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Report copyright infringementby Mirjam Tuominen (Author), David McDuff (Translator), Tuva Korsström (Introduction by)Mirjam Tuominen was a major poet and short story writer, as well as a distinguished essayist, translator and artist. Her work progressed through traditional prose, modernist poetry and abstract painting to Roman Catholic mysticism. She is one of the trio of great Scandinavian women poets, along with Edith Södergran and Karin Boye - all three published in English by Bloodaxe Boo...

Adam's Book of Poetry: Living Life Like a Boss

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Report copyright infringementby Tina Hassan (Author)Since the day you were born, You brought joy to my heart. You are my sweet little boy, And it all began from the very start. Adam is a sweet little boy who loves soccer, the color blue, and steak, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. When he is not traveling with his mom, he enjoys being with his friends, reading books, and flying a kite. Adam is his mother's fountain of joy. In a volume of poems penned just for him, Tina Hassan reflects on th...

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Report copyright infringementby C. David Benson (Author)Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world's great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. The book explores the diversity and contradictions produced by the poem without attempting to resolve them. Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2021

Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy: A Study of Value and its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Fisher (Author)Originally published in 1988. The economic changes and the growth of commerce in fourteenth century England precipitated both social changes and a preoccupation with material wealth. This book examines Chaucer's treatment of economic and ethical value in The Canterbury Tales within the context of contemporary economics and society. Number of Pages: 270 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Briella Calafiore (Author)Grab a cup of coffee or tea, put your feet up and allow your heart to feel. Start from the beginning, or flip to a random page. There are no rules here. Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 22, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Guadalupe Lozano (Author)Poemas ilustrados sobre una trayectoria emocional en la que el yo poético ama, huye, vive y escribe apasionadamente. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 21, 2020

What I Am Always Waiting For: Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Miller (Author), Rod Kessler (Introduction by)Malcolm Miller (1930-2014), reclusive poet of Salem, Massachusetts and Montreal, published dozens of books of poetry during his lifetime. Many of these were cheap, self-published books; a few were published by main-stream presses. Seldom holding a job, sometimes homeless, the constant in Miller's life was poetry. Rod Kessler, who wrote the introduction for this volume of Miller's Selected Poems, was among th...

Mother is Supreme: With Tamil Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Srinivasagan Krishnaswamy (Author)Some of the events that happen in our country are pleasing; the rest are unwelcome. When something unacceptable happens, our country plunges into darkness. This is because of the lack of gender equality and women empowerment. Here is my study for your view. நம் நாட்டில் நடந்த நிகழ்வுகளில் சில இனியவை; பிற அனிச்சை எனப் பட்டியலிட்டுத் தங்களுடன் பகிர விழைகிறேன். அனிச்சை செயல்களால் நம் நாடே இருண்டு களையிழந்து போகிறது. இதற்குக் காரணம...

Minimalism: A Handbook of Minimalist Genre Poetic Forms

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Report copyright infringementby Teri Santitoro (Editor)This handbook contains articles about how to write various minimalist poetry forms such as scifaiku, senryu, sijo, haibun, empat perkataan, ghazals, cinquain, cherita, rengays, rengu, octains, tanka, threesomes, and many more. Each article is written by an expert in that particular poetry form.Teri Santitoro, aka sakyu, who assembled this handbook, has been the editor of Scifaikuest since 2003. Number of Pages: 210 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Raven Howell (Author)"If thunder rolls and clouds fill skies, it helps to dream of butterflies."In this sweet collection of children's poems, Raven Howell reveals all the little things in life that put smiles on children's faces--from playing with sock puppets, to walking barefoot on warm grass in the summer, and dreaming of butterflies during a thunderstorm. Colorful illustrations by international illustrator, Jordan Wray, evoke the warmth and joy felt during ...

