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Report copyright infringementby Michael D. Riley (Author)In Pattern Evidence, his final collection, Michael D. Riley sifts through the evidence of ordinary life in search of the patterns that lend shape and meaning to our days. Like a forensic scientist in search of the telling clue, the poet scrutinizes his loves and his losses, and like a trial attorney in pursuit of the truth, he interrogates and cross-examines participants in his own past and in the drama of human existence. Set largely i...

Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby James Owens (Author)James Owens' stunning valediction, both for and forbidding mourning, slices with steely memory to the "wet bone." Stumbling with a boy's "ignorant gravity," Owens cannot right the "unbalanced accounts" of his miner father's sooty lungs, his parents' exhausted marriage--nor his own professed failings. Yet his keen eye in and of the natural world does lead to the scales balanced, if precariously--in belonging "on the brief earth," in parsing s...

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Report copyright infringementby Ellery Capshaw (Author)This eloquent literary collection from Ellery Chapshaw reflects on her time as Natalie Snyder in the long-running soap opera As the World Turns, uncovering a different, darker reality behind the camera through poems and personal essays.Within the soundstage of a Brooklyn television studio on E 14th St., a young girl believes her acting career is all bright lights and playing dress up, but her messy reality is in stark juxtaposition to the...

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Report copyright infringementby Wt Cammer (Author)It's not an easy life, being on the road, traveling from east coast to west coast, chasing jobs and the all-mighty dollar-but it's a compelling one. There's satisfaction in creating something of beauty, precision, and craftsmanship-things built with your own hands. But there is a cost: missing home and loved ones. Life of a Hand gives a window into the world of the hand, with thoughts on work, the lure of the road and the next job, and the fam...

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Place (Author) Number of Pages: 298 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 05, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Nolan (Author), Norma Jean Devico (Illustrator)Newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Steve Nolan called every person in the country rumored to have the same form of cancer. He was misinformed about NJ DeVico's leukemia; she had myelodysplastic syndrome. The initial phone call revealed his love of poetry and her love of art. A collaboration--and friendship--was born.Nolan has been writing poetry for 40 years, has spent time in Afghanistan, and as a social...

After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Clay (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), M. C. Kinniburgh (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A revolutionary anthology of visual poetry contextualizing works within their original small-press publications, from authors such as Wallace Berman and Marian Zazeela to titles such as Ginger Snaps and FuturaBy the 1960s, visual and experimental poetry was widely acknowledged as the first truly international poetry movement, occurring on several continents. The simultaneous "mi...

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Chaucer (Author)Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This new edition includes a comprehensive int...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Baer (Author)The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.Kate's second full-length book of confessional poetry, And Yet, dives deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of her writing: motherhood, friendship, love, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Danez Smith (Author)FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 2025 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning...

Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

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Report copyright infringementby Coleman Barks (Author)Rumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks.Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeously packaged compilation of spiritual love poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic. Rumi is best known and most cherished as the poet of love in all its forms, and renowned poet and Rumi interpretor Coleman Barks has gathered the best of th...

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by Margaret Atwood (Author)A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a li...

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Report copyright infringementby David Mason (Author)In The Sound acclaimed poet David Mason collects his best shorter work of the past forty years, including lyrics like "Song of the Powers" and darkly brilliant narratives "The Collector's Tale" and "The Country I Remember," which Anthony Hecht called "a welcome addition to the best that is now being written by American poets." A poet of love and history and nature, Mason forges a language that can reconnect us to the world. Numb...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo

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Report copyright infringementby J. R. R. Tolkien (Author)Three masterpieces of medieval poetry, translated by the author of The Lord of the Rings--including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the poem that inspired the major motion picture The Green Knight Comparable to the works of Chaucer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo weave a bright tapestry of stories from a remote age of chivalry and wizards, knights and holy quests--but unlike The Canterbury Tales, the name of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics.Author BiographyA private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935-2019) g...

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poetry Anthology, a

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Bly (Author)"[The editors'] collaboration resulted in a book with a remarkable group of poets across the ages, from Emily Dickinson to Charles Bukowski, from Catullus to Bob Dylan. . . . These are poems focusing on concerns of the heart--fathers and sons, love and hurt, peace and war, anger, denial and zaniness." -- Seattle PostRobert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collectio...

The Syntax of Beowulf: Word Order, Poetic Meter, and Formulaic Technique in the Old English Verse Clause

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Russom (Author)In this monumental contribution to Old English philology, Geoffrey Russom integrates important discoveries about syntax, meter, and oral-formulaic composition to interpret striking differences between Old English poetry and prose, including many differences that have previously evaded detection. The prehistory of English word order is traced from about 300 BCE, when alliterative meter was born, to the era of Beowulf (about 700 CE). Evolu...

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Report copyright infringementby Mangalesh Dabral (Author)An attentive critique on contemporary reality--modernity, capitalism, industrialization--this first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for the dislocated, disillusioned people of our time. Juxtaposing the rugged Himalayan backdrop of Dabral's youth with his later migration in search of earning a livelihood, this collection explores the tense relationship between country and ci...

