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Report copyright infringementby Klyd Watkins (Author)An old man lies in his hammock flirting with the sky when an Eagle flying over the harpeth river catches his eye. He wonders if he can see from the riverside its nest high in a tree on top of the bluff and slowly walks, staff in hand, across a pasture and down a cedar-crowded hillside to the river bottom. He scares three wild turkeys and a young whitetail buck, but a horned owl just watches him, silently. Number of Pages: 150 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lilly Rose Crow (Author)"Picking Up the Pieces: Life After Trauma" is a raw and powerful poetic memoir by Lilly Rose Crow that delves into the struggles of living with mental illness. Through evocative verse, Crow explores the complexities of borderline personality disorder, depression, and trauma, painting an intimate portrait of pain, resilience, and healing.From the chaos of self-loathing and numbness to the tender journey of self-discovery in "Letters to My...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Widerkehr (Author)Richard Widerkehr's fifth poetry collection, Missing The Owl, uses different voices and personas to reflect on the past, present, and future, and one's reckoning with uncertainty, pain, loss, and death. But Widerkehr lands squarely upon the truth and beauty of accepting nature and its relative disquietude. "Take your time with these engaging poems, you'll want to savor them mouthful by delicious mouthful." (Jenifer Browne Lawrence) ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ness Owen (Author)Poetry that takes a deep-dive into the human relationship with trees and how trees have shaped folklore and literature.Sparked by an ongoing campaign to save the ancient forest of Penrhos, an SSSI near her home on Ynys Môn, from being turned into a holiday camp, Ness explores Welsh folklore of trees and her own love for and engagement with the trees and other wild aspects of her home, as well as more common garden flowers, which should be trea...

Old Rags and Iron: New and Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby R. F. McEwen (Author), Ted Kooser (Introduction by)Old Rags and Iron is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people with whom the author, R. F. McEwen, is not only acquainted but whose lives he has shared. McEwen supplemented his income as a teacher while working as a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he writes with great love and respect for blue-collar families. Set primarily in the back-of-the-yard neighborhood...

Looking for Poems on the Swamp Rabbit Trail

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Stetson Renault (Author)"Sue Renault knows how to find poems: stunning poems of nature, deeply moving poems of perception. Poems of common being. She finds them by the simple act of observation - not a few of them peering at 'the brittle wings of tiny things that hover over summer mud.' Turtles and owls and children at play ... An avid bicyclist, peddling deliberately, daly along a trail that has become precious to her, Renault finds what she needsto craf...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Ciencin Henriquez (Author)In her powerful debut, Burn After Reading, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez gently peels back the layers of all we hide- grief, shame, suffering, and love. Blending traditional verse with striking erasure poetry, Henriquez plays with form to explore the experiences that connect us-from our deepest fears and unspoken desires to the courage it takes to reclaim what we thought was lost. This collection is an unflinching meditation on wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Bry (Author)The New Organics for the Flickering World by Ryan Bry gives off tepid anomalous light in a moment of strange birth that disinters the ravaged cure for broken sight. It was crafted in the brackish forge of essence and wafts all the way to balmy exclusivity. It takes extravagant possession of the learning that can pierce us and gives it freely to the savage heart that asks for tangible character. If you've found yourself sketching through reality...

Journey to a Place Called Done: Broken Vessel to Wholeness

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Report copyright infringementby Joanne Raczkiewicz (Author)"Human strength, human abilities...they have their limits, but the things of God are beyond that. Take the step of faith. Answer the call. Say yes when it doesn't make any sense. Be the light in the darkness. God does the rest!" Amazingly, this prophetic word from God was given to Joanne in 2008, four months before she knew she would have to quit her job.In 1992, Joanne was given the diagnosis that she would lose her sight. This alter...

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Report copyright infringementby Norm Mattox (Author)The brilliant, concentrated angers of Norm Mattox's verse meet the indifferent cruelties of this world head-on with these pointedly eviscerating poems. Evaporating Rage is full of vulnerable strength and moments of great beauty and clarity. These poems hit like hammer strikes and are observant, informed, and explosively wise. -- James Cagney, author of Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, winner of the 2021 James Laughlin Award from the Academ...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Gantcher (Author)From Matthew Rohrer (author of Army of Giants) . . . "Ben Gantcher's poems are located in a distinctly urban landscape that is at the same time a riotous natural habitat-because of course; that's how it is. These poems toggle back and forth so deftly between registers-high and low, urban and natural, plainspoken and formal. The cacophony feels and sounds like riding the subway, and like riding the subway, these poems keep you guessing,...

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Report copyright infringementby John Allen Taylor (Author)Finalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize John Allen Taylor's debut poetry collection To Let the Sun opens with an invitation both generous and resolute: "take a walk with me . . . I hope you'll come / though I am going anyway." These poems peel back the layers of recovery as an adult from childhood sexual abuse, the myriad ways a body can change to protect itself from memory, and the difficulty of looking at abuse head-on. Taylor us...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandel France de Bravo (Author)With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as "baptism on repeat." Whether her inspiration is twelfth-century Buddhist mind-training slogans or the one-footed crow who visits her daily, France de Bravo mines the tension between the human desire for permanence and control, and...

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Young (Author)Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the Amistad rebellion. Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship Amistad, Ardency begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondence," we encounter the rem...

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Levi (Author)Miracles Forgotten is an uplifting antidote to our chaotic world. In his fourth poetry book, Luke Levi's poetry is deeply rooted in nature, beauty, and strong emotions.He focuses on wabi-sabi, finding beauty in imperfection and impermanence, while also highlighting life's simple joys and how an end may be a beginning. He imbues love, spirituality, hope, and the idea of rebirth in his poems.Taken as a whole, Miracles Forgotten marks where Levi ...

