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Report copyright infringementby Vin Whitman (Author)A harrowing look at a decade of online bullying told in short narrative bursts. When the harassment accelerates into a full-blown breach of privacy, the narrator seeks help from a variety of sources, only to realize help is not out there. His greatest hope is that help lies within himself. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 30, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby T. A. Gibson (Author)A Wayfarer's Poems: The Mirror is the first book of poetry in the A Wayfarer Poems series. In it, T. A. Gibson uses a variety of themes and styles, along with rhythmic and metrical patterns, to form the foundations of his creative writing. Each poem is a view into a slice of life, and together they represent a holistic composition of our existence. The essence of life as one passes through it is often overlooked, and these poems provide ins...

A Shot in the Dark: Poems of Love, Separation, and Reunion

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Report copyright infringementby Errol Rubenstein (Author)A Shot in the Dark by Errol Rubenstein is a meditation on family and relationships and the struggles and triumphs that go hand in hand with being in a relationship and having a family. It references parents and children, their relationships, and the complex emotions that arise from these family dynamics. This collection also addresses love--romantic love and love of family, and also contains musings on the author's impressions of the na...

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Report copyright infringementby Simone Muench (Author), Jackie K. White (Author)Collaboration means creation. These poems expand from that natural cycle of visionary poetry, that invites more than one poet to get involved with the poems, until language itself becomes a complete process of imagination and meaning. The result is a book that shares a complex world with the reader and proves that true poetry does not leave anyone alone. -- Ray GonzalezAuthor BiographySimone Muench is the author o...

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Report copyright infringementby Noelia Cerna (Author)The poems in Noelia Cerna's beautiful, debut poetry collection, Las Piedrecitas, sing. They sing in English and Spanish; they sing of her childhood and Nicaraguan heritage; they sing of brown bodies and immigrant hands thickened by work and struggle; they sing of hope and redemption and survival. Cerna's poetry does not warble, it projects in an unflinching voice that tackles themes such as prescribed gender roles, addiction, domestic viole...

Soundin' Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Db Watkins (Author)Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin' Canaan demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is not solely aesthetic, but a form of social, ethical, and political expression. Soundin' Canaan refers to the code name often used for Canada during the Black migration to Canada. The book analyzes the contributions of key Black Canadian poets, including their poetic styl...

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Report copyright infringementby John Linstrom (Author)The natural world unfolds in ongoing changes of light and violent storms and moments of sheer sunrise and moonlit beauty as patient humans sustain their lives in John Linstrom's lovely collection, To Leave for Our Own Country. These poems are about surviving and sheltering in each other, but they are also about stopping to notice, to remember, to honor, and to mourn the troubling signs of a changing climate. [... ] Love is the abiding forc...

Healing is my Hustle: Poetry for Black Girls a Collection on Trauma & Healing

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Report copyright infringementby Donielle Elizabeth (Author)In her debut poetry collection, Healing is my Hustle, Donielle Elizabeth masterfully unpacks the complexities of existing in black girl skin, and the healing revelations gathered along the way. Drawing from her personal experiences while confronting the generational traumas of black women, Donielle poetically explores sexual violence, respectability politics, erasure, workplace discrimination, black girl joy, representation, mental he...

In The Monastery of Fragrance and Panic Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Miriam Sagan (Author)The impression stays with us that these poems of feeling and vision will attract all readers. In places the poet displays the sublime beauty of intense imagination. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 16, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Daphne Marlatt (Author), Susan Knutson (Editor)Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt's poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. Rivering includes poems inspired by the village of Steveston where, before the war, a Japanese-Canadian community lived within the rhythms of salmon on the Fraser River delta. Also gathered into Rivering: lesbian love...

Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Beaulieu (Author), Kit Dobson (Author)Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to his credit, and many works appearing in chapbooks, broadsides, and magazines, beaulieu continues to push experimental poetry, both in Canada and internationally, in new directions. Please, No More Poetry is the first sel...

The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Wayman (Author), Owen Percy (Editor)Tom Wayman's poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada's most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities, a...

