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Report copyright infringementby Erika D. Walker (Author)Caught in the Light is an arresting and eloquent poetry collection that evokes the poet's experience during and after her father's dying and death. At the same time, it pays homage to the land she inhabits with the rest of us, "a place where dark means dark," where, after her father's death, eagles still "wheel across flat gray sky, as if nothing/had ever changed." What she reveres-people she loves, land that is continually altered by hu...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Apple (Author)A lovely chapbook, full of wise, startling, and tender moments. -Tania Runyan, author of What Will Soon Take Place and Simple Weight.Ryan Apple opens our eyes and ears. He enables us to hear the rhythm of a backyard trampoline as the source of "the tempo and time to all the songs of night;" and the "buzzing rasp" of his metal-keyed African mbira as echoing in its "ancient resonance, the tones from which all music was born." Such lyricism serv...

Sad Little Poems from a Sad Little Heart

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Perez (Author) Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Rona Frye (Author)After reading Rona's stories about life on the road, you will come away from this book a changed person. Her stories will stretch your mind and heart, and make you realize what can happen when you leave no stone unturned on the road of life. Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Lautigar (Author)Somebody's Hero is a story about everyday heroes. This story helps families and educators to have conversations, with their children, about random acts of kindness, and how they make the people feel giving or receiving those efforts. These people are heroes in the eyes of those receiving the smallest act of kindness.Author BiographyMelissa Lautigar, who has been teaching at the elementary level for twenty-five years and has a Master's D...

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Report copyright infringementby Kristina Mahr (Author)Don't write me off yet; beneaththese dead & dying leaves issomething that still knows howto bloom.Heretic Hearts is more of what you've come to expect from Kristina Mahr: an intimate look at love, heartbreak, joy, and grief, explored with a relatability that will make your heart feel heard. You are never alone in any single thing you have felt. And it will get better. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.52 x 7....

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Report copyright infringementby Ashok Kaushik (Author)Plausibly the greatest Sanskrit maestro Mahakavi Kalidas wrote Abhigyan Shakuntalam nearly 2500 years ago. This immortal love story is also the bedrock foundation of India's rich socio-cultural edifice. The story has been described in the form of a play. The dialogues are full of romance thrill and zest for life. Two young persons-Dushyant and Shakuntala -fall in love with each other in the lap of nature. Then comes separation. Finally the...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Turner (Illustrator), Stevie Saldivar (Author)Walk with me under the cold November evening sky dripping with bursts of winter's orange. Here, gold-dusted light pours into the muddiest parts illuminating what once was, what is, and what will forever be. My love letters. Writing HUES: Orange made me bask in my freedom. Revisiting long-ago lessons and close calls, learning to love again, learning to love myself, and welcoming God's love for what it is- perfe...

Haikus for New York City: Seventeen Syllables for Nine Million People

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Report copyright infringementby Peter C. Goldmark Jr (Author), Sandra Goldmark (Illustrator)There are infinite stories about New York City, here are 41 in haiku form. In this love letter to his favorite city, lifelong New Yorker Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. has crafted a collection of haiku that are simultaneously nostalgic and perceptive. Touching on everything from the city's beloved landmarks to the rising costs of living and the famous lie, "There is a train directly behind this one," the poems...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindsay Lerman (Editor), Leza Cantoral (Editor)Between these covers you will find haunting unconventional narratives that push the boundaries of genre & form in poetry, fiction & essays. This is our first transmission. Welcome to Black Telephone Magazine.Author BiographyLindsay Lerman is a writer and translator. She is the author of I'm From Nowhere. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She lives in the US. Lez...

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Report copyright infringementby Ariel Resnikoff (Author)Unnatural Bird Migrator stitches together disparate filaments of diasporic language as a living quilt of translational refuse, a patchwork-art gleaned and assembled from the pieces of writing and speech we are quite literally taught to forget. 'UNBM' traverses the semi-permeable borders between doubling and tripling mother tongues in exile, looping these languages through one another and back again in the form of a highly adaptive poetic...

