Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Dozier (Author)Editor's Choice Winner, The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2025All That Glitter is a treasure hunt through the everyday-a collection of poems that takes you on a journey from the quiet of an empty house to dancing with the wild sequins of childhood. It's about finding the magic in seemingly small moments-from messy craft projects to a spectacular double rainbow on a Tuesday afternoon. With poems that explore both the sweet and the challenging si...

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Report copyright infringementby Cameron Awkward-Rich (Author)Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life--an ordinary life that one could not have imagined--and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present--in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack--An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive--and even thrive. Anchored by an epistolary sequence dire...

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Allison Peers (Author)Saint John of the Cross is practically unique among Christendom's many mystics. Never mind the connotations of delicacy, distance, or darkness which that word, mystics, might conjure up. A mystic means, simply, a person who has fallen in love with God. Ardently single-minded and single-hearted in love and purpose: in this way did John of the Cross attend to God, search for Him, strive after Him; in this way, too, did he long that oth...

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Report copyright infringementby Melhem Hasan (Author)A poetry and illustrations anthology by The Moon From Where We Stood (2024) author known as Melhem Hasan. On Irreplicable Magic, the author once again pulls from his grief for a stunning mosaic on loss, war and faith. Featuring 52 poems from the year Hasan lost his father and dozens of handmade drawings, this anthology looks grief in the eye and demands meaning. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8 x 5.25 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby I. S. Jones (Author), Nicole Sealey (Introduction by)Selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Bloodmercy is a must-read debut that reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters."Violence is a failure of communication" opens this book as an omen and foregrounds a family exiled from Eden. In I.S. Jones's stunning and evocative debut collection, Cain and Abel are reimagined as sisters whose care for each other becomes i...

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Report copyright infringementby Jig3125 (Author), Bxaxdx (Author)Don't just look at these words! Watch their face, stare into their eye's; check out the body langue. Peep it! Make note of the use of words. Hear what's not said and interpret the silence ... Trust your intuition. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 25, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda Cardenas (Author)Through image-rich poems regarding migration, transcultural identity, loss, connection, dream, and aging-some translingual, some ekphrastic responses to ephemeral and surreal works of art--Brenda Cáaacute;rdenas' Trace explores conditions of displacement, liminality, and mutability. These poems transgress illusory borders between lands, languages, humans and the rest of the natural world, waking and dreaming, and the living and the dead ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Sze (Author)Archipelago was the winner of the 1996 American Book Award in Poetry. By turns spiritual and creative, meditative and active, Archipelago draws upon both Buddhist and Native American art and culture and is inspired by the Zen garden at Ryōan-ji. The fifteen poems, like stones set in a sea of raked gravel, are seen only within the context of a larger interdependence.Author BiographyArthur Sze is the author of nine books of poetry and translati...

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by Tishani Doshi (Author)"Free of the habitual lyricism of Indian writers, [Doshi's] work is austere and beautiful. Her refreshing muscularity gives her a distinct voice, both as a woman and an Indian."--The London Times"A work of a striking, emerging talent, who is prepared to take risks in pursuit of sensual, emotionally engaged and passionate poetry."--Judge's citation, Forward PrizeIn her second book of poetry--and her American debut--Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Ward Howe (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 importan...

Ice Cream Poems: reflections on life with ice cream

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Fargnoli (Editor)Ice cream, ice cream, who wants ice cream? Hundreds of poets not only said a resounding "yes," but wrote about it. And from those hundreds, I accepted the 125 poems you will find here from 27 different states plus Australia, France, Iraq, Spain, and Tunisia. The poems are as various as the flavors of ice cream: long poems, short poems, and in addition to traditional free-verse narratives and lyrics: experimental poems, poems in forms ...