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Report copyright infringementby George Robinson (Author)These poems seemed to write themselves over twenty years, until I was about forty years old, a time when I was teaching and bringing up a family of very lively nippers. The nippers have now developed into very effective leaders! This is my response to 'Triumph of the Will'... Triumph of the Imagination. They are best read in sequence at about a third a session, I suggest. I hope you enjoy them. Number of Pages: 92 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Janny Bowman (Author)This book is a collection of observations and life experiences - some happy, some sad, some good, and some difficult. The poems offer a glimpse into moments that many readers may find relatable, sparking inspiration to reflect on and perhaps even write about their own life experiences. Some poems provide comfort and help in coming to terms with life's challenges, while others encourage deeper thought. Whether touching on sadness, joy, humou...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Riley (Author)Within is the laundry list of a poor unfortunate soul, a hungry flirtatious sweet tooth. She is Icarus without Apollo. Reborn from ashes hoping to turn the residual melancholy into a spectacle. She writes of heartache and loneliness, joy, and comfort, how art shapes her world. She writes with a burning, writhing need to understand her humanity. She writes about everyone she's ever met, and the people she never will. Within is a love letter t...

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Report copyright infringementby Nell Quinn (Author)Oh! What a sorry state We're in, Britannia's fate: No longer great, but cool! The trumpets blare new rules, Empire days of pride innate And long-slain dragons out of date. St George is dead. Long live the fools. ('Cool Britannia') A PROFUSION OF CONCLUSIONS A COLLECTION OF REFLECTIONS FROM LIFE EXPERIENCES AND PERSONAL CONNECTIONS. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: Februa...

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Report copyright infringementby Glenna Washburn (Author)Come see what choice you have afteryou die! Choose or lose or the choice will be made for you! This is a book with a hook! I'm 51 years old! I'm a grandma and mama with a word to be heard! I'm not absurd! You have a choice to make! So I thank my dad the most and NKJV Bible for teaching me how to be free in the joy not the toy! Email me at glennawashburn7@gmail.com Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 11 x 8.5 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Christy A. Weber (Author) Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 23, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby M. E. Johnson (Author)The Search for Me is a collection of 39 poems and 1 short story masquerading as a poem. Sections are broken out in themes consisting of existentialism, finding and losing oneself, love and loss of love, familial pain/love/loss, plus current affairs and opinions, along with silliness thrown throughout. Each one to make you think, perhaps laugh, possibly cry, and often times all three. This is M.E. Johnson's first book of poetry. He is an ac...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Rae (Author)Thank you for picking up my book, I hope you enjoy it! If you have felt you were barely surviving this life then I hope you feel heard and seen while reading these poems. My goal is to say the invisible & be a place of expression. Expression of the sad upside down times & the right side up living on a life high times. I want you to feel comfortable within yourself while reading, knowing you're not alone with the negatives. There will be...

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Report copyright infringementby Eduardo Uribe (Author)Eduardo Uribe (1980) es escritor, traductor y profesor. Originario de Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, encontró en la cultura una forma de comprender y de transformar su entorno. Fue secretario de redacción del Periódico de Poesía (unam), bajo la dirección de David Huerta. Ha publicado los volúmenes de cuentos Infiernos particulares (unam, 2008), Propaganda, puros cuentos (Legaria, 2015) y Uróboros. Clichés con hocico y cola (Malaletra, 2015)...

A Year in Haiku: A New Year's Resolution

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Report copyright infringementby Deb Stone (Author)A new creative challenge: can I capture a full year in haiku, one day and moment at a time?In this Haiku collection born of her 2023 New Year's resolution, Deb invites you to savor seventeen-syllable glimpses into her world and her inner self, from the first blooms of spring to the quiet stillness of winter evenings, and more. Woven throughout this book are reflections on her journey through life-the fleeting thoughts, sacred moments, and hear...

