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Report copyright infringementby Marci Rae Johnson (Author)"Hovering over and shooting through this collection is the spirit and symbolic heft of an ancient faith under contemporary pressures, to mean at all much less be found meaningful. Who is left, these poems ask, to cast out the demons? The God of her father, long ago having left the building, thankfully left the cable hooked up and the refrigerator stocked; the present moment these poems depict and within which they instruct is one where...

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Malina (Author)JUDITH MALINA trained with Erwin Piscator at the New School. With her husband Julian Beck, she founded the Living Theatre in 1947 as an artistic and socially conscious alternative to the commercial theatre. Since then she has directed and often acted in more than sixty influential productions, among them William Carlos Williams's Many Loves, Jack Gelber's The Connection, Kenneth H. Brown's The Brig, Bertolt Brecht's Man Is Man and Antigone...

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Report copyright infringementby John Knoepfle (Author)John Knoepfle's latest book The Aloe of Evening is the best collection of poems you will read this year. Knoepfle [pronounced know-full] has command of our spoken language few writers will ever achieve. And he knows exactly where the golden thread of each poem is. His poems have both breadth and emotional depth. One poem within this book begins with sadness profound enough to make the reader cry, and closes with humor strong enough to make...

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Report copyright infringementby Raul Zurita (Author), Mariela Griffor (Translator)The two threads of this book are militancy (civic, political, social) and love (the beloved, the people). There are threads that alternate with each other, but the more intriguing moments are intertwined and this fabric of love and activism is the greatest merit of the book. One of their highest poetic achievements are in describing the ruins present and the future of all humankind - from the Parthenon to the Ei...

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Report copyright infringementby Shawn Holliday (Compiled by)The Oklahoma Poets Laureate: A Sourcebook, History, and Anthology is the first book of its kind. It is a history of Oklahoma poets laureate and includes a contextual introduction, critical evaluations of each of the laureates, and selected poems by all of the 20 poets laureate of Oklahoma. Number of Pages: 342 Dimensions: 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Todd Fuller (Author)In this collection Todd Fuller draws us back to the endangered sounds memories made in the moments of their creation, stored in the thread of words spun into the narrative arch of these poems, Fuller s poetry restores us well into our disappearance. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Yang Cropp (Author)In her first collection of poems, Jenny Yang Cropp writes about growing up mixed-race, overcoming abandonment and addiction, and surviving the enormity of grief. Moving from supernovas to microscopic black holes, these poems reimagine love, family, and physics as the speaker tries to navigate a world of damaged, often severed, human connections and come to terms with her own fragmented sense of identity. At its heart, String Theory is a...

Sauntering with Thoreau: Poems by Gene G. Bradbury

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Report copyright infringementby Gene G. Bradbury (Author)I've walked with Henry David Thoreau for the last thirty years. It seems odd because Henry died in 1862, eighty years before I was born. The other problem is this: it's unlikely he would choose me for company. I talk too much. Henry enjoyed his solitude. He found only a couple of friends he could tolerate on long walks. This little book assumes our friendship was possible. I have much in common with Henry. And so sauntering through his ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandon Courtney (Author)A treatise on grief and endurance, Brandon Courtney's Rooms for Rent in the Burning City explores the what remains in the aftermath of violence, both literal and psychic--in the return from war, in the end of a marriage. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 7.99 x 7.99 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby David Ossman (Author)About the Author David Ossman, one of the four creators of The Firesign Theatre, three-time Grammy nominees, known as "The Beatles of Comedy," has been publishing poetry in books, anthologies and magazines since his teen years. Most of the poems in Marshmallows & Despair were first heard on NPR's All Things Considered, the Firesign's gold-medal-winning XM Satellite program, Fools In Space, and the web's Radio Free Oz. An internationall...

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Report copyright infringementby Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong (Author)About the Author Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a poet and software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has lived in nine states and two continents. Writing is a way for her to traverse seen and unseen geographies. She speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, some Japanese, English, ruby, and javascript. Kwong's poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Among her projects is a digital anthology, The Taste of Each, curated around refe...

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Report copyright infringementby Ray McNiece (Author), Lachina Tim (Photographer)Poems and photography of the rise and fall and rebirth of the Midwestern industrial power, Cleveland. Cleveland poet Ray McNiece crafts a long song to his battered and resilient home. Tim Lachina's stunning photography perfectly illustrate McNiece's words. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.13 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Barngrover (Author) Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: December 14, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Megan E. Freeman (Author)Megan E. Freeman's poetry is as fresh and honest as a three year old's laughter at first discovering her reflection in a pool of water. While easily accessible, her elegant writing is complexly layered with hard-won common sense and clarity. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 03, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Coy Williams (Author)In A Thousand Windows, Coy Williams brings a richness and diversity of poetry with many layers. Williams' poetry has the power to evoke meanings that are beyond the meanings of ordinary language, sublime meanings in which familiar images reveal abstract truths. Shrouded in beautiful landscapes and sound, the poems express through symbols and metaphors that which is structurally unattainable by rational investigation. Rich and resonant, the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Sloss Giedeman (Author)In this collection of poetry, Sandra Sloss Giedeman writes about growing up in St. Louis and the Midwest, painting word portraits of the steel mill town where she grew up and the people who lived and worked there. Alongside stunning verbal images of the California landscape, particularly southern California where she's lived her whole adult life, she also writes about loss, grief and growing up Catholic in a large family. This coll...

