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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...

Grief is Love: A Memoir of Surviving Bereavement

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Deal (Author)After losing her long-term partner, through poetry and essay, author Mary Deal shares the turmoil and oftentimes bewildering depths of her grief.This memoir exposes the spectrum of emotions with which those suffering loss will become familiar or already experience. The author holds back nothing of her odyssey of despair. Her experiences and much she has learned to help herself provide other survivors a chance to see that they are not alone. Th...

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde - Paperback

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by Audre Lorde (Author), Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems--selected and introduced by one of our most pow...

Purposely Driven Poems: The Rockefeller Collection Volume I

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Rockefeller (Author)The first poem was called BELIEVE. It was admired by people who encouraged me to continue. The next day GOD woke me at dawn to start writing. My workmanship for the lord was started. Three to four a day came out on paper written in pencil. Sparked by my Holy Spirit I have written hundreds. Later on, I found a way to speak them into my phone on beautiful landscapes. Asking of Google, I received many matching scriptures, and I started lea...

Becoming: Transformative * Informative * Restorative

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Report copyright infringementby Henry O. Hardy (Author)BECOMING is Transformative * Informative * Restorative Reverend Clay Evans, Founding Pastor - Fellowship Baptist Church of ChicagoThis is one of my beloved sons in the ministry, and in him, I am well pleased. I am a living witness that serving God pays the greatest dividends. Here we are presented with a great opportunity to know God more intimately through the words of a praying preacher. Blessings to you, Dr. Hardy.Reverend Jesse Louis ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alison C. Rollins (Author)Sweeping from the eighteenth century to futurist fabulations, Black Bell harmonizes poetry with performance art practices in an investigation of fugitivity.Inspired by the nineteenth century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, Alison C. Rollins's Black Bell continues an exploration of cataloging individual experience and collective memory. As Rollins sets out to resuscitate and embody the archive, we see a chorus o...

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Report copyright infringementby Jesse Glass (Author)Pentimenti by Jesse Glass is a collection of visuals and poetry.Pentimenti: structures within a painting that signal a correction by the creator of the piece. These may range from simple adjustments to an under drawing to the complete painting over of the picture. A poetics can be built on the presence of such hidden structures in texts as well. "amazing original energy and power; he always writes 'up' to his reader, i.e., he assumes that we...

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Report copyright infringementby James Tadd Adcox (Author)Denmark: Variations proposes alternative versions of Hamlet, perpetually haunting the play in the process. Reaching back through the history of contemporary literature, from conceptual writing to Oulipo to early avant-garde theatre, Adcox creates a book of infinite (and, therefore, sometimes illegal) futures waiting to expand the boundaries of multiple creative practices. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.27 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dana Knott (Author)The poems within Girl, Drowning by Dana Knott (she/her) were inspired by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862), a pre-Raphaelite model, muse, poet, and artist. Much attention rests on Siddal's fame as the model for John Everett Millais' Ophelia (1851-1852), her laudanum addiction, and the exhumation of her corpse years after her death, so that her husband, artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, could retrieve a poetry manuscript he placed in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ibohal Kshetrimayum (Author)Ibohal Kshetrimayum's poems do not lend themselves to the stereotypical clichés often deployed by the regular critics and anthologists in their discussions of the poetry of Northeast India. In fact, the stereotype is an illusion as much as the Northeast itself which is an amorphous, vaguely defined, construct of the mainstream imagination. Northeast India, as anyone who has been there or has even looked closely at its culture and lit...

Rhyme and Reason: Collection of Poems for Children

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Report copyright infringementby Ananya S. Guha (Author)The book of poems is addressed to a child roughly between eight and thirteen years. It tries to promote the love of poetry through words and sounds that can appeal to the child through the senses. Moreover, aspects like nature, school, and studies are continuously used for the child's empathy. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 13, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Paula M. Jarot (Author)Discover the transformative journey of healing through art and writing, where grief meets creativity. This inspiring book offers encouragement and hope, blending watercolor artistry with heartfelt poetry, guiding readers toward emotional restoration and spiritual growth.After enduring a series of tragic events, I found myself struggling to stay afloat. In a moment of desperation, I picked up a paintbrush, and as I prayed for guidance, the...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary F. McDonough (Author), Martyn J. Clark (Author), Martyn J. Clark (Photographer)DIRT is a collection of fragments: evocative images, writing, text messages, email, poetry, prose, photography, art, and diary entries about sex and guilt, shame, love, and what it means to be alive. Number of Pages: 300 Dimensions: 0.82 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: November 11, 2015

May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes for Your Life (the Perfect Book for Mother's Day, Birthdays, and Graduation)

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Report copyright infringementby Cleo Wade (Author)An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes For Your Life is the next tender and joyous picture book from New York Times-bestselling author and poet, Cleo Wade. May you know fear but not be driven by itMay you know joy and follow it everywhereMay you know light and shine it every chance you get From the bestselling author of What the Road Said, Cleo Wade's next heartfelt and lyrical picture book is a love letter t...

