Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Nakiya Tate (Author), Anelda Attaway (Editor), Tyler Hill (Illustrator)Love can make you do imprudent things. Love can make or break you, not knowing what it is meant to do. The people you love are close to you, precious to you and more. No matter if it is family, friends, or a lover. When I say 'lover' I mean a spouse, a boyfriend or a girlfriend. What is love? What is love intended to do? What is love all about? What is the meaning of love? When we reali...

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen G. Wright (Author)This is a collection of poetry written beginning in 1975 until the early 1990s. The writing of the poems was done based upon direct life experiences, events or inspirations found in day-to-day living. The poems cover a wide range of topics, yet focus, for the most part, on how we view love, our relationships, and dealing with life as a whole. The author uses a style that came, in part, from his Grandmother. She was greatly influenced b...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob M. Appel (Author)Eclectic characters in everyday scenarios populate Jacob M. Appel's The Cynic in Extremis. We attend a sister's second wedding with a "hand-me-down groom"; trick-or-treat with a young son; encounter a former teacher long retired, still critical; relive difficult ancestral memories of the Holocaust. These poems present--often unapologetically--uncomfortable truths gleaned from close examination of social norms and conventions mostly taken ...

Words in the Flow: Poems on the ebb and flow of life

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Report copyright infringementby Tammy Cheung (Author)Words in the Flow brings together selected poems across a decade, written by the author on her journey from teenager to young adult. Explore the ebbs and flows of life, juxtaposed in each section of the book - love in its possessive and platonic forms, the pain and relief of letting go, the struggles and joys of growth, the desire to belong, and finding the home within. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.25 x 8 x 5...

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Report copyright infringementby Chavanese Wint (Author)Inspirational Rhymes' is a captivating compilation of poems that serves as a beacon of hope, inspiring readers to persevere and embrace life's challenges. With her remarkable talent for words, Chavanese embarked on a soul-searching journey while crafting this book, delving into her own vulnerabilities and strengths. Through this process, she realized that it was through acknowledging and overcoming her weaknesses that she truly discovered...

This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Edward L. Alban (Author)The very title of this book is a sigh, evoking a lament for the briefness of life. To extend existence, man invented the afterlife. But this author does not believe in that and, instead, he looks to the past, to history. This rearview will not elongate longevity, but it will enrich the quality of his brief existence, it will broaden it and give it depth. Time is also evoked for its invisible and yet ubiquitous presence in these poems. ...

A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry: Individual Development, Psychology, and Social Reparation

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Report copyright infringementby T. Williams (Author)Explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students discover themselves and develop their potential to effect change in the world.Author BiographyTODD O. WILLIAMSAssistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Dat...

Poetry Across the Curriculum: New Methods of Writing Intensive Pedagogy for U.S. Community College and Undergraduate Education

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Jacob (Volume Editor), Shannon Kincaid (Volume Editor), Amy E. Traver (Volume Editor)The present volume is the result of a pilot study and a workshop at Queensborough Community College that tried to integrate and discussed poetry as a new method of writing intensive pedagogy across the curriculum. Educators from several different disciplines - Art and Design, Biology, English, History, Philosophy, and Sociology - describe such methods and their teaching e...

SIX is for 6enocide: poems reflections rants

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel S. Reyes (Author)SIX is for 6enocide is not a quiet book. It is a howl, a cry, and a refusal to look away. Through poems, reflections, and unapologetic rants, Daniel S. Reyes, carves language into witness. Their pieces are raw and urgent, confronting violence, displacement, and the silent complicity that allows atrocities to continue. This collection is not meant to comfort - it is meant to disturb, to ignite, to keep memory alive. Each word stands as re...

Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Burstyn (Author)"A generous, heartfelt gift." -- Kirkus (STARRED review)The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that wonder with friends and loved ones.In this beautiful volume, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen revea...

The Wandering Singer and His Songs, and Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Hodgman (Author)This collection of poems by Frank Hodgman includes his famous work 'The Wandering Singer and His Songs', as well as several other original pieces. Hodgman's poetry is characterized by its lyrical beauty, rich imagery, and emotional depth. Anyone who appreciates poetry will find this book to be a treasure.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

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Report copyright infringementby George Gordon Byron (Author)Title: Sardanapalus, a tragedy. The Two Foscari, a tragedy. Cain, a mystery.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include arou...

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Spenser (Author)One of the greatest of English poets, Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, in 1552. He was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and later at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender, his first major work. Edmund journeyed to Ireland in July 1580, in the service of the newly appointed Lord Deputy, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton. His time included the terrible massacre ...

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Report copyright infringementby Glenda Richmond Slater (Author), Dale Goss Mozley (Illustrator)Fooling Around With Shakespeare is an adventure in language in which the poet and illustrator recast Shakespeare into today's milieu. Shakespeare has never been such fun. This is a way to experience and love the Bard. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 08, 2016

Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

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Report copyright infringementby W. Hamlin (Author)Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus...

Isaac Newton's Scalder, Abraham, Prophesies the End of the World, & Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Carlo Parcelli (Author), Daniel McTaggart (Editor), Elric DeVault (Editor)A collection of new monologues and poems from Carlo Parcelli, modernist poet, monologist, and vaudevillian, who is a founder and editor for Flashpoint magazine and tours in performance of his works. Iconoclastic, argumentative, and a challenging read for those disused to his historical, blasphemous, profane, comedic, and vulgar meanderings. Number of Pages: 120 D...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Author)Title: The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books...

