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In this collection, you will explore the completeness in the incompleteness of promises made to oneself. A bridge, which in the lifeless, mundane world, sees the colorful affection, hope, and subtle essence through the eyes of memories. Within these hidden strings of words, you will feel the sensation of the silken weaving of spiritual fervor and concealed threads of experience, akin to a "silken breeze."

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable book falls within the genres of History, General and Eastern Hemisphere

Les trophées, est un livre classique et rare, qui a été considéré comme important tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanité, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, chez Alpha Editions, nous avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. . Tout ce livre a été reformaté, retapé et repensé. Ces livres ne sont pas constitués de copies numérisées de leur oeuvre originale et leur texte est donc clair et lisible. Ce livre remarquable s'inscrit dans les genres de Language and Literatures, Romance literatures

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A Mother's List of Books for Children, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable book falls within the genres of Bibliography, Library science,

A scrapbook of poems that explore the themes of friendships, life after trauma, and the complexities of romance. It allows the reader into the cluster of emotions, and musings of a month full of great triumph, loss, and rebirth. The debut poetry book, 'February' is a labour of love and self-dedication. Showcasing the true form of the poet's mental state as he reflects on the most important and impactful inspiration of all his poet and lyrical work - love and relationships in their numerous forms, unfiltered and unashamed.

Welcome to the enchanting realm of poetry, where the alchemy of emotions and words weaves captivating spells. I'm thrilled to introduce my book, a poetic anthology that will guide you through the four seasons of existence. Each season symbolises a distinct emotion and facet of life, mirroring the natural world's cycles and urging us to embrace them. The book is meticulously divided into four sections, mirroring the four seasons: 'Hurting, ' 'Learning, ' 'Healing, ' and 'Falling in Love. Each section mirrors the diverse emotions encountered in our life journey. This book "n't just a collection of poems; it's a transformative journey. It will accompany you through life's peaks and valleys, leaving you with a profound sense of hope and love. So, join me in embracing life's four seasons and experiencing the beauty within each emotion."

Dear Reader"Untouched by your version of me" this quote summarizes the whole book.These were the words I yearned to hear from someone else, yet they ultimately echoed within me. I hope you find something that inspires you, resonates with you, fills you with hope and joy and challenges you to live your life how you want it.It is same as how each of our flaws are beautiful and contributes something in our personality.Let the gentle rhythm of the verses wash over you. For in these words, you'll find a reflection of your own self-a reminder that, no matter where life takes us, we're never truly alone in our feelings.Thank you

Poetry and musings by Tamara Albanna."Tamara Albanna reveals many faces in her collection of "poetry and musings, As I Lay by the Tigris and Weep. Her untitled and deceptively simple pieces, none more than a page long, describe a fierce woman who calls for nothing less than a world-wide revolution against the misogyny of "old men in their robes/ so terrified of little girls who bleed/ paralyzed at the thought of all that power. . ./ They must suppress her from the cradle to the grave/ because if she realizes her power/ theirs will be no more."Albanna reminds us-and herself-that she is: descended from the "Priestesses of Sumer/ A land they call, 'The Cradle of Civilization, '/ a time when Goddess reigned/ and women honored as her incarnation on Earth/ Today, this land is drowning in the blood of/ innocents-all because we have forgotten Her."Slowly she has discovered and forged the inner strength necessary both to survive and to effect change. In one of the "musings " mentioned in the book's title, Albanna relates: "To survive my childhood, I learned how to weavewords, step in and out of different realities, different worlds, anything to escape thecruelty of my present situation.I look back and realize the power I had."In some pieces, Albama apostrophizes the Beloved, reminiscent of the great Persian mystic poet known as Rumi. Filled with ecstatic adoration, Rumi's unidentified "Beloved" represented, we are told, his idea of God. Similarly, the identity of Albama's "Beloved" is ambiguous, but perhaps she addresses those to whom she dedicates her book, "To the Goddess, my Motherland, and women and girls all over Mother Earth." What is not ambiguous is that Albanna calls for us to abjure subordination, suppression, and silence originating in fear and hatred based on identities assigned us at birth, and incites us to rebel and own our strength and beauty." -Donna Snyder, author of The Tongue Has its Secrets

