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Gypsies of the Unattainable: Paris Poems

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Report copyright infringementby C. P. Byron (Author)Prelude "A selection of Rolleiflex prints of our New Purgatory..." wrote C.P. Byron of his labyrinthine modern epic Gypsies of the Unattainable. Noting a remark made more than 100 years ago in Ezra Pound's The Spirit of Romance, that all ages are contemporaneous, "Gypsies presents Purgatory not as myth but as the streets we walk each day of our lives. The poems portray irrevocable decisions made flesh, the irreducible sums of all our choice...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Wronsky (Author), Gronk (Artist)"The paintings and the poems exist outside time, or despite time; they resist the very genre they inhabit, refuse to be masterpieces, and therefore rise into icons."-Diane Seuss, Heavy Feather Review Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9.5 x 7 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Cibi Thomas (Author)This is his first book where he expresses on his musings as he observes a continuous movement of life in the middle stages. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 23, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Amrita Skye Blaine (Author)As I write this, I am seventy-nine years old, and in my ending season. Lately, death who has come for some of my friends and family is whispering in my ear, pay attention. This collection reflects the pathways I've been exploring. I would appreciate companions. Come, walk with me. -Amrita Rupert Spira describes the collection: "Amrita Skye Blaine's poetry is a quiet meditation on impermanence, love and loss-an invitation to pause and ...

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Report copyright infringementby K. M. Jace (Author)"We haven't been properly introduced even though I've known you all my life, But it's finally time to meet myself"We've been shaped by layers of years, stories of traumas that can even steal memory. But even bad chapters are highlighted by moments that bring back our light. The versions of ourselves captured in moments and words. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: Febr...

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Report copyright infringementby Terri Goslin-Jones (Author)Life's Concerto: Wholeness Through Poetry and Expressive Arts is a collection of poetry and artwork that celebrates life. Goslin-Jones explores awe, contemplation, dreams, death, grief, hope, love, Nature, silence, and spirituality. This profound and beautiful poetry collection interweaves rich visual imagery and awakens a yearning for wholeness. The poems and artwork arose from psychologist/educator/researcher Terri Goslin-Jones' spi...

Life, Love and God Through the Eyes of Lynne Adair - Hardcover

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by Lynne Adair (Author)Lynne Adair had written poetry through most of his life. While a good life, it was not without its hardships. He learned to laugh at his troubles, because crying never made anything better. He then decided, in 2019, to publish his poetry. Some you will understand, others you may not, some you will like, and others you may dislike, but they are all told through Adair's eyes. About the Author Lynne Adair was born in Sterling, Illinois, and grew up in Sterling, Rock Fal...

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Report copyright infringementby Meghann Plunkett (Author)Meghann Plunkett's debut chapbook, What We Did To Her Made The Water Rise, explores the cross section between shoreline and the female form. This collection is set in the decay of the New England gothic aesthetic where the slow disintegration of an ocean-side community illuminates the ways women are worn down under traditional gender roles. A journey of intergenerational hardship is echoed throughout the stark oceanic imagery and a frau...

Everything in Life Is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022

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Report copyright infringementby Cyrus Cassells (Author)Drawn from eight acclaimed books of poetry and spanning forty years, Everything in Life is Resurrection: Selected Poems, 1982-2022, is 2021 Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells's long-awaited retrospective volume. Ellen Hinsey, in her compelling introduction, "A Lyric Poet in Dark Times," heralds Cassells as "America's foremost lyric poet, who, under the pressure of adverse circumstances, has turned from his home in music to unflinchingly f...

Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Johnson James (Author), Diana Ejaita (Illustrator)A poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of Brown: The Many Shades of Love What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and to write, and became a dressmaker. She hand-stitched gorgeous gowns. She worked so hard she lost her eyesight, and her world went dark. But t...

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Report copyright infringementby Randi Sonenshine (Author), Anne Hunter (Illustrator)Follow one of the ocean's most mysterious animals in this warm but candid look at its dramatic life cycle, from the creators of The Nest That Wren Built. The solitary and ingenious octopus is a master of disguise and invention, creating her den out of the objects of the ocean, from shells and rocks to tiny glass shards. Using creative methods of hunting and construction, the octopus prepares for the biggest ta...

Grief is Love: A Memoir of Surviving Bereavement

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Deal (Author)After losing her long-term partner, through poetry and essay, author Mary Deal shares the turmoil and oftentimes bewildering depths of her grief.This memoir exposes the spectrum of emotions with which those suffering loss will become familiar or already experience. The author holds back nothing of her odyssey of despair. Her experiences and much she has learned to help herself provide other survivors a chance to see that they are not alone. Th...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Young (Author)Delivered in Young's classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings "bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit" (San Francisco Chronicle).Author BiographyKevin Young is the author of five previous collections of poetry. The recipient of many honors and awards, including the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is currentl...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Weiss (Author) In Other Lives Our Own, Jason Weiss's nimble prose links rich viewpoints with precise lyricism and meditative calm. In poignant narrative sketches, language, place, time, and experience combine into words with the power to bind existence to memory and thought. Snapshots of joy, loss, change, travel, pain, distance, foreignness, spirituality, and laughter interconnect in his artful reflections; in these moments, you can glimpse parts of your...

