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Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex and sorrow and joy, boys and girls growing into men and women, stories of a brother who in his dying could teach how to be most alive. What the Living Do reflects a new form of confessional poetry, one shared to some degree by other women poets such as Sharon Olds and Jane Kenyon. Unlike the earlier confessional poetry of Plath, Lowell, Sexton et al.,...
2) LIFE LYRICS
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Life Lyrics are insightful reflections that leave you with the sensation that Melody has reached into your heart, held your feelings in her hands, and then lets her pen tell your story, and often hers.
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" We should not have to change to fit into society. The world should adapt to embrace our uniqueness." - Chief R. Stacey Laforme
Chief Stacey Laforme breathes life into every poem and story he shares, drawing from his own experiences. Rich with the essence of his soul, the poems in this book capture the moments and emotions that have shaped him. His desire is for readers to not just read, but to truly feel the humour and pain intertwined in these...
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Published to commemorate the author's 100th birthday, this wide-ranging and thoughtful collection reflects on history, colonisation, family, childhood, Aboriginal Dreaming, traditions and storytelling, working lives and people.
Sometimes wistful, melancholic, poignant, at times the author's wry sense of fun and humour shines through.
When he arrived in Sydney in the 1960s, Bigambul man, Uncle Wes, was not allowed to tell his stories at schools....
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A poetry collection about the beautiful and disorienting period of new motherhood, exploring an experience both otherworldly and very, very human.
“little astronaut” is a limited-release poetry collection by critically acclaimed poet J. Hope Stein. Featuring over 50 pages of new poems this book brings to vivid life the deeply personal, and also incredibly relatable, challenging and magical early days of new motherhood.
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Join us on a journey through the mystical realm of love, where boundaries of time, gender, sex, and age dissolve. Coleman Barks' captivating interpretation breathes life into Rumi's profound verses, creating an unparalleled auditory experience that transcends the ordinary.
Enriching this literary journey is the enchanting harmony of various Persian instruments, elegantly weaving through Rumi's words, enhancing the poetic ambiance. Feel the resonance...
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Sin duda Gu Cheng consiste en uno de los poetas más importantes de la China contemporánea. Él comenzó a escribir los poemas con las palabras etéreas desde su infancia, pero terminó su vida de una manera trágica en sus cuatrenta años. A pesar de las críticas generalizadas, no se puede negar sus talentos que se muestran en sus poemas. Los poemas en Poemas Oscuros fueron creados en su época temporana (antes de 1984), también han reconocidos...
8) Kneeling
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From Civil Rights activist and full-time organizer in the Deep South Ernest McMillan: a collection of poems and short stories that seeks to explore the dynamics of love.
Ernest McMillan began writing essays and short stories in earnest while imprisoned for his work as a Civil Rights activist. Ranging from commentaries on society to short stories and poetry, these pieces reflect the experiences of a fugitive, revolutionary spirit.
This collection...
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"Chez les chasseurs-cueilleurs
l'obsession alimentaire n'était pas une tare
mais une question de survie
je suis le fruit pourri
de leur descendance
Avec un humour désespéré, la poète examine son rapport à la nourriture. Elle détaille le lien, direct et aliénant, entre l'image du corps et un écrasant assortiment d'injonctions sociales, médicales, voire morales, auxquelles personne n'échappe. L'intime et le politique s'entrecoupent dans...
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Step into the quiet magic of this celebration of summer nighttime and the mystery of a world lit differently by the moon.
On a summer night, the world is still. Even the crickets think it's too hot to sing. But all at once, a girl wakes. In the kitchen, the cat rolls onto its soft paws. A neighbor's small white dog yaps, a brown rabbit peeks from a hedge, and the leaves of a cherry tree begin to stir in the breeze. Readers witness...
On a summer night, the world is still. Even the crickets think it's too hot to sing. But all at once, a girl wakes. In the kitchen, the cat rolls onto its soft paws. A neighbor's small white dog yaps, a brown rabbit peeks from a hedge, and the leaves of a cherry tree begin to stir in the breeze. Readers witness...
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"An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez. Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her...
14) Tripas: poems
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"With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family...
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"From an acclaimed and wildly imaginative poet, a book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is a work of art history and a coming-of-age story. Robyn Schiff's fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history, material, and memory,...
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From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
19) And then, boom!
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Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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Lorde's poetry extends beyond White Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. She writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a feminist and a visionary. Her poetry contains "the rhythm and accents of timelessness, healing and lucidity".