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How to Be Better by Being Worse - Paperback

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by Justin Jannise (Author), Ricard Blanco (Foreword by)Jannise's Poulin Prize-winning debut poetry collection subverts the self-help genre to celebrate drag culture, queer identity, and breaking the rules.Author BiographyJustin Jannise grew up in rural southeast Texas. As a first-generation college student, he attended Yale University, where he won the 2009 Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for Poetry. He worked as a freelance pop culture writer in New York City before moving to Iowa to attend t...

Journeys of the Heart: Poetry and Pictures - Paperback

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by Lisa Manale (Author), Joseph Manale (Joint Author)In this second, deep worded piece by Father and Daughter, Joseph and Lisa Manale, there is a much wider variety of writings touching on the realities of everyday emotions. From love and loss, triumphs and tears, hopeful times, childhood memories and young love, all expressed in heartfelt, poetic words with a little touch of fun, fantasy and fiction as well. You will also find inside amazing photographs by author Lisa Manale and other incred...

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Manale (Author), Joseph Manale (Joint Author)"Carousel of Memories" is the third book for both Father and Daughter, Joseph and Lisa Manale. This compilation of more heartfelt moments is filled with love, heartbreaks and difficult lessons that we come across in this life that give us strength through our downfalls and difficulties. You will reminisce about your loved ones with the joy of unforgettable memories and the sadness of losing them. Take a trip dow...

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Report copyright infringementby Sylvia Plath (Author)"Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name." -- The Critical QuarterlySylvia Plath's celebrated collection.When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific oeuvre but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Ted Hughes helped bring the collection to life in 1966, and...

Shared Memories: A Millennial Kid Looks Back

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Zwiebel (Author)I, an astronaut, a pioneer traversing the farthest reaches of a universe I once forgot that comes alive when I open my eyes and look up. In her first collection of poetry, Jersey girl Jamie Zwiebel offers memories as she comes of age and travels the world during the 1990s and 2000s. During a time when the Backstreet Boys monopolized the radio waves, Monica Lewinski dominated the headlines, and e-mail, blogging, and skyping were becoming wa...

The Gift of a Memory: A Keepsake to Commemorate the Loss of a Loved One - Hardcover

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by Marianne Richmond (Author)The Gift of a Memory is a warm and gentle gift of love that commemorates the loss of a special life and celebrates our most cherished memories. Each page, with its tender prose and reflective artwork, is a hug for the healing heart."May you sense your loved one's spiriton a lazy sunshine dayand know the one you miss delightsto watch you laugh and play."Created to be a welcome friend for life's emotional journey of loss, this keepsake offers sensitive compassion, h...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucretius (Author), A. E. Stallings (Translator), Richard Jenkyns (Introduction by)A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whether on a well-curated shelf or in your back pocket, these timeless works of ph...

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Can Such Things Be? the Ways of Ghosts. Soldier-Folk. Some Haunted Houses

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Report copyright infringementby Ambrose Bierce (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 is important...

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by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Zachary Leader (Editor), Michael O'Neill (Editor)Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured. This freshly edited collection--the fullest one-volume selection in English--includes all but one of...

If You Go Down to the Woods Today: A Search and Find Adventure - Hardcover

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by Rachel Piercey (Author), Freya Hartas (Illustrator)Journey through a magical woodland with poems to read and things to find in the beautifully illustrated picture book If You Go Down to the Woods. My woodland's full of animals, of every different kind. So shall we stay here for a while and see what we can find? Experience the everyday wonder of nature in this first book of poetry, exploring a magical woodland year. With poems by acclaimed writer Rachel Piercey and illustrations by Freya...

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by Kendra Allen (Author)A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and fr...

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Report copyright infringementby Celina Peerman (Author), Amanda Collett Rundquist (Artist)The Beautifully Over It(TM) Journal is a reflective companion for moments of transition, healing, and becoming. Inspired by the original works of Celina E. M. Peerman with artwork by Amanda Collett Rundquist, this journal offers space to pause, breathe, and return to yourself. Through gentle prompts, open writing space, and poetic grounding lines, it invites you to honor your experiences, reclaim your vo...

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Report copyright infringementby Celeste Nazeli Snowber (Author)Creating in Dangerous Times is a universal invitation to reclaim our human birthright of creativity. Each poem serves as a timely incantation-one might even say a "prescription"-for creative malaise. Designed to stir the memory of our shared humanity, Snowber explores themes of presence and the healing arts, gently nudging us all the while to reawaken, reflect upon, and reconnect with our latent creativity. A beautiful and necessa...

The Unbecoming: A Collection of Poems by Shaill

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Report copyright infringementby Shaillee Juneja (Author)The Unbecoming is a poetic testimony of awakening - a fierce and tender declaration of self-love, legacy, and radiant becoming.In this luminous collection of poetry, the act of shedding becomes sacred. Each poem is a soft rebellion against fear, a whispered prayer of remembrance, a return to what has always been true: That I am love and love is in me.These poems celebrate the shedding and the rising, the breaking and the blazing. They ho...

Hound Dog: A Poet's Memoir of Rock, Revolution, and Redemption

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Report copyright infringementby M. L. Liebler (Author), Ed Sanders (Prologue by)From award-winning Detroit poet M.L. Liebler comes a heartfelt, thumping, and wide-ranging memoir of a life lived with music, muses, and the magic of the written word. From Elvis and Bob Dylan, to Robbie Robertson, Hüsker Dü, and Eminem, Liebler treads his well-traveled road using musical signposts that have defined a generation of artists. Throughout, his love for family, friends, and faith shine brightest, and w...

