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Breathing Light: Accompanying Loss and Grief with Love and Gratitude

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Hliboki (Author), Foster David (Photographer)Breathing Light is written for everyone who has experienced loss or grief, especially the loss of a loved one. The book takes you on an inspirational journey, beginning with Hliboki's poems and prose that convey how love, gratitude, and compassion arise over and over again in the midst of suffering. The second half of Breathing Light offers interfaith prayers and poetry written by various authors that invite yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Gherasim Luca (Author), Gh Rasim Luca (Author), Mary Ann Caws (Translator)Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913-1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation of play with considerable exactitude and rigor, Self-Shadowing Prey is rich with neologistic stupors, nouns made verbs, and compelling repetitions and linguistic expansions. Language is not merely...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Z. Ribalow (Author)M. Z. Ribalow is a poet, playwright and author. His novel Peanuts and Crackerjacks and his new playMasterpiece are 2011 publications, and his short fiction appeared in an anthology on Luck in 2010. His two dozen plays have received some 180 productions in a dozen countries; four have been published. His work has been anthologized and has won prizes in London, New York, and regionally. He is series editor of the Plays from New River volumes...

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Report copyright infringementby Rishana Blake (Author)Literary Lorene is pleased to present this collection of poetry and performance words by RiShana Blake. In a world where noise is the soundtrack of our lives, The Gifted Quiet draws us into solitary recesses of the mind where thoughts whisper, troubles groan and smiles twinkle in the heart. RiShana's elegant use of simple everyday language paints scenes of sorrow and strength, of desperation and delight that stir spirits of hope. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Roxanne Hoffman (Illustrator), Stillman Rogers (Photographer), Maria Lisella (Author)In a quietly seductive voice Lisella takes the reader on journey after journey, to exotic locales like Havana, Venice and Dubrovnik, places steeped in myth and bloodshed. With crystalline descriptions reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop, she mixes the haunted elegance of the old world and the disturbed consumerism of the new. TWO NAKED FEET is brilliantly wired with the tension of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bryan Borland (Author)Poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet's growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys and sorrows. My Life as Adam is Bryan Borland's full-length debut and was included as one of only five collections of poetry on the American Library Association's inaugural "Over the Rainbow" list of best LGBT books of 2010. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.29 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Loria Taylor (Author)Loria Taylor's SOB chronicles the manic metronome of the quest for psychological stability. Malingering, funny, and self-aware, these poems are Plath on Prozac. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 16, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Brown (Author)"Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems," contains a selection of poems from Nathan Brown's first three books, along with a collection of new poems. The titles of the earlier books are: "Ashes over the Southwest" (2005), "Suffer the Little Voices" (2005), and "Hobson's Choice" (2002). The book "Suffer the Little Voices" was a finalist for the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award. Nathan's real gift is his ability with short narrative. He is first a story...

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Report copyright infringementby Maya Emma Odim (Author), Cheryl Elayne Johnson-Odim (Contribution by) Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2011

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Report copyright infringementby T. L. Cooper (Author)We revere strength. We malign strength. We both fear and admire strength. When we reach inside during our weakest moments and find the strength to move forward, we discover the best thing about being human. Our humanity lies in both the strengths and the weaknesses that connect us and separate us. The poems within explore the many facets of strength in the hopes we never allow strength to become merely a silhouette.Author BiographyT. L. Coo...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya (Author), Geary Hobson (Preface by), Mary E. Sass White (Introduction by)This collection of poetry by Joe Dale Nevaquaya has come in its own time, exactly when we need it. These poems range from star messages tapped out on silver cords ascending from the death dreams of a dying country, to tribute poems in the form of shields, giving protection to those whom they are addressed, to reports from the edge of brokenness. It is time to celebr...

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Report copyright infringementby William Baer (Author)Write poetry in the great metrical tradition of Dante, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Frost, and the poets of the current Formalist revival. In this contemporary guide, you'll learn how to write metrical poetry in all the major forms, from blank verse and quatrains to sonnets and villanelles. Each chapter provides step-by-step instruction that's accessible and easy to understand for even the beginning poet. This book includes unique features diffi...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Kistner (Editor), Caroline Hagood (Author)In this slim volume of poems, Caroline Hagood offers a surreal journey through the fever dream of creativity, exploring what it means to grow up as a woman and poet sensitive to the point of being skinless, walking the line between inspiration and madness daily. Starting from early childhood and moving forward, these poems address gender and trauma, sex and bathroom humor, the misbehaving mind, relationships, and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Connie Post (Author) Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Lyn Lifshin (Author) Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 06, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Maureen E. Doallas (Author)Intimate yet restrained, Doallas's poems are like love notes that bear grief, struggle, and history-laced with delightful surprises of wit and hope.Author BiographyMaureen E. Doallas is a features writer, editor, poet, and owner of an art-licensing business called Transformational Threads. Her work has appeared at TheHighCalling.org. She has also been featured in the anthology Oil and Water. . . And Other Things That Don't Mix, at Poe...

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Report copyright infringementby A. Razor (Editor), Dennis Cruz (Author)"How do we translate the unspeakable language of grief? In the short, harrowing lines of MOTH WING TEA, Dennis Cruz gives us his answer. This is the poetics of survival: no adornment, no romanticizing; only the simple, methodical imagery of a poet saying out loud. The juxtaposition of fresh paint, chrome, and a suffering body. The world as explained by one who knows there is more to this life than simply getting up for wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Natalia Trevino (Author)This writer warns us she is a woman like a "Mexican electric fence." And yet between the sheets or between the murmur of the rolling pin, we are trusted to overhear confidences between intimates. It is on the white sheets of this book that a woman's most private confessions are transformed from dirty laundry to poetry luminescent as linen on the line. I truly feel gratitude for being allowed to read such private dialogues. It is a book t...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry Marks (Author)Possible Crocodiles is Barry Mark's first full length poetry book. Barry Marks is a Birmingham attorney whose poetry, fiction, articles and essays have been published in nearly 100 journals, magazines and periodicals over the last 30 years. Mr. Marks was 1998 Alabama State Poetry Society Poet of the Year and his chapbook, There is Nothing Oppressive as a Good Man, won the Society's 2003 Morris Chapbook Competition. A member of the Big Table ...

