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This is a true book regarding the three essentials of life: faith, family, and friends. As such, my daughter as well as two of my friends have either poem and/or prose selections included. Additionally, several of my favorite passages from God's Word are shared as He calls me friend and loves me unconditionally. Value is given to the people and things that matter.

The first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the region's history of violence as seen through geography, myth, and city life. Yuri Andrukhovych, one of the most significant voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, began his career as a poet, producing three collections and two separately published poem cycles in the 1980s and 1990s, the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period, a time of great political change and artistic revolution. Set Change: Selected Poems presents for the first time in English comprehensive selections from all three collections and both cycles. In modern Ukrainian letters, Andrukhovych occupies a position similar to the literary giant Nikolai Gogol. While his influence is broad and significant, he is constantly reinventing himself as a writer: his work represents everything playful, free-spirited, and new, and epitomizes all the most original aspects of Ukrainian literature. The poems collected here showcase the poet's prolonged quest for a representation of--and response to--the region's history of violence. In this quest Andrukhovych explores various settings and themes of geography, investigates the shifting borders of Eastern Europe, and invokes a gamut of myths and fantastical elements set in the territory of present-day Ukraine. The cornerstone of his poems is a deep fascination with the idea of the city. Andrukhovych's vivid descriptions lend themselves to his investigations of the carnivalesque and the grotesque, two of the city's most significant aspects. The poet's deep interest in the baroque, his obsession with verbal play and irony, the elegiac mode, the many hidden as well as overt allusions to other literary works and writers, and the poet's need for textual experimentation are those elements that make his poems arresting, timely, and perpetually fascinating. (Translated by the award-winning duo of John Hennessy and Ostap Kin, whose work on this project has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts.)

I never thought about writing a book. One day, while in my LLV, God instructed me to take out my pen and paper and begin writing. That was the beginning. From then on, I write the words He tells me to, none are my own. This book is a collection of poems about personal experiences in my life and some that are written for others. These poems are about hope, forgiveness, kindness, understanding and love. They are also about fears and failures yet always coming back to God's love and forgiveness. I hope this affects everyone who reads this as it has the friends, family and strangers that I have read these to. I may not know until I reach heaven who these words have helped, but I know that I wrote all of them because God told me to. May the love and peace of our God and Almighty Savior bless and keep you forever. I have been a mail carrier in the New Mexico Permian Basin for over six years. I was born and raised in the Roman Catholic Faith and was taught to serve God above all else. I was blessed with the perfect parents for me. I have received more blessings than I can count and deserve. Going to heaven is my only goal. My pen name was bestowed upon by Scott from KLOVE's Scott and Kelli Show.

This book, The Lone Man Near the Window, is like an identity to the experiences of a keen family person in his/her lonesome moments. It is not only about the poet's life, lessons, thoughts rather an extension of you, me and all sensitive persons who in real face, feel and resemble such phases narrated in each individual poetry.This piece of art can't be absorbed by an one go reading. Though it is adorned with very simple words yet has deep impacting topics orchestrated with word senses and harmony.The concept and the purpose of the book can't be gulped down in a single reading. To understand the seamless process, one has to live each and every philosophy coated in words. The original book by revered Poet Dr. Bibhudatta Nayak is literally an experience manual which describes the tit bits of life tools. It enlists the ingredients and principles of life which make our lives sweet, sour, annoying, energetic, challenging, emotional, decisive, philosophical at times. Most of the experiences of daily chores in this mundane world have given a euphonious shape of distinct poetry in this book.

Marc Darnell is an online tutor and lead custodian in Omaha, Nebraska, and has also been a phlebotomist, hotel supervisor, busboy, editorial assistant, and farmhand. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa where he studied under Gerald Stern, Marvin Bell, and Pulitzer Prize winner James Tate. First published at age 15, he has published in numerous journals in the last 40 years and has been published on 4 continents. His second book, The Sower, was recently published by CyberWit Press. He has forthcoming books from Impspired Press and CyberWit Press. He twice received the Academy of American Poets Award for the state of Nebraska and once for the state of Iowa.

