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Skin RaftsBy highlighting and teasing out the mingled emotions of anxiety, disenchantment, hope and anger which characterise South Africans' current experienced reality, Sole's poetry questions and expands on our concerns about identity and belonging. In so doing, the poems in Skin Rafts contemplate the relationships...
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If the Mute TimberTom Docherty's first collection, If the Mute Timber, begins 'not with a book / nor even an attentive ear', but with the elusive fragment of its title. The poems situate themselves in medias res: among birds or gravestones, between lines of prayer, in the...
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These Are A Few Of My Least Favorite ThingsSpiders. Cancer. Civil war in Syria. Frankly, there are a lot of awful things out there in the world, and most of them aren't fair. But life is so much more than its disasters and grief...and everyone knows that poetry is a balm. These...
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Writings on the Other AnimalsThe Spanish-language debut of Manuel Becerra's award-winning La escritura de los animales distintos, with Kathleen Archer's English translation, bound at the top in a reversible style. Manuel Becerra, a contemporary Mexican poet, has published six books of poetry and won six national poetry awards;...
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Memphis ShoalsIn MEMPHIS SHOALS, the second volume in Brad Crenshaw's extravagant epic poem that began with his book Genealogies, we return with Bartlett Smith, narrator of both books, to Memphis, Tennessee, where Smith confronts his personal demons and those of his long-lived extended family. Like...
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33 Poems at 33: And Other Works33 Poems at 33 explores the complexities and varying forms of love as Louis works through the tension between love as an act of free will and love as a thing of destiny, writing about the reality of divorce, the sacrifices one may be...
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Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century BritainThis study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the...
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Trump, Tumult and Transcendence: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021TRUMP, TUMULT AND TRANSCENDENCE: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021 is a penetrating perspective of the Trump presidency set against the roller coaster upheaval of the Coronavirus pandemic, racial tension of the MAGA faithful arrayed against the Black Lives Matter movement, and the mercurial zeitgeist of...
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DudetteIndy Yelich's second poetry collection Dudette is an ode to the messy early twenties: sexuality, love and heartbreak in New York City, navigating suburbia in a pandemic, and hope in an ever-changing digital world. In poems of love and fury over the internet, Yelich...
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The Storyteller's Return: Story Poems"Opal Palmer Adisa has perfected a woman's grammar, and language rooted in the landscape of Jamaica, a landscape that she apprehends as compelling as a woman's body: complex, vibrant, dangerous and beautiful-and her poems emerge with a thick, sensual intensity. In these poems, Adisa...
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Occasional and Joke PoemsParallel to his more famous poems about the buildings of St. Petersburg, the shores of the Black Sea, and the streets of Voronezh, Mandelstam wrote many brief, spontaneous poems about his friends, enemies and everyday occurrences over his entire writing life. Though his poetic,...
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The Deadwing GenerationThe Deadwing Generation is a second stand-out collection from Simon French. Perceptive and emotionally raw, French applies his poetry scalpel to the experience of living life in the modern world. Praise for Joyriding Down Utopia Avenue from Amazon readers: "Powerful, surprising - shocking, sometimes...
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Ecstatic Discipline: 46 Poems for Lovers of Hatha YogaLeading Ashtanga Yoga teacher David Garrigues, inspired by the long lineage of Bhakti poets like Rumi, Lalla, and Kabir, brings his 40 years of practicing, teaching, and writing about Hatha yoga, to this astounding book of poems. With playfulness and the surprising force of...
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Inner RequiemInner Requiem is an invitation to explore the interiority of life, a unique collection of poems that arise from the depths of the soul. After becoming a mother, Ruth found herself on an uncharted journey into a dark night of the soul. Inner Requiem...
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The Sage and His LoverThe Sage and His LoverBy: Isaac CurvinThe Sage and His Lover is a collection of poems with profound insights on the gift of Sacred Union. Within the pages are the revelations of the vast ocean of love hidden within the human heart.About the AuthorIsaac...
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Born on the Crest of a WaveThe book, Born on a Crest of a Wave, illustrates a poem that men and women of the United States Navy have committed to memory for generations. Ask any sailor How Long have you been in the Navy? and a grin is sure to...
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A Study in EntropyEntropy as a concept describes the transformation or transition from a stable to an unstable state. It characterizes any thermodynamic system. This is the theme and structure of the forty-seven poems in the collection A Study in Entropy. Most represent accumulation or desire for...
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Figure in the LandscapeResponses to poems in Figure in the Landscape - Dirk Kruithof, commenting on the poems about art/artists and music/musicians'Danny's poems are compellingly enjoyable. (I've just raced through those, have you got any more?) They are human, perceptive and idiosyncratic - he's not afraid to...
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Already Knew You Were ComingSarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor's debut chapbook ALREADY KNEW YOU WERE COMING is a tender exploration of loneliness, queer identity, and codependence. With words which pierce the heart and pump fresh blood to the senses, Sarah moves us across timelines and transports us to worlds...
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Recipe for Time Travel in Case We Lose Each OtherRECIPE FOR TIME TRAVEL IN CASE WE LOSE EACH OTHER is a study of emergence through reflections of interiors, hearts, geology (volcanos), deep time, and--of course--time travel. These poems abound in moments we can look at the earth as a body or the body...
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