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The American Poets in the 21st Century series continues with another anthology focused on female poets. Like the earlier books, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools.
Broadening the lens through which we look at contemporary poetry, this new volume extends...
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Drawing inspiration from Sappho, Mary Oliver, Greek myths and European fairy tales, Poem Begins With P, traces America's relationship with her Beloved through the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The poems follow a roller coaster of fear, heartbreak, anger, and grief, but through it all, America's love remains strong.
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From novelist Dana Gricken comes the first installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion. With nine chapters-ranging from love to heartbreak to mental illness, body issues, and women's rights, Ten Years: A Poetry Collection tells the story of life's lessons in a touching and deeply personal way. Whatever you're going through, let this poetry collection be your heart's companion that helps you through it all. So pull up a chair, get...
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Heartbeats in Ink, is a delightful anthology of poetry covering love, loss, and hope.This collection of heartfelt verses is a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of love and life, capturing the experience in each poem. From giddy infatuation to bittersweet goodbyes, these poems are sure to tug at your heartstrings. With each page, you'll be transported into a world where love reigns supreme and poetry is the language of the heart.
6) As I Burn
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I'm a girlFull of fireFull of desireThis hungerIt's never fulfilledAs I Burn, explores that desire to mean more. To discover that piece of you. That you never knew was hiding. Ready to break out into the world and own those words that you've always held.Ella Rye brings that vulnerability, that many have grown to love. Giving you another chapter, another heartache. She's ready to rise above the ashes.
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Take a peek into the beautiful art of poetry, throughout these poems catalyzes realization that God is who He says He is. Everything that goes on in life does not take Him by surprise or choose favorites. Just a sharing experience of how a situation can change and encourage another to be healed and find courage. The purpose of this journal is to work as a guide in a world of abuse, depression, brokenness and remind us that love cannot be taken away....
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From horses and foals to mothers and daughters, everyone seems to fit in. Except for some, who feel as though they stick out like a sore thumb. Tennessean author Ava Graves takes the reader through a journey of insecurity, heartbreak, and self-realization in her debut poetry collection, "A Good Southern Girl."
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This collection of poetry contains 40 poems that all are set to the theme of light and darkness. Some poems are exclusively uplifting and resonate beauty, while others are exclusively unsettling, evoking some darkness within them. Still, other poems combine the two, light and dark, to play back and forth on beauty and the unknown.
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She Asked Me Where explores the various ways in which the demons, darkness, and pain, both of ourselves and of others, manifest in our lives. It captures the pull of several spectrums innate to the human experience: pain and triumph, fear and power, longing and overcoming, the perfect and the flawed. This collection approaches the liminal spaces of these binaries through recurring themes that are connected in their struggle for control and understanding...
12) Siempre De Azul
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Cabrera ha escrito unos cuentos que nos ponen frente al dilema de saber si habla de la realidad social o de los fantasmas propios. Son cuentos que tratan de temas como la familia, las relaciones entre seres humanos, la soledad, los recuerdos, la locura, la maternidad, la ansiedad, los deseos, el caos emocional. La autora sabe cómo dosificar con virtuosismo las tensiones y los quiebres que muchas veces viven las personas. Pero no se trata de relatos...
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"Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions--her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. Her mother's dysfunctional reliance on the church deepened following...
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"Influence of Days/நாட்களின் தாக்கங்கள்" is an anthology authored by skilled writers. This anthology speaks about the "Influences of the day in past and present towards society "in each writer's perspective.In this anthology, The writers have given their perspective of good old days and developed today.The anthology has been written in various genre like articles, short stories and stories in both Tamil and English...
15) The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems From Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and F
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The Heartbeat of the Universe collects poems from the top writers in the science fiction and literary genres, including voices such as Jane Yolen, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, Jessy Randall, and many others. These poems, selected by editor Emily Hockaday from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and Analog Science Fiction and Fact over the past decade, examine the Universe's smallest particles and largest astral phenomena. These poems travel...
16) Indecent
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When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel's newest work traces the trajectory of the show's success through its tour...
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Love is the strongest emotion on earth. It can inspire and devastate us while changing our lives forever. Without experiencing the beauty and pain of love, you can never say you truly lived. This collection of poetry explores the warmth of love and the heartbreak of losing it.
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Stories by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, Booker Prize winner Su Tong, and more.
Includes contributions by Shi Tiesheng, Hong Ying, Su Tong, Wang Meng, Li Rui, Duo Duo, Chen Ran, Li Xiao, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Ai Bei, Cao Naiqian, Can Xue, Bi Feiyu, Yang Zhengguang, Ge Fei, Chen Cun, Chi Li, Kong Jiesheng, Wang Xiangfu
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My canvas is empty
until it is streaked with lines
of the world
of my heart.
In Finding Poetry, Finding Me, author Rebecca P. Bruckenstein explores the world around her and the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. She allows the musicality of poetry to infuse the way she walks in the world, stepping in and out of the past, present, and future. Through her work, she hopes readers will turn inward to discover a roadmap to finding...
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The world's first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter. It is the home of the Writer's Museum, where quotes from writers of the past pave the steps leading up to it. A city whose beauty is matched only by the intrigue of its past, and where Robert Louis Stevenson said, 'there are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh's street-lamps'....