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Report copyright infringementby Willie Perdomo (Author)From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighbo...

James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man: Constancy and Transition in the Work of James Wright - Hardcover

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by Kevin Stein (Author)Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from traditional to more experimental forms, few have noted also the elements of constancy in the evolution of his poetry. In this first comprehensive scholarly introduction to Wright's work, Stein traces the unified growth of Wright's poetry, asserting that while stylistic changes are often more apparent than actual, Wright does undergo a continu...

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Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author), David Raeburn (Translator), Denis Feeney (Introduction by)Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation--often as a result of love or lust--where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of...

Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Kosick (Author), Kenneth R. Mikolowski (Interviewee) The innovative countercultural movement from one of the most notable twentieth-century presses. In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kosick chronicles the rise, work, and legacy of the Alternative Press, a grassroots art and poetry publishing initiative founded in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. Operated by Ken and Ann Mikolowski out of their home, the Alternative Press published original countercultural art...

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by Vanessa Kisuule (Author)Vanessa Kisuule's second release is a poetry collection with a difference: it is a cathartic explosion, an unspooling of long harboured fears and resentment and a delving into ugly and uncomfortable truths. It is a recipe for womanhood that changes with the whim of the seasons and the political climate. It is a feverish fistful of musings, a comedy of errors, an instruction manual, a compass, an overheard conversation in the ladies' loo, whispered secrets over a (se...

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Report copyright infringementby Archie E. Anderson (Author)For anyone who doesn't know and all of us who think we do.The poetry of life will grow and tell it all to me and you.Expressing thoughts and feelings from youth to older ages.All the soughts and dealings in a multitude of pages.Through all the triumphs and the strife.From war to peace and love for life.Everything from nature to the "favourite wife". - D.M.A (editor)Archway: Lifetime Rhyme is a collection of more than 1,000 poems in th...

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Report copyright infringementby Malcolm Edi Greenidge (Author)This is a hybrid memoir and poetry collection combining autobiographical stories, essays, song backstories, and reflections on life, art, family, and culture. It reads like a literary and musical journey through your career and personal evolution - from early inspirations to my work with Tupac and the Outlawz, fatherhood, spirituality, and social commentary. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Timelord Dreaming: tweetems from ward 8b

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Report copyright infringementby David P. Reiter (Author)You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you're rationed ever increasing doses of morphine on your way to the hospital. In the EW, a heart attack is ruled out but the mystery intensifies. Until a CT scan reveals the truth... "You", in this case, was the author, who, with the kindness of a Dr Who understudy and other medical staff at the Mater Hos...

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Report copyright infringementby P. M. Draper (Author)A Journey of Family, Loss, and the Lifelong Vow to Never ForgetDo you really know the backstory of your family history?In, From the Other Side of Maybe, P.M. Draper crafts a poetic memoir. For her granddaughters. In six chapters, she outlines her life story couched in her poetry. In so doing, she weaves a tale that carries the reader through unimaginable happenings and heartbreak. Each chapter begins with a letter to her granddaughters, hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Gingell (Author)E.J. Pratt (1882-1964) is one of Canada's best-known poets. This volume collects, for the first time, his own comments on his life and work. Pratt's good humour, his sincerity, and his extraordinary capacity for friendship emerge in these pages. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1983

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

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Report copyright infringementby James Weldon Johnson (Author), Maya Angelou (Introduction by), Henry Louis Gates (Editor)Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preac...

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Report copyright infringementby Pattiann Rogers (Author), John A. Rogers (Contribution by)"[Rogers'] poems bring an openness of spirit and an almost scientific curiosity to the world at her feet, cataloging unexpected connections everywhere she looks." --New York Times Book Review A new collection from a poet whose "celebrations of science and approachable yet profound spiritual connection to the Earth delight, entertain, and elevate" (The Poetry Foundation) Denise Levertov has called the po...

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Report copyright infringementby John O'Donohue (Author)John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality, Anam Cara. Just as To Bless the Space Between Us was being published, he died suddenly at the age of fifty-two. His powerfully wise and lyrical voice is profoundly missed, but his many readers are now given a special opportunity to revisit John in his first book, a collection of poetry. O'Donohue's readers know him as both a spiritual g...

Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers: A Weather Poem for Every Day of the Year

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Report copyright infringementby Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor)This latest anthology from Jane McMorland Hunter covers all aspects of the weather: from storms to heat waves to April showers, as well as how weather itself has been disrupted through climate change. This latest anthology from Jane McMorland Hunter covers all aspects of theweather: from storms to heatwaves to April showers, as well as how weather itselfhas been disrupted through climate change. From the nursery rhyme 'Rain, Rain, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Strasburg (Author)Kate Strasburg found these poems in a storage locker, 33 years after writing them during a painful divorce. Her therapist urged her to publish them, in order to help others navigating a similar painful transition. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 16, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Vincent (Author)Studded with moments of surprise, wit, and intellectual delight, this light-footed, piercing memoir of grief tracks reverberations of loss and acceptance across a lifetime.When Erin Vincent was fourteen years old, both of her parents were killed in a traffic accident. Almost forty years later, the number fourteen began haunting Erin, appearing everywhere--in the books she was reading, in films, TV shows, and on the news.The repetition felt ...

Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them

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Report copyright infringementby Tess Taylor (Author), Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Foreword by)This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal--an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world. Much like reading a good poem, caring for plants brings comfort, solace, and joy to many. In this new poetry anthology, Leaning toward Light, acclaimed poet and avid gardener Tess Tay...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Stepanova (Author), Sasha Dugdale (Translator)The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor--the world had withdrawn from her, time had "gone numb." When she awoke from this state, she began to read Ovid, and the shock of the pandemic dissolved into the voices and metaphors of a transformative, epochal experience. Her book-length poem Holy Winter, written in a...

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by Adam O. Davis (Author)This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are Koan-like--the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as "federal bone" bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica L. Walsh (Author)In an effort to understand how people grow from the soil of their family's past-and particularly, how I got to be who I am as a person and poet-Blowdown takes on the work of archaeology. Historical evidence, most newly found during the process of writing the book, uncovers so little of the truth; instead, what I find remains fully fragmented, like pieces of bone unearthed after centuries. These poems attempt to piece those fragments int...

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Report copyright infringementby Rabih Moussan (Author)Your Silence Was Never Empty: This isn't just a quote book. It is a reckoning.For the ones who kept quiet to survive.For the ones still pretending they're fine.For the ones who finally want the truth to hurt and free them.Your Silence Was Never Empty is a raw, poetic excavation of grief, rage, healing, and reclamation.Structured across five emotional chapters: �� The Inheritance of Silence�� The Collapse and the Clawing�� The Rage Th...

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Report copyright infringementby Flora Fennimore (Author), Flora Fennimore (Illustrator)Earth's fingers bewitch humans with their collection of weeds and seeds, their soft and not-so-soft sounds of love and death, and their passion to sing from the "toes inside out." These utterances of nature speak the poetry of life. Earth Talking captures them in a collection of poetry designed for young and mature adults alike. Edgy black-and-white illustrations enhance Earth Talking's vibrant, verbal imag...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Harper Webb (Author)Beguiled by Webb's poetry since October '99, when I found myself in a bookstore poetry section unable to tear myself from Liver's marvelous poems, when a screaky voice, breaking my concentration, asks, Are you going to buy that book? 25 years go by, and Old Gnu-- this latest collection of driven, deeply remembered, funny/tragic, linguistically brilliant, brilliantly composed and moving explorations of the human experiment-- once agai...

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Report copyright infringementby William K. Gillespie (Author), Stephanie Strickland (Editor)Lost Citizen: Selected Poems 1995-2003 is a survey of the millennial poetry of William Gillespie, edited by Stephanie Strickland. Gillespie includes Newspoetry, formal experiments from Table of Forms, prose poetry, and a lovely miscellany of compositions. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 20, 2008

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Peera (Author)This is a deliciously creative and intellectually satisfying poetry book with over 90 original poems, art, and videos created by and for humans who value real intelligence!The inspiration to write 'INTELICIOUS' was Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, the smart machines' takeover of the organic human brain to - shrink it, dumb it down, morph it into an emotionless, apathetic, unimaginative wasteland - and to then make a case to fill it with ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Scott Wilson (Translator), Manda (Illustrator)A lyrical celebration of cats through the timeless beauty of Japanese haiku and brush art. This beautifully illustrated volume presents 82 cat-themed haiku by Japan's most celebrated poets--including Basho, Issa, Shiki, Buson, Soseki and many others. Beautifully compiled and illustrated by award-winning artst Manda, and translated by bestselling author William Scott Wilson, this collection pairs classic vers...

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Report copyright infringementby Pablo Neruda (Author), W. S. Merwin (Translator), Cristina García (Introduction by)Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal and directed by Pablo Larraín A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flapsFirst published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda's most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collecti...

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Walcott (Author)Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events--the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement--and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exi...

A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play

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Report copyright infringementby Marilyn Singer (Author), Leuyen Pham (Illustrator)A paean to play from an award-winning poet and a New York Times best-selling illustrator. The trappings of childhood change from generation to generation, but there are some timeless activities that every kid loves. Marilyn Singer and LeUyen Pham celebrate these universal types of play, from organized games such as hide-and-seek and hopscotch to imaginative play such as making mud soup or turning a stick into a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lupita Almaraz (Author)Someone is You, A Poetry Collection by Lupita Almaraz. "Lupita Almaraz is a poet whose words are forged in the fires of adversity and resilience. Born, Guadalupe Almaraz, above a Piggly Wiggly store in the small town of Hebbronville, Texas, she defied the odds to become the first in her family to earn a Doctor of Jurisprudence and to practice law. A woman of fierce independence and formidable intellect, she has worn many titles: mother, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Wilkinson (Author)2ND EDITION: Unto the Breach is a chronological and semi-biographical collection of poetry, essays, and short stories by Hannah Wilkinson. Writings explore a variety of themes from the bold exploration of youth to the biting pleasure of love to the systematic paralysis of mental illness. Once more unto the breach. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 28, 2023 ...

The Princess Saves Herself in This One: Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Lovelace (Author), Ladybookmad (Author)Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace's the princess saves herself in this one is a transcendent collection of poetry about resilience. the princess saves herself in this one is the first book in Amanda Lovelace's "women are some kind of magic" poetry series. In four sweeping arcs -- the Princess, the Damsel, the Queen, and You -- Lovelace threads her own story of heartbr...