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Garment for a Long Journey: The Collected Poems of LoVerne Brown

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Report copyright infringementby Jonnie Wilson (Editor), Loverne Brown (Author)Garment for a Long Journey celebrates the body of work of California poet LoVerne Brown (1912-2000), whose writing career spanned the late 1920s to the late 1990s. Poems from three earlier collections of her poetry are included in this volume, along with additional loose poems, some never before published.Among the themes of the over 200 poems in Garment for a Long Journey are nature, human relationships, politics, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Hurley (Author)WALKING was composed over several years, while physically moving (literally walking). Most of it was completed in South Saint Louis, where he lives and works as a bartender. WALKING is informed by psychogeography, surrealism, contemporary classical/electronic music, Taoism, alchemy, modern abstract art, the tradition of the anti-epic, and much else besides.Having completed WALKING, Hurley is now working on a collection of very short poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Waldman (Author), T. Thilleman (Illustrator)Internationally recognized and acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the "Outrider" experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over five decades as writer, editor, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. She has read in the streets as well as numerous larger venues such as Casa del Lago in Mexico City, a p...

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Report copyright infringementby Gillian Lynn Katz (Author)Gillian Lynn Katz's evocative collection of poetry includes over twenty poems about her experiences growing up under Apartheid in South Africa. In her poem "Robben Island" Ms. Katz accounts for her visit to Mandela's prison cell and writes of Mandela, "he was more prince than prisoner." She reflects on motherhood in several other poems, and in her poem "Portrait," the title of this collection, she writes about breaking the cycle of abu...

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Report copyright infringementby Red Wheelbarrow Poets (Author)An even dozen! The Red Wheelbarrow series reaches its 12th annual collection of great poetry and prose with the work of 45 poets who believe, like William Carlos Williams, that the epic is the local fully realized. The prose section features a memoir of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets' Magic Circle monthly reading series, which has completed ten years of music and poetry! Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.59 x ...

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Report copyright infringementby Karina Vigil (Author)"The moon lights the darkness with what little she is given." Two things are certain in life, time and love. Anatomy, the debut book of poetry from Karina Vigil, explores the relationship between these two certainties. This small collection of poems explores how time influences loving another, loving yourself and loving the life you own. These topics are explored in three chapters: the head, the heart and the lungs. Number of...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Santalucia (Author)Veering from wry surrealism to ebullient slapstick, the poems in Nicole Santalucia's The Book of Dirt chronicle outrage, love, and fear, wed to the terrain and culture of southern-central Pennsylvania. In this collection, lesbians crawl out of the grave that America has been digging since its inception; these are timely poems of resistance, celebrating marriage, sobriety, and survival. Number of Pages: 84 Dime...

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Report copyright infringementby Foad Zojaji (Author)The book is based on love, harmony, patience, growth and God. It is a collection of experience through the souls journey on earth. It highlights mans basic search for knowledge in life. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 28, 2020

Remembering Wordsworth - Essays and Extracts on the Life and Work of the Great Poet

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Report copyright infringementby Various (Author)"Remembering Wordsworth" is a fantastic collection of essays and other assorted writings by various authors discussing the life and work of this seminal poet, not to be missed by lovers of poetry and those with an interest Wordsworth's life both public and private. Contents include: "William Wordsworth, by Hattie Tyng Griswold", "WM. Wordsworth, by Elbert Hubbard", "Wordsworth's Poetry, Delivered Extempore At Manchester, by George Macdonald", "I...

The Book of Birds;Wordsworth's Poetry on Birds

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Report copyright infringementby William Wordsworth (Author)This beautiful pocket-sized volume is a compilation of William Wordsworth's poetry on birds. The collection includes lyrical, melancholic poems alongside whimsical pieces that will make readers' heart's soar. With themes of freedom, hope and love in The Book of Birds Wordsworth uses darker imagery to express his innermost thoughts and views of the world through the beautiful imagery of birds. This carefully curated book collates some ...

The Book of Flowers;Wordsworth's Poetry on Flowers

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Report copyright infringementby William Wordsworth (Author)A delightful pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's poetry on flowers. This volume brings Wordsworth's vivid nature imagery to life, featuring much-loved poems such as 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' or 'Daffodils'. This beautiful collection of Wordsworth's poetry is drawn together by a common theme of flowers and plant life. The poems give inspiring descriptions of nature and are intertwined with the poet's thoughts and exper...

