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Along the WayAlong Pariseau's Way on prairie and at sea's edge, birds fly overhead. Nature, spirit, beauty, and memories of family break forth. They enter into mind and heart. The interventions are quiet and gentle, unexpected, disruptive, and as mysterious as two feathers falling from sky...
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Royal Blue ShuttersThe collected poems in Royal Blue Shutters explore the pull and tug of language, the tin-like sounds, the careful alignment, and robust admiration of words. Stanzas are bulked up with their own musicality-songs that can't be sung but only released from the lips in...
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Rise Up!: Poems of Protest, Poems of PraiseRISE UP! Poems of Protest, Poems of Praise Is a poetry collection of powerful imagery braided together from the poems of a grandfather born to parents who were slaves and his granddaughter, who have linked the travesties of racism and slavery, and the devastation...
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Fourteen Hills Vol. 28The San Francisco State University ReviewFOURTEEN HILLS VOL. 28 features contributions from Sean Cho A., Ashleigh A. Allen, Valeria Amirkhanyan, Guilherme Bergamini, John Blair, Ciaran Cooper, Angie Cruz, A. A. deFreese, Jacques Denault, Art Por Díaz, Megan Erickson, Kate Gardiner, Mary Henn, Saúl Hernández,...
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The Voronezh WorkbooksOsip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south-western Russia, after someone in his circle of acquaintances had informed the Soviet authorities of his "Stalin Epigram" in 1934. The ninety-odd poems he wrote there are the pinnacle of...
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Blue 4 UThe poems in BLUE 4 U are a journey through a shape-shifting house of dream, risk, and longing. No line reads the same way twice, creating a choose-your-own stream-of-consciousness adventure so masterful that you'll float in the turquoise waters of its past, present, and...
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Loss and FoundThis collection is deeply personal; it's about a period in my life that pushed me to the very brink of what I could survive emotionally. My son passed away suddenly, and I was thrust into dark grief characterized by deep anger and numbness. Only...
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Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English PoetryThis volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden,...
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The Blood of San GennaroHaving kept his poetry largely to himself for forty years, Scott Harney on his death left behind an astonishing trove of richly imagined and exquisitely sculpted poems, collected here for the first time. One of Robert Lowell's last students, Harney went on to develop...
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Arsonist: Drugs, Salvation, & Revolution: A Collection of Poetry & MemoirArsonist: Drugs, Salvation, & Revolution is an original collection of poems and memoir aimed to ignite a fire in those who read it. In this reflection, author Ashley Cook takes you on a journey through addiction, mental health, and domestic violence. While staying constant...
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Alaso: An Haitian Feminist AnthologyThis second issue of Alaso, focuses on the non/border as a space of transformation, which, far from being located at the margins, constitutes the epicenter of the social and political sphere, organizing the meaning attached to relations of power and domination, the rewards for...
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The Sacred Gift Of FireIt was once said that Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. And in his fourth collection of poetry and prose, The Sacred Gift Of Fire, writer Clyde Hurlston seeks to put his gift to good use. By compiling a...
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The Cry of The RavvenIn the beginning, the world was bathed in an eternal darkness filled with terrible monsters and savage deaths. The birth of the first day arrived on the back of a fearless white raven who had dared to steal the sun and drag it closer...
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How to Bury a Curious GirlAmirah Al Wassif's latest English-language collection of poetry explores how women must cope in a culture that suppresses everything in them, even their curiosity. Her words fearlessly display and challenge the impact that the repressive male attitude has on women in the Muslim culture....
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Icarus, Falling of BirdsIn September of 2013, thousands of migratory songbirds perished after being lured like moths to a flame to a hundred-foot-high flare at the Canaport Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Saint John, New Brunswick. Photographer Thaddeus Holownia and poet Harry Thurston sought to memorialize this...
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The ProgramIn this powerful, intimate collection, a young woman travels between Paris and New York to pursue a career in modelling. Alternating between the world of fashion, where "it's no longer enough / that the sample size fits," and the eponymous Program, a place to...
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One Heart One SoulOne Heart, One Soul is a collection of poetry written in the voices of thirty-one deacon wives. Their voices woven together form a tapestry of faith and devotion. Each poem reflects their unique spiritual journey. Each faith-lit journey mirrors their common dedication.One heart shared...
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One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and PracticeGiven that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was...
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Awaken, Broken SoulAll my life, I was hiding behind a Girl, who was scared of showing her true self.Who wanted to be somebody else so urgently.Nevertheless, it should be okay to show, that we struggle with self-esteem sometimes, that we hurt ourselves because we cannot confront...
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Breath, SuspendedDiane Alters' profound encounter with loss-the murder of her son-creates a strange fecundity. How do we carry what is unbearable, nurturing grief until, through endless labor, it gives birth to something else? These poems groan with creation, opening to compassion on all the disappeared...
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