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Report copyright infringementby Adam B. Ford (Author), Adam B. Ford (Illustrator)Who doesn't love a smiling face? The Smiley-Face Book celebrates the smile in all its forms, from a simple black-and-white line with two dots to a full-color grinning toothy face. With bright colors and lyrical rhyming couplets, this book is aimed at toddlers and young children who are old enough to recognize a happy face or who are just starting to read. It is simple, colorful, and happy! Number of ...

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Report copyright infringementby B. Edwards (Author)"Restoration is like a live wire, all raw nerve and no insulation." Any degree of healing is never linear. A Tincture of Haunted Bog Water is catharsis, a journey to make meaning of the highs and lows, of finding steady ground and pursuing hope. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Graeme Hetherington (Author)Songs of a Psychopath (1) is a powerful literary memoir in verse shaped by Tasmania's convict inheritance and a lifelong search for belonging.Set against the bleak mining towns of Tasmania's West Coast in the 1940s, the rigid hierarchies of private schooling in the 1950s, the cultural freedoms of 1960s England and Greece, and the unsettled tensions of 1970s Hobart, this book traces one man's journey through class, exile, faith, sexua...

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Report copyright infringementby Tasha Cotter (Author), Salim Dharamshi (Editor), Anna Faktorovich (Designed by)An invitation to discover poetry in the everyday experience. Following in the footsteps of David Lehman's The Daily Mirror, Frank O'Hara, and Emily Dickinson, this collection offers a poetic journal crafted out of life.Began in 2016 in an aqua notebook, this book of poetry chronicles one year. Locating the poetry and tiny moments of transcendence in our commonplace existence, Cotter ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Welch (Author)Circumventing conventional narratives of trauma and recovery, 'Dreaming Arrival' presents a series of very personal reflections on the writing life set in the context of John Welch's experience of psychoanalysis. Intensely felt, but always retaining a significant degree of scepticism, the book's starting-point was in a journal the writer kept when in analysis and it refers back to an experience of breakdown and hospitalisation thirty years pr...

Nuns, Nam & Henna: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Berube (Author)Nuns, Nam & Henna is an honest and straightforward account of the author's story told in poetry and prose. This chapbook starts under the guidance of Catholic nuns in heavy woolen habits and bonnets that covered all traces of hair. And ends with observations of equally modest dressed Moroccan women wearing cotton djellabas with pointed hoods. Sandwiched in between are sensual Vietnamese women with long black hair in black silk trousers....

Voices of Resilience: Haute Dish, Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Major (Editor)Evocative. Raw. Urgent.In this premiere anthology from Minnesota's Metropolitan State University, striking poetry, unforgettable memoir, and vivid tales bear witness to the endurance of the human spirit. Featuring pieces from Samantha Bright, Mandy Vue, and Jewels Leepalao, Voices of Resilience explores what it takes to survive and what that survival leaves behind. Number of Pages: 158 Dimensions: 0.37 x 8.5 x 5...

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Report copyright infringementby Lou Rowan (Editor)Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Ignoring trends, we seek the best of current innovative writing--work that will still be around 300 years from now, if we are. Contributors: Hélène Aji, Andrea Augé, Ken Bolton, Ian Brinton, David Bromige, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ken Edwards, Stephen Fredman, Keith Jebb, Hank Lazer, Joseph McElroy, Alice Notley, Lance Olsen, Peter Quartermain, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Rothenberg, Maurice Scully, Be...

The National Burns - The Life of Robert Burns; Including The Airs of all the Songs and an Original Life of Burns

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Report copyright infringementby George Gilfillan (Author)Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), also known as "Ploughman Poet" and various other names, was a Scottish lyrical poet widely considered to be national poet of Scotland. This vintage book contains a detailed biography of this seminal Scottish man of letters, and is not to be missed by lovers of his work and poetry in general. Notable poems by Burns include: "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse", "To a Mouse", and many mo...