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Report copyright infringementby Reina E. Mosteirin (Author), James E. Dobson (Author)Perceptron is a work of experimental poetry and a critical biographical reading of Frank Rosenblatt (1928-1971) and his 1957 invention, the Perceptron. The Perceptron was the first widely publicized and used machine learning device and the origin of much contemporary neural network technology. Rosenblatt was a psychologist, a computer engineer, a musician, an amateur astronomer, a sailor, and a poet. The Perc...

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Report copyright infringementby Joffre Swait (Author)This cheerful collection of rumbling poetry is the perfect introduction to the good life -- the life each Christian should be living.There is wine, there are riddles, there is war with sin, there are jokes...all uttered in appreciation of this world that God made out of his own words. We all can imitate him: Poetry is a way of life.Author BiographyJoffre Swait, also known as Joffre the Giant, lives in Moscow with his wife and five children....

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto Tejada (Author)Bringing together lyric poetry, documentary photographs, and lives lived along the U.S.-Mexico borderlandWritten during extended periods in Brownsville, McAllen, and Marfa, Texas, in Carbonate of Copper Roberto Tejada gives voice to unsettled stories from the past, as well as to present-day experiences of custody and displacement. The poems stage scenes adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border and to the realities of migration warped by jarring...

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Report copyright infringementby Jason McBride (Author)Haiku Comics Filled With WonderFind the Miraculous in the OrdinaryThis second full collection of haiku comics from Jason McBride explores the beauty and bittersweetness of the connection between humans and nature.Created with collage drawings, similar to the process Eric Carle employed in his iconic illustrations, each comic serves as a reminder of the flawed beauty of human art. 100 haiku comics are divided into four sections, following t...

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Report copyright infringementby Nagueyalti Warren (Author)These poems aptly show profoundly imaginative power. No doubt, the poet is an adept in the intimate and convincing analysis of emotions. Number of Pages: 82 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Herz (Author)Locus of Control is a poetry collection written to make sense of a rapidly shifting world. In these poems, I trace the contours of neurodivergence, new motherhood, queer identity, and my work as a middle-school crisis counselor, weaving together the clinical language of therapy with the raw emotional undercurrent that rarely makes it into the office.Across themes like countertransference, imposter syndrome, burnout, co-regulation, radical a...

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Vincenz (Author)With All the Tricks of Language, Marc Vincenz has indeed mastered all the tricks: lyric, rhetorical, metaphoric, 'the tinkle of irony, ' drama, comedy-pages filled with people starry as themselves, meeting here on the other side of history as well as this side: 'the world intertwined with the unworld', 'an ocean of unimaginable secrets.' All the Tricks of Language is fertile and carnivalesque, grabbing your attention from the very start. Vi...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Goldman (Author)The Yenko Era.....Continued Canonsburg & Beyond Dedicated to Donna Mae Mims "Pink Lady of Racing" Friend....Co-worker Thanks for the great memories! When Donna Mae, Warren Dernoshek and I were putting "The Yenko Era" together in 2005, we agreed that it was much like assembling a family scrapbook. Everybody contributes a little, photos, letters, stories...whatever they remember. We attempted to give the reader an accurate pictur...

Sculptum Est Prosa (Volume 4): The Voices of the Oceans and Trees (poems of climate change)

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Report copyright infringementby Ivan Kireevskii (Author)The world sits on the precipice of social unrest, economic uncertainty and a pandemic of historic proportions. We are at a place as a civilization that has up to now been conjured only in the works of fiction. But here we are. I have to ask, how much of this has been brought due to our own selfishness, greed, and total disregard for our planet and the plight of our sentient kin and one another? Number of Pages: 176 ...

