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by Alan Balsam (Author)A poetical journey through the history of Coney Island and New York City, this narrative also features the author's childhood reminiscences from the 1940s and 1950s. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.26 x 10 x 7.01 IN Publication Date: July 11, 2018

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by Lord Byron George Gordon (Author)The Prisoner of Chillon is a narrative poem written by the renowned English poet, Lord Byron. The poem tells the story of a young man who is imprisoned in the Castle of Chillon on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The protagonist is one of the sons of a noble family who were imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy for their political beliefs. The poem tells of the protagonist's experiences as a prisoner, including his thoughts and feelings as he watches his...

Ballads And Lyrics Of Socialism, 1883-1908 (1908) - Paperback

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by Edith Nesbit (Author)Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, 1883-1908 is a collection of poems written by Edith Nesbit, a British author and political activist. The book was published in 1908 and features poems that express Nesbit's socialist beliefs and critiques of capitalism. The poems cover a range of topics, including workers' rights, poverty, and the struggle for social justice. Many of the poems are written in a lyrical, ballad-like style, making them easy to read and understand. Nesbit's...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Schneiderman (Author)In Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, Jason Schneiderman confronts the rise of extremism and antisemitism in the United States while grappling with the end of his marriage and finding his feet as a newly single gay man. Following up on his landmark collection Hold Me Tight, Jason Schneiderman extends his personal and historical explorations in Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire. Schneiderman's signature sense of h...

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Report copyright infringementby Celina Elisheba (Author)""CHAl"""" is the Hebrew word for Life. It's true, life encompasses a spectrum of experiences, from highs to lows, from joy to sorrow, from attachment to detachment, from connections to separations. Life's beauty lies in its diversity of experiences and its resilience in moving forward despite challenges. This book is about exploring life journey and experiences, whether personal or through the lens of others, touching on the diverse ran...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Richardson (Author)How should we raise our children in, and for, a world that is burning? Rachel Richardson's third collection, Smother, interrogates this impossible question. The poet, raising young daughters and grieving the death of a mother friend, documents a string of record-breaking fires across the California landscape and the rage, sorrow, and detachment that follow amidst the pervasive smoke. Environmental and physical predation--on the earth a...

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by Adam Mickiewicz (Author)Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by the Polish-Lithuanian poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great epic poem in European literature. The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 at a point in Polish history, when Poland-Lithuania had already been divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria and disappeared from the political map of Eur...

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Report copyright infringementby D. S. Martin (Editor)The Turning Aside is about stepping out of our routines--like Moses turning from tending sheep, like a certain man selling his everything to buy a field--to take time to consider the ways of God in the company of some of the finest poets of our time. Turn aside with such established poets as Wendell Berry, Les Murray, Luci Shaw, Elizabeth Jennings, Richard Wilbur, Dana Gioia, and Christian Wiman--and respond to their invitation for us to mu...

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns, 1997-2000

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Hass (Author)During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th-century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice" went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance of poetry in our daily lives. This collection contains well-known poets such as Wallace Stevens,...

Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide

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Report copyright infringementby Aubrey Glazer (Author)Mystical Vertigo immerses readers in the experience of the contemporary kabbalistic Hebrew poet, serving as a gateway into the poet's quest for mystical union known as devekut. This journey oscillates across subtle degrees of devekut--causing an entranced experience for the Hebrew poet, who is reaching but not reaching, hovering but not hovering, touching but not touching in a state of mystical vertigo. What makes this journey so remarkabl...

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by Rosetta Marantz Cohen (Author) Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 21, 2018

The Poetry of Edward Thomas: Volume II - Last Poems - Paperback

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by Edward Thomas (Author)Philip Edward Thomas was born on 3rd March, 1878 at 14 Lansdowne Gardens in Stockwell, Lambeth, which was then a part of Surrey. His family had a rich Welsh heritage.Thomas was educated at Battersea Grammar School before proceeding to St Paul's School in London and then becoming a history scholar, between 1898-1900, at Lincoln College, Oxford. Whilst still studying for his degree he married Helen Berenice Noble in June, 1899, in Fulham, London. Thomas had already deci...

