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by Martha Collins (Author)A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel archwith electric lights, and later a lamppost, thiswas a modern event, the trees were not involved.--from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000...

Flutter & Hum / Aleteo Y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales (Bilingual) - Hardcover

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by Julie Paschkis (Author), Julie Paschkis (Illustrator)Beautiful poems in English and Spanish celebrate a wide variety of animals in this bilingual kids book Flutter & Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido All sorts of animals flutter and hum, dance and stretch, and slither and leap their way through this joyful collection of poems in English and Spanish. Julie Paschkis's poems and art sing in both languages, bringing out the beauty and playfulness of the animal world.Author BiographyJulie Paschkis is ...

For Your Smile: A High Contrast Book for Newborns - Board Book

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by Loryn Brantz (Author), Loryn Brantz (Illustrator)Filled with smiles from beginning to end, this playful high-contrast black-and-white board book shows the lengths parents and caregivers will go for their little one's happiness. By bestselling Feminist Baby and It Had to Be You creator Loryn Brantz! For your smile, I'd quack quack like a duck because when you're smiling, I can't believe my good luck!A horse and foal, a bird and chick, a cat and kitten, a parent and child, and more go out of...

Flames Cast No Shadows: Poems - Paperback

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by Maestra (Author)Maestra's first collection of poetry combines artistic ballads, dramatic lyrical works and original philosophical concepts to explore a variety of contemporary topics with a pensive and metaphorical approach. There are several encryptions throughout this volume and its cover, including the author's real name in the last poem 'Untitled'.The theory of binary existance, as mentioned in the preface, suggests that we exist as two entities: the public and the private. The more pr...

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by Jonathan Bradley (Author)City Sonnets presents a poet's view of modern city life in all its variety. Thirty-six sonnets written in traditional form explore the dark and the light, the rich and the poor, the ugly and the beautiful. There are poems about a beggar, cathedrals, van drivers and concert halls, cats and rats and many other topics. Each one has a colour illustration that complements the vivid evocation of urban existence in the verse. The writing explores what it means to be a hum...

Das Stundenbuch: Vom mönchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author)Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Stundenbuch. Vom mönchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode Erstdruck: Leipzig (Insel) 1905. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Rainer Maria Rilke: Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben vom Rilke-Archiv in Verbindung mit Ruth Sieber-Rilke, besorgt von Ernst Zinn, Band 1-6, Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a.M.: In...

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by Adam Laws (Author)'Daring sentiments, truth be told, the value of us I thought I knew... could they ever have brought about us - me and this so-called you?' Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 07, 2022

Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition - Hardcover

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), M. D. Herter Norton (Translator), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by)This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, William Warder Norton, f...

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by Wendy Wisner (Author)With fear, joy, ambivalence, and wonder, this braided collection of poems by Wendy Wisner explores motherhood through the lens of a fractured childhood and intergenerational trauma. As the past collides with the present, Wisner moves through the intense years of early motherhood and marriage, to the turmoil of raising children in a volatile, violent world. Shot through with sensuality and sexual vibrancy, The New Life grapples with the impermanence of life, the feeling...

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by Danez Smith (Author)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 with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence ...

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by Endi Bogue Hartigan (Author)Poems that break down, expose, and reconsider our notions of time. This collection speaks the language of the clock as a living instrument, exposing the sensory impacts of our obsession with time. In oh orchid o'clock, lyrics wind through histories like a nervous system through a body. The poems speak to how we let our days become over-clocked, over-transactional, and over-weaponed. With an instrumental sensibility, Endi Bogue Hartigan investigates what it is t...

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by Kimberly Reyes (Author)A collection by award-winning poet Kimberly Reyes that explores erased histories. Through her latest collection, Kimberly Reyes navigates the physical, hereditary, and liminal worlds between land, time, and memory. The poems in vanishing point. take us to San Francisco, Ireland, and the Atlantic Ocean, reclaiming and examining contested space as the poet seeks to revive left-behind histories, reconsider what we see, and reveal what we cannot see. Author BiographyKim...

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by Lyn Hejinian (Author)The Unfollowing is a sequence of elegies, mourning public as well as personal loss. The grief is not coherent. Though the poems are each fourteen lines long, they are not sonnets but anti-sonnets. They are composed entirely of non sequiturs, with the intention of demonstrating, if not achieving, a refusal to follow aesthetic proprieties, and a rejection of the logic of mortality and of capitalism. Outrage, hilarity, anxiety, and ribaldry are not easily separated in the...

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by David Koehn (Author)Poetry that explores wildness and composes a landscape of complex human emotions. Drawing on a range of stylistic influences, the poetry of Sur takes on the essence of connection and the ways in which we continually develop meaning about others and to the natural world. With this collection, David Koehn paints a landscape where wilderness intertwines with human emotions and grows between ill-fitting interpersonal connections. Sur invites readers to step back and look c...

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by Michael Swanton (Author)New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources. Prose translation.Front JacketNew, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory...