When I began my journey in poetry, it was simply an attempt to recreate some of the pieces I had been exposed to in my school literature classes. I considered creating poetry a challenge to test my abilities to replicate the works of the great literary virtuosos of the past in the English Belle Lettres canon. The gradual construction of a sizable number of poems did not efface its presence on me until quite recently when I realized that I had produced more than a dozen poems. As I read my poems chronologically, I can observe the paced shift in my writing style and preferred themes. I hope, you, the reader, will also be able to notice the inclusion of more and more themes as you read on. Poetry has never genuinely been about sending a message; poetry must be lissom and lithe and roll off the tongue like a drop of rain. Hence, concepts such as the meter and rhymes have been quintessential in fabricating these works. I am greatly influenced by particular motifs in modern culture and the vivid and whirling dreams that my brain has construed over the past few years. Only in an attempt to pen down these dreams with sufficient grandiloquence have some of these poems come to fruit. I hope you enjoy my works as much as I enjoyed writing them. I have always expected that someday my works would be analyzed as old works are examined today. Still, though I have far to go to achieve such stature, I hope this may be a stepping stone. Taran Balakrishnan is a Class XI student at Sishya School, Adyar, in Chennai, India. An academically brilliant teenager with a plethora of interests and skills, he is an avid reader and writer with a natural literary flair for poetry. Taran is a keen musician who plays Carnatic flute, western piano and guitar and is self-taught in Jalatharangam. He is also a sportsman, playing tennis at the national level in India, football and tabletennis. Taran is a terrific public speaker, an accomplished actor who frequently stars in theatrical productions' solo performances, and a playwright. He wrote his first murder mystery novel, "The Blackn'd Owl", at 14, and it was published by CreaPlay in Feb 2022. He is currently writing another book in the Indian historical fantasy genre.Foreword by Dr. T. Sumathi (Thamizhachi Thangapandian) Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, India.

જ્યારે જેવા વિચાર અનુભવ્યા તેનું આલેખન થતું ગયું. આપોઆપ શબ્દ સ્ફૂર્તા ગયા ને કવિતાની રચના થતી ગઈ. એક સ્ત્રી તરીકે સ્ત્રીની વેદના રજૂ કરતી રચનાઓનું પ્રાધાન્ય વધારે છે એટલે આમ જોવા જઈએ તો સમગ્ર સ્ત્રી જાતિ માટે આ પોતાનું પુસ્તક છે. આ માત્ર મારું પ્રથમ પુસ્તક નહીં પણ વર્ષોથી જોયેલું સાકાર થતું મારું સપનું છે. આ પુસ્તકમાં વાંચવા મળશે તમને તમારા જ વિચારોનું વમળ સાહિત્યમાં મારું આ પ્રથમ પગલું છે.

Antonin Artaud's last large-scale work, published in its complete form in English for the first time. Drawings on texts and letters dating from 1946, some of them written while he was still confined at the Rodez psychiatric hospital, Artaud devoted the months of November 1946 to February 1947 to completing his book through a long series of vocal improvisations titled Interjections, dictated at his pavilion on the edge of Paris. He cursed the assassins he believed were on their way there to steal his semen, to make his brain go "up in smoke as under the action of one of those machines created to suck up filth from the floor," and finally to erase him. The publisher who had commissioned the book, Louis Broder, was horrified at reading its incandescent, fiercely obscene, and anti-religious manuscript and refused to publish it. Ambitious and experimental in scale, fragmentary and ferocious in intent, it was not published until 1978, in an edition prepared by Artaud's close friend Paule Thévenin. Artaud commented that it was an "impossible" book, and that "nobody has ever read it from end to end, not even its own author." Clayton Eshleman, together with his translation collaborators such as David Rattray, began work soon after 1978 on an English-language edition, with extracts appearing especially in Eshleman's poetry magazine, Sulfur. But they, too, were unable to take forward the publication of the book. This volume presents it in its complete form in English for the first time.

