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May God Help Us Find Our Way"May God Help Us Find Our Way" a series of poems made with a special kind of curiosity and love.Author: Reyna BiddyPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 08/22/2019Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.25dISBN: 9781095699508This title is not returnable
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The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure: A TranslationFirst English translation of an important twelfth-century romance, giving an account of the Trojan war and its consequences. Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, dating to around 1165, is, along with the Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas, one of the three "romances...
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DreamversePublished posthumously as Dreams, Styrský's dream journal spanning the interwar years comprises prose, sketches, collages, and paintings. The present volume includes the complete series based on Styrsk 's layout for its publication, his sole volume of poetry (also published posthumously), as well as a...
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Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand PocketsStep into the crater of East Africa and meet the grain of sand from Sindh. Taste the pearls from Indian Ismaili ginans and attend to the True Guru. Aglow with postcolonial loss, wryly defiant of what they reveal, the poems in Kabir's Jacket Has...
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No Matter: PoemsAn urgent, visionary collection of poems from the author of The After Party "One of the most original voices of her generation."--James Wood NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE PARIS REVIEW Jana Prikryl's...
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We Inherit What the Fires Left: PoemsWilliam Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived...
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soft girl: poetry by k.p.kthis book is meant to hurt you. but don't worry - you are the only person who can save yourself. and you will. read a little bit further. it's in the words. this book is meant to heal you. a collection of poetry by...
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The Prose EddaThe Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled,...
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The MiraclesWith lyricism and grace, Amy Lemmon gives us a worldview to live by. The all-too-familiar "wear of sorrow's rub" is presented alongside the world's miracles, including the author's two children. Through the disintegration of her marriage and the tragic death of her children's father,...
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Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz: Bilingual EditionThis bilingual edition of Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz has the original Persian verses facing the English translations. The three Shirazi poets whose work is featured here, Hafez, Jahan Malek Khatun, and Obayd-e Zakani, lived at the same time (the...
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Raga for What Comes NextDianne Borsenik brings her second full-length book of poetry to Stubborn Mule, and we are beyond thrilled with this elegant book of poems. She is a modern master of form, with abecedarians, acrostics and more, you will struggle to find the form with her...
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Post Traumatic Hood DisorderOne of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation.--Tony HoaglandLook at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes, David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection. In his debut, Hustle, Martinez offered a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age narrative replete with...
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American FaithThe ultimate subject of Maya C. Popa's stunning debut collection is violence. American Faith begins with its manifestation in our country: a destructive administration, a history of cruelty and extermination, and a love of firearms. The violence naturally extends to the personal. What for...
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A Study of HandsA Study of Hands is an attempt to remove male intimacy from its sheath. It is an incision into Bodney's romantic relationships, and his evolving relationship with his father. It is the peeling of layers from experiences of love and abuse with men, and...
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Skins of ColumbusColonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives and dreamscapes. Edgar Garcia intervenes with a poetic experiment: Every night of the three months of Columbus's first voyage to the Americas, Garcia read his corresponding journal entry before...
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The Second O of SorrowWinner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry PrizeWinner of the 2019 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments--a night at a packed karaoke bar,...
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In Full VelvetSinuous and sensual, the poems of In Full Velvet interrogate the nuances of desire, love, gender, ecology, LGBTQ lineage and community, and the tension between a body's material limits and the forms made possible by the imagination. Characterized by formal poise, vulnerability, and compassion,...
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The Graveyard School: An AnthologyThe poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite...
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How to Love the Empty AirNew York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's How to Love the Empty Air reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Grief is one of the most impossible things to put words to. In How to Love the...
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SplitSplit crosses borders, exposing truths and dreams, violations of body and mind, aligning them until the deep push-pull of silence and song become a bridge. And here we cross over into a landscape where beauty interrogates, and we encounter a voice that refuses to...
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