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Report copyright infringementby Lisken Van Pelt Dus (Author)How Many Hands to Home is a journey of compassion, traveling through fire, war and displacement to arrive at a place of acceptance and embrace of the expansive human spirit. The many voices of the poems engage with both individual and shared experience, exploring the two sides-the challenges and the sweetness-of forging home in our communities and on our planet. Though the poems engage head-on with the various ways in which humanity ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Kayzakian (Author)Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series SelectionIn The Book of Redacted Paintings, the narrative arc follows a boy in search of his father's painting, but it is unclear whether the painting exists or not. The book, a poetry collection, is also populated by a series of paintings. Some are real, incomplete, and/or missing, while most are redacted from reality. The withdrawn paintings concept is the emotional arc of the book, a comb...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Hagie (Author)A collection of thoughts, moments, feelings, and growth. Starting from the darker moments and gradually moving towards a feeling of content, The First Flame is a progressional collection of poetry from the heart and mind. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Dwaine Rieves (Author)Between the world that created these poems and the one in which they still live, Red Camaro shuttles us through lifetimes of touching moments as well as challenging times when the beauty within our history must remain a dream. The result-a muscle vehicle of memory, the kind of car in which you come to realize that over a distance no one can ever map out in advance, love itself is the only reliable driver. Number of Pages: 102 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jose Hernandez Diaz (Author)In The Parachutist, Jose Hernandez Diaz weaves a breathtaking tapestry of poetry that delves into the heart of the Chicano experience. Diaz's poetic voice shines brightly, capturing the tension between inherited struggles and present-day privilege, translating the untold stories of his ancestors into vivid, surreal verses. This collection is a tribute to those who, due to circumstance, could not tell their stories, as if the speaker ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alie McArdle (Author)In Retrospect is a collection of poetry that dives deep into the messiness of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. With raw honesty and vivid imagery, McArdle captures the fleeting moments, unanswered questions, and quiet revelations that shape a life.These poems are equal parts tender and unflinching, exploring the ache of letting go, the spark of new beginnings, and the challenge of finding yourself in a world that doesn't pause.For thos...

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Report copyright infringementby Vinay K. Gogne (Author), Anupriya (Author)""यह किताब मेरे पिता की कविताओं का संग्रह है, जो शायद प्रकाशन के लिए लिखी गईं थी। परन्तु उन्की यह इच्छा अधूरी रह गई। यह कविताएँ उनकी सोच और समझ दिखलाती हैं। कुछ केवल मनोरंजन के लिए लिखी गईं हैं, और कुछ मानव स्तिथी पर विचार करने के लिए। कुछ लफ्ज़ उनकी जवानी के किस्से बयाँ करते हैं, और कुछ आने वाले कल का वर्णन करते हैं। आख़िरकार उनके सभी किस्से उनकी सादगी और जिज्ञासा को सामने लाते हैं। मुझे यह कविताएँ पढ़कर बहुत मज़ा भी आया, ...

The Voyage of Ervin Devland: and Other Works

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Report copyright infringementby Luke T. McConnell (Author)Join Ervin Devland in his battle for redemption. Will Ervin redeem his soul and overcome his pride or will he perish in the deep?Follow his story, along with other assorted poems by author Luke T. McConnell. These poems range in subject from theology to romance, some deeply personal."Against my skull new fears pushed forth and danced upon my brain. A show of life and death was seen. Played by Abel and Cain" Number of Pages...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandra Weiss (Author)"Visually stunning, formally innovative, and unlike anything I've ever read before."--Audrey T. Carroll, author of In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be"In ...but i work here, Weiss renders sickness as a dense palimpsest of meaning and feeling. The reader is brought into a kitsch excess of chronic illness, bodily transformation, and cancer prevention from within the medical-industrial complex. Signposts of care are reminders of the uncanny...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah V. Schweig (Author)Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism."The question isn't / what exists," writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection, "The question is what doesn't / die with us?" Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried ...

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Report copyright infringementby Allexus Lopes (Author)Witnessing the Growing pains in love. There is beauty in the lessons, and being deeply connected to others and also to oneself. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Gianella Ghiglino (Author)What do you do with the survival instinct when it has fulfilled its purpose? Poet Gianella Ghiglino unravels this question over dozens of soul-stirring pages, charting her relationship with her Peruvian roots, her immigrant family, and survivor's guilt. Equal parts meditation and eulogy, Resting Place of Survival gives grace to the everyday, the ancestral, and the mythic through native and adapted tongues. Number of Pages...

At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Duong (Author) At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupture--the ruptures of mental illness and addiction, of migration and displacement, of violence, familial conflict, and ecological catastrophe--and yet the speakers engage with despair and playfulness in equal measure, always allowing humor, irony, and the exuberance of contemporary life to bend darkness toward something like hope.Ag...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Carson (Author)"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The Economist Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us" -- an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hilary Nili (Author)Plunging into darkness, you look for a lifeline. I came forth from the mental hospitals fighting; drugged and almost committed for life. Flashbacks and putting the pieces together, memories unearthed. Unwanted are the memories, yet they come, crying out to God to not be forgotten. The mental system is designed to lock one in without recourse. And then comes the realization that to be alive is to breathe the air without restraint. To know tha...