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author)Paradise Lost concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man. The epic poem follows two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell. The narrative follows the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. After losing the total freedom and power to rule over all creation, Archangel Michael give...

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Report copyright infringementby Louisa Muniz (Author)Louisa Muniz's debut collection is a testament to the power of healing and reclamation that follow personal family loss & longing. With her artistry of words and beautiful images she pulls us into magical, surreal & sometimes strange landscapes that powerfully transfix and transform us. Among this selection of poems is Stone Turned Sand, the 2019 Spring Contest Winner for the Sheila-Na-Gig Journal along with the poem, Last Time I Bu...

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Report copyright infringementby Candice Wuehle (Author)Fidelitoria: Fixed or Fluxed navigates interior landscapes, personal cosmology, and the manner in which language shapes our being and being shapes our language via acts of séance, tarot, alchemical interpretation, and psychoanalysis. These are poems written in the wild swing of the scrying stone, poems that ask how to create an identity in the way of perpetual change, constant self-interrogation, and ever shifting psychogeography. What do...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Temple (Author)Daughters of Bone explores the landscapes and people of the South. Drawing on personal and collective history, these poems explore the relationships between place, people, history, culture, and language. At the center are family and relationships, especially between women of different generations, grief and loss, and travel and return. This collection questions the meaning of "home" and mythologizes Temple's own history as she searches fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Vignali (Author)House of the Silverfish explores the reckoning of inevitable loss on both a personal and global scale, from learning to loosen our hold on children as they grow older to coming to terms with our annihilation of vast swathes of species. The story of an unraveling marriage is interspersed with poems questioning ownership of all kinds-of place, of people, and of time itself. Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.31 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas May (Author), Emma Buckley (Editor), Edward Paleit (Editor)Lauded after his death as 'champion of the English Commonwealth', but also derided as a 'most servile wit, and mercenary pen', the poet, dramatist and historian Thomas May (c.1595-1650) produced the first full translation into English of Lucan's Bellum Ciuile shortly before a ruinous civil war engulfed his own country. Lucan, whose epic had lamented the Roman Republic's doomed struggle to preserv...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Hazo (Author)A new collection of poems by Samuel Hazo; the majority of which are published here for the first time. The New York Times Book Review wrote of Hazo as having "a gift for phrase-making and for incisive moral judgments," and Richard Wilbur, the Pulitzer prize-winning poet, said "each of Hazo's poems is a spare sparkling flow of good talk . . . one relishes his jauntiness, his ever-varied grammatical attack and the witty surplus of his phrasing...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Day-Joel (Author)New Beginnings is a collection of poetry and verses, describing nature, new relationships and a move to Spain. The poems describe how people meet and how relationships grow; how love between two people works. It also discusses how life decisions are made - whether they're the right ones or the wrong ones. The verses discuss 'love at first sight' or at least how people can feel comfortable in each other's company from a very early stage...

Moonlight and Quicksand: A Book of Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Trebbin (Author)Moonlight and Quicksand is a collection of poems all written by the author and all designed to be evocative to the heart and stimulating to the mind. The poems range from cheerful to dark (hence the book's name). They vary in their style in the hopes that each will be seen as the fresh piece of work that they are. It is the author's hope that this book will bring to its readership the intellectual and spiritual beauty that poetry can conve...

Thoughts of a Daydreamer: A Simple Book of Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Mark A. Klein (Author)Written over a span of 25 years. This book is a collection of deep thoughts, prayers, personal emotions or in some cases the result of a good imagination. You will experience the writers faith in God. Searching for love and eventually finding it. Deep thoughts of everyday life, real people and real experiences. Some happy and some not. Personal family writings that helped the writer express or capture feelings that were not alway that easy...