Don't Quote Me: Quotes Unaltered Once Told Entirely

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Report copyright infringementby Dwayne a. Cannon (Author)This Original book entitled "Don't Quote Me" was written to show creativity while using the power of words. Words put into short verses combined with innovative and inspiring quotes. All quotes are original and have been jotted down of paper, for the redaer to gain a different viewpoint on how situations in life can be summed up in a few words. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.13 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aimé Césaire (Author), Clayton Eshleman (Translator), Annette Smith (Editor)Césaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and ...

Bear Tracks: Memories of a Ho-Chunk Elder

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Report copyright infringementby Sherman Funmaker (Author)Author BiographySherman Funmaker is a poet, essayist, and speaker, and an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation from Baraboo, Wisconsin. After graduating from UW-Baraboo, Funmaker began coaching and collaborating with other writers and creatives in his community. He has presented workshops on storytelling for high school students and adults. In addition to writing, Sherman has a life-long love for music and has worked as a designer, cr...

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Report copyright infringementby Christoph Paul (Author), Jim Agpalza (Illustrator)Award-Winning humor author and hardcore sports fan, Christoph Paul, and cult-artist, Jim Agaplza join forces to celebrate, satirize, and brutally mock the athletes you love and love to hate. For sports fans, this is the only poetry book you need to own."I don't know what made laugh harder the crazy-funny poems or the screwed up drawings that went with them. Whether you like or hate sports and/or poetry, it doesn...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Keefe (Author)These spiritualisms, prayers, and chants are first and foremost to encourage a direct experience of God. Secondly, to inspire us to share peace, awe, and rapture with our fellow beings. Thirdly, to lead all of creation to know unified peace throughout God's universe. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Noah Cicero (Author), VI Khi Nao (Introduction by)Bipolar Cowboy is the first poetry collection by prolific cult writer, Noah Cicero. Originally published in 2015 and nominated for the Goodreads Choice award in poetry, this second edition offers a new cover and an introduction by poet Vi Khi Nao.Devastatingly sincere and obviously heartbreaking, Bipolar Cowboy traces Noah as he wanders through desert and the throes of a defining breakup.If you've ever gone thro...

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Report copyright infringementby Solany Lara (Author)Hija De Mi Padre is Solany Lara's debut bilingual poetry collection in which she explores the emotional complexity associated with the loss of a parent, generational trauma and being a first generation Mexican-American. Solany's poetry shines light on her healing journey and the resilience that has come from losing her father, who lives on through her and the pages of her book.Author BiographyBorn and raised in Los Angeles, California, Solan...

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author

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Report copyright infringementby Sophus Helle (Author)The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian "Helle's translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic cladding. . . . The growing popularity of Enheduana gives all of us readers a chance to discover another lineage--and to bring this poet and her imagination flashing back to life again."--Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times Enheduana was a high priestess...

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Moten (Author)"some ekphrastic evening, this'll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between." So writes poet, critic, theorist, and MacArthur fellow Fred Moten in his latest poetry collection perennial fashion presence falling. Much like the poems found in The Feel Trio (Letter Machine 2014), which was a National Book Award finalist, and All That Beauty (Letter Machine, 2019), the poems here present Moten's "shap...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Manale (Author)In this book, you will find the faith in believing in true love again, blissful moments that reach your heart, celebrating new passions, healthy relationships and the gift of eternal bonds. Learning to embrace the joy of solitude and all that is gained in these moments, pursuing and living your dreams and appreciating the little bit of time you are here. The memories you never want to let go of even when you should.You will realize the purpo...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Hood (Author)I Am My Mother's Disappointments is a book of poetry drenched in truth. Tracing time from Hood's childhood with her mother to her teenage years losing her mother to suicide to her current adulthood as she continues to live without her mother, this book explores the way in which grief can expand and bend time. The loss of a parent bringing out the sadness and vacancy left behind, while exploring the memories that we wish we could forget. I ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby John Gilroy (Author)the book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Hopkins, exploring the significance of contemporary cultural issues and the poet's life as Catholic convert and Jesuit priest. Part 1 traces Hopkins's life from his early schooldays, his undergraduate years at Oxford and conversion to Catholicism, to his work as a Jesuit scholar and poet-priest. Part 2, explains the core principles of Hopkins's innovative and challenging poetry, includin...

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Report copyright infringementby Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke (Author)Explore the rich and complex world of Robert Browning's verse with Stopford A. Brooke's insightful study, "The Poetry Of Robert Browning." This volume offers a comprehensive critical interpretation of Browning's work, making it an essential resource for students and enthusiasts of Victorian poetry. Brooke delves into the nuances of Browning's dramatic monologues and lyrical poems, providing a valuable analysis of h...

A Scholar's Path: A: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poems and Prose of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer of Malayan-Singapore Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Chen Peter (Author)English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael TanReviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text: A companion edition of the book in Chinese is available -- the original classical text translated into modern Chinese and profusely annotated by Associate Professor Dr Chan Chiu Ming of National Institute of Education, Singapore. Number of Pages: 636 Dimensions: 1.4 x 8.9 ...