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Report copyright infringementby William Wordsworth (Author)Wordsworth's "The Prelude" is an autobiographical poem written in blank verse within which he reveals intimate details of his life. First published after Wordsworth's death in 1880 and titled by his widow Mary, "The Prelude" is Wordsworth's autobiographical magnum opus within which he offers the reader a plethora of personal details about his life. He started writing the when he was 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffery Childers (Author)If all that you were, was the least of what you are, that would be enough. We are enough, good enough, smart enough, capable enough, worthy enough, beautiful enough, and strong enough, together, to meet this worlds many remaining problems, and to overcome them, for the sake of our survival, and for the promise of a better future. All it takes is a moment, here, and a moment there, doing a kind thing for a stranger, picking up a piece of...

More Winds: A Second Collection of Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Carol H. Ehrlich (Author), Willem a. Wils (Illustrator)MORE WINDS continues the offerings appearing in Ehrlich's earlier work, WINDS IN MY SAILS, reliving and digesting her experience with nature, with family, with aging and with loss. Common to all, her descriptions, reactions and insights illuminate the human condition. They will resonate with readers, because "we've all been there."Author BiographyNow 93 years of age, Carol H. Ehrlich earned her Ph.D. at the...

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Report copyright infringementby John A. Scott (Author)"One might have thought the lives of some of the writers and artists within this book - Woolf, Rimbaud, Picasso - had been written to the point where little more could be offered, but Scott's distillations are a fresh and intriguing making new.Shorter Lives plunges below the received biographies to disinter the emotional, psychological, erotic and other secrets that arguably underpin, explain and give force to their work. The results are s...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne F. Burke (Author)Poetry that takes the reader to the strangest place of all--the human mind; troubled, bizarre, diabolical even, to the more familiar, though occasionally very odd, quotidian. Poetry based on the truth of a poet's experience, and on the greater truth of his imagination. Narrative poetry written in language accessible, visceral, and subtly rhythmic. Take DIFLUCAN whole or in bits; it will cure whatever ails you. Number of Pages...

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Report copyright infringementby Chad a. Ross (Author)This information is not available. Author will provide once available. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.2 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Chera Hammonds (Author)Maps of Injury tracks territory from the body to heredity, Southwestern country roads to horse-mottled pastures, and the kitchen sink to the well outside the house from which it is fed as these poems contemplate a woman's autonomy within her landscape. Here is a wife, daughter, and horsewoman coming to terms with chronic illness and the lingering effects of a previous abusive marriage. The injury mapped across this narrative inspires ende...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Griffin (Author)Some of us can only imagine the ominous thoughts of a prison inmate. But Gerald Griffin lives this life every day. Confined Thoughts is his way of mental escape from the prison walls. This collection of trials and tribulations based on personal experiences and struggles from a prison inmate will hopefully make us appreciate the freedoms we experience every day and never take them for granted.About the AuthorGerald "Fenster" Griffin was bo...

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Report copyright infringementby David Carrigan (Author)Europe: mise en scène is David Carrigan's second book of poetry, and a narrative extension of his first work Panormus. In Europe, the poet challenges the themes of stability and change, and explores the role of prophecy and its influence on our lives and will. Europe confronts the reader directly on aspects of the modern European identity but it doesn't prescribe, allowing space and a conclusion for the reader to draw within the reflectio...

Disabled? Disabled! Disabled: Transitional Poems from the Disability Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Garcia (Author)You wait for me at night In the most hidden area of my mind. You throw yourself into my being. You are looking with passion, And you find All the secrets of my life To fill your life with mine. Although Daniel Garcia has seen his share of physical struggles throughout his lifetime, he has learned to navigate through his challenges as a disabled person who not just sees all that is wrong with our society and the world around him, but also ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Bates (Author)QUICKENING, I READ ABOUT THE CLAM'S HEARTin the dream / the bears / are actual bears / the bears are big / and brown / the bears / are angry / i'm guessing the bears in the dream are grizzlies/because in the dream / I do not run / from the bears / in the dream / i know / that the bears are coming / for me / but in the dream / the bears stop / for anything / that has been lost / between my body / and the blue sky / this part is strange the be...

