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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...

Falling Up: With 12 New Poems - Hardcover

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by Shel Silverstein (Author), Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the classics Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Every Thing On It, comes a wondrous book of poems and drawings.This special edition contains 12 never-before-published poems. Filled with unforgettable characters like Screamin' Millie; Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold, t...

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by Phillip Dimarzo (Author)From a hill to a high-rise, stories, pictures, and poetry in clouds of beautiful, ugly, rich, and poor as life continues on its busy way. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 10, 2019

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by Debra Kempf Shumaker (Author), Jos?e Bisaillon (Illustrator)Poetic text and ethereal illustrations combine with science facts about wind in this delightful informational picture book."You can feel wind ... but you can't see it. What is wind?" This exploration of different types of wind pairs lyrical descriptions of wind types with accessible, informational sidebars about each. The whimsical narrative uses metaphor to help readers visualize wind's characteristics: "Wind is a butterfly - flu...

Change Sings: A Children's Anthem - Hardcover

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by Amanda Gorman (Author), Loren Long (Illustrator)A lyrical picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long "I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don't fear change coming, And so I sing along." In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As...

Jesus Restores All: Good News from the Bible about Heaven and Hell - Paperback

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by John Hopler (Author)In "Jesus Restores All: Good News from the Bible about Heaven and Hell," John Hopler addresses the question, "What happens to our loved ones and all humans who die without believing in Jesus Christ?" Through decades of Christian ministry as a missionary and a careful five-year study of Scripture and church history, the author presents the hope that Jesus Christ, through His divine judgments, will ultimately restore all people to worship God. In 31 enlightening readings,...

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by Peter Lechuga (Author)Peter Lechuga crafts a striking debut poetry collection where the personal and the mythic collide with electrifying intensity. Drawing from his Mexican-American upbringing in Southern California, Lechuga weaves together the ancient and the contemporary, blending Aztec and Greek mythology with raw, heart-wrenching stories of love, loss, and the search for meaning. With intricate rhyme schemes and lyrical finesse, he transforms personal pain into powerful, timeless myth...

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by Parisa Akhbari (Author)Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. "The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy." -National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book--a dogeared moleskin she a...

The Louisville Review Number 94 Winter/Spring 2024 - Paperback

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by Sena Jeter Naslund (Editor) Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 24, 2024

My Sun Rises Versus of Light and Shadow: A Teen's Journey in Poetry - Paperback

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by Trinity (Author) Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2025

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by Erika Meitner (Author)A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems.In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America's most incisive observers, cherished for her remarkable ability to temper catastrophe with tenderness. In her newest collection Useful Junk, Meitner considers what it means to be a sexual being in a world that sees women as invisible--as mothers, ...

The City in Which I Love You - Paperback

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by Li-Young Lee (Author)Contents I.Furious Versionis II.The InterrogationThis Hour And What Is DeadArise, Go DownMy Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out LoudFor A New Citizen Of These United StatesWith Ruins III.This Room And Everything In ItThe City In Which I Love You IV. The WaitingA StoryGoodnightYou Must SingHere I AmA Final Thing V.The CleavingAuthor BiographyLi-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1959 his father, after spending a year as a political pr...

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by Hilary Charlene (Author) Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025

The Opposite of Cruelty: Poems - Paperback

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by Steven Leyva (Author)Steven Leyva's second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man's lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva's poems ask readers to see and remember beauty when the world seems to be in ruins, to notice and praise "the industrious cherry // trees budding despite a summer / full of bullets to come." For Leyva, beauty can be found in lineage and memory, in the heroe...

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems - Paperback

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by Warsan Shire (Author)Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire "The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts."--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "Shire is the real thing--fresh, cutting, indisputably alive."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fa...

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by Michael Crudden (Translator)Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honor the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by ...

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by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Author), Kerry McSweeney (Editor)Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The dominant presence in the work however, is the narrator Aurora Leigh, as she develops her ideas on art, love, God, the "Woman Question", and ...

Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force - Hardcover

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by Charles H. Stocking (Author)The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic force in combination with the reception of the Iliad in the French intellectual ...

Of Death, Contagion, and Unnatural Sleep - Hardcover

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by Tyler Deaton (Author) Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2025

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by Kamryn Myles (Author)BPD & Anxia-tea is a book of poetry about mental illness, death and that one evil ex. It is ten years worth of poetry from my high school graduation in 2014 till 2024, I started this book of poetry as a way to help with my suffering following the death of my father as a way to cope. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.25 x 7.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 08, 2024

We Go to the Park: A Picture Book - Hardcover

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by Sara Stridsberg (Author), Beatrice Alemagna (Illustrator), B. J. Woodstein (Translator)We Go to the Park is a beautiful, lyrical meditation on going to the park to play--which extends into a reflection on life itself--from Booker Prize-longlisted author Sara Stridsberg, and the inimitable, award-winning illustrator Beatrice Alemagna!Translated from Swedish by B.J. Woodstein The park beckons us to leave our daily routines behind and enter its zone of endless possibility. In the park, the us...

in bloom: the art of becoming - Paperback

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by Evie Isabella (Author) Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2025

No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 - Hardcover

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by Najwan Darwish (Author), Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Translator)A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English "A lush bouquet of essential poems from one of our species' most urgent living poets. These are poems of testimony, of presence and the persistence of joy."--Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! Born in Jerusalem in 1978, Najwan Darwish is one of the most important poets of the Arabic-speaking world. This definitive co...

How to Be Confident in Kindergarten: A Book for Your Backpack - Paperback

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by David J. Steinberg (Author), Ruth Hammond (Illustrator)From the best-selling author of the hugely popular Kindergarten, Here I Come!, here's a guidebook that shows children how to be confident in the new and exciting world of kindergarten. "This is one to read and reread to calm back-to-school jitters."-Kirkus Reviews Small enough to fit in a child's backpack, this collection of short poems offers sweet and simple tips on how kids can become their most confident self, from gaining the conf...

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by Dante Alighieri (Author), John Ciardi (Translator), Archibald T. MacAllister (Introduction by)Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in w...

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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author), Ted Rand (Illustrator)Longfellow's tribute to the famous revolutionary hero begins with the stirring cadence that American schoolchildren have committed to memory for over a century. Now illustrator Ted Rand brings these vivid and beautiful lines to life as dramatically as the poet's immortal message inspires."The clatter of hooves seems to echo in Rand's evocative paintings of that famed midnight ride...." --Kirkus reviewsAuthor BiographyHenry Wadswort...

I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups - Hardcover

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by Chris Harris (Author), Lane Smith (Illustrator)Now with a bright new jacket design, this bestselling, highly acclaimed collection of laugh-out-loud poems illustrated by beloved artist Lane Smith is a must-have addition to every child's -- and whimsical grown-up's -- bookshelf! Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, Harris's hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight-of-hand in masterful ways ...

Through the Shards of My Heart - Paperback

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by Machelle Berglund (Author) Ah, love! It is a powerful emotion that has inspired all at one point or another since the dawn of feeling and thought. It can bring a spring into the steps of the lucky. The twinkle in their eye tells of the endless joy and laughter love had brought them. Loving hands cradle their hearts at all times. Others, however, may throw their hearts into the fire again and again. They hope for the warmth of a loving hand rather than to feel the pain of the blaze. And f...