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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Royall (Author)This collection is primarily a celebration of all things floral, yet is much more than that, being also a hymn to life, for the poems are written from unusual and sometimes challenging perspectives. The poems in the 1st section, 'Flower Power /People Power', directly connect to flowers and plants either by extolling their virtues or by connecting flowers to people in an alternative way. The second section 'Roses and Thorns' gives an in-d...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Slessor (Author)Originally published in 1933, an Austral classic!"As In Darlinghurst Nights, it is possible to see in these poems the darker side of the Depression... where the verse shines is in the enjoyment of living... It is a world of externals: clothing motor cars, yachts, aeroplanes, the tatty and the fashionable, not the world of metaphysics and unobtainable beauty... Romance in 1930 was a way out of the spiritual depressions of the Slump, a che...

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Report copyright infringementby Elena Gomez (Author)How much time and energy does it take to fall in love? Or rinse mottled wings? Does Alexandra Kollontai represent a spectre of utopian promises, or merely a blank space for fantasies of desire and revolution? This series of poems takes us through nineties socialist science fiction, family abolition, mulberry lipstick, shirts, cardigans, maxi dresses, hyenas, quitting work and spells cast with yeast extract. It is poetry for girls, poetry for...

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Report copyright infringementby Mitchell Ryan Murtoff (Author)This book is a series of poems with illustrations about meeting the right person, while one poem is about myself. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: October 23, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Greening (Author), Louis Hoffman (Introduction by)Death is a pervasive reality that impacts the life of every living person, often leading to denial, avoidance, and attempts to overcome it. In the end, we all must face death, as Dr. Tom Greening does in his new book of poems, Into the Void. This powerful collection of poems written by the eminent existential psychologist, Dr. Tom Greening. With his usual wit, humor, and honesty, Greening birthed these poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Dwight D. Lammon (Author)Here is a collection of poems that are easy: easy to understand, easy to laugh and cry with, easy to enjoy. At the age of sixty-four, the author offers some of his poems written over the last forty-four years. Never before published, they span his youth, marriage, fatherhood, career as a nurse, and caring for his aging parents. Without reservation, he opens his life, and serves it on a paper plate. His failures and successes, faith and ...

Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole: preverbs

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Report copyright infringementby George Quasha (Author)Preverbs are not so much assertions as events. Read on the page or, better yet, spoken, each of Quasha's lines is an occasion for becoming aware of meaning in the making. Releasing words from semantic routine, reinventing syntax on the fly, the preverbs provide us with endless opportunities to entangle ourselves in ambiguity and seeming contradiction. As they bring us to the verge of unintelligibility, entanglement becomes an embrace and w...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Friedland (Author)An ordinary neighborhood on the edge of the city comes to life in Karen Friedland's Tales from the Teacup Palace-its dogs, trees, houses, spouses, and people, living and gone. With humor and insight, Friedland mines the nuances of her particular terroir as well as her own memories, all while striving to follow Forster's dictum, "only connect."This is a collection of vivid, contemplative poems that were expressly written to be enjoyed. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Vorreyer (Author)Sometimes with softness, sometimes with teeth, this book of poems will startle you with glimpses into the life of someone who has been smothered with emptiness after loss. Donna Vorreyer's To Everything There Is unplugs every gaping hole inside the body to confront the inner turmoils, aches of desire, and tangles of sin simmering inside. While struggling through faith and journeying into a fantastical world to deal with grief, these poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren J. Ball (Author)A collection of poems, reminding the readers of the pain, suffering and even death of our men and women, who were and are willing to give their lives for the principles and love for this great Country called AMERICA. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 21, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Woodson (Author)The FACE of Expression 2: In Your Face is highly-anticipated sequel of the original release. The Face of Expression. This latest installment is a collection of diverse and eclectic poetry that captivates minds and hearts alike. This book takes you on a deep journey through the author's personal testimony and passionate spoke word. Expression continues to be a trending theme throughout the book. Readers will be introduced to endearing and p...

