Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby John James Cooper (Author)In I Feel Therefore I Am, John James Cooper explores his emotional experiences through poems and essays. In writing this book Cooper, who describes himself as a loner and the antithesis of a people person, takes the bold step of sharing his deeply personal thoughts and experiences. Questioning whether his intense need for privacy somehow negates his life experiences, he chooses to share his "private possessions" with others. While Coop...

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Report copyright infringementby Tiffany Babb (Author)"I remember that it takes work to remember." Fragmented portraits and metropolitan pastorals arc along a pendulum of solitude, illustrating alternate desires of preservation and renewal. Babb creates connections through elemental communion with objects, nature, family, and fading keepsakes, transforming mundanity and trauma into oneness with the present. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 7 x 4.25 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter James Hickman (Author)Dark Child Awakens is a collection of original poetry inspired by the author coming out later in life, after surviving the pain and betrayal of his childhood and decades as a married man. The poems cover such diverse topics as love, relationships, fear, anxiety, despair, hope, betrayal, good times and the beauty of the west coast. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara James (Author)Spanning a life from the 1950s to the present, this memoir begins with very South Australian roots; German and Cornish. It shines a light on some key events that helped shape the social consciousness of many Baby Boomers. A rigid school system, Bob Dylan, hippies, drugs and protest. But it also reflects on a life challenged by family mental illness. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Nicholas (Author)"In this captivating poetic memoir, Louise Nicholas honours the memory of her mother, Dorothy, and her mother's unfulfilled wish - until now - to be a published writer. Dorothy dances across these pages. Her sense of humour, her sparkle, and her love for her five children beam at us through her letters and partially written life story, and through Louise's anecdotal flashback poems and recollections. This touching book is, in its way, a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lyman Grant (Author)2018 is a poetic march through the stirring calamity of our times and its people in a single year, day-to-day. Real life problems of broken pipes, marriages, love, school shootings, higher education instructing, child raising, women's rights, racism, wildfires, politics and the force of nature show a dislocated nation in turmoil. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 1...

Going Down Gordon Brown: with poems by Andrew Mackirdy

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Nunn (Author)Andrew lived quietly in a small town in North-East England with his 90-year-old mother. The money from his Incapacity Benefit paid for their food, his mother paid for the heating from her Age Pension and they got by. He did the shopping, the cooking and the washing. He read a lot, wrote poetry and when the weather warmed up, he gardened. It was a constrained life but within it, he could cope. In 2006 there were 2.7 million people on Incapacit...

Blue Light: The Highs and Lows of a Spirited Life in Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Harvey Puppi (Author), Jayne Townsend (Contribution by)Blue Light is a collection of found poetry, lyrics, stories, and diary entries that chronicles the life, creativity, and soul of a complex man. In writing that is vulnerable, witty, and profound, Harvey bares his heart and soul on the page as he delves into the themes of his Italian family roots, childhood memories, friendships, passions, demons, losses, and loves. These are but some of the intertwined thre...

An Inherited Epic of Gilgamesh: A poetic memoir dedicated to James McAuley

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Report copyright infringementby Graeme Hetherington (Author)In this, his seventh book of poetry, written over a period of more than forty years, Graeme Hetherington explores how his friendship with James McAuley has parallels with that of Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the ancient Mesopotamian epic. As in the original, it is a warts and all treatment, with human behaviour in relationship to loss and the inevitability of death being the concerns that bind it together. Number of Pages: 66...

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Report copyright infringementby Kd Massi (Author)Until We Meet Again is an artistic memoir in which KD Massi shares parts of her life and work through poetry, stories, and songs. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 10, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Shiroma Perera Nathan (Author)Inspired by the author's formative years in Sri Lanka (Ceylon in the book), her loves, sorrows, and above all her muse Vivien Leigh, Serenading the Dawn is a nostalgic, at times playful, at times heartbreaking, informative, and whimsical journey in verse. Illustrated with evocative and wistful pencil sketches and written in a style that evokes imagery of an era long gone, this sentimental anthology will appeal to lovers of history,...

