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Joyful, Joyful: 20 Stories by Brilliant Black Creators from Around the World

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Report copyright infringementby Dapo Adeola (Editor)"A wonderful collection of short stories and poems from 40 black writers and illustrators . . . Brilliantly curated by Dapo Adeola" - Joseph Coelho, Children's Laureate A hugely entertaining, fully color-illustrated collection celebrating joy, perfect for children age 8 to 12 (and beyond!). Curated by Laugh Out Loud Awards winner Dapo Adeola, with a foreword by the acclaimed Patrice Lawrence. Joyful, Joyful is a book to sing about! A large h...

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by Lois Lowry (Author), Kenard Pak (Illustrator)From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak.Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning work in verse...

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Gelmi (Editor), Lizzy Lerud (Editor)An inspiring, one-of-a-kind collection of innovative, inclusive approaches to teaching poetry in today's college classrooms.As any poetry teacher knows, the best ideas about poems are built with students. In Teaching Poetry Now, this seemingly simple premise yields an unprecedented trove of practical strategies for enlivening college-level poetry instruction and making it more inclusive. In thirty-one short, provoca...

Echoes from a Child's Soul: Awakening the Moral Imagination of Children

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara A. Clark (Author)Presents the power and possibilities of art and aesthetic methodology, releasing the moral voices of children, labeled at-risk, that break through the educational culture of silence and marginalization.Author BiographyBarbara A. Clark, Ed.D. (2004), University of Hartford, is Professor of Education at CCSU. She has published articles and book chapters on aesthetic education and moral imagination of children, including the co-authored bo...

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Report copyright infringementby Wendell Berry (Author)This poetry collection about nature, community, and tradition is a stunning primer on the poetic works of the award-winning Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and cultural critic The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry gathers one hundred poems written between 1957 and 1996. Chosen by the author, these pieces have been selected from each of nine previously published collections. The rich work in this volume reflects the development of Berry's ...

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by Priyanka Mehta (Author)"Like anangelthe sundances atthe edge ofthe horizon, ready to burstinto flames, as the fadingstars look onand smile, watchingimmortalsouls playingmortal games." - Poetry on life. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 19, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Debra Oliver (Author)Songs from the Labyrinth is a treasure chest of poetry, stories, essays and roadmaps. These Songs are offered from the heart for fellow travelers embarked on the rigorous journey out of bondage into a human renaissance. The impending rebirth is both individual and collective. These Songs are like breadcrumbs that lead through a thick, bewildering forest, or like a strand of Ariadne's Thread leading out of the ancient Minotaur's maze. So man...

My Demons and Me: an Alchemist's Journey

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Report copyright infringementby Cadence Perales (Author)Cadence struggled her whole life to understand herself. Diagnosed at 28 with CPTSD, she learned how her past shaped or rather diminished who she was at her core. At 29 she took her first steps onto her self-discovery journey. Cadence found poetry helped her to uncover and understand the complexity of her hidden emotions, patterns, past, relationships, and self. Poetry has given Cadence back her voice that was once rendered silent. My Dem...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Salisbury (Author)Dogwood or I Would is a collection of poetry written by Louise Salisbury from 1966 to the present. Reflective of her life as a dancer, as a mother to a son and daughter, her childhood, her experience in Seattle and on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, these poems crystallize her impressions. Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2024

Sweet Adeline: A Mother's Kitchen Poetry and Her Son's Retrospections

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Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Brunker (Author)Sweet Adeline is an extraordinary and unique Christian poetry book that beautifully combines the art of poetry with the compelling biography of a remarkable woman. Adeline Brunker, the central figure of this collection, embarked on a life filled with challenges and blessings, and her poetic expressions radiate with the warmth of faith and the power of love. Adeline's journey began as an orphan, embraced by her grandparents until their ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elviles M. II Crosby (Author) This book brings the reader a unique and creative perspective from a young african american male growing up in the south. This book features very charismatic and intriguing writings. It offers various styles of poetry that speak on many different topics such as love, maturity and life in a general. This is the first book published by the author and it puts forward a collection of poems and writings that the author originally compos...

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Forman (Author), Katura Gaines (Illustrator)From the bestselling author of Curls, Glow, Bloom, and Ours comes a counting board book about ten friends who add up to something wonderful! One only one but now we are two and now we are three Introduce young ones to the concept of counting from one to ten while celebrating themes of friendship and community.Author BiographyRuth Forman is the author of bestselling children's books Curls, Glow, Bloom, Ours, One, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Author)Staggering between English and Spanish, language becomes Scenters-Zapico's mirror, reflecting her body, her family, and the borders that confine them.My Perfect Cognate interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens: violence and softness, motherhood and isolation, the border between the United States and Mexico, where the author and her mother were often stopped, interrogated. Written from the d...

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Read (Editor)Poetry is the language of Catholicism. From the songs of Scripture to the hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always used metaphor and image, meter and rhyme, and the music of language to illuminate and inculcate the faith. Yet, when it comes to Catholic poetry itself, the song too often remains unsung. Many devout believers recoil from poetry, even when it is deeply Catholic. Many poetry lovers overlook Catholic poetry, even when it...

Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance

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Report copyright infringementby Naseer Aruri (Editor), Edmund Ghareeb (Editor)A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world. This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas. In 1971, in the wake of George Jackson's killing by San Quentin prison gu...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikita Gill (Author)Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing -- perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that burns with magnificent beauty, this raw and powerful collection is an explosion of femininity, empow...

