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The Inward Trilogy: Yung Pueblo Box Set - Hardcover

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by Yung Pueblo (Author)A gorgeous, hardcover box set collecting #1 New York Times bestselling author yung pueblo's poetic trilogy on developing self-knowledge, healing old wounds, and cultivating harmonious relationships. For the first time, Inward, Clarity & Connection, and The Way Forward are presented together in a beautiful, foil-stamped box, ideal for gifting and collecting. Never before offered in hardcover, the three volumes trace yung pueblo's own journey toward self-awareness an...

Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Fernando Pessoa (Author), Richard Zenith (Editor), Richard Zenith (Translator)"One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal's premier modernist."--Washington Post"Pessoa has had many English-language interpreters but none better than Richard Zenith."--New York Review of BooksFernando Pessoa--a poet who lived most of his life in Lisbon, Portugal, and who died in obscurity there-- is now recognized as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. In a newly updat...

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by Eduardo Mart?nez-Leyva (Author)"There are fevers you still wish to forget," writes Eduardo Mart?nez-Leyva, but how fortunate for the rest of us that he remembers. These tenderly crafted autobiographical poems pierce through to the heart of pain, love, loss, and the ongoing search for salvation--or at least a salve. Housed in the lived experiences of a queer Latinx person born and raised in the border town of El Paso, Cowboy Park seamlessly blends themes of masculinity, identity, and the im...

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Report copyright infringementby Elaine Equi (Author)"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud." From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The New York Times), Equi's subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from the colors of weather to the strange ways we make sense of our bodies, from the emptiness of family homes to the flow of time itself.Author Biog...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor)A classic Batsford poetry collection, now reissued with a stunning new cover. A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year is a glorious collection of 366 poems that celebrate nature and the changing seasons. It is the perfect morning companion for any nature or poetry enthusiast, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from less well-known writers. Each poem is chosen to chime with the natural world through the...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Brainard (Author), Bill Kartalopoulos (Contribution by), Ron Padgett (Foreword by)In the mid-1960s, legendary artist and writer Joe Brainard (I Remember) teamed with poets such as John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, and many more for these pioneering collaborative comic strips--unavailable for decades and collected here for the first time. "PEOPLE OF THE WORLD... RELAX!" In the creative hotbed of 1960s New Yor...

Set Me Free: The Good News of God's Relentless Pursuit (Poetry and Essays)

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Report copyright infringementby Lecrae Moore (Author)Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the way you vote, or the way you pray, you don't fit the mold. And yet you find yourself still trying to prove yourself to others. In Set Me Free, New York Times bestselling author Lecrae invites you on a poetic and artistic exploration of how you can persevere against the lies of unworthiness to experience the freedom given to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lang Leav (Author)With care and vulnerability, novelist and poet Lang Leav explores what it means to live a purpose-filled life as a woman in search of fulfillment and visibility. Through poetry, micro-essays, and ruminations, Soon It Will Be Sunday delves into the purpose and impact of the interpersonal attachments that women form during different stages of their lives. Internationally bestselling author Lang Leav reflects on the perilous and winding road of ...

Faeries, Sprites & Malevolent Spirits: An Anthology of Classic Poetry & Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Aurora Thorne (Author)A captivating collection of dark poetry and prose, perfect for fans of gothic romantasy and twisted horror. Step into the enchanting realm of Faeries Sprites & Malevolent Spirits, where the exquisite beauty and treacherous allure of the unseelie court come to life through classic poetry. This captivating collection immerses you in the ethereal world of fairies, where enchantress lyrics and the longings of otherworldly lovers are wove...

Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities

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Report copyright infringementby Sage Ni'ja Whitson (Author)A two part book reimagining dark matter and the darkTranstraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practices with innovative methodologies to explore themes of gender, sexuality, race, and spirit. Divided into two parts--The Unarrival Experiments and Counterproposals--the work delves into the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy, and Blackn...

The Heart of Rumi: Poems of Friendship, Love, and Spiritual Reflection

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Report copyright infringementby Rumi (Author), Nader Khalili (Translator)Explore the enchanting works of Rumi in this beautifully packaged poetry collection. For more than eight centuries, the poems of Persian mystic poet and Sufi master Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi have enthralled and inspired readers from every faith and background. Rumi's enduring legacy is a testament to the universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality found in his work. The Heart of Rumi features: A carefu...

Calling Down the Sky: Tenth Anniversary Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Rosanna Deerchild (Author), Solomon Ratt (Translator)"This poetry collection is fierce, raw and candid. By recounting her mother's residential school experience in a powerfully poetic narrative, Deerchild expertly illustrates the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic saga and how it complicates relationships over generations." - Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted Snow A tenth anniversary bilingual edition in English and Cree of Rosanna Deerchild's stu...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Vendler (Author)In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience. Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler addresses the work of a wide range of American, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jasmine Reid (Author)"Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being." --aracelis girmayInterlocutor Goddess explores the creation of a trans language for selfhood within an exilic state of "ecstatic grief."Reid's experimental work challenges societal norms, particularly the family as a political construct while reflecting on the trans experiences of a quee...

