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by Susan Parr (Author)"Pacific Shooter is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovid's Metamorphoses -- and with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: there's too much magic, too much genius, too much linguistic bliss." -- Susan Mitchell, from her judge's citation"Susan Parr's poetry is an orchestra of rim-shots and flashbang intimacy. 'Wind a sheet around all, ' she croons in this vivid collection, 'then bring into the dark this ...

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book takes you on a fascinating journey through time to explore more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works. Discover poems in all their many guis...

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Report copyright infringementby Samantha Pious (Translator), Renee Vivien (Author)* Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle Époque. In 1903, Vivien's collection of translations and adaptations from the Ancient Greek poetry of Sappho became one of the first works of modern European lesbian literature to be published by a lesbian writer under her real name. This ...

A Beautiful Composition of Broken - Paperback

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by R. H. Sin (Author)r.h. Sin, bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words & a Shovel series, returns with a collection of poetry and prose meant to remind the wounded that they are, in fact, beautiful in a way society may never comprehend. A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood, a...

Radioactive Starlings: Poems - Paperback

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by Myronn Hardy (Author)From an award-winning poet, a collection that explores the complexities of transformation, cultures, and politics In Radioactive Starlings, award-winning poet Myronn Hardy explores the divergences between the natural world and technology, asking what progress means when it destroys the places that sustain us. Primarily set in North Africa and the Middle East, but making frequent reference to the poet's native United States, these poems reflect on loss, beauty, and diss...

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by Safia Elhillo (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of The January Children "Incredibly moving . . . Every single poem is stellar."--Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Sealey (Author)A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department In August 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased poli...

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by Andrew Scrimgeour (Author)An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology that testifies to the passion books and libraries have inspired through the ages and around the world Books have long captured the love, imagination, even the veneration, of readers everywhere. Emily Dickinson envisions these precious objects as "Frigates" that "take us Lands away"; Alberto Rios calls them "the deli offerings of civilization itself." This affection extends to the hallowed...

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by Deepak Chopra (Editor), Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Fereydoun Kia (Translator)Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine. This slender, beaut...

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by Parisa Akhbari (Author)Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. "The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." -National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book--a dogeared moleskin she a...

Love Poems for Anxious People - Hardcover

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by John Kenney (Author)In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time...

They Will Tell You the World Is Yours: On Little Rebellions and Finding Your Way

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Mitchael (Author)"There are wonder and wisdom in these pages."--Joanna Gaines Where do we find true fulfillment? How did we get lost along the way? These lushly written, emotionally resonant stories light candles along the path as we each search for purpose. They will tell you that a better version of yourself is waiting to be found. Every day, we hear a version of this message, and so we search and strive. Yet none of the places we've been told to look--o...

The Poetry Remedy: Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul - Hardcover

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by William Sieghart (Author)The US edition of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy A beautiful collection of curated poems each individually selected to provide hope, comfort, and inspiration--for all of life's most difficult moments Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark. Whatever you're facing, there is a ...

Love Poems for Married People - Hardcover

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by John Kenney (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people. Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People takes the poetic form, turns it upside down and leaves it in the dishwasher to dry. Inspired by one of the most shared New Yorker pieces of all time, this collection captures the reality of life onc...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author)One of Shakespeare's "dark comedies," Measure for Measure is as noteworthy for its fascinating political and social implications as for its compelling characters: a duke masquerading as a monk, a would-be nun ordered to sacrifice her chastity to save her brother's life, and a self-righteous courtier, professing his incorruptibility while concealing a depraved private life.In this engrossing drama set in 16th-century Vienna, Duke Vinc...

Beowulf: A Verse Translation: A Norton Critical Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Seamus Heaney (Translator), Daniel Donoghue (Editor)This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's poetic translation of the great Anglo-Saxon epic--winner of the Whitbread Prize--along with his translator's introduction. - Detailed explanatory annotations and an introduction to Old English language and prosody by Daniel Donoghue. - More than two dozen visuals, including, new to the Second Edition, a fine selection of objects from the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Millner (Author)"An astounding debut."--Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real. One n...

