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by Mai Der Vang (Author)WINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTIONFINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY A reinvestigation of chemical biological weapons dropped on the Hmong people in the fallout of the Vietnam War In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the United State...

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Report copyright infringementby Ally Markotich (Author)With playful and poetic depth, Soul Kindling: Ignite Your Sacred, Creative Heart invites you to embark on a journey of discovering your creative, sacred self. Drawing on her alluring artwork, poet and artist Ally Markotich beckons you-with wit and imagination-to rekindle your inner spark and open yourself to the love of the Divine Feminine. Through story-poems and whimsical images that have emerged from her own healing journey, this compe...

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 - Paperback

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by Lucille Clifton (Author)The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.Author BiographyLucille Clifton won the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Award. Her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA Editions), won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. Two of Clifton's BOA poetry collections were chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Clifton's awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Emmy Award. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0....

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Report copyright infringementby Aristotle (Author), Malcolm Heath (Translator)Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examine the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking e...

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Report copyright infringementby Zophia McDougal (Author)What We Face Walking Out the Front Door is a small, black and gray poetry zine by Zophia McDougal aka Petunia Meat. Zophia presents a beautiful hybrid of drawings and original poetry. Zophia is from a little, mid-western Missouri town and a Kansas City Art Institute graduate. Her work focuses on the daily ennui and joy of heartland life from a queer perspecitive. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 10 x 7 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Khoi Nguyen (Author)*One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2024* *One of Electric Lit's Best Poetry Collections of 2024* *One of LitHub's Poetry Books to Read in 2024* *One of The Millions's Must-Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024* National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Ro...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Brinch (Author)'Zion' is an imaginary place of peace, happiness, and victory. It has been my life's ambition and pursuit. It has been a dream. An unattainable dream. Since Adam bit the poison apple in the Garden of Eden, mankind has been under a curse - to work at the sweat of his brow for his bread. This causes all of humanity to moan in existential pain. We long for meaning and for love.Originally, 'Zion' was the hill in Jerusalem upon which Solomon bui...

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Report copyright infringementby Vahé Baladouni (Author), John Gery (Author)Hmayeak Shems: A Poet of Pure Spirit presents the life and writings of Armenian poet Hmayeak Shems (1896-1952). The Armenian Genocide of 1915 devastated Shems, who lost his family and home. For eight years he wandered in exile, his voice extinguished by anguish. Yet from debilitating isolation, Shems found a lyrical mastery of Armenian identity and modern spirit. Incontrovertibly shaped by his people's tragic history, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Clogstoun (Author)Emotions bring out the best in us, if we allow ourselves to harness their power and accept how they can improve our lives. In this memoir the author reveals the journey he experienced when he embraced them to overcome stress, anxiety and a sense of constant fear. Written in a time of isolation, these poems are an expression of the release that can be achieved when the emotions that were holding you back are finally confronted. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Jeffery (Author)In this wondrous new book of poems, Peter demonstrates yet again his mastery of the written word, of posing tension between self and other till it almost throttles the reader, or order versus disarray, of exotic places, dripping with history, currency, allusion, wit, the drip and wet of desire. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: March 31, 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Ronnie Smith (Author)This ebook is a collection of poems describing experiences of military missions spanning 25 years of flying in the US Air Force; flown to Africa, Antarctica, war torn Bosnia, and other places around the world. It casts spiritual light onto the graphics of military flying. The poems underscore the fact that there is a bright seam to life in not only what we do, which can appear as drudgery, but as a result of the intention one holds in doing...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Inglis Moore (Editor), W. H. Wilde (Editor)Mary Gilmore's life spanned almost a century of Australian history. She lived for ninety-seven years and this selection of her letters covers a period of almost seventy years, encompassing the social, political and literary scene of the period when Australia was changing from colony to nation.The letters contain perceptive judgements of indigenous literary talent as it was emerging; they contain reflections on the ...