Moments from the Side Yard: Painted Poetry and Prompted Journal

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Report copyright infringementby Angela Bell Julien (Author)Moments of inspired visions, hard work, and being with gentle souls, mold us by giving us energy to move and change. In physics, a "moment" is defined as the effect of a force that causes an object to turn around a chosen pivot point. This perfectly describes the ideas expressed in Moments from the Side Yard. Life is about the effects of forces that help us see the world from multiple points of view -- moments that bring us joy and mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Nirander Safaya Ph. D. (Author)In this collection of 200 poems, written after retirement from a brilliant scientific career, author Nirander Safaya takes us on a panoramic journey of self-discovery. Collectively, these poems focus on: what it means to be Human. Attachment to life, desire to love and be loved, thirst for knowing, and consciousness are the hall marks of human nature. Dr. Safaya's poetry portrays the beauty and the challenges of these human gifts ...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol Seitchik (Author)With precise language, and evocative images, Carol Seitchik's poems invite the reader on a journey both familiar and intensely personal. The Distance from Odessa recounts one generation's insistence on telling stories that move only forward, to the next generation's insistence on free love and rebellion, to subsequent generations' migration to a land of pomegranates and olives, a land where "so much strife wants to be ordinary." Seitchik'...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynne Schmidt (Author)Gravity is a collection of poems that explores the rise and fall of an intense relationship. The kind where the other person is the Gravity keeping you anchored to the planet and you worry that without them, you may float off into space. And then it is finding the strength to realize the relationship is not what you want, after all. It is several years, several breakups, several attempts to turn yourself inside out only to find maybe this ...

Hypatia at the Museum: Winner of the 2019 New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby M. G. Leibowitz (Author)"Against the horrors of history, these poems seek to give urgent voice to the women so often erased from the record. In Leibowitz's imagination, time periods collapse; the Annunciation or the trial of Artemisia Gentileschi have all the freshness and verve of today. 'Teach me what to do with these pink obligations, ' she asks in a poem. In the truest sense of ecphrasis, Leibowitz speaks out of these pictures to the fragility and endurance...

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Report copyright infringementby Karol Nielsen (Author)Karol Nielsen's new book sees the poet masterfully engaging with the question of how to define and communicate one's place in a complex world, speaking volumes about the society she inhabits. Nielsen, who is also an acclaimed author of two memoirs, paints vivid scenes that are as easy to visualize as they are suggestive and multilayered, at once real and metaphorical. Full of soul-searching, heartbreak, and the triumph of insight, this mov...

The Colour Yellow & The Number 19: Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Aisling Richmond (Introduction by), Kevin Higgins (Author)In a mix of poetry and prose, "The Colour Yellow & The Number 19: Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020", Kevin Higgins takes a darkly humorous approach to finding himself designated one of the "vulnerable" during the year in which plague again stalked the Earth. He also, as is his way, finds time to drop acerbic comment on the heads of the ungood and the ungreat,...

Modern Portuguese Poetry: Essays, Poems and Translations

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Report copyright infringementby Paulo De Medeiros (Editor), Rosa Maria Martelo (Editor)IntroductionRosa Maria Martelo and Paulo de MedeirosEssaysOf Literature as a Composition of the Disparate and its Political ImplicationsSilvina Rodrigues LopesSome Portuguese Poetry from the Past Fifty Years: A Reading through ImagesRosa Maria MarteloThe Chant of Image: Fiama and IndifferenceJoana Matos FriasA Selfless Proliferating LanguageManuel PortelaBlood Evocations: Subversion, Resistance, and Afterim...

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Report copyright infringementby Wafa Jehad Yunis (Illustrator), Nada Jehad Yunis (Author)Echoed Emotions is a soul rejuvenating collection of poetry, poetic prose and quotes by Nada Jehad Yunis. Her words focus on the soul upliftment of every individual who fails to appreciate their inner beauty and nurture their inner child. The broken souls who seem to have lost faith in life and take on the shadows of darkness as their only companion will find a new window to embrace lost love and love lif...

