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Report copyright infringementby Elizz Correa (Author)These are metaphors of surprising events that really happened to me while I was preparing for my twenties. They were nothing I'd wish to go through alone as I did but I know you'll find wake in intelligence, prodigy, and being a know-it-all and being not very good at hiding it. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 30, 2023

Collected Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work ...

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic: On the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Tobias Clay (Author), Morris Jastrow (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur...

All Our Secrets: A Poetry Collection - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bree Leto (Author)This poetry collection from Bree Leto delves into the secrets found in love, heartbreak, struggle, life and desire. Rest assured; you'll find yourself at home in these pages. Come explore the complexities of the human heart; you'll smile, you'll sigh, you'll lust and be left wanting more. A special section, Shared Secrets also brings Bree's writing together with other respected poets from around the globe. Read poetry collaborations from Tom A...

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by Nicholas D'Andrea Jr. (Author)The Nicest Sky is the conclusion of a trilogy that started with High-Speed Chase and continued with We Meet Again. This poetic story tells of love found and love lost, and love found once again. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.21 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 17, 2022

Selected Poems of W. H. Auden - Paperback

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by W. H. Auden (Author), Edward Mendelson (Editor)This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden's work. Newly included are such favorites as "Funeral Blues" and other works that represent Auden's lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining referen...

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by Useni Eugene Perkins (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are?Do you know you can be What you want to be If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young people to dream big and achieve...

Parts of a Life: 40 Stories on Youth to Adulthood - Paperback

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by Chris Ehrlich (Author)We all share common experiences in life - from youth through adulthood. Parts of a Life tells a story about each part. They all matter. They make us who we are. Parts of a Life is a positive gift for anyone to better perceive, understand, and live life. Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.43 x 7 x 4.25 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2023

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by José Olivarez (Author)Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.Author BiographyJosé Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. He is a co-host of the podcast, The Poetry Gods. A winner of fellowships from Poets House, The Bronx Council On The Arts, The Poetry Foundation, and The Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in The ...

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology - Hardcover

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by Kevin Young (Editor)A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition...

Nodira And Uvaysiy: Selected Poems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nodira (Author), Uvaysiy (Author), Nazeela Elmi (Translator)"Nodira And Uvaysiy" is an English translation of selected poems by the two great nineteenth century Uzbek women poets. Nodira was a queen of the Khanate of Kokand and an important patron of the arts. Uvaysiy lived in the palace and was at the heart of its poetic life. The translations are by the English poet Andrew Staniland with the help of Nazeela Elmi and Aidakhon Bumatova. Number of P...

poem book for adults: An Anthology of 44 Artificial Intelligence-Written Poems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Thewizardcow (Author)This collection of 44 poems for adults was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence. I hope you enjoy reading these poems as much as I enjoyed crafting them. This book will provide you with the following benefits: - 44 Poems Written With The Help of Artificial Intelligence - A simple book that you can pick up at any time, begin reading anywhere, and always enjoy - A wonderful present for family, friends, and coworkers. - A Fun...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Blair (Author)In Self-Induced Regicide, Canadian writer, Ryan Blair, embarks on a journey of self-reflection through poetry and lyrics, sharing with readers his battles with self-doubt to shed light on our grasp of identity and contemporary attitudes towards mental health.Expressed with wit and humour, whilst also cutting deep, Ryan's commentary combines unfiltered, intrusive and introverted perspective with a consideration of broader ideologies and philos...

Unspoken Words: An Open Diary - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Fareeda A. Washington (Author)Trauma is something that many of us have experienced in one form or another. While some will cry out for help, many will try to suppress their suffering. It can be difficult to find words to identify your pain. When words are left unspoken, they can fester and slowly kill us inside! There is a way to overcome the effects of trauma by acknowledging and addressing your affliction. In Unspoken Words: An Open Diary, Fareeda A. Washingt...

A Walk from Providence: Memories of a Yorkshire childhood and how it helped shape one man's imagination - Paperback

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by Mark Aspey (Author)The garden gate opens and a soldier walks down the path towards me. He stops, looks down at my enquiring eyes and asks, "who are you?" Without hesitation I answer "I'm Raymond Aspey. Who are you?"" I'm your father," comes the reply, which somehow doesn't startle me. So, with the war over family life resumes for one working class family in Horsforth, Leeds . A walk from Providence is about a life growing up in Horsforth on the outskirts of Leeds between the wars. Using ex...

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by Mary Oliver (Author)Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallma...

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by Homer (Author)This excellent prose translation of Homer's epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization's most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless appeal for modern readers. A cornerstone of Western literature, The Odyssey narrates the path of a fascinatingly complex hero through a world of wonders and danger-filled adventure.After ten bloody years of fighting in the Trojan War, the intrepid Odysseus heads homeward, little ...

