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Report copyright infringementby Winners 2009 Poetry Contest (Author)Anthology show casing the 2009-2010 winners of the Poetry Matters prize. The contributors are residence of the greater Columbia County, Aiken, Augusta and North Augusta areas. They represent poets from middle school to senior citizens. The anthology is part of the Poetry Month celebration for P.R.A. Publishing with cash prizes provided by Center for Primary Care. Now in it's 11th year, Poetry Matters and its anthologies striv...

Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam

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Report copyright infringementby Osip Mandelstam (Author), Kevin M. F. Platt (Editor), Bernard Meares (Translator)Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Modernist Archaist offers a comprehensive English-language selection of Osip Mandelstam's poetry, edited by Russian scholar Kevin M. F. Platt, who also contributes an illuminating essay. New translations by notable contemporary poets combined with an exceptional selection of previous translations are represent...

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Report copyright infringementby Ignatius Fay (Author), Irene Golas (Author)Published and unpublished poetry from the works of the two authors. Just as haiku encapsulates the essence of the moment, this collection of haiku and related forms preserves a series of such moments in the authors' lives. And, like life itself, these moments document deeply emotional journeys of dreams won and lost, subtle humor and personal struggle. Refusing to shy away from even the most difficult aspects of life, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth J. Colen (Author), Denise Duhamel (Foreword by)If I were Colen's agent, I'd pitch these poems to a movie producer as "David Lynch meets Gertrude Stein." Money for Sunsets, like Tender Buttons, is syntactically rich and varied, using fragments, repetition, and word associations.If I were Colen's agent, I might not mention her complicated and smartobservations on women, violence, and money - since I'm assuming that most movie producers are capitalists. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Bradfield (Author)Natural history, work, queerness, and family collide in Interpretive Work. When they do, a deep stubborn will emerges, a belief in the unexpected beauty of the world "flaws and all. The poems of this collection foreground the role of the viewer" the interpreter "smudging self across what's seen." From neighborhood kids cussing in the cul-de-sac to marbled murrelets calling in Southeast Alaska, the poems of this book reach toward a mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Yu-Han Chao (Author)Yu-Han Chao writes with delicacy and power. Her poems speak on many levels about life, relationships and personal nightmares. Her work flows from a mix of traditional Chinese culture, contemporary Taiwan and post-modern America. The resulting poems contain beauty and often wisdom. Many are worth reading over and over again.--Joe Farley Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Se...

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Report copyright infringementby John Krumberger (Author)"These empathetic poems are rich with the realities of other lives. John Krumberger doesn't miss much: there is a wide (and deep) range of concerns in these pages. Here is a writer who knows how to listen and to watch, who can make vividly surprising, daring imaginative connections without raising his voice; the complexities are all the more strongly felt for the overall naturalness of his manner and the skillful quietness of his voice. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Yearn Hong Choi (Author)Although Yearn Choi identifies himself as an ordinary man, his has been a remarkable life...the odyssey of a Korean in America. Naturally, because it is a memoir, this book explores the theme of identity. What does life on the hyphen (Korean-American) mean for his generation versus his children's generation? Yet the author's journey intersects with the trajectory of this country in the midst of struggle and transformation. What is Americ...

The Atlantis Fragments: The Trilogy of Songs and Sonnets Atlantean

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Sidney-Fryer (Author)These poems are of an unearthly beauty. They celebrate love, beauty, and humanity; and yet throughout many of them is a consciousness of impending apocalypse. The imagery, lush, exotic, full of colors and magic names, is a welcome relief from the sterile, prosaic poetry of today. If you enjoy tripping on language, this book is for you. Whether the poems really are from the Atlantean or whether they are the creations of poet Sidney-Fr...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer L. Knox (Author)In The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, Jennifer L. Knox expands on her inimitable cast of characters, in hilariously poignant poems. In poems like "Marriage" and "One Ton of Dirt," Knox ventures further into autobiographical territory than she's ever gone before, in ways that will startle those familiar with her previous books, exploring relationships with her exes, her parents, and her younger self. Like the best comedians (to whom she...

