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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Alice Dickens (Author)This collection of poems inspired by real life interactions and observation. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 12, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Ginger H. Goodall (Author)all the things i never meant to mean is a collection of contemporary poetry and prose that journeys self discovery and growth as a young girl struggles to navigate depression and anxiety, abuse, love, womanhood, and most importantly--hope. Divided into chronological chapters by age, each poem is a raw and uncensored depiction of Ginger's innermost truths as she grows older, grappling with the world around and within her. I'm sorryI'm s...

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Report copyright infringementby Kat Hayes (Author)Just past the split rail fences, Kat Hayes' poetry collection The Song Around Us extends a precarious invitation to reinhabit time and landscape. Unsure whether to marvel or cut and run, the poems follow tracks in the woods, examine artifacts, and slip through the interstices. Images beckon from plowed fields and volcanic plains, from mountains flecked with moonshine stills to waking, windswept meadows. And in the midst of the natural world is...

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Report copyright infringementby Vladimir Mayakovsky (Author), Maria Enzensberger (Translator)"what a poetand the clear water is thickwith bloody blows on its head.I embraced a cloudBut when I soaredit rained."--Frank O'Hara, "Mayakovsky" (1954)Mayakovsky's is one of the most compelling voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. Born in 1893, he joined the Futurist movement in 1912 and soon established himself as one of Russia's major poets. In 1917, he rallied to the Russian Revolution and r...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Adams-Santos (Author)Dream of Xibalba, Stephanie Adams-Santos's incantatory long poem, draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits. The influence of such poets as Cecilia Vicuña, Federico García Lorca, and Yvan Goll is evident here, yet Adams-Santos's voice and vision are entirely her own. Dream of Xibalba is a unique, epic work of cultural and spiritual significance. ...

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Report copyright infringementby K. P. Alexander (Author)A Raven in the Snow is a collection of poetry that tells the story about that earthly passage between the joined hands of beloved Life and beautiful Death. The essence of creation, (what is found, loved, and left), is translated onto the pages, through poetry and prose, as the collection chronicles what exists between a first and last breath. A Raven in the Snow is divided into three parts, ( The Cold of a Singing Sleep, The Path of Affe...

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Report copyright infringementby Brittany Bronte (Author)Poetry from deep places. A collection coming from the feminine heart. Poetry of passion, love, and loss. We all feel these feelings, and it is my hope, the reader can find solace and understanding in these words. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 11, 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Quinn Bailey (Author)In his first collection of poetry Quinn Bailey has crafted a book that is meant to live in your backpack, to be carried with you, as companion, field guide and friend as you traverse the rich wilderness of life. Inspired as much by the words of poets like Mary Oliver and Jim Harrison as by the songs of the trees and the birds, the poems within arise from a deep love of the natural world and call attention to the power an outer landscape has...

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Report copyright infringementby Liza Jill Meyers (Author)Finding optimism in life's orbit, this collection of charms is a cycle through love, grief, and daydreams. With riveting imagery and scenery, and a vivacious energy, each poem is a viscerally vivid experience. Enter the cosmos or a luscious grove, or enjoy a Van Gogh sunset. Step aboard this spaceship and let its inner world cast a spell. A nostalgic nod, with a twist on myths and the mystic, you are in for a freeing reminder that the w...

Forty Stitches Sewing a Body Against a Ramshackle Night

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Report copyright infringementby C. T. Salazar (Author)If you already know the poetry of C.T. Salazar, you will not be surprised when reading Forty Stitches Sewing a Body Against a Ramshackle Night that he can create entire worlds in a few lines. For those of you new to this poet, prepare to be entranced by his surprising use of imagery and language and the ways his words will both break your heart and heal it at the same time. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8...

Sad But Not Depressed: Sad Love Poetry Collection

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Report copyright infringementby Ali Ashraf (Author)Sad But Not Depressed is a book that's reminiscent of lost love and melancholy feelings of remembrance. A collection of poetry that touches upon the feelings of sadness and depression through poetry. The collection mainly consists of sad poems with intense feelings. This book attempts to overcome depression through sadness as a part of the emotional healing process. This poetry collection evokes memories of unrequited love and deep nostalgia....

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel B. Summerhill (Author)Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. DIVINE, DIVINE, DIVINE is an exploration of the divine and the deviant. A consideration of the Black tongue as a home. Life and death through the lense of language. This collection is an ode to the experiences that make us whole and an acknowledgment of those things that fracture us.Author BiographyDaniel B. Summerhill is a poet, essayist and scholar from Oakland, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Pickell (Author)everything saved will be last, the debut poetry chapbook from Isaac Pickell, considers the body and the environments that hold it while navigating the personal, generational, and societal consequences of passing as white. Pickell's work pursues small moments of self, embodied memory, and politics that bleed away from the skin, toward whatever can be accessed as home, onto what remains there. Melodic and often unsettling, this collection al...

Poems to See by: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Julian Peters (Author)This stunning anthology of favorite poems visually interpreted by artist Julian Peters breathes new life into some of the greatest English-language poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.These are poems that can change the way we see the world, and encountering them in graphic form promises to change the way we read the poems. In an age of increasingly visual communication, this format helps unlock the world of poetry and literatu...

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Report copyright infringementby Maricela R. Loaeza (Author)Este libro nos habla de la magia de las flores, tanto de las reales como de las metafóricas, de aquellas que se forman con pétalos y de las que cobran vida en la cocina. Las flores nos alegran la vista, el tacto, el olfato y el alma, con su color, textura, perfume, y simbolismo. El poema Flor de México que da título a este poemario a través de trovas clásicas, con él la autora busca recordarnos la dicha que nos brindan las tortillas p...

