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Report copyright infringementby Rake E. Bond (Author)Penned notes, day dreams, pangs and hopes of the world in love. Number of Pages: 30 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Paiton Williams (Author)A collection of poems from all the times I left my mind to wander freely. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Clark (Author)This book is about the letters or thoughts in my head I had about the loved ones who hurt me. They have either hurt me physically, mentally or emotionally. This book decribes how I felt during the pain, after the pain and after letting go of the pain. This book is about growth within and how to deal with trauma caused by other people. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: ...

I Just Want to Be Included: A Book About Gender Identity and Inclusiveness - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Veronika Olsson (Author), Julia Hawkins (Illustrator)Wanting to be included is a universal longing. We have struggled to find our place in life. We have watched our kids struggle to find theirs. Although this book addresses gender identity, it is for anyone who has felt excluded in life. Our hope is to provide community and safe spaces for expressing daily struggles in life.Have you ever talked with friends about doing something that seemed unlikely, even impos...

Guard the Dead: Poems of War and Honor - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Davis (Author)From the author of Gigs and The Reservist, John Davis's new poetry collection Guard the Dead explores the consequences of war and the struggles of the human spirit to endure. As a former Coast Guard veteran, Davis brings an authentic voice to his verses on military life, violence, trauma, and the perseverance of love amidst unimaginable hardship.Populated with vivid imagery and unflinching honesty, Davis's poems transform the personal into th...

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Pablo Neruda (Author), Mark Eisner (Editor)This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems is indispensable.Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes.An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman, have come together to revisit or completely ...

Language for the Living and the Dead - Paperback

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by Chris Ransick (Author)"The voice of these poems lives in myth and dream, and therefore holds the secrets of our deepest hopes and desires. Ransick knows how to beautifully turn a line, forging music and image into moments masterfully crafted-moments that contain the high and low, bird wing and cloud, screwballs and mud. These poems haunt, humor, and cajole, while moving the reader to higher ground. They lift the reader up and give her a new perspective on what it is to be human." --Michael...

Never Summer: Poems from Thin Air - Paperback

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by Chris Ransick (Author)Winner of the Colorado Book Award, Never Summer speaks tenderly...layered so the perception of reality becomes almost super-real. This book is an everyday world where tragedy and bad news occasionally intrude. So does an ironic humor. Through all the ups and downs, there is a thread of confidence in the future, the belief that "we will build a lasting home." Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: July 05, 2013

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by W. S. Merwin (Author), Michael Wiegers (Editor)"The Essential W.S. Merwin beautifully demonstrates why Merwin has been one of America's most decorated and important poets for more than 60 years."--The Washington Post "Merwin is one of the great poets of our age."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has made for himself that most difficult of all creations, an accomplished style."--Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books"It is gratifying t...

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by Walter Ancarrow (Author)A poetry collection that playfully questions the meanings of words. Walter Ancarrow's collection Etymologies considers language as a process, rather than as a singular fixed history. These poems build imaginative worlds with a variety of creative word uses. They form a playful amalgamation of linguistic interpretations that flips and questions conventional narratives about word origins--including the idea that clear origins even exist. Throughout the collection, An...

A Collection of Poetry: A Safe Zone of Comfort and A Heavenly Gift - Paperback

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by Babak Mansoorieh (Author)Thanks to great spirit of all, I have made this tiny success without anyone's help. When I am not on this earth, I will rest in peace, since I would know that I have finished what I started years ago and succeeded in doing so against all odds. This is the story of life that has come to be mine to come alive in my writings. I hope others would also find an opportunity to achieve something they dreamed to do and succeed in doing so. Lastly, I hope the young generatio...

The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson - Hardcover

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by Emily Dickinson (Author)Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a prominent New England family and educated at Amherst Academy and Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson lived most of her life in seclusion, devoted to writing. She scarcely left home, nor did she have many visitors. Only ten of her poems were published in her lifet...

Lonely Alien: Poetry for the Misguided - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Kai Montes (Author)In the haunting landscapes of heartbreak, where emotions echo like distant stars, "Lonely Alien" takes readers on an intimate journey through the depths of pain and the heights of self-discovery. This poignant collection of poetry is a raw and honest exploration of one soul's battle with loss, betrayal, and the tumultuous aftermath of a shattered love. As the author lays bare the fragments of a broken heart, each verse becomes a lifeline, a t...