I Am Bound to this Land by Blood: Collected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Olu Oguibe (Author)Over a seven-year period between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s, Olu Oguibe wrote some of the most powerful and apocalyptic poetry ever to come out of Africa. In that period he published three slim volumes of poems that established his reputation as perhaps the finest poet of his generation: A Song from Exile, A Gathering Fear, and the long love poem, Songs for Catalina. Then, he quit writing poetry, almost as abruptly as he began, and decl...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Packa (Editor)Migrations: Poetry & Prose for Life's Transitions features of the work over 70 Lake Superior area and northern Minnesota writers. The book is edited by Sheila Packa, Duluth Poet Laureate 2010-2012. Included are many accomplished writers (Connie Wanek, Ellie Schoenfeld, Deb Cooper, Gary Boelhower, Linda LeGarde Grover, Ryan Vine) and excellent new writers. Each writing captures a moment of change. You will love the strong and beautiful c...

Birds Nobody Loves: A Book of Vultures & Grackles

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Report copyright infringementby James Brush (Author)Birds Nobody Loves is an illustrated collection of poems about two of the less popular denizens of the sky. After spending a lot of time watching vultures and grackles around his home in central Texas, author James Brush "never ceases to be amazed--and just a little horrified--by the scorn these two creatures illicit. It's precisely that derision and disdain for these two species that attracted me to them as subject matter for a poetry colle...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Spano (Author), Ivana Masic (Illustrator)The poems and art of HARDSCAPE/ABC express the ridged, oblique, and human-made surfaces of our environment forming the way we think about the everydayness of existence. Beneath the surface is a grimoire, in the guise of a classical ABC, pushing the syntax of poetry into the extremes of its potential 'pataphysics - the magical dance of subject and object from which the furniture of the world arises in the imaginati...

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Report copyright infringementby Trevor Schaible (Author)Inspired by the enchanting tapestry of nature and the changing seasons, Trevor's poetry has been influenced throughout the years by the environment and adventures of where he was born: in beautiful and historic Bucks County, PA, with its forests, valleys, lakes, streams and waterfalls. His reflections and imagination are contained within the imagery of his poetry, as he continually seeks his own life's mysteries and his own Spiritual Pat...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Atkinson (Author)Richard 'ack' Atkinson, the lovechild of Charles Bukowski and Joseph Beuys, presents in this compelling collection a glimpse into a world where Brighton meets Byker, birds sing in B flat minor, and Tommy Trinder rubs shoulders with Dostoevsky. These joyous/tragic poems are drunk on words and filled with lurve, cocker spaniels, madness, and yet more lurve. Utterly irresistible. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Haven (Author)T. R. Hummer says that "Stephen Haven is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate humanistic ethos. Every word in this collection reflects concern: concern for humanity, and concern for language, humanity's best hope. Global in vision, this worried book is unflinching, yet hopeful, yielding up a world in which 'Your own caesurae, / Your own circumference, / Is the shell of a missing animal. / You pull it tight ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Jennings Jr (Author)The third collection of poetry written by Richard Jennings. Following loosely in the foot steps of Silent Sounds and Shallow Depths, Ice on a Bench is a poetic joyride from cover to cover. With a different tone and flavor, you will be introduced to sides and levels of Richard Jennings that most have never experienced.Author BiographyRichard Jennings is a young man with a passion for writing that has only grown since the seventh grade...

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Report copyright infringementby Ramona McCallum (Author)Like its title poem, this collection insists on art's daily necessity. McCallum chronicles the rhythms of family life, and in the domestic pause between chore and love, in the hushed wake of cleaving or grieving, she catches a visceral sense of life's intensity. In a parent's gaze, a child's "becoming/individual" transfixes attention on the momentousness of any given moment, and it's this same gaze the poet lifts to consider how Being sh...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Cooper (Author), Ellie Schoenfeld (Author), Ann Floreen Niedringhaus (Author)For sixteen years, five talented poets met over dinner, sharing their lives, the mundane and the sacred, sharing their words: Deborah Cooper, Candace Ginsberg, Ann Floreen Niedringhaus, Ellie Schoenfeld, and Anne Simpson. The evolution and bonding of a writing group remains a mystery. This group of women poets grew in an atmosphere of affirmation, raucous laughter, and gentle c...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (Author), Patti M. Marxsen (Translator), Susan Tiberghien (Foreword by)"One sings here of the soul of a river, and this soul never dies." C.F.Ramuz Nearly seventy years after the death of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947), it is safe to say that the reputation of Switzerland's legendary poet of the people is secure, at least in French. Since 2005, his 22 novels have appeared in a two-volume Pléiade Edition from Gallimard (Paris) and Éd...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Mauch (Author)In this collection of poetry, Matt Mauch introduces us to fragments and artifacts from experiments conducted by the FBI in the 1950's, when LSD was given to everyday Americans and their reactions to the drug were documented. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Boston (Contribution by), Corrine De Winter (Contribution by), Chad Stroup (Contribution by)This third volume in the Horror Writers Association's acclaimed POETRY SHOWCASE series features more than fifty never-before-published poems by both renowned genre favorites and fresh new voices. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 07, 2016