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmoud Darwish (Author), Fady Joudah (Translator)"Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world's whole heart. What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world--his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered."--Naomi Shihab NyeMahmoud Darwish is the leading poet in the A...

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Report copyright infringementby Luisa A. Igloria (Author)In many cultures, a caul is considered talismanic; and a child born with it, possessing luck or protection. Luisa A. Igloria invokes this metaphor to weave poems exploring the veiled intervals of transition experienced by those in the diaspora-- or by anyone who has felt a severing from their origins. The poems in Caulbearer enter spaces not only of nostalgia, loss, and impossible return. They also offer opportunities for glimpsing plea...

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Report copyright infringementby Sfarda L. Gul (Author)Written during a time of turmoil and heavy-heartedness, EARTH HAGIOGRAPHY collates prose poetry and lyric essays in a poignant, frank discourse of grief, police state upbringing, loss of heritage to colonialism, political ideology, earth veneration, queerness, and psychological wounds, seeking to weave and unfold the bloodied yarn of remembrance and histories forgotten or unknown.Content warnings: gruesome imagery, discussions of genocide...

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Report copyright infringementby Karter Reed and Armanette Reed (Author)While Karter and I were trying to come up with a title for this book, I must admit it was fun to see what he could come up with. We were tossing around titles, and I finally said, "Karter, what about, "The Person who sits Next to Me." We can have a picture of students in a classroom sitting at their desks and some of the students have questions marks on their face. Karter replied, "No. I don't like that, Nana." I said OK w...

Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Cisneros (Author)Heart of Grace is a deeply personal and poetic memoir by Carol Cisneros, who invites readers to experience the transformative power of self-love, healing, and grace. Through poignant verses and heartfelt reflections, Carol takes us on a journey of emotional discovery, offering solace and wisdom to those seeking growth and empowerment.In this powerful collection, Carol explores her journey through music and the performing arts, sharing how...

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads

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Report copyright infringementby George Meredith (Author), Criscillia Ann Benford (Editor), Rebecca N. Mitchell (Author)Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle which Meredith's own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional and indiscreet. While individual sonnets from the work have been anthologized, t...

Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores

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Report copyright infringementby Shachar Pinsker (Editor), Adriana X. Jacobs (Translator), Yosefa Raz (Translator)Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman--who died in 2011 at the age of 101--was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant--who is still living and occasionally publishing--wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work is virtually unknown today, even to those familiar with Hebrew literature in America....

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Hicok (Author)Bob Hicok's poems are often edgy, brazen, and funny. They're just as likely to be soulful, reflective, and provocative. Usually at the same time. As Hicok builds toward the punchline of a poem set up with his characteristic wit, he zigs into seriousness. A thoughtful meditation that builds to a moment of epiphany zags into comedy. Hicok's fluid ability to shift moods, the richness of his visual palette, and his idiosyncratic use of language fi...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorie Graham (Author)A New York Times Notable BookPulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham returns with great clarity and passion to her lyrical roots--and builds a rich musical meditation on desire.In these poems, Graham approaches a host of characters, each of them an embodiment of sexual, emotional, political, or spiritual desire--desire searching for its place in an age of betrayed values, an age when dreaming has been rubbed thin by reason, frayed by the speed o...

Chinese Visual Poetry: The Path of a Picturesque Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Tan Hanwei (Author)A pioneer in the study of Chinese Visual Poetry---which has never been recognized as a poetic genre yet remain dynamic and active up to now, Dr. Tan explores the chronological development of Chinese visual poetry in all its forms, chiefly including the earliest inscription fossils in prehistoric times, various types of Chinese calligraphy, hidden verse as displayed in the headwords of a common poem or doggerel, Chinese couplets, paper-cutting...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Ann Duffy (Author)The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.Author BiographyCarol Ann Duffy has been Britain's Poet Laureate since 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Rapture, and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. She has also received the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in the U.S. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Al Ortolani (Author)Al Ortolani's poems in PAPER BIRDS DON'T FLY are a mix of small town memories and present day realities. They share both humor and sorrow, longing and contentment, often in the irony of a single experience. Many are set in Southeastern Kansas, a geographical region rich in the texture of its free-thinking people. The poems pinch the mundane arm. They bleed with the colors of everyday experience. PAPER BIRDS DON'T FLY is as accessible to the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Spenser (Author)One of the greatest of English poets, Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, in 1552. He was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and later at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender, his first major work. Edmund journeyed to Ireland in July 1580, in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. His time included the terrible massacre ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Redmond (Editor) Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.41 x 7.42 x 8.47 IN Publication Date: July 26, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby C. A. Conrad (Author)Delving into the center of the endless webs of repression against our bodies, desires, politics, and imaginations, are those whose actions and motion cut away at the systemic limitations of society--this collection of poems was written with the inspiration and work of these people in mind. As a working class queer poet, Conrad has had to fight through different stratifications of oppression his entire life. His poems vibrate with the flambo...

Kali's Bazaar: Gifts of Devotion to the Divine, Buddhist Wisdom, and Kundalini Yoga Tantra

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Edwards (Author), Molly Edwards (Illustrator), Donald Brennan (Cover Design by)You may laugh out loud, be moved to tears or pulled into deep contemplation by what you encounter in Kali's Bazaar. Readers will return often to this accessible collection to draw from its wellspring of devotion, revelation and celebration of the Divine present in every moment, every being, and all of creation. Bring inspiration, clarity, and practical instruction to your sp...

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author) Number of Pages: 592 Dimensions: 1.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 09, 2011