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The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly - Paperback

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by Denis Johnson (Author)Back JacketFrom the award-winning poet and novelist--a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.01 x 5.68 IN Publication Date: September 25, 2023

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Paperback

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by Nikki Grimes (Author)"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." - Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most exciting African-American illustrators. Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes us...

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays - Paperback

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by A. C. Cawley (Editor)God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow n...

Hearing Voices, Women's Voices - Paperback

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by Susan M. King (Author)A collection of poetry reflecting the author's journey of finding her own voice, listening to the voices of women and giving voice to women of the Bible. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.08 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 29, 2024

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems - Paperback

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by E. Hughes (Author)A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California. Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, a debut collection by E. Hughes, marries personal narrative with historical excavation to articulate the intricacies of Black familial love, life, and pain. Tracing the experiences of a southern Black family, their migration to the San Francisco Bay area, and the persistent anti-Blackness there (despite the state's insis...

When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices On Youth Incarceration - Paperback

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by Free Minds Writers (Author)This anthology of poetry and personal stories centers the voices of those directly impacted by the incarceration of young people in the United States. Compiled by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, this rich collection includes over 100 firsthand accounts from both the young people charged and incarcerated in the adult criminal legal system and from the community at large: the mothers, the loved ones, the correctional staff, public defenders, prosecutor...

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by U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo (Author)A beautiful, powerful and lyrical collection of poetry that explores themes of identity, family, love, marriage, body image, and self-acceptance through the lens of a cross-cultural experience. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.3 x 6.9 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 19, 2016

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by Claudia Rankine (Author)In her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression. Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are at an impasse from her reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. The couple's journey is charted through conversations, dreams, memories, and meditations, expanding and exploding the emotive capabilities of language and form. A text ...

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by Christine Wu (Author)15 Books to Read for Lunar New Year by AllLitUpPoems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food.Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Ginger scallion fish, Sichuan peppercorns, ginseng tea, Chinese school and white chefs - the reader's appetite is satiated with these poems' complex palate. There are the bubbling expectations for immigrant daughters, the chewy strands of colonial cri...

Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree - Paperback

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by Jennifer Martelli (Author), Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)In this striking collection of poems, Jennifer Martelli delves deep into the human psyche, exploring themes of desire, self-destruction, and the complexities of human existence. From suffocation to snakes, moon jellyfish to Marcia Brady, Martelli's Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree fearlessly confronts the layers of anxiety that shroud our lives, leaving us spellbound with her poignant observations. Throug...

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by Dzifa Benson (Author)The exciting and complex debut collection from Dzifa Benson, Monster is a bold and lyrical exploration of the Black female body as a site of oppression and resistance. At its heart is a study of the world of Sarah Baartman, aka the Hottentot Venus, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa who was displayed in freak shows in 19th-century Europe. Baartman's voice is framed within the social, political and legal structures of the day, offering a unique perspective.Other poems d...

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by Charles Bukowski (Author)A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare th...

Meet Me Between Breaths: a love story told in poetry and prose - Paperback

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by J. P. Greene (Author)Meet Me Between Breaths is an exploration of love and depth in the modern world told through a collection of short stories and poetry. Lorenzo meets Eleanore on the fire escape at a Sunday night party, and from the first moments it's clear theirs will be a story for the ages. As they navigate the waters of new love, internet erotica and personal trauma, it's their goodness, no matter how shrouded by pain it might be, that binds them together. An inspirational homage to...

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by Katharine Coles (Author)In 2010, poet Katharine Coles sailed across the Drake Passage to spend a month at a tiny Antarctic science station under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The Earth Is Not Flat, the collection of poems written out of her adventure, invokes the vast land- and seascapes as well as the fauna--penguins, seals, whales, and scientists--she encountered along the way. Addressing not only the present reality of human hab...

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by Elaine Equi (Author)"We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud." From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. "Thoughtful, witty, curious" (The New York Times), Equi's subversive voice delicately refracts human experiences from the colors of weather to the strange ways we make sense of our bodies, from the emptiness of family homes to the flow of time itself.Author BiographyElaine Equi was born in ...

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by A. A. Milne (Author), Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)Celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the world's most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh Whether you're six, sixty-six, or anywhere in between, this enchanting collection of verses about Christopher Robin and, of course, Winnie-the-Pooh, will enchant. Filled with gentle humor and playful rhythms, Now We Are Six contains some of the best-loved poems for children. Between its pages, readers will delight in the alway...

Instructions for Traveling West: Poems - Paperback

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by Joy Sullivan (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what's possible when we heed our instincts and honor our intuition, allowing ourselves to strike out for new territories of love, pleasure, and peace. "This empathetic, honest, and intimate collection is chockful of poems reminding the reader to love earnestly, live freely, and pay attention."--Kate Baer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of And Yet and What Kind of Woman First, you must realize yo...

