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Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross - Paperback

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by Mark Yakich (Author)Mark Yakich is an original... In the unabashedly unwieldy title and in each poem, there are no borders drawn between the commonplace and the metaphysical. There are journeys, crossings, and departures--all evocative of the loneliness, alienation, and desire for identity with another (person or place), which, formalized, makes this work recognizable as art of a very high order." --James Galvin, Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment of the Arts FellowAuthor Biograp...

Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) - Paperback

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by Paolo Javier (Author)The dualities in Paolo Javier's deceptively slim new volume of poetry span the formal and topical, featuring a serial poem that revels in/reveals the slipperiness of desire and separation from place and language in the Dreaming, and a long poem that roars at white supremacy, misogyny, and horizontal hate in our nightmare moment of late US American empire. Oneiric and concrete, modular and incantatory, Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) takes readers on a voyage to its dep...

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by Cdr Richard Boyce Usn Retired (Author)This group of poems is the result of many conversations and memories of some of the finest sailors and officers ever to explore the ocean depths in a submarine. We often discussed our reasons for choosing submarine duty. The answer always seemed to be love of country and a desire to honor the sacrifices of our forefathers. Many just wanted to do something exciting while defending the flag of freedom that was passed down to us. We had taken an oath to d...

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by Michael Magee (Author)INTRODUCTION: SHINY THINGSThe sound of her singing was something like a cellogetting up in the morning.-Richard Goldstein, about the Germansinger Nico on the album The VelvetUnderground & Nico.Michael Magee has lived in England and traveled widely, but calls the Northwest home. In October 2023, he traveled to Budapest and crossed many bridges, leading to the chapbook Budapest After Dark, published in 2024 by Open Sesame Books. Section I of Shiny Things reflects th...

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by David Demro (Author)Anywhere Imaginable is the place I go when writing poetry and my first full-length collection of work - comprising over 100 poems. Somewhere between Eating Ice Cream in the Flames and To The Moon, I hope you find a poem or two that resonates with you and stays with you throughout the years.Ah! The Bookstore...It's been so longthat I forgothow elatingthe aromatic smell ofnew bookscan be, and as I wandernear the espresso barI realizeI still can't decidewhich I prefer more...

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by Amanda Giles (Author)This book serves as a demo album showcasing poetry tracks about a Gen-X childhood in American suburbia. The 1980s and 1990s generated a scatterplot of emotions and concrete experiences for the author. A sampling of these heart-songs have been gathered in a bundle and tied loosely with a jump rope. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 12, 2024

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by Martyna Dearing (Author)no title yet because I have literally no idea what I'm doing. I'm all over the place, going back and forth between grief poetry and poems about my 'silly little crushes'. I quit my corporate job, and opened up a bookstore in my late husband's hometown just to realize he was right all along - I shouldn't have moved there. So once again, I turned my life upside down, I closed down the store, and this time moved across the country... all the way to Texas where I was su...

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by Monique Liston (Author)This book deepens its intellectual pursuit of Black liberation through creative writing and understanding poetry as a unifying concept. FRACTALS explores the power of poetry to articulate the inner life of Black individuals, offering a space to express emotions, thoughts, and experiences often marginalized or suppressed in dominant narratives. This articulation is a form of resistance, asserting the humanity and complexity of Black people, as emphasized in ""Black Al...

But GOD: Hope that Never Fails - Paperback

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by Vernae Coffee (Author)But God is a collection of poetry fashioned to engage the minds, hearts, and spirits of people of all ages, especially young adults and older. With over a hundred selections, readers will find themselves amongst the joys, disappointments, and struggles sometimes experienced on our human journey. While not completely autobiographical in nature, Vernae leaves a chunk of herself on each page.This collection is unique in that each poem is accompanied by a reflection writt...

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by Nicolette Sowder (Author), Myo Yim (Illustrator)A lyrical read-aloud filled with vibrant illustrations that follows a group of children as they explore their relationship with the natural world--from insects to dandelions to playing in the mud. This picture book based on a popular poem is a joyful celebration of the ability children have to cherish all living things. Exuberant and imaginative, this picture book celebrates the mess makers, scavengers of the dirt, and kids who march to the b...

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by Parisa Akhbari (Author)Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. "The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." -National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book--a dogeared moleskin she a...

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by Kelsey Borgford (Author), Cole Forrest (Author), Tessa Pizzale (Illustrator)Ceremony, community and connection - the poems of Once the Smudge is Lit carry the reader into deeply spiritual elements of Nishnaabe/Ojibwe culture. Co-written by Cole Forrest and Kelsey Borgford, the poetry of Once the Smudge is Lit highlights the Indigenous experience in post-colonial times through explorations of themes ranging from love to community. Bogford's and Forrest's verses seek to open a multidimension...

