Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Menna Elfyn (Editor), John Rowlands (Editor)Welsh is the oldest surviving Celtic language, and the most flourishing. For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth. And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation, Welsh poets have fought back, drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge a new and...

Love, Life, and More: A Self-reflected Collection of Poems Identifying Feelings of Strength, Weakness, Encouragements, Motherhood, and Much More

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Report copyright infringementby Hania Adel Itawi (Author)You know how to talk. I know how to write. Each of us has a strength. Life is not a run or a walk. Not an easy task to tell: wrong from right. Journey is in the meaning not the length. Hania Adel Itawi is a hard working person with a strong sense of duty. She strives to be the best she can in all facets of her world, and in doing so, gives every thing she has in order to accomplish more than is ever expected. Hania has a natural gift th...

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Report copyright infringementby Federico García Lorca (Author), Literatura Pública (Author)Una selección de los mejores poemas de Lorca. Nueva edición 2020 16 poemas que debes leer de Lorca es una antología de las poesías más intensas y penetrantes de Federico García Lorca, consideradas por muchos como los mejores poemas del autor. Esta elegante y cuidada edición enriquece a la obra ofreciendo al lector una breve biografía del poeta, así como un contexto histórico de la obra para facilitar la...

My Sufi Garden - a Spiritual Journey for Teenagers and Adults

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Report copyright infringementby Humera Sultana Khan (Author)This book, 'My Sufi Garden', reflects a personal journey taken by the author into the area of Sufi spirituality and self-discovery. It covers many questions each of us ask ourselves about our purpose and our relation to the Creator. As we grow from childhood to teenager to young adult each of us ask these same basic questions about why we were created and what is our purpose here on earth. I hope this book helps answer some of the es...

Metaphysical and Mid-Late Tang Poetry: A Baroque Comparison

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Report copyright infringementby Pengfei Wang (Author), Massimo Verdicchio (Foreword by)Wishing to expand on the minimal scholarship on the topic of Metaphysical and Mid-Late Tang poets under the general category of Baroque, this book offers a comparative analysis of poems from the Metaphysical poets John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Richard Crashaw and a selection of Tang poetry by Meng Jiao, Li He and Li Shangyin. By following Nietzche's definition of Baroque as a poetic "style" found in any pe...

Life is Poetry: Volume 1: The First Poetic Decade

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Report copyright infringementby Kaiti Marie (Author)This book is filled with poems about the exploration and lessons learned in a young girl's life. Topics on nature, relationships, philosophy, God, emotions and many more are examined in this short work. Life is poetry. Live it. Write it. Enjoy it. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 02, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Sophia Dahlin (Author)Queer pastoral lyrics take on the romantic sublime in a stunningly assured debut collection.Sophia Dahlin's first full-length collection, Natch, is a dazzling array of queer erotic lyrics demanding pasture in the romantic sublime. By turns dreamy, hysterical, earthy, and perverse, the poems of Natch speak the dialogue of a person's parts, the dynamism of a queer body desiring something between rest and consumption. In her stunningly assur...

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Report copyright infringementby David Scott (Author)Springing from ordinary events, or a picture, or an aspect of the priestly life, David Scott's beautifully restrained poems work up the detail into a moment of significance. They are rooted in an English culture which is found not only in locality, but also in understatement, and the sideways look. But his poetry has wider reverberations, exploring spirituality and ways of praying as well as momentary glimpses of meaning caught in everyday l...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Deeter (Author)Love is like this: Revised and New Poems is about learning to voice the grief that is part of the experience of loving. The author takes a hard look at loss in poems like "Gutting the Doe" and a softer look through poems like "Flowers were everywhere." Everywhere, there is something beautiful to aspire towards and something heartbreaking to mourn and the challenge of loving is being able to do both and not let it keep us from remembering w...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Carey Salyer (Author)"Tomorrow is knocking out my teeth from within." With its priestly humanity and demotic heartiness, this book is the debut of a considerable talent. A songbook of immigration, family lore and self-invention, Ravage & Snare seems to have been perpetual from the moment of its composition. In these poems, the categories of lyric and narrative are dismantled and reconfigured in language that dashes thrillingly from level to level of...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Ikan (Author)Lee Ikan puts into words new realms for the mind to explore. If he can inspire a thought or help someone see something from a different perspective, he has done his job. Words can have a forceful impact upon life. His poetry gives today's society a reason to exist, and delivers brilliant meaning to the mundane. Ikan tells us to be brave with words. Speak and write what others won't!Author BiographyLee Fruechtenicht grew up in Indiana and studie...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul J. Godfrey (Author)Hello to all my family and friends . Most people that are traveling or just want to relax at home or on the beach or waiting to be seen for an appointment will always pick up a book or magazine and or do a cross word puzzle book and some other may just do the opposite and read a few poems and short stories like what I have here in my book and I hope you enjoy the many different ideas of how I expressed myself with my poems and short stor...