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Gently Between the Words: Essays and Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Taylor-Troutman (Author)This collection of essays and poems invites the reader to contemplate what it means to raise caring children, why we need the wisdom and guidance of mentors, and how we can shape our lives in ways that support our communities. While candid about his fears and doubts, as well as the realities of racism and sexism, the author believes that the answers we seek are present in the people we love.Gently Between the Words claims that sto...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathanael Stolte (Author)"This is a collection that calls for ceremony. I'd like to gather my beloved band of misfits, go out in search of a wrecked old building, build a small fire, gather around, and read Beggar's Songbook aloud together inside the crumbling walls. The poems in Beggar's Songbook are elegies, turnkeys, reckonings with "un-birth," pipe bombs, hexes, correspondences with the poltergeists of memory, and invitations: to claw open the petroleum-sta...

Tango Notes and Dancing Poems: Valentines from the Milonga

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Boyle (Author)"Tango is a wonderful affliction, a physical expression of an inner dance, and like anything beautiful, provocative. It elicits strong emotions and opinions from those that are captivated by exquisite movement." - Introduction. Inside are brief notes meant to evoke memorable dances, some we may have had long ago. We may not recall our partner's name but we remember well the way they made us feel. Number of Pages: 176 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Epstein (Author)The world has not seen anything so devastating as the novel coronavirus pandemic since the Spanish influenza of 1918, which killed millions of people. Except in the most remote parts of the globe, the daily lives of one and all have been turned upside down like never before. We are being challenged to adapt abruptly, calling upon resilience and resourcefulness as well as humor even as anxiety, if not panic, rises in the face of sickness, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Brown (Author)In the Days of Our Seclusion: March - May 2020 is the first book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of "no more live gigs." As his travel and performing career took a painful dive in the wake of the coronavirus, he put out the request for anyone who might want to commission a personalized poem for a donation of any size. Not thinking much of it at the time, th...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Basinski (Author)Self described as "a syndicate of types" Tub Bunny is that and more. It is a breaking of types, of poetry presumptions, of the pretense of projective dictums, of pre-determined language assumptions & LANGUAGE school restrictions. This is verse truly free. It has its predecessors: Rimbaud's "Vowels", e e cummings' language playground, Vachel Lindsay's "aural and temporal experience", Kenneth Patchen's "Orange Bears" and, AND, Albion ...

Where the Spirit Leads: Haunting Stories and Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Pardew (Author)This book is a product of a spooky imagination and frightening influences. It is something that has developed over time from staying in cemeteries long after dark, reading ghost stories, and following a spirit that leads through the dark and haunted places so cherished. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 27, 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Michele Maxwell (Author)A diverse collection of poems written as an "homage of gratitude" for 60 years of life. The poet wrote on tiny slips of paper one-word "prompts" for remembering her life's important moments, and deposited them in a tzedakah box-a Jewish charity offering box.Author BiographyA lifelong lover and writer of poetry, she got a Master's in theology, studied playwriting at Harvard and law at University of Texas, has edited a monthly spiritual jo...

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Report copyright infringementby Carey Tacheene (Author)Growing up in Arizona equates to magical inspiration. Experience hot summers and beautiful evenings. Envision the epic thunderstorms roll on through the Arizona skies. Welcome to a new and exciting world of words. A myriad of emotions and experiences are in these poems. Every poem takes you on a short journey. There are heartfelt poems and hidden messages of hope and faith. Enjoy fun and enjoyable pieces as well as macabre and sinister ta...

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Duer Miller (Author)Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is the title of the collection of satirical poems published on June 12, 1915 by suffragist Alice Duer Miller. Many of the poems in this collection were originally released individually in the New York Tribune.This collection mainly contains satirical works and poetry designed to promote the suffrage movement. Her collection was broke down into five sections: the Treacherous Texts, C...

Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Philippe Marcoux (Editor)This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka's oeuvre. Some Other Blues consists of career-spanning conversations on the many trajectories, bifurcations, and intersections in and of Baraka's black art. Every chapter is grounded in the desire to illuminate Baraka's multilayered creative output-whether through critical analyses, literary historiographies, or musico...

