Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick J. Leach (Author)PhilosophyThe tides rushing in and outEndlesslyThe water rises and fallsWe sit on the shoreWe walk following its linesWe grow old and dieBut the sand grows thickerCrabs come and goThe sea gulls fight over foodThat washes up on shoreThe ocean rises and falls Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 30, 2019

Poetry of the Parks: Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park

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Report copyright infringementby Glen S. Rocky Brougham (Author)Poetry is a lost art form that is not highly visible in our society except for cowboy poets or when put to music as songs. Many people do not know how to react to poetry; much of poetry does not rhyme and is closer to descriptive writing.Well, this book is filled with rhyming poetry and positive feelings and visions found in the desert country around Moab, Utah.Reviews of my words have always been encouraging and many have said th...

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Report copyright infringementby Em Strang (Author)We are losing everything. In the second decade of the 21st century, loss and grief have become our daily bread, but we do not know how to chew it. Horse-Man is an invitation to reacquaint ourselves with the lost skill of collective awakening; to re-engage with a deeper awareness of shared experience, where distinctions between self and other begin to blur: we are all in this together. Horse-Man inhabits at times surreal, at times mystical ter...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Pelky (Author), Monik Magdalena Geisel (Photographer), Ron Starbuck (Cover Design by)Horizon of the Dog Woman powerfully explores the strength of people, especially women, who struggle to find acceptance--in their bodies, in histories, in relationships, or in Indigeneity. These poems invoke the anxieties of outsiders, of those forced to reside in the liminal spaces of our society. Still, from these in-between places and too-often ignored perspectives, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Williams (Author)This is a book of love stories of my life wrote out in poem terms it is my new beginning for my life And future Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 30, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Aronson (Author)"This poet possesses a precision both spare and fierce. And Other Bodiless Powers is cut from the same cloth as the poems of Lorine Niedecker in that they both read a landscape, down to its smallest aspect, and create from these thickets, fogs, and skiffs of snow a human language. When Sarah Aronson zeroes in, the world opens." -- ANDREW GRACE, author of A Belonging Field, Sancta, and Shadeland Number of Pages: 76 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Francine Witte (Author) Dressed All Wrong for This is a splendid demonstration of the depth and range of the short-short story, an art form whose relevance and influence are rapidly growing in this digital age of compressed communication. Francine Witte brilliantly illuminates nuanced truths of the human condition in this collection, truths that could be expressed in no other way.Francine Witte's flash fiction has been published in numerous journals and the ant...

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Report copyright infringementby Meg Files (Author)From the Galapagos Islands to Iceland to a retirement village barber shop, these poems mingle natural history, memory, and reflections on mortality. They conjure blue-footed boobies, wildfire, coral-adorned underwater sculpture, a post-election Fourth of July, the aurora borealis. They explore life with twin sisters, the enduring presence of the dead, the way wars cascade through lives, the making and meaning of art, and earthly love. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Falk (Author) Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 18, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Kiana Azizian (Author)there are only two things in this world i have ever truly loved. the ocean & then there's you. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Tyauna Bruce (Author)newly untitled reflects on twenty years of the "sticky parts" of life with honesty and sincerity. Exploring a range of issues, the book places culturally collective topics like abandonment, urban renewal, and spirituality side-by-side with esoteric matters like growing older gracefully and enjoying Hip Hop as a mirror of the human experience. A contemplative collection, newly untitled is an authentic and unapologetic slice of Black, urban, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Recenter Press (Editor), Schuyler Peck (Author)To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart is a collection of poems based in transformation, detailing stories of moving across the country, the nonlinear process of recovery, relationships, loss, and escaping harmful ideologies. Intertwining throughout is the enduring connection to nature that serves as a remaining, healing force, encompassing our human storylines. It invites you to soften into its simplicities, if you let i...

Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence

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Report copyright infringementby Armando Romero (Author), Jhon Aguasaco (Introduction by), Manuel Iris (Author)Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence is a bilingual selection from Manuel Iris' books that have previously been awarded accolades and published in Mexico. Most of the translations have been made or revised by the author. With this volume Manuel Iris finds his place at the avant-garde of the new Latin American poetry in the United States. Mythical poet and scholar Armando Romero ...

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Report copyright infringementby Cleveland Wall (Author)In Let X=X, poet Cleveland Wall accepts the intrusion of the external into the mindscape as a gracious host. She sits with it, yielding space, even after the "ordinary" becomes the guest who doesn't know when to leave. Her poems evoke these hours, written in the space of exasperated patience, increasingly released from courtesy. Despite any lingering lures of couth, Wall is at her best when she excuses herself for the teapot and heads out...

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda Livingston Bradley (Author)Containing over 150 poems, A Few More Minutes explores themes of memory, time, relationships, loss, and travel. Brenda Livingston Bradley's poems isolate an image or expression and through vivid language, these few minutes in time poignantly connect us to the human experience. Brenda has had a life-long love affair with poetry. After writing her first poems in junior high school, she continued writing through her 20's followed ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Brogan (Author)Wooden Horses is about the juxtaposition of family and work, love and society. Brogan's words highlight different aspects of everyday life and focuses on becoming a father for the first time. Brogan highlights these balances with at times naive, poetic forms that ring with subtle, yet relatable detail. We all must navigate the sometimes complicated waters of relationships and family, but where there is struggle, there is truth. Brogan's word...

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Report copyright infringementby William Heath (Author)When William Heath began writing poetry in the 1960s, James Wright hailed him as "one of the most brilliantly accomplished and gifted young poets to appear in the United States in quite some time." Now after an award-winning career as a novelist, historian, and literary critic, he has returned to his first love. Night Moves in Ohio vividly captures his memories of growing up in Poland, Ohio, a suburb of mobbed-up Youngstown, the city at th...

