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Paradise RegainedWhen Jesus was baptized, Heaven announced that he was the son of God. After the joyous celebration, Jesus went back to his mother's house to hear the story of his miraculous birth, which inspired Jesus to go on a journey to become even closer...
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Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescent indictment of capitalism's moral decay. In Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against xenophobia...
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On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing 50th Anniversary EditionPoetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BOLINAS WRITING in celebration of its 50th anniversary. This is a gathering of poets,...
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Calling the CreaturesGunilla Norris has written a book that spans decades of her life. She invites us to wonder what calls us into recollection. It is always a mystery when an inner voice asks for attention. In a long life, that call can be insistent and...
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& CompanyPoetry. Linehan's fourth collection, & COMPANY, now presented by Dos Madres Press, moves into a new setting, subject, and style. In a search to know her maternal grandmother, Linehan turns to the documentation painters left of the fashion worlds in Paris and Boston in...
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RenditionsAn energetic exploration of the expanse of language translated and otherwise transformed In Renditions Reginald Gibbons conducts an ensemble of poetic voices, using the works of a varied, international selection of writers as departure points for his translations and transformations. The collection poses the...
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Her Read: A Graphic PoemHer Read: A Graphic Poem is a hybrid text at once poetry and visual art. In the tradition of reusing canvases, Steinorth takes a seminal text, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read and with the liberal use of correction fluid, scalpel and embroidery...
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OssuariesDionne Brand's hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from...
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Letters to a Young PoetEssential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner workings of his own poetic identity....
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Past the Glad and Sunlit Season: Poems for HalloweenK. A. Opperman conjures up a pageant of autumnal imagery sure to delight all fans of the Halloween season. Often recalling the charming rhymes on vintage postcards, these poems take us on a stirring journey deep into October's heart, offering treats-and a few tricks-to...
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Minml Poems"Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and felt your skin prickling at the base of your skull-felt like somewhere, inside the blackness above you, an unknown presence was hovering-a power? A fear?" This is a chapbook collection of poems...
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The Divan of Hafiz: Edition of Complete PoetryJoin with Hafiz and His Incomparable Love Poems (Updated July 2022)If like me, you too fall in this trip, Hold the wine and cup upon your lap.We are the lovers, burning our tracks, Join us if you can put up with the crap.گر همچو...
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Dear Specimen: PoemsA National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive?...
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When This Is Over: Pandemic PoemsThe poems in this collection function almost like diary entries. Things are pulled from the news: Tony Fauci, the Orange Man, murder hornets, mask mandates, George Floyd]]. You get a sense of real-time encounter and survival. But it's not all worry beads or despair....
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A Few Figs from Thistles: The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent MillayEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skilful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms...
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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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