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9041) Charms Against Lightning
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Awakening is the theme of this fiery debut about the "ghost world" of shadows and personae. A sense of history, politics, and place is an integrated and integral part of the whole, alive with stirring accounts of travel, intimate moments of solitude, and encounters with the ineffable. Romantic in spirit and contemporary in outlook, James Arthur writes exciting, rhythmical, elastic poems. "Charms against Lightning" Against meningitis and poisoned milk,...
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Una antología bastante fuera de lo común. Reunida con la excusa del 11º aniversario de un grupo de poesía —Las Pretextas- que trabaja mucho y muy constantemente en la difusión de poetas y escritores en general, de los consagrados, de los no tanto y de los que fueron creciendo a ojos y oídos vista en todos estos años de escuchar y compartir poesía en el ciclo de café literario que los nuclea. Una sinfonía de nombres que vale la pena descubrir....
9044) The Whole Story
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The Whole Story is an attempt to capture trauma and the changes in our thought patterns as a result. After years of complex trauma, one can feel like they are drowning in unrelenting crises. This can lead to an extremely abusive relationship. The Whole Story explores how trauma can intrude on our lives when we are finally safe and happy. Trauma can still interrupt life once it's over. To gain control of this story, life, and our past, we must cling...
9045) Poemas zen
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Escribo esto para ganarle a la voz darle paso a la letra. Y deletreo de- le- treo los carteles del camino escribo con una lanza de grafito.
9046) The Path of Loneliness
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The Path of Loneliness explores separateness and the many facets of love, desire, grief and loss that we experience during our life journey. Although we walk with others, some closely, some casually, ultimately, we all walk alone. Love makes the path less lonely and comes in many forms, real and surreal, requited and unrequited ghostly and mysterious. Though lovers walk love's pathway together, there is always a small loneliness nestled inside each...
9047) À fleur de terre
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Jean-Pierre Fabien est né à Montréal en 1955. Il est biologiste et a enseigné l'écologie au secondaire pendant 25 ans tout en favorisant l'approche terrain avec ses élèves afin d'établir un réel contact avec la nature. En 2005, il quitte l'enseignement afin d'offrir son soutien aux écoles d'éducation internationale à titre de professionnel. En 1990, il devient cofondateur du CORDEM, un club d'ornithologie dont le siège social est situé...
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Hesiod is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. To these days three works have survived which were attributed to Hesiod by ancient commentators: Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles. Only fragments exist of other works attributed to him.
The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work. It concerns the origins...
9049) Hope is a Traveler
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In this entrancing poetry collection, Susan Frybort reminds us of the glory that resides at the heart of everyday living. With poems that read like sacred correspondence between our hearts and our essence, we are called to remember the wonderment of life's ever, changing tide. Whether it be in the call of a mourning dove, a contemplative shore, or a field of golden wild grass, the reader is, left with no choice, but to embrace hope in a transitory...
9050) Poetry Leaves
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This anthology comprises poems written about the particularities of nature in Australia and Japan, together with the multi-faceted emotions engendered thereby.
Japanese people cherish the tanka form as much now as they did in ancient times. And for English-speaking people, this anthology will provide an excellent way of experiencing tanka as English poetry.
Composed by poets in Australia and Japanese, the tanka within these pages reveal previously...
9051) Mettle & Flesh
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'I realize with quite a fright
this page is now my portal
for as you read the words I write
I become immortal'
Mettle & Flesh is a collection of poetry encompassing observations on life, and how, we see ourselves within it. Born from personal experience, the poems span across topics ranging from love, loss, ageing, trust, bad dates, and the inner thoughts we usually keep to ourselves.
The poems range from contemplation to rage, from disappointment,...
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A lost princess… A terrible battle… The mysteries of nature and what really lurks in the woods…
In this exciting and eclectic poetry collection are many tales and musings brought to life with imagination and passion. From the seemingly mundane to a new take on World War Two's deadliest battle, the author takes us on an amazing journey with twists and turns aplenty.
This exciting first anthology is an uplifting and inspiring read with poignant...
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"Como un nuevo Sísifo, el poeta arrastra así su drama existencial, que es también el nuestro: el de cuantos vivimos a la intemperie de la realidad, sin protección religiosa, mental ni moral alguna y a punto de perder también el sistema defensivo creado por nuestra sociedad, que ahora, como él dice, se derrumba. Ese y no otro es el escenario en que esta obra se ha escrito y en el que hoy se representa: esa y no otra es nuestra propia escenicación...
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Ovids Lehrgedicht über die Kunst der Verführung gehört bis heute zu den berühmtesten und meistgelesenen Werken der antiken Literatur. Die ersten beiden Bücher enthalten Anweisungen für das Verhalten der Männer, das dritte solche für Frauen. Die "Ars amatoria" spiegelt das gesellschaftliche Leben der Kaiserzeit, in der die Liebe häufig als Spiel aufgefasst wurde. Kaiser Augustus hat das Werk aus den öffentlichen Bibliotheken verbannt.
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This book is dedicated to every mom, dad, child, and all American people who choose peace, tranquility, full employment, better education, and a powerful military "in case of need." We will have to go back to the Constitution as a guide for our future to restart a new America involving a new government elected by "we the people." This new system will include a system of government without politics and a new continent including the following countries:...
9056) Jonas in Frames: An epic
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Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of prose poems interspersed with narrative interludes; or D) haunted by the ghost of Samuel Beckett. In its esoteric glimpse into the disassociated, Jonas in Frames contorts time and space. Rootless, nostalgic, socially inept, Jonas is the modern questless...
9057) Sunlight
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Sunlight, the debut poetry collection from Barbara Chung, illuminates the joy of being alive even in a deeply troubled world. It reveals the magic in life's day-to-day moments, whether tending a garden, sharing food with friends, or caring for beloved dogs. The poems move delicately and gracefully between the ordinary and the transcendent, tracing the ways they are, bound together. In doing so, Sunlight celebrates beauty in life as a worthy end for...
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Birds often symbolize spiritual freedom. The universe for them is vast and without end. Free from attachments and from all earthly treasures, they listen to Mother Nature. Never tired, from far and near, they are wild in spirit and move between the worlds: between earth, air, and water.
Birds are the symphony and poetry of nature on the earth and live with an elegant simplicity tinged with a pure loneliness with worldly cares left behind. The world...
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Sarah Tiffen's fifth book of poetry reveals a new authority and delicacy in the author's writing as she explores more deeply central themes of much of her work, stories of her Riverina homeland, the people, the landscape, the griefs and joys and loves and fears, refined, clarified and developed into what could be termed an emerging 'Riverina style'.
9060) Blood
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Blood follows a Two-Spirit Indigenous person as they navigate urbanity, queerness, and a kaleidoscope of dreams, memory, and kinship.
Conceived in the same world as their acclaimed debut, Bones, Tyler Pennock's Blood centres around a protagonist who at first has difficulty knowing the difference between connection and pain, and we move with them as they explore what it means to want. Pennock weaves longing, intimacy, and Anishinaabe relationalities...
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