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Burn The Fairy TalesBurn The Fairy Tales is a poetry book about taking power into your own hands and fighting back against the wrongs of the world. It is a feminist journey of self-empowerment through self-discovery, self-love, and inspiration.Author: Adeline WhitmorePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/30/2017Pages: 116Binding...
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My Existence Craves YoursThis is a poetry book which has a particular storyline, every poem is a standalone as well as serves a purpose in the story.My Existence Craves Yours is about how one heart seeks out the other in love, as if you're drought and they're...
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YellA page by page erasure of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Sousa's Yell subverts and contemporizes the original story of an oppressed housewife, and would-be writer, driven mad. In this version, the heroine speaks of her repression and slow descent into the amnesia...
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Bee DanceCathy Cain, like a bee to flower, gathers thought from one encounter with nature to another. She speaks from many perspectives -- as tree, as mushroom, as goddess-hero, or as herself. Sometimes playful, even mystical, Cain is deeply honest as she confronts the state...
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A Knight Without His LoversBook SummaryA Knight Without His Lovers is a set poetries where readers will feel falling in love all over again. I feel compelled to talk about the dark ages in that time to love and not to love and to love again. This is...
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Taliessin Through Logres and the Region of the Summer StarsWhen Taliessin through Logres was published in 1938, it received widespread critical acclaim. Alongside its partner companion The Region of the Summer Stars, it stands as one of the most profound and challenging works in Williams' body of work--and one of the most important...
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Without a Plea: PoemsA powerful collection from a veteran poet ... witnessing with reverence and compassion.Author: Jeff GundyPublisher: Bottom Dog PressPublished: 03/13/2019Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23dISBN: 9781947504134About the AuthorGundy, Jeff: - Jeff Gundy's seventh book of poems, Abandoned Homeland (Bottom Dog, 2015)...
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What We DoIn this deeply felt first collection, Michele Bombardier considers faith, illness, death, and above all, human connection. With humor and compassion she shows us her own family, but also patients, students, strangers. What We Do is a call to empathy, an invitation to listen...
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Dwelling: an ecopoemA sequence of poems and prose questions, Dwelling: an ecopoem began as a conversation with Martin Heidegger's essay "Building Dwelling Thinking" and became an expansive journey into the notion of home. With sharp focus, at once moving and lyric, Scott Edward Anderson explores the...
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The Immigrants' New CameraReading The Immigrants' New Camera: A Family Collection is like sitting down to a large Italian meal. Maryfrances Wagner's images are seasoned with the immediacy of Kansas City's Little Italy, the family kitchen, the table with its stories, tender, painful, and humorous. The poet's...
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BroodIn Brood, Kimiko Hahn trains her eye on the commonplace--clothespins, bees, papaya, perfume, poached eggs, a sponge, fire, sand dollars--and reveals their very essence in concise evocative language. Underlying these little gems is a sense of loss, a mother's death or a longing for...
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Nasty Water: Collected New Orleans PoemsJames Nolan describes this collection of his New Orleans poems as an "autobiography of place," for which he selected fifty poems written over a span of fifty years focused on his native city. Rarely are readers offered a retrospective of both the lyrics and...
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Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir"It turns out Wally Swist is a skilled essayist and reviewer as well as a celebrated poet and a decidedly eclectic reader. Singing for Nothing (the title alone says something about the condition of poetry) is a refined review of the work of both...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionThis unabridged edition of Leaves of Grass presents the original 1855 versions and limited formatting of Whitman's most famous poems, including "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "There Was a Child Went Forth."Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Chump ChangePublished: 04/04/1855Pages: 46Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Forest with CastanetsIn her debut book of poems, knit together with personal essays, Mehta explores her own cultural history-- Indian Jainism and American Judaism--as well as her ideas about faith, feminism, and family.Author: Diane MehtaPublisher: Four Way BooksPublished: 03/04/2019Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w...
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You Darling ThingGuided by a poem assembled from "compliments" paid by a suitor to his girlfriend (which echo the endearments Anna Karenina's Count Vronsky directs toward his racehorse, before she collapses under his weight and is shot), You Darling Thing investigates bridehood and the concept of...
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DregsLike a series of slides from a film reel, the poems of Dregs reveal the ruin, remnants or dregs left over from the wars and economic and human inequalities of our world today. Praise for The Glimmering Room: "...an exquisite fever dream of drugs,...
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For the Love of EndingsHow does it feel to lose your planet, your lover, yourself? Ben Purkert's debut collection, For the Love of Endings, tests what connects us to this earth and to each other. His brilliantly crafted poems examine "the gap / between the world & how...
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High Poets SocietyThis is Brian Abbott's first major publication. The Boston-based writer has found his stronghold in the world of social media under the moniker of High Poets Society. HIs writing is most recognized for it's mesmerizing rhyme scheme and clever wordplay.Author: B. AbbottPublisher: Monarch Publishing,...
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Fungi from Yuggoth, The Sonnet Cycle: A Pulp-Lit Annotated Edition; Contextualized with a Selection of Other Lovecraft PoemsAlthough he's best known for his works of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft for most of his life considered himself primarily a poet. This cycle of 36 classic-form sonnets, infused with his trademark cosmic dread, represents the pinnacle of Lovecraft's career as a poet, and...
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