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Report copyright infringementby Josefina Herrera Sanders (Author)Cuídate is a classic compilation of poetry and prose on healing and taking care. Josefina uses her journey with plants to share valuable lessons on taking care of yourself in all seasons of life. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 28, 2020

Building Socialism: World Multilingual Poetry from the Revolutionary Poets Brigade

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Hirschman (Editor), John Curl (Editor), Karen Melander-Magoon (Editor)An international multilingual anthology of 108 poets from 25 countries, published by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco. This year's anthology presents poetry and graphics related to the themes of overthrowing capitalism, building socialism, the Coronavirus siege, the murder of George Floyd, and the unstoppable momentum of a fierce new class of young people toward a new sys...

Forty Poems* for Forty Pounds: To Be Read by the Refrigerator Light

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Report copyright infringementby Trish Dougherty (Author)Poems to be read by the refrigerator light... After battling food, weight, and self-esteem issues for years, Trish Dougherty, a poet, mother, and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, VT, decided to employ her strengths of self-perception, humor, and the written word to wrestle her demons to the ground. Forty Poems for Forty Pounds is for anyone who has struggled with self-worth through their relationship wi...

When the Virus Came Calling: COVID-19 Strikes America

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Report copyright infringementby Thelma T. Reyna (Author)A ground-breaking anthology of 45 distinguished American contemporary poets and prose writers, written in real time in the first half of the historic, devastating coronavirus COVID-19 invasion of America in 2020. In heart-wrenching, wide-eyed observations, firsthand events, tragedies, and reflections, these top authors document for us the horrors, grief, and heroism of friends, family, neighbors as we watched the disease unfold. Here are...

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Colby (Author), Shawn Aveningo Sanders (Editor)Joan Colby, a masterful poet and avid bird lover, takes us on a lyrical exploration inside the bird kingdom. Through her careful observances and vivid imagination, we often see ourselves-our human interactions, our social conditions, our philosophies, our celebrations, our grief. And sometimes, of course, a poem is simply about the bird. There's always oneWho is preoccupied-a dreamerContemplating the poetry of...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Michael Stewart (Author)The Bastard Children of Dharma Bumsare 'sculped poems, ' essentially erasure poems without theerased lines, taken from each chapter of Jack Kerouac'sThe Dharma Bums. I manipulate the lines, punctuation, and in some cases, the tense of a word, changing "breaking"to "break," for an example, but otherwise the wordswithin each poem are as they fall within Kerouac's Novel and other poe Number of Pages: 86 Dime...

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Report copyright infringementby E. L. Warner (Author)This book of poetry doubles as a story of one mans journey over the last ten years. It's a story of victories and losses. Of love affairs, and abuses. It's a story of finding yourself amongst both the living and the dead. Most importantly, it's a story of A Life Worth Living. Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 18, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby John Martone (Author)A fifty-poem sequence on ancestry and after, from John Martone's Tufo project. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: May 18, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author), Samuel Butler (Translator)"From some points of view it is impossible to take the Odyssey seriously enough; from others, it is impossible to take it seriously at all; but from which ever point of view it be regarded, its beauty is alike unsurpassable."The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myth), king of Ithaca, and his journey hom...

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Report copyright infringementby Ph. D. M. DIV Ross T. Lucas (Author)Imagine the long river of time distilled into drops, and each drop is a moment. Drip-the view from a train as it lumbers cross-country-drop-the wilting of a summer rose-drip-the silhouette of a loved one in the window. This collection of poetry, written by Ross T. Lucas over the course of a lifetime, captures the experiences of a lifetime-some of them lived, and some of them only imagined. Dip into these pages and discover re...

Time Passes Differently Here: Through verse and rhyme

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Report copyright infringementby Vivian Zems (Author)This poetry collection is observational and inspirational, challenging the reader to contemplate life, death, passion, and adversity. Race is not left out, as history is revisited with violence, and conciliation embraced. Time does not follow its usual trajectory in 2020; it passes and moves with breathtaking difference here. Five Star Review Using free and narrative verse, Vivian Zems' chapbook, Time Passes Differently Here is a collection...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Cruess (Author)A surprise third installment in his acclaimed collections of stories and poems, Alone conveys Robert Cruess' most memorable reflections on what it means to be singularly human. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.27 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN Publication Date: August 28, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Lukiv (Author)Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. An excerpt my wife's laughter-chrysanthemums andpeonies The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career)...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Mann (Author)In Ash, acclaimed poet Jeff Mann has created a haunting and intense examination of Norse mythology, extending from the creation of the universe to its end in the flames of Ragnarok. Here are many voices: All-Father Odin, bound to the World Tree; Thor, the protector of mankind and battler of monsters; Balder, the gentle god treacherously slain; Sigurd, killer of a gold-hoarding dragon; Brynhild, love-sick and vengeful Valkyrie; and Surt, the de...

The Gorgon Verses: Poems for a Queer Mythology

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Report copyright infringementby Trey Moonwood (Author)Challenged to live queer in this world, inspired by ancient myths and sacred stories, and fed by the deep nourishment of nature's beauty, The Gorgon Verses is the product of a long personal journey of writing poetry and digging deeply into the dark recesses of the soul. "showing never one thing alone, but always two at least, meeting place of the half-moon rising in that fertile, purple dusk that blooms each day and each darkness." --- fro...

