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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Townsend (Translator), Giacomo Leopardi (Author)"The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi" from Giacomo Leopardi. Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist (1798-1837). Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 18, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby William Butler Yeats (Author)William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit o...

Poems To Make Your Coffee Cup Smile (Revised)

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Zemlansky (Author)Revised edition...this poetry book will really make your coffee cup smile. Brand new poems for everyone to enjoy! Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: November 22, 2015

Rain and Shine: One Hundred and One Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Jovy De La Paz (Author)This book paints the images of the soul in the language of the heart, poetry. There are rain and shine in everyone. Each is a catalyst in individual's self transformation that makes life more meaningful and significant, a challenge to our measures. Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: January 03, 2016

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Lee Reich (Author)This book is a collection of personal and reader favorites from poet Jen Reich's daily poetry blog; poetry-not-poverty@blogspot.com. Each poem invites you to pause and take a few moments for reflection and self-caring.Author BiographyJennifer (Jen) Reich is a nurse coach, poet, and storyteller. Her poems are inspired by people, animals, nature, and all aspects of our shared human experience. Jen is a passionate explorer of the healing...

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Report copyright infringementby John Thomas Dodds (Author)Ajijic is a small village nestled on the north shore of Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest lake. Surrounded by the Sierra Madres, it is a world unto itself, where behind the walls, windows and doors are always open and welcoming. After visiting, it was only a matter of time before I returned to what is now home. These poems speak of a celebration of life and death, a festival of music, church bells, and children laughing. They speak of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Miguel Angel Miguelez Fernandez (Author)Es este un viaje a los más recónditos escondrijos del alma donde, de la mano del verso y el ritmo, el paisaje se transformará en emoción y la emoción una lágrima suspendida, o quizás esa sonrisa complaciente como nube frágil y tenue que vaga en el silencio de la noche por el éter del espíritu humano hasta despertar su llama y comprobar así que aún palpita y pide ser y descubrir esa belleza oculta detrás de la palabra. No ...

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Report copyright infringementby Poesia Completa (Author)Antonio Machado Ruiz fue un poeta español, el más joven representante de la Generación del 98. Su obra inicial, de corte modernista, evolucionó hacia un intimismo simbolista con rasgos románticos Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Hollybook (Editor), Rudyard Kipling (Author)Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3] Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known. Number of Pages: 158 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 22, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Adam G. Chambers (Author)A testament to the bravery of self-deception. Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: December 22, 2015

The Borderline Between Life and Poetry: A Complete Book of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby A. S. Minor Jr (Author)A collection of poems by spoken word competition-winner and novelist A. S. Minor. This book of poetry guides the reader through the chaotic emotional underworld of Borderline Personality Disorder, but more than that, it uses empathy and sympathy through written word to describe for others the same thing that we all deal with: What we call the human experience.Author BiographyAllen Minor lives in Florida with his wife, two sons, two dogs, ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Joyce (Author)Chamber MusicBy James JoyceChamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews in May, 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters" and "I hear an army charging upon the land").Although it is widely reported that the title refers to the sound of urine tinkling in a chamber pot, this is a later Joycean e...

The Divine Comedy: The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise: Hell

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Report copyright infringementby H. F. Cary M. a. (Translator), Gustave Dore (Illustrator), Dante Alighieri (Author)The Divine ComedyThe Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise: HellDante AlighieriTranslated by The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A.Illustrated by Gustave DoréThe Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia is an epic poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of ...

Brandy's Unicorn: Songs of Love and Loss, Faith and Doubt, People and Places, Comedy and Tragedy

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Berg (Author)Rhymed verse, blank verse, and free verse poems of love and loss, faith and doubt, people and places, comedy and tragedy--slices from the author's life. Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2016

Poems-Religious, Historical, and Political, Vol. 1 (Deseret Alphabet edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Eliza R. Snow (Author)Eliza Roxcy Snow (1804-1887) was one of the most important and influential first-generation members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served as the second President of the Relief Society from the time of its reestablishment in 1866 to her death. She was a plural wife to both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and the older sister of Lorenzo Snow. Snow's most enduring legacy is as a poet; she is frequently referred to as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul F. Lenzi (Author)Internationally acclaimed poet Paul F. Lenzi presents this remarkable auto-anthology. In compiling this magnificent celebration of the Japanese short forms, he selected poems from each of his fourteen published collections, incorporating a number of new verses along the way. Herein you will find a wide ranging assortment of original poems that explore the complexities of our human experience. They have been organized into chapters that fol...

The Search for Order: T.S. Eliot's Use of Music and Musical Form

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Report copyright infringementby Hallie Belt (Author)Did you know that T.S. Eliot's book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" is the text on which Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (1981) is based? Throughout his work, twentieth-century poet, dramatist, and critic T.S. Eliot examined his historical place and relevance in the world. While tradition and culture are fundamental themes in his work, how does Eliot use music to explore these themes, achieve order, and find a solution to his exis...

