Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Crystal Wells (Author)Damaged is a compelling collection of poetry, the story of death, grief, and the will to survive. Birthing hope in the darkest of nights, these melancholy lines follow a lost girl learning to understand her power, using her wings to fly far away, and to find the home inside her own wounded heart.Crystal Well's Damaged is a riveting collection about finding yourself and paying all the costs, even when tending to the dead during a beginning ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alejandra Ramos Gomez (Author)Imperfecta is a bilingual book composed of poems, dialogues, and meditations exploring the intersectionality of our experiences as women, daughters, friends, Latinas, and immigrants. This book is a tribute to women and families impacted by femicides and gender violence. We are perfectly imperfect.Author BiographyAlejandra Ramos Gó mez is a poet, writer, speaker, and educational consultant born and raised in Juá rez, Mé xico. She re...

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Report copyright infringementby Karla Van Vliet (Author), Karla Van Vliet (Artist)Asemic writing is a wordless form of writing, an art form offering an impression or abstraction of conventional physical writing. In Fluency, we see a union of Karla Van Vliet's lifelong practices of art and poetry, each dissolving into the other and resurfacing as asemic writing in full flower. Here are thirty-seven images, thirty-seven pieces of literary expression that extend far beyond literary convention, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Carmeline (Author)The poems that lead us to the realization of our Oneness with each other as fellow human beings and all other forms of existence on our planet speaks to what we share rather than what sets us apart. Life alone distinguishes our experiences. This book shows how we share Life or manifest it in different times, in different places as Being in this world together and how each expression is important to the Whole. Number of Pages: 92 ...

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A Token For Children: Being An Exact Account Of The Conversion, Holy And Exemplary Lives, And Joyful Deaths Of Several Young Children

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Report copyright infringementby James Janeway (Author)A Token For Children: Being An Exact Account Of The Conversion, Holy And Exemplary Lives, And Joyful Deaths Of Several Young Children has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sanober Khan (Author)'A Thousand Flamingos' is an extra special book of poetry, particularly because the poems have been written after a very long and intense period of Writer's Block. When the dull ache to write again returns, and words begin to soar, the feeling is as spectacular as watching the flight of a thousand flamingos. The 63 poems in this book overflow with a multitude of emotions, touching upon romance, spirituality, personality, nature, moonlight a...

Poems of Your Own: A Guide to Writing Personal Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Morgan (Author)Poems of Your Own is a guide, not a textbook. Richard Morgan shares what he has learned about the poetic process from a lifetime of writing poetry. With a light touch he hopes to inspire, instruct and encourage poets and poets-to-be. He has organized the guide into 39 revealing lessons (he calls them Poet Points), each a small step in your effort to write a better poem, one that resonates between your intension and the reader's imaginatio...

Busting the Beautiful Cage: Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on Nikumaroro Island

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Report copyright infringementby Paul David Adkins (Author)It seems we were trapped forever in 2020, with so many people stranded within their houses, their rooms, their studies. So many didn't make it. But it is from this vantage that we survivors may relate to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's desperation on Nikumaroro Island: severed from the world, watching storms and carnivorous crabs stalk their tiny camp like viral hosts. Similarly to the forsaken aviators in BUSTING THE BEAUTIFUL CAGE, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Hashimoto (Author)Sharon Hashimoto explores themes of what is heard and misinterpreted, what is left unexplained, and what is passed down in The Crane Wife. In these pieces, the Sansei poet leafs through old photographs--one of which is of a newlywed couple with the groom's image cut away. Here is the rediscovered piece of barbed wire from outside the Heart Mountain concentration camp. That wire, a lei, and a car trip to an empty lot are all bits of evid...

A Lyric of the Fairy Land: And Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Tarl Warwick (Editor), Arthur Edward Waite (Author)This little book is a collection of poetry written by the well known Arthur Edward Waite, of Rider-Waite tarot deck fame. One of the works here takes the form of a play, of sorts, setting and all, entitled "The Hearts Tragedy in Fairyland." Much of the lore here deals with the concept of mortality, overlapping it with the progression of the four seasons. At most times, the poetry is theatrically magical in natu...

