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Report copyright infringementby J. Luke McClellan (Author)Have you ever wondered how to truly overcome your suffering?The answer has always been there. Do you experience: -Never-ending cycles of anxiety?-strong feelings of regret?-Missing loved ones that have left?-Needing life to be a certain way?-Always desiring more?These are common feelings, commonly unresolved with the most common solution: everything but God. But I am here to tell you that God is the answer to everything! So, in taking ...
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Report copyright infringementby Kat Olvera (Author), Aaron Olvera (Photographer)Broken Hands is a follow-up to Terra Vagus' 2021 collection, Time Slip. Broken Hands is a reminder that healing is not linear. That it's okay to still feel the pains of the past while reaching toward the future. We may not always be who we once were, but those wounds last forever in a beauty that can only be realized through accepting ourselves and our stories. The clock stops for no one - but who says time is rea...
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Report copyright infringementby Kat Olvera (Author), Aaron Olvera (Photographer)This debut poetry collection from Terra Vagus tells three short stories based on life, love, and loss. This collection explores the trials and tribulations that come with life events, including fertility, relationships, grief, family trauma, and substance abuse. Each piece tells a story of overcoming ghosts of the past while preparing to take on hardships that the future may bring. The story of Terra Vagus was con...
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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)Blue Pastures collects fifteen prose works from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver."This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft."--Library JournalWith consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols...
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Report copyright infringementby Goulish Matthew (Author)The dramaturg, writer, and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry, of reading just one poem: 'Kingfisher' by Ed Roberson. How to attend, to follow the course of poem as a waterway, to recognise in its surface tension impending drops, hidden obstacles, and disguised turns? How also and at the same time to attend to an interruption - an accidental sighting - with equal curiosity? Sincerity follows the lines of t...
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Report copyright infringementby Bill Nevins (Author), Alan Abrams (Editor)A Powerful Lifetime Collection from a Passionately Engaged PoetLight Bending: Collected Poems of Bill Nevins brings together decades of vital work by one of America's most committed poets. Spanning over fifty years, these poems bear witness to personal and political realities - from faith and family to war and peace, Irish heritage, the loss of a son in Afghanistan, and the landscapes of the American Southwest.Nevins wr...
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Report copyright infringementby Opal Whiteley (Author)A lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at the turn of the century. 24 black-and-white photographs.Front JacketA lyrical, lovely, and deeply touching adaptation of an authentic journal kept by an orphaned six-year-old girl--later believed to be a French princess--living in an Oregon lumber camp at...
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Report copyright infringementby Anouk Koch (Author)"Do not pick at scabs, they scar, some wounds are meant to be sealed. You are more than white lines crisscrossing your skin""Lemonade" by Anouk Koch is a raw and unflinching exploration of trauma, resilience, and the journey from pain to healing. In this powerful debut collection, Koch fearlessly delves into the depths of human experience, transforming bitter memories into verses that both sting and soothe.It is not for the faint of heart. It...
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Report copyright infringementby Jillian Weise (Author)WINNER OF THE 2013 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARDWinner of the 2013 Isabella Gardner Poetry AwardA Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2013"A NPR "Best Book of 2013"A Coldfront Magazine "Top 40 Poetry Book" for 2013 "These fierce, hip, heartbreaking love poems call out to a lover who can't be lived with or without. They're humorous, odd, and full of all the unreasonable truth of love. This book is the real thing." --Publishers Weekly Weise's collection ...
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Report copyright infringementby Newyox Media (Editor)As we proudly present the 48th issue of Reader's House Magazine, we are thrilled to feature the remarkable author Rachel Amphlett on our cover. Rachel's journey from a diverse array of creative pursuits to becoming a USA Today bestselling crime author is a testament to the power of passion and perseverance. Her story is not just about writing; it's about embracing life's myriad experiences and using them to craft compelling narratives that ...
