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Suljhe Hoye Uljhe Akhar: ( ਸੁਲਝੇ ਹੋਏ ਉਲਝੇ ਅੱਖਰThe book is about self love, self awareness, self healing, gratitude and greater good. In this book you will find many motivational poems and quotes. We hope that by reading the book you will get happiness and true meaning of love and life. The...
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CatcallingLee Soho's debut collection of poems is an experimental lyric bildungsroman that confronts dynamics of abuse as it challenges poetic form. Catcalling exposes and ridicules the violences that the speaker-protagonist Kyungjin encounters as she navigates a patriarchal world. Divided in to five formally distinct...
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Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power TodayThis important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases many respected First Nations poets from this continent alongside some of its rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Jack Davis, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Kevin Gilbert, Lisa Bellear, Lionel Fogarty, Kerry Reed-Gilbert,...
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The Grief We're GivenReaders call William's poetry "breath-taking", "refreshing" and "relatable to anyone". The Grief We're Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature, eternity, and hope as a thinning, but exuberant, door. How...
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Post Romantic: PoemsIn her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous age moving too fast....
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Sleeping, Sinning, FallingSleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry.The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books in English translation. One...
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Float TrueA flow of pieces that carry story and emotion via reflections on an immigrant family history, metaphysical musings, and earthly perplexities--with occasional outbursts of ecstatic appreciation of nature. The unsegmented order of pieces is intended to create a loose narrative "swirl" that ushers the...
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Everything That Seems Must Seem to Be: Initial Writings from a Parmenides ProjectThe translation is accompanied by a series of interpretive essays by the translator. Stein maintains that the Parmenides text is an important poem as well as a philosophical treatise and translates it as such. His "Parmenides Project" comprises some thirty years of journal writings...
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The Collected Verse of Robert ServiceRobert Service dreamed of a life of adventure and freedom to live and write as he wanted, surrounded by nature and the beauty of the world. Born in Lancashire, England, he developed an urge early on to travel abroad, and set his sights on...
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Naked: The Honest Musing of 2 Brown WomenThis impressive and enjoyable debut poetry collection by American-Tamil poet Selvi M. Bunce and Ugandan poet Mimi Mutesa is enriched with unique illustrations by Mimi. It is a fiery challenge to preconceptions of race and relationships through poems of autobiography and self-empowerment. These poems...
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The PoeticsAristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς; Latin: De Poetica; 1] c. 335 BC 2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. 3] In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a...
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Cargo Hold of Stars: CoolitudeCargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transported...
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Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese AnthologyProduced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques--including a hand-sewn spine, uncut pages, and a cloth cover--this exquisite dual-language edition of the Book of Songs features 32 classic poems. Believed by some to have been compiled by Confucius, the Book of Songs (or Shi-jing) is the...
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Cuttings from the TangleFor nearly three decades, Richard Buckner has been traveling the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks. Now he's sharing what he saw, felt, and found. Long admired for his impressionistic and elliptical lyrics, Buckner has more...
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Come-Hither HoneycombIn Come-Hither Honeycomb, Erin Belieu turns her signature wit and intellectual rigor inward for an unguarded exploration of human vulnerability. The poems meditate on the impact of large and small traumas: the lasting thumbprint of abuse, the collective specter of disease, the achingly sweet...
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Home: New Arabic Poems"Unbelievably exciting...These are poems to read and reread, repeating the lines as though they were a secret between yourself and the page." --The Paris ReviewEvoking the sights, sounds, and tastes of contemporary life, the poets in Home explore the intimate world of everyday life,...
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Capable MonstersPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. CAPABLE MONSTERS moves through entries of the pok mon encyclopedia--the Pok dex--as a way to navigate concerns of identity: otherness, what it means to be considered a monster, how we fit into a larger societal ecosystem. To make space for the...
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God Is a Problem We Don't Have to Solve: PoemA book of poems by someone who is not really a poet. A biblical scholar/historian of religion offers poetry on subjects as diverse as personal friendships, lovers, and the meaning of a belief in god.Author: Dale Basil MartinPublisher: Xlibris UsPublished: 12/16/2019Pages: 74Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Briggflatts: [With DVD & Audio CD]Basil Bunting (1900-85) was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger writers, the Northumbrian master poet had to wait over...
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Solace: poems for the broken seasonIN THE TENSION OF PULLING AWAY THERE IS SOLACE.Chris Wheeler's first collection of poetry digs deep into the peculiar grace of dark seasons with rich imagery and unflinching honesty. Illuminated by original art from artist Josie Koznarek, Wheeler's verse suggests that brokenness bears healing...
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