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Report copyright infringementby J. R. Y. Dagen (Author)""J. R. Y. Dagen is a Pennsylvania native, who has told everyone she is a writer even though this is her first truly finished work. She loves books, though her husband would tell her she has too many books (how dare he?), and she loves writing. This is her first major experiment with poetry, as she mostly dabbles with fantasy and fiction. J. R. Y. Dagen is also a co-host of The Book Snug Podcast, which you can find wherever you listen to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ra'mone Marquis (Author)The Faith Zone is a powerful anthology that weaves together a tapestry of human experiences, each thread representing a battle against adversity and a testament to the indomitable human spirit. This collection of short stories and poems invites readers into the raw, unfiltered worlds of individuals facing their darkest hours, only to emerge stronger, wiser, and more deeply connected to their faith. From the depths of despair to the heigh...

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Report copyright infringementby Angie Ciarimboli (Author)Conglomerate of poems from my heart to yours. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 23, 2024

In God's Room: Open the Door to God's Gifts

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Report copyright infringementby Marilyn Montgomery (Author) Appreciating the Beauty and Healing of God in Nature God's unique creations found in all of nature are one of the most beautiful gifts found on this earth. Every variety, color, and intricate design seems to form its own purpose by awakening our spirits and touching our senses throughout these works. The beauty, design, and amazing colors along with the uniqueness comes forth to light in each work. The play of light and shadow create...

In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Cutler (Editor), Dan Mahoney (Editor), Gaby Gordon-Fox (Editor)Fernando Pessoa enters the imaginations of these gifted American poets like a frightening medicine, challenging them to self-divide, multiply, renounce stability, and relish in the dead-time that our culture so vehemently abhors. Like a slippery thorn in the myth of bigger, better individualism, Pessoa seems to have privately solicited these poets for disturbing conversations about nothing: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenny F. Coveney (Author), John L. Coveney (Editor)A poetic yet fulfilling read. To either get your blood boiling or your activism juices flowing to make a change!suitable for ages 13-18+This is a political poetry book, for people who either want it summed up, or have something to relate to.This book is for people who want to make a change. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: January 14,...

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Report copyright infringementby Hunter Bloodmoon (Author)Finally collected together in print form, Hunter Bloodmoon's poem collection, An Autopsy, is twenty-nine lyrical works of love, loss, and the strange, wild, and dangerous power of finding your own voice. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 21, 2025

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by James Ragan (Author)A new collection from the world-renowned lyricistAcclaimed American poet James Ragan begins this newest collection of poems by asking whether "a rope could swing us / long and light across a widening trough / of all that fails us in our lives." With these very first lines, Ragan draws readers into his world of vivid metaphor and evocative imagery, a world tinged with an aching sense of loss born of "a mind bereaved by solitude."Yet if Ragan needs solitude to construct h...

Rare Feather: Poems of Birds and Art - Paperback

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by Chryss Yost (Editor), Nancy Gifford (Editor), George Yatchisin (Editor)The Shoreline Voices Project, published by Gunpowder Press, showcases the poetic voices of the Central California Coast, including Santa Barbara and surrounding communities. Collections are created in partnership with local institutions. "Rare Feather" collects poems by more than three dozen Santa Barbara area poets on the subject of birds and art, inspired by the FLOCK exhibit of contemporary art curated by Nancy Giffo...

To Give Life a Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Paperback

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by David Starkey (Editor), Chryss Yost (Editor)Compiled in celebration of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's 75th anniversary, this collection features work by 40 poets living in Santa Barbara and adjacent counties inspired by art in the museum's permanent collection. The book is the fouth in the Shoreline Voices Series, published by Gunpowder Press. Poets include Ron Alexander, Alison Bailey, Rick Benjamin, Gudrun Bortman, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Steve Braff, Mary Brown, Susan Chiavelli, John C...

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by Comninos Susan (Author)In Out of Nowhere, Susan Comninos pays homage to the long and varied traditions of poets who have come before her and turns poetry on its head. Inthese pages, "No barrow depends on this / trio of hens," nudists visiting an art museum become the spectacle themselves, and maple buds "fist their way / Open." On each page, a gift-a surprise-a riot of language! These poems are sassy, provocative, perfectly cut. The fantasy of nudists visiting the Louvre in "Naked Admissio...

