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I don't know how we got here, where the beginning / of the end started, when we drifted so / far apart we were no longer us.
Under Clouds and City Lights is a collection of 131 poems dedicated to the universal experiences that tie people together. Inspired by the small moments that empower each of us to be whom we truly are, respected poet Caitlin Ju hopes to inspire readers to slow down and appreciate the little things. In her debut book, Caitlin...
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After nearly fifty years as settled constitutional law, the federally protected right to an abortion in America is now a thing of the past. The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has left Americans without a guaranteed right to access abortion―and the cost of that upheaval will be most painfully felt by individuals who already struggle with access to resources: the poor, Black and brown communities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ population....
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Iris Murdoch (1919–99) was a British writer and philosopher. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker Prize–winning The Sea, the Sea. Avril Horner and Anne Rowe are the coeditors of Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts and Iris Murdoch and Morality.
For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years
Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional...
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A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, “Motherfield” is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.
Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the...
3505) Play Dead
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Lyrically raw and dangerously unapologetic, play dead challenges us to look at our cultivated selves as products of circumstance and attempts to piece together patterns amidst dissociative chaos.
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Dans ce nouveau recueil de haïkus, la poétesse évoque avec sobriété et justesse la perte de la mère et la séparation amoureuse.
Dans la première partie du livre, à travers ce genre littéraire minimaliste qu'on appelle le haïku, l'auteure nous propose quelques strophes/images croquées sur le vif et glanées au fil des saisons qu'elle puise à même l'actualité.
Puis, dans la seconde partie du recueil, elle enchaînera via cette poésie...
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"Co-Winner of the 2016 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association" "Winner of the 2017 AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Literary Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages" Emily Van Buskirk is associate professor in the Department of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Lydia...
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Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O'Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery O'Connor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo O'Donnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her family's farm named "Andalusia." Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from O'Connor's essays, stories, or letters;...
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The Sum of Her Parts explores how women's body parts and the roles/parts that women play have been deployed toward political ends. One essay examines Sarah Winchester and the lore that sprung up around her most famous-and most falsely mythologized-home, the Winchester Mystery House, to suggest that the woman and her house have been used as vessels to hold the nation's ongoing gun guilt. Another essay springboards from a personal encounter into etymological...
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This is the second book of poems by Iris Therese Smith Reid inspired by the experience of caring for a dementia sufferer and the high and low points of their home life. Her husband was diagnosed with dementia more than seven years ago, and since then Iris has chronicled the impact his illness has had on their life together. Her poems express what it really means when the connection between two people is held together by a great bond of devotion -...
3511) Fantastical for Real
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Fantastical for Real invites you to escape adulthood, think outside life's box, and join Ann Garcia on a (self) love journey via her unique brand of prose poetry.
Inspired by a metaphysical connection that resulted in significant inner growth, Fantastical for Real weaves appreciation for nature into Ann's concept of the creative's self, the creative's soul mate, and the potential found inside, where hopes and disappointments play tug-of-war while...
3512) All the Rage
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All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the persistent condition of racism in the USA-a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity. At its core dwells the 'Living in the Abattoir' series, set in an alternate yet familiar world, in which people of color live in an abattoir as both workers and meat. All the Rage addresses the contemporary realities of life in the USA from a variety of perspectives: being...
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Latin American Women Dramatists sheds much-needed light on the significant contributions made by these pioneering authors during the last half of the twentieth century. Contributors discuss fifteen works of Latin-American playwrights, delineate the artistic lives of women dramatists from countries as diverse as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Looking at these writers and their work from political, historical, and feminist...
3514) Ruinous
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A free verse collection of modern poetry, Ruinous takes readers through cycles of depression, growth, hurt, and healing.
If you are searching for your next read in dark poetry, look no further.
Disaster pulsing
Always beneath my skin,
Downfall breathing in my ears
Sweet promises.
The raging, biting, scraping
Inside my veins-It is constant.
If I would loose
That choking, biting control-If I only set free
The claws grasping, holding
My bones, my...
3515) Wing Over Wing: Poems
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Wing Over Wing clears a path in the midst of everyday life to reveal the holy-whether catching fireflies at night, waiting at a bus stop, or experiencing the death of a loved one. This collection of beautiful poems lives at the intersection of the sacred and the ordinary, from the swirling flight of birds to conversations with the homeless. Wing Over Wing brims with compassion. The reader will find comfort and sustenance, as well as surprise and laughter,...
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The long form poem is a practice of poetics in joy, gratitude, sadness, resilience and pain. This literary work serves as a practice of self-reflection and accountability in the wake of the prison system. This poem is dirge work acknowledging unjust atrocities, but reveling in our human resilience.
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A group of dynamic single mothers came together with one goal in mind: to provide representation for black mothers out there who have felt like they could not follow their dreams. This book is an emotional filled journey of how we battled through the journey of self-sabotage, self-doubt, guilt, traumatic experiences and more.
You will be inspired through stories of overcoming the stigmas of teen motherhood, divorce, poverty mindset, escaping limiting...
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"Muse et hommes d'histoires naturelles" célèbre la fusion enivrante entre l'être et la poésie, plongeant dans les dédales de l'amour à travers une palette variée de styles et de formes lyriques. Chaque mot s'échappe avec une fougue palpitante, révélant des vers vibrants et enflammés, o l'humain devient la muse sacrée qui inspire une plume éblouissante.
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Infirmière de formation, Esthel Cornier découvre sa...
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The scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIONS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME work at the nexus of gender, power, and movement to explore the rhetorical nature of circulation, especially considering how women from varying backgrounds and their rhetorics have moved and have been constrained across both space and time. Among the central characters studied in this collection are early modern laborers, letter writers, petitioners, and embroiderers;...
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"Poème de passion et de bonheur partagé" compare l'amour à une fleur en pleine éclosion, symbolisant la croissance et la beauté. L'amour y est décrit comme une force puissante et libératrice qui illumine la vie. Il évoque le bonheur trouvé dans les moments simples et intimes partagés avec l'être aimé. Enfin, l'optimisme sature le poème, indique une confiance inébranlable dans l'amour durable. L'auteure utilise une métaphore riche pour...
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