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Bury The Seed: Poems for Releasing More Life into YouBury the Seed is a book for anyone seeking connection.Brooke McNamara's second publication, Bury the Seed, is a four-part collection of poetry that invites us to revel in the wonder, mystery, and elegance of our ordinary, brief, and beautiful lives. A compilation of treasures...
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Shahr-E-Jaanaan: The City of the BelovedPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. SHAHR-E-JAANAAN sets out to recreate the universe of Urdu and Persian poetic tradition, its tropes both lenses and mirrors for the speaker's reality. As she maps her romances onto legends, directing their...
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Awake in Dreams, Sleeping Death AwayAwake in Dreams, Sleeping Death Away is a pun on the different states of consciousness, which is open to multifactorial answers. In reality, the observations in the poems leave the readers perhaps with more questions than answers. The three states of consciousness--awakening, sleeping, and...
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Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My CityPorcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Gr nbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once...
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JawIn JAW, America pulls a splinter out of a child's hand, a man hides beneath a body to avoid Japanese soldiers, and God eats spam, white rice, and a fried egg. Giving us an inside look into microaggressions in America, these poems present American...
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Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are fromIn Sawako Nakayasu's first poetry collection in seven years, an unsettling diaspora of "girls" is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo-slur, and as characters that take up residence between the thick border zones of language, culture, and shifting identity. Written in...
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The Poetry CureThis volume contain poems to help people recovering from physical and mental illness.Author: Julia DarlingPublisher: Bloodaxe BooksPublished: 04/28/2005Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.60w x 0.28dISBN: 9781852246907
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Why I No Longer Write Poems: [Bilingual Georgian-English]A boldly inventive selection of collaborative translations from one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Diana Anphimiadi's award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery. She revivifies ancient myths and tests the reality...
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Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century SouthJohn Poch's newly curated collection, Gracious: Poems of the 21st Century South, spotlights both emerging and notable voices from this poetry-rich region. This book promises to be the best and most influential anthology of Southern poetry published in over thirty years. Gracious steers away...
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The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian PoetryThe rich diversity of Australian poetry stands in no need of makeovers or prescriptions. What will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one of its finest. - Martin HarrisonThis anthology realigns Australian poetry from a 21st...
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the PersianA repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam have enchanted readers for centuries. In this modern translation, complete with critical introduction and epilogue, Juan...
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With Outstretched Arms: A 40 Day Inspirational Devotional for Health Care Workers and CaregiversA Prayer for Today: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for multiplying my seeds sown for Your kingdom. Thank You also for supplying all my needs, according to Your riches in glory, by Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen. Even before we rise out of bed...
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Connected to Source a Journey of ExperienceConnected to Source a Journey of Experience is a collection of poems spanning over 30 years of the authors' life. As a teenager, Tina Thurston began journal writing which led to the creative expression of writing poetry. Her range of emotions and questioning her...
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The Fire Eater: PoemsSurreal, playful, and always poignant, the prose poems in Jose Hernandez Diaz's masterful debut chapbook introduce us to a mime, a skeleton, and the man in the Pink Floyd t-shirt, all of whom explore their inner selves in Hernandez Diaz's startling and spare style....
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The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatinextIn the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like...
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Mesmerizingly Sadly BeautifulThis is the "Age of the Bullet," Matthew Lippman writes in Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, days in which "bullets sprout other bullets in the bullet garden" and a caricature of a onesie-wearing president sucking on a pacifier appears on the cover of a national magazine....
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Decoding SparrowsThe poems explore the author's boyhood in a Spanish village, his coming of age, and his arrival to California in his 20's. A series of characters marginalized by society interact with the speaker and help him understand his uniqueness and difference. Intimacy, sexuality, and...
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All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish EssaysAll I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took up a deep study of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, poet,...
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The Selected Poems of William BlakeIntroduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors...
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HaveHave by Lee Robison is a narrative exploration of growth from innocence to experience. The poems in this collection examine being and becoming and how men and women seek, and sometimes find, hope and faith in a universe that requites neither.Author: Lee RobisonPublisher: David...
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