Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Leonard Cohen (Author), Robert Faggen (Editor)A magnificent hardcover collection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, in...

Love Lifted Me: Greeting the Seasons with Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Alicia S. Mitchell (Author)Love Lifted Me is a selection of thoughts and poetry from a collection written over the course of twenty-five years. The content is not in any specific order but was written to be an encouragement while navigating the change of seasons. Recording these thoughts has been a conduit to healing, health, life, and laughter. Love Lifted Me was intentionally designed to honor Christ. It represents God's faithfulness to His promises, His grac...

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Report copyright infringementby Langston Hughes (Author), Arnold Rampersad (Editor)The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were "at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture" (OPRAH Magazine). Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a...

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One: Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Lovelace (Author), Ladybookmad (Author)Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet USA TODAY bestselling author In this fierce and lyrical poetry collection, Amanda Lovelace reclaims power for the witch--supernaturally powerful, fiercely independent, and unbreakably resilient. This bold second book in Amanda Lovelace's "women are some kind of magic" series turns to the mythological character of the witch: a force unto herself, reclaiming her story with vulnerab...

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Report copyright infringementby Eva Demel (Author)Join Lilly on her daily stroll around the neighborhood, where she experiences nature and traffic.Lilly will show your child how to stay safe while going on a walk and see what she encounters on the way to the purple house.* * *six kids - children's books byThink Positive Publishingwww.thinkpositivepublishing.com Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.25 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: November 15, 2022 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mai Der Vang (Author)Mai Der Vang's poetry--lyrically insistent and visually compelling--constitutes a groundbreaking investigation into the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants. Primordial is a crucial turn to the ecological and generational impact of violence, a po...

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Smith (Author)In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched it on television.Assumin...

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Report copyright infringementby Elise Paschen (Author)WINNER of the 2026 Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry "A magical map of memory and vision."--Dean Rader, author of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry In her mesmerizing sixth poetry collection, Blood Wolf Moon, Elise Paschen weaves constellations throughout, of stars and birds and light and darkness and beauty and horror and nature and humans and history, making shape and meaning of what's around us and even who we are. In this riveting sixth poe...

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by Nikki Grimes (Author)In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the mag...

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Report copyright infringementby David Stuntz (Author)In this collection, The Sun of David invites readers on a personal journey into self-discovery through insightful, thought-provoking, and inspiring verse. David Stuntz weaves together jewels of wisdom as he explores his relationship with love, death, grief, loss, pain, healing, music, God, and more. In a time of crisis and uncertainty, this book offers readers a moment to reflect, an opening to awaken, and a time for growth and healing. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan C. Creasy (Editor)Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and manual labor within a democratic, nonhierarchical structure, Black Mountain was a crucible of revolutionary literature. Although this artistic have...

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Report copyright infringementby Forrest Gander (Author)Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that never sidesteps the wholeness of experience, Gander's new collection discovers an articulate language for the merging of exterior and interior landscapes. Gander, trained as a geologist, walked along much of the 800-mile San Andreas fault toward...

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by Dana Koster (Author)Winning poetry collection for the 2016 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series contest from former Stegner Fellow Dana KosterFront JacketIn her debut collection Binary Stars, Dana Koster bravely scouts the fierce, alien, and surprisingly dangerous landscapes of family life and relationships. From the epigraph, ''The Moon Smells Like Burnt Gunpowder, '' we are situated in alien territory where even ''the molecules . . . [are] all wrong.'' From this sense of displacement, Koste...

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Edward Snow (Translator), Adam Zagajewski (Introduction by)For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke--the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to be published in English--is the culmination of this effort. With more than t...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Lax (Author)"Among America's greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words."--Richard Kostelanetz, New York Times Book ReviewEvery generation of poets seems to harbor its own hidden genius, one whose stature and brilliance come to light after his talent has already been achieved and exercised. The same drama of obscurity and nuance that attended the discovery of Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens is suggested by...

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Report copyright infringementby Joanne Kyger (Author)The last major collection from one of the most significant poets of the SF Renaissance.On Time is Joanne Kyger's first full-length collection of poetry in nearly a decade. Beginning in 2005, in the throes of the endless wars of the Bush administration, and proceeding chronologically to 2014, On Time may be seen as the day book of a master poet, moving between the personal and the political, the natural and the spiritual in a restless quest ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tramaine Suubi (Author)In this electrifying debut poetry collection--written with the ferocity of Rita Dove's groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah--a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full.Both intimate and intricately structured, this collection of African poetry from Tramaine Suubi is inspired by the moon--its phases' effects on water, the Earth...

