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1) This blue
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From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos," in Maureen N. McLane's stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common "Terran Life," the poet conjures urban pigeons, Adirondack mountains, Genoa, Andalucía, Belfast, Parma; here is a world sounded out, broken, possibly shareable, newly named:...
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"You'll walk away with more gratitude for the slow burn of the healing process." - Alicia Cook, author of Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back
Tidal Pools and Other Small Infinities blurs the lines between endings and beginnings.
The love story starts in the usual way: a whirlwind of confessions, late night conversations, and promises that seem sturdy. The years pass by, and novelty is replaced by a comforting routine – one that's difficult to...
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One relationship starts. One relationship ends.
The same relationship starts again.
Another boy likes me, I go after him, leaving the relationship suspended.
The boy who likes me ruined my life and took all my friends away.
I go back to the relationship on a whim.
Without a thought, I'm back again, fighting with him.
One relationship starts. One relationship ends.
The same relationship left me dead.
Together another...
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A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing-and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.
"Draw me encircled // in something // other than gasoline." The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of peril-a...
5) Honeymoon
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Honeymoon is a collection of poems that deal with themes of sadness, disappointment and romantic feelings that turned out to be painful. The title 'honeymoon' is a reference to the short duration of a relationship that was supposed to last a lifetime. The honeymoon can also mean the short - lived nature of the good moments in life, which pass as well as the painful moments.
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Internationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother's dementia-ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain even as memory and past fade. Learning to speak in maybes-perhaps I told you? Were you there? and to let a mother direct memory as memory vanishes, Gammon threads a path through time, bringing us into the heart and heat of a mother-daughter relationship that is changing as each day...
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Immerse yourself in the captivating world of "The Bindings: The Girl with Cerebral Palsy and the Experiences that Hold Me Together," an extraordinary book of poetry by April Williams. In this heartfelt collection, April, a self-taught poet with cerebral palsy and scoliosis, opens her soul and shares her remarkable journey through melodic, emotional, and profoundly touching verses.
Within the pages of this book, April's evocative words paint a vivid...
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A JOURNEY OF HOPE is a selection of poems, written, and given to me, during the wee hours of the morning, as I am all alone and in the presence of the Lord. My alone time spent with him is inspirational as well as knowledgeable. I know that these poems are intended to bring comfort, peace, and deliverance to anyone bound by depression, obsession, confusion, and a need for true confession. My hope is that souls may be delivered from sin, and a true...
10) Jersey, My Love
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Jersey, My Love is a journey of putting the past behind oneself and learning to love life in the present. It deals with trials and tribulations of young and old and the struggles that affect lives then and now.
Faced with loss and pain, Hyppolite must now learn to create a new life in Jersey City, a popular city in the state of New Jersey. Hyppolite must acclimate himself not only to city life but to the regimens of his family members as well as...
11) Revelations
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Uncertainty and surprises were like a hand in glove for Bianca, as she carefully braved the future between two worlds. Her relationships were tried and tested, with confessions, adulations and revelations. Drama was always near... but has it pushed her too far this time? Far away from the one she holds dear to her heart.
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A courageous and enthralling collection of poems by Fear of Flying author Erica Jong celebrating life, art, sex, and womanhood seven lives, then we become light . . . Erica Jong's novels are fearless and passionate. So, too, is her poetry. Though renowned-and sometimes vilified-for her unabashedly sensual fiction, the author considers herself a poet first and foremost. "It was my poetry," Jong writes, "that kept me sane, that kept me whole, that...
13) Hold Like Owls
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Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koets. Full of imagery deeply embedded in memories of growing up in the American South, Koets explores what it means to hold-to carry memories-and what to hold onto and what to let go. Birds turn into paper, a voice fits inside a chestnut shell, and moths eat stars...
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There's more going on in an athlete's head than the desire to win and it's time to bring these thoughts out of the shadows.
The path to success in athletics can feel taxing and never-ending. We often celebrate the tangible results but fail to recognize the internal mental struggle that comes with the journey.
The pressure to perform, unmet expectations, deteriorating self-esteem, and the mental health issues that arise haunt those involved...
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"Dandelions on a Hillside" is a collection of poems about the simple, meaningful things in life that will take you back in time to childhood. It will leave you with the good feelings that love, nature, and the different seasons bring. It also touches on the depth of loss; written with tender thoughts and feelings. "Dandelions on a Hillside" has an overall sense of love of life, happiness and a hopeful outlook. At the end of the poems, there is a section...
16) Strange Nests
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the secret about dying arrived scrawny. it's growing stronger & fatter though & whispers, "go mad."
Beyond ancient gates, among thorny overgrowth and carnivorous blooms, a raven called Death waits tirelessly for its chance to roost within us. Using scraps of love, remorse, anger, and pain, it weaves. With erasure, memory, and discovery, it binds. And from the garden of wounds that grows within our broken hearts, it builds Strange Nests.
In the follow-up...
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You in Me chronicles my journey of healing, learning, and growth from the small Caribbean Island of Dominica to Canada and recognizes the many misunderstandings encountered along the way. Such misunderstandings could keep us perpetually stuck in limiting beliefs and prohibit our progression to a more productive and enjoyable life.When a change of course in life is desired in order to accommodate a more successful integration in a fast-developing...
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From the author of I Find You In the Darkness, a brand-new poetry collection about love, longing, and one woman's everlasting connection to the sea
My soul reminds me that
I am a Mermaid.
A woman who longs to be held by the sea...
Beloved contemporary poet Alfa is back with a collection of all-new poems celebrating strength and female empowerment. With more than 180 poems focusing on resilience, inner strength, and self-love, The Salt in His Kiss...
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After many years of procrastination I, the author's son, has decided that it's about time that I share these works with all the people that love poetic reflections. This book of my mother's poems is truly a reflection of her life. Each of these poetic works is related to an event that she experienced during her lifetime.
Ann Kirsch, ne Donovan was a product of a devout Irish Catholic family that was framed in sadness and loss. However, as time went...
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