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Report copyright infringementby Saif Sidari (Author)In Visiting Hours, Saif Sidari offers a profound exploration of identity, memory, and belonging, tracing the intricate intersections of queerness, masculinity, and displacement. Through vivid and unflinching poetry, Sidari examines the enduring legacies of love and trauma, exposing the tensions between familial bonds and personal truths. With a voice that moves fluidly between the deeply personal and the universally resonant, this debut pamp...

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Farley (Author)Through the poetic and raw lens of a neurodiverse filmmaker, A [Cupboard] Full of Tomboys by Jay Farley navigates the intricate intersections of identity, gender, and class. This collection unfolds the journey of an older, working-class non-binary individual. With a cinematic and surreal texture, the poet uses words not only to validate their existence but also to unlock the transformative power of language itself. From the confines of the me...

Marchitos: ¿Qué viste cuando me miraste? ¿una herida o estrellas fugaces? - Paperback

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by Jessica González (Author)Dicen que cuando observamos las estrellas, en realidad estamos viendo el pasado delcosmos, que esa luz que ha viajado miles de años, proviene de un lugar que ya no existe.Eso me recuerda la magia de los rayos de luz entrando por la ventana, aquellos días dondelas cortinas bailaban al compás de nuestra risa. Tengo la teoría de que al estar hechos depolvo de estrellas, nuestros huesos guardan el secreto para encontrar, en todas nuestrasvidas, la persona que habla el ...

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Report copyright infringementby Abdourahman a. Waberi (Author), Nancy Naomi Carlson (Translator)In this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where "the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me / Nunvut is melting in you, in me." This translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson preserves the rich musicality of the original French, as well as its frequent use of ...

Through Me To You: A Life Through Poetry, Stories, and Songs

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Report copyright infringementby Eve Wick (Author)Explore 40 Years of Divine Love & Emotion in Verse, Story & Song. Encounter Despair, Longing, Love, Joy & Restoration. Ponder God's Unfailing Presence. A Journey of Hope & Inspiration Awaits.Through Me To You, penned by Eve Wick, is a rich anthology that captures four decades of heartfelt writings. This collection is a profound exploration of human emotions, expressed through diverse mediums of poems, stories, and songs. Each pi...

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Report copyright infringementby Krysta Fitzpatrick (Author)"I think I always knew it would end like this. Surrounded, yet alone. It's how I've spent my whole life, really. They say that no man is an island, and perhaps they mean that. But I assure you, no one has ever said that about a woman. Women are islands off the coast of Man. We can still be seen from the shore. We are often still considered a part of the mainland, but we aren't really a part of it, are we?" The debut poetry collection ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marjorie Maddox (Author)With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages of dementia and of a mother whose daughter is struggling with depression. These poems also witness a woman juggling her own memories of abuse and survival who lives in a world unsettled by shifting boundaries of truth and fabrication. Ultimately, Seeing Things explores the ways t...

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Report copyright infringementby Cat Speranzini (Editor), Claudia Jean (Editor)This is the second bi-annual Shadow Work anthology published by Grey Coven Publishing. With ten pieces of visual art, 42 poems, and 15 short stories, this anthology is our longest yet. Full of dark themes, varied subjects, and inspirational words. The theme of this anthology is "Tarot." Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 25, 2025 ...

A Form of Resistance: Reasons for keeping mementos - Paperback

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by Katie King (Translator), Luis Garcia Montero (Author)As Spain continues to struggle with economic depression, one of the country's best-loved poets tells how appreciating small mementos and everyday objects can help fight back against the gloom. Luis Garc a Montero's insights reach beyond the turmoil of euro-zone austerity and speak to wider audiences beset by the instabilities of a rapidly-changing world. Now, for the first time, his prose work is available to English-speaking audiences i...

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Report copyright infringementby Arra Lynn Ross (Author)Seamlessly bridging the material and spiritual worlds, Seedlip and Sweet Apple takes the reader into the mind of a true visionary: Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shaker religion in colonial America.With astonishingly original poems inspired by extensive historical research, Arra Lynn Ross creates a collection linked thematically through the voice and story of the woman who was believed by her followers to be Christ incarnate. Broadly ...

Goblins: or The Tiny Tears of Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Sj Fowler (Author)A young employee of GCHQ sweeps the internet for your secrets. Disappointed, they turn to poetry. Disappeared, their poems somehow end up in the lap of Steven J. Fowler, then into the hands of a journalist, then into the gloves of a less vulnerable benefactor, to reach your eyes, here and now, in this book, to be almost ignored, as most things are. Goblins is as much a poetry collection as a sardonic belly tickle for the rank underside of our ...

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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...