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Report copyright infringementby Frances Klein (Author)Another Life is a collection of poems that circle motherhood and all it entails, its hopes and its horrors. It's about the life chosen and the life left unlived. Frances Klein takes the reader on a journey through both the pain and the pleasure in the paths followed. Each poem carries the reader a little further forward but doesn't stop them from looking back and wondering What if? These poems explore memory and history and future and drea...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Voon (Author), Richard Han (Photographer)Book DescriptionLittle wings, great big wings, flap flap flap... Freshwater birds and seabirds are on the wing. Wading birds, diving birds, clap clap clap...Hunt for aquatic animals on the wing.Let your imagination fly and join Andrea Voon in identifying 12 types of freshwater birds and seabirds in a unique way. Each waterfowl has its characteristics and talents: Tunnel engineers, sword fighters, scavengers, juggl...

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Report copyright infringementby James Kimbrell (Author)The Law of Truly Large Numbers is a book about coming to terms with loss and the arrival of unexpected, perhaps undeserved, love. Based on the statistical principle that in a truly large sample set anything outrageous is likely to happen, this book explores not only the outrageous things that have already happened--the loss of siblings and parents; the loss of home, friends, and relatives; the weight of illness and physical aging--but als...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Bishop (Author)A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop's poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives in perfect miniaturist close-up. The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape--from...

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Report copyright infringementby Rushika Wick (Author)Rushika Wick's Infections of Loss is a searing exploration of how the past imprints itself on the body, weaving threads of harm and resilience through time and space. Through vivid, haunting poetry, the collection navigates the reverberations of adversity, documenting the unspoken hauntings of personal and collective histories. Here, eulogies meet acts of witness and moments of tentative reconciliation. Each piece ripples outward, charting ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jin Cordaro (Author)The speaker of Jin Cordaro's wise and transporting poems knows "the surge of a sewing machine whirring late into the night." She will tell you how "we drive through the towns of our mistakes." When you read A Map for Exiting the Body, you may find yourself stunned by a sibling who wears "the skin of a horse beneath her clothes" or the warning that "darkness always expands." In these splendid poems you will discover a song for a broken umbrel...

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Report copyright infringementby John E. Jr. Franklin (Author)My fifty-poem collection, Blue Skies, explores the human life experience through my own genuine, personal reflections. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 04, 2025

The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny C. Mann (Author)A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Tri...

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Report copyright infringementby N. D. Storlid (Author)Written into prose of echoes, here are pages turned over lines and rhymes, About the music in stories, beats of emotions in time, An author who gave poems notes of their own, To sputter the way their destinies were sown, Within the meanings, it is you who will implyThis book, these dreams that seem ready to fly, and will eventually die Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date:...

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Report copyright infringementby Ketona U. Spencer (Author)Discover Resilience, Hope, and Triumph Through Heartfelt Verses: A Compilation of Motivational Poetry To Energize Your Spirit in The Face of Life's Harshest Challenges. Keep Going, Always.Never Give Up Ever!, is a riveting anthology of inspirational poems that encourages readers, regardless of their circumstances, to persist and remain hopeful. This collection stands as a beacon, illuminating a pathway through life's darkest moments, e...

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Report copyright infringementby Thuy On (Author)Following on from Turbulence and Decadence, Essence continues Thuy On's exploration into language and broadens its reach into the arts. It strips poetry down to its core to distil moments of beauty and chaos into permanence - an exquisite collection seeking the marrow of life, love and creativity.This collection is ocean-hearted. EMILIE COLLYERFull of paeans to pop songs and cold-cut lit classics whilst taking apart the machinery of cultural cri...

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Samuel (Author)The gentle, chunky ticks and tocks As two clocks lilt in opposing grooves The sound of laughter from the next room The amphibious amphitheater down below Sends an evening serenade wafting Through my window These are the sounds that soothe What in reality was a steady progression over time felt like the span of a nineties sitcom episode. One day as eyeglasses sat on Timothy Samuel's nose, they literally changed his perspective, while simu...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynne Schmidt (Author)After the cancer diagnosis, the veterinarian said, "I think we can beat this." What came next was five years of medications, surgery after surgery, Cushings Disease, two more cancers, and the slow decline of a beloved pit bull. Dying Dog Poems explores the impacts of canine cancer, managing hospice care, and the decision of when to choose compassion and let go. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Young (Author)Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"), exploring the artist's bouts with fame and heroi...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter D. Ladd (Author) "Catching a Ride on Creation" invites readers on a poignant journey through the poetic landscapes of nature, relationships, the sacred, and hope. Within these verses, the author reveals an intimate dance with life experiences, as if plucking inspiration from the ether. Gratitude permeates the pages, as the act of capturing these fleeting verses becomes an integral part of the author's existence. Unconstrained by a specific style, the poem...

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Report copyright infringementby Maga Jackson-Triche (Author)In this book Maga Jackson-Triche has combined some of her gracious paintings with 78 Modern Haiku poems. She truly does summon spirit with both her images and language and offers the reader moments of grace, reflection, contemplation and insight. In our fast-paced world she suggests moments of quiet appreciation of the beautiful and mystical world we inhabit. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8 x 5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Monterosso (Author)Healing isn't linear, it's an ongoing process. Updated Panic is a collection of poetry that delves into the modern-day experience of anxiety, uncertainty, and loneliness. Themes that explore mental health, personal struggle, and societal expectations. This collection offers both vulnerability and resilience. Navigating the fine line between chaos and clarity, fear and acceptance, offering moments of release and quiet reflection in the m...