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by Garrett Buhl Robinson (Author)Everybody knows The Nobody because at Times Square anybody can be a star.If you have a story to tell, a song to sing or a gift to share, there is no other showcase place on the planet like New York City. If you want to see the world but lack the means, just come to New York City and you can watch parades of all humanity. If you want to climb to the summit and reach civilization's peak, New York City is where you need to be.In the hustle and bustle of Broadway,...

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Harrison (Author), Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by), Joseph Bednarik (Editor)Jim Harrison's The Theory and Practice of Rivers returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume.In her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, inspired by the death of Harrison's teenage niece, and a "loose memoir" teeming with thoughts and images that leap intuitively across subjects, recalling myriad experiences, places, and enc...

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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 Lyndall Gordon (Author)T. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole school of literary criticism. Today, as long-awaited personal papers and letters emerge, there is a new impetus to reexamine and understand Eliot--both as a poet and person. T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life portrays the vexed, tormented emot...

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Report copyright infringementby Zbigniew Herbert (Author)"This impeccably, newly translated and edited volume finds Herbert, strongly anticommunist throughout his life, determined to resist the reduction of the human to anything easily measured, manipulated and forgotten...Tender, wary, melancholy and wry, the poems visit ideas of redemption as one might visit a grave site, i.e., knowing that what you seek can only be experienced in the heart and mind...Finally, the work of this powerful mast...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Hale (Author)A collection of romantic poems Byron wrote for John Edleston, Lord Clare, Earl Delawarr, Lucas Chalandrutsanos, and other boys. The collection spans Byron's life. Some poems for Edleston, Clare, and Delawarr were among the earliest verse he wrote; the poems to Chalandrutsanos were his very last. Selected and introduced by Keith Hale. Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One o...

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Report copyright infringementby Trisha Keegan (Author)Torn Between Duty and Desire: A Riveting Tale of Love Tested by Time and Trials....and thereafter is not just a collection of poems-it's the voice of every heart that has loved deeply and lost painfully.Have you ever felt the euphoria of new love, only to watch it wither away in the face of life's trials? Trisha Keegan captures this universal journey in her evocative poetry collection. Every poem is a chapter from a two-decade-long love st...

The Upcycled Healing Brain: An Eco-Therapy Diary in 80 Buried Spoons

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Report copyright infringementby Luca M. Dami-Ani (Author)An illustrated poetic memoir, The Upcycled Healing Brain chronicles a journey from brain trauma to acceptance and healing. Experience profound emotions, creativity, and vibrant life through eco-therapy and buried spoons... Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph C. III Hamm (Author)"Blackberry Juice" by Ralph C. Hamm III, is an impressive collection of short stories, essays, poetry, and a full length play, from a remarkable man who has spent 46 years of his life in prison for a non capital offense when he was 17. It contains a wide range of his writing styles that not only attest to his talent as a writer but also to his insight, vision, and intellect as a leader of stature in the prison reform movement and the b...

The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Keene (Author)Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad romance of the unhappy poet, but there has been no satisfactory biography of his life or career, even in Japanese, and only a small part of his writin...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian L. Jacobs (Editor)"To consecrate the union between elsewhere and possibility, the poet demanded of himself permanent abstinence from something impossible" Poetics of Relation, Edouard GlissantTofu Ink Arts Press is very excited about the possibilities our poets and artists share in their fabulous work for our Volume 4 edition. Our writers and artists rupture, mapping at times a-linearly & all proliferating, without boundaries or centers, in the margi...

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Report copyright infringementby Rabih Moussan (Author)Your Silence Was Never Empty: This isn't just a quote book. It is a reckoning.For the ones who kept quiet to survive.For the ones still pretending they're fine.For the ones who finally want the truth to hurt and free them.Your Silence Was Never Empty is a raw, poetic excavation of grief, rage, healing, and reclamation.Structured across five emotional chapters: �� The Inheritance of Silence�� The Collapse and the Clawing�� The Rage Th...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Wortsman (Author)In What We Leave Behind, Peter Wortsman's fourth book of cut-ups, he lets the words run wild, in some cases, as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrames (1918), letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases, coupling word and image; and finally, succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages in which words play a subordinate role or disappear altogether. If, as this book's first poem maintains, "we know each ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kahlil Gibran (Author)One of the most beloved classics of our time--a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Published in 1923, Gibran's masterpiece has been translated into more than twenty languages.Gibran's musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crim...

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Report copyright infringementby Lacaya Medina (Author)Darkness Prevailed Until It Saw the Light dives into the mind of the author through poetry. It begins with retelling the horrors the author went through. It goes into detail about the monsters and abuse that the author faced as a young child. Gradually, the author gets older and faces mental health issues such as suicidal ideation, self-harm, eating disorders, and trauma. In this book, we watch as the author grows up and continues to have ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ayoka B (Author)The title, Love Letters, is a play on words. When we think of love, we get nostalgic and think of romance and yearn for it, if we don't have it. Letters refers to the letters in the alphabet that make up words that create poetry. A poet or writer is a master of words. A master can evoke strong emotion from simply combining letters in a meaningful way.Love is and always will be a burning topic. There are an infinite amount of artistic expressions...