with a particular emphasis on how their voice can affect their future vocal abilities. Behnke explores the anatomy and physiology of the child's voice and provides practical advice on how to train and develop it. He also discusses the importance of p...

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by Rutherford H. Platt (Author)""The Odes of Solomon"" is a collection of 42 poetic hymns that are believed to have been written by an unknown Jewish poet in the first century AD. These odes are considered to be some of the earliest Christian hymns and are highly regarded for their spiritual and poetic depth. In this book, Rutherford H. Platt provides a translation of the odes into English and provides an introduction and commentary on each ode. The odes cover a range of themes, including the...

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by Apollonius Rhodius (Author), Rudolf Merkel (Other)Argonautica is an epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in 3rd century BCE, which tells the story of the voyage of the Argonauts, a group of Greek heroes who set out on a quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the distant land of Colchis. The poem is divided into four books and is written in Homeric style, with vivid descriptions of battles, adventures, and mythological creatures.The story begins with the young prince Jason, who is sent...