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For Your Smile: A High Contrast Book for Newborns - Board Book

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by Loryn Brantz (Author), Loryn Brantz (Illustrator)Filled with smiles from beginning to end, this playful high-contrast black-and-white board book shows the lengths parents and caregivers will go for their little one's happiness. By bestselling Feminist Baby and It Had to Be You creator Loryn Brantz! For your smile, I'd quack quack like a duck because when you're smiling, I can't believe my good luck!A horse and foal, a bird and chick, a cat and kitten, a parent and child, and more go out of...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Zoccola (Author)Named a Best Book the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and more! "Zoccola has beautifully and resourcefully reimagined this mythic material...Zoccola's Helen has succeeded in joining her mythic forebear." --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice Part myth retelling, part character study, this sharp, visceral debut poetry collection reimagines Helen of Troy from Homer's Iliad as a disgruntled housewife in 1990s Ten...

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Report copyright infringementby Ama Asantewa Diaka (Author)A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and ...

Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works - Paperback

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by John Ashbery (Author), Ben Lerner (Foreword by)A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to sho...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Zapruder (Author)An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew ZapruderIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. He takes on what it is that poetry--and poetry alone--can do. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunder...

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by Joyce Carol Oates (Author)A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a ...

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by Shelley Puhak (Author) "The speaker in Shelley Puhak's Harbinger is no closer to knowing herself than I am, than we are, which is why we trust her. Each similarly titled poem holds a triptych mirror up to the artist and, in so doing, up to us all, so we may better see ourselves as we are. In ever-changing form." --Nicole Sealey A stunning meditation on artistic creation and historical memory from the winner of the National Poetry Series, chosen by Nicole SealeyFrom "Portrait of the artist,...

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Hirshfield (Author)"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious--one random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and the threshold life, ' flows 14th-century Japanese poet Ono no Komachi (whose poems she has translated in the past) into Czeslaw Milosz into Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman--and confide...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Bukowski (Author)A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poemsCharles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in small magazines but were never collected, and a large number of them have yet to be published....

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Report copyright infringementby Charity Whan (Author)Debuted at #19 in LGBTQ+ Poetry and #28 in Contemporary Poetry on Kindle.what are we / when we look in the mirror? / ourselves? / or the shape / of all the people who left us?In Chaos, Charity Whan writes directly through the disorientation of transformation. After the ending of a marriage and reckoning with a desire that reshaped her understanding of herself, Whan examines how identity forms, fractures, and reforms. This collection of poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Eleni Sophia (Author)The Art of Being Preserved is for the woman becoming the version of herself God always saw. For the woman who knows that solitude is not loneliness, that peace is her power, and that home begins within her own soul. For the woman who protects what is sacred, who honours her boundaries, and who refuses to let the noise of the world interfere with what God is preparing for her. Devotions for the God-led woman. A book you can open anywhere, tr...

Article LV: Reflections of subtle enlightenment [Meditative & Neutralizing]

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Jesus Rosario (Author)Buddhist Manifesto Article LV: Reflections of Subtle Enlightenment is a revolutionary spiritual manifesto that unveils the profound convergence of Christ-consciousness and Buddha-nature. Christs path of divine love and Buddhas teaching of inherent enlightenment are not forever separated by cultural boundaries; they unite in one transformative awakening. This meditative memoir dissolves religious tensions and cultivates deep inner pe...

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Morrissey (Author)These 100 sonnets tell the story of an extraordinary young woman who had an immeasurable impact on literature and other media worldwide. The collection focuses on the period from her birth, as Mary Godwin (daughter of literary firebrands William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), to her twenty-fourth year, when she returned to London after five years abroad: a widow and a mother to a young son, but with a scandalous reputation and no clear m...

Whispers in the Wheatfield: Finding Inspiration and Purpose in the Wrinkles of Everyday Living

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph M. Korzon (Author)Our Exploration of the Works of Author Joseph M. KorzonWe're thrilled to dive into Joseph M. Korzon's thought-provoking work, especially his book Whispers in the Wheatfield-Finding Inspiration and Purpose in the Wrinkles of Everyday Living. Through memoirs, essays, and short stories, Korzon shares profound insights about finding joy, meaning, and connection in life's everyday moments.Korzon's metaphor of the wheatfield resonates deeply ...

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Former Owner Whitman (Author)This volume contains a comprehensive collection of the writings of Walt Whitman, one of America's most influential poets. Known for his free verse and celebration of democracy, nature, and the common person, Whitman's work remains profoundly relevant to contemporary readers. This collection offers readers a chance to delve into the mind of a literary genius and explore the depths of his poetic vision. Discover the breadth and d...

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Report copyright infringementby Holly Day (Author)This is a collection of poetry about change, and the passage of time and how no matter how hard you try, there is just no way to stop it. For me, writing has been a way to try to briefly stop time, to capture as much of what's going on around me and what's happening to me as possible. While I've never been much for photography, I have always been one for writing, and this collection is a book of snapshots of things I don't want to forget. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Cherry (Author)In Fred Chappell's introduction to The Kelly Cherry Reader, he writes, "Cherry is a flambeau example of the extremely conscious artist, a writer who mediates ceaselessly upon the problems and possibilities of the poem, the novel, the short story and the essay. She ponders what she has done and how she has done it; she thinks about the approaches and techniques she has employed, and she labors to extend and expand them. This kind of effort i...

A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. IX (Forty-Five Volumes); Chamiso-Collins

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Dudley Warner (Author)Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to sugges...

