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Report copyright infringementby Diane Kistner (Editor), Ken Meisel (Author)This is a book of surrealistic, metaphysical poems about love; poems of invitation, engagement, ordeal, passion and devotion. Meisel's poems evoke the sentinels of love through the wise voices of angels, swerving swallows, talking orchids, erotic roses, healing chocolates, delirious guitars, oil covered murres and saffron finches flying into sunbeams. In this book violins sing. Napoleon, Bach, Schumann express love to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Kistner (Editor), Steve Coughlin (Author)In his debut collection of poetry, Steve Coughlin examines the severity of family trauma on both personal memory and the human psyche. Written in an accessible, colloquial voice that poet J. Allyn Rosser describes as "strong, versatile, original...[and] capable of radically different tones and angles of approach," these poems move from haunted laments to playful musings as they negotiate the complexities of grief w...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Kistner (Editor), Paul Hostovsky (Author)Winner of the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. Who are the bad guys, anyway? Which one is the good fight, anyway? In Paul Hostovsky's eighth book of poetry, The Bad Guys, there are poems about suicide bombers and high school bullies, capricious exes and ecstatic bums, fastidious drug-dealers and contemplative alcoholics, evil stenches and spiritual moms; poems about the Republicans, the mega-hospitals, the brusq...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Kistner (Editor), Martin Willitts Jr (Author)This is a collection of meditative spiritual poems. Martin Willitts, Jr. lives by the simple Quaker principle of "God is everywhere, in everyone," seeing both the good and bad, but also the awe of waking every day. He turns inwards with silent meditation and outward with his own version of psalms. He knows the small objects are just as important as the large for our own survival. This book will be appreciated b...

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Report copyright infringementby Amorak Huey (Author) Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Ristovic (Author), Steven Teref (Translator), Maja Teref (Translator)Ana Ristovic's erotic, wry, feminist poems concern daily routines (washing laundry, doing crossword puzzles). In her writing she explores inner and outer worlds, sex, and relationships. This bilingual (Serbian and English) selection unveils a rich embroidery of frank sexuality and lyric images.Born in 1972 in Belgrade, Ristovic studied comparative literature at the philological faculty th...

Stay Awhile: Poetic Narratives about Multiculturalism and Diversity

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Report copyright infringementby Louis Hoffman (Editor), Jr. Nathaniel Granger (Editor)The struggle to understand our differences is real! Likewise, -real- is the stirring collection of poems in Stay Awhile: Poetic Narratives on Multiculturalism and Diversity that enlightens, enlivens, and entertains. As Hoffman and Granger so eloquently state in their introduction, poetry is a sacred healing art that has been shared across many cultures throughout history. It is in this sharing that empathy i...

Capturing Shadows: Poetic Encounters Along the Path of Grief and Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Moats (Editor), Louis Hoffman (Editor)Long before contemporary approaches to helping people face death, loss, and other life transitions, poetry was used by many cultures to assist the grieving process. Today, it remains an important healing art. Capturing Shadows is an original collection of poems about actively engaging one's grieving and loss with a purpose. The poems were written by therapists, counselors, educators, and others who understand and ha...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Carnicelli (Author)Tom Carnicelli taught English in various colleges for 53 years, 46 of them at the University of New Hampshire. He retired in 2013. He wrote poetry in his own college days and started writing it again after he retired. He tries to make his poems accessible to everyone, not just English majors. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 18, 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Grossnickle Hines (Author)A collection of 194 original poems exploring the sacredness of nature, sense of mystery, search for purpose, essence of being love, power of connecting for change, and the spiritual practice of poetry in community. The poet, Anna Grossnickle Hines, is the author and illustrator of numerous children's books, including three volumes of poetry beautifully illustrated with her own quilts, one of which won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award...