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Report copyright infringementby Elisabeth Workman (Author)Once upon a time, ancient glaciers oozed light through the general living room of America, scraping the terrain into the sweeping prairies of the Midwest, a superlatively grassy expanse in which American bison cavorted with dangerous electric fish-goats and no one got hurt. That was a long time ago. Then one day we woke up and it was everywhere: ULTRAMEGAPRAIRELAND. Referentially crammed and brimming with cultural bling, the poems in U...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Davis (Author)POEM ADDRESSING CONSPIRACY THEORISTS You're right to understand the underlying devious intentions of this poem. You are definitely on to something. You should really examine my other poems too (just google me) and notice the clues I have left behind. You might want to share what you find with others by starting a blog, informing the media, making videos, etc. I have said to my wife and others that I don't understand how few people notice the...

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Report copyright infringementby Natalie Eilbert (Author)Eilbert's lush, dense debut collection records a woman's journey to take back sovereignty over her body from the anorexia that has swallowed it. The multiple voices swirl like a collision of hot and cold fronts; they contradict themselves and combat each other in the way that one's own mind operates in seeking a singular voice of reason to follow. Eilbert's array of referents can be dizzying, but her intoxicating language is sure to keep...

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Report copyright infringementby Shanna Compton (Editor)BOUND: Volume One Six Chapbooks by Six Poets The first in our series of annual compilations, Bound: The First Array collects and reproduces the six chapbooks first published as limited-edition handmade objects by Bloof in 2013. Color photographs and b&w illustrations. Jennifer Tamayo: Poems Are the Only Real Bodies Pattie McCarthy: Scenes from the Lives of My Parents Kirsten Kaschock: Windowboxing Hailey Higdon: Packing Jared White: T...

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Report copyright infringementby D. T. Pollard (Author)Jonathan Mumbai is a member of a species closely related to humans. Humans are classified as Homo Sapiens. Jonathan Mumbai is a member of a species known as Vampire Sapiens, a forgotten relative of man lost to history and lore. Thought to be erased from the earth, Jonathan Mumbai has been in a three-hundred year hibernation, but he is awake now. Mumbai is on a mission to resurrect his race and plans to use the frailties' of humans as his v...

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Report copyright infringementby Heather Tosteson (Editor), Charles D. Brockett (Editor), Kerry Langan (Editor)Creativity & Constraint, A Wising Up Anthology Heather Tosteson, Charles D. Brockett, Kerry Langan, Michele Markarian, Editors We often think of true creativity as unfettered liberty-but is creativity something that only takes root, flourishes, within bounds? What happens to our ideas if they must work their way through the material world-often being materially changed in the proc...

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Report copyright infringementby Joey Brown (Author)In Joey Brown's Oklahomaography, crows, coyotes and thunder reflect the hard-won lives of the men and women who inhabit the land, and those who yearn to escape. These are splendid poems, filled with hard-edged narrative, the kinds of poems I like best. - Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Hank & Chloe, Bad Girl Creek, and The Owl & Moon Cafe These poems are snapshots and narratives of people, even whole towns, whose identities are drawn from th...

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Report copyright infringementby Millicent Borges Accardi (Author)Injuring Eternity is a bold volume of poetry written by renowned National Endowments for the Arts poet Millicent Borges Accardi. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 01, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Lyn Lifshin (Author)August 2010, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, is much in the news media after all these years. "Still what we have mostly missed in all the reporting is the intimacy of a poet's voice who can bring the real right up inside us. Lyn Lifshin's volume of straight forward, exact poetry in KATRINA does this. There is a clear ungarnished force to her words that gives us the chance to bring our own sense of loss, grief and compassion into...

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Report copyright infringementby Adele Schwartz (Author)Adele Schwartz's writing clings like dew, at once tenacious and evanescent, to the hard surfaces of life. She has an unerring eye for the sufferings and lonelinesses we all share, uncompromising humanity, and an exquisite ear for the rhythms of language and speech. Her poems stop people in their tracks, clear as a bell, vivid and unavoidable, coaxing them to remember that our existence is a continual unpeeling of layers of conscious aware...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Graham (Author), Khorey Smith (Author), Steffani Jemison (Author)Truth and Greatness is a collaboration in the form of a nonfiction novella and two poems. In November 2009, Steffani Jemison commissioned a poem from Houston-based spoken word performers Michael "Truth" Graham and Khorey "Greatness" Smith. The novella is her transcription, in narrative form, of the creative process of the poets as they write, including their conversations about language, p...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerry Sloan (Author)Gerry Sloan's poetry "orchestrates a life of observation and attention, of figurative ideas captured in verse, and of love for the things of this world. It is divided into suites linked thematically and delicately by family, politics, history, music, love, and loss. 'I think about the crazy / creatures we've become- / our constant contradictions, / predilection for metaphor- / towns named after conditions / for the lives we share and are.' G...