Julia Frazier White, Ph.D., is a mother, grandmother, Sunday school teacher, and editor for technical and scholarly writing projects. Dr White. retired from IBM Corporation as a Senior Systems Engineer. After her retirement, she was recruited by Georgia Pacific Corporation as a Manager of Systems Development. Presently, Dr. White is pursuing a dream of hers to write books. Her published writings include: Forgiveness: Learning How to forgive; Poems, Prose and Prayers: A Lifetime of Reflection. She is co-author of George Liele's Life and Legacy: An Unsung Hero (The James N. Griffith Endowed Series in Baptist Studies). Dr. White is working on two other books: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Parents: A Tribute to My Parents; and Journey to Wellness: Overcoming an Incurable Disease. She delivers workshops and speeches on forgiveness and other inspirational topics. Julia holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics with minors in chemistry and German, a master's degree in management and project management, and a doctorate degree in Christian counseling. Dr. White has three children: Richard Frazier White (attorney), Anthony Brewer White (cyber security), and Cheryl Ann White (Teacher and Tutor). Dr. White enjoys her grandchildren Lucas and Sofia. Dr. White enjoys retirement yet leads a very busy life writing, tutoring, playing tennis, engaging in water aerobics, traveling, playing cards, and working with her favorite volunteer activities.

NOS LETTRES D'ASIEVersion couleurDe Saint-John Perse à François ChengL'Asie est présente dans la littérature de langue française depuis bien longtemps, des Lettres d'Asie de Saint-John Perse au Japon contemporain d'Amélie Nothomb. Mais on ignore parfois que de nombreux auteurs asiatiques écrivent en français et que nombre de grands noms de la littérature en français sont originaires d'Asie... Qu'on pense à Aki Shimazaki, Eun-Jan Kang, Akira Mizubayashi, Ook Chung, Ryöko Sekiguchi, Ying Chen, Shan Sa, Dai Sijie, Wèi Wéi, Ya Ding et bien sûr le célèbre François Cheng, Membre de l'Académie française. À l'occasion du premier festival des auteurs francophones à Kuala Lumpur le 24 mars 2024, RENCONTRE DES AUTEURS FRANCOPHONES a donc invité ses membres à explorer ce mariage entre la littérature de langue française et l'Asie, en rendant hommage au continent asiatique et à ceux qui l'écrivent en français. Ce voyage en Asie rassemble vingt-cinq textes rédigés par des auteurs passionnés, enthousiastes à l'idée de laisser courir les mots pour leur rendre hommage. Nouvelles, poèmes, réflexions, textes, illustrations... Nous vous invitons à découvrir ce que l'Asie leur inspire et à vous plonger dans les carnets de voyage de Pom Ehrentrant, notre Ambassadrice en Malaisie. Le livre comporte de très nombreuses illustrations et photos en couleurDirection éditoriale: Anna Alexis Michel. Direction artistique: Sandra Encaoua Berrih.Rencontre des Auteurs Francophones, fondée à New York en 2020 par Sandrine Mehrez Kukurudz, regroupe près de 400 auteurs de 50 pays et territoires du monde. C'est une plate-forme qui offre une activité quotidienne aux auteurs et lecteurs. C'est un réseau dynamique, implanté aujourd'hui sur quatre continents et dirigé par des passionnés francophones.www.RencontreDesAuteursFrancophones.comUn ouvrage de la collection "Hommage"(c) Éditions Rencontre des Auteurs FrancophonesÉtats-Unis d'Amérique - 2024

In City Full of Fireworks & Blues Stephen Cramer collects a series of lyric poems that explore both love and loss with a taut musicality that enters the reader's very musculature. Though the book often features the emotional or intellectual skirmishes that are common to all, it is far more of a celebration than a dirge. "Let us learn," one of the poems offers, "the way cries inherit our breath, the way 1,000 facets of song can inhabit the mouth."

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 CHANGES BOOK PRIZE JUDGED BY LOUISE GLÜCK & EILEEN MYLES The poems of Dream State arise from the poet’s experience living and working in Iraq, not as a soldier or journalist, but as a writer, translator, teacher, and preservationist of Kurdish culture. In a stunning act of cogenerative imagination, Levinson-LaBrosse’s poetic voice emerges alongside the voices of others with whom she has collaborated. Together with her poems, these translated memories, testimonies and stories form an interdependent environment bridging time and perception. As a book, Dream State resists categorization. And yet it is fundamentally accessible in its humanity. People come together in understanding, and break apart just as quickly. Fictions shatter and endure, while national imaginations always seem to be at risk. And everywhere the poet turns, she learns that peace is never self-sustaining. True peace is an enduring act of courage, and one that must be lived everyday. As the 2003 Iraq invasion reached its twentieth anniversary (2023) and the Islamic State’s attempted genocide in Shingal reaches its tenth (2024), Dream State attempts to sit with other people’s experiences, rather than extract details to exploit them; amplifies the work around the poet, rather than supplant it; and trusts that listening to individual perspectives will lead to common understanding.

