Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Zab G. Andrade (Author)Luciérnagas es una colección de quinientos poemas cortos, un libro que contiene quinientas maneras de ver la vida, a los demás y a uno mismo. Number of Pages: 514 Dimensions: 1.03 x 7.8 x 5.08 IN Publication Date: February 08, 2020

These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Rosen (Foreword by), Deborah Alma (Editor), Katie Amiel (Editor)This anthology offers a unique insight into the real experiences of the people at the heart of the NHS - from the student nurse at the start of his career to the heart surgeon on the eve of her retirement. We also hear the stories of those whose vital work is often unseen and unsung from domestic cleaning staff to sign language interpreters. The poems offer unflinchingly honest and intimate...

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Report copyright infringementby Vicky Allen (Author)Broken Things is a gathered handful of poems formed from quiet curiosity at the ordinary and strange in what is found beneath our feet, at our fingertips, in the air about us... This, the debut collection from the exciting new talent that is the poet Vicky Allen, is a fantastic introduction to her work and a glimpse of what is yet to come. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publicatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Kristin Garth (Author)"Kristin Garth writes as if her life depends on it. She is a genius in the deepest sense of the word, a wild yet exacting sonneteer. In Dewy Decimals, her gifts for rhythm and rhyme propel a scintillating story of sexuality and literature and their interconnectedness. These poems smolder on the page, then blossom in the mind as the poet comes into her own. Every word, every image, is earned. A powerful collection that is both liberating an...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Smith (Author)A 2022 Washington State Book Award finalist Environmental collapse. The betrayals and alliances of the animal world. A father who works in a timber mill. The celebrities in our feeds, the stories we tell ourselves. Loss, never-ending loss. Self-Portrait with Cephalopod--selected by francine j. harris as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize--is an account of being a girl, and then a woman, in the world; of being a living creature on a doomed ...

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Report copyright infringementby Drew Pisarra (Author)"Infinity Standing Up" tells the messy, rowdy, off-again/on-again story of a passionate love affair in the form of 40 generally Shakespearean sonnets, each one a square box of 14 lines, 10 beats to a line, rhyming true to the form: abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Each one is a meticulously crafted dog-crate for the untrained puppy of love.Of course these are not the first sonnets to attempt the task of wrestling a doggish passion into order. Poet Dre...

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Report copyright infringementby Chioma Urama (Author)Beautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's A Body of Water is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a conversation Urama opened with her ancestors, whose documented and oral histories have been fragmented by a history of enslavement. Urama's examination of generational trauma collapses linear time and posits that the traumas of the past are present within the consciousness of our bodies until we tr...

Beowulf: A Translation into English Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Hutchinson (Author)Out from marshes, beneath misty tors, Grendel came skulking, God's wrath upon him. The terrible ravager intended to steal man-pieces in that mighty house. He moved in darkness toward the drinking-hall ... Before Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and Wagner's Ring Cycle, there was Beowulf, the original high-fantasy epic tale of heroes, monsters, dragons, and political upheaval. In a new rendition of the Old English poem, Matthew...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Lin (Author)Letters to Minnehaha Creek is a poetry collection structured in four sections of poems through the passing seasons. In many of the poems, the narrator addresses Minnehaha Creek directly, reminiscing about her deceased friend, Dorothy, as she walks the same neighborhood routes they once traveled together. The tone of the poems reflects the seasons. Fall takes place in the aftermath of Dorothy's death and explores the narrator's longing for h...

She: Single Human Experience: A Book of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Dawn Gregory (Author)SHE KNEW Thoughts flow through my head andI often think about the gifts thatI AM given of words as a P O E TAs much as I wanted to keep them closeI trusted the ability and abilitiesTo reach further than I ever haveI believed in knowing that the words givenWere for me to share with the worldI AM a MessengerI AM a StoryI AML I F E Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Februar...

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Report copyright infringementby Elaine Nadal (Author)When is filled with secrets, curses, and dreams. Its poems read like a story, taking the reader through a journey in which one overcomes a troubled past and experiences healing through the power of the arts and the beauty around us. It contains the Best of the Net-nominated poem "The Question." Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Laureen Summers (Author)Contender of Chaos explores the poetic life and exposition of the inner life of a woman with a visible disability: the experiences, challenges, and the people and places she has known and loved. It is a life not ordinary or compromised, but one of reflection and self-discovery. This chapbook is the author's first published collection. It includes poems written in the late 60's, but most have been written, or revised, in the past 10 years...