Tucked in Flowers: Hidden in Plain Sight - Paperback

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by Lori Kirkland (Author)Truth is a heavy burden to hear so we hide it inside us. Many live their entire lives never able to tell. The need to be seen however sneaks out in disguises like memories tucked in flowers hidden in plain sight. Posts on social media, pictures and poems documenting lived experiences without explicit details are now exposed. This collection of poems tells the story of what happens when everything comes to light. The journey of self-love leading to a love of a lifetime...

Poetic Heart: Journey to Freedom - Paperback

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by Janet Edwards (Author)'Poetic Heart: Journey to Freedom' is a reminder that when life tries to knock you down, captivate your heart with 'what ifs' or hold you in a place of unforgiveness, grace will bring freedom. As long as there is God, there is hope. Hope for a better today and a better tomorrow, hope that God can restore, heal and bring freedom to our hearts regardless of the circumstances.'Poetic Heart: Journey to Freedom' is a collection of poems laced with hope. This book is design...

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by Butterflies Rising (Author)My first collection of my poetry, quotes, thoughts, and feelings... just little pieces of my soul. I feel so much and so deeply, and then I wrap all those feelings up in words and write them out. "wild spirit, soft heart" is meant to capture the different layers and energies I have in myself, and also all the energies of wild and soft, passion and tenderness, and self-love and soulmate love running through the book; along with the energy of what it is to be a sen...

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by Ellen Bass (Author)"Bass's work--about marriage and parenting, illness and recovery, small daily pleasures--cultivates an exuberance that's born of, and balanced by, close watchfulness." --The New York Times "A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass's lustrous poems." --Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life's complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, ...

mandala of words: a book of invocations, blessings & meditations - Paperback

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by Ayre疣na Ross (Author)"mandala of words: a book of invocations, blessings and meditations" is a collection of poems received over the last twenty five years. may they speak to your soul and leave you more spacious, supported and connected. mostly, may they offer a window to your own Divine nature and help you rest in the knowing that you are deeply, widely, eternally loved. Number of Pages: 106 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2023

Beauty Demands Intimacy: #blissshift - Paperback

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by Yajaira Lopez (Editor), Michael Acevedo (Author)Beauty Demands Intimacy is a passionate work of poetry written with the type love only a muse could inspire.This epic work of enchanting encomiums will befuddle you with words and ideas taken right from the ether. The Author Michael Acevedo, fashions a continuous story of subsequent poetic prose, culminating in stoic repose. This work is unbridled, revealing, and laced with hidden techniques, and expatiates in deep rumination's evincing Quant...

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by Katharine Coles (Author)Since her early poems, Katharine Coles has been known as a poet who isn't afraid to tackle big subjects that occupy the intersections of art and science, including how we know what is true (if we do). Driven by her insatiable curiosity and relying on a use of form and elision so deft it amounts to sleight-of-hand, Coles brings these big questions into small spaces in her seventh book, Wayward, moving the reader at mind-speed through brief meditations on love, marria...

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by Robert MacFarlane (Author), Jackie Morris (Author)The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world. Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. The Lost S...

Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals - Hardcover

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by Erik Mortenson (Editor), Tomasz Sawczuk (Editor)This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the 20th century's most emblematic but often misunderstood American writers. Despite amassing a substantial body of influential work and becoming a recognizable icon...

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by Louise Gluck (Author)Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey.Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timeless themes as the endless nego...

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth - Paperback

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by William Wordsworth (Author), Mark Van Doren (Editor), David Bromwich (Introduction by)Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes, ...

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)A repackaged edition of the revered author's collection of four poems: "Dymer," "Launcelot," "The Nameless Isle," and "The Queen of Drum."C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics--was also a talented poet. In this collection of four longer works of verse, Lewis displays his deep love...

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by Charles Goldman (Author)Charles Goldman wrote the first nine parts of Empathy Road in 2010, out of a deeply felt inspiration. The source of this poem, as with many of his poems, comes from what the poet describes as "an engulfing presence of love and insight from beyond myself." In a world of poems composed from the need to juxtapose words in novel forms, it is gratifying to find poems still written in a romantic tongue, about the nature of the human struggle.Empathy Road is partly a map t...

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by Natasha Trethewey (Author)19th Poet Laureate of the United States "A powerful, beautifully crafted book."--The Washington Post "Ripe with the perfidies and paradoxes of thralldom both personal and public, it is utterly elegant."--Elle Charting the intersections of public and personal history, Thrall explores the historical, cultural, and social forces that determine the roles to which a mixed-race daughter and her white father are consigned. In a brilliant series of poems about the taxo...