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Report copyright infringementby Alysse Kathleen McCanna (Author)Linguistically acrobatic, FishWife interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of memory, reclaiming and redefining language to discover the self. This collection explores where and how embodiments of wifehood and identity overlap and entwine, alchemizing intuition into language and offering poetry as a mode of illumination. Traveling from sea to sky to earth, the speaker crosses literal and figurative borders of s...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Fay Coutley (Author)Historically poets have explored no two themes more than love and grief because they are opposite sides of the same emotional coin that we will all experience in unique and often unexplainable ways. While other anthologies validate the necessity of the elegy, none examine the relationship between the body in grief and the body of the poem a poet crafts to recreate an individual, visceral experience of grief. By pairing contemporary poem...

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver's poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner's life. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two...

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Peacock (Author)After her husband's death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow's mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems--joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving--composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms, designed in four movements (After, Before, When, and Afterglow)--illuminate both the role of the caregiver and the cry...

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Report copyright infringementby Selin Senol-Akin (Author)'The Elemental Collection' is the compilation of the award-winning author's poetry-infused series based on the elements of water, air, earth and fire, respectively and chronologically.It unites the premier and final books of pure, raw and empowering poetry ('Write Out Your Drops' and 'Fire Up Your Flight') with the second book ('Set Free Your Flow')-the author's tongue-in-cheek, coming-of-age memoir about her bicultural, tumultuous expe...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Mendelssohn (Author)In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohn's work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. Her magical, weaving and at times painful lyric poetry draws us into an ecstatic vision of our own dependencies, dreams and desires. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.45 x 8.55 x 5.56 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandria Wyckoff (Author)In The Pain Cycle, a torn ACL, surgery involving a cadaver specimen transplant, and the long aftermath of recovery become a taut locus of inquiry about identity, endurance, and transformation. "Sometimes you have to get a little dead inside," Wyckoff writes, in service of the way toward wholeness. These visceral poems reimagine woundedness and healing from eyes of an alien, Frankenstein's monster, and a time traveler, all while prob...

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Report copyright infringementby Libby McKechnie (Author)"In this very old, magical place / I knew I was not alone."A vibrant, moving sophomore collection, All the Small Things offers a gentle reminder to readers young and old: You are not alone. Through poetic lyricism and whimsical watercolour illustrations, Libby McKechnie showcases the melodious union of her artistic gifts. In these pages, joy and grief overlap, and beauty arrives unexpectedly. Herons and owls coast and alight. Poppies bri...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Schulz (Author)The poems in Bill Schulz's Another Psalm are contemplative and graceful elegies, prayers and songs--invocations for what has been lost, for what has been remembered, for what cannot be replaced. I was transformed by this collection as grief evolves into beauty and then into joy.--Elizabeth Jacobson, author of Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air and the forthcoming There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral In Bill Schul...

On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia

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Report copyright infringementby Liesl Yamaguchi (Author)Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes' descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely on transpositions across sensory dimensions ("bright vowels"). This has not always been the case. The distinction emerged over the course of ...

Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert

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Report copyright infringementby Zbigniew Herbert (Author)From one of Poland's most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time.Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both a celebration of a profound life of letters and a wide-ranging collection of never-before-published work that casts new light on a much-loved poet. Spanning from 1950 to 1998, this ...

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Report copyright infringementby Vik Shirley (Author)Here in the forest, rife with collective hallucinations & mishaps, rumours & grudges, moon juice & gravel walking, anything is possible. The constant babble of elusive deer language keeps the inhabitants and reader sane, as deer fly and deep-sea dive, become fussy eaters and start chat show trends. The deer show us ourselves at our worst, best and most ridiculous in their pure nonsense/no nonsense way. After all, who hasn't had p...

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Report copyright infringementby Anita A. Hymes (Author)There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author BiographyAnita Hymes Autobiography Anita Hymes the author of Soulfulness of a Gullah Girl and "Flowing Passion." She is a native of John's Island SC, a small Island off the coast of Charleston SC on the Sea Islands. Born and raised in a loving Christian family with a strong faith in God. Grew up in an environment rich with culture surrounded by the G...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Elizabeth Moreman (Author)ThreeS into infinity is a collection of poems that focuses on the author's decision-making process to take the plunge-which is do the cochlear implant surgery. The outcome involves more colorful vibrant frequencies and the ability to embrace the hissing sound of S - Sss through listening and speaking. Born profoundly bisensorineural deaf, the author illustratively shares reasons why she originally did not want to undergo surgery ...

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Report copyright infringementby Janice N. Harrington (Author)Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection of descriptive, lyrical, and experimental poems speaks to the Black American Imagination in all its multiplicity.Harrington's speaker is...

Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival

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Report copyright infringementby G. Ronald Murphy (Author)The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210). Strangely, the Grail is identified in Parzival not as a cup or dish, but as a stone. This oddity is usually interpreted merely as further evidence of the difficulty of discerning the true sources of the Grail legend. G. Ronald Murphy seeks to illumin...

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Burton Raffel (Translator), John Miles Foley (Introduction by)Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer's unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language-and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer's work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered his words unfamiliar to many ...