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by W. S. Merwin (Author)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryFeatured on NPR's Fresh Air and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.Honored as one of the Best Books of the Year from Publishers Weekly.A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory. --Pulitzer Prize CommitteeIn his personal anonymity, his strict individuated manner, his defense of the earth, and his heartache at time's passing, Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has ...

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by Michele Evans (Author) Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 14, 2025

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by Michael Bazzett (Translator)A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun--only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world ...

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by Shel Silverstein (Author), Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings--a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old.A Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again.Here in the attic you will find...

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by Caitlin Cowan (Author)The urge to create beauty and be beautiful haunts Happy Everything, Caitlin Cowan's powerful celebration of feminine resilience. The materiality of marriage and divorce abound in the postnuptial ghost stories Cowan tells with no-nonsense, Midwestern frankness and the intimacy of an afterparty conversation in a corner booth. Happy Everything is a deranged wedding registry of various poetic forms which highlight the perverse tenacity of ancestral traumas and the paradox...

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by Homer (Author), W. H. D. Rouse (Translator), Seth L. Schein (Introduction by)THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR NOVEL Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world's first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the most famous episodes in all of literature: the curse on the prophet Cassandra; the siege of Troy; the battle between Hector and Achill...

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by Taylor Johnson (Author)Inheritance is a black sensorium, a chapel of color and sound that speaks to spaciousness, surveillance, identity, desire, and transcendence. Influenced by everyday moments of Washington, DC living, the poems live outside of the outside and beyond the language of categorical difference, inviting anyone listening to listen a bit closer. Inheritance is about the self's struggle with definition and assumption.Author BiographyTaylor Johnson is proud of being from Washing...

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by Francine J. Harris (Author)This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. . . . francine j. harris brilliantly ransacks the poet's toolkit, assembling art from buckets of disaster and shreds of hope. Nothing she lays her mind's eye on escapes. You, too, will be captured by her work.--Evie ShockleyLyrically raw and dangerously unapologetic, play dead challenges us to look at our cultivated selves as p...

A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter - Hardcover

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by Nikki Giovanni (Author)The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America's most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and...

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by Ilya Kaminsky (Author)Finalist for the National Book Award - Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - Winner of the National Jewish Book Award - Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award - Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize - Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionIlya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf...

Boom! Bellow! Bleat!: Animal Poems for Two or More Voices - Paperback

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by Georgia Heard (Author), Aaron DeWitt (Illustrator)This playful collection of poems--peppered with an astounding variety of animal sounds--is meant to be read aloud together. These poems for two or more voices explore the myriad sounds animals make--from a frog's jug-o-rum to a fish's boom! to an elephant's bark. Laced with humor, the poems are a delight to read aloud and cover all major classes of animals: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, even a crustacean! Readers will...

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by Traci Brimhall (Author)Amidst cycles of heartbreak, trauma, and chronic pain, Love Prodigal finds strength in the natural world, motherhood, desire, and new love. Fiercely self-aware and "utterly present tense," Traci Brimhall's Love Prodigal lives in the messiness of starting over. As Brimhall grieves a divorce and a new diagnosis, cycles of loss, heartbreak, family trauma, and chronic illness appear. There is an urge to detach, to go numb. Yet, pain is always returned as a gift--the beau...

Two Centuries of Roman Prose - Paperback

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by E. C. Kennedy (Editor), A. R. Davis (Editor)Extracts from Cicero, Nepos, Sallust, Livy, Petronius, Seneca, Plinyand Tacitus In Latin with notes and introductory material in English. Number of Pages: 281 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.54 x 5.49 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1998

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by Oliver Lansley (Author)A new play inspired by the true story of a miner who became entombed in a tunnel during World War One. As the horror threatens to engulf him, he discovers another world beneath the mud and death. Setting off on an epic journey of salvation, the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur as he questions what's real, what's not and whether it even matters? The Trench blends Les Enfants Terribles' acclaimed brand of physical storytelling, verse, puppetry and live music...

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by Josh Overton (Author)Sad Little Man is a stand-up tragedy set performed by the mind of a young man in shock. Described as "a stunning, bittersweet story" and "theatrically beautiful" by Noises Off Magazine, a combination of performance poetry, physical theatre and projection tell the story of the many lives of Lee and someone he loves.Written by Josh Overton, winner of The Times Playwriting Award 2015, and created by the Pub Corner Poets, Total Theatre Emerging Company 2015 award nominees....

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by Lacole Foots (Author)Part poetry, part memoir, and all authentic, HEAVY LIGHT documents a three-year journey of what it means to come into your own. Whether navigating difficult relationships, understanding life's purpose or searching for self-worth, HEAVY LIGHT presents a lyrical tour de force that is both a reflection and celebration of womanhood. Told as poetic diary entries from 2020 to 2022, Foots' poems capture the rhythm, elegance, and strength of her own transformation-in a voice t...

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by Agatha Sicil (Author)Most people have skeletons in their closet and go through the motions of life meeting new people who are unaware of their past experiences. As a result, a person has more than one life to tell. The purpose of this book is to open the reader's eyes that the person whom they refer to as their friend, colleague, in-law, or neighbor, is not who they really say they are but their previous interactions begin to make sense.Author BiographyAgatha Sicil is a full-time special e...