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1101) Super Sad Black Girl
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Diamond Sharp's Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where her speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in the hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free?
Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the "Other Side," as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other...
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Life is full of love, but it is also full of loss. Like paper cuts to the heart, every big and seemingly insignificant loss-the loss of friendships, faith, dreams, health, community, and everything in between-grieves us more than we think it will, and often more than we let on. Why? Because they matter.
In this compassionate and deeply personal book, Rachel Marie Kang invites you to see and be seen in the midst of your sorrow, your suffering-your...
1103) Diver Beneath the Street
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A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967–69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia,...
1104) Face au miroir
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"Face au Miroir" vous transporte à travers les plus beaux souvenirs, paysages bucoliques et codes des poètes romantiques, offrant une immersion dans l'intimité de l'artiste primé et peintre renommé, Zoran Savic. Ses poèmes, parfois empreints de mélancolie, dévoilent ses amours, rêveries et espoirs, teintés de lyrisme. L'auteur partage ses instants de bonheur, d'angoisse et de questionnement, offrant une continuité logique de son parcours...
1105) Poemas en tierra extraña
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Poemas en tierra extraña, de Bruno Moreno, es un libro de madurez humana y poética manifestada en versos empapados de nostalgia y del sentido de la vida como peregrinación. Quizá ningún otro poeta haya sabido reflejar de forma tan conmovedora la experiencia de los creyentes de ser extranjeros en una sociedad moderna que ha abandonado sus raíces cristianas y se ha olvidado de Dios.Con gran maestría, el autor consigue escribir poemas fáciles...
1106) Bone Dust
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Life is fragile. Regimes can crumble in an instant. And it is in the darkest places that one finds the strength to rebuild.
Echoing the strength and valor of the heathen path, these poems journey to mountaintop halls where the Old Gods reign, to the rolling hills of the land spirits, and down to where the ancestors dwell in Helheim. Bone Dust hails the fortitude of the human spirit through titles like:
• Blood Brother
• Winter Winds
• Ode...
1107) À la recherche de soi
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"À la recherche de soi" est un voyage initiatique reflétant la nature éphémère des choses et la transformation de soi-même. À travers un éventail de sentiments, ce recueil de poésie vous invite à libérer vos émotions et votre esprit pour un nouveau départ.
À PROPOS DE L'AUTRICE
Dans son parcours littéraire, Elodie Milleret a évolué vers la création de haïkus. En 2021, un événement vient renforcer son engagement dans l'écriture,...
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With a focus on reclaiming the stories of women in history and reimagining the heroines of legend, fairytale and mythology in ways that are both resonant and startlingly new, The Heroines Anthology presents a challenging and soulful collection that interrogates the traditional power dynamics of classic literature, while touching on the deeper questions of women's true nature. Volume 4 includes short fiction and poetry by Wes Lee, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon,...
1109) Cusp: Poems
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Entre chien et loup - between dog and wolf. This French colloquialism for twilight informs Jennifer Grotz's debut poetry collection, Cusp. A winner of this year's Bakeless Prize for poetry, Grotz explores the peculiar territory of middleness - neither dark nor light, not quite familiar but not fully unknown. It is a place with its own dangers, its own knowledge: road signs in a French tunnel remind drivers of their headlights in the temporary darkness;...
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Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been celebrated for his singular vision of the American immigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierce and tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotous evocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiastic audiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications. His willingness to face down the...
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Black Girl Evolving II: Journey to Softness is a powerful and moving collection of poems that delves deep into the experiences of black women, exploring themes of childhood innocence and trauma, young adulthood, and the journey towards softness and self-love.From the very first poem, the reader is drawn into a world of raw emotion and vulnerability, as the author shares her own personal experiences of growing up as a black girl in a world that often...
1112) Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such cla
1113) Swallow: Poems
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From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world composed equally of shadow and substance, filled not just with beauty but also with a kind of savage experience. But Swallow is more than a crisscrossing of boundaries. It is an imperative,...
1114) Studies In Proverbs
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This is a verse by verse study in Proverbs as it relates to Christians as we live our life in today's world..
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"A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." -New York Times
In this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I End My Song, with selections from John Keats, T.S....
1116) Studies In Ecclesiastes
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This is a verse by verse study of the Book of Ecclesiastes as it relates to Christians today.
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Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over the...
1118) Un nouvel élan
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"Un nouvel élan" marque les débuts d'un poète qui se tourne vers le firmament, un virtuose des mots qui scrute intensément l'héritage sacré de ses ancêtres. Empruntant la voie de la poésie engagée, profondément ancrée dans la pensée afro-descendante en pleine ébullition, cette œuvre rayonne d'amour, d'humanisme, d'histoire, de références kamites, et surtout de spiritualité.
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Poète autodidacte, musicien...
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness
A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English coun - tryside, thwarted love, and...
1120) While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World
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Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr-an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee-traveled to Greece, Trinidad & Tobago, and Syracuse, New York, holding storytelling workshops with hundreds of displaced youth: those living in and outside of camps, as well as those adjusting to life after resettlement.
Combining Badr's own poetry with the personal narratives and creative contributions of dozens of young refugees, While the Earth Sleeps We Travel seeks...
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