Disturbing The Calm: A Memoir of Time and Place

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Kvinsland (Author)A Puget Sounder by birth, Judith Barker Kvinsland presents a collection of fifteen, inter-related personal essays that invite readers to accompany her through the twists and turns that disturbed the calm of an otherwise, ordinary life. Her memoir, told in memorable, lyrical prose, is a recollection of the time in post-World War II America, as well as a remembrance of place, while growing up in rural South Kitsap County in northwest Wash...

An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Fisher (Author), Peter Robinson (Editor)When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added a Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and 'Talks for Words'. The enlarged second edition of Interviews Through Time (2013), a volume of interviews only, made it possible for those three pieces to join many others in this first substantial gathering of Roy Fisher's occasi...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelvin Corcoran (Author), Emma Collins (Illustrator), Sam Guglani (Introduction by)Not Much to Say Really is an account of extended conversations with four elderly patients in hospital. Standing on the edge of their time they look back over their lives with good humour, tenderness and remarkable candour. At every turn these conversations show the reader that the most personally lived events and experiences are the most powerfully shared in the common lot of mor...

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Report copyright infringementby Jenni Nixon (Author)'Jenni Nixon's passages is a family history, memoir and social commentary unlike any other, fashioned with a poetic voice distinctly her own. At turns harsh and tender, suffused with biting humour, yet never facile, Nixon's are "words that form rivers" coursing through Australia's colonial settlement down to present-day Sydney, our steamy twenty-first century megapolis with its jerrybuilt concrete towers and frangipani blossoms. Out of its m...

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Report copyright infringementby Carolyn Macy (Author), Jeremy Macy (Photographer)Over the years, I have written these poems from memories, occurring events, and from my thoughts as they emerged. These selections included represent only a few as I began writing poetry while still very young. Some came easy to write, while others have undergone many revisions. Writing in rhythm and rhyme carries a great fascination and challenge for me.Many, but not all of the photos included, came from the pho...

Grace in the Dirt: Poems, Songs, and Other Reflections on Life

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Report copyright infringementby Cory Kruse (Author)From Cory Kruse, author of the critically acclaimed A Dream of Darkness, comes an incisive collection that will delight, inspire, devastate, and uplift you.Told in spare, accessible entries, Grace in the Dirt is a lyrical memoir that delves into life's ever-changing seasons, leveraging the author's own history to explore the complex, and often contradictory, nature of the modern human experience. Specifically, Kruse covers an expansive breadt...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Scheiber (Author), Susan Spangler (Editor), Miriam Seidel (Editor)"In Barbara's Words" is a lovingly curated collection of family stories, essays and articles, Jewish holiday stories, poems, and short stories, many of which have never been published before, and all of which were written by Barbara Scheiber. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 08, 2021

The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni American Classics Edition: 1968-1998

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Giovanni (Author)From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998!"Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures."―Gloria NaylorIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. This timeless classic brings readers Nikki Giovanni's poems...

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Report copyright infringementby A. T. Garcia (Author) Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 18, 2025

Treasures of Darkness: Facing the Pain and Finding the Light

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Report copyright infringementby Marina Carrier (Author)Are you a practising Christian trapped within the darkness of your past trauma? If so, find the Treasures of Darkness and the secrets God promises (Isaiah 53:3) as you follow Marina (Carrier)'s journey of Owning the pain of her trauma, into deeper faith and increasing trust and Life in Christ. Despite Baptism as a child and gifts of God in education, Marina found herself exhausted, in hopelessness and despair in her late 40s. In the mids...

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Report copyright infringementby Payal Sehgal (Author)Deluded is a raw, unflinching collection of poetry and prose that chronicles one woman's fight to hold on-to her children, her identity, and her voice-while navigating grief, displacement, and the fractures of a system that fails to listen.Written as a living journal, these poems move between despair and defiance, silence and protest, love and loss. Sehgal writes from the margins of motherhood, migration, mental health, and survival, captur...