Plath: Poems: Selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook

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Report copyright infringementby Sylvia Plath (Author), Diane Wood Middlebrook (Selected by)A beautiful hardcover selection the best-loved poems of Pulitzer Prize-winner Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Sylvia Plath's tragically abbreviated career as a poet began with work that was, in the words of one of her teachers, Robert Lowell, "formidably expert." It ended with a group of poems published after her suicide in 1963 which are, in the nakedness of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Hirsch (Author)A Poet's Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet's Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume. "An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student."--Washington PostChancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has compiled poetic terms spanning centuries and c...

Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Hanning (Author)Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hai...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Theis (Author)In Introduction to Cloud Care, Laura Theis blends lyrical precision with a deep sense of wonder, crafting poetry that invites readers into a world where the mundane and the magical coexist seamlessly. Her poems explore themes of nature's quiet power, the enigma of memory, and the complexity of transformation. Often laced with humor and profound tenderness, they evoke both intimacy and expansiveness. With a voice both contemplative and playfu...

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Rappleye (Author)Winner, 2026 Society of Midland Authors Book Award Finalist, 2026 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist, 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Barley Child, Greg Rappleye's fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives-recalled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a few odd photographs in whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela Hobart Carter (Author), Lana Hechtman Ayers (Selected by)The poems in Pamela Hobart Carter's Earth at Perihelion hold luminous visions of "our immense home." Earth itself is a leading character. The deep past-of geology, mythology, and cosmology-returns to the present as music and insight. Creeks mumble in their own language; persons sit among fat marmots. Family intimacies include a mother's love poem to her daughter and an aunt as entranced with polliw...

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Report copyright infringementby James Mesiti (Author)Arteidolia Press 2024 What happens when questioning how language is used and significance is given become the primary lens by which the poetic word decides to express itself? When fragmentation and cohesion are both equally at odds but also in harmony? When assurance and certainty avoid being present, however cannot help peeking through the cracks and letting themselves occasionally be known? The result may just be petal / transport. Mesiti...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Rae Bergamino (Author), Sara Moore Wagner (Editor)In Jessica Rae Bergamino's full-length poetry book Girlhood x A Haunting, the reader carries Nancy Drew's magnifying glass through a lyrically experimental and visually evocative collection that uncovers the traumas lurking in girlhood.Bergamino is a master of the persona poem, speaking through the voice of Nancy Drew and letting the mask slip to expose the real speaker who is experiencing and surviving...

When One World Ends, Another Begins: poetry for people who are still growing into themselves

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Report copyright infringementby Nathaniel Luscombe (Author)Words became my bloodletting. I've been bleeding now for years. At times playful, at times heartbreaking, When One World Ends, Another Begins is a raw, honest window into what it looks like to live. Nathaniel explores the cyclical nature of existence, touching on themes of mental health, body image, faith and fear. Above all, he examines what it means to be human, peeling back all the ugly layers to find the beauty within. ...

Demo Reels and Arthouse Madness: A Collection of Dark Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Vince A. Liaguno (Author)Demo Reels and Arthouse Madness collects poetry from a self-identified unapologetic horror and pop culture junkie. Bram Stoker(R) Award winner Liaguno presents more than 50 poems packed with modern observations that explore everything from our slasher movie obsession to the work week rhythm that drives so many of us. With a lyrical cadence and all-out alliteration, Liaguno weaves short films for the mind from surprising angles, resuscit...

The Four Faces of Eve: A Tribute to Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Petra Perkins (Author), Brooke Granville (Author), Gail Waldstein (Author)Though Constance E. Boyle, Brooke Granville, Petra Perkins and Gail Waldstein have different faces, personalities, and life experiences, they all share qualities implied by the name, "Eve," a word with roots in "life" and "breath." They have worked together as poets for many years, each distilling her own life experiences and helping the others to hone poems which pay tribute to resilienc...

Death And Other Speculative Fictions: An Essay In Prose Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Hagood (Author)Caroline Hagood takes the reader on a wild ride, using surreal stories to process the recent death of her father. She mourns by making language work as a time machine to go back and let her father live again, bending space and time to make a place for him, if only in this book that is, above all, a séance. Death and Other Speculative Fictions is for anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one and searching everywhere for answers. ...

The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151)

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Report copyright infringementby Li Qingzhao (Author), Wendy Chen (Translator)A luminous new translation of the greatest woman poet in Chinese history, highlighting Li Qingzhao's iconoclastic verse and showcasing her visionary portrait of the inner workings of the artist's mind. The Magpie at Night is a lyrical and searching portrait of the inner life of Li Qingzhao, one of the greatest poets in Chinese literary history. These spare and arresting poems evoke with rare immediacy the quiet and h...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelli Kassoff (Author)Confront the hard truths of emotions and intimacy.Facing both the painful and transformative reality of love is not easy. Yet the heart longs to reconcile love with suffering. Amid emotional devastation, humans seek solace and find ways to survive. In Unraveled, author Kelli Kassoff takes readers on a poetic journey to explore both the emotional and factual truths about love. Tackling the complexities of falling in and out of love, Kassoff...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Keith Jr (Author)dear Knucklehead, perhaps you are like me: always figuring out if your soul and your skinare thick enough to protect your body from sticky stonesthrown from the mouths of those who knowthat spoken words have the power to spit out freedomand break-in bones. While society often assigns the label "knucklehead" to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. ...

Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil - Paperback

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by A. K. Ramanujan (Editor), A. K. Ramanujan (Translator), David Shulman (Foreword by)Translations based on: Ettuttokai; Pattuppattu; and Tolkappiyam.Author BiographyA. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was a scholar, poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote in English and Kannada. Until his death, he served as the William E. Colvin Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and on the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and was the recipient of a MacAr...