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A Poem for Every Season: Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Beverly a. Glass (Author)In this life, we must eat and drink to stay alive. We have in different areas of the world some more than others: snow, rain and wind, sunshine, and cool days for the harvest. These seasons all interact to bring forth food with the help of the farmers. So whatever season you go through, let it produce. We all know the adage "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Who doesn't love seventy-degree weather in the winter? But we need th...

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by Jericho Brown (Author)The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.Author BiographyWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Tradition, Jericho Brown earned his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Bread Loaf Wri...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion. Read and share them with the one you love.Author BiographyWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote thirty-seven plays. King Lear and Macbeth are among his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet. Number of Pages: ...

100 Poems to Break Your Heart - Paperback

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by Edward Hirsch (Author)100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a PoemImplicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged...

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New Yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Asanti Mori-Palca (Author)A collection of poems from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 03, 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Carrie Etter (Author)Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poet's mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite of the impossible task of expressing such a loss. Beginning both chronologically and alphabetically, the collection moves from early life with the narrator's adoption, through to the mother's unexpected death and the banal yet painful tasks which follow, such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral. The final section d...

The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds: Poems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Orlando Ricardo Menes (Author)The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures. Menes engages with the Catholic sacraments, saints' lives, and the artistic heritage of this universal faith as well as Cuban art through the use of a variety of poetic sty...

Commissions Y Corridos: Poems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Hakim Bellamy (Author)Hakim Bellamy's latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mexico, taking the good with the bad, and reminds Burqueños that any day when you wake up along the Río Grande is a good day. As Bellamy celebrates the power of creativity and community within the city and the nation, he also demands that we face...

The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Turco (Author)Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. A companion for poets from novice to master, The Book of Forms has been called "the poet's bible" for more than fifty years. Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that...

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Prentiss (Author)Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. It is a world where the sounds of trail tools--Pulaskis, McLeods, and hazel hoes--filter into dreams and set the rhythm of each day. In this memoir-in-poems, Prentiss shares a music most of us will never experience, set to tools swung and sharpened, backd...

Of the Flame: Poems Volume 15 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy E. Slater (Author)A new constellation of wisdom and healing that is modern and timeless.Word by word, the poetic method and wisdom of Wendy E. Slater will radiate into your soul, and liberate you from constraints of self-blame and judgment."Wendy has an unusual perspective on so many things, her writing pictures the differences that keep us from ourselves and others. Be careful. This just might change your life." - Reader Review"Her themes are unpretentio...

Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Canaday (Author)With technical mastery and remarkable empathy, Canaday introduces readers to the people involved in the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb, from initial theoretical conversations to the secretive work at Los Alamos. Critical Assembly also includes brief biographies, notes, and a bibliography for further exploration about this critical event in world history. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 6...

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Report copyright infringementby Tacey M. Atsitty (Author)In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore. Presented in three sections, Tséyi', Gorge Dweller, and Tóhee', the poems negotiate between belief and doubt, self and family, and interior and exterior landscapes. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.9 IN Publication Dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Priscilla Long (Author)Long's work begs to be read aloud in order to savor the rich language and rhythm she instills in each poem. She explores the beauty of specific bridges while employing them as a metaphor for crossings to death (a sister's suicide), eros, and art. Part elegy, the book also explores living, remembering, and celebrating. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2015 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Logghe (Author)This poetry collection showcases all the features of Joan Logghe's work that have attracted so many readers: her attention to detail, her warmth, humor, and passionate and inclusive social conscience. At once postmodern and deeply rooted in her adopted northern New Mexico home, Logghe's work connects disparate events and objects."I named my last child Hope. I never had a last child," she writes in the poem "True or False."Television Is the G...

Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby N. Scott Momaday (Author)Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun (1992), and In the Bear's House (1999).To read Momaday's...

Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Levi Romero (Author), V. B. Price (Foreword by), Anaya Rudolfo (Preface by)"Levi Romero is a strange kind of wizard. He can walk up a New Mexico arroyo and come back with a mysterious object full of quotidian magic. Like a rusted tobacco can the grand-fathers used to roll their smokes. And when you pry open the lid, you can hear their laughter and gossip coming out. That's what he does in poem after poem. I read his work and I learn again how to love this life....