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by Geraldine Monk (Author)A major selection from Monk's work, including a significant choice from Interregnum, here combined with new sequences not previously published. This is a substantial volume from a key British writer whose approachable experimental works are filled with wit, linguistic virtuosity and a sound grasp of the shifting realities of the worlds we live in. Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.61 x 8.72 x 6.44 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2003

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by Christopher Buckley (Author)'3.3 billion years ago we caught a break . . .' So states the first line of Christopher Buckley's new poetry collection Chaos Theory, setting the tone of casual erudition, an atomic fusion of the personal and the cosmic. The book's theme is a perennial one: Chaos Theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data. True to his word, Buckley gives us "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop" by Little Anthony & The Imperials: - '... particles; the c...

Oppen: A Narrative: Revised and Updated Edition - Hardcover

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by Eric R. Hoffman (Author), Michael Heller (Introduction by)George Oppen (1908-1984) was a member of the 'Objectivist' group of poets, with Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff and Louis Zukofsky, and was publisher of the associated press, To Publishers, in the early 1930s. He abandoned poetry later that decade and, faced with the rise of Fascism, became a political activist and member of the Communist Party of the USA. Later, he and his family moved to Mexico to escape the attention of Senator Mc...

God Is Dead, There Is No God: The Vachanas of Allama Prabhu - Paperback

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by Allama Prabhu (Author), Manu Devadevan (Author)12-century saint-poet Allama Prabhu, along with Basavanna and Akka Mahadevi, was a founder of the Virashaiva or Lingayat movement in Karnataka. During a period of intense religious ferment, these Sharanas--prot g s of Shiva--aimed to dismantle religious hierarchy and bigotry. They rebelled against exploitation based on class, caste and gender through their vachanas, which were ahead of their times. Today, the Lingayats regard these vachanas as...

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by Scott Schmidt (Author), Terri Morgan (Illustrator)No cottage or cabin up north is complete without a copy of Lines from Upstream. On those rainy days when you can't be fishing, the rhyming stories in this collection will entertain everyone. Read the stories aloud to any boy or girl, from nine years old to ninety. They'll all be sure to love them. And so will you.Contents: A Likely Story The Catch-All Mike's Passion Cat Fight Danny's Wild Ride Mighty Muskie The Demon Muskie From Hell The Le...

Systemic Racism: An American Poetic Analysis - Paperback

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by Carlos Muhammad (Author)This is the third book from the two time award winner Carlos Muhammad. This book provides us with a poignant look at systemic racism and how it affects all aspects of life in America. During a time when America has been wrestling to rid itself of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) plague, its negligence of its ongoing racial pandemic continues to fester.Systemic Racism: An American Poetic Analysis addresses the racial pandemic in an artistic way that is creative, poetic and...

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by Norman Finkelstein (Author)At the heart of In a Broken Star, we find the themes of diaspora and quest romance, prophecy and gnosis, which have long suffused Norman Finkelstein's poetry. The central poem of the book, "The Adventures of Pascal Wanderlust," is a long narrative featuring an uncanny protagonist of indeterminate gender, age, and cultural identity, a bookish, wandering mage with mysterious links to the Immanent Foundation, the equally uncanny institution from Finkelstein's previo...