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Report copyright infringementby May Byron (Author), John Milton (Author), Sidney Meteyard (Author)Step into the world of John Milton with "A Day with John Milton" by May Byron. This engaging biographical sketch offers a glimpse into the life and times of the celebrated English poet, best known for his epic poem, "Paradise Lost." Explore the historical context that shaped Milton's work and gain insight into the man behind the verse. Byron's accessible prose brings the 17th-century world to lif...

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn C. Johnston (Editor)Soul Survivors: From Trauma to Triumph is a collection of inspiring personal essays and poems celebrating the resilience of the human spirit over pain, trauma and tragedy. These pieces, written by some of today's most prolific writers, will touch your heart, soothe your soul, and restore your faith that you can overcome and survive life's darkest moments, emerging with strength, courage, hope, tenacity and even beauty. Numb...

Prairie Daughter: Stories and Poems from Iowa

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Report copyright infringementby Essie Mae Thompson Hill (Author), George J. Hill (Editor)The twentieth century was a period of astounding changes in this world, and the Prairie Daughter, Essie Mae Thompson Hill, was both witness and participant in these events.Born in a farmhouse in 1903 on the deep, black soil of Iowa, from a heritage of farmers, teachers and early American pioneers, she saw her country pass through the turmoil of two World Wars and the Great Depression, with changes in her ...

No Obvious Distress: A John Murray Original

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Quaid (Author)'Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising' Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month 'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl 'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress. On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ophelia J. Rogue (Author)"The Architect" is a well-written, whimsical exploration of life beyond the cosmos and the curiosity that fuels our dreams. Each poem illuminates hidden aspects of the mind, delving deeper into lingering questions of love, passion, heartbreak, and lifetimes of reincarnation. If the answer resides within us all, to what depth would we allow our minds to take us? Pack your bags, put on your space helmets, and enjoy a wild galactic ride. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Salmah Salam Oiza (Author)Foreign in a Long-Familiar Leap Year is a luminous debut poetry collection by Salmah Salam Oiza that traces the twelve months of a life uprooted and replanted abroad. Written as a calendar of longing, the poems move through airports, rented rooms, prayer mats, and phone calls across oceans, asking what it means to belong when "home" is both everywhere and nowhere.Each poem is a timestamp - January as a one-way ticket, February cold col...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Rexilius (Author)In this collection of poetry, collage, and nonfiction prose, Séeacute;ance of the Bees summons the flight patterns of image and text as they move oracularly across collective grief, histories, mouths, rivers, and memory.Taking the planchette as tongue, this work proclaims "I sought to enter her archive. / To lean up against an embankment of self." It speaks to the singular and multiple simultaneously via a lens of ice, the rhizome, a flo...

REMEMBER ME An Alzheimer's Journey Through Art and Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl B. Kempner (Author)"Tangles, plaques, neuronsThe brain's shriveling tissueLost in a black hole."Remember Me is a must-read collection of poetry and artwork portraying the declining effects of Alzheimer's disease on patients and its impact on caregivers. Debut author Cheryl Kempner takes readers on a real and honest journey through the patient's eyes and onto a caregiver's perspective. Her poetry starts a conversation about the plight of a person with dem...

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Report copyright infringementby Scottt Raven (Author)An intimate and poetic look into the realities of fatherhood, grief, and the resilience that holds us together in a world swinging between joy and sorrow, Stay At Poem Dad is a poetry collection that navigates the delicate balance of parenting, personal heartbreak, and the hope for reconciliation. Written during a year marked by his son's arrival, his wife's relentless work as a medical professional, and the heavy loss of a beloved family m...

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Bravo (Author)"I miss you in advanceThis little version of youThe one sleeping on my chestas I type this over your shoulderThis little version of youwho needs me so and holds mecloser than close"Someone's Mother is a poetry collection written by Jenny Bravo during the middle of new motherhood. These reflections on pregnancy, childbirth, and life with a newborn are heartfelt, raw, and occasionally funny glimpses into motherhood. You'll laugh, you'll cry, y...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca E. Louis (Author)Baskets of Fruit is a collection of poems I have written depicting moments in my life. Baskets of Fruit, Baskets of Fruit.One for meAnd one for you. Baskets of Fruit, Baskets of Fruit.I made it for you.To give to you. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: June 21, 2023

The Grimoire of Forgotten Fairytales: A Sinister Collection of Forgotten Rhymes, Folklore and Fae - Hardcover

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by William Moore (Author), Bethany Clark (Illustrator)Journey beyond the familiar into a world where children's tales take on shades darker and more mysterious than you ever imagined. 'The Grimoire of Forgotten Fairytales' is not just a book-it's an experience. Crafted by William Moore, the creative genius behind viral TikTok sketches that have captivated over 100,000 followers, this collection is a testament to the power of storytelling. "The longer I looked, the more disorienting it became....

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Report copyright infringementby Eurydice S. Stanley (Author), Michael Minter (Illustrator), Howard-John Wesley (Foreword by)"Lil' Man, All Boy: Christian MENtoring" is a primer for little boys as they grow to become great men of character and strength. Through poems of encouragement Dr. Eurydice Stanley shares life-lessons which stress the importance of attitude, personal excellence, self-motivation, resilience and persistence for today's youth. This book has something for every member of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Heidi M. Blevins (Author)Violet Tendencies is a transformative journey of self-discovery and inner growth. In a world that often feels overwhelming, this book guides you through the complexities of self-realization, offering a path toward embracing your true self. Through heartfelt storytelling and profound insights, Violet Tendencies explores the essence of self-love, empathy, and the strength of understanding who you truly are.This book will inspire you to nu...