El Último Apaga La Luz / The Last One Out Shuts the Lights - Paperback

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by Nicanor Parra (Author)Los poemas que conforman esta obra selecta están pensados como el legado esencial de Nicanor Parra. El último apaga la luz es una amplia y cuidada selección de la obra de quien según Harold Bloom (es incuestionablemente uno de los mejores poetas de Occidente). El libro abarca desde el inaugural Poemas y antipoemas (que se incluye íntegro) hasta los Discursos de sobremesa, pasando por Canciones rusas, Sermones y prédicas del Cristo de Elqui, Lear, Rey & Mendigo y ...

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by Dave Oliphant (Author)Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this poetic biography traces the story of musician Kenny Dorham's career performing with the greatest legends of jazz history's bop and hard bop eras--including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. Also discussing extensive touring as...

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by New Directions (Author), Tynan Kogane (Editor)Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotize, frustrate and delight. And to poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses (Charles Baudelaire: "the sole source of amusement in one's lodgings") as they go about purring, prowling, hunting, play...

Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Ovid (Author), Stephanie McCarter (Translator)Winner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central...

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19) - Hardcover

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by Gwendolyn Brooks (Author), Elizabeth Alexander (Editor)Discover the most enduring works of the legendary poet and first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize--now in one collectible volume "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cu...

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Rivers (Author)Raw Beats: Urban Poetry is a poetry book written from the perspective of a Black Poet. It contains three chapters of poems about the current political and social struggles of urban life. The joys of life are also revealed in poems about love and family. What is Urban Poetry? Why should you read it? The answers may surprise you. Urban poetry is commonly used by poets to describe the social and racial injustices of living in the urban core of...

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Report copyright infringementby F. D. Brake (Author)I began writing TRUTH AND COLD WATER the day I stepped out of an unwanted cold shower four or five years ago. Coldwater leaves no doubt that it is real when you're standing in it. Some have gone to great effort to shape truth into a more palatable story than the reality in which we live. But, truth is much more resilience and like cold water, it can be a shock to one's system. TRUTH AND COLD WATER Is a collection of poems written from my hea...

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald Middlebrooks (Author)This book of poetry are poems of insight and forethought. Although some may be viewed as opinionated, they are factual in content. Both thoughts provoking and the dilemmas the life sometimes throws at all of us. On the 12th of 13 children, my beginnings are humble. My values stem from hard work, accepting responsibility, and getting an education. But most of all, following the "Golden Rule", instilled in me at a very young age that h...

Fanny Crosby's story of ninety-four years - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Fanny Crosby (Author), S. Trevena Jackson (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Numbe...

Bitey the Veggie Vampire: a peculiar poetry picture book - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Chris White (Illustrator), Chris White (Author)Just in time for Halloween 2017, Bitey the Veggie Vampire appears in his first ever poetry picture book For the first time, the peculiar poem about the luckless veggie vampire that was first published in 2000, gets the full-colour illustrated treatment Sink your fangs in now (No vegetables were harmed in the making of this book...)Author BiographyChris White is a globe-trotting author, poet & illustrator fro...

Grandpa's Children's Stories - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Frazier Neal (Author)In this day of technology, children can get on their electronic devices and read stories on their own. However, this method eliminates the parent-child bonding process. These stories were written to allow parents and children to share the opportunity to go into the world of imagination for a brief time and share the precious moments. They are short stories, so they allow for the imagination to take over for a brief period. They were...

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Hardcover

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by Nikki Grimes (Author)One Last Word is the work of a master poet. --Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators. Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses...

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author)The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainly focuses on the G...

Emdash & Ellipses: A Chapbook - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tanzila Ahmed (Author)"Emdash and Ellipses" is the third poetry chapbook to be shared by poet, writer, and activist Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed. The collection of poems written over the course of the past seven years examines thematic struggles of South Asian American identities, Muslim spirituality, grief, social justice purpose, and the journey for love. Spilt in two parts - Poems to Scream and Poems to Whisper - the pieces explore the spaces in-between, loudly and q...

A Can of Mixed Nuts: Short Stories, Poems, Essays and Fish Stories - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Gary S. Anglin (Author)A Can of Nuts is just that...short stories, poem, essays and fish stories. Some are very funny, some will make you stop and think and some will make you feel good. There is a tribute to his adopted father, Jim L. Anglin, who was a song writer and a very early influence in the writer's life both as a person and a lover of music. The essays have subjects far ranging from the treatment of African Americans in the 1950's to what's good to eat...