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Report copyright infringementby Chath Piersath (Author), Valentina Dubasky (Introduction by)"After" is a book of letters in the form of poems that poignantly describes the author's life and experiences as a child before, during and after the Khmer Rouge. It traces the author's journey out of Cambodia to the United States and the experiences he had thereafter, through loss of and separation from family members, a kind of unity emerges as each poem addresses the author's yearning to make sense ...

Untended Garden (Histories and Reinhabitation in Suburbia)

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Report copyright infringementby Grant Hier (Author)Winner of Prize Americana, Grant Hier's Untended Garden is a quest narrative set in the suburbs, a long poem in the spirit of "Song of Myself" that weaves personal history, natural history, and American history. A passionate exploration of identity by examining the often forgotten lives and landscapes that existed here before us, Untended Garden becomes a celebration of diversity and remembrance, an argument for inclusion, a re-affirmation of...

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Report copyright infringementby Emile Zola (Author), Robert Smith (Introduction by)It is with great excitement in the world of literature that Grand Oak Books Publishing, Ltd., is producing the first uniform edition of the works of Emile Zola. The first of a twenty volume series, The translation of The Fortune of the Rougons is fresh and startling and sets the tone for the rest of the saga. Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Dat...

The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle

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Report copyright infringementby Marjory Heath Wentworth (Author)"Marjory Wentworth says in a poem her grandmother spoke seven languages fluently. I don't know how many languages Wentworth can speak, but I do know she can write/speak one language superbly: American English. Her poems sing, dance, and see with sharpness things of the world that, for seeing them, make us more human." - Thomas Lux, author of The Cradle Place and God Particles Number of Pages: 88 Dimensio...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Marie Basile (Author)Through a series of intimately interwoven vignettes, Andalucia paints an engulfing dreamscape, at once lush and treacherous, both pale and aflame. The speaker in these poems has fallen in love with some sort of colorless and exotic hell. Disturbed by her "bad girl" past, laden with guilt and abuse, she revels in the sea, in the arms of centaurs, inside of tear jars. Like an antique travel diary turned mythic, Andalucia illuminates the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Tzagoloff (Author)You fall quiet when you hear a great truth, and each one of Helen Tzagoloff's riveting poems in Listening to the Thunder lets you enter that silence of significance. From pictures of World War II Russia in a very young child's eyes to images of post-war America from an adolescent's view, to the perspective of a sophisticated woman and mother, these poems are piercingly clear, without judgment, in their stunningly deadpan lines. Huge uphe...

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Report copyright infringementby Nate Pritts (Introduction by), Matt Hart (Author), Paul Violi (Author)Paul Violi needs to be read (and taught) MORE-with incredible seriousness and with serious delight. He was, hands down, one of our best-most inventive, most adventurous, most original, most resourceful-poets, and he did more than anybody to push the boundaries and expand the possibilities of what poetry could be, while simultaneously reaffirming at every instant exactly what poetry has always...

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Report copyright infringementby Jee Leong Koh (Author)"Seven Studies for a Self Portrait," Jee Leong Koh's third book of poems, subjects the self to an increasingly complex series of personal investments and investigations. Ever-evolving, ever-improvisatory, the self appears first as a suite of seven ekphrastic poems, then as free verse profiles, riddles, sonnet sequences, and finally a divan of forty-nine ghazals. The discovery the book makes at the end is that the self sees itself best when...

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Report copyright infringementby Tracy Koretsky (Author)With eighteen prizes ranging from haiku to prose poem, the widely-published poems in this first collection from Tracy Koretsky exhibit a breadth of emotion and style born of the marriage of heart and mind. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 28, 2009

51: 30 Poems, 20 Lyrics, 1 Self-Interview

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Zarzyski (Author), Tom Russell (Foreword by)There are so few writers who can make us smile even as they're breaking our hearts. With 51, his first book in more than six years, Paul Zarzyski gives us not only 30 of his finest poems but also the lyrics to 20 songs co-written with the likes of Ian Tyson, Tom Russell, and Wylie Gustafson. And with 1 brilliant self-interview, he shows us what shaped him as an author and artist, performer and poet. Personal and ...