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"We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy....
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Witness the complete collection of poems and haikus drawn from the mind of a recovering addict.Gritty, authentic, and deeply personal, this complete collection of Poetry of an Addict compiles over 250 poems and haikus that stretch back over 30 years, exploring the darkness of addiction and offering a mixture of musings, reflections, and thoughts captured from moments of author Brett C. Persson's life. Ranging from vivid wordplay written while sober...
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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."
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Life was smooth sailing and quite normal up until my mom Janis was killed in a car accident heading from Santa Cruz California to Carmel when I was 11 years old. After her death, life changed drastically from a nice gentle breeze to a category five tornado; an inferno of drugs, lies and alibis. Let's just say… No more smooth sailing. When the dust began to settle at the age of 24, I enlisted in the United States Navy and set sail for a better life...
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Trauma is never something easy to deal with. Trauma can also take many forms. During my teenage years, the biggest trauma took the form of death. The loss of a very prominent figure in my life, my band teacher, who was like a second father to me, sent me into a downward spiral of depression. My salvation was my family, friends, and a creative outlet, poetry. I took the deepest and darkest thoughts that swirled around in my head and molded them into...
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This isn't a book of fairy-tale poetry. This Is My Soul is an empowering collection of raw, powerful, and haunting poetry. In her literary debut, Sandoval's work takes the reader through a journey of survival from life's nightmares, struggles, pain, betrayal, and ultimately healing and growth.
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Are you struggling to heal from a broken heart? Do you find solace in reading poetry during tough times? If so, "I Moved On, Now What?" is the book for you. Dive into a collection of 40 touching poems, carefully curated to help mend your broken heart."I Moved On, Now What?" is a thoughtfully crafted book to guide you through the challenging journey of healing from heartbreak. The book offers a collection of 40 beautifully written poems, each chosen...
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Amor y muerte son las pulsaciones que mayores pasiones provocan en nuestra especie. Ambas familiares y al mismo tiempo extrañas, pues cualquiera las puede reconocer y constantemente se vive en su horizonte. Pero cuando se manifiestan resultan insólitas.
Este volumen contiene el poemario ganador del Premio Nacional de Literatura Joven Raúl Padilla López 2023, Hundir las manos temblorosas, de Melissa Cordero Novo. Un preciso recorrido por la experiencia...
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This selection of poems by a new author was triggered by the tragic death of his 28-year-old daughter. So the collection begins with loss and the aftermath of loss: the hope of the author that his daughter and he may be reunited in the life to come. This hope underlies many of the poems. This is clearly articulated in 'Osler and Son', where a father grieves for loss of his son in World War I but in a stoical, unexpressed manner.
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10) 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...
11) 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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No one makes you sit up and think like Ted does, with his wonderful poems and verse. His take on life is inspiring, especially when it is all wrapped in the broad range of deeply felt thoughts and emotions of the author himself. You will laugh, and chuckle, but be aware some of his more poignant moments, may bring a few tears. Ted's long and active life, has given him insights to the world, you would not normally consider, but within the pages of...
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It seems these days all I do is bring death to what I cherish most. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld. Juggling this dichotomy is not easy for anyone, but Persephone wishes to be known as more than Hades' wife. Through this poetry collection, we follow Persephone through the course of a year. Her life before Hades, her abduction, and her ultimate return in Spring.
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A car slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on Route 80 west in Parsippany on July 10, 2019 killing the driver. As a sister is left in despair and awakens in disbelief to the tragic news of losing her brother, she's also forced to reevaluate her life and awaken to her spirituality. In the midst of the pain she has to face the burdens of her brothers negative lifestyle and all the snakes he left behind. Discovering her strength through her pain...
15) A New Dawn
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Within the tender pages of 'A New Dawn,' find solace and comfort. This poignant collection of poems and inspirational quotes is a beacon of light for those treading the difficult path of grief and loss. Offering a heartfelt embrace to those who seek sol
16) 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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Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us.
In the cold, seminal countryside of eastern Washington, a boy puts a bullet through his skull in a high school parking lot. An uncle crushes oxycodone into "a thousand red granules." Hawks wheel above a dark, indifferent river. "I left that town / forever," Holbert writes, but its bruises appear everywhere, in dreams...
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Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair's debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores, and they understand the nature of being hollowed out. From the midst of the Civil War to our current era, Adair charts fairy tales that are painfully familiar,...
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For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book celebrating this morning practice. 'How do you do it?' said night 'How do you wake up and shine?' 'I keep it simple,' said light 'One day at a time.'...
20) Happy Place
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IMPLIED SECRETS:Poetry slides an incisorbehind our addiction to living,rips essence from its bonesand grinds us chunk to paste,half sustenance,the rest, waste. Verses are beds for the senselessmasturbated to perfect sense. Sentiments and sympathiesin micro-dosesof self-psychoanalyticsaffixed to symptoms,ticks, and epiphanies. Come inside,we have odes to sing. *** Joey comes out swinging at trauma cycles with moments of grieving and healing in this...
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