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Report copyright infringementby Marial Awendit (Author)This collection contains poems of resistance to tyranny and human cruelty. Most suffering arises from human cruelty, in comparison to wild animals and natural disasters. This collection asserts the value of people and nature against adversaries such as greed, malevolent complicity, religious and racial bigotry. The triumph of love is what this collection expounds and puts afore. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0...

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Report copyright infringementby Tanure Ojaide (Author)History and Its True Colors is the poet's reflection on history from the multiple positionalities of creativity and self, personal relations, society, nationality, race, humanity, and life. The nine unique and yet interrelated movements of the collection not only memorialize the African past but also represent the journey to the past, for its remains still affect human experiences today. It is a past that has not fully passed because the p...

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Report copyright infringementby Olivia Ngozi Osuoha (Author)ABRACADABRA is a book of expression, containing the writer's pain, burden, prayers, anger, sorrow and many more about lands, climes, leaders, experiences and happenings across the globe, especially in Africa. It is a compilation of poems, prose, articles and others in touching states, as it moves the writer. It doesn't give writers joy that their lands are retrogressive, rather they voice out all their pain as they wish that energy f...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheena M. Roberts (Author), Jean Claude Roy (Cover Design by), Christina Benedict (Photographer)Bleached by Moonlight is a poetry collection that speaks in many voices. Showcasing the breadth of her poetic oeuvre, senior poet Sheena M. Roberts effortlessly moves between poetic styles, including contemporary free verse, rhyming poems captivating in their rhythm and use of language, and precise calligram. Powerful works on pain, disability, and aging, vibrant nat...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Frost (Author), Robert Faggen (Introduction by), Faggen Robert (Notes by)Beloved American poet Robert Frost's first three books, in one collection This volume presents Frost's first three books, masterful and innovative collections that contain some of his best-known poems, including "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "Home Burial," "The Oven Bird," "Birches," and "The Road Not Taken." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadi...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Olzmann (Author)"There's something inherently spiritual about Olzmann's Mezzanines. . . . It's a place of reflection and contemplation, a temporary reprieve from the world's chaos and a reach for a vision of paradise." --The Los Angeles Review of Books". . .the poems [in Mezzanines] have doors that open and invite you inside. The rooms of the house may be odd, and the stairwells may lead in strange directions, but you, as the reader, remain beckoned. [O...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Farish (Author)Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024Drawing on powerful and universal themes, The Penny Dropping traces the journey of a relationship from first meeting to eventual break-up. Distance and maturity give retrospective access to moments of revelation which went fatally unacknowledged or unheeded at the time and which now return with an insistence impossible to ignore. But if the penny drops years too late, these poems are their own implic...

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Signorelli-Pappas (Author)Serving House Books presents the third poetry collection from Rita Signorelli-Pappas.The ChameleonACKNOWLEDGMENTSGrateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following magazines in which these poems, sometimes in different form, first appeared: Claudel Studies: "Asylum Journal: The Internment of Camille Claudel"The Cresset: "Harem" "Magdalene"Crosscurrents: "Daybook: Leonard Woolf"Cumberland Poetry Review: "Swans" and "Fa...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Thorogood (Author), Alan Durden (Editor)A critical study of the life and work of one of the most popular poets of the Victorian era.Thomas Hood was skilled in almost every form of poetic writing-romantic verse, poems of social conscience, and witty parodies, as well as being an accomplished painter, engraver and caricaturist.Illustrated in full colour with many of Hood's paintings and pen-and-ink sketches, published here for the first time. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Milligan (Author)I hope to inspire people and create a safe space for people struggling or using writing as a means to cope. I decided to use this book as a way to share my healing through words, to create something powerful to show that you're not alone. Furthermore, I want to show that you are capable of so much more. You will find the level of peace that you're looking for. Just take it one day at a time. Number of Pages: 36 ...

