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1) Lion Tamer
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Homerow confronts chaos, questions the measure of time, and searches for other dimensions. Hunted by the unknown through moon phase and dream portal - who sent me this letter? Do they really think a lion can be tamed?
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A collection of poems about faith and angels. T.S.Garp's spiritual beliefs is a blend of Western and Eastern philosophies, from studying Buddhism to Christianity with poems that express the universal belief of angels, divine beings, wintry fairies, and having faith, worshiping God, receiving blessings, embracing nature's beauty and keeping hope alive in our hearts and mind.Voices of Angels is about experiencing great expectations, understanding loneliness,...
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DUETO DE LUCIÉRNAGAS es un extraordinario libro de poesía con un sello oriental definitivo. Sus autores logran una alternancia en la expresión de temas de vida con pincel de matices atenuados con la particular sensibilidad de la milenaria cultura oriental. Y es que la pluma de Bill Wolak lo lleva por denodados senderos literarios, en Europa, Eurasia, Asia e India, caminos de maduración como autor que le permiten plasmar con absoluta originalidad...
4) El riseñor
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La reedición de El riseñor reproduce la edición original de 1975 con el mismo grabado de Blas Castagna en la tapa y agrega, a modo de apéndice, las partituras de "El riseñor" para coro a mixto a capella, obra compuesta por Julio M. Viera. En este libro, que fue censurado en los setentas, se encuentran las primeras reescrituras de Lamborghini, por ejemplo, la del Himno Nacional Argentino, la del poema de Quevedo "Amor constante más allá de la...
6) Flora
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Poetry and love seem pretty out of place these days. This poetry album is a test to see if these are really rare quaint commodities that do not matter and thus, do not sell. It is also a test to see if there can be something other than what poetry is purported to be in modern times. It is to prove that modern poetry should take a lot of lessons from the music world and the art world before it is pronounced defunct.
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Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains counters the narrative held in the West about women and the land of the quaintly "lush" and "charming" Mekong Delta. A rice field in the middle of the communist and American-backed government, the delta was an essential resource that fed both sides of the war in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta went through countless massacres on an immense scale. Yet, history wiped the injuries away as if the river forgot. In her...
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A collection of poems that cover a dazzling range of topics, 88 Poems by Cho addresses observations of everyday life, fictional stories in an historical context, imaginary worlds, and commentaries on society. While part of the collection deals with Asian or Asian-American characters, readers from all walks of life will enjoy these honest and thought-provoking glimpses at life as seen through the author's eyes.
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This is a book where I tried to turn each moment of experience in my hands, which convey my insights with elegance of language. This book of poetry goes far with emotions and sensitivity.
Effulgent Dream is a book of poems that evoke feelings of love, separation, despair and loneliness. My poems trace a path across the world, delving into other experiences with learning one's intensity.
This book will offer you the plans to give you hope, happiness...
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Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery...
11) Love Sages
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A collection of poems about love and passion. Love is our greatest emotion. Yet love can be mysterious, awe inspiring feeling that is equally timeless and complex. Love Sages expresses the joy, romance, desire, and fear of love. Love Sages is also about our sensuality, attraction, and sadness; finding love, love lost, and love eternal, love at first sight, and meeting your soulmate. The passion of words and love with no limits is a doorway into our...
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The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups.
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Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the treatment of widowed women by society; lends their stories a voice; shares their unheard tales about marriage; reveals the heavy hand of patriarchy; and, addresses the lack of companionship and sensuality in their lives. This collection of poems covers a myriad of social evils such as misogyny, infidelity, gender inequality, and celibacy amongst other things....
14) The Republics
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"The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. It's gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while its form paradoxically is fresh, luscious, and original. Bypassing pity and transforming pain into language Handal stars. She has recorded like Alice Walker, Paul Celan, John Hershey, and Carolyn Forche some of the worst civilization has offered humankind and somehow made it art."-Sapphire
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This collection of poems embodies the soul of Ismael S. Rodriguez Jr., a Navy veteran with ancestry from Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Within the lines of these verses, we witness the intricate tapestry of his life, shaped by the burdens of schizophrenia and PTSD. Each poem serves as a testament to his resilience, as he fearlessly channels his experiences, beliefs, and emotions onto the written page. Through his heartfelt words, Rodriguez bares...
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Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows up the creatures for whom it provides. These poems struggle with that mix of affirmation and destruction, celebrating nature's generosity while trying to...
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How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and...
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When the speaker arrives to the United States, she struggles to fit in due to her lack of knowledge of the American culture which leads her to feeling isolated from the rest of the world. As the story progress, she takes risks such as getting rid of her traditional values in order to overcome her difference by conforming to the American teenager ideal. Read to find out her compromise!
19) Alma Solitaria
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This collection of poems embodies the soul of Ismael S. Rodriguez Jr., a Navy veteran with ancestry from Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Within the lines of these verses, we witness the intricate tapestry of his life, shaped by the burdens of schizophrenia and PTSD. Each poem serves as a testament to his resilience, as he fearlessly channels his experiences, beliefs, and emotions onto the written page. Through his heartfelt words, Rodriguez bares...
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Kusunoki's newest collection of poetry is organized like a social studies syllabus and is based partly on a quote from the Guardian that states "...poetry is the new journalism." Kusunoki reflects on major events like the killings of Philando Castille and George Floyd, and on a more personal level, the death of his father. Keeping with the tradition of the teacher including the work of proteges, Kusunoki has included poems by some of his former students....
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