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Report copyright infringementby Lynn Emanuel (Author)Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or inv...

The Great Kiva: A Poetic Critique of Religion

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Report copyright infringementby Phillips Kloss (Author)The legends of the American Southwestern world, along with man's relationship and reactions to his natural habitat and to his universe are set into this compelling poetry of Phillips Kloss. Kloss considered this volume to be "a religious essence of his country and his humanity with the kiva theme, the man theme and the verbality theme consistent throughout." * * * * * PHILLIPS KLOSS was born in Webster Groves, Missouri in 1902. He moved t...

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Report copyright infringementby Sybil Pittman Estess (Author)In this collection of new and selected poems, Sybil Pittman Estess takes readers on an intensely personal journey, a deep exploration of life in contemporary America. "These are poems of witness," says 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Larry Thomas. "...of witness to a life fully lived, of witness to birth, friendship, death, and the unforgiving pain of loss; and of witness to a world rife with the wounds of global warming, the violence of g...

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Report copyright infringementby Apostle Lydia Woodson-Sloley (Author)Heaven's Breath" Where the air is thin and the flesh can't get in" "Heaven's Breath" has its own atmosphere. The air is so thin that flesh can't be recognized. It's where the heartbeat of man becomes one with the heartbeat of God. It's where the Spirit of God communes with the spirit of man on its highest level. "Heaven's Breath" reveals the sweetness of surrender, where our desire for intimacy with God allows us to experien...

Silver and Gold: The True Story of Two Survivors

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Herak (Author), Rosemary Herak Kohout (Author)This is the story of survival of two girlssisters who were born into a family of immigrant parents. They were loved and cherished for the first seven years of their lives. It was after the death of their father that everything changed. Displayed are authentic images of papers and photographs, most of which were taken over ninety years ago. Although many are not legible, they are nonetheless original. There are...

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Report copyright infringementby Djuna Barnes (Author), Dick Whyte (Editor)Djuna Barnes - Lament of Women & Other RhythmsForgotten Poets #22 / forgottenpoets.substack.com'Lament of Women & Other Rhythms' brings together a collection of New York poet Djuna Barnes' poems and drawings, including the complete 'Book of Repulsive Women' (1915), alongside a generous selection of her verse originally published in underground poetry and arts magazines (1911-23), and her second full-length colle...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Ramirez (Author)This book contains a series of pieces ranging from love, confusion, hatred, pain and healing. Each piece was inspired. I hope to move you with the stories I am able to tell as I allow you a small piece of my thoughts. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Priscilla Velez (Author)The poems you will read are my thoughts on the actions I wish to take, the grief and heart ache that I wish to relieve and integrate into my next season of life. I'm just out here searching for peace during a dark time in my life. I have a lot I am trying to unlearn and over come. Writing has helped soothe me and release some of the backed up emotions I've had for all these years. I just pray that anyone who reads this book understands i...

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley Campbell Barr (Author)La literatura ha sido llamada no sólo a demostrar las grandes ausencias históricas, sino también las presencias desdibujadas y maltratadas de los africanos y africanas alrededor del mundo.Yo sí quiero que me etiqueten, yo sí quiero que digan esa es la poeta negra. (SHIRLEY CAMPBELL BARR) Esta poesía es un canto desde la dignidad y la identidad afrodescendiente, desde las luchas de independencia personales y de los pueblos. Shirley ...

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author), Samuel Butler (Translator)Samuel Butler's translation of The Iliad, first published in 1898, is a prose rendition of this ancient Greek epic. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War and focuses on the Greek hero Achilles and his conflict with King Agamemnon, as well as the broader battles and interactions between the Greeks and Trojans.Butler's translation is known for its clarity and accessibility, aiming to make the story understandable to a wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Samantha Nichols (Author)This book will be an exploration of new and old experiences that have caused wonder or were the result of a "What if?" Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 14, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Katz (Author)We live in an age of memoir. Unlike previous eras, in which readers were encouraged to consider a poem or novel separately from the poet's or novelist's biography, the author's life story seems today to have become the main thing-the primary element upon n In The Biographer, his fifth collection of poems, David M. Katz interrogates and explores that assumption. The book's title poem, Katz's longest published work to date, tackles the issue...

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Report copyright infringementby André Blondel Tonleu Mendou (Author)They have forgotten that politics is a priesthood!That politics is above all a commitment, A priestly commitment!That politics is nothing but a priesthood!And nothing but a priesthood!They have forgotten that the politicianIs not an economic operator!And that in his role as a political opponent, He has a historical responsibility!Because he is invested with a particular mission, At a very particular moment, And in a very part...

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Report copyright infringementby Jayson W. Rampersad (Author), Jeannette MacLean (Illustrator)Rejected love, ecstatic love, misguided love-Memories of a Lover explores complex and intensely vivid experiences of love and relationship in this collection of poems. Rare moments of perfect connection between the lover and the beloved sit alongside raw fear and compulsive self-destructiveness as the poet/lover unsparingly records his memories. If you were a song, I'd listen until I was deaf.I would ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ayushi Sanjay Acharya (Author)The poems are inspired by universal experiences: love, pain, grief, loss, light. The ode to water signs embody the qualities of receptivity, intuition, and emotion. This shows us we can be like water and also be a fluid, cyclical force, mirroring the rhythms of the moon, the tides, and the cycles of life. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 23, 2024 ...

Transformational Grace: A Language of the Transforming Power of God's Grace Through Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Hadland (Author)Transformational Grace is a language of God's transforming grace through the eyes of poetry. These poetic trues identify with humanity's trials, storms, and earthquakes while assuring the grace of God to overcome. This collection of poems is intended to inspire, incite hope, and to provoke a lasting, authentic change that can only be produced through the transforming grace of Christ. No matter where you are in this journey of life, God's...

