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by Chad Ellis Boykin (Author), Tom Elliot (Foreword by)The Twilight Zone Haiku explores the essence of Rod Serling's iconic, uncanny 1960s television show through haiku, giving us dazzling, spot-on snapshots of each episode. In seventeen syllables, Boykin captures the show's main objective: to deliver a keen jolt of existential awareness. As you read, you find yourself marooned on an alien planet, lost in time, trapped inside a mannequin, surrounded by the debris of a nuclear attack, and alwa...

Alive at the End of the World - Paperback

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by Saeed Jones (Author), D. a. Powell (Foreword by)Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. With verve, wit, and elegant craft, Jones strips away American artifice in order to reveal the intimate grief of a mourning son and the coll...

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by Ariadna Sánchez Hernández (Author)Ariadna Sá nchez Herná ndez nació en la tierra "donde abunda el ejote," Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca. Los versos empapados de emociones encuentran un hogar en las pá ginas de Visitas Inesperadas. Visitas inesperadas, es un poemario con fotografí as que une los aromas y colores de una tierra má gica con los ecos de la memoria.Author BiographyAriadna Sánchez Hernández es una poeta que florece en cada estrofa, bañada de sol y esperanza, pintando poesía más allá d...

Not A Wake: A dream embodying (pi)'s digits fully for 10000 decimals - Paperback

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by Diana Keith (Illustrator), Michael Keith (Author)"Not A Wake" is a collection of poetry, short stories, a play, a movie script, crossword puzzles and other surprises, constructed according to a unique principle: counting the number of letters in successive words of the text (the first word has 3 letters, the next word has 1 letter, the next word has 4 letters, and so on) reveals the first 10,000 digits of the famous mathematical number pi (3.14159265358979...). Fans of the number pi, const...

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by Marcela Sulak (Author)On writing CITY OF SKYPAPERS: "CITY OF SKYPAPERS was an effort of daily writing in Tel Aviv for a span of about three years during which time I tried to inhabit and reconcile Jewish sacred time (holidays, Shabbat, daily prayer rituals) with private, social, and civil secular time-two wars with their worries and missiles, explosions, and a sense of solidarity, as well, with beloved friends in Gaza or West Bank, a custody lawsuit, daily small-scale agriculture, running ...

Mom, Can I Do My Laundry at Your House?: Poems from Your Adult Child - Hardcover

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by Olivia Roberts (Author)A perfect gift for mom, this humor poetry book celebrates the mother/child relationship, and how this relationship evolves as children grow up and become (or at least try to be) independent adults. Even as a grown-up, sometimes all we need is a hug from our mom--and access to their washing machine. Via fifty short, relatable poems, Mom, Can I Do My Laundry at Your House? celebrates the amazing people who raised us and support us, even when we're still siphoning the...

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by Alice Cooper (Author)hello my name is Alice V J Cooper this book is my complete poems however there are in part one and two the book ranges from pain, anger, hurt, suffering and emotions. i have mental health issues a wide range are to do with strength and poems, pain, anger, hate, remembrance, mental health, emotional, life, strength, conquering the pain of my struggles this book is a entrance into my mind, it also includes some other poems such as a tribute to Amy Winehouse. there are so...

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by Tralyne Usry (Author)Have you ever asked yourself these questions: ""Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why am I made the way that I am? What makes me ""tick'? What am I made for?"" You are a designer original made with certain specifics by God himself and those specifics speak They speak of purpose and intention and so much more God, the original designer, made you that way and His designs speak. Through this poetry and spoken word pieces, take a journey, through the eye of God and His ...

Poems, Songs and Letters: Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Keith Vance (Author)The book begins with religious pages then lead into normal, everyday poetry about patriotism, letters, work, love, and tears then ends with drinking and dying.The intent is to present a mix of easy-to-read and also not-easy-to-read poems and songs that you may or may not want to read. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 08, 2019

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by Caleb Luna (Author)REVENGE BODY traces moments in the aftermath of survival and rebuilding toward a more livable future for survivors. While refusing to hide, minimize, justify or ignore instances of trauma, it also refuses to succumb to them. Instead, it probes these histories as a strategy to move through the pain and forge an alternate path for a new tomorrow. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.39 x 6.93 x 5.04 IN Publication Date: February 05, 2022 ...

