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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Turner (Author)An interdisciplinary scholar, devotee of the classics, and leading practitioner of Expansive Poetry, Frederick Turner asks in the introduction to Hadean Eclogues, "Suppose there could be a poetry, even a scientific description of reality, that left undamaged the principles, the honor, the history and myth, the ritual, the intellectual criteria of believers and unbelievers--as long as they were people of depth and thought and imaginatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Hofmann (Author)Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this volume offers readings of four poems in German, French, Italian, and English, by Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie. All four poems are on the subject of boats: 'Emigrant Ship', the 'Bateau Ivre', 'Boats on the Mar...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Sun (Author)A Bit of Our World is a poetry book consisting of three sections: "nature", "life and feelings", and "fantasy and thoughts." Through a poetic weaving of words, it gives a unique take on the roller-coaster of emotions and events that course through our hearts, as well as the flip side of the natural beauty our Earth possesses. In this book, the magic of life through this world we walk and breathe in is put into patterns of every-day thought and...

A Flint Incentive: Selected Poems & Texts (2015-2020)

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Skelton (Author)'Are these the bone communities?'A Flint Incentive collects the majority of Richard Skelton's writing since 2015-over one hundred and forty texts from numerous small press pamphlets, poem cards, books and editions. Works include Ferae Naturae (2015), The Not Fire (2015), On Ruin (2018), Chemical Memories (2019), Moraine (2020) and Notes on the Landscape, II (2020).A significant portion of the book comprises an overview of The Cult Revive...

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Report copyright infringementby Eugene Field (Author)Step into a world where dreams tiptoe softly and moonbeams dance with laughter. In Wink A Way Land by Eugene Field is a timeless childrens poetry collection that invites young readers-and those who read to them-on a gentle journey through whimsical animal poems, lullabies, and the enchanting realms of dreamland fantasy verse. Each illustrated poem shimmers with the magic of Victorian era childrens literature, offering a comforting escape at...

Poetry For Kids: YAY IT'S POETRY TIME! 50 Fun Poems That Kids Will Love (First Grade Reading and Kindergarten Reading)

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Report copyright infringementby Aspen Pierce (Author)DISCOVER 50 FUN AND EDUCATIONAL POEMS THAT YOUR KIDS WILL ABSOLUTELY FALL IN LOVE WITHGet Your Kids Excited About Reading And Help Them Learn About Feelings, School, and Family With These Insightful and Enlightening Poems.In This Fun Poetry Book Your Kids Will Learn: Poems About Good Feelings What It Means To Be Happy, Excited, Calm, Surprised Poems About The Playground What It Means To Have Friends, How To Make New Friends, Talk Time, Say...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Weltner (Author)Scrapbook Mappings of My Country is a book of poems composed of many voices in many places, like snapshots saved in a scrapbook. It begins in the South, moves to the Northeast and New England, shifts to Texas and the Middle West, and then travels to the Pacific Coast. It concludes with another sort of pilgrimage, with its intimations of journeys' end. Throughout, it is concerned with one theme most of all, the intersection of place, time, ...

Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Pilgrim (Author)Seduced by metaphor is a collection of the published work of Montana native and Pacific Northwest poet Timothy Pilgrim. It includes his first poem published in 1959, one of over 400 poems accepted by over 100 American and international periodicals and books through 2020.Published by Cairn Shadow Press, the tight, vivid poems in this book are powered by seductive, current, authentic life metaphors lithe upon the page.Throughout its 432 pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Hayden Dansky (Author)Courage and craft. Hayden Dansky's words are a gift to language itself. They make the unspeakable spoken and practice such care and candor in their work. "I Would Tell You a Secret" is not merely a book of secrets told but rather a lesson in revelation. Dansky's work bridges the gap between truth and language, past and future, candor and care. -Blake MarcelleThis book is no longer about self betrayal or family protection. It's not even abo...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Truax (Author)I'm a writer and a musician. "If I Die, Here's What I Meant" is my first collection. My most vulnerable and personal secrets are meticulously documented. I poured my entire heart and soul into these words.♥I discuss the ongoing struggle of losing my Father to suicide, the loss of my Mom to Cancer, my challenges as a former drug addict, and the economical mistakes I made as a result of dropping out of high school to pursue a hasty lifestyle. I...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Madsen (Author)In this work, the Heartland is not an inert pastoral surface. It's a worn-out VHS tape you find under the bed. It's the scratching sound of a rat in the wall. Somewhere between C.D. Wright and James Agee, this book wields the tools of documentary and reduces them to their barest elements with a clarity both beautiful and terrifying. Her Iowa is filled with spider sacs, cataracts, pornographic theaters, bottomless mystery, cruel bosses who p...