On The Battlefield: Poems for Life's Struggles and Battles

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Report copyright infringementby Roderick D. Talley (Author), Oluwatosin Adebayo (Cover Design by)Roderick D. Talley returns with his second poetry book, "On The Battlefield." In this book, Mr. Talley presents 33 poems that cover various personal battles that we face on a daily basis as humans. Some of these poems are from personal experience to encourage others who have similar struggles. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kahlil Gibran (Author), Kahlil Gibran (Illustrator)An unabridged edition with the author's original illustrations - Originally Published in 1920 Kahlil Gibran is best known for his book The Prophet, which was published in the United States in 1923. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 18, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Jones (Author)The Nature of Humans: Personal Growth through Poetry chronicles a poet's journey; one of self-discovery, and one from criticism, and judgement to compassion and kindness toward the self and others. A journey that unfolds from inner reflection to considerations of relationships, and then embarks into nature. This collection turns a contemplative eye to unchallenged, negative scripts in our minds that keep us from being our best selves, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes (Author)In this profound and groundbreaking narrative, Ethiopian-born Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes weaves together stories of heritage and heartache.This unique memoir celebrates the beauty of Ethiopian culture while mourning its erosion - first under colonial forces, and later through internal conflict. Framing his work via the Ethiopian belief in the four elemental stages of human experience - water, fire, soil, and wind - Yirga's story celebrate...

The Complete Works of Lord Byron. With a Biographical and Critical Notice by J. W. Lake. [With a Portrait.]

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Report copyright infringementby George Byron (Author), J. Lake (Author)Title: The Complete Works of Lord Byron. With a biographical and critical notice by J. W. Lake. [With a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, p...

Through the Eyes of a Belfast Child: Life. Personal Reflections. Poems.

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Report copyright infringementby Greg McVicker (Author)This is a heartfelt personal memoir. Along with capturing lifelong memories including the difficult decision that his parents had to make in leaving their own families behind to search for opportunities away from war torn Belfast, Greg leaves readers surfing the waves of an emotional tsunami about the human journey of life, and how being ripped away from the country he loved, regardless of its violent history, continues to define his ever ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mario Carli (Author)In the aftermath of the First World War, the political map of Europe was radically reshaped and reorganized. Nationalistic tensions sprang up in the immediate aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and history's most bombastic backlash to it was the Italian Regency of Carnaro. Gabriele D'Annunzio, renowned Italian poet and aviator, stormed the port of Fiume on the Dalmatian coast with thousands of hardened veterans in protest of th...

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!: An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year - Hardcover

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by Britta Teckentrup (Illustrator), Fiona Waters (Editor)A lavishly illustrated collection of 366 animal poems--one for every day of the year! The perfect book for children (and grown-ups!) to share at the beginning or end of the day. Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 animal poems--one for every day of the year. Filled with favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets, including William Blake, Christina Rosetti, Carl Sandburg, Grace ...

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Report copyright infringementby Allen Ginsberg (Author)"Ginsberg's 'force field of language' still exerts a powerful imaginative pressure." ―The New YorkerAssembled by Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems 1947-1995, is a magnificent collection of work from one of the most influential and revolutionary poets of the twentieth century.Famous for catalyzing the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg wrote poetry for more than fifty years--works that changed the course of American poetry with the creation of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Various (Author), Garrison Keillor (Selected by), Garrison Keillor (Introduction by)Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and cultu...

The Lotus Eater: a poem and series of paintings by thomas flynn ii

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas J. II Flynn (Author), Ashley Jones (Foreword by)"The Lotus Eater: a poem and series of paintings by Thomas Flynn II" is a 9 x 6 inch, 52 page, full color hardcover book self-published by the artist with a foreward by Ashley C. Jones."I wrote this poem and completed this work in the summer of 2021. While the world was grasping at a new normal in the wake of economic and social unrest that began a year and a half prior.To close one's eyes and drift into a ...

The Other Side of Tomorrow: A Graphic Novel

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Report copyright infringementby Tina Cho (Author), Deb Jj Lee (Illustrator)Booklist Editor's Choice of 2024: Books for YouthSchool Library Journal Best Book of 2024Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 20242025 ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List2026 TLA Maverick Graphic Novel ListA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionPerfect for fans of Illegal and When Stars Are Scattered, this poignant and moving graphic novel in verse captures the dangers and hope that come with fleeing North...