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Peterson (Author)Katie Peterson unfurls the quotidian fabric of our lives, patterned with the difficulties of language and this moment.Confusion frames the human predicament. In Katie Peterson's Fog and Smoke, confusion is, literally, our climate. Writing to and from the California landscape, Peterson sees fog and smoke as literal--one a habitual, natural weather event, the other an increasingly common aftereffect of the West's drought-caused fires. But t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jackie M. Guerra (Author)From D1 and National team soccer player to Physiologist, Jackie M Guerra goes outside of the elite sports environment to the internal mystic realm in her first book: The Eye of Ayahuasca. She invites us to ride along on her daring adventure as she delves into the sacred indigenous practice of Ayahuasca.As Jackie started researching alternative healing practices, and experimenting with plant-based diets and reiki, back in 2012, she began...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Nowak (Author), Ian Teh (Photographer)A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.A poet and labor activis...

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Report copyright infringementby Jody Chan (Author)"Jody Chan writes, 'have you ever found your specific wounds curled up in a song / written by someone else?' SICK is medicine and music. This book unearths a tenderness unknown to me before reading these poems and witnessing their 'humble magic.' Chan's lyric is a landscape I return to find myself. How lucky are we to be living and reading while Jody Chan is writing and teaching us how to be 'warm & unafraid'-what a tremendous, marvelous g...

Forest of Ash: The Earliest Written Basque Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Xabier Irujo (Editor), Xabier Irujo (Translator), David Romtvedt (Editor)Forest of Ash offers to English language readers many of the oldest known fragments of poems and songs in Basque, bits and pieces of a distant time, place, and language. It is a collection of poems that can live, breathe, and speak to us now about the wars and conflicts that affected the Basques of the fifteenth century. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.46 x 8 x...

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Report copyright infringementby Jehanne Dubrow (Author)The final volume in Jehanne Dubrow's groundbreaking trilogy about the experience of being a modern military spouse, Civilians examines a significant moment of transformation in a military marriage: the shift from active-duty service to civilian life. After twenty years in the U.S. Navy, Dubrow's husband came to the end of his tenure as an officer. Civilians addresses what it means when someone who has been trained for war returns from the...

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Report copyright infringementby Micaela Elise (Author)A collection of streams of consciousness through a healing journey shared with you in the hopes that you feel less alone. Micaela Elise was born in Okinawa, Japan and raised in upstate New York. An astrocartographer would point out both locations fall on a Saturn line. Her writing provides unique insights into the various lessons and vast intricacies that come with being a Capricorn leading a very Saturnian life- that is to say, the trauma...

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Ruzicka (Author)Ed Ruzicka takes us through "days of tragedy and joy" illuminating jeweled moments under"a tender rain" when "Beads dangle at the tips off slender crepe myrtle branches." Squalls navigates through the disasters of life on the Gulf Coast of storms and floods and more personal wreckage: "I had something I lost. I want / something others have. Tomorrow / isaround one more hard corner." Yet past the hard corners he looks above to find solace "und...

Soul Sessions: Haikus on Love, Liberation, Heritage, and Seasons

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Report copyright infringementby Breuna Walker (Author), Tetra Tyes (Illustrator)Soul Sessions: Haikus on Love, My Heritage, Liberation, and Seasons takes readers on a journey through love, identity, and resilience, all captured within the timeless art of haiku. In this collection, Breuna Walker reflects on her African-American heritage and the beauty of the changing seasons, celebrating the warmth of summer, the introspection of winter, and everything in between.Each haiku invites readers to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Devin Alese (Author)For All the Tuesdays That Hurt is a deeply reflective collection of poetry that explores the duality of life - the pain of loss and the quiet beauty that follows.From the weight of personal tragedy to the delicate, fleeting moments of joy, these poems are a testament to the strength found in moving forward, and the beauty that unfolds in the aftermath of pain. The poems are a meditation of love, grief, and the quiet grace of everyday life th...

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Report copyright infringementby Alicia Martinez (Author)Grief, first love, the turbulence of depression, and finding yourself again are all the themes in this book of poetry. Just a Tumble Down the Hill has you hike through the authors journey of trying to find the good in every stumble encountered. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 02, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Scout Tzofiya Bolton (Author)The Mad Art of Doing Time by Scout Tzofiya Bolton is a raw and compelling exploration of life inside and outside the prison walls, woven with the complexities of mental illness and the often-overlooked human stories within the justice system. Through a blend of narrative and poetry, Bolton offers an unflinching look at the harsh realities of incarceration, capturing the fragmented thoughts and emotions of a mind in turmoil. This boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Fink (Author)"Fink's a better guide than Dante had through our hells and heavens." - Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and LitIn a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink interrogates the perpetual mysteries and resonances at the convergence of national identity, historical influence, and personal experience. In Don't Do It--We Love You, My Heart, Jonathan Fink interweaves a welcome range of poetic styles including expan...

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Report copyright infringementby Such (Author)One of the most powerful and sustained works in all medieval literature, without which no series could be considered complete. The Poem of My Cid deals with the exploits of the medieval Castilian warrior, beginning with the sorrow of his departure into exile and focusing on his determination to regain the favour of his king. The poem is rich in incident and around the strength of the epic hero is developed the theme of the relationship between the ...

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by Athena Goldsby-Hill (Author) This book contains poetry that has been written over the years of my life following a shooting incident that caused me to be confined to a wheelchair. I thought my life was, at that point, meaningless. I did not want to do anything in life; because I did not know what I could do. I felt confined in the body as well as in mind because in neither was I being fruitful. I was lost and depressed at the age of fourteen. I received a birthday gift from a friend of min...