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by Callista Buchen (Author)"Motherhood is bound both to life's joy and death's ether, which complicates a woman's relationship to her own body's emotional and physical permeablity. In LOOK LOOK LOOK Callista Buchen writes beautiful prose fragments about and the tendrils that bind her to motherhood and that intersection with mortality. This moving collection situates motherhood as a climate, a destination and reminds us that many of the connections bodies make are often as ephemeral as 'clouds...

Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad - Paperback

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by Forugh Farrokhzad (Author), Sholeh Wolpe (Translator)Winner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize "In Wolpé's fresh and vital translation, a musical and compelling English version that draws the reader along and captures a sense of the exquisitely balanced pacing of Farrokhzad's language, and the immediacy and authenticity of her voice, the members of the Lois Roth jury found themselves experiencing Forugh's Persian poems with new eyes. " --Excerpt from the Lois Roth judges' awa...

Dante's Inferno In Plain and Simple English - Paperback

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by Bookcaps (Translator), Dante Alighieri (Author)Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough--and it is If you can understand it If you don't understand it, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now a...

Wildflower Emily: A Story about Young Emily Dickinson - Hardcover

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by Lydia Corry (Author), Lydia Corry (Illustrator)Emily Dickinson is one of America's greatest and most original poets of all time. When you hear her name, you may imagine the famous recluse whose withdrawal from society became legendary. But it's time to meet a new side of Emily, one that is powerful, adventurous, and joyful. Follow along as we delve into Emily Dickinson's childhood, revealing a young girl desperate to go out exploring--to meet the flowers in their own homes. Wade through ta...

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by Raena Shirali (Author)ABOUTIndebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali's summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch ("daayan") hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author's Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- & second-generation immigran...

A Chanuka & Purim Journey: Illustrations & Poems - Hardcover

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by Menachem Mendel Gershon (Author)With vibrant full-color illustrations and cute poems, A Chanuka & Purim Journey tells of the miraculous victory of the few against many, the Nes of finding an oil jug when the Beis Hamikdash was a mess, and insights into the various Chanuka minhagim. The sizzling hot latkes and delicious donuts are not forgotten, don’t worry! At some point along our journey, we bump into Mr. Dreidel, who shares some of his family history and Chanuka story tidbits. W...

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by Amanda Gorman (Author), Loveis Wise (Illustrator)An electrifying new picture book by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Who are we? We are a billion voices, bright and brave; we are light, standing together in the fight. Girls are strong and powerful alone, but even stronger when they work to uplift one another. In this galvanizing original poem by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, girls and girlhood are celebrated in their many form...

And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life in Stories - Hardcover

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by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Author), Daniel Minter (Illustrator)Stunning poetry and illustrations introduce a new generation to the beloved literary icon Toni Morrison, by New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney and Caldecott Honor winner Daniel Minter. From imaginative child to visionary storyteller, Toni Morrison was a fiercely inspiring writer that helped change the world. This poetic picture book is part love letter and part biography, praising the power of this Nobel Prize w...

Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets: Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom - Paperback

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by Jon M. Sweeney (Author), Mark S. Burrows (Author)"I think Mark Burrows and Jon Sweeney achieve something quite rare and wonderful here. They make Eckhart clear, concise, and very compelling!" --Richard Rohr, OFM, bestselling author of Falling Upward An elegant rendering of the great mystic's thoughts on the mysteries of authentic life This is a little book about soul freedom. It is a book about discovering the secret to all the things we most desire: contentment, meaning, peace of mind, an...

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by Sahar Muradi (Author)Gate: threshold, corridor, barrier. Sahar Muradi engages power, war, illness, and language to evoke the physical and literary passages that accompany individual and collective loss. In [ G A T E S ], the loss of a homeland meets the loss of a dying father meets the loss of meaning amidst war, racism, and environmental degradation. Muradi's highly charged, deeply transformative poems interrogate the contemporary moment's collapsing of space, where near and far, private ...

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by Sam Sax (Author)From his first appearance on the page, "we knew he was bound for something unsolvable." But a little thing like futility can't stop our hero from holding up a magnifying glass to a world "so bright it's impossible to understand." In this searching, provocative collection of coming-of-age sonnets, the sad boy detective listens close, collects the evidence, and reimagines the strange landscapes of a life, a body, a boy, a self. Through a questioning, fervent lens, sam sax's S...

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by Cynthia Manick (Author)"Cynthia Manick's BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor's 'white-toothed love coils on repeat.' Here, we have a gospel of womanly sharpness, a kitchen sinked and hot combed diary of the way Blues grinds into the 21st century. Gifted with the ability to smolder into surprise and swelter, Manick's reflections on discovery and loss will bring you to a 'slow applause under the skin.' Thank you for this bouquet of sheet music filled with church organ and p...