These days 'nature poetry' is often disparaged as irrelevant in modern society with the presumption that poets should be writing poems about humans: our suffering, our problems, our wars, prejudices, and injustices. In our culture of money, nature is mostly devalued as scenery or as an exploitable resource, a place to cut timber, extract minerals, and divert water for manufacturing. These powerful and accessible poems of loss and praise view nature as a resource-to assist in our awakening. They challenge us to find the spiritual in the everyday, the sacred in the secular. They examine the natural world as a local expression of the cosmos. By exploring mountains and rivers they move toward a fusion with the geography of our inner world, showing that in the mindfulness created by our experiences of nature lies our best hope of addressing human problems. As well as notes from the wilderness they include news from the edge of consciousness, wintry prayers, and the happiness of the ordinary, even within the context of ecological peril. These are poems with an intricate sense of our connection to the natural world for a disconnected time. "Poetry, for me, is an instrument of investigation and a mode of perception, a way of knowing and feeling both self and world...I am interested in poems that find a clarity without simplicity; in a way of thinking and speaking that does not exclude complexity but also does not obscure; in poems that know the world in many ways at once-heart, mind, voice, and body." -Jane Hirshfield, judge of the 2024 Wildhouse Poetry Chapbook Contest

ForewordRenowned Poets: Nazım Hikmet The March 2024 issue of our international monthly book, The Year of the Poet, has its focus on the Turkish modernist poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, memoirist and activist Nazım Hikmet. As a native from Turkey-born, raised and schooled there, who independently studied the books of this "Blue-Eyed Giant" after the ban on them was lifted in 1965, I assert that his life and works demand voluminous analyses . . . a task that cannot be completed within the constraints of this text. Being acutely aware of the challenge at hand, I shall resort to your understanding for the brevity of my words. A few factual glimpses on the personal and literary phenomenon that the name Nazım Hikmet embodies will have to suffice. One three-step-fact remains unchanged; namely, that Nazım is universally acknowledged as Turkey's exceptional modern poet but also as a world poet, and has exhausted-continues to exhaust-the research venues of countless minds at home as well as abroad. Nazım Hikmet was born in 1902 as Mehmet Nazım Ran in Selânik and raised in Istanbul. When Turkey was occupied by her allies after World War I, he left for the Soviet Union [sic]. His higher education included his degree in Economics and Sociology at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow. It is there where Russian Futurists and Symbolists, writers and visual artists, as well as Lenin's ideology influenced him. When the Turkish War of Independence resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1924, Hikmet returned to Turkey. Soon after his return to his beloved motherland Turkey, Nazım started working for Aydınlık, a liberal newspaper. Having stigmatized his person and his work as "Communist", the Turkish state banned his poems. In addition, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sedition but fled to the Soviet Union, returning to Turkey in 1928 and settling in İstanbul. There, he worked at various newspapers and magazines and film studios, published his first poetry books and wrote his plays (1928-1932). In 1938, Nazım Hikmet was charged as a "traitor" for the crime of inciting the Turkish armed forces to revolt. He was sentenced to 28 years and 4 months in prison. After serving approximately 11 years of his sentence, an international campaign fought for his release. A committee that included Pablo Picasso, Paul Robeson, and Jean-Paul Sartre was formed in 1949, and in the spring of 1950, Hikmet began a hunger strike in protest of the Turkish Parliament for its failure to include an amnesty law in its agenda before it closed for the upcoming general election. He was freed under the forgiveness law of 1950 at last. As the recorded numbers and facts of history reveal, much of Nazım Hikmet's life was spent behind prison walls: 17 years in Turkish prisons and another 12 years in exile. After his death of a heart attack in Moscow in 1963, his works continued to be banned in Turkey until 1965. Multiple decades after his death, highly justified celebrations are being conducted around the world for this "Blue-Eyed Giant", as Nazım Hikmet became to be known posthumously. Knowing now that he knew to say "I lived", it seems only appropriate for us to conclude our brief visit with his own celebratory words: [...] hülya n. yılmaz, Ph.D. Professor Emerita (Liberal Arts), Penn State, U.S.A.Director of Editing Services atInner Child Press International, U.S.A.

