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by Javed Akhtar (Author)The poems in this collection contain the poets reminiscences of his childhood, and bemoan the loss of its innocence with the passage of time. They are also about love - its complications, pains and even its joys. But even the simple love poems usually contain a much deeper message; it is up to the reader to explore the various levels of meaning for himself or herself. His verse is thoughtful without being pretentious. On the surface it appears disarmingly simple and di...

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Report copyright infringementby Kamri Martin (Author)About the BookThe Seasons of Pain is a three-seasoned poetry book about being hurt in life and being able to move on. Filled with profound metaphors and vividly descriptive scenarios, this collection of poetry relates to anyone who has experienced hurt at the hands of another. Applying three seasons to the grieving process, Kamri Martin's poetry will help readers to heal, know they are survivors, and feel less alone in their hurt.About the ...

The Messages of the Poets;; Volume 7 - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Nathaniel 1862- Schmidt (Author)In this thought-provoking book, Nathaniel Schmidt explores the powerful messages conveyed by some of the world's greatest poets. From Shakespeare to Whitman, this book offers a unique perspective on the enduring power of poetry.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, an...

Rusynness Unspoken: Diasporan Poetry & Musings - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Gall (Author)In her debut poetry collection, Emily Gall explores Rusyn-American identity through an existential and symbolic lens. From bittersweet memories of Nowy Sącz, to secretive longing in the mountains of Pennsylvania, Rusynness Unspoken seeks to redefine the previously one-dimensional essence of the Rusyn self. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Warrick (Author) Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 03, 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Yolonda Handsom Ellis (Author)Take a journey of ladies with similar issues of brokenness that refuse to be shattered. Move from confession to confrontation to change. Any one might be you or perhaps the four may be your whole picture. Turn not only the next page of this book but even the next page of your life. Remember that broken can be fixed if you do not permit it to shatter. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 9 x 6 IN ...

A Baker's Dozen: Fiddleheads and Other Poems for Children - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Doug Rawlings (Author), Xochitl Pope (Illustrator), Iona Pope (Illustrator)In the late 1970's and the early 1980's, we (Judy, Jen, Josh, and I) were enamored with the words of A.A. Milne, especially the collection of nursery rhymes entitled "Now We Are Six." On many a night, these were the last words Jen and Josh heard as they fell to sleep and into dreams. I was also struck by the fact that Milne was a veteran of both world wars. Somehow he was able to pull hi...

From C To You: Revelations of Buried Voices: All of the things they dare not say - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Felneihthiem (Author)No matter who we are, what we are, or where we stand-each of us has a voice that we often hid away. The book is a collection of all those voices that we gulped down everyday-perhaps because we're too scared, too shy, or either because we lost the chance to speak about it, or were forced to be silent. The book acts as a channel of revelations for buried voices, thus giving them a chance to be heard for once. It seeks to serve that purp...

Messengers of the Macabre: Halloween Poems - Paperback

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by David Davies (Author), Lindaann Loschiavo (Author)All Hallows' Eve, Samhain, Day of the Dead... during this interval, the barriers between the two realms are thinnest. Normal turns paranormal; what's natural becomes the supernatural. That's when the messengers of the macabre are in their rightful element. Step inside this collaborative chapbook and embrace a haunted harvest of verses embracing bewitchment, boneyards, and all things that go... Boo! Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x...

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by Jonathan C. Creasy (Editor)Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and manual labor within a democratic, nonhierarchical structure, Black Mountain was a crucible of revolutionary literature. Although this artistic haven only existed from 1933 to 1...

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by Anna Dewdney (Author), Jt Morrow (Illustrator), Reed Duncan (Author)A Netflix Original series From bestselling author and storyteller Anna Dewdney comes a back-to-school story featuring the beloved Llama Llama! Summer days are getting shorter and it's almost time for the first day of school for Llama! But Llama Llama isn't ready for summertime to end. It's been full of backyard camping, family picnics, and ice cream with friends. All he wants is for summer to go on forever! He's anxious ab...

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by Homer (Author), Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodie...

Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building - Hardcover

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by Christy Hale (Author), Christy Hale (Illustrator)Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner, The Boston Globe/The Horn Book Fanfare, The Horn Book Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Children's and Young Adult Book Award, International Literacy Association (ILA) Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play.Cupon cups tacking up, smaller, smalle...

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author)Leaves of Grass is a literature & fiction poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. The poems of Leaves of Grass consists of various themes & styles but they are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. The nature of this book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral and much ...

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author)The Georgics is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil. It is a poem that draws on many prior sources and influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. As the name suggests, the subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. The work consists of 2,188 hexametric verses divided into four books. The yearly timings by...

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Report copyright infringementby Ajai and Emery Royce Johnson (Author)Envision the love that you have dreamed of, the kind that you only heard about. The type that you believed all your life only existed in fairy tales. Is it possible for men to really love they way you imagined? These twins have put on paper how they perceive love and how these men feel about the women they are passionate about. These are true and personal words that tug at your heartstrings, touches the true being of man and...