The Road Home To You: A Singer's Journey from Exile to Gospel

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Dillinger (Author)After coming out of the closet, Tim Dillinger, Gospel and Soul recording artist, felt exiled from his southern home, cut off from his roots in Christian and Gospel music. Shunned by the audience base he worked hard to attain, he was forced to face the consequences of choosing to live his truth. New York City held out the promise of a new beginning and new musical opportunities. Despite a tour as part of a trio of soul vocalists and a run o...

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Report copyright infringementby Boston Gordon (Author)After a big life upheaval in the summer of 2012, Boston Gordon started keeping an unusual journal. What started as a simple habit of texting himself notes evolved into a decade-long chronicle of poetry fragments, memories, gift ideas for lovers, unsent letters, raw drafts of difficult messages, and the music and literature that moved him. Loose Bricks is the result: a striking fragment poetry collection capturing the messy, sweet, and tran...

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Report copyright infringementby Adonal Foyle (Author)"Foyle's poems carry on in the tradition of Derek Walcott, there can be no doubt. But make no mistake, these are original and thoughtful insights by a talented and sensitive poet, writing from his own cultural perspective. I was particularly struck by how Foyle's poems engaged all my senses. In the Beyond the Caribbean section that introduces the collection, Adonal Foyle goes on to give us insights into his years as an athlete, his travels,...

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Report copyright infringementby Marlena Gardner (Author)Never Forsaken is a story of hope and conquering fears through faith in Jesus Christ. Detailing one woman's triumph through learning of an illness within her body and giving birth to a sickly, disabled child. Marlena is terrified upon finding out about the condition of her Heart at a doctor's appointment, and to top it all off she receives the news from her physician that her son will be born disabled. As she battles high anxiety and fre...

Players in the Dream, Dreamers in the Play

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Report copyright infringementby Marian Kaplun Shapiro (Author)Shapiro's transcendent poems explore the turbulent space between uncertainty and acceptance, hesitation and stillness, and desperation and hope - a compelling kaleidoscopic arabesque. She shows us the depth and power of life. As these poems press against the nature of things toward a fusion of self, our timid wishes become greater truths. Lori Romero, Cezanne's Carrot Marian Kaplun Shapiro has created a body of work that asks to b...

It Happens as We Speak -- A Feminist Poetics

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Report copyright infringementby Pat Falk (Author)"The personal, the poetic, the political, the historic, the mythic-they braid together in this saga of the growth of a woman's mind. Pat Falk's story is unique, and at the same time she is Everywoman. It Happens As We Speak is a book of birth, and life, and change, and wisdom." -Alicia Ostriker "Pat Falk's rare pastiche of memory and lively literary analysis gathers a momentum so persuasive that we catapult from page to page with the shifts and...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Killian (Author), Kay Gabriel (Introduction by), Evan Kennedy (Editor)A posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.Kevin Killian--the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community--channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legendary corpus, and long out of print, the work collected here is the record of Killian's life ...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Granno (Author)In 2013 a dramatic event would pull the Granno family under and change their lives forever. They Know Me By My Tragedy is a compilation of short stories and poetry that encompasses the tragedies and struggles of a life before, during, and after tragedy strikes. It's one family's struggle to make difficult decisions and realizing how no decision, will be correct or easy. This book is for anyone who has suffered tragedy, depression, or st...

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Report copyright infringementby Trudy Myrrh Reagan (Author)In From the Mists of Time, the author and artist Trudy Myrrh Reagan provides an intimate account of her early life from childhood through high school in a lively collection of poetry and prose accompanied by her own illustrations done as early as 12 years old. She takes us on a journey of people and places she experienced living on the Eastern Seaboard in Washington, DC, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and the South in Tennessee.She is a...

Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Roe (Author)This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since the book first appeared. Fresh material is drawn from newspapers and printed sources; the poetry of 1798 is given more detai...