Sunflowers at the End of Time - Paperback

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by Tom Lewin (Author), Maia Benaim (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 20, 2024

San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets - Paperback

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by David Meltzer (Editor)Essential interviews with makers of the San Francisco Beat Scene by one of their own.Author BiographyA poet at age 11, David Meltzer began his literary career during the Beat heyday in San Francisco and early on took his poetry to jazz for improv wonders, which he continues to astound listeners with today. He is the author of many volumes of poetry including The Clown, The Process, Arrows: Selected Poetry, 1957 - 1992, No Eyes: Lester Young, Beat Thing and David's Cop...

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by Maggie Smith (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR ??"To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment." --Time "A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet." --People From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Keep Moving, and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life. With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie...

Devotional Rhyme: Poems of Hope, Love, and Inspiration Straight from a God-Filled Heart, Volume Ill - Paperback

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by Luke McClellan (Author)Have you ever wondered how to truly overcome your suffering?The answer has always been there. Do you experience: -Never-ending cycles of anxiety?-strong feelings of regret?-Missing loved ones that have left?-Needing life to be a certain way?-Always desiring more?These are common feelings, commonly unresolved with the most common solution: everything but God. But I am here to tell you that God is the answer to everything! So, in taking life, one day at a timeAs Christ...

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by Terra Vagus (Author)Broken Hands is a follow-up to Terra Vagus' 2021 collection, Time Slip. Broken Hands is a reminder that healing is not linear. That it's okay to still feel the pains of the past while reaching toward the future. We may not always be who we once were, but those wounds last forever in a beauty that can only be realized through accepting ourselves and our stories. The clock stops for no one - but who says time is real anyway?" Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 I...

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by Terra Vagus (Author), Aaron Olvera (Photographer)This debut poetry collection from Terra Vagus tells three short stories based around life, love and loss. This collection explores the trials and tribulations that come with life events including fertility, relationships, grief, family trauma and substance abuse. Each piece is tells a story of overcoming ghosts of the past while preparing to take on hardships that the future may bring. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8 x 5 IN Publicat...

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by Mary Oliver (Author) Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.46 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: November 10, 1995

The Letters of Seamus Heaney - Hardcover

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by Seamus Heaney (Author), Christopher Reid (Editor)The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet's life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, the soul settles for an hour or two.In this astute selection from Seamus Heaney's vast correspondence, we are given direct access to t...

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings - Hardcover

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by Shel Silverstein (Author), Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stou...

The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology - Paperback

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by Snorri Sturluson (Author), Jesse L. Byock (Translator), Jesse L. Byock (Introduction by)Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its time scale spans the eons from the world's creat...

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by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Author)It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suffering, the challenges of living in this world full of violence and ill will, and the gentle delights we embrace to survive that violence. Khalaf Tuffaha's elegant poems sing the fra...

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by Charmaine Aserappa (Author), Akiko Naomura (Author)Lovers of Japanese meditation gardens, tea ceremonies, exquisite rice papers and finely bound collections of haiku will be charmed by the handmade look and feel of this beautiful volume. Each exquisite verse and original woodcut expresses a thought based on elements of the gardenfor making life more beautiful." Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.39 x 5.74 x 6.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 01, 1999

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by Steven Sieting (Author) Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 17, 2024

You Stole My Name: The Curious Case of Animals with Shared Names (Board Book) - Board Book

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by Dennis McGregor (Author), Blue Star Press (Producer)This fun board book for kids features vibrant, hand-painted illustrations of animals with curious questions like "Why does the bull trout share its name with the bull?" You Stole My Name is a stunning collection of illustrations that takes you and your child on a colorful journey through the animal kingdom, telling the stories of the most interesting creatures and their namesakes. Written and illustrated by renowned artist Dennis McGregor...

Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition - Paperback

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by Federico García Lorca (Author), Christopher Maurer (Introduction by), Christopher Maurer (Editor)A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical workAnd I who was walkingwith the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eaglesand a naked girl.The one was the otherand the girl was neither. -from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico García Lorca was the most beloved poet of twentieth-century Spain and one of the world's most influential modernist writers. His work has long been admired for...

A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke - Hardcover

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by Anita Barrows (Author), Joanna Macy (Author)One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, ...

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by Goulish Matthew (Author)The dramaturg, writer, and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry, of reading just one poem: 'Kingfisher' by Ed Roberson. How to attend, to follow the course of poem as a waterway, to recognise in its surface tension impending drops, hidden obstacles, and disguised turns? How also and at the same time to attend to an interruption - an accidental sighting - with equal curiosity? Sincerity follows the lines of the poem inside and outside, i...

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by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Tasha Tudor's watercolor paintings evoke a simpler time in the past, and celebrate two of the things she loves most -- children and ...

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories - Hardcover

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by Tim Burton (Author)Newly reissued for holiday gift giving--a collection of charmingly weird tales conjured from the unique imagination of acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance--witty and macabre at once. Now, he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children--misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel ...

Still Life with Rope and River - Paperback

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by Chavonn Williams Shen (Author) Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2024