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In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present - a now - in which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, {28}counting silently towards infinity.
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"A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a fever--desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for...
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At 50, Alix Shulman left a life dense with political activism, family and literary community and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. Without plumbing, power, or a telephone, and foraging for wild greens and shellfish, she faced challenges that helped redefine her notions of independence and courage, confidence and creativity.
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Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and almost gleeful detachment that has delighted readers of her earlier books.
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"Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie." Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously...
7) Revelations
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Uncertainty and surprises were like a hand in glove for Bianca, as she carefully braved the future between two worlds. Her relationships were tried and tested, with confessions, adulations and revelations. Drama was always near... but has it pushed her too far this time? Far away from the one she holds dear to her heart.
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I have a filthy heart. It's been bruised,and broken,and houses secrets best left in the dark.These are its collections.
Courtney Jones lives in downtown Toronto, working in content creation and digital strategy. An avid lover of the written word, she prefers to pass her free time reading a good book while enjoying a glass of even better red wine.
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POEMS FOR ALL SEASONS by MaryAnn Diorio is a compilation of poems the author has written over a period of several years. The book includes poems in various forms, including sonnets, tetractyses, tercets, haikus, limericks, and an intriguing poetic form called the "Minute". A special feature of the book is the introduction of a new poetic form that MaryAnn created called the "Diorion"--a form inspired by her husband's family name. This new form alone...
10) Song of Shadow
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A Reflection of the year, this is a volume of shadowy poems by the half mad poet, Patricia Harris.
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¿Cuánto recordamos? ¿Cuánto queda sepultado en algún microsegundo de la vida? ¿Cuánto nos animamos a desenterrar?
Mujer con corazón de niña es reflejo, la infancia que marca, los dolores que gritan, la consciencia de no tenerles miedo, secarles las lágrimas y acompañarlos.
Alexandra no escatima en abrirse, mostrar su camino, el de la niña que un día fue y que, sabiendo encontrarla, sigue ahí. A versos, traza la ruta hacia la mujer que...
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How do you stitch yourself back together after trauma, loss, grief, heartbreak? By inviting what is broken to become what is breathtaking. THE BODY is a collection of poems and short stories written in lyrical prose during the hardest moments of the author's life. This collection explores themes of love, loss, grief, seduction, creativity, consciousness, female empowerment, post-traumatic expansion, and the collective human experience. Because when...
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A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing-and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.
"Draw me encircled // in something // other than gasoline." The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of peril-a...
15) Human Nature
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For fans of L.E Bowman's What I Learned from the Trees and Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe comes Kari Highman's debut poetry collection about exploring not only our hearts, but the world around us. Human Nature delves into how our emotional expressiveness can be challenged or bettered by the environment. This book looks at the literal definition of its namesake while examining the figurative language of those words through poetic diction,...
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Hay momentos que nunca serán olvidados… Dolores, traumas, palabras regaladas al viento que nunca llegaron a destino, amores que no fueron. El invierno en el que me enamoré de la tormenta es la estela de cada uno de estos momentos.
Entre versos y reflexiones, nos adentramos en las entrañas de un pasado lleno de grietas, oscuridad y dolor, pero que con el tiempo supo ser luz, amor y florecer.
«Estamos hechos de instantes, fragmentos, que marcan...
17) My Poetry Soul
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I have an unconditional love which I know was imparted to me from my mother and the demonstrated love she had for me and my siblings. My mother's journey caused her to observe many indifferences; she never changed, her love was unconditional. This book of poems is my way of sharing, through poetry, the love my mother gave to me. I may have been the different child out of the eleven children; not ever did she once make me feel I didn't matter. In this...
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Dee was born in 1930 to a family in the grips of the Great Depression. This endowed her with a thriftiness and economy of living that carried her to better times. A creative soul, Dee longed to go to art school and was offered a full scholarship at Duke, but it wasn't meant to be. Her father forbade her from attending Duke, and she soon found herself married with a young baby girl.
Her creative spirit somehow survived all the demands of being a...
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You in Me chronicles my journey of healing, learning, and growth from the small Caribbean Island of Dominica to Canada and recognizes the many misunderstandings encountered along the way. Such misunderstandings could keep us perpetually stuck in limiting beliefs and prohibit our progression to a more productive and enjoyable life.When a change of course in life is desired in order to accommodate a more successful integration in a fast-developing...
20) Edge Music
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Edge Music explores what it means to talk about, and to write on, the edges of Australian landscapes - be they geographical or historical.
Responding to a complex, globally engaged nation, this innovative book openly displays the author's eagerness to write in an extremely eclectic range of styles and forms.
It reveres the voices of the past, and grants them new life in the blinding sun of the present.
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