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Poems - by Currer, Ellis, & Acton Bell: Including Introductory Essays by Charlotte Brontë and Virginia Woolf

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Brontë (Author), Emily Brontë (Author), Anne Brontë (Author)Poems - by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell is a powerful and intimate collection that marks the first published work of the Brontë siblings, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, writing under their now-famous pseudonyms. United by a shared intensity of feeling yet strikingly individual in voice, the poems explore love, faith, nature, suffering, and the inner life with emotional honesty and lyrical force...

Cottage Poems: Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf and Clement K. Shorter

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Brontë (Author), Clement K. Shorter (Essay by), Virginia Woolf (Essay by)Cottage Poems, by Patrick Brontë, is a reflective and morally grounded collection that reveals the literary sensibilities of the Brontë family's patriarch. Rooted in rural life and Christian faith, these poems explore themes of devotion, humility, labour, and the quiet dignity of ordinary existence. Written with clarity and earnest conviction, Patrick Brontë's verse draws on nature...

Black Doves Fly to Freedom: A Book of Poems Concerning History, Struggle, and Progress - Paperback

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by Erica Stephens (Author)FROM AWARD-WINNING POET ERICA STEPHENS comes an unforgettable poetry collection that takes us through time to explore African-American history and achievements from beginnings in Africa to present day. Black Doves Fly to Freedom: A Book of Poems Concerning History, Struggle, and Progress is a project inspired by recurring struggles to understand and take in negative portrayals of Blackness, a personal search for identity, and a lifetime's journey as a Black woman.Riv...

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Report copyright infringementby Fanny Howe (Author)Fanny Howe, acclaimed poet and winner the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, explores the fears and freedoms of single motherhood in this newly reprinted collection, featuring cover art by her son, Maceo Senna. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: October 01, 1985

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Report copyright infringementby L. R. Crow (Author)I am a walking paradox-fractured and whole, burning and fragile.Borderline is a haunting memoir written in raw prose and verse, tracing the life of a woman living with Borderline Personality Disorder. This is not a clinical story-it's a pulse. A confession. A razor-edge walk between love and destruction, hope and despair, darkness and survival.Inside these pages, you'll find: Poetry that bleeds and prose that breathes truth Mental illness to...

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Report copyright infringementby Sassa Aissou (Author)Echo of My Heart is a memoir in poetry - an intimate journey across continents, memory, and spirit. From the warmth of Algeria to the Olympic world stage and the vibrant streets of New York City, Sassa Aissou traces a life shaped by courage, identity, and the enduring pull of home.These poems breathe with ancestral rhythm, the resilience of womanhood, and the quiet strength found in belonging to oneself. Each piece becomes both a prayer and...

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Report copyright infringementby Nate McCallum (Author), Fatima Saheer (Illustrator)If I Stay Silent is a raw and intimate exploration of the truths we bury and the cost of keeping them hidden. Through poems shaped by childhood trauma, queer identity, desire, and self-reckoning, Nate McCallum confronts the memories he once swallowed and the versions of himself he's outgrown. This collection traces the journey from silence to honesty, and then reveals the pain, power, and liberation found in fi...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Suermondt (Author)In his latest book A DAY IN THE REPUBLIC Tim Suermondt continues to show himself to be one of our most interesting poets. Suermondt doesn't have just one subject or one angle or one idea: like Whitman he contains multitudes and is not shy about showing it.The poet and novelist Charlie Smith has written that "a writer is like a worker with a toolbox." And few poets use what's in their literary toolbox better than Tim Suermondt in his new co...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne C. Madden (Author)Turn Me Into a Song is a trail of poems in the wake of one woman's retirement from teaching and move from Philadelphia to Boise. From the very first poem, Pool-hopping, Mrs. Madden introduces us to her irreverent side, her Catholic school up-bringing, her nostalgia for her old border collie, and her crazy college days. She devotes a chapter to her lasting love for her husband, who died by suicide when Mrs. Madden was 41. The aptly named c...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Gibson (Author)Four-time Denver Grand Champion, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the 2008 Women of the World Poetry Slam, Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, challenges us to not only read, but to react. Hauntingly vivid, the poems march through a soldier's lingering psychological wounds, tackle the curious questions of school children on the meaning of "hate", and tangle with a lover's witty and vibrant d...

Race Ipsa Loquitur: A Poetic Diary of My Journey from Compton to the Los Angeles Superior Court Bench

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Report copyright infringementby Kelvin D. Filer (Author)My book is a "poetic diary" meaning that it is a journal of my life written in poetry!! I have always written poems as a sort of therapy and emotional outlet to reflect on my days' experiences. I, luckily, decided to date the poems as they were written and through my book they chronicle my life's experiences of leaving to go to college, matriculating in a new/challenging environment, experiencing friendships and disappointments! My poetr...

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Report copyright infringementby Cristal González Ávila (Author), Ariel Mar (Illustrator), Luis Cisneros (Foreword by)Pedacitos: Little Pieces is a deeply intimate collection of stories, reflections, and poetic fragments that speak to the beauty found in breaking, healing, and becoming whole again. With a voice that is both tender and fierce, this work gathers the everyday moments we carry-grief, joy, memory, survival-and pieces them together into something radiant. Each "pedacito" invites the...

A Night in Rome on a Full Moon: A Novel-in-Verse in Five Acts

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Report copyright infringementby M. O. Dada (Author), Holly Welker (Editor)A Night in Rome on a Full Moon is a raw and intimate novel-in-verse that traces one impulsive night between two people who have spent eight years orbiting each other through screens, silence, and digital longing. After narrowly missing each other in Spain, an unplanned trip to Rome finally brings them face-to-face-where desire becomes a doorway, revealing who they are beneath the roles, routines, and masks they've learn...