The Song of Lei Anne and Other Poetic Stirrings

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Report copyright infringementby Doug Allen (Author)If it could be comparable to music, the chorus of our lives through time might be termed an evolving sound whose tonal harmonies clash as often as they align. So it is with reconciling our own destinies and far greater that of the world. In 'The Song of Lei Anne' poetic verses and stories are utilized to explore some of the boundaries between life, love, death and the mystical truths we seek along the often tortured pathways sought to uncover...

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Report copyright infringementby Melanie Sokolow (Author)To Sing Ascending is a series of poems based on each of the one hundred and fifty chapters of Psalms, from the perspective of a young Jewish woman taking on questions of faith and her own relationship with Scripture. Each poem presents challenges found both in the ancient text and in modern times. Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2020

Funny, Sad, Weird: Lyrics and Poems, 1989 to 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Joseph Greco (Author)This books consists of assorted lyrics and poems written by Anthony Joseph Greco over about 30 years. The book is divided into three sections, allowing the reader to focus on portions that are funny, sad, or weird. Many of the lyrics became songs by the very alternative band known as Action Potential, which came to being in 1989 at Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey USA. Number of Pages: 188 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Te'erra Ladeepo3t Jones (Author)iJusWannaWrite is solely inspired by poems I wrote while in the mist of chaos. My life has been far from easy in many departments, but through those challenges I've always used writing to help me get through. Not only will these poems take you deeper into my mind and my way of thinking, but they will also give you a sense of understanding as it pertains to my character. These poems were written over the span of 10 years, as I gre...

Aerial Act: Poems of a Decidedly Different Nature

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Report copyright infringementby E. Doyle-Gillespie (Author)"Aerial Act" is E. Doyle-Gillespie's fourth book. This time around, he invites us to take a sampling of the human condition to see how we ride its ebb and flow. He invites us to see how life consumes itself to live again like the ouroboros. The body endures trauma and is reborn to find a new voice. Spirits abandon the flesh to write their own mythology. Sex intertwines itself with the taint of death. In "Aerial Act", we are privy to t...

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Report copyright infringementby Hilaire Belloc (Author), Basil Temple Blackwood (Illustrator)One of Hilaire Belloc's most famous works, "Cautionary Tales for Children" satirizes a genre of admonitory children's literature popular in England in the 19th century. The seven stories contained in this work are macabre parodies of childhood lessons, and will entertain more sophisticated readers who can appreciate these tales of disproportionate punishment. Presented in a classic picture book style,...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley (Author)An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2021"From the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's newest collection arrives brimming with personal and political histories."'You tell me how I was born what I am, '" demands Naka-Hasebe Kingsley--of himself, of the reader, of the world. The poems of Dēmos: An American Multitude seek answers in the Haudeno...

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Report copyright infringementby Dlvan Zirak (Author)Here's what it looks like when tears, laughter, heartbreak, joy, pain, and many other feelings form memories and the memories turn into words and finally, into a book. This book, "A Jar of Memories", is a collection of poetry and short stories drawn from those feelings. "I write these words To show to those in pain That they're not alone That the horrible times they're going through Have an end" Number of Pages: 198 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Clayre Benzadon (Author)Clayre Benzadón lives in Florida. She is currently a second-year MFA student at the University of Miami and Broadsided Press's Instagram editor. She has been published by "The Acentos Review", "Hobart", "QA Poetry", "SERIAL Magazine", "HerStry", "Poetry Breakfast", "SurVision", etc., and awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for her poem "Linguistic Rewilding". This is her first book of poetry. Number of Pages: 44 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Ka Yin Leung (Author)The "chengyu", Mandarin Chinese for idiom, condenses a feeling, sentence and more often than not a story into four characters. Similarly, each of Leung's poems is a cross-section; aiming to capture a slice of the world, or a relationship and presenting them to the reader as representations of the whole.Each of the poems in chengyu: chinoiserie are literal translations or re-interpretations of a Chinese idiom, referencing the duality ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Liming (Author)In all my days I hope I never forget, the beautiful Ray's of a evening sunset. It shine's throughout red hues mixed with the blues skies; I continue to adore, then praise the Lord for his menstrual within the sky. We're losing our Parks playgrounds and springs tell me, as humans why we feel compelled to destroy these things? I was told to enjoy the simple things, because temporal only means temporary... So I crave the celestrial state of mi...

