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Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of becoming American. The Angel Island Immigration Station in...
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Every."Every." is part Memoir written from a Poetic Stance. It is short in length, but it doesn't mean that it will not have you thinking about each chapter you read. Alexia has a different perspective being Afro/Asiatic/Italian mixed, and she brings that perspective while...
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Woman by the DoorWoman by the Door is a collection of poems that crystallized over the last 9 years, starting to take shape when Kashiana moved from India to the US in 2013. These poems are born of necessity and travel in and out of that doorway...
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W. B. Yeats'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written. Less haunting, but still so relevant: 'Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.' W B Yeats was one of the...
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Hölderlin's Philosophy of NatureIn our age of climate change, the work of the decidedly philosophical poet Friedrich Hölderlin has gained renewed urgency with its emphasis on the forces of nature that produce life and at the same time threaten to devour it. At the heart of his...
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Lichen Tufts, from the AlleghaniesIn her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She was a teacher,...
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SearchingIt's a caf situation.Be it oriental or merely Eastern European. We can enjoy a tacky menu full of pictures. We are ready to call the waiter and to tap our finger upon a dish, saying "this one." No need for further explanations. The form...
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Poet of the Body: New York's Walt WhitmanPublished in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman's coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe...
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Finding the World's FullnessForty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace.This journey has convinced him that,...
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Prophetic Verse: Including The Gods of the Copybook HeadingsThis new collection includes such impressive classics as "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," "The City of Brass," "Recessional," "Jubal and Tubal Cain," "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted," "If," and many, many more.With prophetic vision, Rudyard Kipling's timeless verse speaks clearly to our...
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Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every WomanA beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These poems span the worlds of desire, love and friendship, of responsibility, hardship...
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Queen Owl Wings: A Collection of PoemsIn this collection of poetry, Jeannette Encinias offers poems that illuminate the human condition, messy and beautiful as it is. These poems were written in cafes, on cocktail napkins, at home, on the floor, at sea, on the back of her hand, in-between catastrophes,...
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The Dover Anthology of Bird PoetryPoets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration as metaphors, references, and symbols of death, eternity, life, love, power, religious beliefs, and superstitions. Others have used different types of birds to express their thoughts and emotions. This volume highlights these remarkable...
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Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology EditionThis is the limited hardcover anthology edition of Nane: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set, featuring the work of thirteen new African poets."The African Poetry Book Fund's New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set is one of the most important annual literary...
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The Sorrow FestivalRooted in the beauty and violence of Florida's landscape, these poems are an exploration of love, sex, martyrdom, home, and what we bring with us when we choose poetry to record the intimacies of a life.Author: Erin SlaughterPublisher: Clash BooksPublished: 06/07/2022Pages: 138Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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After Callimachus: PoemsContemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie Burt Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and...
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Psalms for the City: Original Poetry Inspired by the Places We Call HomeThe whole of life can be found in the psalms. It can also be found in our cities. Psalms for the City is a beautifully illustrated book of poetry that offers comfort, inspiration and encouragement for the heart and soul, as John-Paul Flintoff puts...
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In the Bowl of My EyeIn his ninth collection of poetry, Keith Garebian pays attention to inner and outer realities of place and psyche, turning conventional landscape poetry inside-out. Focusing on the Lakeshore Road area of Mississauga/Etobicoke, Garebian explores small and large things, creating a space in which inner...
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Noches que eyaculan sangre, dolor y vino: (Poesía)NOCHES QUE EYACULAN SANGRE, DOLOR Y VINO Qué tendrá la noche que nos atrae tanto? Sobre todo a los seres solitarios, a los inconformes, a los inadaptados, a los curiosos, a los pensantes, a los suicidas. La noche tiene ese magistral poder de hacernos...
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TechnelegyWith digital immortality making headlines, stories about robot companions going viral, and crypto upending reality as we know it, it's time to ask: what does it mean to be human in a nearly post-human era? This highly anticipated debut from poet, artist and AI...
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