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Gager (Author)"'Tell me where to go, '" one poem plaintively asks, in this collection written in the midst of a pandemic. Timothy Gager manages to capture the chaos, the confusion, the despair, and the existential strangeness of those (of these) days. By the time this book reaches you, I pray we will be on the other side. If not, then these poems will bring you comfort. If so, then these poems will be a document from a time that will not be believed." ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Hughey (Author)Composed entirely of words taken from the letters and public statements of the notorious segregationist Bull Connor, the poems in White Bull use language that was wielded in violence and oppression to reckon with the present moment. The city of Birmingham is a character too, with its suffocating heat and humidity, quarry pools, and mountain in the distance. Here, the truth comes out, like a child whispering in the midst of a political r...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Ascalon Roley (Author)From the diagnosis of a son's mitochondrial disease to the physical and emotional challenges of caregiving, Pilipino-American poet Brian Ascalon Roley taps into the personal experience of parenting a wheelchair user son and combines it with Philippine horror mythology to create harrowing narratives of a family set in California. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, award-winning author and publisher says, "Ambuscade by Brian Ascalon Roley tra...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Vieweg (Author)Remember Polaroid photographs? Moments of time captured in a single picture, developed in minutes, as long as you don't shake the picture too hard and too fast. Many times in the past several years, Emily Vieweg's poems have earned comments like, "a photograph in words," and "a polaroid on the page." Frequently encouraging embracing the art in the everyday, Vieweg's but the flames explores the beauty of the mundane, the extraordinary of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Roberts Young (Author)England, Paris, Greece, Rome . . Evacuation from Egypt was the pivot point of a two-year adventure in childhood that shaped the person the author became.The poems in Transported describe and reflect on her experience. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 22, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Spencer Spragins (Author)With this collection of poems, Elizabeth Spencer Spragins explores the mystical and musical allure of flowing water in landscapes across the country and beyond with the intention of deepening connections between nature and spirit. As the tempo increases from adagio to andante to allegro, the diverse faces of water draw the heart into a captivating dance, a joyous celebration of reflective moments. Number of Pages:...

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Report copyright infringementby Holly Day (Author)This collection by award-winning poet Holly Day is about change and the unrelenting passage of time, and how no matter how hard you try, there is just no way to stop it. For Day, writing has been a way to try to briefly stop time, to capture as much of what's going on around her and what's happening to her as possible. This collection of eighty poems is a book of snapshots, literary images of things the poet doesn't want to forget, such as "Ho...

In My Boots and Through My Eyes: A Year of Combat in Vietnam

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Report copyright infringementby John C. Berkhoudt (Author)Author John C. Berkhoudt spent one year in combat as a first lieutenant infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. In My Boots and Through My Eyes is a collection of poetry, short stories, and ponderings during enlistment, training, combat, and home. This insightful work portrays a raw view of life in the jungles of Vietnam during the war. From the horrors to the small moments of joy, Berkhoudt's journey is expressed with passion and reflecti...

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Report copyright infringementby Callie Howell (Author)The book follows the author's journey through life as she transformed the emotions of loneliness, abuse, love, hurt, and healing into poetry. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis Daugherty (Author)For Those Times I Never Told You: Sculpture is a collection of poems as vivid as an album of photographs. Under Dennis Daugherty's deft hand, these poems are not inaccessible wanderings through philosophy; instead, they express emotions experienced every day, by everyone, everywhere. They take Daugherty's personal experiences, from his coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s to today, and write them in a way that resonates with everyone at...

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Report copyright infringementby E. J. Hardy (Author)Having been medically released from the Canadian Armed Forces after 33 years of service, I found myself dealing with the realities of no longer being able to work, a continually deteriorating state of health, and a significant amount of time on my hands. These poems were an outlet for my pent-up emotions. Importantly, these poems were written while in a deep depression and with heavy substance us/abuse. They are raw, abstract at times, mostl...