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Report copyright infringementby Alison Swan (Author)Alison Swan's collection of poems, A Fine Canopy, illustrates how the natural world envelops and encloses us with so many beautiful things: crowns of leaves, the ubiquitous blue sky, our luminous moon, and snow. So much snow. An ecopoet whose writing shows her advocacy for natural resources, in this collection Swan calls the reader to witness, appreciate, and sustain this world before it becomes too late. These poems were written out of an i...

IBN 'ARABI 'Doctor Maximus' & 'The Great Master' SELECTED POEMS: (Large Print & Large Format Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Smith (Translator), Ibn 'Arabi (Author)IBN 'ARABI 'Doctor Maximus' & 'The Great Master' Selected Poems (Large Print & Large Format Edition) Translation & Introduction Paul Smith In the West he is known as the Doctor Maximus and in the Islamic world as The Great Master. Born in Murcia in Spain in 1165 his family moved to Seville. At thirty-five he left for Mecca where he completed his most influential book of poems The Interpreter of Ardent Desi...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom McDermott (Author)Poetry. Art. Music. Now in an expanded second edition, this collection of alert, witty, and world-wise limericks by the great New Orleans jazz pianist and composer Tom McDermott, illustrated with his own drawings, is a snapshot of a restlessly creative mind and heart at play. These "personal nursery rhymes" demonstrate that simplicity of means need not be incompatible with sophistication of ends. In all their various modes--the frivolously...

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Report copyright infringementby Meg Wade (Author)Delving into dark desire and mystery, Slick Like Dark pierces through the noise of aimless reality. These collected poems are haunting and passionate, honest and vivid, asking who bears the blame as they scatter us about the South. Poet Meg Wade carefully crafts an examination of the Southern body and the experience of a woman living in it. Depicting relationships, personal struggles and religion, lines such as "A wasp/nest, gristled angels/it'...

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Report copyright infringementby Kindred (Author)All These Broken Bones is the third book of poetry and artwork by author/artist, Kindred. This new collection contains works of prose and rhyme, love and pain, scars and hope, and cries for change.There are over 140 new poems, quotes, and micropoetry, and also 16 new illustrations by Kindred, scattered throughout its pages.All These Broken Bones is more than a book of poetry and art - it is heart, mind, and soul in ink. It hopes to embody one si...

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Report copyright infringementby Ayendy Bonifacio (Author)To the River, We Are Migrants is Ayendy Bonifacio's debut collection. In this nostalgic volume, the image of the river carries us to and away from home. The river is a timeline that harkens back to Bonifacio's childhood in the Dominican Republic and ends with the sudden passing of his father.Through panoramic and time-bending gazes, To the River, We Are Migrants leads us through the rural foothills of Bonifacio's birthplace to the stree...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Service (Author)Robert Service dreamed of a life of adventure and freedom to live and write as he wanted, surrounded by nature and the beauty of the world. Born in Lancashire, England, he developed an urge early on to travel abroad, and set his sights on the rough and tumble "wild west" of Canada. Part journalist and part storyteller, he ventured up and down the west coast of the United States and wrote romantic stories of cowboys, gold prospectors, and ...

The Heart Has to Ache Before It Learns to Beat

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher John Connelly (Author)Forty years, twenty solo albums, numerous musical collaborations -- this book contains the lyrics and poems to over 350 works by Scottish singer-songwriter Chris Connelly, with a foreword by Shirley Manson. Number of Pages: 466 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: March 31, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Lima (Author)Esteemed poet and literary scholar Robert Lima penned poems dedicated to some of his favorite authors. ROBERT LIMA is a Cuban-born award-winning poet, and an internationally-recognized critic, bibliographer, playwright, and translator. He retired after 40 years in the teaching profession as Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at The Pennsylvania State University, as well as Fellow Emeritus of the Institute for the Arts ...