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Report copyright infringementby Adam Plunkett (Author)A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost's life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work. By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded roads and articulating our hopes and fears. After Frost's death, these clichés gav...

Her Mixed Mind: Poems and Thoughts of Mental Despair

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Report copyright infringementby Monay A. Arroyo (Author)Ever felt like expressing yourself to others was just a waste of time? Or a view they can't see? Well, as a survivor of life, growing up in the system into adulthood came with battling your demons and the system to survive. Most times expressing verbally became a heartache and despair of others not understanding.Each poem that I've written started as an outlet to express emotions and unusual thoughts, which turned into something greater:...

The Illustrated Book of Japanese Haiku: A Journey Through the Seasons with Japan's Best-Loved Poets (Free Online Audio)

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Report copyright infringementby William Scott Wilson (Translator), Manda (Illustrator)A beautifully illustrated volume of haiku poetry from the 100 most famous Japanese poets. Ongoing spring;a nameless mountainunder a light mist-- Basho This beautifully illustrated collection of seasonal haiku poems by Japan's best-known poets is the perfect book for poetry lovers or anyone who wants to learn more about Japanese haiku. Selected and exquisitely translated by William Scott Wilson, the book feat...

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Report copyright infringementby Youna Kwak (Author)CALIBA's 2025 Golden Poppy Book Award Winner, Poetry The shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak's For This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of maternal paradoxes in all their impossible double binds, monstrous pleasures, and profane mystifications. Shifting between lyric and prose poems, this collection throws slanted light on the inef...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Beaty (Author), Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)This sweet and playful bedtime book reminds young readers just how loved they are, from the New York Times bestselling creators author Andrea Beaty and illustrator Vashti Harrison Love comes in many forms. It can feel tart as lemonade, or sweet as sugar cookies. Slow as a lazy morning, or fast as a relay race. Love is there through it all: the large and small moments, the good times and bad. And at the end o...

Where Hope Comes from: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

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Report copyright infringementby Nikita Gill (Author)**The Sunday Times Bestseller** Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill returns to her roots with her most personal collection yet, including more than twenty poems exclusive to the US edition. I took my worries out and laid them carefully on the kitchen table. Then began the slow but rewarding task of fixing everything that needed more love. Nikita Gill shares a collection of poems crafted as the world went into lockdown, tackles themes su...

Resting Warrior: Marching Through the Fire

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Report copyright infringementby Ruthie Chamichian-Smith (Author)A Powerful Memoir of Survival and BecomingResting Warrior is a memoir, told in prose and poetry that traces one woman's journey through profound grief, identity loss, and the quiet rebuilding of a life transformed by trauma. Told in a voice both tender and unflinching, Ruthie's story unfolds in poetic and narrative fragments-each a glimpse into survival, resilience, and ultimately, self-reclamation.Spanning early childhood wounds...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Baer (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Kate Baer's poems are so full of life--life as it is now, that I can hear them breathing. I loved this book."--Emma Straub"How About Now is a balm, a banister, and a battering ram. Her very best yet."--Catherine NewmanThe third full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.Renowned poet Kate Baer returns with a bold and compassionate collection that confronts the march of ...

The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 35

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Johnson (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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.T...

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Report copyright infringementby Pablo Neruda (Author), Donald D. Walsh (Translator)Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover's body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the e...

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Report copyright infringementby Seamus Heaney (Translator), John D. Niles (Other)Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf ?and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality But how to visualize the poet's sto...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Chapman (Editor)Litbop: Art and Literature in the Groove is an annual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Every issue features work by a diverse group of creators from around the world. This, our fifth issue, is the first to include essays. Contributors for this issue include award-winning authors Mark Larson, Richard Engling, S.L. Wisenberg, and Peggy Shinner. It's graced with a beautiful cover by artist Haleigh Anderson....

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Juhasz (Author)Katabasis is a poet's witness to the complexities of the pains endured and pleasures savored in the human condition; an odyssey for our time that inspires a range of thought and feeling so all-encompassing that the book rises from the profoundly personal to the universal.-Paul Austin, author of Mother and Son Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 02, 2026

Picturing Gratitude: An Art Journey on the Wings of LIfe

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Simmons (Author), Karen Simmons (Editor)Susan Simmons is a full time artist and has just gotten her feet wet in the poetry areas, with the intention of implementing gratitude through fifty years of artwork with her uplifting, inspiration words. "The road here on the earth is a short and bumpy path. It brought me solace to create this book. This isn't a "candy-coated" view of my life, but a real visual glimpse of emotions of my life although the details ar...

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Report copyright infringementby David Brazier (Author), Ruby Lee (Author)A beautiful book to treasure: stunning artwork and stylish poems covering major themes from personal love to world crisis. Sometimes provocative, always compassionate. The book has emerged from a creative partnership of poet and artist. You will be charmed, carried along, challenged, seduced, inspired. You will find surprises. War and pain, nature and imagination, loss and love, destruction and restoration. Poems from th...