Un Amor Incomparable: Poemas Romanticos del Siglo XXI

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Rutbel Campos (Author)Poemas Romanticos del Siglo XXI. Poemas llenos de amor, pasion y de nueva esperanza para los que guardan todo en el corazón y suspiran ante la belleza del ser amado. Poemas de amor que solamente un Poeta como Jorge Rutbel Campos tiene la inspiración.Author BiographyEl Poeta, Jorge Rutbel Campos, siempre ha tenido la inspiración guardada en su alma y su corazón, pero que ahora llegó el momento de darle a conocer al mundo y a ese ser a...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Hill Marks (Author)In this new collection, Carol Hill Marks writes trenchantly, lighting up the night with poems that are piercingly true. Her poems wrestle with the fickleness of the artist's muse, falling in love with 17th century painters, dealing with the clutch on a 1962 Ford Falcon, and seeking the true identities of farm tractors. As always, memories of her family and her dream life continue to circle their wagons, attempting to define the boundari...

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Noble Davidson (Editor), Randyy Darris (Author)R Darris' endless journaling perfectly captured the perpetual car crash and rebirth of the human experience. Collected is a collaboration: his work boiled down into word candy by modern poet Leah Noble Davidson. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.44 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN Publication Date: July 28, 2016

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Report copyright infringementby Maure Coise (Author)Reputation currency. X file. Anti-humanist/inhumanist perspectives. The colour out of space of reasons: representation, embodiment, and emanation.Commodities of motherly love found corporate culture. Paranoid materialism refers structure: environment, technology. Human nature ought maintain relations with nonhuman nature, by engaging human body, example, through qigong. Develop body, develop relations with family, with land, some, freedom st...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth C. Lumpkin (Author)BUY THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED A COLLEGE COURSE, NOW IN ITS 4th EDITION, WITH 4 NEW POEMS ADDED. Song of Ramapough is a poetic celebration of land and life. This collection of poems, centered around a particular place, the Ramapo Mountains of New York and New Jersey, is inspired, in part, by the local geology, biology and human history. With such precedents as Charles Olson's "Maximus Poems" and William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", the po...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura C. Jackson (Author)A book of poetry. Where real life situations are told in a short story through poetry. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 12, 2016

Looking Back: Poems from My Adolescent Self

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Report copyright infringementby Teesa Mee (Author)These poems were written by me between 1971 and 1975. That was between my junior year of high school and my senior year of college. The exception is the final poem. I wrote that a year after I met my husband and a year before I married him. I am happy to say that we are both Loving today. Thank you for reading.Author BiographyMy pen name is Teesa Mee, but friends and family call me Terrie. I was born and raised in Southwest Detroit and lived t...

Mandaderos de la Lluvia / Messengers of Rain

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Lee (Author), Rafael Yockteng (Illustrator)Latin America has always been a full contributor to the rich poetic tradition of the Spanish language. Even before the arrival of the Spanish, the native peoples of Central and South America had a poetic idiom of their own. This bilingual anthology for young readers, containing sixty-four poems from nineteen countries, presents a fascinating mix of established and new poets. A significant portion of the book co...

The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Sze (Author)A comprehensive collection by one of the most intensely musical and visionary poets writing today.Author BiographyArthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry and translation. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts, former poet laureate of Santa Fe, and a corresponding editor for Manoa. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.5 x 5....

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Report copyright infringementby C. D. Wright (Author)Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. "In my book," she writes, "poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so." C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including g...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Roethke (Author), Carolyn Kizer (Introduction by)"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools."Art is our defens...

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Report copyright infringementby John Balaban (Editor)During the Vietnam war, John Balaban traveled the Vietnamese countryside alone, taping, transcribing, and translating oral folk poems known as "ca dao." No one had ever done this before, and it was Balaban's belief that his project would help end the war.The young American poet walked up to farmers, fishermen, seamstresses, and monks and said, "Sing me your favorite poem," and they did. "Folk poetry is so much a part of everybody's life, my...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Williams (Author)Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind focuses upon the two intertwined themes of Reason and Beauty as they are expressed poetically in English literature. It begins with a chapter on the unique characteristics of poetic creation, ""The Ostentation of Verse,"" and then unfolds in an alternating pattern, analyzing the distinctive appearances of these two concepts in writers as various as William Wordsworth (Reason), Christopher Marlowe (Be...

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Report copyright infringementby David Wagoner (Author)"Wagoner's words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts."--The Seattle TimesIn his twenty-fourth book of poetry, David Wagoner reflects on youth, love, regret, and expectation versus reality. Here a master writes at top form, back-dropped by life's curious moments and imagining Jesus as an untidy roommate or considering our final destination in "Beginner's Guide to Death.""After the Point o...

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Report copyright infringementby Heather McHugh (Author)"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."--The New York Times Book Review"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline."--Village Voice Literary SupplementThis fast-paced, verbally dexterous book--honored as a "Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly--"boil...