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Timely issues: Poems address vivid troubles of contemporary America, including political and societal distresses related to immigration and citizenship
| Автор | Rick Barot |
Francesca Chabrier’s poems hold on to the possibility that the sorrowing parts of our lives may be transformed. The collection offers loose, sensuous, gentle associations, combined the interplay of comic and coy images. A debut of remarkable freshness and delight, through which syntactic innovation yields new meaning. Chabrier's poems entertain, startle, cast a spell, and bless.
| Автор | Francesca Chabrier |
Poems about Vampires, vampirism and related creatures…Jean Jones writes regarding Scott Urban's poems, "how can a mature writer respond to the vampire myth which by its sheer repetition through pop culture has become a cliche in poetry and writing much less movies and T.V. show. It is almost impossible to go into this venue and not walk through trite expressions and empty cliches. What is there new to say about vampires? The connection between sex and death, sex and fear, fear...
| Автор | Bruce Whealton |
Expressions from the Heart: A Collection of Inspired Words for All Occasions provides words of encouragement for life's special—and sometimes—difficult moments. Louise Schlittenhart has a passion to bless others with her gift of words. Her selection of rhymes will help you find the words you need for any occasion in life. Whether you are celebrating a birthday or simply appreciating a loved one, you will be blessed by the beauty of each uniquely, inspired sentiment.
| Автор | Louise Schlittenhart |
At the mercy of abusive lives and Borderline Personality Disorder, a boy and girl on separate edges of the world discover each other online. Bonding through music, video games and a mutual understanding of self-destruction, they rapidly shift from being best friends to lovers, finding in each other a tenderness their worlds had never offered.<br /><br />But things change.<br /><br />Now older, the woman sits down to reflect on their story. Spanning 15 years and subtly...
| Автор | Heidi Palazzo |
Thought That Nature identifies and captures moments when the border between personal consciousness and the otherness of the physical become porous. Ironically, it also allows Moody to measure the distance between consciousness and direct experience, even as he casts this gap in memorable speech. This debut collection offers the reader sensual delight and intellectual pursuit—a rare and bracing combination.
| Автор | Trey Moody |
NEA Fellowship recipient; Pamela is well connected to military family audience; Documentary-style war narrative with unique focus not on the war front but on the home front; Excellent candidate for course adoption; Situated in current events; Kathryn A. Morton Prize Winner, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
| Автор | Pamela Hart |
This is the highest-profile publication to date in Chris Abani’s acclaimed Black Goat poetry series. Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push.
| Автор | Cristina Garcia |
In his introduction, the translator says: «I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante.» THE DIVINE COMEDY continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. The first part of the epic, THE INFERNO, tells how the narrator «loses his way,» and finds himself in a strange landscape he's never seen before....
| Автор | Данте Алигьери |
First published in 1923, “Spring and All” is the groundbreaking volume of poetry by the modernist and imagist American poet William Carlos Williams. Williams, born in New Jersey in 1883, worked as a doctor for most of his life while spending his free time writing plays, short stories, novels, essays, and poetry. Containing some of Williams’s best-known poetry, the volume alternates between prose and free verse. Williams’s prose has been described as cryptic, dramatic, and full of energy. Greatly...
| Автор | William Carlos Williams |
Dancing at Lake Montebello begins at the dawn of the civil rights era, calling up memories of life in Baltimore, the most segregated U.S. Northern city, and moves through the poet’s coming of age in the turbulent ‘60s and ‘70s. The book’s final section, “More Dangerous for All of Us,” melds the personal and the political—illness, death, loss and grieving, as seen through the eyes of one moving through middle age—and acknowledges the solace that nature and spiritual reflection provide. Mixing...
| Автор | Lynne Viti |
When We're Awake At Night is a collection of poems designed to take you through a mental health journey. This book is an honest depiction of mental health struggles. Themes of this book include: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, love, heartbreak, insomnia, self love and acceptance, broken friendships and families and much more. It touches on all of the different ways we overcome our struggles, deal with the negative stigma of our mental health, and try to find ourselves in the end. We all...
| Автор | Levi Laws |
Splitting the Moon tracks Joel Hayward's intriguing journey into Islam, his fascination with the mysteries of faith, his experiences and observations as a Western Muslim, and his thoughts on the state of the Ummah (Islamic community) today. He writes his poetry to capture events each day in the way that some people keep a diary, both deeply personal and reflective.
| Автор | Joel Hayward |
Thought provoking poetry tackling and addressing a number of current Muslim issues of this century.
| Автор | Rafey Habib |
Cold Spring Hallelujah explores the experience of being human in a world that often seems broken. Woven together by threads of healing, coming to terms with limitation, and deep reflection on what truly matters, author Heidi Barr issues an invitation to notice the fractured radiance that has the potential to be uncovered in each human life—and to claim the story that finds a foundation in love, of both self and neighbor. Often in dialogue with the reader, she writes,...
| Автор | Heidi Barr |
This collection of unconventional Zen poetry by Ken Noyle reflects the free-spirit of Zen.Here is poetry as mod as flower children and hippies; a Warhol happening or sitar music. Ken Noyle is a «personal» poet who immediately demands his reader to be with him or agin him as he ruminates on many things he thinks are important.Those things include sex and marriage and God and nature and war and the position of the individual in relation to each. Ponderous? No. Rather, outrageous, iconoclastic,...
| Автор | Ken Noyle |
This collection of Zen poetry by 19th century Japanese Buddhist monk and hermit Ryokan is a masterful exploration of life and nature.Ryokan's zen poems are celebration of the joys and sadness of everyday life. His spare, direct style is remarkable for its immediacy and intimacy.This bilingual collection contains more than 150 of his finest poems in Japanese and Chinese, including his famous lyrical correspondence with the nun Teishin, who befriended him in his later years. It also includes...
| Автор | Misao Kodama |
Habitation of Honey can be one of the means God uses to prepare the way of the Lord. As John the Baptist in the wilderness ate wild HONEY, he was growing strong in spirit for the day he would recognize the Messiah. He immersed himself in the Word of God, «honey» for his soul, so he could say «Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.» Just so, the Body of Christ should be preparing herself today, «eating the honey» of the Word of God, to be a herald like John the Baptist for...
| Автор | Nancy Petrey |
Nancy Petrey brings her poetry and music together as a fragrant offering to the LORD! And then she shares it with us with an additional short devotion that will not only bring out your Bible for further study but also encourage you to keep notes (even a journal!) to rejoice in what God is saying and doing in your life. "Most importantly, The Honeycomb is Waiting will cause you to fall more deeply in love with Jesus—and an added bonus, the more you experience Nancy Petrey’s personality,...
| Автор | Nancy Petrey |