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Report copyright infringementby John Baldoni (Author)Leadership in Verse: Poems & Stories provokes reflection about what leadership is and is not. Through poetry and prose, John Baldoni reveals how to lead in times of challenge and stress by providing courage, compassion and grace."In Leadership in Verse, sage philosopher poet John Baldoni captures hope, spirit, purpose, and soul, and connects them to leadership, reflection, example, and practice. At once gently informative and deeply hon...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Baxter (Author), Leo Jenkins (Foreword by), Marty Jr. Skovlund (Introduction by)The haunting poetry of The Ghosts of Babylon is as near to the crucible of war as you can get without wearing Kevlar and camouflage. Every war triggers the question--what's war like? The Ghosts of Babylon offers eyewitness accounts of warriors who lost their innocence dueling in the sands of the Iraqi inferno or fighting in the chilling Afghan mountains or on the khaki-colo...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Fisher (Author), Tony Frazer (Editor)This volume contains excerpts from several interviews conducted throughout the author's career and spliced together to form a coherent narrative of his development and his aesthetic. The book closes with two full-length interviews, conducted by Peter Robinson and John Kerrigan. Essential to an understanding of Roy Fisher's work as a poet. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Lopez (Editor)Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarmé at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. Subsequent collections include Some Times (Anvil) and Comparisons & Conversions ...

More Words: Gael Turnbull on Poets & Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Gael Turnbull (Author), Jill Turnbull (Editor), Hamish Whyte (Editor)This volume brings together a number of hard-to-find reviews, essays, memoirs and journal pieces by Gael Turnbull, a central figure in the interaction between American and British poetry in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and also publisher of the excellent small press, Migrant. Shearsman published his Collected Poems, 'There are words...' in 2006, and this companion volume fills out the picture of an...

The Book of Stroke: Meditations on a Rearranged Life

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Bires (Author)The Book of Stroke is a collection of poems and commentary about making sense of a life after a stroke. Why poems? Early in my recovery, I couldn't focus on anything longer. It took me many months before I could write my first new word, and not just because the stroke had left me, for a time, without the memory of the logic of keys on a keyboard and without the use of my right hand to type. I simply didn't want to write. Poems fit the overw...

The Sweetening: a poetry memoir on growing up, breaking down, and letting go

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Report copyright infringementby Lori Jones (Author)Through raw and vulnerable reflections and ruminations, The Sweetening explores themes of trauma, societal ideologies, relationships, situationships, identity, self-worth and healing. Divided into three chapters: becoming, shattering, and sweetening, this deeply visceral coming-of-age poetry memoir unfolds chronologically from childhood through young adulthood, spanning nearly 30 years. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensio...

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Report copyright infringementby Julian Gibson-Serrette (Author)A Beautiful Man is a biographic collection of poetry by Julian Marlon Gibson-Serrette (JMGS). These poems examine moments in his life as he navigated his way through his transition from female to male gender identified. The poems explore his relationship with himself, others, and this planet in deeply intimate ways, which allows the readers to take an in-depth look into the delicate, intricate, and passionate musings of a unique m...

Standing in Their Fire: Poems from a Hospital Nurse

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Report copyright infringementby Shawna L. Swetech (Author)Shawna Swetech's poems are both brutal and tender, testifying to the body's vulnerability, and the beauty of our humanity even in - perhaps especially in - moments of extremis. Drawing on her decades-long nursing career for vibrant details that nail the scene, Swetech brings us inside the hospital rooms where she encounters suffering and courage, agony and transcendence.--Alison Luterman, author, Desire Zoo and In the Time of Great Fir...

Rhapsody Lane - A Selection of Works by Flower City Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Rena Flannigan (Editor), Konrad Brinck (Editor), Bala V. Menon (Editor)'Rhapsody, in its literal sense, means an ecstatic/effusive expression of feeling. In this collection, the reader will find a wide range of expressions. From short stories to memoirs to creative non-fiction and some poetry, this volume brings together many voices who found themselves through the Creative Writing Group of Flower City Centre in Brampton, Ontario. The fascinating collection spa...

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Report copyright infringementby Bridget Ryan (Author)Poems and short stories mingle in this provocative memoir that simultaneously explores and re-imagines one young woman's pursuit of excitement in a world of drugs, booze, boys, rock and roll. On the border of Detroit and Windsor the stories Bridget Ryan recreates from her past reveal the immense pressures and pursuits that surround youth, beauty, and the need to win big and live fast. Tennis tournaments riddled with hallucinogenic episodes,...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Blanco (Author)A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people--immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold J. Recinos (Author)Recinos' love for poetry began on the tormented streets of the South Bronx and the experience of being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on them. On the streets, Recinos discovered a world of extreme poverty and drugs, until four years later he was taken into the family of a White Presbyterian minister and guided back into school. In graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended the Nuyorican poets the late Migue...