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Report copyright infringementby Esteban Rodriguez (Author)In this visceral collection, poet Esteban Rodriguez introduces the voice of a boy straddling the valley between two geographies, two generations, two languages. Under the relentless Texas sun, these poems traverse desert landscapes and moonlit fields carved by an aching loneliness and gentle laughter. Here, a father crosses a river of starlight and corpses, a child is awed by a mirage-like circus and the gilded rims of lowriders, and a...

Through the Gates: The Second Omer Journey

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Report copyright infringementby Rivkah Walton (Photographer), Susan Windle (Author)In the sequel to Through the Gates: A Practice for Counting the Omer, poet Susan Windle, aka Shoshana Asiel, continues her journey through daily life sustained and guided by the Jewish practice of counting the Omer. The format is familiar-daily epistles to spiritual companions and an original poem chosen to evoke the divine qualities delineated for each week and each day of the seven-week period. The season is ...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Neal Reising (Author)In Stone Roses, Linda Neal Reising captures the soul of a time and place that too many of our history textbooks try to ignore. And she does it through a series of captivating "snapshots" of the lives of extraordinary women who were almost forgotten.With a keen, and sometimes humorous, eye on an often difficult and dark period, Reising makes these views of late 19th century Oklahoma Territory, and the women who helped make it, absolute...

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Report copyright infringementby Judy Juanita (Author), Shelley Harper (Designed by)Judy Juanita's poetry collection, Manhattan My Ass, You're in Oakland, won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2021. Juanita, born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, explores the emotional geography of a rough terrain. These poems of the urban diaspora of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area encompass blues poems, verse and free verse, the sonnet, letter poems, protest poetry and many p...

Slim Shadows; Thin Volume of Selected Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Khatoon Hazara (Author)another collection of poetry by khatoon hazara! read through her mindscape in scenic routes; take a abckseat and let her drive as you read and dive into the cities shes built in your head Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Schuyla (Author)Parting Ways is a book of poetry in support of birth mothers and our adopted children. Birth mothers, may you always know what a courageous and selfless decision you had to make. And to all our adopted children, may you know how much you are loved and cherished by the women who carried you and still do in their hearts forever. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Marc...

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Report copyright infringementby Nadine Maestas (Author)Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet's poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She prefers the company of poems so much that she would rather read a bad poem than a good novel, but when she is not doing poetry, Nadine loves mountain biking and trail running in dangerous and remote places in the Northwest. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature in New Hampshire, has facilitated ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerður Kristný (Author), Rory McTurk (Translator)This is Gerður Kristný's third collection from Arc and the third of the trilogy which already comprises the highly-acclaimed Bloodhoof and Drápa. In all three poetic sequences, the poet employs the archaic form of the saga to conjure up razor-sharp dark and bewildering images of the fates of women in a world where the boundaries between life and death and what lies beyond are unclear. In this particular sequence,...

Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo

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Report copyright infringementby Tony S. Hsu (Author)At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile, Xu had a face that became as iconic as his poetry. During his short life, he claimed an illustrious place in the literary canon, redefining Chinese poetry and leading literature into the modern era. But while the brilliant and charismatic Xu may have seemed to live a charmed existence, he also f...

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela Yenser (Author)"Everything abandoned comes alive" Pamela Yenser writes in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Down Home, which becomes an invocation for resilience in a world filled with disaster at every turn: whether it's the wreckage of flying saucers in Roswell, or a brother and a mother who are irrevocably changed after a complicated birth, or an abusive father who is always in the driver's seat-whether it's by plane or car. Yenser does the difficult work of reckoning...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Lebaron (Author)In the compelling voice of a debut nurse-poet, Cardinal Marks explores how we navigate the turbulent waters of loss and pain, and the unexpected guideposts that chart a path towards clarity and solid ground. "Cardinal," as an adjective, derives from the early 14th-century Latin cardinalis, "principal, chief, essential," literally "pertaining to a hinge," from cardo (genitive cardinis) "that on which something turns or depends; originall...

