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Report copyright infringementby Laura Williams-Chassot (Author)"Oasis" is a refuge of comfort and safety, a plunge into beauty, a respite from toil. It can offer a pause for reflection on the journey; perhaps a time for Memories of "Ice cream on a hot sidewalk where childhood skipped..." This precious resource, Laura Williams-Chassot reveals is within. It is not kind, not necessarily gentle, with Memories of "Healing pain that can't be fixed;" but is nurturing. It is not always accessible. Bu...

Hallelujah Anyhow!: A Healing Anthology of Poems, Letters, Prayers & Art

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Report copyright infringementby Sabrina C. Nash (Author), Nikki Giovanni (Contribution by)Open your mind, heart and spirit to the healing powers of poetry and art!Hallelujah Anyhow! Is an anthology of poems, letters, prayers, stories and art about life. Hallelujah Anyhow! will take you (the reader), on a journey of growth and development through explored topics "Popular Culture & Life", "Relationships & Situationships," "Family Matters," "Growing Pains," and "Transitioning". This book...

Crowns & HoneyRock: A Daughter's Journey to Surrender, Strength and Sacred Dreams

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Report copyright infringementby Kristen S. Hale (Author)You were never meant to live unseen.This is a story for the woman who doubts, delays, or wonders if she's enough.Crowns & HoneyRock is part personal memoir, part sacred encouragement - a journey through fear, insecurity, bold dreams, and a God who never stops calling us forward.Through honest storytelling, quiet worship moments, and gentle truth, Kristen invites you into a deeper walk with the One who sees you. The One who crowns you...

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Chartier (Author)Ms. Chartier enjoys reading tarot cards as a medium for guidance and interpreting her inner most thoughts and feelings about her life. She uses the story of the hero's journey through the major arcana cards in the tarot deck for the poems in this book. Poems are written for The Fool card through The Moon card, cards 0-18, as Ms. Chartier feels that is currently where she sits on her healing journey. Number of Pages: 36 ...

The Capital That Couldn't Stay Put: The Complete Book of California's Capitols

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Report copyright infringementby June Oxford (Author)June Oxford has covered the historical movement of California's capital, the political movements that affected decisions, as well as the story of the restoration of the Sacramento Capitol building. This book was produced by James Stevenson Publisher and sold from the third of California's state capitals in Benicia, which is now a state park, as well as the Sacramento State Capitol bookstore. This book is the complete book of California's Cap...

Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Bulletin

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Kate Mullen (Editor)The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. SUMMER SELECTIONS April, May, June 2018 Choice: Vahni Capildeo, Venus as a Bear (Carcanet) Recommendations: ...

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by Yesika Salgado (Author)Debut best-selling title by nationally recognized poet Yesika Salgado. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2018

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by Yesika Salgado (Author)Second title from the critically received and nationally-recognized poet Yesika Salgado. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2018

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by Yesika Salgado (Author)Third title to the critically received and nationally-recognized poet Yesika Salgado. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: September 09, 2019

All of Us: The Collected Poems - Paperback

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by Raymond Carver (Author)A rich collection of poems from not only "one of the great short story writers of our time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America's most large-hearted and affecting poets.Like Raymond Carver's stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together...

The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke - Paperback

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by Theodore Roethke (Author)Front JacketThis paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes plus sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners "The Walking, Words for the Wind, and "The Far Field.Author BiographyBorn in 1908 in Saginaw, MI, Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most ...

Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space: Poems - Paperback

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by Catherine Barnett (Author)The loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces--at bedside vigils and in city streets--quickens Catherine Barnett's metaphysical poems, which are like speculative prescriptions for this common human experience. Here loneliness is filled with belonging, which is in turn filled with loneliness, each state suffused and emptied by the other. Barnett's fourth collection is part manifesto, part how-to manual, part apologia: a guide to the homeopathic dangers and heal...

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by Emily Austin (Author)Interviewed on Q with Tom PowerA collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers does not mean that this collection is irreverent. On the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for ...

Water Rolls, Water Rises/El Agua Rueda, el Agua Sube - Paperback

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by Pat Mora (Author), Meilo So (Illustrator)Lasting Connection Title, Book Links Junior Library Guild Selection Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit, Bank Street College of Education Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Green Earth Book Award Short List, The Nature Generation Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators...

Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Sidman (Author), Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)Told through poetic letters, this inventive collaboration from Newbery Honor winner Joyce Sidman and two-time Caldecott Honor artist Melissa Sweet reveals the everyday conversations between "big" and "little" objects in our ecosystem. Delightful!Dear Sky, Hello! It's me, Bubble!I'm here!Someone's breathed meawake!What is it like to be little? What is it like to be big?Award-winning poet Joyce Sidman explores bot...

Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert Volume 32 - Paperback

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by Ofelia Zepeda (Author)The annual seasons and rhythms of the desert are a dance of clouds, wind, rain, and flood--water in it roles from bringer of food to destroyer of life. The critical importance of weather and climate to native desert peoples is reflected with grace and power in this personal collection of poems, the first written creative work by an individual in O'odham and a landmark in Native American literature. Poet Ofelia Zepeda centers these poems on her own experiences growing...

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by Joy Harjo (Author)In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother's death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo's personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN Publication...

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by John Keene (Author)"Punks is utterly brilliant ... Keene's masterfully inventive inquiry of self and history is queered, Blackened and joyously thick with multitudes of voice and valence." --Tyehimba JessA landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punks weaves ...

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide - Paperback

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by Eric Magrane (Editor), Christopher Cokinos (Editor), Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)A land of austerity and bounty, the Sonoran Desert is a place that captures imaginations and hearts. It is a place where barbs snag, thorns prick, and claws scratch. A place where lizards scramble and pause, hawks hunt like wolves, and bobcats skulk in creosote. Both literary anthology and hands-on field guide, The Sonoran Desert is a groundbreaking book that melds art and science. It captures the stunning biod...

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by Paisley Rekdal (Author)Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms and documents, West: A Translation explores what unites and divides America, drawing a powerful, necessary connection between the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943).In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is Wes...

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by Richard Wagner (Author), John Deathridge (Translator), John Deathridge (Editor)A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring Cycle, in a Penguin Classics hardcover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audi...

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by Monica Youn (Author)A major achievement by Monica Youn, "one of the most consistently innovative poets working today" (NPR). "Where are you from . . . ? No--where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core o...

The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation - Paperback

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by Sohrab Sepehri (Author), Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (Editor), Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (Translator)The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation is the first complete translation of the collected poems of Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), a major Iranian modernist poet and painter and yet under-translated into English. The introduction takes up Sepehri's famously difficult if languidly beautiful style to explain it as a series of appropriations of global modernisms in poetry and painting. It offers cl...

The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems - Paperback

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by William Carlos Williams (Author)Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader--The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.3 x 5.9 x 3.8 IN Publication Date: May 29, 2018

The Argonautika by Orpheus: Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity - Hardcover

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by Alexandra Maria Madela (Author)Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, but the anonymous author of the Argonautika by Orpheus disagreed. This book, the first English monograph on this late antique epic poem, demonstrates that the idea of competing with Homer is central to the Argonautika by Orpheus. Through a series of case-studies on the poem's diction and compositional technique, it proposes a novel approach. ...

The Raven and Other Poems: Fully Annotated Edition - Paperback

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author)The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his maturity - such as his famous ballads 'The Raven' and 'Lenore' - to those he published in his youth and those that were collected immediately after his premature death in 1849. Also included in this volume is a selection...

Pindar's Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study - Hardcover

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by Laura Massetti (Author)Pindar's Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Donika Kelly (Author)An extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations What does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come to recognize that she did? Donika Kelly's poetry is known for its resonant, unflinching confrontations with trauma and inheritance, translated through myth and nature. The Natural Order of Things expands these explorations into a new realm: one...

The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Hunter (Author)An ode to America's people, land, and spirit, this stunning collection features a breadth of contemporary and historical poetry from the Atlantic magazine's 168-year archive. The poetry of The Atlantic has, from the magazine's first issue in 1857, called attention to the unfinished project of the nation. The magazine's verse has featured odes to American leaders and landscapes, laments for the dead, and calls for change, appealing to the end...

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Limón (Author)Now in paperback! With over 60,000 hardcover copies in print, the astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselvesfrom U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada Limón."I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Limón. "I am the hurting kind." What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world's pain and joys, but to the...

The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Volume II

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Report copyright infringementby Jessie Reyez (Author), Jessie Reyez (Narrated by)A love letter to the healing power of collaboration and feeling seen, The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Vol II is a must-read for anyone looking to rid themselves of the guilt of existing and get lost in the razor sharp mind of Jessie Reyez. Born from a popular long-running series on her Instagram page, the latest poetic offering from pop star and bestselling author Jessie Reyez is a collection of in-t...

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Report copyright infringementby Silas House (Author)A timely and poignant poetry collection by acclaimed author and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear's 2023 inauguration and an interview by Barbara Kingsolver.Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters--a novelist, music journalist, environmental activist, columnist, and the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky. His first full-length collection of poe...