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Report copyright infringementby R. J. Smith (Author)Uncover a Journey of Healing and Tranquility: Experience the Profound Power of Silent Streams and the Life Lessons They Offer - An Inspiring Literary Adventure for Avid, Casual Readers.Echoes of the Silent Stream is an evocative exploration of the human spirit, written with a poetic finesse that will captivate readers from the first line. The book delves deep into the essence of life, love, loss, and the delicate balance of emotions that sha...
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Report copyright infringementby Tayler Hill (Author)Saving My Ten by Tayler Hill is a powerful and heart-wrenching memoir documenting the author's journey of overcoming a life-changing experience. It's a book that tells the story of resilience and strength that emerges from becoming pregnant at seventeen. Hill shares with her readers the challenges she faced after experiencing a life-altering event that left her feeling alone, scared, and lost. The author's writing style is straightforward an...
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Report copyright infringementby Minnie Birdsong (Author), Pamela Barbieri (Illustrator)Celebrate the special day with this personalized book designed for your favorite little boy! Enjoy cake, presents, and a fun gift with this lively rhyming book for baby that captures all the giggles and fun little boys bring. This unique keepsake sturdy birthday board book includes a special cover flap designed for a personalized inscription as well as an envelope and seal for gift giving. Little ones will ...
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Report copyright infringementby Red Pine (Translator), Stonehouse (Author)Winner of the 2015 Washington State Book Award in Poetry Translation"The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."--Kyoto JournalThe Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse--considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets--used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse de...
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Report copyright infringementby Connor Bryan (Author)Poetry meet prophecy in The Poetic Arcana, a unique poetic oracle designed to guide, inspire, and invite introspection. Containing 52 poems, this collection offers readers a chance to engage with poetry in an entirely new way. Flip to a page or select a number that calls to you, and let the verses unveil insights, spark reflection, or provide a fresh perspective for your journey as you interpret the poems like a Tarot or oracle card.Ideal f...
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Report copyright infringementby Marissa Eleni Lourake (Author)Some Flowers Grow Thorns: And Then They Shed Their Petals is a collection of poems about relationships, and the deep connection to the soul that is brought into existence through love and loss, joy and sadness, pain and forgiveness, and all the sentiments in between. Marissa Eleni Lourake portrays unapologetically, the journey of a young woman, navigating love and relationships in the world, and finding her way by embracing streng...
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Report copyright infringementby Nigel St Aubyn Daring (Author)"Ras Songbook" promises a variety of poetry that project Rasta values. The themes are predominantly spiritual and motivational. They show Rasta commenting on world issues as well as personal ones, all from the perspectives of its cherished values. Reading this book, one realizes the depth of Rastafari. One also gathers its aspirations. The average Rasta individual can relate to the messages in "Ras Songbook". But people outside Ras...
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Report copyright infringementby Mark Apel (Author)In Peach Creek, Mark Apel, author of Dream Receipts, recalls the bugs, birds, bats, and babbles of his local, boyhood stream. Peach Creek is an unreliable, free-verse almanac of the life we find outside, a comedic compendium of beasts, and an incomplete poetic bestiary of the Pineywoods of South Texas to the Arbuckles in Southern Oklahoma.In these 38 poems, Apel explores themes of returning to nature, re-wilding, the unavoidable proximity to...
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Report copyright infringementby Ross Victory (Author), Zàri Olàwàlé (Preface by), David Jr. Izaguirre (Illustrator)Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Race, Masculinity, Bisexuality and Grief is a poetry collection by award-winning author, music artist Ross Victory. Borderland explores themes of masculinity, race, bisexuality, and grief. Through narrative prose and free verse, Victory portrays himself as a son, student, teacher, and lover, showcasing joy, agony, identity, en...
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Report copyright infringementby Michael Burkard (Author)We follow the narrator on a journey as he explores the images, characters, and incidents from his past. Identities merge and even become contrary.Back JacketWritten as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love. We follow the narrator on a journey as he explores the images, characters, and incidents from his past. Identities me...