In her newest collection, Abundance/Diminishment, Ann E. Michael knows "the nature of memory...that we forget." At the same time, she acknowledges within nature "a place to remember and to rest." It is between these two markers-nature and the nature of memory-that her poems flourish. An avid gardener and hiker-as well as a lover of learning, language, and the arts-she names abundance and diminishment; she identifies pivotal points, "lattices of a single molecule/that balances the morning." Unsurprisingly, much of Abundance/Diminishment consists of elegies-for the earth, for being wholly present, for a father, for friends, for a mother's lost memories, for a missed daughter, and for children unborn. Here, "the floor drops out of the bottom/of our daily prayers." Here, she recites, "Empty accepts what is given. Sorrow. Joy." Here, when grief overwhelms, she remembers to "feel the cellist's breath/swell against resonant spruce"; to listen to "animals, who tell us what we won't hear." And here, she asks, "How can I teach myself...the fact of gone/during a humid night/in late summer//while crickets sing?" The answer to the reader is in these well-tended and moving poems. -Marjorie Maddox, author of In the Museum of My Daughter's Mind Abundance/Diminishment reminds us of the ethics of craft, language, diction and illuminative rhyme. Whether the topic at hand is gardening, meteor showers, or grief, the surprise of irony swerves towards the "something more" to life, a new way of experiencing the world through felt imagery. Voice, tone, and style play with and against literature that has come before this text to arrive at an understanding of a before and after in the present, wisely speaking to how love provides motivation, in spite of despair, by finding solace in connection. Ann Michael's complete and accomplished poems, through semantic sleight of hand, sensitize us to how alive a human can be, illustrating time is a thing enlivening the body, and change is not necessarily enervating: hope and perseverance, demonstrated through the workings of the natural world, show how humanity progresses and evolves. The religiosity of a lived day in these poems grounds a generosity towards the world that feels rare in this contemporary moment of poetry. These beautifully achieved poems of finality and continuance, dispassionate and humorous, represent a voice of a generation and place, a poetry not just anyone can write. -Ian Haight, author of Celadon Ann E. Michael's poems of fullness and emptiness combine keen observation, philosophical questions, and a refreshing groundedness that invite the reader into complex, cleanly crafted contemplations of ordinary moments-moments turned extraordinary through her clear-eyed vision and delicious language. Smart, surprising, and wry, these poems honor equally the losses and the gains. A rich and rewarding collection. -Hayden Saunier, author of A Cartography of Home

In Hours of the Desert, Roxanne Doty leads us through a "blind land," from academic conferences to brutal stretches of desert, to downtown Phoenix, where the unhoused dance, share their apples, and bow down in front of traffic. We meet immigrants, scholars, police, policy makers, border patrol agents, a priest, grey wolves and even an angel. In tales conveyed with a deep reverence for the Sonoran Desert-which becomes a living entity in these poems, a witness to struggle, tragedy, and rising urban sprawl-Doty reminds us that "beauty has a strangeness, and sadness a dignity." With a clear eye and a steadfast hand, she recounts stories of the dispossessed, and in those tales we see reflections of ourselves and a failed American dream.-Alfred Fournier, author of A Summons on the WindPoems go deeper than facts. Roxanne Doty has filled her book with observations and stories begging to be noticed. She points to the cold eyes of bureaucracy as she makes compassion a priority when looking closely instead of dismissing individual dramas as a disturbance to social complacency. Every person crossing the border in pursuit of a better life deserves the attention afforded in these pages which bring out what news bulletins generally omit. With a writing style that flows easily and creates clear pictures of those in need Roxanne brings color and atmosphere to the otherwise urgent scenes she describes. Back in the city, she is alert to those people struggling to make it through life or just across the road and in any situation she sees and records what is easily overlooked. A few written lines work here like lines drawn by a skilled artist to suggest much more than is immediately seen.-David Chorlton, author of Life Goes On and Unmapped Worlds

