Poetry
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Worldview Guide for The Canterbury Tales"Spring has arrived, prompting folks from all stations of medieval life to pilgrimage together to the shrine of Thomas Becket. Because long trips tend to be rather dull, the travelers begin a storytelling competition featuring roosters, murders, bewitched hags, banished wives in barrels, plenty...
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Paint & Poetry: An Ekphrastic JourneyJoin artist Terry Brett and poet Chip Webster on a journey to challenge and inspire each other with this collaboration of visual art and the written word. Poet and artist take turns daring each other to interpret the other's work. Can you determine which...
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Trapline"In Caroline Goodwin's Trapline, nature's flux and torque are embodied in a language that is taut, luscious, and musical. These are poems of rot and salt, dragonflies and kinked reeds, where the world is always with us - raw and omnipresent, beautiful and terrible....
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On Her Own Terms: Poems about Memory Loss and Living Life to the FullestInternationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother's memory loss--ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain even as memory fades. Learning to speak in maybes--perhaps I told you? Were you there?--and to let a mother direct...
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The PoemPublisher: Faber & FaberPublished: 02/08/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.20w x 1.90dISBN: 9780571356652
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IncandescentFrom the forward by K.M. Smith: "Incandescent, the brilliance of expression that Ayodele Nzinga has so lovingly crafted, is red hot in its urgency. It moves subtly, it shifts and crescendos and somersaults across time and space, through light and darkness, joy and pain....
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Soul SojournalSojourn: to dwell or abide as an exile or stranger in a foreign land. "By faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country" (Hebrews 11:9). "Pass the time of your sojourning in fear" (1 Peter 1:17). "And God spoke,...
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Pathology of a Pandemic: a collection of poemsPathology of a Pandemic is a collection of poems that was written during the onslaught of the novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic. Teenagers, young adults, and mature adults will find this book of poetry captivating because the voice in each poem is different from...
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When We Talk of Stolen Sisters: New and Revised PoemsThis collection of Jessica Mehta's powerful, beautiful, vulnerable work spans "from dates so long ago I can't even recall" to her most current poetry in the midst of a pandemic. Her poems call our attention to the unsung disappearance of Indigenous women, the cultural...
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PregretsPoetry. New poems by Anselm Berrigan.In the world of Anselm Berrigan sketchiness is next to godliness and repeated heavy-lifting becomes a pleasure. PREGRETS has the feel of wandering a giant armory filled with enigmatic objects and pointed memories. Dust motes in daylight betray a...
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We Give Birth to Light: PoemsAn often dark and brooding debut, We Give Birth to Light explores love and loss, sickness and death, hope and light. The collection is permeated with Weltschmerz, a sense of melancholy and world-weariness. In poems like "The Poetry of My Final Days," the speaker...
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Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four ActsThis collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta--poet, historian, author, and activist--spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she...
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Plain Air: An Apology in TransitCat Chong's Plain Air: An Apology in Transit is a pamphlet in flux, a diary like inner-monologue without a single full stop, charting the speaker's journeys from A to B yet evoking a bigger change, as the speaker leaves behind student life and wanders...
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Small AltarsAuthor: Keli StewartPublisher: Bronzeville BooksPublished: 08/24/2021Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17dISBN: 9781952427237
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The Sonnets of Rainer Maria RilkeRomano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man."...
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I Have to Tell You SomethingIn the world of Eddie Dowe's poems, Adam and Eve stand under the maple, confessing to their uncertainty at the aftermath. Whose child is it that climbs into their bed, complaining at their lateness, insisting he is "ready to be named"? The moon is...
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Reliquiae: Vol 9 No 1Reliquiae is a literary journal of poetry, prose and translations. It interleaves ecologically aware writing from the past and present, ranging from the ethnological to the philosophical, the lyrical to the visionary. It is published biannually in May and November.Vol 9 No 1 features...
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Only FlyingOnly Flying is about mammoths, triumph and riding; cancer, dancing, and disappearing; falling and remembering where you were born and what you were looking for; the red stone of the beloved and how it burned through the Earth to find her; climbing out the...
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The Hands: Volume 294A paean to iconic personalities Moving, intriguing, and exquisite, this collection is a paean to the iconic personalities Marty Gervais has met and written about during his career as both a poet and a journalist and includes poems about such diverse characters as Muhammad...
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Complete Early PoetryVilliers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), though best known for his contes cruels and his proto science fiction novel L'Ève future, began his career with two volumes of verse, Deux essais de poésie (1858) and Premières poésies (1859), the contents of which are here presented in...
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