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Storage Unit for the Spirit HouseWith sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt used to punish children, pain...
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Haiku CountryHaiku Country celebrates all of life seventeen syllables at a time.As our Haiku Country tour guide confides, "Yoda loves this place." My guess is you will too. Haiku Country is Lawrence Eyre's tribute to "everywhere folks love life simple," a spirited tour through memories,...
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So Many Hats (or Veils)We play many roles in life and wear many hats: the human, the individual, the romantic, the man or woman, the parent, etc. Can you make a connection with someone who seems so foreign to you, someone who wears hats you can't begin to...
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Keats: Selected PoemsA collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to John Keat's poetry. Printed in a high quality hardback edition, this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.Author: John KeatsPublisher: Mount Orleans PressPublished: 10/01/2020Pages: 64Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.00w...
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The Poems of Sappho: A New Rendering: Hymn to Aphrodite, 52 fragments, & Ovid's Sappho to Phaon; with a short biography of Sappho (AzilothIt says much of Sappho's timeless genius that while only a fraction of her works remains for us to enjoy, she is recognised as the mistress bar none of lyric poetry. And in Henry de Vere Stacpoole's translation we have a sensitive rendition that...
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Jumping Through Life's Hurdles with a Smile: You Can Only Play the Hand You're DealtThroughout my life, I have jumped many hurdles. From being born with a developmental disability to going to college at Savannah State University. Sometimes I did not have anyone to write my notes for me. However, I was still able to triumph and excel...
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The Elegy Beta: And Other PoemsThe poems in this volume feature impressionistic meditations on faith and everyday life. In concert with Rilke's Duino Elegies, the classic text on the force and work of angels, The Elegy Beta simmers with luminous, transcendent language, elegance, and, frequently, humor.Author: Mischa WillettPublisher: Mockingbird...
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Entering SapphoAn abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick,...
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The Triads of Ireland: An Illustrated CollectionThree candles that illumine every darkness: TruthNatureKnowledge This passage is part of a vibrant and uniquely Irish poetic form: Trecheng Breth F ne. In English, Triads. Resembling haikus to the modern Western eye, the Triad follows the formula of setting a concept for discussion...
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Nightgown & Other PoemsThe Nightgown is a mythic, mystic, and hungry collection of poems, a roiling landscape wandered over by wild swerves of language, creatures of all sorts, and mysterious beings such as The Folklore, The Hurt Opera, The Eunuch, and the titular angry Nightgown. Haunted by...
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The Book of DirtVeering from wry surrealism to ebullient slapstick, the poems in Nicole Santalucia's The Book of Dirt chronicle outrage, love, and fear, wed to the terrain and culture of southern-central Pennsylvania. In this collection, lesbians crawl out of the grave that America has been digging...
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The Book of Flowers;Wordsworth's Poetry on FlowersA delightful pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's poetry on flowers. This volume brings Wordsworth's vivid nature imagery to life, featuring much-loved poems such as 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' or 'Daffodils'. This beautiful collection of Wordsworth's poetry is drawn together by a common...
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Blood OrangeWillow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize Winner for Poetry. "Angela Narciso Torres' Blood Orange immerses the reader in the vital sights, sounds, and smells of childhood, family, and living. Torres makes life the "punishing sweet" of a blood orange: ripe, full, and eager to...
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The She Said Dialogues: Flesh MemoryIn her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language." the she...
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Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals"This collection arrives from the spirit world buoyant, its rowdy soul intact."-- Raúl Niño, Booklist The ghazal, a poetic form rooted in seventh century Arabia, became popular in the United States through the translations of Rumi, Hafiz, and Ghalib. As a young poet, Jim...
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Crushing ItThe poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects--from history to true crime to epidemiology--while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of...
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MotherlandPoetry. In Sally Thomas's MOTHERLAND, the poet keenly observes the ephemeral and the everlasting in the lens of time--the daily into seasonal transformations, the gifts and wonders of nature and people. MOTHERLAND by turns hails and interrogates in matters of flesh, of faith and...
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660 Rumi Quotes: Inspirational, Success and Love Quotes for Eternal HappinessRumi was a 13th-century (born in Afghanistan) Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, and theologian. His quotes will transform your life for the better, they are based upon love, hope, inspiration, and awakening. May these quotes open up your heart and mind to the beauty...
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maybe i'm badDiagnosed with Asperger's, I write down notes and doodles to better understand what and how it is I am feeling, albeit a bit cringy. They are dishevelled, perhaps meaningless, and may not be to everyone's liking. But then again, what poetry is? Maybe I'm...
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Call This Room a Station"John Willson's poems are guides for wanderers. Such great tenderness and delicacy live in these lines, a softness of presence/absence in the rich fabric of birds, skies, highly attuned relationships woven through time. Mysterious maps of ancestral legacy vibrate as a low hum--people who...
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