Being a Strong Black Woman Can Get U Killed - Paperback

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by Laini Mataka (Author)Bein a Strong Black Woman Can Get U Killed is Laini Mataka's third collection of poetry published by Black Classic Press. The title is a lament for the strong Black woman "who carried the family in her belly, the community on her head, and the race on her back." Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.36 x 5.45 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2000

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by New Directions (Author), Tynan Kogane (Editor)Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Lab? and Maurice Sc?ve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike compositions of the Surrealists, French Love Poems is the perfect, seductive gift for anyone who makes your heart flutter.This collection includes p...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Stanbury (Author)Offers the full-length study of the descriptive art found in four medieval poems: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Purity, and Patience.Author BiographySarah Stanbury is Monsignor Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England and coeditor, with Linda Lomperis, of Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, both publ...

Sylvia Long's Mother Goose: (Nursery Rhymes for Toddlers, Nursery Rhyme Books, Rhymes for Kids)

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Report copyright infringementby Sylvia Long (Author)From bestselling artist Sylvia Long comes an enchanting collection of over seventy-five classic Mother Goose rhymes. Imbued with the artist's love of nature and overflowing with charming details, this spectacular compilation includes such timeless favorites as Old Mother Hubbard, Mary had a little lamb, and Rock-a-bye baby. Sylvia Long's Mother Goose is a perfect gift that, like the rhymes themselves, will be passed from one generation to t...

The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection

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Report copyright infringementby Alison Hawthorne Deming (Author), Robin Wall Kimmerer (Foreword by)This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. Animals have long been a source of inspiration, sustenance, and companionship, and poems about and for animals are among the oldest traditions across human cultures. This coll...

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Report copyright infringementby Lindsay White (Author)This book of poems takes you on a journey of how social situations and how we view ourselves affects our lives and the way we see our world. It takes you on a journey of life's struggles. It teaches you that we have to lean on each other and love ourselves. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 20, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Tayi Tibble (Author)An acclaimed young poet explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation. Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. In Poūkahangatus (pronounced "Pocahontas"), her debut volume, Tibble challenges a dazzling array of mythologies-...

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Report copyright infringementby Cor Van Den Heuvel (Editor)Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates simplicity, emotion, and imagery--in which only a few words convey worlds of mystery and meaning. This third edition, now completely revi...

Developing a Personal Relationship with God: Learning to Operate in His Strength

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Report copyright infringementby Pastor Gary L. Anderson (Author)God continues to show His greatness through my life and through the lives of my wife and sons. We have traveled over many parts of this country. God directed our journey from Topeka, Kansas, to Fairbanks, Alaska. After three years, God directed my family to Washington, DC. In our quest to teach God's matchless Word whenever and wherever He leads us. This is a snapshot of our lives as we grow in God's favor and grace. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Carosella (Author)Rabbit Tracks: The Poetry of Nature highlights the beauty and wonder of nature as it progresses through the seasons, our connection to it, and the questions that it can pose us as we observe and celebrate it. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 11, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Keetje Kuipers (Author)The daring and deeplysexy poems in Lonely Women Make Good Lovers are bold with theembodied, earthy, and startlingly sensual. Theseunforgettable love poems--queer, complicated, and almost alwayscompromised--engage a poetics of humility, leaning into the painful tendernessesof unbridgeable distance. As Kuipers writes, love is a question "defined not bywhat we / cannot know of the world but what we cannot know of ourselves." Thesepoems write...

Poems: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie/Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well/And Still I Rise/Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

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Report copyright infringementby Maya Angelou (Author)"Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival."--JAMES BALDWIN Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time.Front Jacke...

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Report copyright infringementby Maya Angelou (Author)The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou's words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning" Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life. Every poetic phrase, every poig...

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Report copyright infringementby W. H. Auden (Author), Edward Mendelson (Editor)This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden's work. Newly included are such favorites as "Funeral Blues" and other works that represent Auden's lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are b...

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Report copyright infringementby Judith Patt (Author), Barry Till (Joint Author), Michiko Warkentyne (Joint Author)The graceful, evocative haiku featured here were composed by the renowned Japanese haiku masters of the past four hundred years, including Matsuo Bash, Taniguchi Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. The deceptively simple poemsrendered in English with Japanese calligraphies and transliterationsare paired with exquisite eighteenth- or nineteenth-century paintings and ukiyo-e prints and twent...

Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains (FIFTH EDITION, Revised and Expanded) with Addendum: 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Alan V. Goldman (Author)In the Fifth Edition of Reflections on Mountaineering, A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains, Alan V. Goldman presents a collection of 148 narrative-style poems. These poems, written in various forms including rhyming, prose, and blank verse, encapsulate the author's wisdom gained from over 30 years of climbing and learning from fellow mountaineers. The poems delve into moral issues that parallel everyday life but are in...

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