The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master (Free Bilingual Audio Recordings)

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Report copyright infringementby Chuya Nakahara (Author), Christian Nagle (Translator)"A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara's place on the international stage." --Paul Perry, novelist and poet This definitive bilingual edition of Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937) brings the most dynamic voice in Japanese early Modernist poetry to English-language readers. Goat Songs and Songs of Bygone Days--the two volumes that Chuya prepared for publication during his brief lifetime--are presented in luminou...

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Report copyright infringementby Garrett Hongo (Author)NAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY THE New Yorker - In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach. In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with his characteristic long-lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life, whether waiting for a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Howie Thrift (Author)I was destined to be a peacemaker. Doesn't every family have one?My family, with its traditional values, loving grandparents, and family heirlooms, has always provided a comfortable base and a home. My expectations were that my home and family would be safe, cozy, and unwavering.What of words translated by a peacemaker, certain it was for me too? No protests, make a loving family, keep the peace. I was convinced it would be mine.W...

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Who Let the Crabs Out?: Navigating the Waters of Life

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Report copyright infringementby James Blackwell Gordon (Author)How do you avoid the sand bars in life? In "Who Let the Crabs Out? Navigating the Waters of Life," Captain Jim Gordon will teach you how. Shared stories of what went wrong on boats delight and inform. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 27, 2019

A Life After Death: The Struggle to Live After the Loss of a Child

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Report copyright infringementby Tristan Borland (Author), Jill Borland (Author)How do you schedule a funeral for the sudden death of your three-year-old daughter when you are nine months pregnant? This is one of the many disorienting questions Tristan and Jill faced in the days following their daughter Maria's death. A Life After Death contains their reflections as they faced the tragedy of death while still embracing life, faith, and hope. It is a love letter for the daughter they lost and f...

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Report copyright infringementby Leila Lees (Author)Piripai is natural history as prose poetry. It is a story of place, time and a subtle coming of age on the sand dunes between the river and the sea. The book is structured around twenty-six birds that inhabited Piripai, and ordered according to the time of year, beginning in spring and ending in winter. It is suffused with observation and memory, conveyed in a stripped-back style that both evokes and abstracts. Through the eyes of the book's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Lexi Pelle (Author)Lexi Pelle's debut, Let Go With The Lights On, chronicles a wise-cracking ex-Catholic girl's rollercoaster life while troubling the notions of self, art, religion, and beauty. Through the lens of pop culture, these candid narratives reimagine beauty standards and grapple with the awkwardness of girlhood, struggles with body image and recovery, and questions of faith. In this intimate journey, with a fearless and unreserved voice, Pelle constr...

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Report copyright infringementby Bree Bailey (Author)Bree Bailey's debut poetry collection, 'Wailing on Whisper Street', deftly navigates themes such as sexism, coming-of-age in poverty, working-class struggles, and the enduring impact of grief. The collection also addresses mental health issues and raises awareness by breaking the silence imposed by societal norms. The verses are rooted in the determined life of a Latina mother and fearlessly confront pervasive issues of sexism and femininity...

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Earleywine (Author)What does it mean to love someone well? What does it mean to be a good daughter, or a good wife? What does it look like to step outside the way these roles have been prescribed to us?In her debut full-length collection, I Now Pronounce You, Caroline Earleywine explores these questions and more as she takes us on the journey of a daughter processing the emotional landscape of her parents' divorce, an Arkansas public school teacher com...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Eaves (Author)On Shadow Moses Island, a black-ops mission unfolds again, but this time in fourteen-line bursts. Metal Gear Sonnets replays the iconic 1998 game as a formally inventive sequence that moves through codec calls, boss battles, hostage scenes and end credits, letting lyric tenderness and brutal comedy share the same frame. Laurie Eaves writes with the precision of a speedrunner and the ear of a poet, turning stealth mechanics into meditation, ...

Autonomy and Heteronomy of Art: A Treatise on the Phenomenology of Poetics

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Report copyright infringementby Luciano Anceschi (Author), Philip Balma (Translator)Poetry finds its own reason to be and its own dignity within itself. It does this despite any evaluation of poetry in relation to its range, of any moralistic, pedagogical, or didactic purpose, or any moral, philosophical, or scientific content. Unbound by realism, naturalism, sensualism, or sentiment, looking beyond any concrete, defined content, or any dispersive tendency towards narrative or discourse, poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Heather Bozant Witcher (Editor), Amy Kahrmann Huseby (Editor)Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism. The authors in this collection position Pre-Raphaelite poetics broadly in the sense of poiesis, or acts of making, aiming to identify and explore the Pre-Raphaelites' diverse f...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Grosskopf (Created by), John Christopher Nelson (Author)*LIGHTS zine is a new outlet for a variety of local and Pleasure Boat Studio talents to showcase their work, providing another forum for creativity & community. Behind the name: When first coming up with the name for this collective way to publish more people, and without the gambling nature of worrying about reviews and success for authors, as well as a way to brand and get more widely known in...

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Boudreau (Author)Winner, 2019 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Silver Medal, 2020 Florida Book Award In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover's name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor...

At the Midpoint of Eternity: Musings and Illustrations

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew J. Goldman (Author), Matthew J. Goldman (Illustrator)Stories about growing up in rural CT, living and boating around southeastern CT, reflections on writing, working, loving, and illustrating. Illustrations of buildings, ships, mythological beings, birds and animals. Also a bit of travel writing by plane and sailboat to and from Virgin Gorda, and a brief visit to the Everglades. The joys and concerns of keeping and maintaining a sailboat, a cat, and a w...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Oliver (Author)"The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming." --The Boston Globe Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraor...