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Breathing in Beauty: Uplifting Poems and Inspiring Sayings A Journey of Self-Awakening - Paperback

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by Barbara Lager (Author), Monette Satterfield (Designed by)"Poetry that is both earthy and boundless!"- Wendy Lindahl, M.A., Body and Soul Wisdom Wellness Facilitator Step into the world of poetry and inspiration with Barbara Lager's captivating debut book, Breathing in Beauty. This collection of poems and inspirational sayings will awaken your spirit, touch your soul, and leave an indelible mark on your heart.With great artistry and eloquence, Barbara's verses and sayings invite you to savo...

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Paperback

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by Emily Dickinson (Author)This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections -- some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems -- did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bo...

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by Eve L. Ewing (Author)NPR Best Books of 2019 Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2019 Chicago Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2019 O Magazine Best Books by Women of Summer 2019 The Millions Must-Read Poetry of June 2019 LitHub Most Anticipated Reads of Summer 2019 The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event--wh...

Migration: New & Selected Poems - Paperback

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by W. S. Merwin (Author)Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times.Winner of the National Book Award for PoetryNamed by O as one of the 20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own"The poems in Migration speak a life-long belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the world with compassionate interconnection."--National Book Award judges' statement"The publication of W. S. Merwin's selected and new poems is one of those landmark events in the literary ...

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by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Author)Autobiographical sketch of Hedge Coke, a mixed-blood woman, presented in her debut collection of poems.Back JacketIn her debut collection of poems, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke presents an autobiographical sketch of a contemporary mixed-blood native life. These poems recount surviving diaspora, domestic violence, racism, and an extraordinary number of challenges. By drawing upon a variety of poetic and prosaic forms, Hedge Coke simulates and transforms the rh...

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by Joaqu? Zihuatanejo (Author)Occupy Whiteness is a collection of hybrid erasure poems from inaugural Dallas Poet Laureate and multi-world slam competition winner Joaqu? Zihuatanejo.Starting from long-form works of literature by straight, white men, Joaqu? Zihuatanejo occupies their pages, erasing words and sections, leaving only his poetry behind -- the white space that remains becoming colonized Brown verse. Occupy Whiteness is an act of rebellion that reclaims spaces and highlights a histo...

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by Lara Mimosa Montes (Author)In elegiac and fervent poetry, Lara Mimosa Montes writes across the thresholds of fracture, trauma, violence, and identity.Author BiographyLara Mimosa Montes is a writer based in Minneapolis and New York. Her poems and essays have appeared in Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, BOMB, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She is a 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow and CantoMundo Fellow. She holds a PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City Unive...

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by Mark Nowak (Author), Amiri Baraka (Afterword by)The hard times faced by steelworkers and miners in America's rust belt inform these poetic oral histories.Author BiographyA poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature, Mark Nowak regularly leads transnational poetry workshops between American and international trade unions. The author of Revenants and Shut Up Shut Down, he has also been a contributor to the Poetry Foundati...

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by Ed Bok Lee (Author)"These poems are funny, sly, political, and gorgeous. Ed Bok Lee rocks my socks off."--Sherman AlexieAuthor BiographyEd Bok Lee is the author of Real Karaoke People, winner of a PEN Open Book Award, an Asian American Literary Award (Members' Choice) and a Many Voices Prize. Raised in South Korea, North Dakota and Minnesota, Lee has worked a variety of jobs in over a dozen U.S. states and abroad. He has studied Slavic, East Asian and Central Asian languages and literature...

Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson - Paperback

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by Yosa Buson (Author), W. S. Merwin (Translator), Takako Lento (Translator)"Lovers of haiku will rejoice at the arrival of this book, the first complete translation of the collected haiku of Yosa Buson...rendered into English with obvious care and devotion...Through Buson we realize what haiku is best at expressing--this moment's experience, bare facts, simple observations, elegant statements of 'thus-ness.'"--Inquiring Mind"Having W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento as co-translators of this book ...

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by Dean Young (Author)In Solar Perplexus, Dean Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means to love, lose, and hang in the afterward. Suddenly the boundaries of our everyday are shaken―and yet instead of being thrown off balance, our understanding is cracked open. Young holds us between un/reality, tracing the circle of life and death, and exposing the true closeness between ...

MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY Pottery. Poems. Artists.: POES?A DEL BARRO Cer?mica. Poemas. Artistas. - Hardcover

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by Charmayne Samuelson (Author)In this new BILINGUAL photo and poetry book, MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY Pottery, Poems, Artists. and the bilingual Spanish title, MATA ORTIZ POES?A DEL BARRO Cer?mica. Poemas. Artististas., Samuelson features the stellar pottery of 24 Contemporary Mata Ortiz potters paired with original poetry by her. She also include some poetry and thoughts and dreams of the artists. This book has been hailed as unique and one-of-a-kind, with a presentation of the author wr...

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by Courtney Marie Andrews (Author)Some people are like monarch butterflies--solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection. This poetry collection reads like a transformation, me, the narrator, being the figurative Old Monarch. Documenting this journey, the book is separated into three sections, "Sonoran Milkweed," "Longing In Flight," and "Eucalyptus Tree (My Arrival to Rest)." In the first...

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change - Hardcover

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by Maggie Smith (Author)The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL "A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief." --NPR "A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side." --The Boston Globe "Powerful essays on loss, endurance, and renewal." --People For fans of Glennon Doyle, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne Lamott, a coll...

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets - Hardcover

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by Kwame Alexander (Author), Ekua Holmes (Illustrator), Chris Colderley (Author)The 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree's New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' heart...

Seamus Heaney: An Introduction - Paperback

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by Richard Rankin Russell (Author)The first detailed introduction to the entirety of Seamus Heaney's work This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets such as Wordsworth, Hughes, and Auden to Irish poets such as Kavanagh and Yeats to world poets such as Virgil and Dante. It shows how Heaney was closely attuned to poetry's impact on daily life and current events...

The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal - Paperback

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by James Crews (Author), Nikita Gill (Foreword by)The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life. James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peac...

The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda: Japan's Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet: Includes a Translation of Santoka's Diary of the One-Grass Hu - Hardcover

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by Sumita Oyama (Author), William Scott Wilson (Translator)The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works. Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals--compiled by his best friend and biographer S...

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by Victoria Robb Powers (Author), Cameron Mason Vickrey (Author), Joanna Carillo (Illustrator)Encounter God's unlimited presence and unconditional love in this joyful picture book that helps kids discover God in all parts of creation, from the mountains to the anthills and, most of all, in our hearts amid joy, sadness, calm, and chaos.In this poetic book for 4- to 8-year-olds, a child asks her mother "Is God here, or is God there?" and begins to understand that God's attention, kindness, and ...

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by Leanora Marie Regan (Author)Whenever I am down, I re-read my inspirational poems and they uplift my spirit. I want other readers to have the same joy. Religious poems to help with emotions, proclaiming the help, mercy and love of our Lord and God. God is the soul to everything that lives and these poems certainly express it. Love is the best feeling to have and knowing God is there loving you, Brightens Life. Any life you are blessed with, is a life you want. These poems, keep the readers ...

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by Benjamin Morris (Author)Drifting along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, The Singing River asks what can be saved in a place of shifting landscapes and ancient memory. Benjamin Morris' debut collection meditates on the forces of nature that shape our notions of family and identity. Formally diverse and elegantly crafted, these poems bear witness to a region where the soil often finds blood and water mixed, tinged with hope that some of us may still emerge cleansed after going under.Author Biogra...

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by Jo Gatford (Author)Using a combination of original prose and erasure poetry, The Woman's Part reimagines the lives and desires of Shakespeare's women - their unspoken opinions, perspectives, and unwritten endings. Each piece is accompanied by an erasure poem made from one of the character's speeches. Gatford says of her chapbook, "My aim with this collection was not necessarily to make a grand statement, but to explore the thoughts and experiences of women who were never given the stage ti...

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by Clint Smith (Author)A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shap...

Mother Nature, A Bridge to Conscious Living - Paperback

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by Mary Jane Kasliner (Author)Not a day goes by that man's eyes won't fall upon some aspect of nature's beauty. Whether it's the sunrise and sunset, tree branches as they fold in the wind, a bird's fluttering wings, or swollen clouds drifting along the grey sky, the earth's sights and sounds ignite the human spirit. Mother Nature, A Bridge to Conscious Living is a seven-week meditation that uses the forces of nature to shift your state of being. Through Tree, Wind, Sky, Earth, Water, Fire, an...

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by Michael Lee Bross (Author)In his collection Vacationland, Michael Bross takes the audience on a tour that spans decades, recalling memories such as his daughter mimicking animals or his father's physical decline. After all, seated in a "beached boat at world's end," what else is there to do but look back? Bross demonstrates the importance of this reflection, even when-perhaps, especially when-it hurts like hell. Having seen this book in several iterations, I'm excited to soon see it out in...

Irregularly Irregular: Further reflections on life, living, and relationships for a reflective audience - Paperback

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by Cariappa Annaiah (Author)In this new collection of 260 poems created over 13 years, Cariappa Annaiah continues his reflections on life, living, and relationships as he explores body and mind.Excerpts from the Introduction: The focus of my poetry is relationships-personal, professional, and social. Why? Personal and professional happiness depends on the state of health of my relationship with myself, and then with others.The poems are hyper-local. By counting from one and improving my abili...

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by Cynthia Schumerth (Author), Elisa Paganelli (Illustrator)Grandpa told Mom, and Mom told me: The secret of a plant lives in every little seed. Seeds are truly amazing! Did you know that every seed, no matter how small (microscopic) or large (weighing up to 14 pounds), contains everything it needs to one day grow into a plant? Three generations of a gardening family work together to bring a backyard garden to full bloom. Young readers are taken through each important step, beginning with pla...

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by Kendall Hope (Author)Tongue Tiedis a poetic adventurefull of wordplay, double entendre, and common phrasesfull of whimsy.Care to taste? Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: September 19, 2024

Pockets of Lavender: A Poetry Collection - Paperback

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by Kendall Hope (Author)In your hands lies Pockets of Lavender, full of fragrant poetry that captures the states of feeling, being, and loving. Complete with illustrations and photographs by the author herself, get ready to embark on a journey through the nature of humanity as divulged by Kendall Hope. Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.25 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: August 31, 2022

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by Kendall Hope (Author)Weep with the willows and dive into a collection of poetry full of connection to the natural world, human nature, and the journey of heartbreak. Nurture the beauty of every season life brings you through the words and emotions of Kendall Hope. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.4 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: July 07, 2023

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by Brianna Pastor (Author)"Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favorite new writers. Good Grief is a powerful testament that shows how hard the past can be and that overcoming it is possible. If you want to feel seen and deeply moved, read Good Grief. Brianna Pastor has unparalleled talent, let the power of her writing guide you to a better life."--yung pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling authorAn expanded edition with over forty brand-new poems of the bestselling poetry collection Good Grie...