Poetry

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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...

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by Sam Sax (Author)From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power. This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig--farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness, global food systems, religion/Judaism and law--to reimagine various chaotic histories of the ...

A Love Song, a Death Rattle, a Battle Cry - Paperback

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by Kyle Tran Myhre (Author)One part mixtape, one part disorientation guide, and one part career retrospective, Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre's debut looks you directly in the eye and doesn't let you flinch. Ranging from justice to love, community action to personal reflection, A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry is a dedication to craft. Clocking in before the rest of us are even awake, the book wastes no time. It does the work and beckons you to follow. A compilation of poems, lyrics and es...

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by Suzanne Slade (Author), Thomas Gonzalez (Illustrator)Lyrical text and gorgeous illustrations take flight in this exploration of the tiny, gorgeous hummingbirds and its astonishing abilities. Hummingbirds are tiny and pretty, so you might find yourself taking them for granted. But these little birds are remarkable, fierce, and talented. In Behold the Hummingbird, readers will learn about species that can hover like a helicopter, fly backwards and upside down, and consume half their body wei...

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by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (Author)In All the Honey, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer holdsboth fine, honest sensuality and slow explorations ofsoul. What is shared here is a way forward in life, a fierceopenness that refuses nothing-that knows damageand healing, darkness and radiance, sorrow and wingedresurgence, reflection and laughter and learning.Author BiographyRosemerry Wahtola Trommer is the co-host ofthe Emerging Form podcast on creative process, Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious ki...

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by Porsha Olayiwola (Author)Porsha Olayiwola's debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance. These poems dip their hands into the fabric of black womanhood and revel in it. Shimmer establishes Olayiwola firmly in the lineage of black queer poetics, celebrating the work done by generations of poets from Audre Lorde to Danez Smith. Each poem is a gentle breaking and an inventive reconstruction. This is a book of self and community-care―in pursuit of building a w...

Thoughtful Thinking - Book of Poetry for Children - Paperback

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by Daksha Patel (Author)This book of poetry for children focuses on the beauty, power and strength of the natural world through its plant life and animal kingdom in general.The ten-question comprehension exercises allow for reflection on what is read, independent thinking and the testing of literary device knowledge.This book aims to develop strong literary skills in children. It develops their skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.Also, the poems in this book can analysed in dep...

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by Dazié Grego-Sykes (Author)Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. Classroom guide and introduction written by author inside. BLACK FAGGOTRY by Dazié Grego-Sykes is a collection of poetry that loudly and proudly exclaims the intersectional realities of Black and Queer identities. These poems burst forth as raw catalysts toward transformational understanding. At times jarringly uncomfortable as truths often are, Grego-Sykes pulls no punches in co...

New Collected Poems [With CD] - Paperback

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by George Oppen (Author), Michael Davidson (Editor), Eliot Weinberger (Preface by)George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, whose writing was championed by Ezra Pound when it was first published by The Objectivist Press in the 1930s, has become one of America's most admired poets. In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his collect...

Grandma Is Overly Generous: A Retelling of the Twelve Days of Christmas - Hardcover

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by Alex T. Smith (Author)From Alex T. Smith, the creator of festive favorites such as How Winston Delivered Christmas and The Grumpus, comes a gorgeously illustrated Christmas classic. Re-written and illustrated, Grandma is Overly Generous: A Retelling of The Twelve Days of Christmas is a small hardback perfect for any child this Christmas. On the first day of Christmas my Grandma sent to me . . . Grandma's presents may start off sensible - a partridge is easy enough to take care of - but her...

Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems - Paperback

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by Jimmy Santiago Baca (Author)Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems is a new, expanded edition of Jimmy Santiago Baca's best-selling first book of poetry (originally published by Louisiana State University Press in 1979). A number of poems from early, now unavailable chapbooks have also been included so that the reader can at last have an overview of Baca's remarkable literary development. The voice of Immigrants will be familiar to readers of the widely praised Martín & ...

In Velvet: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Jeanne Bryner (Author)Here is a full collection of Jeanne Bryners work as an American woman and nurse. Jeanne Bryner asks of us, "Where are the great studies on buried miners/burned women, displaced steel workers/the lost towns gutted like deer/people left to choose between the river and the sky?" In this new collection of poetry, Bryner celebrates and mourns those unstudied and unsung. With stunning specificity, she catalogs their courage: the nurse who, from a blue paper cup, baptizes a ...

In Velvet: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover

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by Jeanne Bryner (Author) Number of Pages: 202 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2024

Clues from the Animal Kingdom - Paperback

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by Christopher Kennedy (Author)In his fifth collection of poems, Christopher Kennedy sifts through the detritus of the past to uncover the memories, images, and symbols that shape an individual's consciousness. Looking to animals and their instincts for inspiration, drawing shape from the poet's Irish Catholic working-class roots, these prose poems transcend grief and depression by seeking humanity's place in the natural world.Author BiographyChristopher Kennedy is the author of Clues from th...

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by Max Ritvo (Author)Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied, communicating pain, violence, and loss. And yet they a...

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by Timothy P. McLaughlin (Author)This début collection of poems from Timothy P. McLaughlin chronicles an inspired intimacy with the still wild places and presences of Earth. The musical, iridescent language delights the senses and draws the reader/listener back into an essential creatureliness and basic loving kinship with the natural world. Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 19, 2024

From Hell and Back: A Journey of Loss and Love - Paperback

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by Charles Brown (Author)Betrayal, Remorse, Revival, and Lust ..... Follow the journey of lies and deception to lust overflowing the pages. Discover the deep chasms of depression and the intense heights of rediscovery of one's self with descriptive poetry. The line where passion meets self-expression is blurred in the sheets. Experience this true cycle of life story where one love dies and another is born with Charles M. Brown. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication...

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by Megha Sood (Author)"My Body Lives Like a Threat "is a deep exposition of gender and color-based discrimination, sexual and reproductive rights violations, body politics, immigration, and the impact of a toxic political environment on the country and its people. The full length has been divided into five sections namely "Black Truth", "War and Peace", "My Body is Not an Apology", "A Just Immigration Policy" and "My Body Lives Like a Threat" that deals with the poems reflecting the blatant v...

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems - Hardcover

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by Megan Fox (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Heartbreaking...Go read the book, everyone." --Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had...

The Waste Land and Other Poems: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

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by T. S. Eliot (Author), Michael North (Editor)This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first American edition of The Waste Land, with Eliot's notes, joined by Prufrock and Other Poems (1917) and Poems (1920). Updated and expanded introductory materials and footnotes by Michael North. Extensive contextual materials on sources for The Waste Land, its composition, and publication history for all three featured collections. Eleven reviews and reactions to Eliot's works include those by Ezra P...