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Report copyright infringementby Cory Standinger (Author)Hope. What is hope? What does it mean to you? Where do you find your hope? How does one hope? Why is hope important? Regardless, hope is somewhere in your life. It could be in the people around you. Or in a stranger. Hope, trust, love, and belief are connected. What happens when those things are taken away?Author BiographyCory Standinger is a merchandiser for Mondelez Inc. (Nabisco). He is the author of Pieces of a Whole Heart (2021). ...

Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Brady (Author)What are the paradoxes of the writing life, especially for a writer who represents the work of other writers? Philip Brady, poet at Youngstown State University and publisher at Etruscan Press, begins Phantom Signs pondering this question from his dual perspective as a professional writer and small-press publisher. This book emerges from the tension between these modes of being in the world: the writer's dark; the editor's light. With humor...

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Report copyright infringementby Roberta Swann (Author)Thomas Hardy wrote: "Some women only need an emergency to make them fit for one." In Crack in the Door, her tough but tender memoir, Roberta Swann manifests just that, from the details of her mother's long decline to the horrors of a night in jail. Past meets present. Summers at a nudist colony are recalled as well as the co-founding on the American Jazz Orchestra. Phillip Lopate calls this collection "smart, sassy, self-aware, and funny a...

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Report copyright infringementby John O. Olomolehin (Author)Many interests visited and departed and a handful of passions sifted through my grips in a hurry, but poetry met within me a different energy, its shape found a fitting socket in me and made it home.The book captures various responses to the tunes and surprises of life and also reflects the ambience of the mind when we draw our gazes from any other place and look within. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.15 x...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexis Cremeans (Author)Through rich imagery and lyrical language, Orphan Poetry becomes a sanctuary for those seeking beauty in vulnerability and truth in introspection. Join Alexis Cremeans on a journey of self-discovery and connection as she uncovers the melodies that transform heartache into harmony and captures the essence of relationships with ourselves and others in this debut collection of poetry. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions...

State Line: Collected Poems and Other Writings

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Bätjer Russo (Author), Robert Dumont (Editor), Dion Wright (Editor)"The jewel is in the lotus, but you can't get there from here."Alan "Long Eyes" Russo was the genuine article. He was one of the most gifted members among a group of artists from the Midwest known as the "Wichita Vortex." His legacy fell into obscurity when he passed in 2003 until a dusty bag of slips, shards, and notes surfaced from the late David Omer Bearden's basement, titled State Line...

Wordsworth's Theory Of Poetic Diction: A Study Of The Historical And Personal Background Of The Lyrical Ballads

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Report copyright infringementby Marjorie Latta Barstow (Author)Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction: A Study of the Historical and Personal Background of the Lyrical Ballads is a book written by Marjorie Latta Barstow. This book is a comprehensive study of the theory of poetic diction as proposed by the renowned English poet William Wordsworth. The book delves into the historical and personal background of Wordsworth's famous work, the Lyrical Ballads, and examines the various elements that ...

Through the Leaves That Fall: Glimpses of God in the Seasons of Life

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Emma Tisinger (Author)Through the Leaves that Fall is written with such feeling and touching stories that the pages take you back to your own childhood days. The happy moments, sad moments, funny moments, serious moments, and memory moments make you feel as if you grew up with Mary Emma. To walk us through the seasons of our lives in winter, spring, summer, and fall is brilliant. Mary guides us into what is important in life from every aspect-from individ...

Eternal Love: Poems from the First 70 Years

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Report copyright infringementby Lolita L. Jardeleza (Author), Robert L. McCreary (Foreword by)The great love stories in history and fiction often somehow ended in tragedy or loss, which Lolita Jardeleza always thought was sad. Why were there no stories of great romances between ordinary, everyday people who married each other, raised children, paid mortgages, had spats, became grandparents--even great-grandparents--had arthritis, and used walkers? Romances lived and loved in "normal lives" ar...

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet of His People

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Griffith Brawley (Author)This is the only biography ever published singly of the young black who struggled against the most grinding poverty, who never completed his education as he desired, and who yet became famous when just twenty-four years of age. Enthusiastic readers of his poetry, novels, stories, and sketches turned appreciation of his work into a vogue. More than a biography, this is also a critical and comparative study of Dunbar's various bo...