There Is No Goodbye: Living with the Loss of a Child

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Report copyright infringementby Kandal Nancy (Author)Josh Kandal took his own life in December 2010. His mother Nancy has been living with her loss ever since, and-in these illuminating and deeply felt poems-has created a refuge for herself and hopefully for others in her position. You will not forget the lessons she has learned in finding her way. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 19, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Erica Dawson (Author)In The Small Blades Hurt, Erica Dawson picks up where her debut collection, Big-Eyed Afraid, leaves off: "The world's outside. I'm in." She moves from her border state Maryland to the true South, the Midwest, and back, delivering poems where a single dance's story can tangle with America's collective past. Dawson finds a home in the tradition of formal poetry, carving a place all her own, whether manic, yet cozy, in a poem with only one rhy...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan O'Brien (Author)In Scarsdale, Dan O'Brien applies to his own early life the same honesty and insight that were evident in his prize-winning War Reporter. Growing up in a family scarred by past trauma, he makes a bid for freedom-"in love with myself and this young stray's life"- only to be pulled back into the orbit of the place he had sought to escape. Gradually, possibilities for a more lasting change unfold. Number of Pages: 120 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest Hilbert (Author)Ernest Hilbert's newest poetry collection, Caligulan is heartrending and humorous, filled with love songs and requiems, meditations and memorials, as the poet imagines the ghost of the ruthless Roman emperor Caligula--who ruled over a pagan empire as prosperous as it was unaccountably cruel--looming over modern America, pronouncing his infamous commandment that his victims be killed slowly, "so that they know they are dying." Caligulan is...

One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Watson (Author)The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems by heart as a result of playing the popular card game version of the anthology, called karuta. Collecting one poem each from one hundred poets living from the 7th century to the 13th century, the book covers a wide array of themes and personal styles, from love poetry to nature poetry to the poe...

Sinfonia del orbe: Poesia completa 1985-2014

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos Aguasaco (Editor), Jhon Aguasaco (Illustrator), Izacyl Guimaraes Ferrerira (Author)This volume includes the collected poems of the internationally acclaimed ecopoet Lilia Gutiérrez Riveros who in 2010 was awarded the prestigious "Premio Mundial de Ecopoesía". The appendix section presents critical commentaries on her work. This long awaited volume is a must have for anyone who wishes to study both contemporary Latin American poetry and the world wide eco...

A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Kelly (Author), Pierre Joris (Editor), Peter Cockelbergh (Editor)It is no exaggeration to suggest that Robert Kelly may well be America's most prolific poet, and certainly one of the most singular and ceaselessly innovative poets the country produced in the 2nd part of the past century. To date, he has written more than 70 books of poetry and fiction - books that reveal a breathtaking range, from freshly minted trobar clus and contemporized sonnet forms,...

Under the Mercy: Charles Williams and the Holy Grail

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Peirano (Author)T. S.Eliot writes of Charles Williams as "unclassifiable." Therein lies the scholarly challenge which Dr. Peirano faces in this remarkable book. Peirano demonstrates an incisive intuition for Williams' poetry and a mastery of Williams' genius couched in his poetic Arthurian mythology. The author pulls aside the supposed veil of obscurity that, for too long, has discouraged all but a few from confronting the liveliness and vivacity of Char...

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Report copyright infringementby Jg Federman (Author)THE MUSES is a collection of odes which honor the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne: Clio (history), Urania (astronomy), Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (dance), Calliope (epic poetry), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia (songs to the gods), and Euterpe (lyric poetry). This tribute to these mythical beauties honors their personification of the arts and sciences. Throughout history, they have inspired many creative minds and rema...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Hoffman (Author) Eric Hoffman has translated Emerson's Journals into a new language, distilling the originative matrix-the master's discursive prose-into two suites of lyric poems. This is translation as critique and renewal, a classic modernist project. Hoffman's poems are like a palimpsest or lithography stone on which traces of a previous drawing have survived. We are witnesses to the presence of a negotiation, the negotiation of a presence. The Transpa...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Nelson (Author)Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award "In his powerful new collection, Some Wonder, Eric Nelson takes his reader 'abroad' (and beyond) in the most refined sense of those directives. He takes us deeply into experience and into the uniqueness of place. The language is lucid, lyrical, and exactly narrative. Yet the mystery of small moments is everywhere present: in each stanza, every poem." -Katherine Soniat "Don't miss reading this terrific b...