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by Kimberly O'Connor (Author)When coal dust infiltrates the lungs of coal miners, we call that disease black lung. Kimberly O'Connor's debut collection, White Lung, illuminates how racism also permeates American air--hate, fear, and shame left in our wake. O'Connor breaks the silence our culture expects of white women. Her unflinching poems catalog how racial epithets can get passed down through a family, documenting a 2014 execution along the way as well as archiving events leading up to Roe...

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by Robert Service (Author)Author BiographyOften referred to as the "Bard of the Yukon," Robert Service was a prolific novelist and poet, publishing numerous poetry collections, two autobiographies, and six novels during his lifetime. Though he was born in England, he is best known for his writings set in Northwest Canada featuring the Klondike Gold Rush. Service died in 1958, and has since been honored on a Canadian postage stamp and has had various schools in Canada named after him. ...

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by Kerry James Evans (Author)"Evans' jarring debut book of poems draws on his experience as a combat engineer for the Army National Guard...A strong contribution to wartime poetry composed by combatants...Given recent controversy over domestic surveillance and enlisted whistle-blowers, this is a necessary read, indeed."--BooklistDrawing upon Kerry James Evans's experience in the military, Bangalore speaks from the position of a natural class warrior who came of age desperately poor in some of...

Of Trees, Cows and Other Nonsense - Paperback

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by Walter Stephens (Author)Stories, which sometimes rhyme, of ranchers, farmers, foresters, trees, cattle and wild things - their thoughts, trials and lessons learned. Walter Stephens and partner and wife, Patricia, now both old, spent their years raising kids, cattle and trees on farms/ranches in South Georgia, New Zealand and Oregon.This booklet tells stories of folks, critters and philosophies they met along the way. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: Februar...

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by Michal 'Mj' Jones (Author)Michal "MJ" Jones' debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling - an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." The speaker of Hood Vacations tells of magic: of praying mantises, bathtub octopuses, Black ghosts, & bringing back "rainbow soap colors". It is...

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by Ocean Vuong (Author)The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of personal and social loss, embodying the paradox of sitting in grief while being determined to survive beyon...

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by Bukuru Dieudone (Author)This chapbook is a reflection of my life. I share memories both happy and scary, capturing where I came from physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I have always been seeking something eternal. I ran after people and longed for their approval. I participated in things that hurt my family and my relationships with friends. I did everything because I believed it brought me joy. Instead, it left me broken and wounded. I was looking for something that only God could ...

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by T. J. Sandella (Author)"T.J. Sandella's poems have compassion, humor, grace, and range. He writes about himself and others, about music and sex and trees and Houdini, and death, of course, else how would we recognize him as a poet? But what moves most deeply across and within these poems is an engaging mixture of curiosity and conscience, a need to discover various kinds of truth, whether ethical or aspirational. In poems that 'keep bending / into questions, ' he moves graciously across wh...

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by Kristin Chang (Author)2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Poetry. In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness like a dazzling, dizzying uproar: "I suck / until my teeth riot / with rot & I have nothing / left in my mouth to keep / quiet." Quiet Chang's speakers are not. In these nineteen poems, the body is personal and communal, hunter and hunted: "My mother says / women who sleep with women / are redundant: the body sym...

Word Up: The Life of Amanda Gorman - Hardcover

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by Marc Shapiro (Author)Determination. Challenges met and triumphed over.Talent in the heart and soul of her words. And the drive to make history from a young woman who is wise and grown up beyond her years.These are all elements of the first feel good story of 2021, the triumph and history-making journey of Amanda Gorman. A journey, as chronicled in the biography of the young Black poetess whose happy ending concluded at the White House as the featured reader at President Joe Biden's inaugur...

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by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (Author), Tiffany Tsao (Translator)Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Translation Prize 2021 Winner, English PEN Translates Award Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heartbreaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. Drawing on the poet's life as an openly gay writer of Bataknese descent and Christian background, the collection furnishes readers with an alternative gospel, a book of bittersweet and tragicomic ...