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Report copyright infringementby Goran Rahim (Author)Every Sunset Will Remind Me of You is a heartfelt poetry collection by Goran Rahim that explores the deep emotional landscapes of love, longing, loss, and the fleeting moments that define our lives. Through lyrical verses, Rahim reflects on the beauty and pain of human connection, capturing the bittersweet nature of separation, the quiet reflection found in sunsets, and the intense desire for meaningful bonds.While some of the poems are insp...

waveforms: a short course in piano tuning

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea L. Hackbarth (Author)"The first thing to understand is movement: the instrument's magic is motion and nothing more." So begins Andrea L. Hackbarth's Waveforms, and from there the reader harmonizes into the various, ranging, beautiful music of this book, which is part philosophical investigation harmony, part familial bewilderment, part detailed explication of a piano-tuner's work. To observe to a poet share the details of an old craft such as piano tunin...

All Things Work Together: It's Gonna Be All Right

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Keese (Author)There seems to be a growing appreciation among scientists for the unity of everything--human beings, mosquitos, dogs and cats, spiders, atoms, fungi, trees--as well as among mystics, theologians, and philosophers. Or maybe it is just that Peter Keese is coming to see what most have long known. Anyhow, it is a theme throughout these poems. That and appreciation for play, playfulness, and beauty. Enjoy.Author BiographyPeter Keese is a retired ...

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Kindig (Author)When we say something "fascinates" us, we usually mean something benign: the thing we are looking at somehow attracts us. The Kardashians fascinate us, for example, as do car accidents and kidnappings. Historically, however, the word "fascination" has had much more ominous overtones: for the Greeks and Romans, it designated the evil eye, and in the Middle Ages, it was synonymous with witchcraft. There are clear connections, too, between c...

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by Dede Meltzer (Author)Life Opens Up Like a FlowerBy: Dede MeltzerA soulful and inspiring collection of poems, Life Opens Up Like a Flower is the debut collection of poetry by Dede Meltzer. It contains a variety of narrative, lyrical and ecstatic poems. These carefully selected poems depict the speaker's relationship to her independence, love, language, nature, romance and the art form of poetry. This unique book portrays the joy, grace, challenges, and perceptions of a lady whose voice emer...

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Barker (Author), Steven G. Kellman (Editor), Ilan Stavans (Foreword by)Spanning more than three decades of a life well-lived, Wendy Barker's collected poems convey her encounters with the natural world, her reactions to contemporary social problems, and her experiences in high school and college classrooms. Adored by her students, many of whom became published poets themselves, Barker crafted verse that often recreated her presence in the classroom and he...

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Report copyright infringementby Celine Maria (Author)This intimate collection of poetry and prose dives deep into the not-so-gentle and unruly art of becoming. It speaks to the thoughts that stir in the stillness of the night, where exhilaration flirts with the agony of despair and where fierceness smoulders in both grace and anger. Through these lyrical verses, I find myself adrift, seeking solitude, perseverance, heat, and a safe haven-wherever it may be found. Somehow, amidst it all, the c...

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Anderson (Author)Derek's poems are varied and tackle a wide array of themes. His ability to combine poetry with both real and fictional stories evokes a range of emotions - provocative, nostalgic, funny, and sad. Each poem offers something unique, waiting to be discovered as you read. He hopes readers will see themselves in his poetry, which is why he titled his first book Hopes, Dreams, and Fears. The emotional rollercoaster Derek takes you on with his u...

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Report copyright infringementby Grupo Ígneo (Editor), Darién Leos Juárez (Author)Bajo un cielo que se quiebra y un lago que guarda secretos, una flor lucha por mantenerse en pie, igual que un amor que se resiste a desvanecerse. El árbol que nunca nos vio mentirle es un viaje íntimo hacia las profundidades de la nostalgia, donde los recuerdos florecen entre el dolor y la esperanza.Dos almas se encuentran bajo el mismo árbol, testigos de promesas y silencios, en un rincón del mundo donde las de...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Ekiss (Author)Original poems by Keith Ekiss. "San Francisco, the millennial city: Mission and Market, bars and cafes, hills, bridges, and ocean. To read the pages of Keith Ekiss's Burial Fragments is to follow a gorgeous thread of urban encounters until you reach the center of the anxious, frenetic, marvelous, and random maze that is life and fatherhood at the edge of America and the 21st century. Ekiss's subtle prose-poem portraits read like novels in m...