Ann E. Wallace had to fight for language just as she had to fight for air in her journey with Long Covid, and the poems here are hard won marvels, full of insight and compassion and fiercely nurtured hope. Here, the world becomes poem-the virus is a "mad villanelle", each of us a stanza "braided to the other to the other, /with no beginning and no end." Here, breath is painful and precious, never taken for granted. I could feel my own breath change as I read this necessary collection, this important chronicle of our pandemic era. "..for every/piece of you that has broken," the poet reminds us, "a new angle/becomes visible." I'm so grateful for all the new angles Wallace makes visible in these pages, for the narrative she's woven from and about our ruptured time.-Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's SuicideIn her evocative new collection Days of Grace And Silence, Ann E. Wallace delves into the profound question of living deliberately in the midst of a pandemic. With poignant insight, she guides us through this time of uncertainty as we coexist yet remain apart. Wallace's poems serve as a profound documentation of our interior worlds and the lodestar that guide us. These missives are a gentle reminder that poetry is a tool for understanding and empathy, as we craft words as evidence to make sense of our lives. In the dailyness of her poems, Wallace uncovers the extraordinary concealed within the ordinary. This book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, making meaning and connections through adversity, offering readers a journey through the uncharted territories-the infinity of hope.-January Gill O'Neil, author of Glitter RoadAnn E. Wallace navigates her Covid experience with poetic finesse, and in the process reveals to readers her grace, fortitude, and stunning perseverance. Wallace weaves her words into a powerful meditation of spirit from the early days of her illness and of the pandemic and through the later days with effortless eloquence and arresting authenticity. "Could you ever understand, if you were not / here in this quiet place of fear with me?" Wallace's renderings of her plight with Covid and of the rigors of the pandemic are steeped with not only hard truths, but of compassion and luminous respites. Days of Grace and Silence by Ann E. Wallace is a tender, dynamic, and enlightening poetry collection for our times.-Jeannie E. Roberts, author of As If Labyrinth-Pandemic Inspired Poems and other books

"Where will the accumulations of the daily joys go?" asks the still and tender voice in Angela Hoffman's Hold the Contraries. The answer, this collection suggests, depends-not on our ability to control or limit suffering, but on our full surrender to a "broken-open" attention-a frailty that startles each person "back into the world." The quiet courage found here invites us to "live into our answers" by embracing fullness and emptiness, both. A pilgrimage rooted in well-earned wisdom and beauty.-Lauren K. Carlson, inaugural Lorine Niedecker Fellow and author of Animals I Have Killed In Hold the Contraries, Angela Hoffman explores the paradoxes that life presents. Here are poems of emotional complexity, rapturous imagery, and surprising juxtapositions: "I cut the last of the pink hydrangeas. I cut off intimacy." They acknowledge pain, doubt, "driving in fog, snow, rain, ice," reveal "evening primrose, night phlox / all dancing in their nightgowns." Amid suffering, Hoffman struggles to find peace: "sit in the stillness, / feel earth's tender breath, just like the moth." Both spiritual and deeply human, these poems were "composted in my garden, / turned over and over into wisdom." I savored them; so will you.-Peggy Turnbull, author of The Joy of Their HolinessThis is a most enjoyable collection of poems. The works engage the senses and massage all emotions. Angela's skill in a poem's universality shines in "When Clouds Break Open" and "Rain" Her keen observation skills give the reader focus on a wide range of science facts and human interactions. Her personal poems take the reader on the journey of Angela's adult life and finding her voice.-Nancy Rafal, Door County Poet Laureate 2019-2021

One of life's most delightful occurrences is being introduced to a world you didn't realize existed and certainly didn't understand. Kelly Sargent pulls the curtain back on the struggles and giggles of twin sisters-one deaf, one partially deaf-and their innocent solutions to communication. Using sign language is not a new concept, but when you're a child without access to a formal language, you do what is natural-you create your own. Each poem is a treasure of understanding, compassion, and persistence in overcoming the challenges of functioning in a world that can't be heard. This book is a touching tribute to a young girl born with "limitations" who outgrew them all, and a sister who loved her without limits.-j.lewis, Editor of Verse-Virtual and author of goodbye sounds likeWho steps in to provide therapeutic services when twin girls, one hearing-impaired and one deaf, are adopted overseas by military parents? Of course, the little girls do it themselves! In beautiful poems, we see fingers touching throats to feel sound and children signing into cupped hands in the dark of night, as in "Handheld Voices" where "fingers wiggled, / thumbs folded, / knuckles bent, / tendons flexed. // Palms opened and closed, like oysters." Kelly Sargent conveys her role as defender, interpreter, speech therapist, and friend to her sister. Her poems deftly illustrate how she navigated these roles until her sister left for a residential school for the deaf at age twelve- a painful separation, but one that enabled both girls to develop as individuals. This perfectly balanced collection is full of love, humor, metaphor, resiliency, and narrative reflection.-Mary Ellen Talley, retired speech-language pathologist and author of Taking LeaveNo eye will remain dry while reading Echoes in My Eyes, Kelly Sargent's poetry collection that tells a story. It is a story where love and protection live side by side with stigma and stereotypes, white lies, misunderstanding, and separation. Written from the perspective of a loving sister, the reader gets a rare opportunity to learn about what it means to grow up as a deaf person in a hearing society and the crucial role that a significant relationship plays in the course of one journey. I believe this chapbook is a must on every shelf.-Gal Slonim, Founder of Beyond Words Publishing House

