Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Shel Silverstein (Author), Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)From New York Times bestselling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings.Have you ever read a book with everything on it? Well, here it is! You will say Hi-ho for the toilet troll, get tongue-tied with Stick-a-Tongue-Out-Sid, play a highly unusual horn, and experience the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tiny Stallings-Clark (Author)I CHOOSE TO LIVE is written for all women going through circumstances in life, which are causing them to feel alone and hopeless. It is intended to give hope to the hopeless and a new outlook on life to those who still struggle with the past. TINY STALLINGS-CLARK is a mother and celebrated poet. She is a graduate of Tennessee State University and works professionally as a Civil Engineer. In I CHOOSE TO LIVE, Tiny shares positive, ex...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian L. Jacobs (Author)In what I call a Rhizomatic Poetic, the unrooted pilgrim poet (and the reader as a sort of pilgrim writer through interpretation) rhetorically fills in elliptical meanings via envisaging metaphor, exploring diverse self-experiential contexts, imagining new universes in errantry, rupturing, mapping a-linearly, while proliferating without boundaries or centers in the margins of society without limits, rejecting principles of hegemonic, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Shamon Lawrence (Author)The Desk Was Already Here is the debut poetry collection from Shamon Lawrence, a writer and educator answering a question Countee Cullen posed nearly a century ago: Why would God make a poet Black and bid him sing? This collection is the song.Written in the quiet ache between classroom bells and long silences, Lawrence reckons with the impact of structures that never asked him to speak. His poems trace the sacred architecture of desks. T...

Conversations with Artificial Intelligence: AI, life, and you

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Report copyright infringementby James Pehkonen (Author)What if you sat down and had a conversation with Artificial Intelligence? Ask AI questions, have AI write poems. The day is here, and the time is now. Let's see what AI has to teach us. It is a fun conversation with the future that is here now, and growing! Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: June 12, 2023 Large Print: Yes

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Report copyright infringementby Alexandra Fidyk (Author), Darlene St Georges (Author)Guided by theoretical, philosophical, experiential, and ethical understanding, Poetic Inquiry is positioned as a way of becoming in an animate cosmos-a co-creative world pulsing in-to and out-of existence. This positioning does not reflect an ontological turn in the field. Rather, it claims a place that has always already been yet not differentiated within Poetic Inquiry publications, gatherings, and arts-ori...

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Report copyright infringementby Gabrielle Calvocoressi (Author)*2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Finalist*The New Economy memorializes the world's pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungendered body.A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A practice of radical collaboration, failure, and renewal. A world of "Miss You" poems opening a portal to all those we've lost and would love to visit for a while. In Gabrielle Calvocoressi's latest colle...

Teaching Poetry: Reading and responding to poetry in the secondary classroom

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Naylor (Author), Audrey B. Wood (Author)Teaching Poetry is an indispensible source of guidance, confidence and ideas for all those new to the secondary English classroom. Written by experienced teachers who have worked with the many secondary pupils who 'don't get' poetry, this friendly guide will help you support pupils as they access, understand, discuss and enjoy classic and contemporary poetry. With an emphasis on active approaches and the power of ...

The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Smith (Author)FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING POETRY "Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last." --The Guardian "In The Intentions of Thunder, language itself becomes weather--charged, clarifying, and resounding, a form of resurrection and survival." --National Book Award Judges' Citation A collection of the finest new ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Heap (Author)Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Poetry is a flexible teaching resource designed to give children a greater understanding of poems, and to increase their confidence in answering questions about poems in the KS2 SATs. It introduces children in upper Key Stage 2 to carefully selected classic poems, which have stood the test of time. Their meaning is universal and timeless: as true now as it was when they were first writ...

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Report copyright infringementby Foster Lewis (Author)First printed for the family in 1985, I remember my sister Suzanne typing early drafts which were sent back and forth from Oxfordshire to Talbot Green. My Cousin Russel mentioned one evening when we met for a drink in Clifton Village Bristol in summer 2022 that he had a copy of Grampy's book. I read a chapter aloud later that evening, and was transported back to long evenings sat at the dining table with Nanny listening to the Television an...

