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Alice James Books
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[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...
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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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¿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...
4) 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...
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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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A revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism.
Borrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric assessments, and court documents, Jody Chan's impact statement traces a history of psychiatric institutions within a settler colonial state. These poems bring the reader into the present moment of the Diagnostic and Statistical...
10) Medium
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From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium uses language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time.These deeply resonant and performative poems share the lives and perspectives of women who- in their roles as biological, physical, or spiritual mediums- have helped to shape the course of history. Reckoning with the dominant historical narratives of each woman' s era, Skibsrud underscores the power...
11) El renacer
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Las palabras resuenan en nuestra mente como los pensamientos en nuestro corazón. En esta obra podrás encontrar versos que podrás interpretar con el amor, la vida y la muerte.
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You know that moment? The one where a single leaf glides, sliding this way and that, until it touches the ground. Watching it makes everything else blur for a minute. It's just you and the one, single, solitary leaf.
Or that time when walking on a path in the woods, an entire rainstorm of leaves flit around you, falling at various speeds until they swirl on the path.
These moments that seem so ordinary hold magic in that they can allow everything...
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Culbuter le malheur suivi d'Après le progrès, livre-phare marquant la commémoration des 30 ans du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda (1994-2024). Un million de morts en trois mois. Des silences et des silences. Adolescente à l'époque, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse a échappé au géno-cide. Elle offre dans ce double recueil les mots justes pour faire mémoire par une énonciation radicale de ce qui est un désir puissant de vivre à présent, au présent....
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The essential collection of avant-garde writing by the twentieth-century literary icon and author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Gertrude Stein was one of the most influential and challenging American writers of the twentieth century. This collection of her writings from 1908 to 1920 demonstrates both the evolution of her craft and the range of styles and genres employed in her unconventional experiments.
Here is Stein the literary Cubist,...
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"Defining Thought," the inaugural gem in the captivating Defing collection, unveils a poetic tapestry that delicately captures profound musings left unspoken. Embark on a journey through the pages, where your mind steps beyond its comfort zone, exploring the depths of elusive thoughts. This poetic odyssey invites you to traverse the realms of the poet's mind, prompting introspection and a craving for deeper exploration. As you dive into the rabbit's...
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Au début du XXe siècle, la bicyclette, l'automobile et l'avion s'imposent dans le paysage des grandes métropoles occidentales. S'ils sont, pour tous, des symboles de vitesse, de liberté et d'indépendance, ces moyens de transport représentent pour les femmes l'occasion inédite de sortir du cercle étroit de leur existence. Elles peuvent désormais fuir les espaces et les rles assignés à leur sexe, entrer en rupture avec un certain ordre social...
18) Poetry
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Bao is someone who got into writing since her middle school years and loves it since. She uses writing as her voice. Her poems range from suicide and depression to mostly dark things. She also uses her creativity by writing stories for those who are unable to speak up.Warning: Her poems can be raw and explicit.
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La Duchesse se trouve dans l'urgence de marier son fils Archibald, « le Valeureux Duc de Poirail », afin de sauver le manoir ancestral de la famille. Elle sollicite l'aide de Louise, la bonne maladroite, de la Baronne, la grand-mère frivole, et de la malicieuse Marie-Cassandre, la petite sœur d'Archibald. Ensemble, elles déploient tous leurs efforts pour impressionner Mlle Biscotte, la seule prétendante au cœur du Duc. Tout aurait pu se dérouler...
20) Xactly Poetic
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A book of forms. Where a free verse poet challenges herself to write only to write in specific forms.
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