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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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In The Exchange, poet Sophie Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between mortality and money, between the next world and this one, between the language of disease and the language of finance. Following a beloved friend through long illness and eventual loss, these poems confront with stark emotion the aftermath, even as the outside world-the world of debts paid and collected, of power and dominion- intrudes. Hers is a look behind the curtain...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe's four previous collections-including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry that collection captures the experiences of being a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring...
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Deutsch
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Das Komponisten-Paar Schönherz & Fleer ist der Schöpfer des mehrfach preisgekrönten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sänger interpretieren ausgewählte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik - eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEIßE NÄCHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schönheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Hörbuch verströmt...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan...
8) Plastic
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English
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you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Maori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they are just as restless, taking in those times when life...
10) Words With Wings
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English
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Synopsis This is a very much beautiful book about various poems. Here words can fly with wings and takes you far away in my imagination. Words are not just the words but imagination and feelings. Words has powers to tell various stories of life. So, this book is also like that game of words. Here you can read poems of various themes like as from love to sadness. As well as many others. I have wrote about life and it's truth in some poems as well...
11) Sawdust
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English
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Winner, IP Rolling Picks 2013, Best Creative Non-Fiction.
Deborah Kay teams up with award-winning social issues journalist Barry Levy to provide a courageous and compassionate account of what happened to her, and how she avoided being warped by her experiences, allowing, as she puts it, pockets of sunlight to shine through her.
Sexual abuse of children is all too common in society today. Media reports focus on the crime and its consequences...
12) Inspirations
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English
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Inspirations is a collection of photographs, each accompanied by a poem depicting Constanze Hawkins' love of the natural world. The poems capture the thoughts and wonder inspired by the photos. Constanze herself took all of the photographs, mostly near her Perth home on the grounds of the University of Western Australia. Even the photo of the peacock was taken at UWA, which has a few peacocks and peahens roaming freely in its gardens.
The photos...
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Like the ever-changing sky, our emotions are a vivid spectrum. From joy to sorrow, from youth to age, from dawn to dusk and the moments in between – our feelings paint a canvas as varied as the sky itself. We feel the warmth of love, the chill of indifference, the solitude of loneliness, and the comfort of companionship. From fiery reds to calming blues, vibrant orchids to muted lavenders, we embody every hue and shade. We are the brilliant sunrise,...
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Español
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Siguiendo su propósito de vida, transformar el miedo en amor, Yolanda Rescalvo (Éibar, 1970) nos invita a enfocarnos en nuestros sentimientos para entenderlos y crecer emocionalmente.
Con frases potenciadoras, poesías, expresivas ilustraciones y reflexiones personales, Tatuajes del alma nos lleva por el camino del reconocimiento y la validación personal, y también hacia la revisión de nuestras perspectivas.
Con esta lectura, comprenderás la...
16) Romance Dawn
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English
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Over 200 poems within this book. In my new apartmentI'd bring youI can't wait until NovemberWatch me, bring you...The moonlight on your backWhere did heaven drop you off at?I'm so in love, you didn't evenTake your clothes off, yetBring tonight, into tomorrow.Please stay with meI won't let you cry over meMy mentality, tells on meI'm easy going...In my new apartmentI'd bring youI can't wait until NovemberWatch me, bring you...The moonlight on your backWhere...
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English
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Life is an enigma, and the journey of living is dedicated to unravelling its intricate mysteries. Think of yourself as an unexplored diamond mine, hidden beneath layers of gravel, rocks, and sand. Your life's purpose is to dig deep, uncovering the invaluable gem that is your true self, and then meticulously shape it until it radiates with brilliance.
Proceed with caution, patience, and above all, courage. Only through persistent exploration can you...
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Deutsch
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Mit der prägnanten, anschaulichen Ausdrucksweise in seinen Gedichten gelingt es Wolf-Dietrich Zielinski, die Dinge so anzusprechen, dass sie ihre Wesensmerkmale offenbaren. Es sind zwar lyrische Gegenstände, doch eng verwoben mit den Lebenserfahrungen des Autors: die Innenwelt der Psyche; die Außenwelt erlebter Umgebung; die Reflexionen über Alter, Krankheit, Tod und das „Danach"; aber auch die poetische Sichtweise auf neue naturwissenschaftliche...
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English
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These poems were written over a period of about 30 years, in the course of my travels in America and Europe, teaching courses and workshops in consciousness expansion, meditation, psychedelics, shamanism, alchemy and emerging new worldviews.Some of these poems were recorded on a spoken voice CD called Spirit Soundings with sonic and musical accompaniment by Kit Walker and friends.The Song of the Pearl is my adaptation of a 5th century Gnostic hymn...
20) Bite-Sized Bliss
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English
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Savor the delicious flavors of joy, inspiration, and inner fulfillment with "Bite-Sized Bliss," a delightful poetry book that serves up delectable nuggets of happiness and wisdom. In these verses, words are the sweet morsels that tantalize the senses, offering readers a taste of the simple pleasures and profound insights that make life truly blissful. "Bite-Sized Bliss" is a poetic confectionery that celebrates the beauty of the everyday and the transformative...
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