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Report copyright infringementby Felix Bongjoh (Author)Thunder, in general, evokes violence, but is here used as part of nature's endowments to conjure imagery that sets forth an aspect of life, which involves deep-pitched sounds and noise. Be it part of normal life or a literally loud explosive event or related happenings, the title of this book also evokes a manner or state of mind with which to react psychologically to "thunder" ranging from the type involved in warlike violence to any othe...

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Report copyright infringementby Yolanda Castaño (Author), Keith Payne (Author)"Yolanda Castaño writes love poems which are not tearful. Her love belongs to mysterious strangers from different continents and languages. She is never pedantic. She loves skipping [...] between lines of her poems, between images and metaphors, between being frank and being mischievous. It's about singing all the way to Land's End, in good and bad weather.' Yolanda Castaño's poems are like champagne ... Read her po...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Haslam (Author)Ickerbrow Trig, the book, is simply a collection of poems written since A Cure for Woodness. As for the book's title, it's simply the remnant of a bonnet-bee and an exhausted pun. As a topographical feature, it exists, un-named as such on any map. (Michael Haslam)"In Michael Haslam we have a genuine major poet of the north of England" --David Wheatley, The Literary Review, on Scaplings"On each of these pages Michael Haslam sets out (on fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Daragh Breen (Author)Like the eponymous fungus that appears to be regurgitated by the Earth herself after rain, fragments of invented folklore and mongrel histories have stained through from Breen's subconscious and come to bloom as a trio of sequences that deal, in turn, with man's tampering with Nature's DNA through the selective breeding of dogs, societal fears of the witch figure, and the hopelessness of augury in the face of the inevitability of death.Ther...

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Report copyright infringementby Gëzim Hajdari (Author), Ian Seed (Translator)"Bitter Grass was written in 1976 while I was in my last year of high school in the city of Lushnje in Albania. It was refused by N. Frashëri, the government publication house in Tirana. According to the censor, 'the texts in this collection do not deal with the theme of our socialist village; the hero of the poems is a solitary person who flees from his contemporaries, from the Association of Pioneers, from reality;...

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Report copyright infringementby Mario Martin Gijon (Author), Terence Dooley (Translator)Mario Martín Gijón's (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short passionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the poet immerses us in his story by a complex process of linguistic recreation: recreation in the sense of re-invention and recreation also as play, or playfulness. Eduardo Moga explains his method: 'The poetry of Mario Martín Gijón ...

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Jones (Author) Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 17, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Julie E. Bloemeke (Author)In Slide to Unlock, Julie E. Bloemeke investigates how modern technology redirects our erotic and familial lives, including phones that open with the swipe of a finger and text messages that move the speaker toward startling self-discovery--the "bright trick of letters" that can ignite memory and desire. Each poem explores the sacred and sacrilege within the large and small worlds we navigate--the chimeric ache of a Georgia thunderstor...

So Long, and Thank You for All the Waterproof Mascara

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Report copyright infringementby Lilith Mae McFarlin (Author) Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: March 12, 2020

Captivating Words of Love: Emotional and Thought Provoking

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Report copyright infringementby Ezell Blues (Author)I am dedicating this book to some very special people. My twin sister Cozell Blues McCoil My son Daniel Demetre' Blues My foster parents Florence and Leslie Bell. Upon our arrival to Florence and Leslie Bell in 1957 at eighteen months old, they were told to take care of the little girl the boy want be here that long. I came to them extremely sick. Sixty three years later I am still here because of the challenge they took on to heal me. In No...

Fruit: Poetry Book about Love, Poetry about Hope, Poetry about Fruits of the Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Rafa Selase (Author)Rafa Selase is an American pianist, poet, artist and Jazz Activist from the Bay Area, ca with roots in southern states of Louisiana and Mississippi. In 2015 Selase released his mediation music album which tops the Billboard charts in the New Age category. Since Selase has been writing and creating music consistently. Releasing his "Red Blooded American" Album in 2017 and his poetry "Poems About Life" in 2018. The series of work includes his ...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard M. Georges (Author)Richard M. Georges' Poems for Lovers follows love's progression, from infatuation to romance, commitment, illness, death, and rebirth. We love, we experience loss, and we love again. Call it the love cycle. Call it life. Call it the human condition. Georges wrote this book to communicate this progression--and join others who are in love, who are looking for love, who know they will love again in celebrating this messy, yet predictable...