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by Lisa Dordal (Author)In NEXT TIME YOU COME HOME, Lisa Dordal distills one hundred eighty letters she received from her mother over a twelve-year period (1989-2001) into short, meditative entries that reflect upon motherhood, marriage, grief, the beauty of the natural world, same-sex relationships, and the passage of time, as well as on issues such as racism, sexism, and climate change. The entries--which are something between letters and poems--portray a mother who, despite her alcoholism, ...

Word Up: The Life of Amanda Gorman - Paperback

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by Ananda Lima (Author)Mother/land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker's relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and language. The collection is heavily focused on the latter, including formal experimentation with hybridity and polyvocality, combining English and P...

The Complete Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author)The greatest sonnets and poems ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language. Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: April 06, 2011

Grace Notes: Poems about Families - Hardcover

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by Naomi Shihab Nye (Author)With themes of family, love, kindness, empathy, grief, growing up, and resilience, these one hundred never-before-published poems by the beloved poet, speaker, and teacher Naomi Shihab Nye will resonate with a wide audience.National Book Award finalist and former Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye's Grace Notes: Poems about Families celebrates family and community. This rich collection of one hundred never-before-published poems is also the poet's most p...

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by W. Todd Kaneko (Author)"THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of war and unspeakable trauma. This lyric collection of profound beauty and grief reminds us to share our tales of generational trauma and topography-shaping our individual and collective memories-in place of forgotten histories."-Karen An-hwei Lee"What does it mean to be safe in America? In THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS, W. Todd Kaneko explores the legacy of concentr...

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by Kirun Kapur (Author)"In astonishing lyrics that give us more than intimate negotiations of memory, the poems in WOMEN IN THE WAITING ROOM work an entrancing weave of Hindu mythology, ravishing songs, and the language of crisis hotlines as a means of limning the fate of women's bodies and psychological distress. If O'Hara's Personism figures a poem as a telephone call then Kapur's wondrous lines serve to heal, like all poignant and meaningful human to human exchanges: interventionist langua...

When My Body Was a Clinched Fist - Paperback

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by Enzo Silon Surin (Author)"Back in the day when KRS-One intoned-The Bridge is over!-he did not prefigure a poet from Queens of the fierce attitude and intellectual magnitude of Enzo Silon Surin. WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST gives the Heisman to such a refrain with lyrical power-packing poetics that settles the score with a succinct-Not! No the Bridge is not over, for Surin's Queens is alive and well and under the gaze of a master observer who eulogizes lives that though at times are bat...

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by Lisa Fay Coutley (Author)"In TETHER, a spacecraft of a book superbly conceived and assembled, Lisa Fay Coutley engineers both recovery and healing in poems that swerve emotionally between the landing bays of grief, longing, and wonder. A bright hunger constellates around these poems, but so too the immensities of love. TETHER is a burning inquiry into the miracle of being here on earth and what keeps us fastened to each other, for better or worse."-Major Jackson"Lisa Fay Coutley's TETHER i...

Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets - Paperback

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by Animashaun (Editor)Poetry manuals, at their most essential, are aimed at demystifying aspects of poetry, in order to make poetry less daunting-especially for beginner poets. Such manuals are also reminders that poetry itself is a discipline with a landscape and a history. FAR VILLAGES builds on the body of work in this tradition by bringing a number of established and emerging poets together in a single volume to welcome new and beginner poets to the art of poetry, its craft, and the long ...

They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing - Paperback

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by Simone Muench (Editor), Dean Rader (Editor)THEY SAID: A MULTI-GENRE ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY COLLABORATIVE WRITING includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as hybridized forms that push the boundaries of concepts like "genre" and "author."Contributors to this anthology include: Kelli Russell Agodon, Nin Andrews, Elisa Gabbert, Ross Gay, Carol Guess, Carla Harryman, j/j hastain, Lyn Hejinian, Persis Karim, Ada Limon, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Julie Marie Wade, G C Waldrep, a...