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Report copyright infringementby Warren Decker (Author)Transcribed from the handwritten contents of a mysterious fleece-bound notebook, The Long Side of the Midnight Sun is a poetic drama in eighteen acts which tells the story of our hero, Craig, who travels with his wife and son from Osaka to Maryland for a Christmas reunion with his extended family. The cast of characters includes a Crappy English Textbook, Lou Reed, a holographic Ingrid Bergman, a Donkey Clock, Socrates and many others. A b...

The Rhymers' Club: ''Set fools unto their folly!''

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Le Gallienne (Author), W. B. Yeats (Author), Ernest Dowson (Author)In 1890 W B Yeats and Ernest Rhys founded a poetry club. Based mainly at Fleet Street's immortal 'Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese' pub with occasional appearances at the Domino room in the Café Royal poets gathered together to dine and drink. Whilst it was based on a core of poets many others attended on an ad hoc basis including Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson & Lord Alfred Douglas. The camar...

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Report copyright infringementby Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)In the shadow of 19th century Russia, "The Brothers Karamazov" unfolds as a gripping tale of family conflict and moral dilemmas. Fyodor Dostoyevsky masterfully weaves existential themes with psychological fiction, creating a philosophical novel that delves deep into the human soul. This classic of Russian literature invites readers into the turbulent lives of the Karamazov family, exploring the complexities of faith, doubt, and the et...

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Burge (Author)Sue Burge's 'The Saltwater Diaries' is a beautiful evocation of all that is special about the coast, perfectly capturing the taste of salt on the wind and the life that is often undiscovered beneath rocks, along beaches and dancing in the air. This is a stunning collection of small pebbles that together can form mountains. Sue Burge is a poet and freelance creative writing and film studies tutor based in North Norfolk. She loves wild swimming,...

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Report copyright infringementby George Pestana (Author)This volume includes 60 original poems for thinkers. Many types of poems are included - philosophical, deep, whimsical, humorous, and erudite, with a whiff of the surreal. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 05, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Michael Parker (Author)Alan Michael Parker's latest collection, The Age of Discovery, is a work of enduring beauty, filled with his signature tenderness and surprise. Parker's interests range from the Psalms to the Internet, from a woman stepping out her window to die to two men trying to learn how to live as they argue in a row-boat. With an eye on some of the greatest love poets (Amichai, Mistral, Neruda), Parker delivers a collection deep in empathy, ri...

History Will Remember When The World Stopped: poems from a pandemic

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Ashworth (Author)A collection of beautiful poems and letters written throughout the lock-down by Donna Ashworth. Donna is followed daily by women all over the world, on her social media sites and blog. Her words are a source of comfort, inspiration and hope. Donna's work has been published by Amnesty International and voiced by stars of stage and screen. This book is the perfect keepsake for an unprecedented time and will act as a walk down memory lane fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Chaim Kind (Author)Confrontations with The Absolute is a collection of (50) crafted poems. The verses have been structured for sound, rhythm, and breath; evoking one to synchronize with the imaginative elements of matter. This book is authored by Chaim Kind -- who is interested in articulating something. But as it is with life, so it is with words: The life we know is in motion. Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.34 x 7.48 x 4.72 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Terri Kirby Erickson (Author)Terri Kirby Erickson's sixth collection of poems, A Sun Inside My Chest, is one of those big books, the kind that fling themselves straight into our hearts and wedge there forever among the songs and prayers that sustain us. . . Her poems resound with a generous wisdom that recognizes elegy is as much a celebration as a mourning . . . This powerful book is here . . . to show us that loss is a catalyst for loving more deeply, and in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Youngclaus (Author)"Jason Youngclaus has created a world within "Little Planet Raisins," written into existence with a unique and comforting voice comparable to Ginsberg and Kerouac, with a dash of the Romanticism that first inspired him to write. In this world, you follow a path --- a beaten road through maybe-messed-up lower-middle class America, lined with gods and goddesses like those in "The Cliffs of Thera." Where the real world meets constant mytho...