The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi (Complete 6 Books): The Festival of Spring from The Díván of Jeláleddín - Hardcover

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by Rumi (Author)The Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jeláleddín Rumi (1207-1273) found his own religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. His Sufi poems are amongst the most compelling and memorable spiritual works of world literature. Their diversity and profoundness had entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped culture and literature. To many modern Westerners, Rumi's poems are one of the best introductions to the philosophy and practice of Sufism. Rumi's teachings are considered t...

Cosmopolitan Greetin: Poems 1986-1992 - Paperback

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by Allen Ginsberg (Author)Half a century after founding the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg has written this powerful collection of poems that are suffused with a range of emotional colors that gives Ginsberg's work an elegiac tone. Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9.19 x 6.12 IN Publication Date: March 17, 1995

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Report copyright infringementby Fox Hollow (Author)Heartstrings is a poetry collection about relationships that fundamentally altered the author's brain chemistry. The book goes through four chapters dealing with falling in love, abuse, grief, growth, and self actualization. It's themed in the anatomy of the human heart and different states it can be in. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 02, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Ginsberg (Author)"Here is a poet who has earned our love." -- Boston GlobeAllen Ginsberg was one of the bravest and most admired poets of this century. Famous for energizing the Beat Generation literary movement upon his historic encounter with Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs in mid-century New York City, Ginsberg influenced several generations of writers, musicians, and poets. When he died on April 5, 1997, we lost one of the greatest ...

The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi (Complete 6 Books): The Festival of Spring from The Díván of Jeláleddín - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Ginsberg (Author)Poems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in modern poetry."-- Helen VendlerBack JacketPoems by a modern master. "[Ginsberg's] powerful mixture of Blake, Whitman, Pound, and Williams, to which he added his own volatile, grotesque, and tender humor, has assured him a memorable place in mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Jaki Shelton Green (Author)Front JacketI have not known your face as woman my first born/my first one/my new self I am learning to speak in whole sentences learning not to speak always in the mother tongue we are learning that we can be sisters that we can open the curtains together that we can each call morning something elseAuthor BiographyJaki Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. Whe...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), Robin Kirkpatrick (Translator), Robin Kirkpatrick (Introduction by)In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to assuage their earthly vices. Only by learning from them can he achieve his final enlightened transition to the lost Earthly Paradise at the mountain's summit, where he meet...

Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Kendall (Editor)The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets and offers a fresh assessment of the work on the centenary of the Great War's...

Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver

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Report copyright infringementby Sara Holly Ackerman (Author), Naoko Stoop (Illustrator)A Stonewall Children's Literature Award Honor Book This inspiring and enriching picture book biography explores the life and work of beloved poet Mary Oliver in its own uniquely lyrical way, shining a light on Mary's belief that there are treasures and poems all around us in nature waiting to be discovered. Young Mary Oliver spent all the time she could outdoors noticing natural wonders like alluring birdso...

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by Mahvash Sabet (Author), Bahiyyih Nakhjavani (Translator)Mahvash Sabet has been named as the PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage 2017.'My first encounter with Mahvash Sabet took place on a hot summer's day. After many hours of tedious waiting in a special room set aside for lawyers, I was finally allowed to meet her in the presence of two women guards . . . it was obvious that the Bah ' prisoners had been deprived of fresh air and daylight for a long time; their entire beings seemed...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), John Ciardi (Translator), Archibald T. MacAllister (Introduction by)Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Simic (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems--an American master at the height of his talent The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums with the liveliness of the writer's pen. Scribbled in the Dark brings the poet's signature sardonic sense of humor, piercing social insight, and haunting lyricism to diverse and richly imagined landscapes. Peopled by policemen, presidents, kid...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronnie Sisson (Author)This book sends a message that even though we enjoy exchanging gifts with loved ones, the true meaning of christmas is to celebrate the gift that God gave the world in his son Jesus Christ. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: March 10, 2016

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Robert Talbot (Author)This classic of German literature presents the dramatic story of Faust, a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Goethe's exquisite prose and Talbot's faithful translation make this edition a must-read for lovers of poetry and drama alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we kn...