I Will Always Be Your Whore: Love Songs for Billy Corgan

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Report copyright infringementby Carrie Hunter (Introduction by), Geoff Melville (Illustrator), Oliver Dillon (Illustrator)"If I were to make a diorama of 'I Will Always Be Your Whore, ' I would construct three slightly run-down Victorians: one for past, one for present, one for dream. I would make a spooky ghost figure representing Billy Corgan and suspend that over everything. And then I would have the people inside the dioramas yearn and fuck and spill their tea and fidget with their hair t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Ketchum (Author)Sixty poems from Bram Stoker Award winning author Jack Ketchum. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Lawless (Editor)Plume anthology volume three, featuring new original work by Kim Addonizio, Rae Armantrout, Billy Collins, Cynthia Cruz, Forrest Gander, Kimiko Hahn, Tony Hoagland, T. R. Hummer, Laura Kasischke, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Hank Lazer, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, Robert Pinsky, David Rivard, Ron Slate, Arthur Sze, Chase Twichell, G.C. Waldrep, Afaa Michael Weaver, C.D. Wright, and many more. Number of Pages: 356 ...

Trees of the Twentieth Century & The Ship

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Sturgeon (Author)"Sturgeon illuminates the otherwise transparent impressions of memory and conscience, those opaque connections between our imaginations and each other, in music that sharpens the verse with thrilling uncertainty. His poems impress themselves upon the mind like an iron. He may be the first major poet of this generation." -Daniel Pritchard, editor of The Critical Flame Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.5 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Morgan (Author)First published by Wesleyan University Press in 1990, Sigodlin, poems by Robert Morgan, returns to print. Former United States Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur said, "Robert Morgan's poems are always exciting for their precise knowledge of country things, and of how things go in the world of natural fact and process." For this reason, we at Press 53 believe this collection should never be out-of-print. Number of Pages: 76 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hedy Habra (Author)Hedy Habra's Under Brushstrokes is a rich tapestry of images, sounds and meanings. Like any tapestry the complexity of weaving, the craft and artistry are often under or subliminal to the larger images, and in this way the book lives up to its title in that there is so much foundation that goes into the building of an image and giving the image not only meanings but breath and life itself. Enjoy Under Brushstrokes, it is meant to be read and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Rice (Author)Following in the footsteps of what was once mass immigration from Ulster to the Carolinas, Northern Irish poet Adrian Rice has become a modern land breaker of poetic territories. In his new volume, Hickory Station, there are poems of Northern Ireland memories and others of Appalachia and the Low Country. Rice knows how to bear simple and eloquent witness to family life, the reckonings of self, and to distant and adopted homelands. Like many ...

Balancing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1993 - 2015

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Report copyright infringementby Yahia Lababidi (Author)From Yahia Lababidi, a celebration of more than twenty years of poetry that, according to Chard deNiord, Poet Laureate of Vermont, "... resonates in plain-spoken yet dazzling poetry-sometimes epigrammatic, sometimes expansive-that betrays the eclectic transmissions of his myriad influences, from Hafiz to Kierkegaard, Dickinson to Kafka." From the Press 53 Silver Concho Poetry Series, edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root. ...

The Effect of Moonlight on Tombstones: A Dark Little Collection of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Della Van Hise (Author)A dark little collection of poetry gleaned from the gnosis of vampires and songs of the muse. The Effect of Moonlight on Tombstones is Della Van Hise's first full-length book of poetry, spanning more than 25 years of her writing. If you enjoy dark fantasy and gothic grimoires, this is one book you don't want to miss!Author BiographyDella Van Hise is a native of Florida, transplanted to California at the age of 21, who has subsequently sun...

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Report copyright infringementby Lori Desrosiers (Author)"I am alive," Lori Desrosiers asserts at the end of her harrowing, potent, and necessary chapbook, Inner Sky, which details a cage formed by domestic-abuse. In poem after poem her fluctuating pronouns expose blurred boundaries (between self and other, beloved and despised) typical to the abuse-dynamic. Her re-visitation of past tragedy and its players comes at the reader forcibly-in the form of "wire cutters," "bitter beets," an "ice cro...

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis Maloney (Author)"Dennis Maloney's exquisite new collection of poetry, Listening to Tao Yuan Ming, offers his superb versions (or 'visions' as he calls them) of Tao Yuan Ming's seminal Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine as well as a sequence of delicate "harmonizing" poems-before the book concludes with its title section, a lyric album of powerful personal reflections. Listening to Tao Yuan Ming is nothing less than a deeply moving conversation across histo...