South African Verses: Poetry and Short Stories by South African Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Alta H. Haffner (Author), Charles R. Haffner (Foreword by), Ekta Somera (Curated by)The Republic of South Africa is a land that I now know. From the mountains, desert, ocean, and grassy plains are images that I dreamed of instead of studying. A home of many cultures and ideas that match its beauty. In these pages, you will find some love, strength, beauty and humor mixed in with a little pain. Imagine twenty-two different opinions of the same painting! Today we...

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by Chrétien de Troyes (Author), Burton Raffel (Translator)In this extraordinarily fine translation of Cligès, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems by twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, Burton Raffel captures the liveliness, innovative spirit, and subtle intentions of the original work. In this poem, Chrétien creates his most artful plot and paints the most starkly medieval portraits of any of his romances. The world he describes has few of the safeguards and protections o...

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Report copyright infringementby Jina Dcruz (Author)Lightning in a Bottle captures the essence of a reticent poet's introspective journey, unraveling the complex emotions and curiosities that shape our lives. Each poem invites you to pause, refl ect, and engage with themes that challenge the ordinary and explore the extraordinary. It's a collection that will stir your imagination, spark deep contemplation, and leave you with a sense of wonder about the world around you. An evocative blend of t...

Desires To Remember: A Collection of Poetry and Art

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Report copyright infringementby Rhonda Gutierrez (Author)A BookLife Editor's Pick, Desires To Remember is a collection of poems and paintings that reflect the author's journey through an inner landscape where life experiences, pains, and pleasures are fearlessly embraced and transformed into art with brush strokes of poetic inspiration that evoke an emotional response. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: January 21, 20...

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Report copyright infringementby Alyssa Michelle (Author)Every once in a while Someone always gives you back the light That you once shared with the world And it begins to make perfect sense That your pain was used as a catalyst To heal But it had to start with you- You are a walking testimony And your soul bears infinite knowledge That will carry through every reincarnation You just have to remember -who you are Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Rucks (Author)In her third book, Night Travelers, Carol Rucks invites us to go the distance on some splendid flights of imagination. We are rewarded in surprise, richness of language, (not orange but tangerine) and story. She often skillfully uses the skeleton of a common human experience and weaves it into a poem to give readers a blissful "aha" moment. In her poem, "A Man Took His Cell Phone for a Walk," the dog pulls on the leash while the subject begi...

Fourteen Inches from Death to Life: The deception of a lie unveiled A radical testimonial A poetic, rhetoric rendition

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Shirley (Author)This is the radical transformation of a life surrendered to God, whom he met on June 20, 2022. A lie so subtle deceived the mind of a child at an early age. At the age of five, a little boy saw pornography for the first time, and it became a stronghold that tormented his soul until Jesus Christ intervened miraculously. During his teenage years, he believed he was a Christian and gave his life several times at the altar, wanting change. The ...

If I Had the Floor: warfare and doves' eyes

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Report copyright infringementby Star Bush (Author)This collection, as a whole, touches on emotional subjects, brings in life-giving encouragement and reminds reader of God's greatness of love for us. This is done without forgetting about risky ideas and humor. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Monica N. Yarbrough (Author)The Silence Between Words is a deeply introspective collection of poems that explores the spaces between thought and expression-where meaning is often unspoken, yet deeply felt. Through vivid imagery and raw emotion, the author delves into the universal struggles of self-discovery, inner conflict, and personal transformation. The poems reflect on themes of love, loss, fear, and redemption, capturing the delicate balance between light...

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by Haya Pomrenze (Author)Haya Pomrenze's "Hook" conveys the complexities of the Jewish Modern Orthodox female experience. The narrator is an insider and an outsider, dependent and contemptuous, a follower and a free spirit. Like the child in "Straddle" hooking her feet into the stirrups of a carousel horse, the heroine labors to stand on solid ground while staking her claim in a world further complicated by the push and pull of the mother-daughter relationship, explored throughout the book an...

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Report copyright infringementby Kamille Elizabeth Graham (Author)To Bloom in the Valley details the author's coming of age journey of finding faith, battling depression, honoring her Black American heritage, advocating for abuse survivors & victims, and discovering healing through art, introspection, love, & nature. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2025