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BrineMallory Amirault's debut collection?Brine?is an ambitious land-metaphor; merging history and imagination, it's a work of poetry that doubles as a prose novel, an effort of interruption to long-standing Maritime coloniality. While excavating experiences of grief, violence, and shame?and unleashing those of love, joy, and...
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The Rosary of LoveReciting a rosary is an ancient act of spiritual devotion, this book presents the rosary of love to be recited in praise of love. It has one hundred and one love poems representing one hundred and one beads of a rosary. In this rosary,...
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World of InteriorsIn 'World of Interiors' I use collage, appropriation and unreliable narrators to destabilise the first-person 'I'. I also write directly about embodiment and the inescapable condition of being perceived and positioned by other people. Our lives take place in time and space, meaning in...
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The Nameless and The Faceless Women of the Civil War: A Collection of Poems, Essays, and Historical PhotosFor the unknown women who witnessed the Civil War, whose lives and experiences were lost and forgotten in the pages of history. Step back into time and hear the voices of the past come to life. The Nameless and the Faceless Women of the...
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Cradleland of ParasitesBram Stoker Award-winner Sara Tantlinger delivers her Cradleland of Parasites, a harrowing and darkly gorgeous collection of poetry, chronicling the death and devastation of one of history's greatest horrors: The Black Plague.Sara Tantlinger is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry...
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Her KindUnique poems that bring history to life by weaving narratives of the Salem Witch Trials with stories of contemporary women. Set against the historical backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials, Her Kind is a book about women: women viewed as witches, women making their...
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There's Cobwebs On Her Vagina: A Collection of PoemsIn this collection, Robinson takes deep right hooks at what it is to be a woman in our world. Women are repressed--their voices are dry, their spines crooked, and their spirits walked on. In these pages, Janne breaks women open so they can breathe.Janne...
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Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected Writings of R. H. BlythNever before published letters and uncollected short writings of R. H. Blyth, champion of Zen and the person who brought haiku to the world. Poetry and Zen assembles a remarkable literary feast: the letters, articles, translations, reviews, and selections from the papers of Reginald...
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Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood'This book should be required reading for anyone thinking of having a baby, or even anyone who knows someone who is thinking of having a baby'Scotland on Sunday 'Fascinating and honest'Mumsnet 'Like talking to a friend'ObserverWinner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work...
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Free Papers: inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston, a Mississippi slave freed in Minnesota in 1860Free Papers: poems. In this poem sequence Eliza, the enslaved, speaks to the poet Mary Moore Easter who answers her in the voices of her own ancestors, grandmothers and great-grandmothers, captives of the slave period. And often responses come from contemporary women. Sometimes the...
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Acting Out / chem & other poemsActing Out and chem & other poems are two remarkable pamphlets joined together in one beautiful collection. Scapello's voice is brave and intimate, his poetry laden with desire and shame, telling tales of the naked male body and pushing lyricism into strange and fantastic...
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Aux ARC Trypt Ich: Poppycock and Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark TreesA triptych of wild, lyric love poems that are, at heart, an ode to Arkansas. Set among blue Ozark creeks, hoods of trucks, and changing constellations, Cody-Rose Clevidence's poems call up embodied sensations as they arise, with love and anguish, in a specific place....
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The Adventures of Rumi and Bixby BearThe Adventures of Rumi and Bixby Bear is a fun and contemplative story about a child in search of friendship. With her friend, Bixby Bear, at her side, Rumi undertakes a great journey and discovers depth and wisdom within herself.Author: J. R. RothsteinPublisher: Redstone...
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L.I.F.E. Learning To Initiate Forgiveness In EverythingThis book is intended to change your mindset and to encourage people to look at life's challenges as lessons instead of perceived punishment. It represents the peeling back of pain and walking in love and forgiveness. My goal is to encourage the tearing down...
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Howdie-Skelp: PoemsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a...
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Aurora Leigh: An Epic PoemAurora Leigh (1856) is an epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the Sibylline Books). It is a first person narration, from the point of view of Aurora;...
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Gedichte Von Jan Wagner: InterpretationenJan Wagners Gedichte sind in den letzten Jahren nicht nur vielfach mit renommierten Preisen ausgezeichnet worden, sondern haben auch ein stetig wachsendes Publikum für sich gewinnen können. Diese Popularität verdienen sich Wagners Gedichte dadurch, dass sie den Bezug zu alltäglichen Dingen und Naturerscheinungen mit...
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Barber Shop ChroniclesNewsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles, which...
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Aleksander Fredro: Three Plays: Revenge; Virgin's Vows; The AnnuityThe extraordinary career and impressive literary output of the 'Father' of Polish comedy, Aleksander Fredro, was the subject of much celebration in Poland in 1993, the bicentenary of his birth. These new translations by Noel Clark of three of Fredro's best known plays should...
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My Mindful A to Zen: 26 Well-Being Haiku for Happy Little MindsHaiku poems for the soul A book of poetry that gently introduces children to mindfulness concepts like Om, Yoga and Zen, as well as goals for mindful living like Gratitude and Positivity. With its delightful cast of inclusive characters, this inspirational poetry collection promotes...
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