Things My Mother Never Taught Me - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Kayla D. Miller (Author)""This book draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, including nature, art, personal experiences, and the myriad of emotions that color the human experience. This book of poetry explores intense emotions, moments of vulnerability, and the complexities of the human mind. The poems within these pages seek to unpack feelings of grief, heartbreak, healing, and joy while living in a world where being overwhelmed, lost in thoughts, and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Latorial Faison (Author)"If I ruled the world, I'd free all my sons." That's what American Hip-Hop artist Nas sang. In this thought-provoking, historic feeling collection, poet and author, Latorial Faison, attempts to do just that . . . free all her sons. In this passionately lyrical collection of some of her most prolific poems to date, Faison illustrates the complex world that awaits many sons and mothers of sons, especially African American ones; she address...

The Darkness of Silver Lights - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Senada Cvrk Pargan (Author)Behind the whiteness of the tombstones, their chastity rests. They left their innocent bones there, in the silver city, where destinies are written in stone. Their hopes and love laid out in mounds. The lights are dispersing, out of shame in front of the eyes of the mothers of Srebrenica, that endless light and yearning. In remembrance of their sons and daughters, their husbands and fathers... I dedicate this book to them, humbled unt...

Don't Let Stress Keep You from Success! - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Rosie Ramos (Author)This collection of poems and stories was written through genuine, heartfelt testimonies shared by young people who, through their documented life experiences, hope to help others feel less alone. Through poetry and storytelling, communities can be unified, and families and individuals can heal. Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 26, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby L. Marie Wood (Author)A companion volume to Tales of Time and The Open Book, Imitation of Life is a collection of poetry by Award-Winning filmmaker and author L. Marie Wood, examining the darker side of everyday life. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Li Yu (Author), Jiann I. Lin (Translator), David Young (Translator)From prince to prisoner, Li Yu (937-978) ruled briefly over his family's Southern Tang kingdom before he was taken prisoner by the powerful and warlike Northern Song dynasty. This vivid arc, from rule to ruin, is reflected in his poetry. Ineffectual as a ruler, he loved and celebrated court life, with its parties, dancing, drinking, and trysts. Later, having lost his kingdom, he came to know sor...

Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Lamar Coleman (Editor)Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century--including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, and Derek...

Gift for the Ages: Love, Faith and Poetry - Paperback

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by Yasmin Senturias (Author) Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 17, 2024

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by Christina Rossetti (Author), Simon Humphries (Editor)'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is driven by uncertainty. Her poems are restrained, even secretive, but they seek nothing less than the mystery of Life and Death. This edition ...

XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Campbell McGrath (Author)Pulitzer Prize finalist A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets--a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath's astonishing sequence of one hundred poems--one per year--written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso an...

Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group - Paperback

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by David Savran (Author), Peter Sellars (Introduction by)Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.91 x 5.99 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1993

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems - Paperback

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by Joy Harjo (Author)In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. C...

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Paperback

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by Sappho (Author), Anne Carson (Translator)In this "gorgeous translation" (The New York Times), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments, in Gr...

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by No? Coward (Author)This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as his tribute to Ivor Novello or his counter-attack on Graham Greene. Includes an introduction by Martin Tickner and Coward's long-time companion, Graham Payn.Author BiographyNo? ...

Noches que eyaculan sangre, dolor y vino: (Poesía) - Paperback

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by Carlos Kaballero (Author)NOCHES QUE EYACULAN SANGRE, DOLOR Y VINO Qué tendrá la noche que nos atrae tanto? Sobre todo a los seres solitarios, a los inconformes, a los inadaptados, a los curiosos, a los pensantes, a los suicidas. La noche tiene ese magistral poder de hacernos sentir especiales, de hacernos sentir que, de alguna manera, podemos pasar desapercibidos ante los implacables y acusatorios ojos del mundo. Son las cinco y veinte de una madrugada cualquiera, una botella de vino me ac...

The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry - Paperback

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by Arthur Waley (Translator), Stephen Owen (Foreword by)One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works," as Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the classic of the human heart and the human mind."Back JacketJoseph R. Allen's new e...

'Wit's Wild Dancing Light': Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby William Hutchings (Author)Wit's Wild Dancing Light acts as a highly useful entry point for readers who are encountering Pope for the first time and also contains much illuminating material for those who are already familiar with his poetry.-Dr Ian Calvert, University of BristolThe book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope's poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for d...

Opening Inward: A Collection of poetry from the Inner World of Holotropic Breathwork - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Laurane McGlynn (Author)Opening Inward is a selection of metaphysical and mystical poems that offers an account of my inner experiences into the world of non-ordinary consciousness as revealed by the practice of Holotropic Breathwork. Holotropic Breathwork(TM) is a powerful experiential approach to self-exploration and healing that integrates insights from modern consciousness research, anthropology, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual practices, and my...

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Report copyright infringementby Sepho (Author)Feel Me is a collection of 21 poems detailing specific yet common feelings. Feel Me encourages its audience to feel the author's emotions whilst also feeling their own. Feel together, no one is alone in how they feel. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 26, 2024