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Report copyright infringementby Gavin Selerie (Author)Collected Sonnets gathers nine main sequences, along with extracts and fugitive pieces, from a 50-year span. It includes takes on poems from other languages and a large number of previously unpublished texts. Praised by Peter Porter in The Observer for richly re-working Elizabethan elements, Selerie's sonnets have appealed equally to readers with a modernist bent. Standard themes--love, death, time, in land- and sea-scape--are given a radi...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Churchill (Author)Racing Ravens is a collection of poetry for anyone who has experienced great loss and feeling invisible in their grief. A collection of sadness lined with hope Racing Ravens brings together a sense of belonging in grief where most people feel alone. Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2019

John Donne's Metaphysical Love Poetry: The Unity of Souls as Self-Deception or Superiority in Donne's Poem

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Report copyright infringementby Sabine Strebel (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Most people would think of Shakespeare if they were asked for the most famous poet of the Elizabethan era. He invented the "Shakespearean Sonnet" after all, which is probably the only type of Renaissance poem German students have to read during their school car...

Laugh-Out-Loud Victorian Poetry: Of Romance & Bluestockings

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Report copyright infringementby Moira Allen (Author)Poetry has always been "the language of love," but as this delightful collection demonstrates, the course of true love rarely runs smoothly! In this volume, you'll get a Victorian glimpse of Cupid as reporter, meet a woman whose marriage depends upon her pearly teeth, and find out who, on Valentine's day, is the most "sought-after" man of all! You'll also meet the "new" Victorian woman - the bluestocking, the Girton Girl, the Crystal Gazer -...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Tarrant (Author)Using a variety of imagery, poet Donna Tarrant reflects on her life story and experiences in the collection Precious Gems. Some poems focus on nature, others religion, while others decipher meaning behind the months of the year. Elements like rain, wind, and snow parallel feelings and emotions. "An Ocean of Tears" focuses on the pain of abuse. "Spring Storm" depicts the brightness of nature escaping the last bit of snow. "Sand" is a peacef...

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Report copyright infringementby Kris Bigalk (Author)My NarcissusMy narcissus was a gift, a raw round heart encased in paper brown skin that flaked off in my hands. He slept in my palm, nestled into the dark space as my thumb closed around him.After I put him into his bed, covered with cold earth, I waited, and he opened his fist, reached up through the soil with his three fingered hand.You know the rest of the story, how he became lost in himself, drowned in his idea of himself.All that's lef...

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Report copyright infringementby Keerti Gupta (Author)Pandora was told that the box was dangerous, menacing, and evil. But here's what she wasn't told--it isn't the box that is dangerous; it's the idea of locking up its insides that is. Taboo and stigma have conquered the narrative of womanhood to such an extent that women often feel devoid of their own qualities. Pandora's Poetry is a collection of poems that aims to unleash the truths of womanhood in an unapologetically authentic manner. Emb...

The world that destroyed the world: a poem

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Adrian Brijbasi (Author)A poem about a man, a woman, a woman, a woman, a man, a man, a woman, a woman, a woman, a woman, a dream, a tree, a river, a woman, plastics, a turtle, architecture, a dream, a tree, a river, a dress. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.27 x 7.99 x 5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 12, 2019

Three Centuries - Three Poets: An Anthology of Georgean Poetry translated by Lyn Coffin

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Report copyright infringementby Galaktion Tabidze (Author), Dato Barbakadze (Author), Lyn Coffin (Translator)With its rich heroic and mythological folk poetry and 1500 years of lyrical poetry, Georgian culture depends as much on the verse as it does on music, wine and Christianity. Lyn Coffin's anthology samples this culture by translating the greatest of Georgia's 19th century Romantics, the most beloved of 20th-century lyrical symbolists, and one of the most interesting of contemporary poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelley Swain (Author)Science and poetry cross paths in this 10th-anniversary edition of Swain's debut collection, now featuring 20 pages of new work.Darwin's Microscope, Swain's debut volume of poetry, was first published in 2009 by Flambard Press. It is now in a tenth-anniversary volume from Valley Press, to celebrate the song cycle Endless Forms Most Beautiful, composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, of which a selection of the poems comprises a significant part. In...

With Space And Time: Tales Of A Dead End Girl

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Report copyright infringementby Sara K. Sage (Author)This book explores the reality of living as a domestic violence survivor, the ongoing pain of trauma, and mending borderline personality disorder. A true story, this piece explores how one learns to love again, to live independently, to process the emotional pain and turmoil. These poems were written over the course of three years, from the beginning of the abuse to what came after the departure and ending of the relationship, including wha...

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Report copyright infringementby Shawn Oliver (Author)How would you overcome an Existential Crisis? Journey through the mind of a madman as he struggles through the challenge of every day life through paintings, poetry and surreal dream sequences. By the end of the book, you will feel as part of the story for reading it. Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Olivia Summer Hutcherson (Author)3 years, an ocean of tears and more times crashing than flowing to make it back to shore but now I'm sure. In fact, I've never been more sure. The journey has just begun, my eyes can see the sun. My head is above water and I'm not drowning anymore in the tears that once suffocated me. Surrendered and free... I can finally breathe. I'm really ALIVE, I'm really inside. The creator of the ocean reminded me how to dance. When I coul...

African American Sonnet: A Literary History

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Report copyright infringementby Timo Muller (Author)Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and Rita Dove all wrote sonne...

The Stability of Trees in the Winds of Grief

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Report copyright infringementby Phyllis Carito (Author) Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 15, 2019