Times Square Books #9: Every Night in a Neon Graveyard - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Curry (Author)A collection of poetry from new poet Mark D. Curry, juxtaposed with an extravagant wager about a Broadway show. In works both hopeful and melancholic, he examines multiple points of view on the human condition. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 15, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Engel (Author) Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 22, 2011

Going to the Dogs and Other Critters - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Cameron Hoult (Author), Mick Beyer (Illustrator)We humans have developed relationships with all kinds of animals be they tame or wild, fierce or mild, big or small, short or tall The poems in "Going to the Dogs and Other Critters" will let you explore your interactions with animals and give you an opportunity to revisit cherished experiences as well as think about having more Designed for children and parents, this delightful book includes instructions ...

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by Samuel Coleridge (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)While traveling to a wedding, a young man is pulled into the eventful narrative of the Ancient Mariner who is compelled to share his story. It's a miraculous tale about guilt, humanity and one's capacity to change. The Ancient Mariner notices a young man traveling to a nearby wedding. He abruptly interrupts his journey and starts sharing a story about his time at sea. He details its humble beginnings and the tumultuous events that f...

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by Robert Frost (Author)A Vintage Classics edition of Frost's 1923 collection of poems that won the Pulitzer Prize and contains some of his most famous and beloved poems. Includes the original woodcut illustrations, not in print elsewhere. Robert Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes with this collection, published in 1923. It contains some of his most enduring and best-known poems, including "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "Fire and Ice," "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," and ...

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by Claude McKay (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist, McKay was a keen observer of the Black experience in the Caribbean, the American South, and later in New York, where he gained a reputation during the Harlem Renaissance for celebrating ...

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by Kahlil Gibran (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)A worldwide best-seller since its date of original publication in 1923, The Prophet has become a token of free thought and intellectual betterment across many generations of readers. This unique and timeless classic is composed of 28 prose poetry fables, each examining a different facet of the human experience. A treasure worth holding close, The Prophet is an unforgettable book of poems worth savoring. The Prophet serves as an intrica...

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by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Alice Dunbar Nelson (Author)Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), Paul Laurence Dunbar earned a reputation as an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and examine the diversity of the African American experience. In her poems, plays, and stories, Alice ...

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by Geoffrey Chaucer (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by) A knight, a monk, a merchant, a summoner, and a wife all walk into an inn, and realize they are in the company of many others who intend to make the same pilgrimage to Canterbury. As a group of English people all gather at the Tabard inn, they learn that they will be travelling together. Usually divided by their differing social classes, professions, and beliefs, the group are united by their pilgrimage to Canterbury, where they'll...

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by Langston Hughes (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)A celebration of music from beginning to end, The Weary Blues is the debut poetry collection by the foremost Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes.Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, / I heard a Negro play. / Down on Lenox Avenue the other night / By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light / He did a lazy sway. . .With these first lines, Hughes invites the reader into an experimental play...

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by Virgil (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)"In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and represents such central European values..." -T.S. EliotThe Aeneid (19 BC) is an epic poem by Roman poet Virgil. Translated by English poet laureate John Dryden in 1697, Virgil's legendary epic is the story of the hero Aeneas, a castaway from Troy whose ad...

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by Mary Weston Fordham (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Magnolia Leaves (1897) is a collection of poems by Mary Weston Fordham. Published toward the end of her life, Fordham's only collection appeared in print with an introduction by Booker T. Washington, who saw in its author an undeniable gift which could prove "[t]he Negro's right to be considered worthy of recognition in the field of poetic effort." Meditating on such themes as morality, labor, maternity, liberty, and faith, Mary ...

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by William Carlos Williams (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Spring and All (1923) is a book of poems by William Carlos Williams. Predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his works, often comprised of a seamless blend of both forms of writing. In Spring and All, the closest thing to a manifesto he wrote, Williams addresses the nature of his modern poetics which not only pursues a particularly American idiom, but attempts to capture ...

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by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) is a collection of poems by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at a turning point in his career as one of the nation's leading black poets, Lyrics of Lowly Life combined his hugely successful volumes Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), establishing his reputation as an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and e...

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by James Weldon Johnson (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Although less popular than his book God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), Johnson's second poetry collection showcases his talents as a rising star of African American literature. Including some poems that would be featured in The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), an influential anthology compiled and edited by the poet himse...

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by Jonathan Swift (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by) This collection of Jonathan Swift's poetry is separated in three parts, according to their subject matter. The first section are poems addressed to a woman named Stella. Based off a real-life close friend of Swift's, Esther Johnson, the portion of poetry addressed to Stella contain beautiful tributes to this woman, with simple titles such as Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727. Though these poems display a tender amount of intimacy sh...