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Report copyright infringementby John Miles Foley (Author)John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poeti...
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Report copyright infringementby José Lezama Lima (Author), Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Editor), Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Introduction by)Recognized as one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima, born in Cuba in 1910, is associated with the Latin American neo-baroque and has influenced several generations of writers in and out of Cuba, including such prominent poets as Severo Sarduy and Néstor Perlongher. Lezama Lima's vision of America in a continen...
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Report copyright infringementby Carol Tarlen (Author), Julia Stein (Editor), Jack Hirschman (Introduction by)This book is simply a treasure. Carol Tarlen's poems bring the human and political together in rich, heart-felt ways. I can't help wishing Carol was still with us, but we should all be extremely grateful to have this fine collection of her work out in the world as a legacy and tribute to her compassion for others, and her passion for writing and for life. She had an uncompromising comm...
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Report copyright infringementby Gary Soto (Author)Sudden Loss of Dignity represents where Gary Soto is in his life. He finds himself positioned in life as the older gent, or old guy. His poetry mirrors his personality, snarky and full of mockery. Soto writes about mainly aging and the loss of one's dignity as the years pass. It's very funny, poignant, sad, and especially true.Author BiographyGARY SOTO is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, ...
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Report copyright infringementby David Hamilton (Author)In this extraordinary debut collection, David Hamilton revitalises and extends American pastoral writing with an uncanny ability to conjure memories of childhood and moments of spiritual and physical encounter. His gift lies in combining these themes of discovery with a lyrical intelligence never far from natural speech, all delivered with profound sensitivity for people, place and natural beauty. Number of Pages: 112 ...
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Report copyright infringementby Nisha Ramayya (Author)"I absorb the world between you and us, in me the white world reaches extinction."In this stunning collection of ambitious new work, Nisha Ramayya explores themes of ritual and rapture, orgasms, racism, shit, architecture, kinship and mimesis, clarity and myth, self and cosmos, cosmos and community, stricture and escape, dearth and syncope, translation and transmigration, Tantric metaphysics, the communion of radical alterities (lip and to...
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Report copyright infringementby Nerissa Marie (Author)I Still Love You, is a poetry book created with the intention that you may adventure within to find happiness, and discover the confidence and courage to shine bright! This glorious poetry inspires inner strength, compassion and courage.This is a magical poetry book filled with enchanting illustrations. The raw poems embrace life's challenges and the beauty beyond our conscious mind. Poetry to awaken the illuminated love that is all pervad...
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Report copyright infringementby James Joyce (Author)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel and best selling masterpiece by James Joyce. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 06, 2010 ...
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Report copyright infringementby Matthew W. Baker (Author)A journey from birth to adulthood focusing on a speaker's relationship with his mother, other women, and fears of losing all of them in a world inevitably filled with death. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 11, 2019
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Report copyright infringementby Maaz Bin Bilal (Author)The ghazal for Maaz Bin Bilal becomes a way to love as well as to remember, to dialogue as well as to critique, to mourn as well as to memorialize. It aspires to the condition of statement and song, seeking to combine a love of rhetorical flourish with tender lyricism, political assertion with whimsy, ... -- Arundhathi Subramaniam'Let poetry come, ' declares Maaz confidently in his opening ghazal, and come it does, in English and from Ur...
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Report copyright infringementby John-Robert Curtin (Author), Ying Kit Chan (Illustrator)This collection of poetry centers on my reflections of the concepts surrounding civility, and writing the poems has been restorative to me and to my understanding of this ancient concept.Beginning with the traditional notion of manners and politeness (George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior, 1744), and continuing to the more subtle concepts of compassion, dignity, human value, human wort...
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Report copyright infringementby Thorlac Turville-Petre (Author)Originally published in 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of alliterative poetry in medieval English literature. The book presents lesser known alliterative Middle English poems, which are unmodernised and include explanatory footnotes designed to give clarity to the text and enable critical response to the texts. The book illustrates the great range and variety of...