Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby R. Clift (Author)From R. Clift comes so intimately a collection of memories, a snapshot of her heart, like nothing she has ever written or shared before. A travel memoir written in poetry, of backpacking through Europe in the summer of 2019. Filled with daily poem entries, imperfect polaroids, never-to-be-sent postcards, and 3-hour-train-ride illustrations all pulled from the pages of her journals. This memoir began as a personal challenge, whatever her next tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Dickin (Author), Shyanne Roberge (Illustrator)I Kissed the Devil in the Pouring Rain is Molly Dickin's debut poetry book. The poems explore topics such as loss of innocence, experimentation, religion, trauma, mental health and unconditional versus situational love. Molly invites the reader to take a front row seat to moments filled with vulnerability, betrayal, pain, lust, grief, ecstasy and freedom. The book title is a nod to the way that muses are so of...

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Report copyright infringementby Keli Stewart (Author)Keli Stewart's profound, visceral and heady debut poetry collection is simultaneously autobiographical memoir and social commentary in conversation. The narrator of Small Altars is at different times a girl learning from her elders and ancestors; a young woman coming of age; a single mother caring for her child; or a wise woman who conjures the spirits of her past. In the traditions of Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville, Lucille Clif...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Whittingham (Author)Preschoolers love baby animals, and they love to move. Celebrate both with a hard-wearing Toddler Tough picture book perfect for an active read-aloud. Calves swim, / Hatchlings bounce, / Porcupettes nibble, / Kittens pounce. Story time is on the move with this multilayered concept book. Preschoolers will enjoy learning fun baby animal names from echidna "puggles" to whale "calves," and they'll revel in using their bodies to mimic the mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Paulette DeMers Turco (Editor), Leslie Monsour (Introduction by)The Powow River Poets Anthology II continues the tradition of memorable poetry from the Powow River Poets. This group of uniquely talented, award-winning writers is centered in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but includes members from the Boston area and from as far away as New York and Maine. Twenty-seven poets are represented in this volume of the anthology, including Rhina P. Espaillat, A.M. Juster,...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante (Author), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Translator)"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson."I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast." - James Joyce.In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I had lost the way: so opens Dante...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Ransom (Author)Scene of the Crime exposes the poet's inner criminality, where matricide and mother tongue engage in diabolic discourse. Confessing her outlaw sexuality, Ransom grapples with feminist theory and disembowels postmodern philosophy. Delighting in the multiplicity of self, language and desire, Ransom fires puns dead-aimed to riddle any interpretive reduction. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Healing Through Poetry: A Powerful Message On My Struggles

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Report copyright infringementby Alejandro J. Zambrano (Author)A memoir written in twisted, poetic journal entries, Healing Through Poetry shares author Alejandro J. Zambrano's unique experiences as a gay person. Within these personal thoughts and emotions lies universality, something any reader can understand and empathize with. Zambrano's intention with his words is to touch lost souls no matter how they identify-and perhaps, to save a life! Number of Pages: 106 Di...

Critica: Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors

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Report copyright infringementby Egil Kraggerud (Author)Gathering together over sixty new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era, by authors including Horace, Ennius and Vergil.Author BiographyEgil Kraggerud is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on Vergil and has translated works by Vergil, Aeschylu...

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Report copyright infringementby Apara Mahal Sylvester (Author)Love Poems to You is a book on love and devotion, love poems dedicated to the Twin Flame soul. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.07 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: May 04, 2021

Spiritual Quest in Verse: A Literary Criticism of Ricaredo Demetillo's Religious Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Vicente Jáuregui Presa (Illustrator), Gilbert Luis R. III Centina (Author)This book delves into the religious character, substance and symbolisms in Ricaredo Demetillo's poetry. As a religious poet, Demetillo--one of the Philippines' most gifted poets--undertakes a spiritual journey, which is actually a flight from wrong values, hypocritical religion, crumbling civilization, and moral corruption. For Demetillo, God is the God of the living, not of the dead. Hea...

