Poetry
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The Woman Who Lives Without MoneyThe poems in this first collection move through the arc of a life, with a tender focus on the landscape of childhood and the natural world. A young child's delight in language--'derelict and delectation...onyx and obsidian'-- matures to contemplate what language, myth, and art...
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Haiku (Volume II): SpringReginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964) was a prime mover in the popularization of haiku and Zen philosophy in western culture. Born in England, Blyth spent most of his working life in Japan, where he acted as a professor of English and foreign liaison, and became...
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To a Nurse Friend WeepingDr. Francis Christian's poetry offers breadth and diversity to the intimate connection between art and health that is core to the mission of HARP Publishing the People's Press. Through his writing he enters profoundly into the bodies and minds and souls of suffering humanity,...
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Bayna Bayna: In-BetweenUsing the Arabic words bayna bayna as a nod to her Palestinian Arab heritage, Zeina Azzam's poetry reflects on the feeling of being in-between home and exile, childhood and adulthood, wholeness and loss, and living and dying. Her poems express a bicultural and bilingual...
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Thinking with TreesWinner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021 A White Review Book of the Year 2021 Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around, ' he...
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Lavender Love NotesLavender is a universal symbol of relaxation and healing, the words within this collection aimed in eliciting that feeling. Lavender Love Notes is the second collection from Samira Vivette, upholding a pastel purple theme: a poetry and prose book for the soul in need...
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Seamus Heaney in ContextAuthor: Geraldine HigginsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/01/2021Pages: 384Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.80w x 1.00dISBN: 9781107180147Review Citation(s): Choice 04/01/2022About the AuthorHiggins, Geraldine: - Geraldine Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her publications...
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RiverWays: The River Goers' Guide to River EtiquetteRiverWays is a beautiful and practical guide for visiting rivers with care and consideration. This book of watercolors and poetry will help protect all rivers, their visitors, and the communities living near them. It's too late to say "Shh, don't tell them about our...
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Tears to InkWho killed Nicholas Jordan Di Marco?When my son was released from a treatment facility, one of the counselors (who I was working with closely) recommended I get Narcan. At that time, you needed a prescription, so I went to my family doctor to get...
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MESSAGES from THE SOUL: From the thoughts and motives of the depth of our beingMessages from the Soul is a compilation of poetry by the author, Vinoa-Ebron Wilson, which also contains poetry written by her daughter, Ivana Monique and her mother, Dora Lee Ebron-Keyes. Vinoa's poetry will put you in the heart of Brooklyn, NY and the Brownsville...
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The Lady of the LakeAfter James Douglas and his daughter Ellen are banished from their home, they go into hiding with the help of several enemies of the king. The Lady of the Lake is an intricate story filled with political and social intrigue, romance and chivalry. James...
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Savage FlowerIn SAVAGE FLOWER, winner of the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Award, Anna B. Sutton explores female oppression and agency in the Bible Belt South. The intertwined landscapes of Tennessee and North Carolina are the backdrop for Sutton's beautiful, warring marriage of religion, family, the...
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Manhattan my ass, you're in OaklandJudy Juanita's poetry collection, Manhattan My Ass, You're in Oakland, won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2021. Juanita, born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, explores the emotional geography of a rough terrain. These poems of the urban diaspora...
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What Pecan LightWith attention to the histories that make and sustain a family--its generations, its roots in certain soils--WHAT PECAN LIGHT exhumes a family's long entwinements in the South and whiteness. Excavating the economic, agricultural, and military roots of the speaker's family tree, the poems of...
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Antonyms for DaughterAntonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk's poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet's mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together. Poem after poem attempts...
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The Divine Comedy (Complete)The Divine Comedy (1320) is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri. Begun in 1308 while Dante was exiled from his native Florence, The Divine Comedy--a long poem divided into three books of 33 cantos each--presents the author's spiritual journey from sinfulness and despair to...
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A Slice of Silence: The Photography of Nathan WirthThis collection of monochrome photographs by Nathan Wirth includes long exposure seascapes, infrared landscapes, self portraits, architecture, and zenscapes of the Pacific Northwest intermingled with poetry and essays by Galen Garwood, Sam Green, Jane Hirshfield, Charles Johnson, Daphne Marlatt, Paul Nelson, Red Pine, David...
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Embouchure: Poems★This poignant and intimate account of discovery hums with pitch-perfect humor and triumphs that hit hard. Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAn embouchure is the way in which a wind musician applies their mouth to an instrument's mouthpiece, and Embouchure, Emilia Phillips's fourth poetry collection, sets...
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Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and AfterRecipient of the Sophie Brody Award (2022) for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year in the US, presented by the American Library Association (ALA). Kaddish is the first and only poetry collection to have received the Sophie Brody Award....
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The Joy and Terror Are Both in the SwallowingPoetry. Christine Shan Shan Hou's THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING offers a new mythology for our smooth and violent era.Together, these poems map a constellation of desire, addressing the female pleasure gap, the exhilaration of submission, and all the mundanity...
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