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It seems these days all I do is bring death to what I cherish most. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld. Juggling this dichotomy is not easy for anyone, but Persephone wishes to be known as more than Hades' wife. Through this poetry collection, we follow Persephone through the course of a year. Her life before Hades, her abduction, and her ultimate return in Spring.
62) A New Dawn
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Within the tender pages of 'A New Dawn,' find solace and comfort. This poignant collection of poems and inspirational quotes is a beacon of light for those treading the difficult path of grief and loss. Offering a heartfelt embrace to those who seek sol
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A car slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on Route 80 west in Parsippany on July 10, 2019 killing the driver. As a sister is left in despair and awakens in disbelief to the tragic news of losing her brother, she's also forced to reevaluate her life and awaken to her spirituality. In the midst of the pain she has to face the burdens of her brothers negative lifestyle and all the snakes he left behind. Discovering her strength through her pain...
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Join Mary Cole Patterson as she walks through The Second Time Around, a book of poetry primarily about her late husband, Roger. Read as she questions and prays her way through her husband's final battle for life here on earth. Smile as she notes he would be pleased with the specific day he died-Pearl Harbor Day-because having been a soldier in Vietnam was important to him.
Although grief is a difficult subject to approach, she does it through poetry...
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Donde los puentes se alzan es una mirada poética. Alegorías que se confunden con la propia metáfora de la vida, para ser un solo paso caminante mimetizado en el paisaje. Donde la montaña, el río, el árbol o el puente, tienen voz propia a través del eco viajero. Poemas que hablan de sentimientos vivos que van de lugar en lugar; de corazón en corazón, con su gesto emblemático. Como si todas las cosas estuvieran relacionadas y formasen un "todo"....
66) Glass and Keys
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Glass and Keys is the first book published by Samuel Rankin. It features the very first poems he ever wrote as well as the latest. To read this book is to travel through the evolution of Sam's poetic journey from writing behind a till on the back of receipts to his most recent and most developed material. This, above all, is an insight into the mind of a young writer who does not shy away from talking about his miseries, fears and views on the modern...
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The book is an exploration of the Vietnam conflict from my personal experience. Given the time and distance from the event, the perspective becomes more clear. Two administrations, Lyndon Johnson's and Richard Nixon's, lied, distorted and extended the war for years, resulting in thousands more dead and wounded. Cabinet members such as McNamara and Kissinger were directly culpable in misleading the American public regarding the success of operations...
68) A Clouded Mind
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In his debut book, A Clouded Mind, Caleb explores the everyday trials that we face-such as Alzheimer's, spousal abuse, child abuse, the loss of loved ones, life in the '70s, growing up different, etc.
He writes from his heart through personal afflictions and experiences of growing up in the hills of Kentucky in the '70s while also writing with empathetic stories told to him by others. Not many subjects go unexplored in his laidback way of delivery...
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A widow's journey into a new life... My Walk with Grief is a spiritual memoir about Elaine Olson's obsessive ten-year search for identity and love after living in the shadows as a pastor's wife for thirty years, eventually marrying an agnostic who embodies Divine grace. When her husband died, part of Elaine died, too. Unimpeded as a widow, her obsessive search for her own identity and love pulled her into soul struggles, grief, world travel, disastrous...
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Are you in the mood when the dusk ebbs and darkness becomes bold for tales of the macabre, murder, mystery, and woe? Shadows and Glances is a collection of poems and short stories about reflection, hauntings, and bone-chilling fright. You'll be visited by ghouls, demons, witches, and a highwayman that collects souls, along with succubi that suck out your essence in the middle of the night. I'm reminded of an old adage: "We are born alone, and we die...
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Selección Doce Uvas ofrece doce pequeños grandes libros cada año. Nace de las numerosas sugerencias de decenas de intelectuales que han propuesto títulos de lectura indispensable.
El sueño de un anciano es el poema más relevante de Newman. Fue escrito en 1864 cuando, ya viejo, su autor se sentía desasosegado por el pronóstico de una muerte inminente. Relata su sueño antes de salir de este mundo, un sueño sincero donde Geroncio, su protagonist,...
72) This Is My Soul
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This isn't a book of fairy-tale poetry. This Is My Soul is an empowering collection of raw, powerful, and haunting poetry. In her literary debut, Sandoval's work takes the reader through a journey of survival from life's nightmares, struggles, pain, betrayal, and ultimately healing and growth.
73) Duct-Taped Roses
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In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss.
As a bush pilot, Nickerson's father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father, is celebrated here in the long poem "Skies." Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men.
Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson...
74) El cielo Ideal
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Cada eslabón ha tenido su propia forja, y el conjunto, que pareciera pujar por la disgregación, en realidad se contorsiona para problematizar las relaciones entre poesía, historia y política mediante la creación de un espacio imaginario.
75) Silvija
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Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.
In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley's Silvija combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent...
76) Cover Your Fears
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I confess that I had a long time to feel this kind of poetic power, drawn from a fertile poetic world, to uncover fears and secret thoughts.
It is the kind of poetry with a multitude of fears with poetic nobility, a meeting of souls, which has risen to the highest point of melodicity and expressiveness. These poems manage to give the deepest of human essence and, to make you feel the vertigo of everyday life.
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The inspiration for this collection of poems came in the difficult time of quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, which immobilized the entire planet. During the confinement and isolation, when many of us found ourselves face to face, I dared to dive into uncharted depths, from where I caught and brought to the surface words that needed to be recorded, in order to reveal hidden experiences, knowledge and feelings.
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In the underground urban landscape each of us finds ourselves in these uncertain days, bleakness, loneliness, and cavities of the soul are most prevalent.
We feel like cages and boxes, steel and cardboard. We act like cobras and rats. Not because we want to, but because we think we have no choice.
In the red-streak alarm America of today, sidewalks and street corners are the most potent and pregnant reminders of that emptiness.
We forget what, where,...
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Trauma is never something easy to deal with. Trauma can also take many forms. During my teenage years, the biggest trauma took the form of death. The loss of a very prominent figure in my life, my band teacher, who was like a second father to me, sent me into a downward spiral of depression. My salvation was my family, friends, and a creative outlet, poetry. I took the deepest and darkest thoughts that swirled around in my head and molded them into...
80) Dark Moments
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21 poems: A Happier Place, Mascara, Butterflies Bursting into Flames, Punching Bag, Hugging Teddy Bears, Taken, The Bottom of a Bottle, Thinning, Fester, A Prayer, Paper Boats, Regret, Sins of Another, Snake, Suppressing the Pain, In Vain, Two Sides, Stay, Little Soul, Broken Butterfly, Counting Sheep.
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