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Chaucer (Author)Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" offers a poignant exploration of love, betrayal, and fate within the epic backdrop of the Trojan War. This cornerstone of medieval literature delves into the complexities of courtly love, presenting a timeless narrative of human relationships. Set against the legendary city of Troy, the poem examines themes of desire, fidelity, and the inevitable sorrows that accompany earthly passions. Chaucer'...

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Report copyright infringementby Ikeli O'Farrell (Author)Te quiero en todos los idiomas no es solo un libro de poesía: es un corazón abierto hecho palabras.Cada frase, cada verso, cada silencio entre líneas está escrito para decir lo que a veces cuesta tanto decir: te quiero.Aquí encontrarás poemas de amor cortos, sinceros y llenos de alma. Palabras que abrazan, que lloran contigo, que sonríen cuando recuerdas a esa persona que te hace vibrar. Es un libro para quienes aman de verdad, para quie...

Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Burt (Author)Winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for Poetry A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans vers...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Parsons (Author)Paul Éluard writes, "There is another world and it is in this one." Within these worlds, we travel outward and inward, straddling our lives' oppositions: parental/relationship struggle and loss, home and away, isolation and reconnection, the spiritual/mystical realm and physicality-always balancing grief and reemergence, hello and goodbye. The hybrid nature of Linda Parsons' sixth collection, Valediction, with poems, diptychs, and micro es...

Pure ACT: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax - Paperback

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by Michael N. McGregor (Author)Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic PublishersHonorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book AwardFinalist, Washington State Book Award Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people. Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton's best friend and in Europe as a darin...

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Report copyright infringementby Warren Tusk (Author)If you called forth a demon, not for riches or power, but for insight-what truths might it reveal?The Goetist is a wisdom book, a manual of living the good life, in the shape of a sorcerous rite. A despairing man's devil-conjuring invocation turns into a meditative, unsentimental education in the most important subjects of all: how to build up a soul from nothing, make art without apology, and find purpose in the face of a hostile universe.S...

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Report copyright infringementby Tami A. Hasapopoulos (Author)In this intimate collection, poet Tami Hasapopoulos charts the quiet unraveling-and powerful reclamation-of her spirit after decades in a covertly abusive relationship. Through raw honesty and spiritual reflection, these poems become both witness and companion: to the pain of being unseen, the clarity of awakening, and the sacred work of healing.What began as an outlet became a lifeline-a path to understanding, self-worth, and divin...

Eternal Loving: Inspiring Conscious Relationship as a Path for Masculine/Feminine Embodiment and Spiritual Awakening

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Report copyright infringementby Johnny Blackburn (Author)What is this Love that lives through all things? And are you content living a dispassionate life, closed-hearted in your romantic relationship, holding back from your greater potential, and resisting opening as the Love at the center of your being? We find ourselves alive at a very special and transformative time in human history. Now more than ever, our world needs us to heal, develop and Awaken, individually, in our relationships, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Baker (Author)Unashamed follows the journey of World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker from graduating with a maths degree being unsure if this poetry thing was even possible, to becoming one of the nation's favourite poets and having his work viewed by millions all over the globe.A collection of poems taken from sold out shows combined with new work written at a time when that was no longer possible. From the joyful creativity of German compound words to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Darnell A. Fountain II (Author)The Mirror Within: Your Reflection Matters invites you on a journey of self-discovery, empowerment, and love. Life's challenges often cloud the mirror of our inner selves, distorting how we see our worth and potential. This book offers the tools to clear those smudges and uncover the strength, truth, and love that have always been within you. Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN Pu...

