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The Opposite of Cruelty: PoemsSteven 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...
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The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by WomenI gaze into the mirror of my heart, And though it's me who looks, it's you I see. So speaks one of the many distinctive voices in this new anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been...
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The MiddleWritten amid wildfires and atmospheric rivers, The Middle extends Stephen Collis's investigation of threatened climate futures into a poetics of displacement and wandering. The fulcrum of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, The Middle hikes the shifting treelines of...
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The Long Defeat: PoemsIn his highly anticipated follow-up to 'The Other Life', Patrick Connors presents 'The Long Defeat', a poetic journey through the depths of personal and universal turmoil. Connors, influenced by his own experience of pandemic-induced unemployment, delves into the essence of human resilience and the...
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The Long Ago PoemsLike a dream - or perhaps, a nightmare - the poems and their characters present a world that intersects with writing created in the name of art. Buffeted by sudden recollections and revenants from childhood and from history, Azarov the aged poet has got...
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The Lives of Rain: 20th Anniversary EditionShortlisted for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize/The Pitt Poetry Series "In The Lives of Rain, Nathalie Handal has brought forth a work of radical displacement and uncertainty, moving continent to continent, giving voice to Palestinians of the diaspora in the utterance of one...
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The Leper Dreams of SnowAuthor: Sean CorbinPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublished: 09/07/2018Pages: 40Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.08dISBN: 9781635346503About the AuthorCorbin, Sean: - Sean L Corbin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and...
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The Language of Margaret AtwoodThis book explores Margaret Atwood's distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses. It examines how strategies of misdirection, processes of doubling, and the creation of textual ambience play an essential role in Atwood's...
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The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva DistrictThe national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original...
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The Inferno: An Illuminated EditionAn oversized, slipcase-housed, elaborately illustrated art book edition of THE INFERNO, one of the great towering texts of world literature. Welcome to a strange new Hell. Abandon all expectations, you who enter here. British linocut artist Sophy Hollington brings her singular vision to Dante...
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The Human Engine at Dawn: PoemsThe ghost behind these haunted and haunting poems is the bittersweet and stunningly detailed memory of the poet's formative years in blue-collar Detroit, echoed sometimes in his present home of Pittsburgh. The latter (much less the former) isn't Paris, he admits, but then, "Fuck...
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The Guy: Private EditionThe Guy has two primary characters, Tall and The Guy. The deeper into an affair they go the more they find life is a messy tapestry of experiences. This poetic tale weaves together threads of the intricate and profound impact they have on each...
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The Four Faces of Eve: A Tribute to SurvivalThough Constance E. Boyle, Brooke Granville, Petra Perkins and Gail Waldstein have different faces, personalities, and life experiences, they all share qualities implied by the name, "Eve," a word with roots in "life" and "breath." They have worked together as poets for many years,...
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The FiresThe Fires is about two fires: the burning city of Troy and the almost constantly burning megafire of the present. It's also about the beauty and fragility of the world we live in, human voices and concerns, the passing of time. It's a sequence...
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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: PoemsA suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo's third collection...
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The Complete Works Of Lord Byron: Dramatic Pieces And PoemsIndulge in the rich language and timeless themes of Lord Byron's works with this comprehensive collection. From his epic narratives to his stirring dramas and poignant poems, this volume showcases the full range of this literary master's talent.This work has been selected by scholars...
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The BrothersThe Brothers is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1880. The story revolves around the lives of four brothers - Charlie, Archie, Walter, and Jamie - who are raised by their mother after their father passes away. The brothers are very different...
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The Brier PoemsPublished in 1997 by Gnomon Press. Jim Wayne Miller's The Brier Poems, published posthumously, is a selection of poetry from The Mountains Have Come Closer (where the Brier figure first emerged) and Brier, His Book, along with additional poems not published in previous volumes....
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The BounceThe Bounce, the new poetry collection by Karl Michael Iglesias, is an intimate poetry collection that gathers love, grief, and memory-echo as a remedy for the growing pains we all deserve.Author: Karl Michael IglesiasPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 44Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x...
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The BookFollowing the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and...
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