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Report copyright infringementby Katya Zinn (Author)The debut collection of educator, activist, and performance poet Katya Zinn, human verses takes the reader on a profound search for truth and meaning through the darkest nights of the soul. Inspired by the author's own journey through trauma, addiction, and mental illness, these poems explore the complex contradictions of healing and survival. Though largely autobiographical, this chapbook arrives at universal themes that bring light to the w...

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Report copyright infringementby Carey Link (Author)Carey Link's most recent poetry sequence, I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net, a finalist in the 2019 Blue Light Press chapbook contest, is a personal, introspective exploration of the experience of living and coping with metastatic cancer. In the book, Link reflects themes of love, perseverance, and coping with mortality. In these poems Link expresses an appreciation for life, communicating to readers that they are not alone in fa...

Hit Points Green: An anthology of video game poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Haigh (Editor), Aaron Kent (Editor)Video games and poetry are unlikely bedfellows, if video games are one of the most popular imaginative forms in contemporary culture, then poetry [real poetry as apposed to the kind you find by the sad flowers in service stations] could be one of the most neglected. Hit Point Green, edited by Matthew Haigh and Aaron Kent, shows where these two disparate worlds meet and how good they are for each other. Featuring a sele...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Lidia Vega Serova (Author), Gonzalo Vidal (Photographer), Jonathan Curry-Machado (Translator)This book combines the poetry of Anna Lidia Vega Serova with the photography of Gonzalo Vidal. Presented in bilingual (Spanish original and English translation) format, in which text and image are brought together in poetic conversation. The poems deal with love and loss, hybrid identity, and the planting of our dreams in the midst of urban decay.Este libro combina...

Slavdom: A Selection of his Writings, in Prose and Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Ľudovít Stúr (Author), Charles S. Kraszewski (Translator)'Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?' asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: 'Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, like hidden streams, silently...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Gerard Trotman (Author)Shelly the Leatherback Sea TurtleHad a shell that was painted purpleBy a little girl named Lisa MayOn a sandy beach at Matura BayShelly, an endangered leatherback sea turtle, the largest of all living turtles, returns to Matura, her hatching beach in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.Learn about the threats she faces, as she shares the exciting stories of her adventures, in this beautifully illustrated rhyming story for ages 4+.A ...

Planting the Seeds: Poetry, Stories and Prayers

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Report copyright infringementby Abby Wynne (Author)For the first time, international bestselling author Abby Wynne publishes a collection of her poems, short stories and prayers. Designed to activate and awaken, to stimulate your heart and open your mind, these writings illustrate magic in action.Known for her self-care books "Energy Healing Made Easy", "How to Be Well", "Heal your Inner Wounds" and "The Book of Healing Affirmations", Abby brings her unique blend of shamanism and magic, psych...

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Report copyright infringementby Kb Ballentine (Author)KB Ballentine gathers poems into four sections that honor the ancient rhythms of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Edge of the Echo explores these elements and how they weave through the human experience and, though we are encompassed by them every day, we don't fully understand them. At the threshold of each season there is a mystic balance between the stones and the stars. The early Celts recognized what we have forgotten: the seasons of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherry Quan Lee (Author)Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author's journey from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and accepts her complex intersectional identity; and no longer has to imagine love. It is a follow-up to the author's previous memoir (prose), Love Imagined: a mixed-race memoir, A Minnesota Book Award finalist. In Septuagenarian, Sherry ...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Amalfitano (Author)The book is a collection of thoughts and ideas on how to live a life of kindness and compassion. Laura and her daughter, Dana, share the same philosophies on being kind and compassionate, as well as being safe and following the rules. So much, in fact, that other family members and friends have stated that they live in Laura Land, and that is not the real world. Laura and Dana would like to think otherwise. Number of Pages:...