Poetry

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by Tawahum Bige (Author)A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old-growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence. With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its influence on his world view, ...

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets - Hardcover

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by Kwame Alexander (Author)A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho B...

Four Elements: Reflections on Nature - Hardcover

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by John O'Donohue (Author)From the beloved author of the bestselling To Bless the Space Between Us and Anam Cara comes a new work that shares his insights on nature and the ancient wisdom of this earth. John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality Anam Cara. Unfortunately he died suddenly at age fifty-two just as his book of blessings, To Bless the Space Between Us, was being published. The loss of his powerfully wise and lyrical voice ...

The Stone to the Cloud: Sijo Poetry Composed in English - Paperback

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by Kim Goeng Pil (Author)Rhythmic lines that still sing strong one thousand years in Korea, sijo brings deep expression of cares and woes in people's hearts. Discover this poetic form, sijo gently inspires thoughts.The dramatic rhythm, the paced three lines to express a wide range of poetic themes in a succinct manner keeps sijo very much alive in the hearts of Koreans to this day. However, the full effect of sijo's unique rhythm is often lost in English translations of Korean sijo classics, ...

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by W. B. Yeats (Author)Poems, by W.B. Yeats, is a classic collection of Irish poetry. While I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes, My heart would brim with dreams about the times When we bent down above the fading coals; And talked of the dark folk, who live in souls Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees; And of the wayward twilight companies, Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content, Because their blossoming dreams have never bent Under the fruit of evil and of good: Num...

Colors of My Life: The Story of My Love Journey Told Through Prose and Poetry - Paperback

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by Mary Hall (Author)A collection of poetry detailing the life of an abuse survivor. This is not just the story of someone who has survived a life of emotional, mental and physical abuse. How the author went from abused to abuser and survived. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 28, 2016

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by C. G. Schultz T. N. Geary (Author), P. M. Duncan K. L. Schultz (Author) Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.44 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: September 12, 2011

A thinkers paradise: a sense of doubt - Paperback

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by Donovan P. King (Author)This book is one of three that is delving into the perceptions of the authors being. Particularly this concentrates on his mental perception. It is styled by a stream of consciousness and is raw thought. It has been edited, however there are still grammatical errors and misspelled words. The author left those in place for the reader to fully understand his artistic intention. It is meant to probe the ideals of one being, as the reader, to explore the wit and persona...

Me, Dog and the Frog: A Collection of Poems for the Young at Heart to Be Illustrated by the Reader - Paperback

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by Mona Saba Haddad (Author)One of a series of books with poems for the young and young at heart are intended to stimulate the reader's imagination and artistic inclinations. Each poem is printed on a single page with another blank sheet (facing the poem) to enable the reader illustrate the poem with pencils or crayons. Illustrations sent to the author will be selected for inclusion, with acknowledgment, in future publications. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x ...

Savitri Digital-friendly First Edition - Paperback

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by Sri Aurobindo (Author)Publishers' Note Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri was written in three parts containing twelve Books. Part One was first published in September 1950, before his withdrawal in December that year; Part Two and Part Three came out as a single volume a few months later, in 1951. We are now publishing this 1950-1951 Edition of Savitri in a suitable format with section and sentence indexing. It is felt that this Savitri Digital-friendly Edition will prove much useful for variou...

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by Thomas L. III White (Author)There is a distinctive way each word earns its space in Thomas White's first book of poetry and quotes, "Healing of a Divided Soul." They fit accordingly after the mastermind of their structure. Giving you imagery in each piece, and taking you on a journey deep inside the soul of a man determined to overcome life difficulties through faith and commitment. "Healing of a Divided Soul" uniquely shares his story through poetry of living and escaping life on the bott...

. . . Hold a Gentle Thought: Soft Prose, Poetry & Short Stories - Paperback

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by Gene Nay (Author)Many years ago suffering a series of deep personal losses, Gene wanted to die and planned to. Yet he knew that was wrong. Writing about these feelings eased the pain. Desperate to be able to hold some gentle thoughts, he began writing in earnest, reinterpreting these happenings for himself. Soon he could see other points of view which enabled him to cope. Focusing on setting these experiences to rhythm and rhyme took his attention from the pain. As his interest and capabil...

Milk & Honey: poems by Dean Rathje - Paperback

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by Dean Rathje (Author)Dean Rathje's seventh volume of poems includes some works originally created as music lyrics. Themes of home and family, work and destiny, love and abuse.Author BiographyDean Rathje lives and works in eastern Iowa, where he owns and operates New Leaf Interactive Media, Inc. Number of Pages: 64 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2011

Skinny Dipping with Strangers: Poems - Paperback

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by Derek Berry (Author)This collection of poems captures an autobiographical narrative that details a mumbled childhood, a mushroom-cloud adolescence, and an early adulthood of poetic ambitions. With humor, sincerity, and lyrical flourish, these poems transcend mechanics and grasp something close to truth. They cover subjects as broad of teen partying, grief, the importance of art majors, teen suicide, beach visits, the act of reinvention, and emotional nakedness. "When I read these poems, I ...

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by G. K. Williams (Author) Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 06, 2010

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by Kristin Beckman (Author)Pain develops on each page of the past from the abuse to the neglect that bloomed into the angry demons of the mind that wishes for the death of everything that ever existed with one's self. Pain and anger run from the depths of each poem as if a knife is being jammed into one's chest. You instantly feel the pain that the author has felt from page one. Unable to reach beyond the destruction of self esteem as a child growing up feeling unloved and hated, the author p...

