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Report copyright infringementby Nico Vassilakis (Author)Being old and getting old all at the same time.An amalgam of moments and an accumulation of fragments. Birdsong, coyotes howling, tornado warnings instead of honking, bodega vibes and subway stops -A true change indeed. WONDERMENTAL is an amalgamation of musings on the changing landscape - a collection of the ways time passes and people adapt (or don't) in response to a contrary modern world. Vassilakis chronicles the ten-year aftermath ...

The Mental Capacity Of Unspoken Thoughts

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Report copyright infringementby Lorraine Elise (Author)Life sweeps us along in a storm of emotions-love, pain, laughter, thrill, grief, fear, and everything in between. Within these pages lies a collection of stories that capture the essence of these feelings, each one a journey into a unique world that mirrors our own unpredictable experiences.Every story takes you on a new adventure, leaving you on the edge of your seat, eager to uncover what lies ahead. This book embraces the beautiful cha...

A Complicated Piece of Machinery With Numerous Possibilities for Injury

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Cleveland (Author)Early Praise for A Complicated Piece of Machinery with Numerous Possibilities for Injury"William Carlos Williams once defined a poem as 'a small (or large) machine made of words, ' and poet Maggie Cleveland's A Complicated Piece of Machinery with Numerous Possibilities for Injury memorably fleshes out that possibility by revealing that the heart itself is fabricated with switches and terminals, erotic charge and electrical voltage, plum...

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Report copyright infringementby Irene Blair Honeycutt (Author)In Mountains of the Moon, her fifth collection, Irene Blair Honeycutt takes readers on a journey from creeks of childhood through rivers and inlets all the way to the Red Sea and back again. The natural world has always been Honeycutt's closest companion and theme, never more so than in these poems--so many of them written during the forced exile of the pandemic--through which we learn the power of living within the paradox of joy ...

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan Driscoll (Author)Penultimate Again is an exploration in poetry of the themes of middle age and the task of finding meaning in an increasingly absurd existence. The poems chase a sense of substance in brief moments of love, family, interaction with nature, and frequently an undertone of humor that the author finds in spite of existential confusion. The title refers to living on the edge of what seems to be significant history but what for the author alway...

Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

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Report copyright infringementby Christian Wiman (Author)Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism,...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Botragyi (Author)Dark Days delves into the deepest recesses of the human psyche.You will confront your darkest fears and beckon them to the surface of your mind. Nightmares will cause conflict between the charcoal days and bleak nights.With a splash of colorful, sweet sentiment to contrast the shadows, Dark Days will leave a twisted, yet merry mark on your soul. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Pu...

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author)John Milton (Londres, 9 de diciembre de 1608-ibídem, 8 de noviembre de 1674) fue un poeta y ensayista inglés, conocido especialmente por su poema épico El paraíso perdido (Paradise Lost). Políticamente fue una figura importante entre los reclutadores de la Guerra Civil Inglesa, ya que cuando ocupó el puesto de ministro de lenguas extranjeras bajo el mandato de Cromwell era el encargado de responder a los ataques a la república. Sus tratados ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Giovanni (Author)The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred social justice movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations about the reality of life--especially Black life--in America. One of the foremost voices in African American literature and a celebrated activist of her generation, she has been hailed as a healer and a sage, a powerful voice on issues of race, equality, violence, and discrimination. With Chasing Utopia, Giovanni de...

A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Giovanni (Author)The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America's most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection,...

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Report copyright infringementby Shuly Xóchitl Cawood (Author)Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough is a testament to Shuly Xóchitl Cawood's belief that it's the moments that matter-the ones you want to relive, the ones you want to take back, the ones you can never forget. Her poems often hone in on a particular story where life took a turn, or a truth was revealed. They mine regret and longing, travel through joy and sorrow, and hold on to a vision of the future while trying to let go of t...

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia West (Author)Cynthia West says, "Clouds, shadows and branches drop clues, luring me to reach deeper than skin and bones, to touch the essence inside the appearance, the nothing that holds everything in its hands. Patience has years of seeking, one step after another in the dust, pathways that lead to water. My hand and eye never stop probing the changing shapes, now here, now gone, now flesh, now ghosts. Subtle hints flash in and out of form, quicker th...

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by Sj Sindu (Author)DOMINANT GENES, the new hybrid collection from Stonewall Honor author and Lambda Literary Award finalist SJ Sindu, is equal parts power and astonishing beauty, tenderness and shimmering anger, poetry and lyric essays interwoven in a gorgeous exploration of family, heritage, and the construction of nonbinary and queer identities. "We learn our anger through osmosis," Sindu writes of the inherited rage of South Asian women, "or maybe it's in the breast milk, spreading throug...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Doudna (Author)This book is written to be enlightening for the Christian reader. At the beginning of every poem is an image or picture which will give the reader an instant impression of what is coming in the poem. In these poems will be found: prayers, praise, worship, encouragement, spiritual reflection, hints towards emotional healings, salvation messages, Christian declarations, and adorations of God. Number of Pages: 172 ...

The Voice of My Heart: Unforgettable Memories in an Unforgettable Year

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Report copyright infringementby Merna Ann Hecht (Editor), Carrie Stradley (Introduction by)The Voice of My Heart: Unforgettable Memories in an Unforgettable Year, edited by Merna Ann Hecht, is the newest anthology from the Stories of Arrival: Refugee and Immigrant Youth Voices Poetry Project, which takes place at Foster High School, one of the most language- and ethnically diverse high schools in the U.S. The project was founded by Merna, a poet, social justice educator, and storyteller who s...