Letters to Fanny Brawne. Written in the Years 1819 and 1820 and Now Given From the Original Manuscripts With Introd. and Notes by Harry Buxton Forman

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Report copyright infringementby John 1795-1821 Keats (Author), Frances (Brawne) 1800-1865 Lindon (Created by), H. Buxton (Harry Buxton) 184 Forman (Created by)A collection of intimate letters written by the renowned Romantic poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne during the years 1819 and 1820. This edition, meticulously compiled and introduced by Harry Buxton Forman, presents the original manuscripts, offering readers a direct and unedited glimpse into Keats's thoughts, emotions, and daily life dur...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Craft (Author)Traverse, Craft's third collection, picks up where Vagrants & Accidentals left off, exploring the music, the miscues, the hidden forces and quirks of circumstance that constitute a human life, shape us into the people we become. It's a book of family origins and discovery, an adoptee's journey toward self-knowledge, a son's journey toward becoming (and losing) a parent, navigating the cross-currents of estrangement and acceptance, ecolo...

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Report copyright infringementby John Hennessy (Author)John Hennessy's Exit Garden State never strays far from family life as it ranges from childhood in New Jersey's industrial corridor to mid-life in the woods of New England, from Rahway prison's sullen grey dome, Newark's steel flyway, to Lisbon's labyrinths and miradouros, from the smooth volcanic peaks of the Cyclades to his dead in Dublin. Keenly mindful of their ancestors and the immigrations that have brought them here, the speakers of...

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by Susan Abulhawa (Author)Author BiographySusan Abulhawa is a Palestinian-American writer from Jerusalem currently living in Pennsylvania. She has written two highly acclaimed novels, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury 2010) and The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury 2015). Her political commentary has appeared in numerous outlets throughout the United States and internationally.In 2001, Abulhawa founded Playgrounds for Palestine, an NGO that builds safe spaces for children in the occupied ter...

A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology: At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Landgraf (Selected by)When Susan Landgraf received an Academy of American Poets' Laureate in 2020, her project proposal included teaching more than a dozen workshops on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation that would culminate in a Muckleshoot poetry book. Landgraf sees writing as both opening oneself to vulnerability and to a feeling of empowerment. She believes that poetry can save lives, and worked to facilitate a teaching environment that welcomed each ...

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author), Billy Collins (Foreword by), Peter Davison (Afterword by)Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets--an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Yeatman (Author)A new collection of old and familiar nursery rhymes -- rhymes that stay alive from generation to generation because they move in lively rhythms. The words of these old favorites roll easily from the tongue, whether they be full of wisdom, humor or just plain nonsense. Many are fine poetry and serve as an important introduction to our literature. Hilda Offen's illustrations are very much in keeping with the spirit of the old familiar words....

A Universe of Rainbows: Multicolored Poems for a Multicolored World

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Forrest Esenwine (Author), Jamey Christoph (Illustrator)2026 NCTE Notable Children's Poetry BookRainbows in all their glory are celebrated in this STEAM-filled poetry collection from an all-star roster of children's poets. Perfect for Poetry Month and Earth Day. What do Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, Peru's Vinicunca mountain, the star Betelgeuse, and a drop of water have in common? Rainbows! In this iridescent collection, Nikki Grimes, Irene Latham...

Snaps, Scraps & Snippets of the Past and Present: How to Retrieve the Lost Pictures of Your Past

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Report copyright infringementby Lois J. Funk (Author)Wake your writing muse and get your inspirational juices flowing with this fun-to-read, nonfiction how-to-memoir. Look back into your past and write what you like or don't like about it, for fun, therapy, or publication, as you create a legacy of your own snaps, scraps and snippets. With the help of three new writers' tools and over thirty unusual writing exercises, make your own story come to life.Author BiographyBorn and raised in Central...

How to Come Out To the Jasmine First: On Writing and Loving in the Natural World Meditations & Invitations

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Report copyright infringementby E. Katherine Kottaras (Author)When the world feels overwhelming, where do you find sanctuary? In this tender collection of essays, poems, and meditations, E. Katherine Kottaras invites us into her small Los Angeles garden-a place of refuge and renewal during pandemic isolation, family health crises, and the daily challenges of being a queer parent in an uncertain world. Organized around nature's cycles of planting, growing, releasing, and celebrating, How to Co...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Ruiz (Author)In Left Turns in Brown Study Sandra Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Drawing on Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz interweaves poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as an emancipatory practice. Proposing "brown study" as key for understanding how Brownness harbors loss and suffering along with the possibility for more abundant ways of living, Ruiz invite...