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Report copyright infringementby Brandon White (Author)Throughout the poetry found in Brandon White's second collection, Real Big American Zen, weave the themes of an ache established in isolation, the depths of soul-searching, and unexpected humor scratched out of dark places. He ponders raising young children in times of great uncertainty while digging into what it means to be an American during times of unprecedented political turmoil. As such, White holds the unsteady mirror up for us all,...

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Report copyright infringementby Clemens Carl Schoenebeck (Author)Think of Clem Schoenebeck as the music man, his poems inviting us to see possibilities of joy in the everyday, be it garden flowers or the Brahms Requiem, a brilliant sunset or the sterling qualities of a friend. Better yet, be his friend so he can write a poem about you and say such things as he is "familiar with his own clouds," thus "he seeks available light." Where the Time Went is actually the Collected Poems of Clem Schoen...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauri Robertson (Author)These poems are daring, challenging in tone, at moments enigmatic. They move wonderfully in and out of figurative flight and let plain statement take over in unexpected places, often turning up a surprise topic. They don't pretend not to suffer, but they don't brood. Cued by its title, this collection explores everything implied in Stevens's "I wish that I might be a thinking stone." Etched by thinking, here is an aesthetic to offset cha...

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To All the Magic in Me: A Collection of Love Letters to All of Life's Emotions

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Report copyright infringementby Pavita Singh (Author)People often go through life avoiding negative emotions, forgetting that they are an integral part of the human experience. An authentic depiction of the human spirit informed by the author's own mental health struggles and life experiences, To All the Magic in Me: A Collection of Love Letters to All of Life's Emotions offers a new perspective on negative emotions and the powerful role that they, along with positive emotions, play in our l...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Marie Jacquot (Author)DETERIORATE is a poetry chapbook on disdain of the digital age. Dark with infused humor, DETERIORATE contemplates and questions our modern world and its ramifications on humanity. Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 07, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Kerman (Author)"In this remarkable collection of 'Definitions, ' Judith Kerman has created a poetic dictionary, a book of memories, and compendium of exquisitely worded images that help us understand how a woman sees the world around her. With both wit and artistry, each of Kerman's 'definitions' begins with clear prose and slowly flows into the realm of poignant poetry. This is a wonderful and essential book.- Eleanor Lerman Number of Pages...

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Report copyright infringementby A. Jay Adler (Author)"To be becoming. Then to be." That is the dreamed-for passage of the poet-from "waiting for word" to delivering it, through the time and space of memory, into "unshadowed" light. In his cohesive collection of poems Waiting for Word, A. Jay Adler explores the terrain of creation, where age and loss and distance from "the wildness of [youthful] dreams" necessarily re-centers the poet's attention on the thing still to be done and what it means...

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Report copyright infringementby Jayne Moore Waldrop (Author)With brevity and sensitivity, these daily haiku carry us through an unfolding tragedy, all the more delicately for their economy of words, and all the more effectively for their precision of image and feeling. -Br. Paul Quenon, OCSO, author of Unquiet Vigil: New and Selected Poems and In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk's Memoir With truly remarkable and arresting haiku, Waldrop leads us through the tumult of the early months of ou...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennie Mintz (Author)My Father's Drawer explores the trajectory of the poet's life through childhood turbulence and mature hardship which she navigates with grace and resilience. Mintz's poetry does what we wish all poetry would: make even sadness a source of pleasure, because her words always come alive as she reveals through the magic of language a lamenting that never sounds self-absorbed but simply marks the achievement of wonder as the triumph of the poem....

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Nacker (Author)"Because you studied / the error of a speck of white / cloud," begins the speaker in a particularly evocative poem by Sally Nacker; what was otherwise perfect becomes, somehow, imperfectly beautiful, and thus, in this poem, "bluer." It's to the beautiful imperfection that Nacker has turned her acute poet's eye in her new collection Kindness in Winter-so that at some point, the inward and the outward meet one another in common tremble. Situa...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan McCabe (Author)H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in 1918, H.D. was a modernist poet, married to a shell-shocked adulterous poet, and pregnant by another man. She fell in love with Bryher, who was entrapped by her wealthy secretive family. T...