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Report copyright infringementby Bethanie Mitchell (Author)Snow Moon Swimmer, Poems from Dark Waters, delves deep into the land life and underwater world of one cold water swimmer. The words flow through a life which contemplates the similarities between dictatorships and waves, while balancing the past and the future. The insight of time and temperament through words are built by the writer as architect; one who looks to garner a life of risk and resilience. Hemming together the temples of M...

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Report copyright infringementby Lyndsay Rush (Author)INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy. At long last, a book of poetry for people who didn't even know they liked poetry. And they're in good company: author Lyndsay Rush didn't know she liked it either. That is, until she embarked on ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joy Priest (Author)Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self--a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky's world-famous horseracing track--before a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jd Pluecker (Author)The Every Wild is a book of hooks in connection and desire, bodies human and non-human, living and dead, reaching for one another across time and space despite the perils of the every moment. Sweltering in the swamps of the Texas Gulf Coast, the poems and their attendant notes linger in the attempted destruction of binaries, the rhizomatic webs of ancestry and supremacy, hook-ups and toppled gravestones. The book is an attempt to see what ha...

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Walker (Author)The grief journey is ever changing and lifelong.It is complex.It is lonely. There really are no words that can be spoken that do justice to describe the raw pain of grief. Sometimes the feelings are just too painful to speak, and can only be written about. The poems within this book try to depict the feelings of grief through poems and illustrations. Everyone's journey is entirely different but maybe poetry can help to connect the grieving c...

Grief between the lines: Poems of baby loss, love, and living with impossible grief

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Walker (Author)Grief is a unique journey, one which can feel so lonely. Whilst there are no words to truly ease the pain, poetry can be the clue to the fact that someone, somewhere has experienced similar emotions and feelings although never truly the same. Words can help the reader to identify with the words of others and in turn feel that little bit less alone. Some of the words written and expressed through poetry are those that feel too difficult to ta...

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Report copyright infringementby Ashanti Anderson (Author)Winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma's still-bloody knife in one tur...

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Report copyright infringementby Simone Muench (Author), Jackie K. White (Author)Like heroines harrowing Hell, Simone Muench and Jackie White rock and reel in these scintillating collaborative sonnets and portraits, resurrecting the girls buried in the woods and garden of misogynist brutality, refracting ruin through ingenious sequences of sense and sound. Wielding needle and shovel, scalpel and gavel, Muench and White " churn those ashed hours into aurora," stretching the sonnet's corset into...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaia Rajan (Author)Winner of the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook CompetitionPoet Gaia Rajan's second short collection is a razor-sharp interrogation of queer Asian American identity, intergenerational trauma, and the detritus of American achievement. Here, lineage is at once redemptive and violent: "Sometimes / when people say I'm killing it I remember everything / exemplary I know or ever will traces back to a small girl / on the floor praying please, please,...

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Matsuda (Author)President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, resulting in a cataclysmic series of events affecting all persons of Japanese ancestry then residing on the West Coast of the United States. So calamitous were these actions that a noted scholar asserted that this action constitutes "the defining event in the history of Japanese Americans."What does this have to do with a book of poetry titled A COLD WIND ...

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Walker (Author)In this exquisite book, Alice Walker's first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us to feeling and understanding, with poems that cover a broad spectrum of emotions. With profound artistry, Walker searc...

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Olds (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. Larry Lewis say, "The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called 'beauty.'" It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full meas...

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Amador (Author), Elizabeth Weinschreider (Artist)Pimping My Trauma is a courageous poetry collection that serves as a defiance of the stigma of having sexual trauma. This book challenges the social norm of a blue-collar environment where sexual survivors silence themselves in fear of being seen as defects in a non-benevolent society. As a survivor, the poet speaks through this collection about the need for intimacy and control, while wrestling with identit...

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Report copyright infringementby Rivka Epstein Hattin (Author)These poems tell their stories with the pulsing language of music-which is also the language of silence and held breath-pressing their ears to all that is miraculous and mundane. Here, the resonant strings of song, love, and faith harmonize into one brilliant chord pulling us through the soundscapes of human relationships, whimsical artmaking, and unapologetic womanhood. But the music in these poems is also vibrantly tactile and vis...

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Report copyright infringementby Elijah B. Chavez (Author)Love, fellowship, faith, and loss. Compiled in these pages are unabashed letters of thoughts as they were then. Whether it was mourning for a friend or loved one, solace took in the presence of people around. Or a heartful of emotion. Written to paper are the thoughts of a simple man. The poems are written in a relatable way. You may find a smile in these pages, or you may find a lonely tear. You might walk away from this book and pull ...

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Report copyright infringementby S. V. Segal (Author)You bit me, And when you lost your tooth, You blamed me.I guess self-awarenessIs for people with caninesInstead of fangs.S. V. Segal's debut poetry compilation, (Un)Tethered, pulls us into moments of conflict-both internal and external-and self-reflection as it explores universal themes of love, loss, death, growth, fear, and self-realization. But despite the timelessness of these themes, the poems are also distinctively Segal's, conveying t...