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Report copyright infringementby Janall Mok (Author)"Let your velvet petals free." Little Rose is a long, arduous and, at times, callous evolution of a seed's growth into a blooming rose. A rose is a wonderous flower that is seen as a symbol of love and romance. But the story that comes from those luminous petals is a journey of learning how to love. It can be a difficult journey that's riddled with growing thorns, fragile petals that have fallen, and harsh environments that may hinder growth....

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Imo-Stike (Author)The poems of Beyond the Noisy Membrane identify and celebrate the connections between what's on the everyday roadways we travel and in the vast worlds that encompass us.They embrace the complex simplicity of the natural world juxtaposed with our human desire for understanding our place in it. They strive to extract and reveal stories from the life-ground we walk on, from the sight of a single kernel of yellow corn or the full moon, expans...

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Willie Perdomo (Author)A suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo's third collection crackles with vitality and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death. At the b...

There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Jacobson (Author)Free Verse EditionsSeries Editor: Jon ThompsonWhat People Are SayingElizabeth Jacobson's new poems are both profound and transparent, which is rare. Also rare is their intimacy with the natural world, rendered in language memorable for its near-microscopic observation and precision. Set in the desert, the tropics, and the human mind, the poems move fluently from family to ecological grief to the life of the spirit and beyond. Curious,...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Hetherington (Author)Matt Hetherington is a writer, music-maker, and moderately immoderate self-moderator. He has been writing poetry for over 40 years, and his sixth collection, 'Kaleidoscopes', was published by Recent Work Press in September 2020. Current Inspirations are: raw garlic, vinyl played very loud through big black speakers, and the Corpse Pose. His new collection is 'About Alone Away' (Walleah Press, December 2024).This collection is muscular,...

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Report copyright infringementby Francine J. Harris (Author)WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRYThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speakers in francine j. harris' third collection explore the mystique, and myth, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness, aging, landscape and artistic tradition. The speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Simoneau (Author)In No Small Comfort we find America's interiors and exteriors, the homes and landscapes messy, chaotic in a way that any of us might recognize. And yet these scenes are imbued with a kind of peaceful acceptance, as well, even as the ground drops out from beneath our feet in these lines and "fog / becomes an essay / on gravity and fate / whose claims won't hold up." Some poems we go to for comfort, others to be shaken awake. In Simoneau's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sholeh Wolpé (Author)lbert Einstein said, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." It is in this vein that Sholeh Wolpé's mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this lyrical and candid work, her fifth collection of poems, Wolpé invokes the abacus as an instrument of remembering. Through different countries and cultures, she carries us bead by bead on a journey of loss and triumph, love and exile. In the end, t...

The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems of Frank Stanford

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Stanford (Author)Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the age of twenty-nine, Frank Stanford published seven volumes of poetry. Within a year of his death, two posthumous collections were published. At the time of this death, as Leon Stokesbury asserts in his introduction, "Stanford was the best poet in America under the age of thirty-five." The Light the Dead See collects the best work from those n...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Tierney (Author)Even the most integrative, supportive doctor can only do so much for an individual during the worst period of healing from Lyme. The process looks different for everyone, but a patient must feel significantly worse before they begin to recover. When Lyme bacteria (or other coinfections) are first attacked by antibiotics, herbs, or other treatment, they release toxins into the body quicker than they can be dispelled. This is called a Jarisch...

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Report copyright infringementby Sm Stubbs (Author), Scott Stubbs (Author)"Learning to Drown is that rare book of poems you read over and over again, savoring its texture, taste, and cohesion. SM Stubbs delivers poems that are thrilling in their tone and form and exhilarating in their stunning metaphorical leaps, yet remain tightly controlled, accessible, and thematically cohesive. He reminds us that 'history is how we're tethered to certain/stretches of land.' In poem after gripping poem, he ...

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Report copyright infringementby Shane McCrae (Author)In Shane McCrae's NONFICTION, the self is repeatedly re-figured as the site of rupture between truth and fiction, present and past, first-person and third-person-the rupture in which the dichotomies we live by, the dichotomies that erase us, originate. The speakers of these poems inhabit impossible situations, and the poems themselves speak neither of overcoming, nor of being overcome by, these impossibilities, but of the moment of equilibr...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Wainger (Author)Black River Chapbook Competition winner, Lucy Wainger, is a portrait of adolescent mental illness at the end of history.IN LIFE THERE ARE MANY THINGS is a portrait of adolescent mental illness after the end of history: "I have / this body- / residue-and I don't know what / left it." This chapbook's unmoored speakers seek, alternately, to root themselves more firmly in the world and to exit it entirely. Autobiography and allegory merge to tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Enzo Silon Surin (Author)American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America's neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper context is the fraudulent and fraught mythology that Black people are what America needs to be protected from. This extremely damaging narrative has been prominently embedded within the socio-political framework of American culture and continu...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniele Pantano (Author)Home for Difficult Children: A Memoir in Verse is a book based on personal and familial experiences and memories of exile, trauma, migration, immigration, refugeeism, translingualism, transitoriness, social justice, and writing one's way home. Daniele Pantano writes with remarkable empathy and uncommon beauty. It is a book in defiance of solipsism. It is a book for us all. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.31 x...

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny H. Irish (Author)An unflinching new collection from poet, Jenny Irish, in which cultural violence against women is explored through various personae.At the heart of all violence is fear: Lupine is a gathering of feminist prose poetry engaging themes of ecology, animality, and the human unknown. A series of interconnected dramatic monologues, the poems inhabit the personae of figures traditionally deemed Monstrous, giving them voice to confront and reclaim...