Shaheen Dil's poems blossom with lush descriptions, from Kennywood, an amusement park in Pittsburgh, to Karimpur, a village in Bangladesh. Her sharp powers of observation peel away the surface layers to get to the heart of the matter, and the matter of the heart. This wide-ranging collection is not afraid to take on larger philosophical issues with honesty, humility and grace, asking questions for which there are no easy answers, like the best poems do. Jim Daniels' recent poetry books includeThe Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press, and Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press. Shaheen Dil writes with authenticity about what she knows well. From the waterways of Bangladesh to the mysterious engines of Wall Street, this collection traverses a vast range of topics with a unique voice that is no less vigorous than it is charming. In The Boat-maker's Art, the reader will rediscover themes and imagery from Dil's first book, Acts of Deference, revisited and enhanced by her apparently inexhaustible lyrical curiosity.The Bulgarian poet Lyubomir Nikolov is the author of numerous books, translated into seven languages. His latest book is The Wine's Angel, (Fakel Press 2018.) In The Boat-maker's Art, Shaheen Dil displays the whole range of poetics and of her culturally-engaged imagination. Dreamy and full of sensibility, these poems turn with the lightest of touches to reveal the wit and allusion that underpins every description. Dil is a poet who eschews the tired gestures of confessional verse to share with us a deeply-felt view of the human world itself. In her vision contemporary experience is still richly meaningful and connected through myth and religion with past and future human lives.Fiona Sampson, MBE, FRSL, is one of the UK's leading poets and writers. Her work has been translated into 37 languages. Her honors include: the European Lyric Atlas prize, the Naim Frasheri international laureateship, and the Wales Poetry Book of the Year. Earth, air, fire and water. Especially water. "The Boat-maker's Art" is a great poem of our language and sets the tone for the volume of that same name. Shaheen Dil's Bangladesh origins permit her a unique perspective on American life. The Boat-maker's Art is an essential book of poems and reading it is an homage to the human spirit.Michael Wurster is the author of numerous poetry books and a founding member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. His latest book is Even Then, (University of Pittsburgh Press 2019.)

In Fog Totem, Anne Mitchell takes us on a journey via poetic snapshots of ocean and fog, the pandemic, a divorce, loss of a beloved dog, knee surgery, a fledging daughter, and more...all with humor, musical wordplay, and irony. In these poems, we see tourists who "shiver in their shorts," "pelicans (who) have all the moves," a "dance to the hiss of rattlesnake grass," and the "abalone iridescence of a hummingbird's throat." Vivid imagery and a narrator's perspective that stays with you.-Susan Vespoli, author of Blame It On the Serpent, Cactus as Bad Boy, and One of Them Was MineAs one who often holds her breath for many reasons, reading Anne Mitchell's poem "Breathe," not only got me to inhale and exhale slowly and with pleasure, it got me to reclaim a level of ease and awareness that had fled. "Life will not always go your way./ The bees will disappear from the hive/ and the orange Tomcat will wander off to die/ without leaving a note..." Can't we all recognize ourselves in that? Fog Totem will bring you back to what matters most. These poems will slow you down so you too can breathe more easily and be reminded of what matters most.-Patrice Vecchione, author of My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry & Speaking Your TruthWith whimsy and wordplay Anne Mitchell scours the attic of a life filled with heartache and hope, all the while rendering the details of everyday life into a poetry of attention. Far from prose that pretends to verse, Fog Totem is poetry in its truest sense and purpose.-Rags Rosenberg is songwriter/poet and artist in residence at The Hofsas House in Carmel, Ca

A ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy. In this fifth offering from the Multiverse series, Latif Askia Ba--a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy--honors all the things that arise from our unique choreographies. Meeting each reader with corporeal generosity, these poems create space to practice a radical reclamation of movement and the body. Together. In dialogue. In disability. At the bodega, in the examination room, on the move. "This way. My body looks like a dancing tattoo." Here, the drum of the body punctuates thought in unexpected and invigorating time signatures.These poems are percussive and syncopated, utilizing a polylingual braid of French, Spanish, Jamaican, Fulani, and Wolof that reminds the Anglophone reader: "I am not here to accommodate you." Because these poems are not so much for you as they are with you, an accompaniment rather than an accommodation, something to be rather than something to own.With startling nuance, The Choreic Period encourages us to "relinquish the things that we have. And mark the thing that we do," all to see and sing the vital "thing that we be."

This book started one poem at a time over several years. It was something I admired to do as far as writing poetry and wanting to create a book, but I never thought of having my poetry as a book. This book is filled with my desire to write poetry as a young girl to grow through the years as an adult writing poetry from my heart. The short poems were in the beginning stages of my trying to write poetry. Through my thoughts of how I saw things in life and what I was going through, the words leaped from my mind to the pages of each one. This book is my expression of my life's ups and downs, but to be lifted by the main character I give all the credit to, God. I was asked by God to allow him to utilize my life to help others so he may receive all the glory. If you ever had the desire to write poetry or a book, I want to encourage you to do so. These poems were my therapy to express my feelings that I could not tell others.Now, you can be a part of these stories as you read, and I pray they're an encouragement to you also.

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The Postcards I Never Sent is a beautifully sensual poetic memoir, rich with raw emotion and vulnerability. Patterson's words dance between love, loss, leaving, and returning. It is an honor to witness these poems becoming their own small rebellions on the page. This book transports us between time and place, from nature to the divine, all in a search for new and cosmic beginnings."-Nia McAllister, poet, Senior Public Programs Manager at Museum of the African Diaspora

In Celebration of International Women's Day I try to recreate what isand what washolding on to the goodreframing the badrecycle, reuseshards of mosaic glassunder my feet in the garden Eight women explore self-expression, love and loss, raising families, and growing older with grace, anger, honesty, and power. Featuring poetry and short stories from Michelle Lee, Dakoda Foxx, Jennifer DiMarco, Bree Indigo, Jonielle McMurtrey, Phoenix Noel, Sheila Mengert, and Elizabeth Wong, Rise Recreation is a raw, authentic collection where ten women become one and speak to us all.Proceeds from this volume will be donated to S.T.E.A.M. (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) projects for girls and young women sponsored by the 501(c)3 nonprofit Blue Forge Group.

An attentive collection of poems seeking answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by white noise."The question isn't / what exists," writes Sarah V. Schweig in this engrossing collection of poems, "The question is what doesn't / die with us?" Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried beneath the mantle of late capitalism. Stillness. Sunsets. The circadian rhythm of trees. These poems guide us to look past content, brands, and relentless jargon to find meaning in those layers of the world that operate without human intervention or interpretation.And yet: "Why this impulse to poetry if I believe the literal all that's left?" In verse that is at once inventive and innately familiar, Schweig unpacks the urge to make art, life, and connections even at the risk of becoming further entangled in the Anthropocene. In the face of the twenty-first century's fearful enormities and its persistent mundanities, she posits, we need reminders that beauty, friendship, and kindness, are all still possible. "We light lights / in the dark. It's a human thing."Profound and clear-sighted, this collection--selected by Cynthia Cruz for the 2023-24 Jake Adam York Prize--urges us to lift our gazes from our screens and really look at the world around us. If we measure our attentions and sharpen our intentions, if we "try again to write / the truth things," we might spy something real on the horizon.