The Bacteriologist At Play: Poems Without Homes

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Savage (Author)Do you even remember what normal thoughts feel like? If not, you have found the book for you. Yes, it is a book. It has pages. The pages have words. Buy the book, and begin committing its words to memory. Within a matter of days, your life will change: People will bend to your will, your body will take on normal proportions once more, money will flood into your bank account like diarrhea, the laws of physics will come off as mere *suggestion...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Kistner (Editor), Arnold Johnston (Author)Arnold Johnston's poetry is "as smart, crafty, wise, and entertaining as anything being written," according to Richard Katrovas. WHERE WE'RE GOING, WHERE WE'VE BEEN is filled with poems that strike a graceful balance between structural formality and an always accessible informal voice. Johnston's work offers a wry, often humorous consideration of love and mortality that Gail Wronsky calls "both tender and unsentim...

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Report copyright infringementby Audra Puchalski (Author)FINALIST FOR THE CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE Here are the saints as you've never seen them: creative, lustful, victorious. After performing miracles, St. Hilda returns to a domestic life with another woman. St. Francis Xavier, thinking about St. Ignatius Loyola, recalls their sacred moments of intimacy. Audra Puchalski conjures the martyred body-"resonant/ as the skirt of the bell in the steeple"-with imagination, respect, wisdom.-Robin Becker, ...

Reexamining the Sinosphere: Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Nanxiu Qian (Editor), Richard J. Smith (Editor), Bowei Zhang (Editor)This book is part of the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Professor Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania).For hundreds of years, into the twentieth century, the culture groups in the areas we now know as China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared a great many political and social values, religious beliefs, and artistic and literary traditions. These common cultural features were re...

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Report copyright infringementby James C. MacDonald (Author)These poems transport the reader to an imaginative world resonating with mythological, spiritual, and existential significance. Here, with wit and irony, the poet challenges us to resist common assumptions with measured skepticism, and posits that ultimately, there is no comfort in conformity. We are both entertained and enlightened by a unique, poetic exploration of ordinary experience and the mysteries of life. Number o...

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Kedney (Author)Between the Earth and Sky moves the reader through stages of grief. The poems offer a brave look at loss, death, and the emotions that are difficult to express when troubled loved ones die. This narrator experiences her brother's heroin addiction and death, and the loss of her parents, through the lens of survival. We are never left in despair--alongside her are a strong husband and a grounding connection to nature. When challenged to for...

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Report copyright infringementby Shaun T. Griffin (Author)The twin axes of poetry- lyric and elegy- shepherd The Monastery of Stars. In these beautiful poems, Shaun Griffin sings for dead poets and the prisoners who are both his students and brothers. Everywhere through this luminous book- I could even say eternally-the land is partnered by "Art's rudimentary hand in the petroglyphs" ("On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Arts Council"). Nevada is lucky to have the tender mercy of this poet. Cla...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Edward Moore (Author)Daniel Edward Moore writes with the passion and internal conflict of a classic literary anti-hero, a difficult task for a collection of poems. He pulls it off with a style uniquely his, blending the romantic with the philosophical, the decadent with the metaphysical, as he searches for connections and balance between the sacred and profane. WAXING THE DENTS is less like reading a book and more like sitting in the audience for a perfo...

660 Rumi Quotes: Inspirational, Success and Love Quotes for Eternal Happiness

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Report copyright infringementby Misbawu Abdallah (Author)Rumi was a 13th-century (born in Afghanistan) Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, and theologian. His quotes will transform your life for the better, they are based upon love, hope, inspiration, and awakening. May these quotes open up your heart and mind to the beauty that lies within you. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.13 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Thomas (Author)In Sally Thomas's Motherland, the poet keenly observes the ephemeral and the everlasting in the lens of time--the daily into seasonal transformations, the gifts and wonders of nature and people. Motherland by turns hails and interrogates in matters of flesh, of faith and spirituality--especially so in the "Richeldis of Walsingham" poem sequence. This finalist in the Able Muse Book Award is a collection abounding in insight, hope, grace, sur...