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Report copyright infringementby Tanaya Winder (Author)Tanaya Winder's Words Like Love sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. As an accomplished poet, Winder traverses the darkness in a quest to learn more about the most complex of subjects. With beauty and ease, she explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2021

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by Sean Seville (Author)Limericks of Death by Sean Seville takes readers on a journey through the twisted, macabre, and often unsettling world of death-themed poetry. With a dark and satirical tone, each poem goes beyond the traditional five-line structure of a limerick to explore themes of violence, mortality, and morbid humor. Seville's collection offers a raw and unapologetic glimpse into the darker aspects of human nature, intertwining horror and wit in a way that will captivate readers w...

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by J. Henry Michael (Author), Michael J. Henry (Author)In ACTIVE GODS, Michael J. Henry examines what it means to be both the parent and the son, and his poems reveal threads between these dual identities in small, specific moments: the shared experience of growing up, losing out, escaping, and then resolving to try again. With imagery that is both familiar and personal, ACTIVE GODS creates a world where memories bubble up to themselves known, however "crudely made."Author BiographyMichael He...

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by Rhian Elizabeth (Author)The language in Rhian Elizabeth's poetry feels instinctual: the poems in girls etc pulse and ripple with energy, their rhythms are perfectly pitched. Elizabeth writes of personal experience with an intensity and sharpness that challenges you to look closely. girls etc showcases a defiance, alongside the beauty and vulnerability here, which resonates long after the last page is turned. Rhian Elizabeth brings a breath of fresh air to contemporary poetry. Number of Pag...

The Vulnerable Truths Of An Anxious Mind - Paperback

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by Lilian Grace (Author)The Vulnerable Truths Of An Anxious Mind shares a visionaries experience with the reality and fragility of the soul, as it takes readers through an exploratory journey of life with mental illness.In darkness and light, narrated through poetic verse, these insightful writings reveal the raw understanding of finding yourself again, while choosing to create something beautiful in an otherwise troubling time. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Da...

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by Pattie McCarthy (Author)A poetry chapbook that reflects on shifting time and tides through the language of the shoreline. Pattie McCarthy's extraordinary tides occupies a space in the intertidal, the in-between place of not-quite-land and not-quite-sea. The poems reflect on passing time, fluctuating tides, and on our efforts to predict both. Upon a ground that is always in flux beneath us, McCarthy invites us to question if and how we really know where we are. Considering the language of ...

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by Bronwyn Lovell (Author)In Bed with Animals is a personal poetic exploration of the horror and banality in one woman's lived experience of gender discrimination. It examines the contemporary world through an ecofeminist lens and considers the way that women, the environment, and animals suffer exploitation. This incendiary debut collection unsettles with its heartfelt ferocity. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2022

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat [With CD (Audio)] - Hardcover

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by Nikki Giovanni (Author), Alicia Vergel de Dios (Illustrator), Damian Ward (Illustrator)A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INCLUDED IN THE BOOKLIST TOP 10 ART BOOKS FOR YOUTH! Perfect for fans of A B to Jay-Z and Nikki Giovanni who are seeking modern hip hop poetry books for kids.Our consensus is Hip Hop Speaks to Children is the most essential poetry purchase to make this year.The poetry is enough.The illustrations are enough.The CD is enough.Together, this book is a treasure of which you can...

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by Paul Tran (Author)Finalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker "Paul Tran's debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you." --Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel "This powerful debut marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political vi...

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley Knight (Author)The poems in Shirley Knight's new collection are songs of passion. Love sonnets tell the story of ill-fated love and star-crossed lovers, while other poems commemorate special occasions and loss. Still others honor family and offer inspiration to do the right thing. With clear prose and rich imagery, Shirley's Book of Poems is a deeply satisfying journey into the human soul. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.15 x...

The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army: The Memoirs of Eugene G. Schulz During His Service in the United States Army in World War II - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Eugene G. Schulz (Author) Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 11, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Dewayne Montres Grant (Author)Poetry fueled by love and passion, and heated by the heart's longing. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2011

Smug Senryu: A Compilation of 240 Itemettes - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Howard Hamilton (Author)SMUG SENRYU, a collection of 240 syllabic haikulike 'itemettes, ' is intended to be very jokey, very fun. The essential smugness may be seen in how the author of the aggregation strove to cling absolutely to rigorous aspects of **5-7-5** in terms of counting the included syllables; also, each of the individual brief items might seem to insist on being only one basic English sentence. That no wish or attempt ever existed to honor so...