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Her Wilderness Will Be Her MannersAn electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a "natural body" An innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists, Her Wilderness Will Be Her...
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Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the BeginningBorn and raised in Ohio, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood moved to the South over two decades ago and has also lived and traveled in her mother's native country of Mexico. She writes about all of these places in her debut poetry collection, TROUBLE CAN BE...
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Past Lives, Future Bodies2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Poetry. In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness like a dazzling, dizzying uproar: "I suck / until my teeth riot / with rot & I have nothing /...
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Frederick Seidel Selected PoemsAn overview of Frederick Seidel's best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet's craft Frederick Seidel has been hailed as the poet of a new contemporary form (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books)...
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[elegies]Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Garcia's third poetry collection, ELEGIES], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism and history. These lyric poems range from an ode to Allen Iverson's crossover on Michael Jordan, to an original form called a mixtape featuring lines...
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TelephoneFiction. Drama. There are phone lines to the living and others for calling the dead. TELEPHONE by Ariana Reines is a network for riveting acts of speech, and silence, and listening. I saw the play and never forgot it. The audience was lit like...
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I Like Being Me: Poems about Kindness, Friendship, and Making Good ChoicesTwenty-five rhyming poems invite children to believe in themselves, learn from mistakes, cooperate, share, help others, solve problems, be kind, tell the truth, make positive choices, and more. The short poems are quick to read, easy to learn, and fun to recite--making them perfect...
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I Became Your MamaThere are many roads to motherhood, and many ways for a child to be born. Whether your journey involved IVF, FET, embryo donation, embryo adoption, adoption, gestational surrogacy, or traditional pregnancy, you are part of the miracle of life. Mollie Huyck's I Became Your...
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HomericaPoetry. Women's Studies. Greek Studies. Translated from the Greek by Brian Sneeden. For the first time in English--a volume of poems by one of Greece's foremost poetic voices. Phoebe Giannisi's HOMERICA offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis, re- weaving classical...
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Divine Comedy: Illustrated EditionThe Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view of the 14th century. The first-person narrative describes...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 1Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This inaugural issue of Liberties...
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Island HeartPoetry. Caribbean Studies. Ida Faubert (1882--1969) is a 20th-century Haitian-French poet considered a Caribbean--and especially Haitian--literary foremother. An English-language volume of Faubert's makes her work more widely accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Latin-American, African-diasporic, Caribbean and Haitian letters; and more generally available...
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It's Like BeingKamernebti is a poet whose experience has included being with many poets who have been at the forefront of poetry. She has held poetry workshops and been a part of many; Louis Reyes Rivera, George Edward Tait, Abiodun Oyewole, LindaMichele Barron, Jackie Johnson, and...
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Man Behind the MaskPoems are like tears, Crying out Saltwater from The ocean of the soul. ---Stan K. SujkaAuthor: Stan K. SujkaPublisher: Balboa PressPublished: 10/07/2020Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9781982255824This title is not returnable
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The Junta of HappenstancePersonal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction,...
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I Promised I Would TellHolocaust educator and survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz has been called "a survivor with a poet's eye." Her memoir, I Promised I Would Tell, includes her story of survival and more than two dozen poems through which she bears witness to the unspeakable. Through poetry...
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Numbers EverywhereSearch for hidden numeral shapes in this fun, rhyming picture book-- a perfect way to engage preschoolers learning numbers! Number shapes are everywhere-- look up! Look down! Look here! Look there. Rhymes invite children to look for numerals hidden in the pictures: A tall...
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Woman in the Plural: Verse, Diary Entries, Poetry for the Stage, Surrealist ExperimentsIn the summer of 1935, Vitezslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his generation, embarked on a period of manic creativity that would result in three volumes of poetry written and published in a two-year span (1935-37), mirrored by three...
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The Bin ... And Other Pieces of Trash"The Bin ... and Other Pieces of Trash" is part fiction, dream, stream of consciousness, fantasy, and true tales written by use of poetry and verse. "Capt. Doug's Crew" is a page ripped from a whole novel forcing the reader to complete the story...
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GreyhoundPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. A memoir-in-verse about the links between movement and how it influences gender identity, perception, and performance, utilizing the bus terminal as a throughway to discuss transition. The book discusses issues that deal with safety, passing, rural and city queerness, police and...
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