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Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian PoetryThe names of Mirabai, Akka Mahadevi and Andal, are known to many, but innumerable women poets remain relatively unknown. When we hear of them, it is invariably as plaster saints or meek followers. It is time to smell the danger in their words again,...
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Wideawake FieldThe chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow, now that it's fall, I'm a memory of myself. My whole old life--I mourn you sometimes in places you would have been. --October The poems in this...
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When Thy King Is a BoyC.D. Wright has described Roberson's work as "lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.Author: Ed RobersonPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublished: 05/15/1970Pages: 88Binding...
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What Had Happened WasIn her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Ther? Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories...
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We: PoemsWe takes an unapologetically spiritual stance in bridging politicized divides, exploring conscious and unconscious prejudices with lyricism, warmth, and self-implicating humor, how we are shaped by and create our nation by how we see ourselves and others. The poems investigate what unites us; how...
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Updated PanicHealing isn't linear, it's an ongoing process. Updated Panic is a collection of poetry that delves into the modern-day experience of anxiety, uncertainty, and loneliness. Themes that explore mental health, personal struggle, and societal expectations. This collection offers both vulnerability and resilience. Navigating the...
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Unlocked DiariesThis book contains poetry that has been written over the years of my life following a shooting incident that caused me to be confined to a wheelchair. I thought my life was, at that point, meaningless. I did not want to do anything in...
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Under His WingsA collection of poems written in prayers and praise for our Heavenly Father and the one and only King above all kings, Christ Jesus. He in the way, the truth and the life; there is none that compares to Him. These poetry prayers and...
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Thomas Hood: The Uncrowned LaureateA critical study of the life and work of one of the most popular poets of the Victorian era.Thomas Hood was skilled in almost every form of poetic writing-romantic verse, poems of social conscience, and witty parodies, as well as being an accomplished painter,...
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Things I'll Never SayA collection of streams of consciousness through a healing journey shared with you in the hopes that you feel less alone. Micaela Elise was born in Okinawa, Japan and raised in upstate New York. An astrocartographer would point out both locations fall on a...
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The world is burning and i'm late for work"sorry i was late/ the world was burning"in his debut collection of poetry, christopher d. soriano-palma explores what it means to live in a world constantly burning down. his poems examine the sisyphean effort to live, love, work, and just be okay. writing about...
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The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and PoemsA poet's creative process comes to light in this latest book by National Book Award recipient Arthur Sze. Sze has assembled an illuminating selection of seven interviews, three essays, and poems to examine the evolution of his compositions, his decades teaching poetry, and his...
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The Sweating Sickness: PoemsRebecca Lehmann's The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics--the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairy tales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth--all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve,...
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The Spiritual HuntA long lost poem purportedly by Rimbaud is finally made available in English. Referenced only in a few letters of Paul Verlaine, The Spiritual Hunt is Arthur Rimbaud's forgotten masterwork, a poem in five parts that explored the mystic philosophy that guided the young...
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The Sky Is Our Song: The Phaenomena of AratusAn ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus--dating from around 270 BCE--was widely known across the ancient world, second only in fame to the works of Homer....
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There Is Still Good We Can DoNorman Hirsh is a retired rabbi living in Seattle, WA. He has written three books, including Ethics and Human Relationships, and two books of poetry, God Loves Becoming and Unfolding Toward Purpose.Author: Norman HirshPublisher: Norman HirshPublished: 06/26/2024Pages: 52Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w...
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The Raven Does Not ReturnThe Raven Does Not Return is Jeremiah King's second book. It is a book about depression and darkness not being your ally. We should search to anchor ourselves in a solid foundation, that loves us unconditionally. Too many times, we chase the people, places,...
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The Poem of My CidOne of the most powerful and sustained works in all medieval literature, without which no series could be considered complete. The Poem of My Cid deals with the exploits of the medieval Castilian warrior, beginning with the sorrow of his departure into exile and...
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The Mouth Is Also a CompassThe Mouth Is Also a Compass is a dystopian expedition that holds space for hope. An environmental disaster forces one woman to set out on a solitary expedition to find the Last Ice Age. During her journey, the speaker experiences both calamity and conciliation...
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The Mountains of Kong: New and Selected Prose PoemsSplendid and surprising prose poems from one of Norway's most imaginative poetsA collection of sixty prose poems penned by Norwegian poet Dag T. Straumsv?g and presented in Nynorsk and English, The Mountains of Kong navigates surprising and unfamiliar landmarks to deliver drive-by observations about...
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