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Report copyright infringementby Prageeta Sharma (Author)Following her acclaimed Grief Sequence, Prageeta Sharma's newest collection, Onement Won, is at once a contemplation and a sharp critique. Having been twice widowed to cancer, Sharma questions the various relationships--familial, social, romantic, religious--that have shaped her identity.Inspired by Barnett Newman's Onement series as well as many texts including the Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, Goethe's Faust, and Audre Lorde's The Can...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Allen-Paisant (Author)"Jason Allen-Paisant deftly inscribes his own signature on worlds inner and outer in these gorgeous poems. The future of Caribbean lyric poetry is in great hands."--Lorna Goodison, author of From Harvey RiverJason Allen-Paisant has emerged in recent years as one of the most celebrated poets in the UK and across the West Indies. Winner already of the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize, his writing has been acclaimed for its artis...

What about This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Stanford (Author), Dean Young (Introduction by)"The big event in poetry for 2015 will likely be the long-awaited resurrection of Frank Stanford."--NPR.orgNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist"What About This... introduces to a broader audience an important and original American poet -- sensitive, death-haunted, surreal, carnal, dirt-flecked and deeply Southern -- whose promise, only partly fulfilled, it hurts to contemplate. His poems flick on a her...

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Report copyright infringementby Heekyung Yoo (Author), Stine Su Yon An (Translator)The South Korean poet and playwright explores loneliness, alienation, and flashes of togetherness, creating a world that his translator calls "overcast, yet playful." Yoo writes poems that invite readers to reflect upon daily sorrows, while also illuminating single moments full of strange and arresting images that suggest the passage of time--a hardened piece of bread, a train about to arrive, a crumpled piece ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael M. Weinstein (Author)Michael M. Weinstein's debut poetry collection, Saint Consequence, meditates on the body as a site of continuous change--both painful and beautiful, elected and imposed--to explore the often tangled journeys of physical and spiritual transformation. What does it mean to inhabit a body--and for that body to inhabit our shared world, in all its complexity? Saint Consequence attempts to mine the gap between a life seen from the outside...

Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022

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Report copyright infringementby Major Jackson (Author)A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music through five acclaimed volumes: his Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning debut, Leaving Saturn (2002), which captures the spirit of resilience in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of the poet's youth; ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Ghigna (Author)Discover the captivating allure of the Deep South through the haunting and powerful verses of one of today's most accomplished poets. Southern Bred is a haunting, powerful collection of gothic poems that captivate and transport the reader into the heart and soul of the Deep South. Each poem offers a glimpse into its mystery and enchantment, drawing you in with a blend of beauty and darkness. In the style of a memoir in verse, it showcases...

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Report copyright infringementby John Barr (Author)In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: "Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful." Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds "Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence." And his ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tina Schumann (Author)Poems about life/loss/childhood/concepts of self and the larger meanings of existence. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: July 08, 2019

The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843: Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun

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Report copyright infringementby Percival Everett (Author)AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, JAMESAUTHOR OF ERASURE, now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, AMERICAN FICTIONFeatured in the New York Times!Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document--a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collecti...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Coughlin Hollowell (Author)Across distance, the speaker of these poems wrestles with the way her mother's loss of memory changes the narrative between them. By interrogating the past, fissures in language, and the vagaries of identity, the speaker comes to a recognition that we are all more alike in our humanity than we are different. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2018 ...

Things That Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes on Living - Paperback

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by Mark Nepo (Author)A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives "When we can open our hearts and work with what we're given, loving what's before us, life stays possible. Then, through effort and grace, we do what we can with what we have. And when exhausted by all that's in the way, we're faced with the chance to accept and love what's left, which is everything. This is how we discover that Heaven is on Earth." --Mark Nepo The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again...

Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet: A Springtime Book for Kids - Paperback

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by April Pulley Sayre (Author), April Pulley Sayre (Illustrator)Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature"A splendid marriage of poetry and photography." --School Library Journal (starred review)Acclaimed children's book author and photographer April Pulley Sayre's love letter to Earth is a stunning exploration of the beauty and complexity of the world around us. Remarkable photographs and a rich, layered text introduce concepts of science, nature, geography, biology, poetry, and c...

Oxford Bookworms Library: Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary

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Report copyright infringementby John Escott (Author)This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Limón (Author)The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion--both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbag...

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by John Hodgen (Author)John Hodgen's What We May Be is a cry of love and pain (and he makes them almost indistinguishable) on behalf of the human race, its history, its future, its lovely possibilities that seem always out of reach. The poems of this award-winning poet declare again and again that the reaching itself defines the best in us, and he is cheering us on. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.01 x 7.05 IN Publication Date: April 04, 2024

We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word - Paperback

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by Franny Choi (Editor), Bao Phi (Editor), Noʻu Revilla (Editor)A rich anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label "Asian American and Pacific Islander" (AAPI) in today's world.Exploring the range of experiences AAPI people endure in a world shaped by colonization and white supremacy, the poems in this collection confront American militarism, reimagine lineage, celebrate queer/trans life, and reclaim in...