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Casimir (Author)After experiencing a traumatic childhood and the trails and tribulations in foster care, Cindy found her love for writing. It was the one place where she learned she wouldn't be criticized for her thoughts and that's when her passion for writing blossomed. She created a judge-free space where she can vent about her experiences without feeling like a victim. 4 AM is around the time most of these poems were written. You'll find that 4 AM is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne H. Swanger (Author)The first thing you should know about Wayne is that he's a gardener, a grower, raised in a community of farmers and laborers. He lives close to the land, as so many of these poems attest. He gives us the landscapes of central and northwestern Pennsylvania--barns, runs, forest floor-and in them uncovers quiet moments of insight and humor. Insight and humor mark his poems of the spirit as well. Non-doctrinaire, they instead invite us into...

Dante's New Life of the Book: A Philology of World Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Eisner (Author)Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294. How could one work have generated such different physical forms? Through examining the work's transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations, Eisner reconceives of the relationship between the work and its reception. Dante's New Life of the Book investigates how these different material manifestations partici...

Walk on Air: Haiku over the Hudson - Poems for Mindfulness

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Report copyright infringementby Deirdre Cornell (Author)In Walk on Air, Deirdre Cornell gracefully uses the haiku as a form of meditation as she ruminates on middle age, marriage, and her lifelong love-the Hudson River. Her haiku artfully echo her footsteps as they mirror the beauty of nature and sound. -Caledonia Kearns, author of A Daughter's Work is Heartless by NatureDeirdre Cornell astonishes in these haiku that reveal the beauty and paradoxes of the magnificent Hudson River Valley. She ...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Krupa (Author)"In Heirloom, Megan Krupa strums the hidden tendons that connect a body to its geography. Here, the smokestacks of Appalachia are inseparable from the corpses in the ground. Here, the trees are as silent as the people left to tend them. Simultaneously lush and limber, Megan's poems concoct one of the most merciful, striking depictions of rural loss in poetry today." -Jerrod Schwarz, author of No Name Atkins Number of Pages: 36 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Waldman (Author), Pamela Lawton (Artist)obey Leander's advice?dictates of divinity?drops of lustral water in the sacrificial bowl?bondage ancient in wrathfatal vessel or netleave your ancestral seato my general& may commands be quick to get your release Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: November 25, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Terri McCord (Author)Through this tilted tumbler / glass, in a restaurant, / I view the moon, / see-through and magnified. These lines that open Terri McCord's poem "Through and Through" suggest her penchant for looking at the world from whatever quirky angle she can extemporize. How lucky we are that in this collection she shares with us her brilliant discoveries. Among her many skills, McCord is a master of startling transitions and stunning metaphors. These ...

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Report copyright infringementby Beth Oast Williams (Author)Beth Oast Williams's debut chapbook, Riding Horses in the Harbor, explores the intersection of the human experience with our natural landscape. Raised on the Elizabeth River, Williams paints the waterways of Southeastern Virginia as a rich backdrop for both memory poems and for ones that look to the future. Here, floods and storms pair with parental loss and the realization that human beings have such little control over nature's for...

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Report copyright infringementby Karen S. Henry (Author)All Will Fall Away opens with a young musician's first glorious and desperate experience of New Orleans, where he tastes "what no one said would be good for you/ the sharp burn of that shot on Bourbon Street" and where his "own songs spill out" in the "city of floods." Blues as an explicit theme returns in "Galveston Blues," recalling the storm "that shattered the island to splinters," the island that knows how to sing the blues, "Wanting...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Lilley (Author)Mark Lilley's Lucky Boy is filled with hints of unsettledness: bus tickets, a storm front, a rootless father, any number of nervously-smoked cigarettes. In cars, vans, pickups, and big rigs, characters seem almost continually on the move. What remains in place, however, is the poet-his unwavering allegiance to memory and attention, as if the poems are a response to Lowell's question "Yet why not say what happened?" In a plain style that is d...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Marie Casey (Author)In You Kept Your Secrets about her grandson's suicide at age 18, poet Helen Marie Casey writes, "I am afraid to look, afraid there will be nothing everywhere." But she does look-with love, grief, and beauty-at the measure of his height still on the wall, at the tree where he hanged himself, at the hawk she hopes her grandson has become. "Sometimes that is everything there is." It's a sad and lovely book. -Penelope Scambly Schott, Orego...