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Report copyright infringementby Autumn Richardson (Editor), Richard Skelton (Editor)Reliquiae is a literary journal of poetry, prose and translations. It interleaves ecologically aware writing from the past and present, ranging from the ethnological to the philosophical, the lyrical to the visionary. It is published biannually in May and November.Vol 8 No 2 features new work from the following: Peter Mark Adams, Jean Atkin, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Dan Beachy-Quick, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Brittany...

A Willing Victim: And other Poems of the Macabre

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas A. Montelongo (Author)This is a collection of horror themed poetry delves into the subjects of hauntings, vampires, monsters, and more. The collection also celebrates the careers of horror idols including Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Janet Leigh, and a handful of contributors to Weird Tales magazine. Join us on a tour of terror filled verse and enjoy A Willing Victim! "Nicholas Montelongo's A Willing Victim is a dark and seminal collection for those who...

Digital Sunset Digital Sunrise: a vaporwave love story

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Report copyright infringementby Kaixxa Bautista (Author)we're trapped in a computer in 1998. clippy the friendly microsoft office assistant might not be so friendly.will we drown in the digital ocean? read to find out.a post-post-modern tale of adventure and heartbreak. a collection of vaporwave poems and prose. a debut. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.33 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 18, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Laudati (Author)Camp Winapooka is the third book of poetry by Scott Laudati. Topics include New York City, love, wildlife, politics, dogs, history, 9/11, Occupy Wall Street, punk rock, nihilism and hope. Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.29 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Alvin Pang (Author)When the Barbarians Arrive comprises poems from three published collections - Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003) and What Gives Us Our Names (2011) - together with a body of new and uncollected poems by one of Singapore's most exciting and visible poets of the post-1965 generation.Ranging from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing and audacious medleys, here are poems wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive, gen...

Press On!: Awareness to Overcome All, While Healing Debts of the Heart, Mind, & Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Ceecee Robinson (Author)If you are looking for better ways to overcome inner conflict, renew your perception of reality, and find better ways of living, you are not alone. In Press On! author CeeCee Robinson shares a powerful memoir full of raw, intimate truth and deep reflection, interspersed with poetic twists of expression. She offers a testimony to the journey she took in overcoming her own inner conflicts, the result of traumatic life experiences. Though s...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Aaron Moore (Author)The poems in this book touch on a whole universe of diverse elements, expressing everything from the horror and haunting thoughts of the author's mind to the gracious hope of God in life. Some have an echo of politicized feelings, some a trace of judgment and wrath. Each poem is a look at humanity and the modern world as if seen as an artist's painting, provoking its own interpretation and emotions in the reader. Num...

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Report copyright infringementby Kari Gunter-Seymour (Editor)The Women of Appalachia Project(TM) was created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, to embrace the stereotype, to show the whole woman; beyond the superficial factors that people use to judge her.Despite the educational and economic inequalities in Appalachia, despite the lack of adequate ...

Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations: Poems by Kopano Maroga

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Report copyright infringementby Kopano Maroga (Author)In a provocative yet unexpectedly tender debut, Kopano Maroga immerses themself in Christian myth and mystery, emerging reborn. In a riotous, innovative and unapologetic display of self-exposure, self-examination and self-love, Maroga appropriates and creates a (sometimes literal) collage of religious imagery, sexual want, and embodiedness - eventually widening their gaze to encompass the realities faced by black, queer, femme and trans fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Levi Lyle (Author)In this book of poetry, Levi embraces those questions witha whirlwind of visions. He takes us from the ice age to thefuture, to cultures around the world and back in time; fromstunning beauty to moments of horror; from purple coneflowersto stop signs; from the eternal change of seasons to thework of wasps and bees. He recognizes the challenges, but hiswords bend towards hope. There is peace, for him, in the roadto resilience - the clover, the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicashiuna Jones (Author)This is a book of poems that; Empower, Motivate, Encourage and inspire healthyself worth, and helps individuals develop a healthy sense of self care.This is a book of poems that; Empower, Motivate, Encourage and inspire healthyself worth, and helps individuals develop a healthy sense of self care. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 06, 2020