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Progressions of the Mind: PoemsDavid Berman's posthumous collection Progressions of the Mind abounds in sagacity, empathy, and wit. Often in sonnet form, this former lawyer's meditations on humanity may be poignant or humorous, but they are always entertaining. He deftly interrogates commonplace notions of morality, religious beliefs, and...
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To All the Magic in Me: A Collection of Love Letters to All of Life's EmotionsPeople often go through life avoiding negative emotions, forgetting that they are an integral part of the human experience. An authentic depiction of the human spirit informed by the author's own mental health struggles and life experiences, To All the Magic in Me: A...
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A Fine Yellow DustIn late April 2017, Laura Apol's twenty-six-year-old daughter, Hanna, took her own life. Apol had long believed in the therapeutic possibilities of writing, having conducted workshops on writing-for-healing for more than a decade. Yet after Hanna's death, she had her own therapeutic writing to...
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A Shaman's LamentPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Red Pine. Before Qu Yuan (340-278 B.C.E.), poems in China read as if they could have been written by anyone. Qu Yuan changed this. It was his voice. He was a poet. Wang Wei once said...
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magic of the modestIn this debut collection of poetry, r.c. perez takes us on a journey of pain, hope, acceptance, and love-one that is all too familiar to anyone who has had a bit of experience in life. Divided into four chapters, magic of the modest is...
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Broken Times: "Poems of Empowerment and Healing-with a philosophical Thought-Provoking Nature"Broken Times is the debut poetry collection by Sean Buranahiran, who has garnered over 100 million views online reading his poetry and retelling philosophical stories with his own unique voice. This book features his famous poem "Dear Soulmate" which has been shared over 200,000...
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The King's Touch: PoemsA profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic. Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the...
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Floodgate Series Volume 7In this seventh volume of the Floodgate Poetry Series, authors Barbara Robidoux, Donovan McAbee, and Kimiko Hahn bring a unique and diverse batch of chapbooks to the table. Robidoux's collection Stirring Sorrow into Soup crafts a picture of the modern world on a backdrop...
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Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know, 20th Anniversary Edition: What Is a Synonym?Because there are synonyms, you get to choose/from a whole list of possible words you can use./ They're words that are practically, nearly the same, /like, gentle, subdued, or incredibly tame. In this 20th anniversary edition of Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know, author...
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HypnosNow in paperback, Ren Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, Ren Char's...
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Fetishes of the Floating WorldGovernor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole. Fetishes of the Floating World continues Don's lifelong exploration of mystical ecology. It is an invitation to experience the sacred dimensions...
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When Wolves Become Birds"When Wolves Become Birds" is poetry about women becoming powerful and, "making their own heavens from the pearly gates of their teeth / a smile that bites back / like a dog in the junkyard..." "When Wolves Become Birds" asks, "so what if we...
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She Lives HereKristina Hamlett's debut collection of poetry and prose, She Lives Here, moves toward a jubilant celebration of womanhood, Blackness, strength, and finding your own kind of joy. Rewriting the narrative of one's life is not always easy, especially when faced with racism, sexism, and...
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Dustin Doghair: A Blues Hound Onthe Wrong Side of TownSonically sensitive Dustin, a guitar playing blues hound, wakes one morning to a disturbing sound. This sparks an adventure-filled caper that takes Dustin down some dark and dusty paths to meet some down and dirty characters. He's a hound on the wrong side of...
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In The Event This Doesn't Fall ApartWritten in secret during the first year of a new relationship, this prose and poetry collection offers an intimate, diary-like look at all the facets of falling in love. Follow in real time as the author grapples with the excitement, hesitation, and fear of...
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Basho's Haiku JourneysRecipient of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards Poetry CategoryThe 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho practically invented the haiku. He's most famous for his travel journals. But how did he come to be such a traveler in the first place? This delightful volume--written entirely...
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There Must Be a Reason People Come HereA philosophical-minded and syntactically experimental book of poetry.The philosopher Catherine Malabou once asked: "What should we do so that consciousness of the brain does not purely and simply coincide with the spirit of capitalism?" There Must Be A Reason People Come Here by Brian...
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Frances of the Wider FieldsFrances of the Wider Field is about mothers, daughters, time, mortality-the loss of memory and meaning. Van Prooyen's poems have clarity and ferocity, a wild imaginative grace that captures the joy and strangeness of our most intimate and familiar experiences. Frances appears part god,...
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Quiet Lives: Stories from Beyond the StethoscopeOver the years, what does a Family Doctor hear? He may hear the fresh and strong heartbeats of a newborn baby just entering a complex and challenging world. She may hear the fading, weakening heartbeats of a tired Hospice patient. These Family Doctors will...
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Collected PoemsAn Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. In Collected Poems one of Ireland's best-loved contemporary poets brings together poems from her six principal collections, Oar (1990), The Parchment Boat (1997), Carrying the Songs (1907), Hands (2011), Keats Lives (2015) and Donegal Tarantella (2019)...
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