Expressions of Love: A Treasury of Love Poems and Love Quotes

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Report copyright infringementby John Scaglione (Author)A marriage that has lasted decades began with the poems in this book. When the author was romancing his wife they regularly spoke into each other's souls with poetry, which is evident by the first poem in this book that he wrote for his wife, "I Believe in Love." Words make the soul come alive. This collection of Love Poems and Love Quotes is a celebration of love and romance that include literary giants and classic poets like Elizabeth B...

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Report copyright infringementby Alessandro Baruffi (Author)Like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country-always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps-infallibly enough I would always return to my dwelling in Princeton. Many a time the lonely night was devoted to the contemplation of the moon of New Jersey...

Screaming from the Silence: an anonymous anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Juliette Sebock (Editor), Vociferous Press (Author)Though there are lots of projects published and forthcoming that give a much-needed voice to those affected by sexual violence, and many do accept anonymous pieces, there isn't a space specifically for those who aren't comfortable sharing their name alongside their stories, for whatever reason. The Screaming from the Silence anthology hopes to fill that gap and provide that space for poets, writers, and artists...

Women Speak: Volume 5: Women of Appalachia Project

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Report copyright infringementby Kari Gunter-Seymour (Author)Appalachia holds a multitude of identities and experiences, and the Women of Appalachia Project's(TM) Women Speak anthology speaks to the complexity of the region. The essays, poems, stories, fine art, and songs collected here bear witness to the lived experiences of Appalachian women while simultaneously speaking against the narratives dictated to us and about us: acts of God, the notion of what makes a good girl, where and how and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Llewellyn (Author)Art is always like thisMysterious as light.Quiet and insightful, raw in its simplicity, Kate Llewellyn's latest book examines a life well lived, dipping in and out of memory to tell a tale of small moments and the wisdom of growing old. The poem 'Harbour' touches on what is lost and gained in growing up. 'The Big Nothing' draws you on a journey to view the world through another's eyes. 'What They Said' brings forth a cacophony of voices, ...

Henry Lawson - In the Days When the World Was Wide & Other Verses:

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Lawson (Author)Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was born on the 17th June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales, Australia. As a youth an ear infection had left him partially deaf and by fourteen he had lost his hearing completely. He immersed himself in books to make up for the difficulties of a classroom education but later failed to gain entry to a University. His first published poem was 'A Song of the Republic' in The Bulletin ...

Flower Swallows Sing: A North Korean Memoir in Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Hyongrae Kim (Translator), Siobhan Meï (Translator), Imu Baek (Author)Poems from a North Korean defector While Western media usually focuses its attention on the enigmatic dictator of North Korea, Flower Swallows Sing is a North Korean memoir in verse that focuses on the humanity and agency of the North Korean people. This collection of poems by Imu Baek is a powerful portrayal of everyday life for the citizens trying to endure North Korea's oppressive regime...

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Report copyright infringementby Alternating Current (Editor), Armin Tolentino (Author)From astronauts drifting lost through space to whalers hauling dragon weight through dark waters to fossil hunters of the 19th-century Bone Wars, the voices within this poetry collection all seek one uniting thing: connection. The epic sweep of Moby Dick meets Space Age exploration inside the lyrics of Bowie songs on the cusp of an apocalypse, all within the forgotten dreams of a fisherman or a whaler or a d...

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Angstman (Author), Armin Tolentino (Author), Amy Wright (Author)At the intersection of science and poetry, strange things happen. There exists such a bizarre human experience and shared understanding, that we can't help but admire and celebrate it. It's transcendent-the crossover of discovery and beauty. The physical solid realism and the ethereal intangible ideas. The inexplicable, the long-desired solutions, the struggle that comes in between. Exploring ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dania Ayah Alkhouli (Author)Contortionist Tongue is vulnerable but fierce collection of poetry on the realities of being a Syrian Muslim woman and survivor in the current socio-political climate. From bridging the gaps of a broken heart, to bridging the gaps between two homes and two cultures, these poems underscore every angle of womanhood and resilience. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: ...