Really Woolly My First Easter - Board Book

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by Dayspring (Author), Bonnie Rickner Jensen (Author), Julie Sawyer Phillips (Illustrator)Celebrate the hope of Jesus and the true meaning of Easter with this basket-shaped board book of poems and prayers from DaySpring's Really Woolly series. Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers will giggle along with this lovable sheep as they discover that the Easter story is full of joy, from baby ducklings and blooming flowers to knowing that Jesus is alive forever and ever! Curl up with your own little la...

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Report copyright infringementby Niall Campbell (Author)The Island in the Sound, the third collection by Scottish poet Niall Campbell, creates an archipelago of memories, lyrics, observations and folktales that place the small islands of his birthplace into conversation with moments from literature and history.In this collection, mirroring the islands' precarious future, we uncover strange links to Rome falling, Lindisfarne, and the temporary heaven found in Alamut, North Iran. The waters that...

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Report copyright infringementby Diannely Antigua (Author)With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body's capacity to cage and cradle sadness. Diannely Antigua's Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection "voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope," chronicling Antigua's reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truths-a stepfather's abusive touch, a mother...

Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present

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Report copyright infringementby E. Lynn Harris (Editor)Freedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel, Just Above My Head, then on to the radical writings of the 1980s, the breakthrough successes of the 1990s, and up to today's new works, editor E. Lynn Harris collects 47 sensational stories, poems, novel excerpts, and essays. Authors featured i...

Kind Words Uplift: Nourish your Relationships with Inspirational Verses for all Occasions

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Report copyright infringementby Fuller Celia (Author)Words Heal, Words Uplift, Words Change the World An inspiring collection of verses to revive relationships and put more love and meaning into communication. Show your love and care with these words. Take time out of your day to choose, rewrite or post your loving thoughts and well wishes. Be creative, make your own cards or create precious social media moments. Within these pages are over two hundred beautifully crafted Inspirational verses...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Lee (Author)WINNER, North American Poetry Book Award, Poetry Society of Virginia (2026)"The eighty septets in Dining on Salt capture tender care for an ill spouse and her subsequent death. These are lines of grief and going on. Rather than feeling contained, each septet has space enough to widen into understanding."-Lauren Camp, New Mexico Poet Laureate, author of In Old Sky Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.32 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby M. S. Redcherries (Author)WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "This is an incredibly powerful book of poetry that is also fiction but it is so real, and singular, as to defy definition, and I defy anyone to read it and come away unchanged." --Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity mother is a work rooted in an intimate ...

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Lanning (Author), Dudgrick Bevins (Author)From the publisher: Brimming with adolescent angst, the authors embark on a journey to reconnect seventeen years after they were seventeen. A conversation in poems and letters, Light Travels Further than Sound invites you into the private world of the authors - a world with its own language and mythology. "Dudgrick Bevins and Allen Lanning draw on the rituals of Georgia youth to create their own rites and mytholog...

Point Blank: Death Never Leaves Your Door

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Report copyright infringementby Rev Colone Caton Officer Cia (Author)This book is about a life intwined with God. And what happened within that union. After thirty years of what seemed like a life time, the day finally came when Gary had to decide if he would keep his memories or let them go. The CIA strongly desired that he submit to a wiping of sensitive material. What they did not expect was for him to be so in tuned to how a computer worked, that he might be able to over ride this wiping ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Kaye-Smith (Author)"Saints in Sussex" by Sheila Kaye-Smith offers a collection of poems celebrating the lives and legacies of Christian saints. This volume presents a series of biographical sketches in verse, exploring the religious devotion and impact of these figures. Situated within the realm of religious poetry, the book delves into the spiritual journeys of various saints, connecting their stories to the historical landscape of Sussex. A work of bot...

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Linz (Author), September Summer (Editor)Compilation of 10 Chapbooks. Each chapbook had its own theme-- family, friends, the dirty XXX stuff of the first, But each remains a part of who I am, who I might want to become: A poet. A brother, a son, a friend. A sexual being. An addict. A man. Even though some work might offend; it's "not for everybody," (from Steppenwolf, long ago). Here's (close to) the all of me...a lifetime of words; Tried hard to write trut...

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Report copyright infringementby Juan M. Maroñas (Author)Juan M. Maroñas con el libro "POESÍA CRUDA, POESÍA COCIDA" da un paso más allá. Busca trascender, o al menos alcanzar, las barreras de lo que consideramos vivir la poesía.El autor expone lo que entiende: qué somos y sus contradicciones. Adoptando la forma de poesía variada y a veces compuesta en forma de prosa, trata de recorrer un proceso vital y percepciones, ahora expuestas al amable lector.Continúa con el tiempo como objeto inasequib...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Blair (Author)"The Epoch of the Shawl Trade in Paisley," writes the author of this interesting volume, "is now rounded off. Like a flower it came up, blossomed, and decayed." Even thus, in Paisley, does the poetic imagination weave garlands of blooming thoughts round textile fabrics. The book, however, is description and history, not an effusion of creative art. The shawls are now rarities sought for by collectors. To such persons this volume must prove...