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Local Foreigner: A Collection of Poems Searching For Home by Amanda Dufour

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Dufour (Author)Local Foreigner is a collection of poems exploring the idea of home and our search to belong somewhere. Written from the perspective of a Swiss-Lebanese immigrant.The poems look at boundaries set by nationality and the struggle to move beyond the, while trying to make sense of the attachments we develop to one place over another in spite of the faults rooted in a country's society and politics.Following a metaphorical progression from birt...

The Ravings and Savings of a Vietnam Veteran

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Report copyright infringementby Claude R. Jr. Hurst (Author)Ever go on an impossible journey? Experience one with me - of war, faith and love by reading my book then you'll realize you have been on one too!Unpopular war, faith and love are the three themes of "The Raving (I) and Savings (II) of a Vietnam Veteran." Also Loose Ends (III) incorporates and connects all three themes. Part I incorporates poems and one short story to give the reader some insight into the Vietnam War in 1967 along th...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucretius (Author), Emma Gee (Translator)Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe Bk 1 was written around 55BCE, towards the end of the Roman Republic. Lucretius was unusual, though not alone, in his startlingly modern world view which encompassed Epicurean philosophy, a knowledge of physics and a belief that religion was intrinsically evil and an instrument of social control. The translation of Book 1 of his magnum opus is equally modern - Emma Gee plays with ...

The Day the Moon Split in Two: A Grief Poetry Collection

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Report copyright infringementby Tanzila Ahmed (Author)My mother's face used to remind me of the moonround and fairthe acne pockmarks like the cratered surface cheek dimples like meteor shadows. She was plump a celestial body to reckon with with gravity so powerful it could make waves From political activist and writer Tanzila Ahmed comes a collection of poetry capturing the experiencing grief from the loss of her mother as a Muslim Bangladeshi-American woman. Written over the course of almos...

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Report copyright infringementby Oodgeroo (Author)my people Oodgeroo's writing has a unique place in Australian literature. When her poetry was first published in the 1960s, Kath Walker, as she was known then, provided a brave new voice for marginalised Aboriginal Australians. For the first time, an Aboriginal Australian was analysing and judging white Australians as well as her own people. She often made provocative and passionate pleas for justice: We want hope, not racialism, Brotherhood, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Howie Good (Author)These poems inventively blur the line between lyric and broadside, confronting an increasingly hostile world with poignancy, wry humor, and a sense of the surreal. Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 17, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Dorian D. Riley (Author)This book is one that takes the reader on a journey through the good and not so good parts of life. It touches on situations both in and out of one's control, that they might find themselves in. Being in a difficult situation is bad enough, but not knowing how, when, or if it will ever end, is even worse. However, this book takes the reader through this journey of life, and furnishes them with hope to accept the things of life that canno...

Dancing in the Flames: Lesbian Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Saralle Ramson (Author)Saralle Ramson is a poet, writer, and author of The Erotic Percipient Mind. Her works are a collection of "Lesbian themed poetry." She was born in Manati, Puerto Rico, USA, and is a retired federal law enforcement officer from the Department of Homeland Security. She was also a contributing opinion writer for the San Diego Tribune. Saralle Ramson's poetic verse features themes of love and lust... moments of sensual thoughts the mind can't...

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Report copyright infringementby Janette B. Pratt (Author)This is a book of poems inspired by real life experiences and world travels. Jan Pratt writes poetry that makes you feel like you are there. This is an excellent book for daily reading or a traveling companion. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2020

Arts-Based Research Methods in Writing Studies: A Primer

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Hanzalik (Author)As the arts become an increasingly popular pedagogical tool in writing studies, Arts-Based Research Methods in Writing Studies offers scholars and educators in the field ways to leverage the arts for their own scholarship through the practice of arts-based research (ABR). Tailored to the needs of writing studies scholars, this concise guide presents ways of exploring and addressing unresolved research questions from the past as well as new...

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Report copyright infringementby Theo Wilkerson (Author)He's back with his second collection of poetry. Written in an intriguing format. Have you ever wanted to see the contents of a diary under lock and key well he has torn his pages out and given them to you. These poems are therapy. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 29, 2020

New Horizons in Life, Art & Poetry: Imagination and Innovation a Personal Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby William Clark (Author)This book is an expression of the author's appreciation and passion for the arts, including personal experience in drawing, painting, poetry and prose with observations on the human condition in contemporary society. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.51 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: September 20, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby R. Scott Yarbrough (Author)R. Scott Yarbrough has combined his talents as poet and as painter to produce a truly unusual book of art and poetry. The poems are lyric in that they deal with personal emotional experiences and conditions and do so with masterfully blended images and sounds. The paintings comment upon the poems in surprising ways using images, lines, and colors created with an unusual artistic medium: fingernail polish. In a charming introduction, Y...

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Report copyright infringementby Don Barkin (Author)Philip Levine has written that Don Barkin's work shows "wonderful skill." The Rail Stop at Wassaic bears out that assessment. Like the poet's previous book, Houses, it is "both domestic and fierce, accessible and resonant, including many poems that have the audacity to follow traditional patterns of rhyme and meter." Barkin's earlier volume, That Dark Lake, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, presented under the aegis of the Librar...

