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Report copyright infringementby Charles H. Stinson (Author)This small poetic book tells the story of Bumpass, quite possibly the Best Cat in the Whole Universe (at least that part of it west of the Lampasas River), from his adoption and kittenhood through adulthood, aging, illness, and beyond. Inspired by the lovable feline, the San Francisco based artist-author created a suite of eight images and accompanying text portraying the cycle of life, all centering around a garden in the Very Bigge...

Wonders: Poems about Love and Relationships

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl Batavia (Author)A lifetime of experiences is reflected in this collection of poems. Rhyming poetry, free verse, narrative poems, limericks, and haiku explore the author's relationships with men she has known and loved. Both men and women may find something familiar in the poems that makes them say, "Yes, I've been there!" Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 24, 2022

journey in shades: poetry in light and dark. (poetry collections to read)

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Pargeter (Author)In this first collection of her work, the poet re-visits her country childhood, the loss of innocence, love, heartbreak and death, and reflects with admirable frankness on those universal rites of passage common to us all."I have felt engaged with the work, and responsive to its emotional charge" Professor Carol Rumens GUARDIAN BOOKS ONLINE 'Poem of the Week' blog."She lets detail speak, often exquisitely, through things as they are; there...

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by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (Author)In All the Honey, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer holdsboth fine, honest sensuality and slow explorations ofsoul. What is shared here is a way forward in life, a fierceopenness that refuses nothing-that knows damageand healing, darkness and radiance, sorrow and wingedresurgence, reflection and laughter and learning.Author BiographyRosemerry Wahtola Trommer is the co-host ofthe Emerging Form podcast on creative process, Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious ki...

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Report copyright infringementby Jayne Cortez (Author), Margaret Busby (Editor), Sapphire (Foreword by)A long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez's poetry.Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way through and across disciplines, bridging poetry and performance with music and the visual arts to create a unique body of work. Consciously rupturing the boundaries between art and politics, Cort...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Mello (Author)Bird Calls is a poetry collection rooted in the natural world. Arranged in sections named for the sounds of different species, each corresponds to a different theme-longing; discovery; communion; loss; and wisdom. Marked by exquisite description and a depth of understanding, Mello brings the full force of a life lived fully to these highly readable, memorable poems. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN...

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Report copyright infringementby Ladonna J. Hite (Author)A TANGIBLE APPETITE. A MEMOIR. A LOVE DIARY... SOON TO COME!I am writer... and it shows! Whatever I write comes true! It manifests! It will manifest! Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2020 Large Print: Yes

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Gregg (Author)The brave poems in this book, Kathleen Gregg's first full-length volume of poetry, tell the deeply moving and sometimes heartbreaking story of a family's struggle with Alzheimer's."Kathleen Gregg's poignant portrayal of her sister's descent into dementia displays the attentiveness only deep love can bring. In Gregg's deft hands, we experience Nancy's "beautiful exuberance" and the sisters' long tight bond as well as the growing space betw...

The House in the Night: A Caldecott Award Winner

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Marie Swanson (Author), Beth Krommes (Illustrator)This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book gets children ready for bed with rhythmic text and glowing illustrations that explore the warmth and light that makes us feel at home. "Here is the key to the house." Inside the house are nighttime things both comforting and intriguing--a bed, many books--and outside, too, there are sources of light and joy--the moon, the sky--that reveal a reassuring order in the...

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by Ann Fisher-Wirth (Editor), Laura-Gray Street (Editor), Robert Hass (Introduction by)Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world and inquires of our human place in a vastness beyond the human. To establish the antecedents of today's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Warren Foulk (Author)In 2021, my Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) won The Poetry Box's annual chapbook competition. A hybrid erasure collection, I attempted a redaction, flipping the meaning of my coming out letter and the act itself on its head. I was influenced by the work of Jen Bervin, Mary Ruefle, and Ángel García. What if I never had to "come out"? Never had to write such a letter? What if the process was rendered unnecessary-erased? What might I h...

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Report copyright infringementby Brady Wright (Author), Gentry Groshell (Artist)Hostage to Silence tells the journey of Brady Wright, a nonverbal autistic young man who, through typing at age 13, finally revealed his poetic voice. Nice to have you reading my secret words. For years in silence, I have watched the world from a dormant life of observation. I hear through the sounds of chatter and pick out word by word. I hear sounds of nature like orchestras of harmonious creatures seeing their s...

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Report copyright infringementby Shemeka McNair (Author)Waiting is not always easy. Even though we are impatient at times, God knows our true desire is to wait for what we know is right for us. This book will prepare you to make better decisions in the mate you choose. You are not exempt from making mistakes and you need to know that you can get back up from a fall, you can bounce back from a breakup, and you can live after a divorce. This book will encourage you and empower you in the area of...

Bloodline (The Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Blevins (Author)In Bloodline, Adrian Blevins deepens her exploration into those areas which have always been the focus of her poetry: babies, mortality and an anxious kind of mother love. But she does not stop there. Blevins settles her unflinching gaze on new subjects ranging from Greek myth to political poetry, revealing a catalogue of losses in language that is by turns, celebratory, edgy, stylized, sad, and sassy. The poems riff on the irreconcilable...

