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From horses and foals to mothers and daughters, everyone seems to fit in. Except for some, who feel as though they stick out like a sore thumb. Tennessean author Ava Graves takes the reader through a journey of insecurity, heartbreak, and self-realization in her debut poetry collection, "A Good Southern Girl."
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Heartbeats in Ink, is a delightful anthology of poetry covering love, loss, and hope.This collection of heartfelt verses is a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of love and life, capturing the experience in each poem. From giddy infatuation to bittersweet goodbyes, these poems are sure to tug at your heartstrings. With each page, you'll be transported into a world where love reigns supreme and poetry is the language of the heart.
3) Indecent
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When Sholem Asch wrote God of Vengeance in 1907, he didn't imagine the height of controversy the play would eventually reach. Performing at first in Yiddish and German, the play's subject matter wasn't deemed contentious until it was produced in English, when the American audiences were scandalized by the onstage depiction of an amorous affair between two women. Paula Vogel's newest work traces the trajectory of the show's success through its tour...
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Run Away to the Yard is a unique collection of poems that addresses personal identity within the contemporary culture. In parable-like vignettes and metaphor-dense portraits, Krueger's poems challenge old notions of self, asking readers to reconsider what brings meaning to daily life. Through the lens of close observation―much like a photographer―Krueger examines the complexity of our responses to a convoluted world. Poems ask us to consider who...
5) Bracing
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Bracing' is a full collection of poems, mostly about contemporary life, experienced richly, intensely, unsentimentally and with humour. The writing is humane and accessible, wearing its intelligence lightly. There is something for everyone in 'Bracing', even for those who were put off poetry at school. This is a mature, well-rounded piece of work. The subject matter ranges across modern life and beyond - childhood, parenthood, love, lust, loss, shopping,...
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In her stunning ninth collection of poetry, In June the Labyrinth, Cynthia Hogue tells a deeply personal lyric of love and loss through a mythic story. This book-length serial poem follows Elle, a dying woman, as she travels a trans-historical, trans-geographical terrain on a quest to investigate the labyrinth not only as myth and symbol, but something akin to the "labyrinth of the broken heart." At the heart of Elle's individual story is the earnest...
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A memoir of poems and art, Coming Out Party chronicles poet and author Rebecca Bendheim's queer coming of age journey-from first crushes and toxic homo-erotic friendships, to coming out and secret flings, to finding queer community and falling in love for the first time.
Coming Out Party is a fierce, funny, and deeply personal celebration of the strength it takes to break down the protective walls we've built-and embrace our truest selves.
8) Frog Joy
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Frog Joy is a collection of free verse and micro poems that point to the beauty in everyday moments. Beth Gulley is making her own world without a fence. Sometimes readers join her as she stains her fingers on low hanging mulberries. Other times the readers chase her along the trail and try to escape the rising flood waters. Underneath it all, a chorus of frog calls, like fingers running along the edge of a comb, echo in the damp night. Few brief,...
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This stunning collection from the award-winning poet Linda Gregerson examines the intersections of history, science, and art.
Touching on subjects as diverse as a breakthrough discovery in cell biology and the films of Ingmar Bergman, the anatomy of a possum and the Nazi occupation of Poland, Gregerson seeks to distill "the shape of the question," the tenuous connection between knowing and suffering, between the brightness of the body and the shadows...
10) Toaster Haiku
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A short collectionWith pictures and everything!All Toaster Haiku.The third book written and illustrated by Haley McAndrews, Toaster Haiku offers readers a taste of her whimsical world of small kitchen appliances. This ebook consists of 37 haiku poems, all written about toasters or toaster-related subjects (like burnt toast and bagels.) Each poem is accompanied by hand-drawn black ink illustrations. While Toaster Haiku is short enough to be an excellent...
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An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante's death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and master of the sonnet, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell.
In the summer of 2021, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell honored the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, by embarking on a three-month pilgrimage through the 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy, reading one canto per day. This new collection, Dear Dante, is her response...
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Thank you.For the pain, through which I gropemy way in dazed wakefulness.The void, where my tongue-tipscatch the essence of a hungering moon.A collection of free verses written over the years in various stages of a young woman's life, 'Black Cat and other poems' is a journey of self-discovery, awareness and growth.Each poem is a story culled from an existence well savored, much like a cat's fabled nine lives. There are tales of lust, loss, melancholy,...
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In These Hollowed Bones birds are the conduit for conversations of internal emotions and the natural world. This collection ties together the themes of loss, marriage, and ecology, topics that are at once personal and universal. The voices contained within these poems speak of the isolation felt by both avian and human due to migration and loss of habitat, loss of home. Nature and bird lovers will find solace and self-recognition within these pages....
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"Assis au bord des mots" explore les multiples nuances de l'attachement, qu'il s'agisse de l'amour ou des liens familiaux. Il peint des tableaux de rencontres, d'amour, de tendresse, mais également de conflits latents et de déceptions. Dans la seconde partie, il nous emmène voyager à travers divers pays, lieux, instants, paysages et émotions éphémères. La poésie agit comme un puzzle, recréant notre rapport à la réalité en l'approchant...
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"Sur le chemin de la grâce poétique" est une ode enflammée à la passion et à la palette des émotions humaines. Les mots, tels des danseurs sur la page, composent des tableaux qui vous enlacent délicatement dans un écrin de douceur. Ouvrez-vous à cet instant lyrique o l'âme se fond dans la musique des sentiments avec une élégante éloquence.
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Nélina Martins compte déjà trois livres à son actif : "Leçon de...
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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...
19) L'incendie blanc
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"L'incendie blanc" tire son essence de quelques extraits d'une correspondance épistolaire, invitant le lecteur à un voyage initiatique des rives du Lot jusqu'aux confins de l'Inde et de l'archipel océanien. L'auteure, telle une alchimiste des mots, aspire à capturer l'instant précieux o la pensée s'illumine, donnant naissance à une prose empreinte de poésie. Plongez au cœur de cette exploration intime, o la nature elle-même semble tisser...
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Returning to the form of Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back is a poetic mixtape dedicated to those who struggle or have struggled with their mental health. Divided into two parts, "Side A" holds 92 poems, titled as "tracks," and "Side B" holds the "remixes," or blackout-poetry versions, of those 92 poems. The book includes the evergreen themes of love, grief, and hope. Named after Cook's viral Instagram poem, Sorry...
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