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Can we ever figure out what life is about? Dig deep into the rhyming symphonies of enticing love, fly over the dazzling winds of ambition, push through the bright lightening of daily struggles, and always remember: It will definitely shine after the darkness!
This book is a collection of poems written across many years of social and emotional explorations that we go through in life. "Rhymes of Life" focus on the social aspects such as self-help topics,...
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La frontera como metáfora de la contemporaneidad: escenario de pérdida y regreso, donde acontece la épica del siglo que llega. Una épica que ya no tiene héroes, o al menos no héroes infalibles. El poeta le otorga estatus poético a mundos eternamente desplazados de lo poético. Una Cater-pillar, un limpiaparabrisas en una carretera del oeste y un grafiti montevideano comparten un mismo escenario. El acto de nombrar restituye identidades y otorga...
63) Memento Mori
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Un libro extraordinario con toda la fuerza y lucidez de un poeta maduro que reflexiona sobre la muerte, sobre las muertes de los otros y del término de un ciclo. Es tal vez el libro más profundo de uno de los poetas más importantes de las últimas décadas en Chile.
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The poems in For Your Safety Please Hold On move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga's lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true. The linguistic hopscotch of Czaga's poems about girlhood is often beautifully juxtaposed with feelings of menace or a first taste of smothering...
65) Blood & Nectar
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Written through times of Burnout and contrastingly, through times when exaltation encapsulated the air, leaving a taste of 'Melancholy Euphoria,' this very book is the amalgamation of blood and nectar, suggesting the co-existence of strength with weakness, telling on the agonizing truths while maintaining solidarity. Some of the pieces deal with themes like acceptance and endurance while some are outrageous messages, lamenting over the bloodshed of...
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Since he was just a toddler, the author was, identified as having a special gift of intelligence. As a student, he, excelled in school, and was, known by all as a smart, funny boy, with a quick wit and a shy manner. Then one day he shocks an entire community by attacking an innocent child in a local video arcade. No one would have suspected that he was being, treated for mental illness, and that the medicine that was supposed to help him gave him...
67) Ryan's Rainbows
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This publication of poems is the heartbreak and pain that comes from the inner depths of the soul of any parent who has lost a child, particularly to suicide or, in this case, military suicide. The painful truth is that twenty-two veterans a day commit suicide (twenty-two too many). This chronicles the complicated grief long after the loss of a loved one, one mother's journey written through poems of the pain and grief long after losing her twenty-three-year-old...
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The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland.
An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances-a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads has for the English.
Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewicz's first volume of poetry achieved a level of sublimity that immediately...
69) ...139, 2
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(Another) collection of free verse, poetry and prose dealing with the universal concepts of loss and longing.
A fictional and heartbroken Romeo transcribes the stages of a relationship, from the tension and excitement of the chase all the way through to the end.
Wrapped in self-loathing and vicious introspection, this volume exposes the thought process of a breaking, slowly soul.
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Dying of the Light contains fifty new poems retelling Milton's Paradise Lost from a perspective sympathetic to Lucifer. The poems in Willett's debut collection balance the visceral with the visual, the domestic with the divine, and the static with the transformative. This collection follows Lucifer escaping heaven, living with trauma, and finally journeying to Eden to free humanity. It is a story about family violence and institutional power; it is...
71) Love, Lost
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When I lost the love of my life, the pain was indescribable. I moved just before it all happened so was away from all my friends, who although sympathetic could not imagine how afraid and lonely I was. I found a counsellor through friends and was able to express my fears and anger. He suggested that I might find a way of expressing all those feelings on paper. I did and it came out as poetry, now printed in this book. It is my wish that others going...
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In this bilingual collection of poems, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, the king grieves the disappearance of his wild friend Enkidu. Each poem appears in English and Spanish, translated by the author.
When you are not talking to me, I conjure you.
When I lose my way between campfires, you are with me.
When my body wastes away, you are in me.
When I want to be somewhere else, you stalk me.
En esta colección bilingüe de poemas, inspirada en...
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"...being on the isthmus of rage and despair/all I can do is stand, and sit, and stare."
In his debut poetry collection, Scott R.S. Raphael explores the depths of the human mind through a narrator battling the throes of unrequited love, fear, death, fantasy, mental deterioration, and, of course, rage and despair.
An exploration of the human condition and the depths to which one can sink within the darkest corners of the mind, Being on the Isthmus...
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Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not alone. Returned again and again over the centuries by great imaginations are love and death and memory - remembrance of childhood joy, of happy days and beautiful places, of loved ones we have lost or feeling...
75) The Hardest Part
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Life will never be simple for those who experience it, only moments will be easy, and many will be hard. Having negative thoughts is not an unfamiliar experience while going through difficult moments in life, and trying to understand these moments can be even more challenging to manage.Relief can be found through connecting feelings with others. In this collection, moments of grief, sorrow, and anger are all to be related with as it's read, alongside...
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This book is a collection of short poems written in the quatrain format and inspired by the ancient Persian poet Omar Khayyam. The poems are quite unique in style and, combined with the subject matter the poems cover, this book is a rare find indeed. The poems are easy to understand, and they touch on various aspects of Man's life and the puzzles and unanswered questions Man faces going through his amazing journey. Whether a professional or a layman,...
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The inhabitants of Frank Jamison's Songs of Unsung People are the people we meet every day on the streets and in the diners, some physically strong and some who get about with the help of walkers. From a preacher on a street corner to a woman on a ferry bound for Sausalito, some engaged in the everyday minutiae of life, as store clerks and waitresses or, more outlandishly, a man showing off cats for a crowd gathered to watch a Key West sunset, all...
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Twenty years ago Nevin Sample walked into a small bank in Deep Cove, robbed a teller at gunpoint and fled into the forest of Cates Park. After a lengthy pursuit, he hid behind a stump at the edge of a small clearing. The police called to him. He raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Nevin had a magnetism, an understated complexity: there were those who loved him, resented him, found him gregarious. To Joe Denham, he was an old, close...
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The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home," where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."
80) Perfection
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In "Perfection," delve into a poetic journey that unravels the delicate illusions of appearance and reality. This collection peels back the layers of pristine facades, revealing the profound depth beneath the surface. Each verse is a mirror reflecting the dichotomy between the allure of flawlessness and the raw authenticity hidden within imperfections.Within these pages, explore the captivating interplay between what meets the eye and the concealed...
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