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Report copyright infringementby Cori Bratby-Rudd (Author)These compelling, proudly youthful poems directly and indirectly ask some of the basic, urgent questions of our moment: how to dwell for real with the damaged and gorgeous Earth; how to be with each other in our toxic Now; how to live and love as contaminated beings, with no truly reasonable expectation of an enduring future for our troubled civilization. -Anthony McCann, author of Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014), I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Boo...

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Report copyright infringementby James Miller Robinson (Author)In The Empty Chair, James Miller Robinson writes a poetry of character and of place, and, without seeming to try, he achieves a wisdom poetry. Whether he is focused on the ruin of a textile mill in Alabama, the young Everette Maddox, or a café in Mexico, his gift is to take exacting measure with a language that is at once alert to the present and ghosted by history, and he does without pretension. Robinson does not cheat, and he do...

Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Gibson (Editor)Waking Up to the Earth, edited by Connecticut's Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson, is an anthology of poems by Connecticut poets who write of their relationships with the earth in a time of global climate crisis. The scope of the poems goes far beyond Connecticut to the whole ecosystem we humans share. With praise and wonder, and sometimes with grief or anger, the poems in this collection pay close attention to our planet and its inhabitants...

My Name Is Pronounced Holy: A Collection of Poems, Prayers, Rememberings, & Reclamation

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Report copyright infringementby Nine Pages Media (Editor), Sha'condria Sices-Sibley (Author)This book is hip-hop cypher and hymn, rallying cry and down-home blues song, all beating from the heart of celebrated poet/writer Sha'Condria "iCon" Sices-Sibley. It is an excavation of Blkness and Womanhood, and a remembrance bigger than self, yet integral to the deepest inner knowing. An exquisite page-turner, My Name Is Pronounced Holy is a necessary and immediately classic body of work. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Larkin (Author)These poems entwine round such matters as how roots move as they grow or how feet plant themselves, why a forest admits lanes and lines but obstructs them into shelter, how a tree might relate to all it isn't, what the hidden domains of nature can mean in and for trees, or the way in which trees cast the skies themselves into flight. The two last poems envisage a body language for trees, or how a dead upright tree remains a living nub of fo...

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Report copyright infringementby Alejandra Díaz (Author)Mi nombre es Mayra Alejandra Díaz. Hoy te invito a reflexionar.En este poemario encontrarás múltiples situaciones de vida, narradas entre rimas y palabras simples.Con mis poemas pretendo motivar tu capacidad para pasar a la acción, y cambiar lo que puedes cambiar, o dejar ir lo que tengas que dejar ir.Comparto poemas de esperanza, de motivación y otros tantos que reflejan la lucha interna entre nuestro lado oscuro y nuestro lado de luz.Po...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniela Buscemi (Author)A través de cada páginas, meditaremos acerca del amor más allá de todo tiempo y espacio. Un libro con más de cien poemas y relatos extraordinarios, más de cincuenta escritores del mundo nos llevan a reflexionar acerca del verdadero sendero de amor. Number of Pages: 300 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 27, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author), Mac Andres (Introduction by)"It is the single most important work of poetry in ancient history." - M. L. Andres, author of 'A Simple but Effective Strategy for Success' & founder of The Block Bard. Ovid's 15-book epic, written in exquisite Latin hexameter, is a rollercoaster of a read. Beginning with the creation of the world, and ending with Rome in his own lifetime, the Metamorphoses drags the reader through time and space, from beginnings ...

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Report copyright infringementby Wren Hanks (Author), Jerrod Schwarz (Editor), Sandra Beasley (Selected by)Wren Hanks' Lily-Livered is a stunning portrayal of trans experiences, mixing deft prose poetry and lush lyricism to profound effect.Wren Hanks' new collection is a lyrical and narrative masterpiece, examining his own trans experiences against the larger context of difficult-to-navigate modern world.Told primarily in a prose poem format, these pieces are rich with detail and striking, har...

A Lakota Warrior's Heart: A Book of Poetry About Culture, Life and Love

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence John Janis (Author)A Lakota Warrior's Heart is a poetry book about culture, life and love as seen from a Lakota poet's perspective. His heartfelt and honest poetry is about the struggles and resilience of the Lakota people and about the way he perceived the beautiful Lakota way of life. He wrote his poems to give light to his truth and his life experiences. Hopefully by sharing his poetry it could help others find their own truth and light.Author Biogr...