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Report copyright infringementby Lydia T. Liu (Author)The Problem of Deer is a lyrical exploration of the transitory landscapes that shape a diasporic experience. It traces the shifting cartographies of the heart, moving from the dissonances of history and geographical origins to the multiplicities of desire and language. These poems find beauty in their gentle yet persistent interrogations-through the voice of a young peripatetic. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Jandura (Author)My book is dedicated to my wife, Denise, my angel for twenty-five years; also to my late sister, Jeralyn, my guiding light from heaven; and to my dog, Muffin, my pride and joy. Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 15, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Carmen Bugan (Author)In Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of her lifetime, whether they are the forest fires that cover the American continent, the war in Ukraine, or her own world turned to ashes. The speaker in the poem 'Enheduana' laments: He spat on my oven full of food, Walked over my baskets full ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Anaya (Author)Dive into the Raw, Real, and Poetic Journey of Noble Warriors - Veterans, First Responders, and Unsung Heroes Fighting Internal Battles and Embracing Life Amidst Death.The Untold Warfront of the Veteran Mind offers an unfiltered exploration into the minds of heroes whose battlefield transcends physical conflict zones. It opens a window into the souls of those valiant individuals whose courage and commitment to service are etched in their heart...

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Report copyright infringementby Antoinette Cooper (Author)A powerful fusion of poetry, memoir, and history, this groundbreaking collection makes visible the stories of Black women's experiences with medical racism and bodily autonomy. From a TEDx speaker, collective trauma facilitator, and advisory board member for City University School of Medicine's Narrative Medicine Track-this is more than a book; it's a reckoning."Cooper's astonishing debut collection remembers, rewinds and frees the har...

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by Adrien Ernesto Cepeda (Author)Sylvia Plath once said, "I want someone to mouth me." La Belle Ajar is a collection of poems inspired by Plath's 1963 novel that reimagines the journey of Esther Greenwood within the empowering odyssey of these 20 scintillating cento poems that honor the voice and legacy of America's most influential modern poet and author: Sylvia Plath.Author BiographyAdrian Ernesto Cepeda is the author of the full-length poetry collection Flashes & Verses... Becoming Att...

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Report copyright infringementby Safiya Sinclair (Author)Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricat...

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Report copyright infringementby Lise Goett (Author)Poems about celestial and mortal bodies. The Radiant explores the psychological, physical, and spiritual challenges of living in a body and the changes and distortions that arise from the experience of the body's limitations and inevitable death. The collection takes its title from the term for the point from which all meteors appear to emanate during a shower, luminous bodies in decay that when traced to their origin seem to converge at a si...

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Report copyright infringementby Refaat Alareer (Author), Yousef M. Aljamal (Compiled by), Susan Abulhawa (Foreword by)"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale."This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family. The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongsi...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Carson (Author) A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, li...

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Report copyright infringementby James Longenbach (Author)Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, repetition, and more. Acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach shows how a poet may manipulate these most basic elements of diction and syntax to create voice, image, tone, or song, and bring a poem to life. Why does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart?In How Poems Ge...

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Report copyright infringementby Bahar Davary (Author)In Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin, Bahar Davary points to the interrelation of religion, poetry, and ecology from a comparative perspective with an emphasis on decoloniality. This work shows how authors Sohrab Seperhi and James Baldwin sought social justice by building their work on love and an authentic way of knowing the world based on an interconnected knowledge of the self. The layers of...

The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Terence James Reed (Author)'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood. Leaving behind the growing frustrations of administrative work, a di...

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Report copyright infringementby The Rebel Outpost (Author), Necia Campbell (Author), Mary Eichhorn Fletcher (Author)The Rebel Outpost is the creative virtual space for a close-knit group of poets who met during the inaugural year of The Stafford Challenge, 2024, during which registered participants wrote a poem (more or less) each day for a year. Members of The Rebel Outpost are mercurial: by turns serious, playful, collaborative, open to experimentation, and always eager to learn and to try ...

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Report copyright infringementby D'Shan Berry (Author)A collection of poems dealing with love and life. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Cascade Hairston (Author)This collection of poems takes readers on a personal journey filled with introspection and reflection. Through vivid imagery and raw emotion, the author explores themes of self-discovery and the complexities of the human experience. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.07 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 13, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Natalia Toledo (Author), Clare Sullivan (Translator)In Carapace Dancer, Natalia Toledo revisits some themes from her award-winning collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems (tr. Clare Sullivan, Phoneme, 2015).Toledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and grandmothers shape masa. Again, she questions Zapotec traditions even as she mourns their disappearance. But in these poems Toledo takes more risks: she exposes...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary B. Moore (Author)Amanda Chimera by Mary B. Moore explores our hybrid nature as body and something else--mind, soul, spirit--through poems spoken by and about the persona Amanda. Haunted by her vanished twin, Gloria, who died in utero and some of whose DNA she absorbed, Amanda views herself as hybrid and thus as a monster, a carrier of the dead. Grounded in nature's grace and variety, domestic life, and family dynamics, poems on art and myth focus on hybrid...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Ollie (Author)Dreams represents a collection of poetry about what it takes to continue to dream, give and even love during some of life's most challenging moments. Jennifer Ollie provides a unique yet safe space of vulnerability with the intent for the reader to relate, grow and heal. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: September 29, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Clark (Author)Patricia Clark's latest poetry collection O Lucky Day explores her concerns about family and mortality, silence and loneliness, widening to include losses in the natural world. These sorrows often emerge along with an exuberance found in the sensual pleasures of taste and touch. Clark trains herself "to disappear, into the shagbark / hickory, the scarred maple, / the viburnum just about to flower." She knows that whatever upheaval we brin...

Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Vidyan Ravinthiran (Author)Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps adventurously between memoir and criticism, understanding his life through poetry, and vice versa. Ranging from Andrew Marvell to Divya Victor, Ravinthiran writes both about and through poems, discussing Sri Lanka; experiences of racism an...

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Report copyright infringementby R. H. Sin (Author)New Moons: Phases of Healing, the first installment in the Healing Verses series from New York Times bestseller r.h. Sin, is a lyrical and luminous exploration of heartbreak, resilience, and healing from trauma. In this collection, r.h. Sin invites readers to move through darkness, heartbreak, and emotional rebirth with a voice that is intimate, raw, and unwavering in its honesty. This deeply personal work acts as both a mirror and a beacon, ...

Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz

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Report copyright infringementby Menachem Z. Rosensaft (Author)My brother was only five years old // Adonaiour mother taught him // to love Youthat You // would not let him stumble //would not let him fallOut of the horror of the abyss, the narrow places of his family's history, Menachem Rosensaft has written a Book of Psalms that laments, accuses, rages, weeps and yet, somehow, still addresses God. The son of two Auschwitz survivors, Rosensaft imagines the voice of his older brother, Benjamin...

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Report copyright infringementby Sang Hee Kwak (Author)Sang Hee Kwak is poet and novelist Proof and read Revise. Sang Hee Kwak is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her work has been featured in numerous magazine including "CCC Poetry" and "SISANMEC". She has a passion for the peace of the world and enjoys to narrate her diverse experience both in person and in group settings. Sang Hee Kwak is legacy of a peace maker. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Collins (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life. "Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR "Witty, wry and tender when it hurts, Water, Water is a pleasure to read and easy to give."--The Washington Post "Collins remains the most co...

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Report copyright infringementby Alta H. Haffner (Author)From the gentle morning light to the stillness at dusk...This is a blend of traditional and modern Haiku and Tanka.Delicate imagery of cherry blossoms, dandelions, starry nights, melancholy moments and the tranquility of walking in a Japanese garden.Tiny little starstucked inside an ancient language, words that breathe within, from season to season, each syllablea fingerprint pressed into time.the cicadas scream for summer, voices echo i...

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Report copyright infringementby Fari Syed (Author)"I am lost sometimes but I always find myself." In the Essence of Love and Experience, Fari Syed takes readers on a therapeutic journey through poetry. With lyrical language and boundless empathy, Syed plumbs the depths of human emotion and interrogates life altering choices-missing the opportunity to see one's mother the day before she dies, choosing to trust someone else over oneself, choosing between two lovers. Writing on love and desire, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Theroux (Author)In Truisms II, Alexander Theroux revisits a favorite subject of his-a second volume of original insights he calls "truisms"-each one a repository of what he believes to be the inevitable or irresistible ever-fixed marks he has observed over a lifetime of reading, thinking, and writing.While a truism's insistent authenticity lends it an air of dogma, this quality can also make it controversial and invite scorn. These vigorous truths, in...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Gainer (Author)"Sometimes reading Bill Gainer's poems is like finding a note full of familiar sounding tales left on a barstool. The whole story is there. Change the names, and it could be yours. You know the girl with the long fingers, why the buzzards are circling, which ghosts are traveling with you, and why you stay for another round." -Pat Grizzell, Sacramento Poetry Center "Gainer opens up the body of American life to lay out the guts of our behavio...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Seiden (Author)Frank Seiden occasionally wrote poems for special occasions during his school and; working years. Unfortunately, those poems and the ones from high school and college were lost. In 1996, he joined a workshop for writers, called 'Taproot Work shops'. After a couple of years, he was asked to lead a workshop, which he did for a year-and-a-half until he moved to California in 2008. There, he joined a club for writers in his community. However, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Lloyd Fry (Author), James William Fry (Photographer)Some Things Scattered Around is a poetry/photography book from brothers, Andrew Lloyd Fry, and James William Fry. Both the poetry and their corresponding images, are infused with a celebration of the created world, often finding deep symbolism in the things we can see. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2024

Rags of Light: Leonard Cohen and the Landscape of Biblical Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Brian J. Walsh (Author), J. Richard Middleton (Foreword by)Creatively bringing the songs, prayers, and poetry of Leonard Cohen into conversation with Scripture, this book deeply grounds Cohen's work in the landscape of the biblical imagination, paying special attention to Jesus together with the prophetic and priestly voices of Scripture. What emerges is a compellingly lyrical work of theology that deepens our understanding of both Cohen and biblical faith. Leo...