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Report copyright infringementby Cecelia Green Jerrell (Author)Cecelia Green Jerrell gives an account of her various twists and turns throughout life via powerful and thought-provoking poems. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Wallace Pustinjak (Author)A collection of fifty original riddles to challenge, entertain, and invigorate the mind. The poetic style of these riddles from Wallace Pustinjak ensures that each line is an enjoyable experience in and of itself, regardless of whether or not the riddle is actually solved.Whether mulling over a particularly tricky clue on a quiet evening, or tackling the entire book with a team of fellow thinkers, Riddles From a Recluse is sure to be e...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard M. Berlin (Author)"A twenty first century William Carlos Williams." -Booklist "Berlin's writing sheds all doctrines and poses. He seems to me to be a person who is living his whole life in an effort to find something, which can never be located or described. In one of those beautiful passages that left me breathless, Berlin writes, 'a doctor becomes/like a man who has spent sixty years/on a lobster boat, watching the world/swim fast and shining, right b...

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Report copyright infringementby Milorad Maksimovic (Author), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator), Ines De Castro (Illustrator)A book of poems and art. Timeless beauty conveyed into present age ...Love and passion wrapped in care for all -- to inspire, to enlighten... In mystical and sensual poems the poet expresses his love of God and his beloved Lutien, his Tinuvyel, his Beloved. "A long time ago in an age long forgotten there was a world where light and darkness twisted their own stories among human ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Wing (Author)Body on the Wall ranges from eroticism to domestic abuse, from self-mutilation to Zen, from coming out to domestic love. Untangling the many threads that make up a life, Wing writes about being a daughter, violence against women and girls, mental illness, her identity as a lesbian, her love for her wife, and the search for spiritual direction. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publicati...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Thompson (Author) Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.13 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2015

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Webb (Author), Walter De La Mare (Introduction by)Mary Webb was passionately devoted to revealing nature in all of its expressions and forms. She was diagnosed with Graves' disease at the age of 20, and in times of recovery she early noticed that her love of nature sped her healing. She also, in these sensitive times of contemplation and struggle, saw the natural world more tenderly and luminously; the urgencies of life were clearer. The Spring of Joy co...

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Report copyright infringementby Becca Lee (Author)Pulling Petals is a collection of modern poetry and prose which celebrates individuality, the resilience of humanity and our capacity as humans to survive and flourish in this sometimes harsh, but forever beautiful, life. It takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery and asks them to find beauty in the mundane and love within themselves. Pulling Petals speaks to the heart, mind, and soul, and explores the beauty of breaking apart, healing...

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Report copyright infringementby Ray Rasmussen (Author)Landmarks is a collection of 64 of Ray Rasmussen's haibun that have appeared in a number of journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, A Hundred Gourds, Bottle Rockets and Blithe Spirit. Themes include later-in-life romance, memories of childhood, wilderness adventures, retirement and aging, and philosophical musings. Ray is haibun editor of Haibun Today and technical editor of Contemporary Haibun ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aj Houston (Author)Writing and Speaking are the more fundamental forms we use to communicate. What if there were no titles to guide your thoughts into a specific direction? What if you had the opportunity to give the poems you read a title only you believed befitted the verses? Here is your chance to be in control, if you find something you like you can label it how you like. What if there were no titles is my attempt at painting words into pictures and the pai...

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Report copyright infringementby Felix Bernstein (Author), Trisha Low (Preface by)Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry by Felix Bernstein with a Preface by Trisha Low and "What's Not to Like: A Concluding Conversation with Vanessa Place" Paperback, 196 pages Dimensions 5.5" x 8.5" x 0.5" Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry by Felix Bernstein is an aggravated survey of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism; compounded by compulsive archaeological digging into the relics and ruins of Language poetry, C...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Wharton (Illustrator), Emily Wharton (Author)This poetry chapbook explores the ways that animals enter and leave, invade and pervade our everyday lives. These accessible poems utilize animal imagery to take on the question of what it means to be a human employing tones that range from philosophical to humorous to poignant. While not difficult, these poems are narratives coiled with wit and contain surprises that leap at you from around dark corners. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Christine M. Kendall (Author)Resting in the Familiar is a collection of Christine Kendall's new and previously published poems. Originally published in 2017 by Independent Writers Studio Press, this collection is now back in print and covers Kendall's early years as a "military brat," family stories, her life in Bellingham, and her sojourn in the Methow Valley in Central Washington. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.36 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Neter Ankh Hotep-El (Author)Filled with some of the most amazing, inspiring and empowering lines ever written in the form of poems! This book is a modern day meets classical era of poetry at its finest. Prepare to have your heart and soul touched as you flip through these pages.Author BiographyNeter Ankh Hotep-El has been writing poetry as far back as he can remember. He has won many contests and recognition for his poems. His passion for writing has never subs...

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Mesmer (Author)"Sharon Mesmer's poetry is a stream of indomitable spunk . . . tough and lush . . . a fabulous tissue of language which floats out to inhabit other bodies, opens their mouths and makes them speak." -Alice Notley "Parodying the come-ons of capitalism, Mesmer surprises us with access to something we hadn't considered wanting, an arch anger that is surprisingly accepting of the compromises situations push on people, while at the same time smo...

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Report copyright infringementby William Virgil Davis (Author)The writing in this remarkable collection makes such masterful use of bones as metaphor that the book reads as much like a single long poem as it does a bringing together of individual lyrics. Open the book anywhere and enjoy a small gem of poetry, or read the whole book-even in a single sitting-and enjoy a moving and brilliant long poem. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8 x 5 IN Publicat...