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Report copyright infringementby Chase Dimock (Author)"Wide ranging, thoughtful, intelligent, at times elegiac, surreal, and humorous, Chase Dimock's Sentinel Species is a collection of poems that, as its title suggests, watches over the varied life forms on our planet, from animals and plants to humans. At the heart of Dimock's project is compassion towards all beings, especially those on the fringes of society and culture. In excavating the stories of the under-represented or the forgotten, ...

An Essay on Man, The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Pope (Author)Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English heroic couplet makes him one of the most famous and respected poets of all time. Pope embodied eighteenth-century neoclassical ideals like order, beauty, sophisticated wit, and refined moral sentiment. Included in this collection is "The Rape of The Lock", a satirical poem that mocks ancient epic...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Perril (Author)The Slip is the final volume of Perril's trilogy excavating the crime scene at the centre of archaic lyric. We can't know whether ancient Greece's first lyric poet Archilochus 'really' used his Iambic prowess to curse Lycambes' family to its grave for a broken marriage oath. But neither can we doubt that his poetic legacy, in Antiquity and beyond, was a by-word for judgements over the acceptability, or otherwise, of indulgence in poetic har...

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Report copyright infringementby Kristin Rose Jutras (Author)In this luminous first collection, Kristin Rose Jutras presents a heart-breaking and at times funny interpretation of human existence in poems with a wholly unique voice. She uses Robert Lowell's Life Studies as a blueprint for the architecture of this book and intersperses poetry and prose throughout while dealing with questions of family mythology. Rose Jutras explores identity, birth, aging, death, and addiction against a back dro...

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Kent (Editor)Anthology of the best releases from Broken Sleep Books 2020. This includes work from every author published in 2020 by Broken Sleep Books, and forms a beautiful collection of poetry and non-fiction. Each year will see an anthology produced by Broken Sleep Books, to demonstrate the quality of work of those published by the press. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.51 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Boswell (Author)The poems in Heart on a String feature acute observations and tender reflections. They explore the mysteries of love and the end of love, of life and mortality. With clear language and vivid images, Tom Boswell takes the reader on a poetic journey not soon to be forgotten. Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 02, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby DeWitt Clinton (Author)In By a Lake Near a Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters, a collection of 114 poems-variations based on Kenneth Rexroth's translation, 100 Poems from the Chinese (New Directions, 1971)-poet DeWitt Clinton places the poems in a contemporary landscape of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with lyrical scenes of the changes of seasons, the Lake Michigan beach front, bridges across the Milwaukee rivers, and roads and highways of the nearby countryside. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Hadeel Rashed (Author)The Great Book of Poems is a collection of poetry all written by Hadeel Rashed for children. The Great Book of Poetry contains a range of poems from rhyming, pyramid poems, haikus and much more!There are colorful interactive pictures and large clear font in order for the reader to easily read.The Great Book of Poems is a great book for children and they are guaranteed to fall in love with the magic of poetry!For children learning poetry at...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Wilson (Author)"Compelling, urgent, lean, Erin Wilson's poems read as though Emily Dickinson's secret love child ran off to Canada and mated with a wolf." - Roger Mitchell, The Hamilton Stone Raw, tender, always unsparing, Wilson gives us a woman growing even as her children grow, revealing to her more of the world, dissipating the violence of the self. Total easement is not granted-just, perhaps, a gentler reckoning with existence. "This is one of the mos...

An Actual Person in a Concrete Historical Situation

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Report copyright infringementby Blake Middleton (Author)A radically open and unrestrained text, an actual person in a concrete historical situation is a fragmented and meandering poem that captures what it feels like to be one person in a vast, overwhelming, crisis-ridden world. Generative rather than directive, the poem magnifies the small, overlooked moments in life; explores flickering thoughts, impressions, impulses; and wallows joyfully in unending confusion.Author BiographyBlake Middlet...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Flug Colin (Author)Barbara Flug Colin has published poems, essays and interviews in art, literary and teaching magazines and anthologies such as Art Now, Arts Magazine, New York Art Journal, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, New Observations, Frigate, Third Mind, Making a Difference, Cerise Press, Evergreen Review, DIAGRAM. Essays received: Teachers and Writers' 2012 Bechtel Prize; Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2013; finalist in 2014 Diagram/New Michigan Essay...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Malone (Author)The poems in Working Hypothesis celebrate curiosity. They revel in the discoveries of Natural Science as well as the hoaxes and scientific jokes that litter our history of knowing. These are the product of Charles Malone's rural upbringing and connection to the natural world, his family's passed-down bookishness, and his mother's work as a chemist. Poems like "Beneficial Insects" and "Papilio Ecclipses" look to the intersections of these ...

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Frenkel (Author) Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 23, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Angela Griner (Author) Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 22, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby S. J. Stephens (Author)In poems as vivid as they are precise, S.J. Stephens reckons boldly with the difficult world and-in equal measure-with what is difficult in herself. Again and again she trains on self and other (and trees and birds and bees and weeds) a loving attention no less exacting for its affection. This work is feminist in its insistence on telling the truth from an embodied female perspective, even when the truth is that she has internalized a "sh...

Artemas and Ark: The Ridge and Valley Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Jerry Wemple (Author)Described as "gothic landscape writing," this series of poems tells the tale of two generations who suffer losses yet strive to maintain in their world as best they can despite dwindling odds. The collection is set against the backdrop of a small town along a river in the Ridge and Valley portion of Pennsylvania, a landscape that, due to the peculiarities of its geography, can isolate a town and its people. The collection also situates it c...

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