A Future More Than This Book I: Everything Is Falling

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Report copyright infringementby D. Michael Grant (Author)On July 17th 2018, D. Michael met his twin flame who awakened something in his spirit that gave us,"A Future More Than This." He hopes that by reading his first work you will come away with an understanding that when it comes to God, it is more about a relationship than a religion. And that the best religion that you could ever hope to practice is the one that you are practicing now! We are all more than what we seem at first read. And ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nelson Noda (Author)Gritos del Alma es el primer libro de poemas del escritor Nelson Noda. En el describe parte de su vida de tal modo que se hace muy fácil disfrutarlo y vivirlo, él logra con sus versos que puedas identificarte en tu ámbito personal ya que los poemas fuero vividos por el escritor en diferentes etapas de su vida. Espero lo disfrutes y califiques según tu experiencia con la lectura de este bello libro de poemas, Gritos del Alma. Num...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruby Wednesday (Author)Ruby Wednesday's first published collection snatches the tiny moments in our lives that seem insignificant, yet leave a lasting scar on one's mind, one's heart and one's soul. 'Grave Unknown' came creeping through the cracks when stoked by Ruby Wednesday's study of the Tarot and curiosity of the intricate webs that connect us; to each other and the world around us. 'Ruby Wednesday breathes sharp and beautiful glitter into ordinary words.'...

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Report copyright infringementby Amber Rune (Author)Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit. These five elements are central to witchcraft, and indeed to the lives of us all. Yet all too often, we wander with little understanding and awareness of their presence around us and their influence on this world. In this debut work, pagan poet Amber Rune offers a path to changing that. Richly realizing the nature of each element through language and image, The Elements invites you to connect, be it deeply or ...

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Report copyright infringementby Miah Jeffra (Editor), Monique Mero-Williams (Editor), Arisa White (Editor)HOME IS WHERE YOU QUEER YOUR HEART anthologizes contemporary queer writers and artists creatively thinking through the complex and fluid realities in the U.S. and abroad. Curated during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic, as the culture shifts into a new normal-and many queer people feel their nation has further precluded them from a place of comfort-poets, essa...

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Report copyright infringementby Steph Dugdale (Author), Ben Tryon (Illustrator)The four sections of All the Way Alive sum up the essence of a life lived in pursuit of full consciousness: Opening to Grace, Finding the Blessings, Unfolding Love, and Letting Go. For anyone seeking a closer communion with spirit, these poems offer a pathway. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Susannah Winters Simpson (Author)Dharma of Death & Desire showcases Susannah Winters Simpson's years in hospice nursing, psychiatric nursing, and her work with recovering addicts. These decades of working in proximity to death and dying inform her view of living. It has provided her with deeply moving insights into the very human challenges we all face. Her poems offer a common thread to grasp, especially when writing about grief and loss. Simpson shares th...

