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"The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 -- 1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that is especially characteristic of her early works. "Renascence," the first of her poems to bring her public acclaim, was written when she was nineteen. Now one of the best-known American poems, it is a fervent and moving account of spiritual rebirth. In 1917, "Renascence" was incorporated into her first volume of poetry, which is reprinted here, complete...
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"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his "Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well lived. #1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER! USA TODAY Bestseller! This book is a compilation of small observations...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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[2020]
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Sorry I haven't texted you back, ( I've been so anxious and depressed) I haven't had time to catch my breath, you know how life gets! 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,...
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Es una obra cumbre de la poesía moderna. Sus composiciones rompen con el estilo convencional, en uso hasta entonces, y rejuvenecen la estructura del verso mediante el uso regular de encabalgamientos, rechazos y contrarrechazos. Esto renueva la forma rígida del soneto. Utiliza imágenes sugestivas mediante asociaciones a menudo inéditas, tales como el "Ángel cruel que azota los soles" (Le Voyage). Mezcla el lenguaje erudito con el discurso cotidiano....
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Things that h(a)unt duology volume 2
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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[2019]
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From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, things that h(a)unt." In the first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explored the memory of being in a toxic romantic relationship. In to drink coffee with a ghost, lovelace unravels the memory of the complicated relationship she had with her now-deceased mother.".
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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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Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
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You hear it all the time . . . "I'm fine!" "We're doing great!" Sometimes, it's true. A lot of times, it's BS. Because no one likes to admit their lives are a mess.Tales From a Broken Girl is me doing just that, admitting my life is one massive hot mess! But it's also my way of cleaning it up instead of just sweeping it all under the rug.These are the things that piss me off. These are the things that make me cry. But these are also the things that...
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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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A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them, the poet searches for meaning after the death of his father, and observes the flora and fauna, which provide beauty and nourish us. This book delights the senses and poses the question, are we contributing to, or ultimately destroying our planet?
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"Promise me the rich can't sleep," Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us.
13) Manfred
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Manfred, a Faustian noble, is tortured by guilt over the death of his beloved, Astarte. He uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. The spirits are unable to control the past and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea.
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The passion of this book is immense because it shows you how to release the sufferings of Jesus Christ and your own swiftly. At your willingness to take a quantum leap to release Him from the crown of thorns is the most rapid way to see through the fog of darkness and into the clarity of lightness where you will see the world from which you are from. And you will look behind you and see the mirage of the world from which you instinctively know you...
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This volume is structurally similar to the 150 ancient songs of the Bible attributed to King David. However, the content is, based on modern thought in the continuing quest for spiritual enlightenment. The songs turn away from revenge and fear giving today's reader a contemporary approach to sustaining their faith. Each stanza was, written as a prayer, or a plea to God, not just for mercy for us, but for strength to be merciful to others. Just as...
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Twenty years ago Nevin Sample walked into a small bank in Deep Cove, robbed a teller at gunpoint and fled into the forest of Cates Park. After a lengthy pursuit, he hid behind a stump at the edge of a small clearing. The police called to him. He raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Nevin had a magnetism, an understated complexity: there were those who loved him, resented him, found him gregarious. To Joe Denham, he was an old, close...
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After the tragic suicide of our youngest child, David, at the age of thirty-four, I was navigating in a strange new world. I have always written and for years kept a journal. About a year after his death, I began to write a poem each morning. I imposed my own guidelines: write about whatever pops into my mind, it must fit onto one page of my journal, and no editing. I have used the title of the book to classify the poems into categories, as the boat...
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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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An anthem against apathy -Amelia Martens, author of The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat. Read Tracy Mishkin's poems as an antidote to the "meat wheel full of teeth" that is the contemporary news cycle. Not because this dangerously clever collection soothes, or because it provides comfort, but because these lyrics are urgent without shallow or callous bids for the reader's attention, and instead render the heartbreak of America as gorgeously...
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