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe--in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do.Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040, opens in question punctuated as fact: "Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map." In these visionary new poems, Graham is part historian, part cartographer as she plots an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant "the American experiment will end in 2030." Graham shows us our potentially inevitable future soundtracked by sirens among industrial ruins, contemplating the loss of those who inhabited and named them. In sparse lines that move with cinematic precision, these poems pan from overhead views of reshaped shorelines to close-ups of a worm burrowing through earth. Here, we linger, climate crisis on hold, as Graham asks us to sit silently, to hear soil breathe. An urgent open letter to the future, with a habit of looking back, To 2040 is narrated by a speaker who reflects on her own mortality--in the glass window of a radiotherapy room, in the first "claw full of hair" placed gently on a green shower ledge. In poems that look to 2040 as both future and event-horizon, we leave the collection warned, infinitely wiser, and yet more attentively on edge. "Inhale. / Are you still there / the sun says to me." And, from the title poem, "what was yr message, what were u meant to / pass on?"

Following on from the roaring international success of his debut collection of poetry, rants, and ramblings, the inimitable Dale Prudent returns with more of the same, only different.

Libro di poesie d'amore. Il libro è uno spaccato di vita dell'autore che esplora i suoi sentimenti.

¿Cabría encuadrar la poesía de Tirso Camacho Martínez-Carrasco en la conocida como "generación del 98"? Arranca la generación con el llamado "Grupo de los tres"- (Azorín, Baroja y Maeztu) que comenzaron a escribir de una manera juvenil, hipercrítica e izquierdista, aunque más tarde se orientará hacia lo tradicional. Pronto, Maeztu, y especialmente Baroja, negaron la existencia de tal generación. No obstante, posteriormente se sumaron algunos otros como, Ángel Ganivet (considerado por algunos autores como un precursor de la generación), los sevillanos hermanos Antonio y Manuel Machado y el filólogo Manuel Menéndez Pidal, entre otros. Componente de otra generación, la del 27, el gran poeta y ensayista Pedro Salinas afirmó en 1935 la existencia de la del 98, y para ello basó su análisis en el concepto "generación literaria". Se trata de un conjunto de escritores vinculados por una serie de ideologías y de estilos en un período de tiempo determinado, por lo general, de unos quince años, es decir, hasta 1915, o bien, hasta la crisis española de 1917. Así pues, a la vista de estos datos ¿cabría encuadrar la poesía de Tirso Camacho en la "generación del 98"? El tiempo dirá.

Il "Poeta dimenticato" vol. secondo. Raccolta di poeti in auge nella prima metà del secolo scorso in Sicilia.

Tirso Camacho, un poeta que ha sido laureado en numerosos juegos florales tanto dentro como fuera de esta región, publicó en 1908 un libro de versos bajo el título 'Auras de arriba'. Casi todas las poesías que conforman este volumen, bellamente impreso en las instalaciones de los sucesores de Nogués, han recibido premios en los mencionados juegos, tal como lo señala el propio autor. Este detalle indica que los versos de Tirso ya han sido juzgados favorablemente por personas de gran erudición. El libro se inicia con una conmovedora composición dedicada a su madre, que mereció la Flor Natural en los juegos florales celebrados en esta ciudad en el año 1901. El jurado de estos juegos estuvo compuesto por D. Federico Balart, D. Pedro Díaz Cassou y D. Juan José Herránz. Todas las poesías de Tirso están inspiradas en temas nobles y elevados. El autor canta a la patria, al amor, a la fe, al progreso, al trabajo y a la caridad; por ello ha titulado su libro 'Auras de arriba', un título que le sienta perfectamente.

Nuestro poeta quiso escribir un libro sobre sus poemas de Luciérnagas y Sensitivas, pero nunca llegó a cumplir este deseo. Observamos este anhelo en su libro Auras de Arriba del 1908 y en el periódico El Diario, donde bajo la rúbrica Luciérnagas nos hace saber que los poemas a continuación eran inéditos y correspondían a "Del libro en preparación Luciérnagas y Sensitivas". Al principio, Tirso Camacho comenzó en "Luciérnagas y Sensativas" con poemas sin título, indicando solamente los números romanos I, II, III, etc., pero esto cambió rápidamente meses más tarde por números romanos con sus correspondientes títulos. Es probable que nuestro poeta tuviera hecho un borrador de este libro, porque publicó la mayoría de estos poemas en los periódicos, destacando El Diario de Murcia. Por otra parte, publicó en su libro de 1908 algunos versos: La Pira, Virtud, La Dicha, El Lago, Claro-Obscuro, Estrellas errantes, Amor al prójimo, Expiación, Compasión, Soñar despierto, y Tierra y Cielo. No ha sido tarea fácil colocar todos los poemas en el lugar adecuado, porque muchos poemas no tienen número y con otros no sabemos si pertenecen al grupo de Luciérnagas o al de Sensitivas. Por estas razones, se han creado varios grupos para facilitar la lectura de los poemas.