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Report copyright infringement"Michigan Poets and Poetry: With Portraits and Biographies" is a celebration of the literary talent blossoming in the Great Lakes State at the turn of the 20th century. This anthology showcases a diverse collection of poets, each contributing their unique voice and perspective to the American literary landscape. Featuring biographical sketches and portraits alongside their poems, the book offers readers a glimpse into the lives and inspirations of these Michigan a...

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Miransky (Author)At the age of seventy-two, Anna Miransky begins to read her father's poetry and fables in her first and forgotten language, Yiddish. She is changed by what she finds. In his writing, her father, the poet and fabulist Peretz Miransky, a Holocaust survivor and member of the celebrated literary group Yung Vilne, reveals aspects of his inner life about which he had never spoken when he was alive. His daughter discovers new details about family...

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Report copyright infringementby Owen Lewis (Author)Although it took over thirty years to come to write "Best Man", it is a story I needed to tell. Despite this long gestation, it was not until I was well into the writing of it that I first considered-why now, why now was I writing about a brother gone for three decades? An answer to the question came and worked itself into the poem "Introducing". How was I to explain this part of my life to someone new in my life, to my then future wife Susan...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Cheever (Author)One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco Chronicle Cummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, created a new kind of poetic expression. Because of his powerful work, he became a generation's beloved heretic--at the time of his death he was one of the most widely read poets in the United States. Now, in this rich, illuminating biography, Susan Cheever traces the development...

William Shakespeare: The True Story of Life about Great William Shakespeare (A Life from Beginning an Intimate Look into the Life of the Most Brillian

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Report copyright infringementby Johnny Perry (Author)William Shakespeare was the most brilliant writer in the history of the English language. But his life is a complete mystery to us. No biographies were written for almost a hundred years after his death. His friends, family, and all those who knew him as a poet in London's theatrical scene died before anyone could ask them: who was Shakespeare? What was he like? What were his habits, his amusements, his passions?Inside you will read about.....

The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Taylor (Author)At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with the question of how to express the enormous ecological loss of our time, poet Sam Taylor marries this collective loss to a personal story of loss involving childhood, memory, and a mother's early death to cancer, a story which culminates in a scene the speaker is compelled to revisit, relive, and r...

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Report copyright infringementby Jyoti Bachani (Editor)This is the fifth anthology of original, contemporary poems-in English, Hindi, and Marathi-from the poets who are part of a collective called the Poetry of Diaspora in Silicon Valley. The Blue Throat Dancers is a reference to the Hindu God Shiva, the lord of dance and a part of the holy trinity who is responsible for creative destruction. He is also known as Neelkanth, the one with a blue throat. One of the legends about him is that he onc...

Passage: Paintings and Poetry from Wallowa Country

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Report copyright infringementby Dustin Lyons (Created by), Leah Svendsen (Created by)Passage is a collaboration between artist, Leah Svendsen, and writer, Dustin Lyons. In these pages you'll find paintings and poetry that draw a line between the wild and rugged landscapes of Oregon's Wallowa Country, and the creative inner worlds of two of its residents. This is a book born out of loss, grief, dreams, yearning, friendship and renewal too. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensi...

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Report copyright infringementby David Sapp (Author), Allen Zimmerman (Foreword by)Artist and poet David Sapp believes that "any attempt to draw or write about nirvana is a silly pursuit." Yet as seen by professor emeritus Allen Zimmerman of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Sapp is "an open, honest, philosophically informed and poetically gifted, thoroughly engaged and engaging artist who continually conveys the impression that he is a celebrant of life, bent on making sense of what he encounte...

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Report copyright infringementby Heidi L. Arnold (Author)This volume presents a fusion of art, photography, and poetry-an exploration of what lies beneath when we take time to seek. Readers are invited into a moment where the intricate architecture of a flower is magnified as Arnold feeds her curiosity of what lies beneath using macrophotography. Each photo reveals a hidden universe, magnifying the elegance of what God has designed in intimate detail. Paired with these images, Arnold has writt...

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: Poems in English and Spanish

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Felipe Herrera (Author), Karen Barbour (Illustrator)From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet musicAwarded the Pura Belpré Honor for this book, Herrera writes in both Spanish and English about the joy and laughter and sometimes the confusion of growing up in an upside-down, jumbled-up world--between two cultures, two homes.With a crazy maraca beat, Herrera creates poetry as...

Spunk: Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston - Paperback

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by Zora Neale Hurston (Author)Gutsy, gritty and often very funny...irresistable theatricality.--Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.43 x 5.37 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1993

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Report copyright infringementby Wislawa Szymborska (Author)A "delectable and profound" collection of poems from Nobel Prize-winner Szymborska (Booklist).When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on Earth, she remains ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author), William Kerrigan (Editor), John Rumrich (Editor)Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library's highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this editio...

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Report copyright infringementby M. L. West (Author)The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.--greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides--produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, and reflected all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole s...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorianne Laux (Author)In her powerful fourth collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all their variety, caught in the "lunar pull" of our time. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.18 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: May 01, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Peñaloza (Author)All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems challenges colonized ideas of history and truth, particularly in relation to Filipinx/a/o history and its colonization by the United States. Engaging with archival materials and playing with the sounds of remembered words and their unique associations, Michelle Peñaloza confronts violent and ironic tensions within historical narratives, subverting erasure and creating her own cultural fluency that...

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

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Report copyright infringementby Margarita Engle (Author), Rafael López (Illustrator)Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule--until the drum dream girl.In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream.Ins...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Jackson (Author)Poetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson's work is inspired by Afro-futurism. small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis, featuring original and remixed superheroes who are othered for more than just their skin and are subsequently and simultaneously celebrated, destroyed, and desired, illustrating what it means to reside in a country's brutal imagination.Author...