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Report copyright infringementby Savannah Larocca (Author)Would the Stars Be Proud? is a love letter to life itself. Through poetry, this book explores what it means to feel everything deeply and fully, or in other words, what it means to be human. It is an examination into the soul, and all that comes with it. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 20, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Satinder Kaur (Author)Let it go....How long can you hold on to the sandcastles? How long can you hold so tightto things that will soon be out of sight?How long can you remain trapped in the bubble?Just let it go and feel the fallembrace the rideIt can't get any worse than thisYou may fall, but you will eventually riseopen your palm and let it beset yourself and your spirit freeopen your eyes and see the lightthe darkness has already taken flightLighten up my de...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Mitchell (Author)How do we discover our deepest desires, those that at once elude and define us? In Erotikon, award-winning poet Susan Mitchell invites us to make that discovery -- and in the process, to understand our true selves. In language both staggeringly beautiful and wonderfully mischevious, Mitchell explores the primal, transformative power of our sexual appetites. Drawing us in like a lover through her sensual world, she moves from seduction to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Muldoon (Author)"The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." --The Times Literary SupplementSelected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who "began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso" (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as "one of the era's true originals," Paul Muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra M. Gilbert (Author)The title of this collection--at times mournful, sardonic, and joyous--refers to the grief in the wake of loss. Yet these poems aren't just about the consequences of loss but also about the complex experiences of endurance, acquiescence, and rebirth that, with luck, mark the aftermath of sorrow. from "Aftermath: Kite" But the thought is only paper after all, a soul that clings to a stick, tears open, shreds as if it's flung to the gro...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Levine (Author)Some devastation has struck the soul and the Earth alike, and in Enola Gay, his second volume of poems, Mark Levine surveys the disaster. Here is a volume of poetry approaching Carolyn Forche's The Angel of History as a stark meditation on Blanchot's sense of writing as the "desired, undesired torment which endures everything." Levine engages the traditional resources of lyric poetry in an exploration of historical and cultural landscapes r...

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Report copyright infringementby Branka Arsic (Author)In his essay "Compensation," Emerson makes a surprising claim: "Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house." Branka Arsic unpacks Emerson's repeated assertion that our reality and our minds are in constant flux. Arsic's readings o...

Woman Earthly and Divine in the Comedy of Dante

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Report copyright infringementby Marianne Shapiro (Author)This study examines all the characterizations of the female personality in the Divine Comedy, including representations of things traditionally categorized as feminine. Marianne Shapiro treats different traditional feminine roles such as wife, lover, and mother, and places Beatrice in the latter group. The problem of woman is studied within the general context of medieval literature. Shapiro's conclusions center largely upon Dante's adh...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Adair-Hodges (Author)The poems in Let's All Die Happy explore apostasy, concerned with what happens after the beliefs and institutions which promised fulfillment leave us empty instead. Through a darkly humorous lens, it also examines a patriarchal culture in which women are defined through their relationship to others and how this inheritance weighs heavily not only on the lives we lead but shapes what life it is possible to even imagine having. Ultimatel...

Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet

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Report copyright infringementby K. David Jackson (Editor)This book is based on a series of papers that were presented at conferences at Oxford and Yale universities in honour of Haroldo de Campos as a poet, critic and translator. It is important for its critical focus on the concrete aesthetic in prose and poetry as well as the close-up of Haroldo de Campos by major names in international literary studies. A founder of the movement of concrete poetry in Brazil in the 1950s, Haroldo de Campos ...

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Report copyright infringementby Carolyn Weber (Author)Home Going: Poetry for a Season is the first print collection of poetry from award winning author Carolyn Weber. Weber weaves together an affinity for place, nature and journey, and takes her readers on a diverse path of both landscapes as well as several topical spiritual journeys in the daily life of Christian faith. This volume includes poems from Weber's previously published digital-only collections, True North and Summering along wit...

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Report copyright infringementby Usha L. Mahisekar (Author), Dharati L. Szymanski (Editor)This collection by Indian born physician, Usha Mahisekar M.D., consists of fifty eight poems and six passages exploring themes such as family, culturalism, medicine, nature and spirituality. Some pieces are humorous and others bleak but all showcase the author's humble, astute vision and profound sensitivity. The prose and verse are written by one nearing the end of her days, reflecting upon her blessings...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Koertge (Author)"Ron Koertge can elevate the ordinary places of America---the backyard, the classroom, the mall---into scenes of mock-epic significance. He can just as easily lower the mythic worlds of Superman, Ozymandias and Cinderella to a level just a few inches above the bathetic. And he does all this with a charming combination of wit and empathy, satire and sweetness." -Billy Collins "I would think a poem entitled Getting Tough with John Ruskin," "O...