If My Past Self Would Listen: A Collection of Communicative Poems Between Mother and Daughter

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Report copyright infringementby Kleo (Author), Lyrical Soul (Author)"If My Past Self Would Listen" is a poignant collection of poems that delves into the complex and beautiful relationship between a mother and daughter. Through vulnerable and honest verses, Kleo and Lyrical Soul explore the unspoken words, shared experiences, and evolving dynamics that shape their bond. This book is a conversation across generations, a journey of reflection, forgiveness, and ultimately, a celebration of the e...

Poetry in Motion: (With Rhyme and Reason) for Lovers and Other Strangers

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Report copyright infringementby M. S. Penelope Price (Author)M.S. Penelope Price speaks about love, lust, desire and romance.Author BiographyM. S. Penelope Price has always been a lover of the written word (and the spoken word). A lover of poetry, she has always possessed the gift of rhyme. As far back as she can remember, she felt most comfortable with pen in hand ready to put to paper her creative talent and gift of what she has always referred to as her poetic justice! In her Poetry In Mot...

Tender Buttons - Objects. Food. Rooms.;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson

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Report copyright infringementby Gertrude Stein (Author), Sherwood Anderson (Introduction by) First published in 1909, Stein's work Tender Buttons is a modernist classic and a wonderful example of her thought-provoking and highly original style of writing. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American poet, novelist, art collector, and playwright who famously hosted a Paris salon frequented by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway. Before she was a patron to "The L...

The Cambridge Book Of Poetry For Children Parts 1 And 2

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Report copyright infringementby Various (Author), Kenneth Grahame (Editor)Unlock the magic of childhood imagination with ""The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children,"" a timeless treasure that has been lovingly restored by Alpha Editions. This enchanting collection, once out of print for decades, is now available for today's young readers and future generations, making it a must-have for both casual readers and classic literature collectors alike. Dive into a world where words dance and dream...

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Report copyright infringementby Clark Ashton Smith (Author)Discover the enchanting world of ""Ebony And Crystal: Poems In Verse And Prose,"" a remarkable collection by the talented Ashton Smith Clark that has been out of print for decades and is now lovingly republished by Alpha Editions. This exquisite edition is not just a reprint; it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for today's and future generations to cherish. Dive into a rich tapestry of emotional poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Iain Whiteley (Author)Ping! is a glittering xennial trip through Glasgow tenements, Lancashire bus stations and London theatres, leaping into the sea and beyond. In these poems, party queens, builders and greasy advertising execs ride shotgun with 1970s videogames, digital nomads and linguistic algorithms to tackle themes such as capitalism, kinship, politics and otherness. From kitchen sink drama to international terror, and from the death of the high street t...

Fill My Cup: A Collection of Inspirational Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Pitre-Kirk (Author)Fill My Cup is a series of poems designed to encourage, motivate and strengthen all of us during a time of darkness in the USA and around the world. There are poems about life, family, education, and inspiration for all of us. The book also has poems that describe events that happened in my hometown and community. My hope is that this book touches the hearts and souls of those who read it. Number of Pages: 62 ...

Unapologetically Me: A Journey Through an Open Mind

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila G. Drakeford (Author)Unapologetically Me is a poetry collection that explores the formation of self, overcoming adversity, and finding liberation through God. As human beings, different circumstances in our lives can leave us feeling as if there is no hope. I decided to write this book because I f I can touch one person to let them know there is someone out there that feels the same way and they are not alone, but at the end of the book I do let the read...

A Dark Month From Swinburne'S Collected Poetical Works Vol. V

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Report copyright infringementby Algernon Charles Swinburne (Author)Discover the haunting beauty of ""A Dark Month,"" a mesmerizing collection from the renowned Victorian poet Charles Swinburne, now republished by Alpha Editions after decades of being out of print. This exquisite edition is not just a reprint; it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure, meticulously restored for today's and future generations of poetry enthusiasts. Dive into the depths of Swinburne's lyrical poetry, where...