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Report copyright infringementby Liza Flum (Author)Poetry and prose that takes on multiple forms to celebrate queer polyamorous families. Liza Flum's Hover focuses on queer polyamorous families, considering the ways people in radical family structures are both highly visible and erased. From hummingbirds to stars, historical records, and cemetery monuments, Flum searches for images to represent lives and loves like her own and to find lasting traces of queer and chosen family. In the poetic l...

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Report copyright infringementby Méshelle Fae (Author)In her debut poetry collection, fantasy author MéShelle Fae takes readers and enthusiasts on an autobiographical journey to share the lessons and moments that have most influenced and shaped her. Within her poetry, which reflects her unique voice by using diverse styles and forms, she explores questions and ideas that many find themselves pondering about identity, sexuality, faith, patriotism, race, and more. By examining these ideas throug...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn Strongin (Author)Lynn Strongin a a marathon word-sprinter. Her work is beyond the pale. James LeCuyer, poet & teacher, San Francisco Very much the work of a true poet. Denise Levertov, poet, author of With Eyes At the Back Of Our Head, The Sorrow Dance: Poems, and Footprints What a great poet you are. Kay Boyle, poet and fiction writer, author of Winter Night, and Collected Poems of Kay Boyle All of Strongin's characters struggle in one way or ano...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindsey Christian (Author)I've always written to process life. For years-through childhood and into my twenties-I filled journals and then burned them once they were full. I was ashamed of the raw emotion I had put on paper, afraid of what someone might think if they read it.This book is a collection of the few entries that survived, most from my late twenties, now woven together with bits of reflection. These pages walk through Purpose, Time, Struggle, Gratitu...

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Report copyright infringementby Yvonne Mary Selina Weekes (Author)Yvonne Weekes has always been a capable poet, but in Living Stone she fully claims her project and her power. These are generous poems that refuse to withhold their metaphors from the reader. They not only observe a world of race and gender, of class and faith, that stretch between England, Montserrat, and Barbados, they sing that world and pray it into tenderness.- Professor Kei Miller FRSI, an award-winning Jamaican poet, nov...

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Report copyright infringementby Bianca Bowers (Author)"Death is the great disruptor. It thrusts us opposite life's mirror, invites our truthful exploration, and reveals the naked truth from which rebirth is possible and we are free to reinvent ourselves anew."Death and Life is the first poetry book by Bianca Bowers, and includes poems and essays written between 1987 and 2013. Dedicated to those who struggle in their youth, and autobiograhical in nature, she invites you to journey through vari...

Obedience Rather Than Sacrifice: I Samuel 15:22

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Report copyright infringementby Cinda Carter (Author)In the scriptures Ephesians 5: 21-29 the Bible tells us "Wives, submit to your own husbands as unto the Lord" v. 22, along with Ephesians 6: 1, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord" for this is right...My book is based on scriptures and the experiences I have had in life. I learned at the age of 31 when I moved back in with my parents to learn how to submit to them, which prepared me for learning how to submit to my own husband of 31 ye...

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Report copyright infringementby Jed Rasula (Author)I'll tell you this much: space is pierced with a bony flicker a woman on the street sold me a spinal columnso I put it on, I put it in for years I crawled aroundin a rubble of numbersa palace of matchstickswas all I could muster outside my cageeverything happensjust before daybreaka skeleton twitterswrinkles a puddleflapping its featherless wings Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.12 x 7 x 4.37 IN Public...

Reflections: Paintings & Poems from a Poet's Gallery

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Report copyright infringementby Elisavietta Ritchie (Author)This will be the third collection of Elisavietta Ritchie's work we have been privileged to publish, and what a remarkable collection it is, rich imagination and a talent for metaphors the hallmarks of her work. Here we see a poet at the top of her game, and game is the precise word for the often whimsical accounts she gives of the painting on which she reflects. William Meredith's short poem seems an apt introduction to the book. ...