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by Hala Alyan (Author)Wandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and faith. These testimonies are harvested from displaced landscapes, histories and languages, revealing the unsettled lives of immigrants. Using urgent, haunting language, Alyan evokes the unlikely backdrop of Palestinian bazaars and Midwestern junkyards, policed checkpoints and boisterous nightclubs. A Lebanes...

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by Charlotte Pence (Author)"In this marvelous debut collection, Charlotte Pence provides us with all the pleasures of poetic tension. We have the pull of narrative and the flares of the lyric, the graceful rhythm of blank verse and the thrill of innovative forms, the contest for survival both between a father and a daughter and between Homo Sapiens and other species within our genus. The poems explore the idea of survival, not only the survival of a speaker who transcends a precarious childho...

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by Cyrus Console (Author)Poetic ballads that speak to a father's quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse. Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker's attempt to forge a path through the world--both as a father and as an artist--and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall moments of love as they arise in an ev...

The Essential Emily Dickinson - Paperback

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by Emily Dickinson (Author)The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates"Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . .Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins,...

The Whole & Rain-domed Universe - Paperback

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by Colette Bryce (Author)A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.5 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: September 11, 2014 Award: Costa Book Awards (2014)

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by Gerald Stern (Author)A masterful long poem from one of our great American poets. Gerald Stern's long poem I. is an extraordinary and wild compilation of poetic modes, moods, and registers--meandering and focused, hallucinatory and concrete, deranged and deeply ecstatic. Inspired by the sight of a derelict synagogue on the Lower East Side, I. is an intrinsically New York poem, concerned with shifting structures of place and identity in the face of time and rapid change. Though first written...

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by Tomas Transtromer (Author)Tomas Transtr mer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private citizen in the second half of the twentieth century. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 14, 2014

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by A. Van Jordan (Author)In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the power of a pivotal moment in a life. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.26 x 6.08 IN Publication Date: December 17, 2005

May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes for Your Life - Hardcover

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by Cleo Wade (Author)An Amazon Best Book of the Month! May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes For Your Life is the tender and joyous next picture book from New York Times-bestselling author and poet, Cleo Wade. May you know fear but not be driven by itMay you know joy and follow it everywhereMay you know light and shine it every chance you get From the bestselling author of What the Road Said, Cleo Wade's next heartfelt and lyrical picture book is a love letter to the infinite potential of the fu...

The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom - Paperback

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by Nikita Gill (Author)Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with an innovative novel in verse, exploring Hindu mythology and legend. Let her be a little less human, a little more divineGive her heart armor so it doesn't break as easily as mine Meet Paro. A girl with a strong will, a full heart, and much to learn. Born into a family reeling from the ruptures of Partition in India, we follow her as she crosses the precarious lines between childhood, teenage disc...

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Sawday (Author)Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in the first pl...

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by Ariana Reines (Author)Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness. I don't understand the intensity I've hidden here but I know I despaired Of finding a physical place to keep My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise When you stop looking at them . . . Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 03,...

Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works - Paperback

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by William Walsh (Editor)An anthology of a different sort, this volume presents a representative sample of contemporary American poems in 2023, with a road map of their origins. Bringing a diversity of styles and sensibilities, 62 poets from across the United States--some well known, some up-and-coming--illuminate their craft. Each poet contributes one poem, accompanied by an essay discussing their creative process and how the verse came to fruition.Author BiographyWilliam Walsh, the author o...

Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage - Paperback

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by Robert Hass (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Author)For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony. Includes examples of wedding ceremonies from various cultures. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9.27 x 5.53 IN Publication Date: April 08, 1994

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings - Hardcover

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by Shel Silverstein (Author), Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stou...

The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life - Hardcover

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by Kwame Alexander (Author), Thai Neave (Illustrator)A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives?Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on ...

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by Fernando Valverde (Author), Allen Josephs (Translator), Laura Juliet Wood (Translator)Born in Granada, Spain, in 1980, Fernando Valverde is widely considered one of the top young poets writing in Spanish today. Valverde is a leading figure in a movement of contemporary poets known as the Poetry of Uncertainty, and he has received some of the most significant awards for poetry in Spanish. This bilingual edition of his book The Insistence of Harm introduces English-language readers to some o...

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by Frances Leviston (Author)A debut collection of remarkable clarity, originality and maturity Number of Pages: 49 Dimensions: 0.25 x 7.79 x 5.26 IN Publication Date: November 02, 2007

Neruda: The Biography of a Poet - Paperback

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by Mark Eisner (Author)A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic lo...

Selected and Last Poems: 1931-2004 - Paperback

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by Czeslaw Milosz (Author)"One of the century's most important poets."--San Francisco Chronicle"One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest."--Joseph Brodsky"Nobody tells the story of this age better than Czeslaw Milosz."--New RepublicCommemorating the centenary year of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems 1934 - 2004 is a sterling collection of some of the finest works of one the most revered poets of our time--including more than forty later poems new to th...