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Report copyright infringementby Burgi Zenhaeusern (Author)Winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize, judged by series editor Kwame Alexander and 2019 final judge Erica Dawson, Behind Normalcy is the first chapbook by Maryland-based poet Burgi Zenhaeusern. According to Teri Ellen Cross Davis, author of Haint and Poetry Coordinator at the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Behind Normalcy is an opportunity to explore the tense and probing questions we hide behind and hide from in polite society. From the ju...

Glitter in the Blood: A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Mindy Nettifee (Author)A beacon of guidance and a call to poetic rebellion, Glitter in the Blood: A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing stands as both the ultimate guidebook and a rallying anthem for poets with an insatiable hunger for transformative growth.For those aspiring to forge poems that defy the constraints of convention, ignite inspiration, and etch a lasting mark upon both audience and self, this volume is a compass pointing true north. Glitt...

California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Fisk (Editor)As part of a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, former Nevada County Poet Laureate Molly Fisk created a project to teach kids across California to write poems about climate crisis as a way to work out their feelings about it. Out of the best of those poems and poems contributed by over 100 adults, she put together an extraordinary anthology, California Fire & Water. Including poems by Brenda Hillman, Danusha Lameris, Ellen Bas...

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Report copyright infringementby Karla F. Brundage (Editor), Tyrice Brown (Contribution by), Zakiyyah G. E. Capehart (Contribution by)In 2016, a group of poets from Oakland embarked on a poetic exchange with poets from Accra, Ghana and Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The goal of the exchange was to create healing and reconnection between Africans and African Americans who have long been separated due to the calamity of slavery and many current socio-economic factors. Using the form of Renshi poetry, a...

Of Angels And Demons: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Artemis (Author)This book is a raw, honest, and thought provoking collection of poetry and prose aimed at promoting and creating deep, honest, and open dialogue on mental health, the struggles of mental illness, what it's like to love someone through it, and what it feels like to struggle with your own mind. I hope that this book serves as a reminder to everyone that they are not alone in this world. Every time you hold this book, I want you to know that there ...

Whispers of Krip Love Shouts of Krip Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby LaTeef H. McLeod (Author)Lateef McLeod writes some of most daring poetry I have seen. This is poetry that is finely crafted and, oh yes, clearly has something to say. The best poets, to be sure, have something to say, they are artist and philosophers.Langston Hughes; Let America be America Again O, let America be America again--The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every man is free. The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, N...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Smith (Translator), Sadi (Author)THE WINE BOOK OF SADI (Khamriyyat) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Sadi (Saadi or Sa'di) of Shiraz (1210-1291), a contemporary of Rumi who influenced him, was a Sufi Perfect Master (Qutub) Poet who expressed himself in the ruba'i form as well as hundreds of ghazals in his beautiful Divan that often also contained images from dervish dancing. Sadi was a great traveller who spent forty years on the road throughout t...

De Puerto Rico To Islam With Love: A Collection of Poetry About Identity and Faith

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Díaz (Author)From the carefree joys of a childhood in Puerto Rico to an unpredictable military family life traveling across the United States to embracing Islam during a turbulent time, Wendy Díaz tells a story of growth, persistence, and strength. Her struggles assimilating to American life while maintaining her cultural identity and her spiritual journey from Catholicism to Islam are powerfully articulated in both memoir and poetry. This book reveals a ...

Rumi and Mandalas: Explore Yourself through Poetry and Coloring

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Report copyright infringementby Kyoticrafts Publishing (Author)Rumi was a 13th Century Persian Mystic and poet. His writings on love, life, and behavior are timeless.As you color one of the stunning mandalas in this book; contemplate the Rumi quote on the opposite page.Take a little time to write down your thoughts, thus exploring yourself through Poetry and color.Buy Now and Enjoy! Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: ...

One Day I Realized: A Collection of Inspiring Poetry and Random Thoughts

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Dickerson (Author)"One Day I Realized" is the debut poetry book by Melissa Dickerson. This amazing book contains her original inspiring poetry and random thoughts about life, simple living, and getting back to nature. What began as a heartbreak was transformed into beautiful poetry and inspiring words."One day I realizedI want to fillmy dayswithmore sunsets, more laughter, more hugs, more smiles, more walks, more creativity, and more love."_____________...