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Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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79 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this...
2) Psythur
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psithurism [sith-yuh-riz-uhm] noun:a rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration Psythur is a collections of works selected by the editors throughout the year. Poems that were misfits for our other collections, but nonetheless stirred our mind, heart, or soul.
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Grijalbo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
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395 pages ; 23 cm
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"Esta es la historia de un guardaespaldas y una escritora convencida de que no necesita proteccion. Kobo cree que sera un trabajo facil; Eva esta mas que dispuesta a ser su siguiente problema con tal de conservar su libertad. Sin embargo, cuando la tension y la atraccion entre ellos crezca hasta convertirse en un deseo irrefrenable, ambos deberan decidir si se dejan llevar o si ponen punto final a la aventura que acaba de empezar. Un trabajo imposible...
5) As I Burn
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I'm a girlFull of fireFull of desireThis hungerIt's never fulfilledAs I Burn, explores that desire to mean more. To discover that piece of you. That you never knew was hiding. Ready to break out into the world and own those words that you've always held.Ella Rye brings that vulnerability, that many have grown to love. Giving you another chapter, another heartache. She's ready to rise above the ashes.
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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...
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Yellow Butterfly showcases not only the budding poetic and visual talents of a promising young artist, but it also chronicles her struggles with increasingly debilitating episodes of psychosis as she attempted to negotiate high school, college, and young adulthood. The potential of her creative voice, easily seen in her earliest work, becomes even more apparent in her later poems. Like a shore bird' s tracks in the sand, her sparse but...
8) 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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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...
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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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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Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as "lively and intelligent" and "lyrically delicious," Barbara Tran's poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, "red-tailed gliding / on...
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From novelist Dana Gricken comes the first installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion. With nine chapters-ranging from love to heartbreak to mental illness, body issues, and women's rights, Ten Years: A Poetry Collection tells the story of life's lessons in a touching and deeply personal way. Whatever you're going through, let this poetry collection be your heart's companion that helps you through it all. So pull up a chair, get...
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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From Hannah Herrera, The Lovely Wild In Me is separated into three parts: anguish, yearn and heal. The story is poetic prose of abuse, heartbreak, finding love, finding the wild in oneself and healing. This book may have certain themes that could be triggering to some. Take caution and care when reading.Published by Crooked Crow Publishing
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Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene.
Amidst ravenous addictions, spiralling dead ends and violence on both sides of the law, Oli keeps her wits, and her life, to record this story.
On slippery ground all the way, it soon becomes clear why in this world - you have to stay cool.
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Book synopsis: All people are individuals with their own thoughts, ideas, and dreams. What we share are feelings-How we process them and deal with their effect. Even though our situations may differ and circumstances may have different outcomes, we all share the same emotion, love, and passion. The way we miss someone, the heartbreak of loss. They are universal that everyone can understand. Each poem I write is real, raw human emotion. The reader...
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Heartbeats in Ink, is a delightful anthology of poetry covering love, loss, and hope.This collection of heartfelt verses is a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of love and life, capturing the experience in each poem. From giddy infatuation to bittersweet goodbyes, these poems are sure to tug at your heartstrings. With each page, you'll be transported into a world where love reigns supreme and poetry is the language of the heart.
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