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Report copyright infringementby Ange Mlinko (Author)Ange Mlinko, whose poetry is "irresistible" (Los Angeles Review of Books), opens our perception of other lives, or lives unlived. Foxglovewise is, at its core, a response to the singular experience of the loss of one's parents. It begins at an Eastern Orthodox Epiphany ritual in Florida and ends in a cemetery in Los Angeles. Yet, as with Ange Mlinko's other books of poetry, the collection uses geography as a trope for the ways in which we tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Ishion Hutchinson (Author)Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists--from Treasure Island, to John Coltrane, to the Jam...

Death Came To Town And Other Western Tales: Cowboy Poems and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Cherie Trude (Author), Roger Turner (Author)A collection of cowboy poems and prose with battles between cowgirls, cowboys, the devil and a preacher. There are rodeo clowns and mustang riders. It all ends, with a group of Cowpokes celebrating Christmas away from home doing what they were born to do. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 24, 2015

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by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Coleman Barks (Translator), Michael Green (Contribution by)Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings... In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish. Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi's life and influenced the mystical evolution of...

Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear

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Report copyright infringementby Irene Revell (Editor), Sarah Shin (Editor)With contributions from: 'I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind, ' wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. Bodies of Sound offers a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening in over fifty contributions. In this book of echoes, a variety of forms - from essays ...

Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku - Hardcover

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by Curtis Manley (Author), Jennifer K. Mann (Illustrator)Through haiku, a young boy narrates his family's invigorating hike to the peak of Oregon's South Sister volcano. For centuries, haiku has offered meditation on the grace and majesty of nature. In Climbing the Volcano, old meets new as a young protagonist uses the poetic form to voice his wonder. Trekking uphill, the family encounters tiny toads, colorful butterflies, soaring birds of prey, and so much more to see, do, and feel. dormant ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Dove (Author)A collection of poetry by Rita Dove. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1986 Award: Pulitzer Prize (1987)

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by Deborah Kerbel (Author), Miki Sato (Illustrator)With more enticing collage art and sparkling rhyme from the creators of Snow Days, a preschooler's celebration of sunny weather and all the activities it makes possible. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.7 x 6.9 x 7.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 03, 2022

The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili - Hardcover

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by Rumi (Author), Nader Khalili (Translator)Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi--commonly referred to simply as Rumi--has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he sea...

Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (Poems of Rage, Love, Sex, and Sadness)

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Report copyright infringementby Avan Jogia (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER Writer, director, and actor Avan Jogia delivers a bright and acidic poetry collection on fame, rage, love, and sadness. A biting postmortem of the modern age, for fans of Lana Del Rey and Atticus. Avan Jogia grew up as a teen idol. He stumbled into the spotlight during the birth of the internet, the early days of Instagram and Twitter, before everyone online was a star. He spent his time in that spotlight writing, observin...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), Anthony Esolen (Translator), Gustave Dore (Illustrator)"If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen's] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come."-Robert Royal, Crisis In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise, to profess his faith, hope, and love before the Heavenly court. Co...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Reynolds (Author)"A lyrical masterpiece." --School Library Journal (starred review) Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the young dreamers of the world. For Every One is exactly that: for every one. For every...

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt - Hardcover

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), Samantha Rose Hill (Editor), Samantha Rose Hill (Translator)Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century's foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry--especially that of Dickinson, Goethe, and Lowell--informed her work, only a few people knew that Arendt herself wrote poems.In fact, between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them signposts in an o...

Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert Volume 97

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Report copyright infringementby Amber McCrary (Author)2025 Southwest Books of the Year In a voice that is jubilant, irreverent, sometimes scouring, sometimes heartfelt, and always unmistakably her own, Amber McCrary remaps the deserts of Arizona through the blue corn story of a young Diné woman figuring out love and life with an O'odham man. Reflecting experiences of Indigenous joy, pain, and family, these shapeshifting poems celebrate the love between two Native partners, a love that flouri...

Grace Notes: Poems about Families - Hardcover

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by Naomi Shihab Nye (Author)With themes of family, love, kindness, empathy, grief, growing up, and resilience, these one hundred never-before-published poems by the beloved poet, speaker, and teacher Naomi Shihab Nye will resonate with a wide audience.National Book Award finalist and former Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye's Grace Notes: Poems about Families celebrates family and community. This rich collection of one hundred never-before-published poems is also the poet's most p...