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Elizabeth Mills is an ecumenical Christian, and a member of the Religious Society of Friends, and she is actively involved in her local meeting for worship for healing. Her love of stillness has led her to share times of stillness with others through quiet days, Taizé worship, and guided meditations. Writing has always been part of Elizabeth's spiritual journey as she seeks to walk a contemplative path in the midst of daily life. Her poems, prayers,...
19963) Capture & Flight
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Eloquent, evocative and exquisite - a collection of eleven brief poems, fragments, notes from the heart. Linnet's short, poetic pieces are like intimate letters from a past life. Through them, we are invited to share a woman's abandonment of her true being in the pursuit of another's controlling desire. These lyrical reflections celebrate the female voice, through scraps of memories captured in finely crafted cadences, alight with inner rhythm.
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The Art of Writing Christian Poetry
This book is a "how-to" introduction to the art of writing Christian poetry. It is for new poets that seek guidance and experienced poets that are confused or caught in writer's block.
The author will discuss the Christian Poetic Expression, its origin and value in modern society. He will also distinguish between secular and Christian poetry; anointing opposed to inspiration and elements of a good poem. Categories...
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Phyllis Webb is a poet around whom archetypes tend to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic woman poet. While on the surface she seems supremely disinterested in the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis in this celebration of her work, Webb is no domestic, as a creator or a critic. Her work sweeps across politics, philosophy, and economics.
19966) Adventures on the Go
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Seven Keys to Baldpate-proof that great old stories are great, ALWAYS.
An original story by Kyle Owens; Time stops moving for protagonist Dave Miller; beautiful poetry written by a young man who died
from shrapnel wounds; and More...
19967) Shakespeare's Love Sonnets
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Shakespeare's sonnets are revered the world over for perfectly capturing the torments and joys of love requited or otherwise in just fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. This treasure of a book collects 29 of the bard's most romantic sonnets, each one lovingly illustrated by the talented Caitlin Keegan. Pretty and contemporary, the illustrations tastefully accentuate the depth of sentiment in each sonnet. A brilliant sun rises over the 17th Sonnet...
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De « petits » poèmes érotiques à l'inventivité sans limite.
POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. Dans La Foutriade, six chants héroï-comiques content l'épopée libidineuse d'un peuple sodomite vivant sur « l'Ile des enculeurs », tandis qu'un vaisseau d'amazones débarque pour déclarer la guerre, et accessoirement enlever aux hommes leur pucelage.
La Masturbomanie s'adresse aux « hommes faits » et approfondit sans équivoque les exploits solitaires....
19969) Hombres: Hommes
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Extrait : "HOMBRES - Ô ne blasphème pas, poète, et souviens-toi. Certes la femme est bien, elle vaut qu'on la baise, Son cul lui fait honneur, encor qu'un brin obèse Et je l'ai savouré maintes fois, quant à moi."
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Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends Morris Bishop, Edward Lear, and Carolyn Wells are featured, as are renowned political figures, poets, and writers such as Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost,...
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Winner of the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2013
A mesmerizing and essential biography of the modernist poet Marianne Moore
The Marianne Moore that survives in the popular imagination is dignified, white-haired, and demure in her tricorne hat; she lives with her mother until the latter's death; she maintains meaningful friendships with fellow poets but never marries or falls in love.
Linda Leavell's Holding On Upside Down-the first...
19972) Underworld Lit
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Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this adventurous serial prose poem moves from the college classroom to the oncologist's office to the mythic underworlds of Mayan civilization, the ancient Egyptian place of judgment and rebirth, the infernal...
19973) Cross Sections
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"In Cross-Sections, Matt Schur takes us with him on a journey into his soul. He keeps his eyes fully open to the pressing issues of both his personal past and this troubled world, while remaining equally fully grounded in his faith. Juxtaposing beautiful love from God with the pain of daily life (childhood loss, grief, depression, adult trauma, racism, sexism, idolatry), he offers us a raw, candid, totally authentic look into what it means to walk...
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If ever there was a book of poetry you need to have, here it is! Coloured Views: Poetry Unraveled. It contains multiple award-winning poems written by a champion of creative writing and public speaking. Yes, the author was once designated the Special Writer for the year by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, at the awards ceremony for the national Creative Writing competition where he went on to cop several prizes for his work. Since then,...
19975) Pilgrimage Poems
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We have all been on a journey through the horrors and limitations and isolations and quarantines of Covid recently, which have led us on a type of pilgrimage of endurance. You'll find a poem here called Those Pandemic Words, many of which gained new meanings when we were daily exhorted to follow the rules. However, most of these poems try to find ways not only through our present problems, but also through all the difficulties life throws at us as...
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This anthology of "Cowgirl" poets, and edited by Jill Charlotte Stanford (The Cowgirl's Cookbook, Keep Cookin' Cowgirl) features the words of a wide range of Western women poets chosen for this collection by real ranching women and cowgirls across the West as the poets whose words most speak to them and the Western experience.
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somewhere between shadow and light
is a romantic satire of interwoven stories about family
intimate relationships
menstruation
anxiety and depression
societal patterns
cultural norms
fear and death
love
inner peace
and the quest for one's inner truth
a spectrum of one human's shifting perspective
through a growth cycle
recorded in voice
this book is a physical residue of
and tribute to
the awakening of clarity
the poems grow and expand at variant
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19978) Breakable Things
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Our lives are made up of delicate, fragile pieces.
Time, memories, ever-changing versions of ourselves. Things so easy to break. To waste. To lose.
Breakable Things is an open letter to the small, sometimes seemingly insignificant pieces of our lives that often times turn out to be what's most important in the end. It is Katie Wismer's third collection.
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This book takes you on an exceptional journey. Each chapter's guidance, poetry, stories, and tools expand your knowledge and your capacity to offer kindness and compassion to yourself and others. Nancy Smyth's generous advice will open your heart, enabling you to set aside past assumptions and choose a new narrative to light your way as you take the path before you with confidence and joy. The insights and strategies this book provides will bring...
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