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The Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter HammonThe Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter Hammon compiles the works of Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black writer. When his poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries" appeared in print as a broadside in 1761, Hammon unknowingly changed American literature...
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Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and PoetryPoetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music...
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Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the CaringThis exciting collection of freeform poetry with over 40 poems by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, is a sharing of both professional and personal thoughts and feelings. Susan is a strong advocate of the creative use of poetry to express the wonderment, frustration, dedication,...
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A Journey of a Thousand Steps: poetry on self-love, mindfulness and self-discoveryAlong with space for journalling, this collection of poetry reflects a voyage of self-discovery, with underlying messages of hope and positivity. 'A Journey of a Thousand Steps' aims to offer an alternative perspective on how we often view ourselves and the world around us....
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Love Notes: Poems from the Heart to Share with LoveLove Notes is a fresh delightful book of poems from the heart. The Author has taken eight areas of love and expressed beautiful and meaningful poems in each of these chapters to touch the hearts and souls of every reader. You will smile, cry,...
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Jason 1974JASON 1974, was written in part on a journey to Italy, and later as a result of his studies at Temple University. Majoring in modern poetry, Pound and Joyce, and renaissance of Spencer and Shakespeare. He studied Greek and Roman poetry in translation, as...
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I Am Not Young And I Will Die With This Car In My GarageThe speakers in Blake Z. Rong's gorgeous debut, I Am Not Young and Will Die with This Car in My Garage, inhabit a world emptied of people but haunted by distorted memories of human contact. As Rong writes, "The city becomes human in its...
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Soft-Focus SlaughterhouseSoft-Focus Slaughterhouse is a collection of new poems by Dylan Krieger published in The Collapsar, jubilat, Nine Mile Magazine and West Trade Review.Author: Dylan KriegerPublisher: 11:11 Press LLCPublished: 04/13/2021Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9781948687263This title is not returnable
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EmploymentNobody wants to grind for the man, but most of us have to. Gina Tron has clocked into a lot of nonsense which has luckily led to these undeniably relatable poems recalling the details of making other people money in order to survive. Employment...
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The Book of Anna2022 National Jewish Book Award for PoetryTHE BOOK OF ANNA is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying...
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English Lit: PoemsAutobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky's rising Affrilachian literary stars.Bernard Clay's autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtaposes the roots of Black male identity against an urban and rural Kentucky landscape. Hailed as one of the most authentic voices of his generation, Clay artfully renders...
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George Herbert: 100 PoemsGeorge Herbert (1593-1633) is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet in the English language. His profound influence can be seen in the lasting popularity of his verse. This selection of one hundred lyric poems by Herbert is designed for readers to enjoy the...
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Black Blessed and British"Hardcore optimism that explores the impressions of the spiritual warrior" is how the author fittingly describes this wonderful collection. Though in truth it is also very much a tale of new beginnings and hard fought reinventions. From the black kid in Cheltenham, to the...
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Plenty.These poems oscillate beautifully between observing the vast and the small. They often live in the metaphorical world of the eye and its power to capture, to name, to make real, and to erase. As Plenty. reveals the uncertain power of sight and of...
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Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Arthur RimbaudPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated by Brian Kim Stefans. Poet of logical revolts, of sexual freedom, inveterate modernist, Symbolist, and inspiration to beatniks, conceptual artists and punks, Arthur Rimbaud wrote some of the most enduring poems of world literature. Here is a collection of all...
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Women & Other HostagesIf you, like the speaker in Laura McCullough's poem, "Almost Nothing Something [stars / plates / cells]" have grown "tired & suspicious of poetry" Women & Other Hostages will absolutely revitalize you. These are riveting, wholly moving narratives of a life lived. Out of...
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Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen'We knew that black and brown bodies, working class voices, women's voices, did not have a space where they could be heard - and so this writing collective was a necessary and political act' In the early years of the new millennium, poets Malika...
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The Oriole & the Ovenbird"Just keeping an eye on things," Angela Patten tells us, but what an eye it is, one that observes a raven as a "faux-sorrowful funeral director," a cardinal in his "ecclesiastical robe," grackles with their "Prussian blue heads." And her ears are wide open,...
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Father They Know Not What They Do: God's Poetic Reach to a Lost and Dying WorldThe Lord impressed me to write these poems and passages of scriptures much like the bible was written centuries ago, although it is still relevant to the day, I wrote as I was moved by the Holy Ghost. Apostles and prophets of old often-times...
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Outgoing VesselPoetry. Women's Studies. Translated by Katrine gaard Jensen. this is a shape I cannot remain in. With its mutant orbs of grief and technoscientific phenomena, Ursula Andkj r Olsen's OUTGOING VESSEL is the electrifying sequel to Katrine gaard Jensen's award-winning translation of THIRD MILLENNIUM...
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