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Report copyright infringementby Shilo Niziolek (Editor), Jamie A. M. (Editor)Scavengers is a journal of fragmented and hybrid works across all genres. Issue 3 of Scavengers Journal an imprint of Querencia Press incudes 69 contributors - Edited & Curated by Shilo Niziolek Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: April 30, 2026

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Report copyright infringementby High Shelf Press (Compiled by)High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXXIII (August 2021) contains 90+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XXXIII showcases 20 Artists/Authors fromBeaverton, PortlandPortland, OregonEl Sobrante, CaliforniaSan Diego, CaliforniaReno, NevadaMissoula, MontanaLoveland, ColoradoDenver, Color...

Illuminating the Mundane: Transformational Art and Haiku

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Report copyright infringementby Billie Ruth Furuichi (Author)An exquisitely produced full color book. Artist and workshop leader Billie Ruth Furuichi offers this compilation of her work in silk painting and digital collage, accompanied by original Haiku attuned to the message of each art piece. Color and expression in line and form feeds our right-brain sensibilities of compassion and expansion, while the companion haiku bridge the worlds of imagination and thought. We come away from this boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Villayat Snowmoon Wolf Sunkmanitu (Author)My exhibition 'Living with PTSD' took six years to plan and put together. It couldn't have happened without support from the Arts Council and the National Lottery. This book is an accompaniment to the rolling exhibition that took place between 2013 and 2014, offering further insight and shared experiences. From my own perspective, it's an important piece of work because it shines a light into a much misunderstood condit...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Merrill (Author)Dog Alley is a hybrid, full-color book of poems and paintings by the renowned artist Hugh Merrill. The poems are an intimate look at memory, aging, loss, privilege and sexuality all wrapped up in the potent and visceral language of emotion that only Merrill can achieve. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 8 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 10, 2018

The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy - Paperback

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by James Crews (Editor), Danusha Laméris (Foreword by)Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O'N...

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Report copyright infringementby Phyllis B. Parun (Author)A New Orleans poetic odyssey, New Orleans memoir, enchanting illustrations, "New Orleans Born" transports readers into the mythical realm of New Orleans, home to artists, musicians and writers, where the arts flourish. The author, a native New Orleanian, writes enchanted stories of insight and love about her family, her life experiences, and her beloved city, blurring lines between past and present, painting vivid images of the complexi...

Hands of Healing: A Daily Devotional with Poetry Meditations and Grief Journal

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Report copyright infringementby Martha W. Brandt (Author)The submission of Hands of Healing is a culmination of my own poetry, as well as motivational, inspirational, and healing words from around the world. My poetry was inspired by the untimely death of my dear sister, Karen May Wonson Stearns (DeeDee), in 2013.My hope is that the poems and passages will allow others who are grieving to record their own thoughts and desires for spiritual peace and well-being each day. The template is conven...

The Wind Softly Murmurs: Poems of Family Love and Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Arthur (Author)The Wind Softly Murmurs is for anyone who has ever grieved over the passing of a loved one. These poems arose from the poet's efforts to resolve the grief that followed the death of her parents. This book reflects her transformative journey that began while she was immersed in her parent's love. Her progress was suspended at their deaths, but she ultimately recovered through the process of writing.These profound, lyrical poems ask us to co...

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Spenser (Author)The Works of Edmund Spenser is a collection of poems and prose by the English poet Edmund Spenser. Spenser was a prominent figure in the Elizabethan era and is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. This collection includes his most famous work, The Faerie Queene, as well as other poems such as Amoretti and Epithalamion. The book also includes Spenser's prose work, A View of the Present State of Ireland. The...

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Schaffer (Author)"Summer's Drowning" is a collection of relationship poems, written separately over a period of twenty years. This collection, taken in its entirety in the order presented, tells a story of a relationship between a man and a woman, from introduction and initial friendship, through dating, marriage, separation, loss, and hope for the future. There is always hope. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...