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Report copyright infringementby Maya Craft (Author)Who is Maya? That is the question. Who is Maya & how is it possible that she can feel so many different things, be so many different things, all at once? Me vs. Myself is a powerful collection of poetry about black girl adolescence, written by fourteen-year-old Austinite, Maya Craft. Through her poems, Maya takes on different characters and writes from a variety of perspectives, but most often she writes from her own. Themes she explores ...

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Report copyright infringementby Bret Lott (Author), Rosie Mary Jane (Author), Dakota Reed (Author)This exciting and moving collection of fiction, poetry and nonfiction by Bahrain's next new writers is a beautiful compendium of what it means to be Bahraini today. Edited by Bret Lott, Rosie Mary Jane and Dakota Reed from the College of Charleston, this gathering of terrific young writers from the University of Bahrain bridges cultures through the good work of the word. Number of Pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Turner (Author)If you want a better understanding of what happened in the wake of George Floyd's unnecessary death, take a look at Deborah Turner's unflinching debut collection of poems, Sweating It Out. In Sweating, Turner shows us the work behind discovering and breaking the rules of engagement, whether in community, family, love, or sports. Each poem, at face value, plays in a different arena--basketball, softball, tennis. Yet collectively, they sta...

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Report copyright infringementby Bridget Dolan (Author)Dust to Dust is a reflection upon the changes that come with time and the complexity of nostalgia. Bridget Dolan explores her relationship with nature and the connection it has with her mental illness. She remembers planting tomatoes in the backyard with her mother and the way life seemed to be easier before she became an adult, before she got sick and had to learn a new way to live. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions...

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Report copyright infringementby Harley Anastasia Chapman (Author)Through engagement with myths old and new, Smiling with Teeth tells of mothers & witches, lost men & the creatures they become. Poems explore the dark places that exist unspoken within families and the delicate balance kept by this restraint. Oftentimes a maze with false ends, the narration aches of love, loss, and longing, while staying sharp in its point, which is returned to time and time again: we owe a debt to the m...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate McCarroll Moore (Author)It always comes back to this. A writer sets out to tell one story, and only when its finished, discovers it's another story entirely. Such is this collection of bird poems written by Kate McCarroll Moore. The poems collected here are stitched together with tenderness, regret, grief, and hope, telling the story of a father-daughter relationship expressed through a shared love of birds. Number of Pages: 38 Di...

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Report copyright infringementby Cassandra Caverhill (Author)Every summer, mayflies swarm the shores of Lake St. Clair for a week's time, before their bodies dry up and scatter like ashes. Set inside the blue-collar automotive town of Windsor, Ontario, Mayflies traces the trajectory of adolescence into adulthood: A personal inventory of "glass-specked streets and shuttered storefronts" and "open wounds and eyesores" that follows in the wake of the 2008 recession. Cassandra Caverhill captures u...

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Report copyright infringementby Mobi Warren (Author) Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 04, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Ayanna Wimberly (Author) Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 04, 2020

My Therapist Heard It First: living after trying to die

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Report copyright infringementby Hadley Grace (Author)In My Therapist Heard it First, Hadley Grace explores what it means to heal from wounds and live with scars. These poems are honest, full of faith. Here is where hope grows. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 22, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy Baker (Author)The Queen would like me to introduce her. Well, here goes. She is from the twelfth century: however time means nothing to her. She enjoys twenty-first century amenities. Her heart is resolute that war is obsolete. She goes about her days like the free spirit she is. As the writer of these ditties, I discovered her one day when she helped me put down in words the opening poem about earrings. It gave me a giggle and I wondered who she was an...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Lindsley (Author)Author Susan Lindsley has displayed a variety of writing skills from fiction to biographies, but her first writing love was always poetry. Having been in a happy long-term relationship with another woman for a quarter of a century, it's no surprise that -- now that society has accepted such relationships -- Susan would produce her latest collection of poems inspired by lesbian love. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions...

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Report copyright infringementby James Benger (Editor), The 365 Days Poets (Author)"The 365 collections are remarkably consistent in delivering everything you can imagine. In fact, reading through 365 Days, Volume 3 is like lounging in a hammock, strawberry lemonade at hand, while the winds of poetic voice buoy you from heartache to bliss and back again. Every page is a refreshment. Hats off the editors, for compiling yet another top-shelf collection."-Jason Preu, author and cult leader"With t...

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Report copyright infringementby Xavier Thomas (Author), Darshaun McAway (Author)It's Just Us is a collection of eclectic poems from a broad and diverse source of emotions. Throughout this book you'll experience a tender notion of love, intimacy, attachment, endearment and compassion to be more. Xavier's devotion to create is unmatched. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Mann (Author)Jeff Mann is a defiant voice in Appalachian literature. His poems, provocative and beloved, are grounded in West Virginia's mountains, his adoration for the region's culture, and the frisson of passion between men. Redneck Bouquet, his new collection, has the poet seeking out sweet donuts and bringing home a lonely man, shucking flannels and boots. In another poem, Mann dwells on the scent of someone else in a lover's moustache. These sumptuou...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Kopka (Author)Count Four, winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, is a book about trying to reconcile the conflicting elements of one's identity and attempting to understand and articulate the forces that are shaping it. Many of the poems in the collection were written over years the poet spent as a musician in and around the East Coast punk scene. They try to make sense of how the things and people he loves most in this environment are also what are...