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by Neal Jurney (Author) Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: March 26, 2009

A Black Girls Poetry For the World - Paperback

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by Kimberly Larocca (Author) Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.32 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN Publication Date: April 13, 2011

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by Abram J. Ryan (Author)THESE VERSES (which some friends call by the higher title of Poems--to which appellation the Author objects), --were written at random, --off and on, --here, --there, --anywhere, --just when the mood came, with little of study and less of art, --and always in a hurry. Hence they are incomplete in finish, as the Author is;--tho' he thinks they are true in tone. His feet know more of the humble steps that lead up to the Altar and its Mysteries, than of the steeps that l...

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by Peaches (Author)Poetry Tea & Me is a collection of selected poems created by Ms. Peaches. These poems are based on real life events, experienced by the author through the years and into this present time. It is a book filled with emotions flowing directly from the author's heart. Within the pages of this book, you will find 32 poetic expressions that describe exactly how the author was feeling as she took pen to paper compiling her thoughts and memories in a dramatic way. So, sit back...

Adobe Walls: an anthology of New Mexico poetry - Paperback

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by Hakim Bellamy (Contribution by), Gary L. Brower (Contribution by), Lisa Gill (Contribution by)Adobe Walls is a poetry anthology of New Mexico poets combining sections of Free Verse, Form and Slam poetry. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.39 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 29, 2010

The Arab Poems The Muslim Poems - Paperback

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by Sam Hamod (Author)A selection of poems by America's first and most respected Arab American/Muslim poet. Sam Hamod has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and has received several international awards. He has a Ph.D from The Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa and has served on the faculty of major universities in America, and the world.Author BiographySam Hamod is "The major Arab American, Muslim American poet," Carlos Fuentes, "Sam Hamod is one of the very best poets in America, ...

A Really Short Book Of Poems - Paperback

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by Don Bauer (Author) Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: June 18, 2010

Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark - Paperback

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by A. P. Hawkins (Author), Alex Bauer (Author), Ang?lique Jamail (Author)Dark fantasy meets cozy horror meets your cold weather fears.This season, trade your boring silent nights for the things that go B U M P in the night.A delectably strange collection for those who like a little more lurk with their holiday lore.Sing along, chitter along, or just mutter incoherently to Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark.Weird little rhymes featuring: BigfootDjinnHodagIfritKelpieLoup GarouMothmanPegasusPigm...

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by Timothy Liu (Author)Exploring the interlocking forces of sexuality and spirituality, Burnt Offerings continues the trajectory of Liu's first collection of poems, Vox Angelica, which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Nominated for a Lambda Book Award in Gay Men's Poetry. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9.04 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: August 01, 1995

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by Stephen Berg (Author)A major collection of works by the founder and co-editor of American Poetry Review, author of Grief and In It. "Sharp, thoughtful, and wonderfully wild."--Library Journal "Stephen Berg is a well-kept secret....Berg plies the reader's attention with simplicity and candor."--American BooksellerAuthor BiographyStephen Berg, founding editor of American Poetry Review, is the author of two dozen books of poetry and translations. He is a professor of English at the University...

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry - Paperback

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by Joy Harjo (Editor), Carla D. Hayden (Foreword by), The Library of Congress (With)Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry.This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project--in...

Just Us: An American Conversation - Paperback

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by Claudia Rankine (Author)Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine's "skyscraper in the literature on racism" (Christian Science Monitor) In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary conversation about Whiteness in America. What would it take for us to breach the silence, guilt, and violence that arise from addressing Whiteness for what it is? What are the consequences if we keep avoiding this conversation? What might it look like if we step into it? "I learned early that being right pal...

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by Gene Edwards (Author)Love yourself...just as you are. The Other Color of Love is a collection of poems offered as an adventure into the spirit of the imagination, into the heart and soul. Imagination constantly impels us and nurtures us with eternal gifts of love, beauty, and truth. Our choice to be honest with ourselves and others-and our awareness that there is more to our existence-sets us free. The poems touch upon birth, rebirth, gratitude, contentment, happiness, love, and mutual res...

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by John Everett Button (Author)A direct challenge to Milton's vision in Paradise Lost, John Everett Button's Reflexive Conversations offers literature its first truly romantic depiction of Satan in this bold contemporary epic poem. Utterly unique in its intimacy, Button has produced a brave new vision of the Devil's fall from grace and his resulting odyssey to hell. Transcending the bounds of traditional tragedy, Reflexive Conversations rises to become a work of sculpture that is a living rep...

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by Beth Speer (Author)This sassy story of a spirited red head reminds us that it's okay to let a rhythm take you over from time to time. LuLa's antics and wiggles in the Grocery store will provide a gaggle of giggles from beginning to end. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: May 12, 2010

Tuft's House and All of Me. Tales from the Dark Side of a Loon - Hardcover

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by Sheridan Chase (Author)Sheridan Chase is a compelling young screenwriter/poet whose form of storytelling will both captivate and engage while pulling the reader into his imaginative world. Directing his thesis for The Los Angeles Film School in 2008, in his hometown brought together his new crew from Hollywood, and his original group of filmmaking buddies. This was the backbone Sheridan knew he needed to help his production company Press R... Productions get off the ground. His most impres...