A Collection of Poems sharing evocative memories, situations, thoughts, emotions and feelings that can arise for Anyone, at Anytime, Anywhere from the Past, the Present or in the Future.

A Book of Paintings and Poetry - containing the artwork of Taos painter, Bill Rane (1927-2005) adorned by the poetry of eleven poets from the West and Southwest. In September of 2007, upon the two year commemoration of Rane's passing, an ekphrasis event took place at RANE Gallery in Taos, New Mexico titled: Reflections on Rane. Poets, reflecting upon their chosen Rane painting, read their poems in celebration of the artist's work. THE MASTER'S HAND is the result of that evening's spoken word performance. Each painting and a detail from the painting is shown in vibrant color accompanied by its illuminating poem. Andrea Watkins states in her preface, the poems took on unique forms - "As companion pieces to the artist's luminous paintings of women, the sea, horses, orchards of ripening fruit, birds, shells, earth and sky, they wove a tapestry of Bill's world, expressing the joyous pulse of humanity."

"Poem after poem raised the hair on my arms. I was moved and inspired all the way through."- Marsha de la O, poet, author of CreaturesMary Kay Rummel grew up in St. Paul near the Mississippi and the corner where Montreal, Lexington and West Seventh meet near Highland Park. She was the first Poet Laureate of Ventura County, CA. Little River of Amazements: New and Selected Poems is her tenth published poetry book, her eighth full collection. Blue Light Press also published Nocturnes: Between Flesh and Stone, Cypher Garden, The Lifeline Trembles, as a winner of the 2014 Blue Light Press Award and What's Left is the Singing. This Body She's Entered, her first book, won the Minnesota Voices Award for poetry and was published by New Rivers Press in 1989. It was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. She was a recipient of a Loft Mentor award. Her work has appeared in numerous regional, national, and international literary journals and anthologies and has received several awards, including ten Pushcart nominations. She was a co-editor of Psalms of Cinder & Silt, a collection of community poems related to recent California wildfires published by Glenna Luschei at Solo Press. Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies centered in both California and the Midwest including Water Stone Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, MiraMar, Anacapa Review, Gyroscope Review, Conestoga Zen, Pirene's Fountain, Salt, Askew, Spillway and as a frequent finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize, in Nimrod.Mary Kay has read her poems in many venues in the US, England and Ireland and has been a featured reader at poetry festivals including in the Ojai Poetry Festival and San Luis Obisbo Poetry Fest. She has participated in numerous poetry residencies including Anderson House and Vermont Studio Center and performs poetry with musicians. She has collaborated with artists in the US and England, most recently at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. A Professor Emerita from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Mary Kay also taught at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and at California State University, Channel Islands.She is a founding board member of the nonprofit Ventura County Poetry Project. She and her husband, Conrad (Tim), live in California and Minnesota, near children and grandchildren in both states. She can be contacted through email at marykayrummel.com

Readers are beckoned into a mesmerizing exploration of the profound landscapes within the soul and the vast reaches of the universe. Within the pages of this collection, each poem emerges as a whispered revelation-an eloquent testament to the quiet moments of inspiration that permeate the poet's journey. These verses transcend mere compositions; rather, they are ethereal whispers brought forth by the hidden melodies of the heart, the rustling leaves, the celestial ballet of stars, and the subtle echoes of the digital age. Woven into existence with a delicate touch, they mirror the eternal dance of seasons, the flights of dreams in moonlit reveries, and the soul's navigation through the intricate labyrinth of existence. From the gentle symphony of nature's changing months to the resonant chords of love and devotion, each poem encapsulates the hushed secrets and profound wisdom that envelop us daily. This book extends an invitation to embark on a journey, encouraging readers to discover the enchanting world of whispered truths and immerse themselves in the timeless beauty of verse.

This is my third collection of poetry, mired in the middle aged (and over) struggles as life keeps inventing new stuff to throw at me and I flail about wildly, unable to handle it.