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Author), Nevit O. Ergin (Translator), Alexander (Editor)Mevlânâ Celâleddîn Rumi is considered the foremost mystical Persian poet of Love and is the best-selling poet in the United States. Our four volumes share the 1,867 quatrains from Rumi's Divan-i Kebir, translated by Nevit O. Ergin, the first person ever to translate into English the over 44,000 verses in Rumi's Divan-i Kebir.Although selections of Ergin's translations of Rumi's qua...

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Report copyright infringementby Perry Perry (Author)"DYIN DEAD" will explore the various levels of emotional and relational experiences that lead individuals to feel trapped in their lives-whether in love, friendship, or marriage. The poems will delve into the yearning for fulfillment and fear of leaving this world without having truly lived. Each section will represent different stages of life and relational dynamics, culminating in a powerful reflection on the human experience. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Nancy Pencefritsch (Compiled by), Kim Stover (Compiled by)On November 12, 2021, in recognition of the bicentennials of both Bartholomew County and the city of Columbus, Indiana, the Bartholomew County Genealogical Society and Mill Race Center's Afternoon for Arts series presented Driftwood River Anthology, a local version of Edgar Lee Masters' classic, Spoon River Anthology, written and performed by Shirley A. Lyster's February 2019 Mill Race Center Adult L...

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Masculine Beauty: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Poetry of Same-Sex Affection

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Wilson (Author)This volume seeks to give readers and scholars a single source to consult when the aim is to read Whitman's homoerotic verse. It contains only those poems Whitman wrote exploring masculine beauty and/or same-sex affection. An abridged introduction by John Burroughs places the work in its historical context. Sometimes gay readers and scholars have occasion to seek out the homoerotic passages of Whitman, whether to read for the pure pleasur...

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by Deanna Rodger (Author)The much anticipated debut collection from Deanna Rodger demonstrates a remarkable ability to craft timeless poems. Spanning 10 years they embody the politics of state and person, the city to the universe. Featuring commissions from St Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and Guardian News and well known poems such as 'Cog' and 'Being British' and the startlingly abrupt 'Nowadays'. I Did It Too is a public admittance, a powerful statement in this time of history... Num...

Jasmines In Her Hair: Poetry For The Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Kalpesh Desai (Author)From the mind of Kalpesh Desai, a successful tech serial entrepreneur who has used poetry as a medium to process his thoughts, breakthroughs and distinctions, comes a new collection of poems that takes the reader through a journey of love, loss, healing, reconciliation, self-love, forgiving oneself, and opening your heart again to find home.Jasmines In Her Hair is a collection of romantic poems that delve into the distinctions that have co...

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by Tony Walsh (Author)This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical poems, influenced by the songs which soundtrack our lives, brimming with northern warmth and humour, propelled by passion and compassion as their bassline and their beat. Sex & Love & Rock&Roll is a book to u...

Fishing in the Aftermath - Poems 1994-2014 - Paperback

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by Salena Godden (Author)How often is it that a poet with the name recognition factor and critical standing of Salena Godden publishes their first collection 20 years into their career? Perhaps it is simply that no publisher has had the courage to commit themselves to the task of reflecting the force of nature that is Salena Godden to the page... until Burning Eye came along!Be clear, Fishing in the Aftermath is more that a sweeping up exercise, more than a greatest hits retrospective, more t...

When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard - Paperback

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by Megan Beech (Author)Although still in her second year at University when this book was written Megan caught attention with her infectious reeling wordplay. Megan is not afraid of speaking her mind and grappling with political themes with a confidence missing in many older poets. When I Grow Up To Be Mary Beard captures the sound of a resurgent feminism that demands to be heard and marks Megan Beech out as a name to watch. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Dat...

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by Paula Varjack (Author)Letters I Never Sent to You is a collection of impressions and encounters; of people briefly met and of places passed through and lived in. It explores the sometimes slippery nature of the word "home", and how love and heartbreak can be felt just as strongly for a place as for a person. It explores connection and disconnection with places, people and the spaces in which we encounter them. From Washington D.C. to London, from Accra to Paris and onwards to Berlin, Lette...