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Report copyright infringementby Ece Temelkuran (Author), Deniz Perin (Translator)The first US poetry translation of an award-winning younger Turkish poet and controversial investigative journalist.Author BiographyEce Temelkuran, a poet and journalist, was born in Turkey in 1973. She has published eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. Her investigative journalism books broach subjects that are highly controversial in Turkey, such as Kurdish and Armenian issues, the women's movement, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Hirsch (Author)Mending Prayer Rugs is a meditation on the hidden ways in which women suffuse the life around them with their spiritual force - their creativity, passion for justice, and enduring devotion. Our poetry is kindled in the writing of a letter or the search for a songbird. In the lover saying farewell, and the act of folding laundry. Prayer can bring the distant child as close as a garden bench. Stitching in a refugee camp or lighting the fir...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Horner Turner (Author)Tales of longing and desire for escape, Horsemouth and Aquariumhead features imaginative and sometimes unsettling characters. Whether the characters yearn for a different, unknown life, or they wish themselves out of something else, Turner's surreal yet relatable collection offers glimpses to the depths beneath, above, or in-between our own domestic realities. One woman purchases a train ticket to a town that may or may not actua...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandon Logans (Author)From inside the glass, visible breath rises against the pane. A hand unseen carves the moist fog into words, like ghostly messages from the other side: points to consider, mappings gesturing towards escape, a puncture to mull over or anchor the body back down to Earth. Phosphene is a cyclical underworld journey, where light is both pressure and maze. The poetic voice meanders in the inbetween, a porous vessel, negotiating what it means to...

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by Sri Chinmoy (Author)Transcendence-Perfection is a unique book of 843 poems by Sri Chinmoy. Using concentrative powers developed through meditation, Sri Chinmoy wrote these 843 poems in a 24-hour period - from midnight to midnight on 1 November 1975. These poems touch on themes of spirituality, the spiritual quest, life, death, God and the meaning of life. Number of Pages: 428 Dimensions: 1.06 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 07, 2022

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by Sarah Oropeza (Author)A heart-wrenching debut poetry collection divided into four unique chapters. MY GOD IS NO MAN takes the reader through the painful yet beautiful experiences of women and mothers of all ages. A vulnerable and unapologetic collection of poetry for women to reclaim their one and true God, themselves. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2022

Sun-Up, and Other Poems: An Anthology of Political Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Lola Ridge (Author)The politically charged and evocative poetry of Lola Ridge remains as distinctive today as when first penned over a century ago.An anthology spanning several years of Ridge's most appreciated verse, Sun-Up and Other Poems is both a fine introduction to and a representation of the poet's style and subjects. Meditations upon femininity accompany tributes to her fellow feminist and anarchist radicals, while the stunning sights of the modern city...

Gothic Poetry Nihilist's Bible A Poetry Anthology of Dark Poems by Stewart Storrar

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Report copyright infringementby Stewart Storrar (Author)Dynamic, authentic, brilliant, and thought provoking, Nihilist's Bible is the debut poetry collection from the young Scottish writer, Stewart Storrar. This first piece of full-length work from Stewart delves into the darker recesses of the human condition and explores what it means to be human in the modern world. From struggling with trauma and his own identity, to dealing with what feels like an alien world, Stewart shares in inner-mos...

Insightful Inspirations: A small compilation of personal poems

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Report copyright infringementby Jl Durham (Compiled by), A. Sluyter (Author)A small compilation of inspiring poetry works; touching on self-awareness, growing, changing and elevating your understanding of being. Part of a personal collection of works, the pieces included are meant to inspire change in self. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2023 Large Print: Yes

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Report copyright infringementby Walter the Educator (Author)Celebrating the Name Patricia belongs to the Poetry of First Names Book Series by Walter the Educator. Collect them all and more poetry books at WaltertheEducator.com. This book is dedicated to everyone with the first name of Patricia. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 25, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Emory Clark (Author)Through the use of poetry and prose, I hope to express the love, affection, tenderness and devotion which I first found with my family in our big log house, far back in the woods. I want to show how the urge to write about my life has followed me along moutain trails, down city streets, and within my own special friendships and romantic adventures. All those events do not hold a candle to the importance of raising my beautiful children, or t...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandria Rossillo (Author)Writing from the heart can have a lot of emotions sneaking into your words, but I guess everyone can say that they write from their heart. Whether it's a drink at the bar down the street, or sitting next to a hospital bed holding vigil, words can strike you at the most random times. You also don't choose when the words strike you. You only choose whether you want to strike back and write them down. Number of Pages: 32 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Robitelle (Author)For those who are questing - the book's content draws you in through its beauty, questions, stark realizations, and makes unique connections of inner life with outer reality. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2024