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Report copyright infringementby Toni Thomas (Author)This collection of poems by award winning author Toni Thomas explores the nature of love, challenges of relationship, family, the hopes we carry, things that threaten to fall apart.The poems grapple with expectation, loss, the ability to sustain beauty in an often turbulent world. At the core of the collection is a search for meaning and wholeness. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN Public...

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Report copyright infringementby Lois Parker Edstrom (Author)The most admirable characteristic of these poems in the poetry collection is the supreme simplicity. These poems are devoid of any labored vocabulary. The poems are quite notable on account of sufficiently powerful truth of feeling expressed in spontaneous style. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 26, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator)An evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Award-winning picture book. We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad. As Minty she was a slave whose spirit could not be bro...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Rose Julian (Author)In this book, filmmaker, screenwriter and poet Nicole Rose Julian shares poems from 7 years of their life. From the age of 19 to 26. All from the perspective of a Black, Queer, Femme, They/them. Love lost and gained, struggles at work, from lessons of art school to the lessons of life. Nicole used one notebook to find clarity through all of it and this is that book. The poems contained in these pages are Intimate, loving, heartbreakin...

Ovid: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Llewelyn Morgan (Author)"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, ...

The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems - Paperback

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by Jane Kenyon (Author)"Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry." --Wendell Berry Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America's most cherished poets--celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon's poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur J. Stewart (Author)"Science is like a fine Swiss cheese," he says. From a quirky, down-to-earth, hard-work beginning to a serene, humble end, in Elements of Chance scientist-poet Art Stewart explores the principle of cause and effect, a cornerstone of science. He offers facts--but not just the facts. Come along! In these poems you are invited to appreciate both the facts and the connections and spaces between the facts."A moving synthesis of poetry, biol...

e. e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 - Hardcover

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by E. E. Cummings (Author), George James Firmage (Editor), Stephen Dunn (Introduction by)Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most sensuous lyric poems in the English language, as well as one of the most inventive America...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynne (Aka Elæ) Desilva-Johnson (Artist)Sweet and Low: Indefinite Singular is an artist's book, of a cellular cluster using text as a medium through which to understand "body," "systems," and communicative possibilities. The pain of that body, the mirrors and lack thereof, the strangeness of sound on the tongue becoming concrete, an alchemy towards ink and paper, a transmutation that hopes for healing for "self" and "other," for biome and kin. What does it mean...

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Report copyright infringementby Ilya Kaminsky (Author)Finalist for the National Book Award - Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - Winner of the National Jewish Book Award - Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award - Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize - Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems a...

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by John Coy (Author), Shannon Gibney (Author), Sun Yung Shin (Author)In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from--literally and metaphorically--as well as what unites all of us as humans. Richly layered illustrations connect past and present, making for an accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity. We come from stardust / our bodies made of ancient elements. / We come from single cells / evolving over billions of years. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Holly Mitchell (Author)Thelatest installment in the Sarabande Series in Kentucky Literature, Mare's Nest explores a Kentucky horse farm in its turbulent beginnings. From Kentuckynative and Brooklyn-based poet Holly Mitchell, Mare's Nest troubles the meaning of a racehorse, in particular thebroodmare and the foals she carries. Reaching from the photographic experimentof Muybridge's "The Horse in Motion" to Patti Smith's album Horses, Mitchell touches upon histo...

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Report copyright infringementby Fin Rose Aborizk (Author)What comes after Yesterday? There is the present, then tomorrow, but what happens on the Ever-Lovely Morrow?In this companion to the poetry collection, At The Beginning Of Yesterday, the ship of the author's emotions will navigate you through reinvention, resurfacing, and feeling out the waves of healing. Everything, in some form or another, comes in waves, and this is a poetry collection that celebrates being a writer, acknowledges the...

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Matejka (Author)A suite of poems examining the myth and history of the legendary prizefighter Jack Johnson--a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--from the author, with Youssef Daoudi, of the graphic novel Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century The legendary Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challeng...

Duino Elegies, Deluxe Edition: The Original English Translation of Rilke's Landmark Poetry Cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West - Reissued for the

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Vita Sackville-West (Translator), Edward Sackville-West (Translator)The first-ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West - reissued for the first time in 90 years In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Thea Matthews (Author)One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall!From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist lens with a rare deftness of poetic form."Thea Matthews is our sacred underground; the only host of our ascension."--Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of Blood on the FogGRIME is the underbelly of the city and the dirt found in the human psyche. These p...

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author), Harold Bloom (Introduction by)A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rul...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn Martin (Author), Karen Becker (Illustrator)In these poems, Lynn Martin shares her experiences with a perspective that encompasses diversity, not just the range of differences but respect and understanding for inclusion. Using her love of words, Lynn's readers can think more broadly about diversity with its relevancy to themselves and others, not just in humans, but their surroundings as well. These verses are not about categories but the ideas, insights an...