Preface The journey to Egypt was a life changing experience. Flashbacks floating down the Nile River embraced me with memories bubbling in the solitude of a river's flow. With each day I was caught in the moment of a revelation of connection through time and space. My muse challenged me to capture my visions and wrap words around what I was seeing, feeling, hearing throughout the landscape that tickled and teased my soul. I felt a wave of redemption bathe my soul in the light of humility and the blessing of an eagle's vision. This collection rides on the waves of past lives that grabbed me in the reverent walks through the temples and tombs of a regal civilization and my connection to that landscape and people of that era. This was a growth opportunity on my personal journey into a window of time. The stories on the walls gave me lights of understanding to move my learning curve forward. The recognition that every encounter is an opportunity to expand our consciousness is a gift. Enlightenment comes in subtle ways. Every breath, every step, every thought, every utterance from the temple and tomb walls sent messages to me at every moment I was ready to receive the voice of ancient tongues. I float in gratitude for the exposure to this ancient history that weighed heavily on my heart strings. I felt the load of a civilization rising from the sand in my dreams and meditations across a two-week time span of now that floated back 4000 plus years. My muse is still singing and dancing to the unveiled lyrics of ancient Egypt. The power of Spirit to call us out is available to all souls. Each of us is a messenger and a seeker on different pathways to our destination. Our experiences and reactions are individually different. Those differences are tools for learning and growth when we embrace the writing of others. May you be moved by the intensity of my time travel shapeshifting between the land of Egypt and my beloved New Mexico home. I pay homage to the eleven souls and our tour guide who shared this journey with me and the everlasting bond we made in the heat of the Egyptian Desert and the royal comfort of our Egyptian yacht. Each one of us assimilated knowledge in our own personal way. But the laughter we shared and the moments of awesome recognition of the power of what we saw melded our energy in positive memories. Teresa E. GallionBlessingsFebruary 2024

Poems about celestial and mortal bodies. The Radiant explores the psychological, physical, and spiritual challenges of living in a body and the changes and distortions that arise from the experience of the body's limitations and inevitable death. The collection takes its title from the term for the point from which all meteors appear to emanate during a shower, luminous bodies in decay that when traced to their origin seem to converge at a single point. "Perhaps you can remember the time called before, the all-you-can-do-is-see-yourself-in-a-split-second where you recognize that everything you've ever known is going to be different after," writes Goett in the collection's final poem, "The Bookman," recounting radiant points of no return and transformation that, in spite of their challenge, remain luminous.

The conclusion of G. C. Waldrep's trilogy exploring chronic illness. In The Opening Ritual, G. C. Waldrep contends with the failure of the body, the irreducible body, in the light of faith. What can or should "healing" mean when it can't ever mean "wholeness" again? And what kind of architecture is "mercy" when we live inside damage? These are poems that take both the material and the spiritual seriously, that cast their unsparing glances toward "All that is not / & could never be a parable." The collection concludes with a sequence of truly grand meditations on spiritual consciousness--in one the poet notes how, in the stillness of contemplation, the world begins to hum and resound with music. The Opening Ritual attends to and fashions its song from that music.

Poems that radiate with incredible artistic vision and writerly craft. Pain, piercing, and language: with urgent lyricism and lacunae on the page, The Right Hand explores the physical, emotional, and philosophical experiences of chronic pain, bodywork (especially acupuncture), and healing. In the second half of the collection, the poet spends extended time with Bernini's sculpture of St. Teresa in Ecstasy in Rome, finding this famous scene of wounding to be in dialogue with her own experience of pain, as well as her suspension between languages and spiritual isolation. In The Right Hand, the hidden sites of the body speak, and Bernini's centuries-old arrow pierces us with hurting eloquence.

Rosa Lane brings a necessary, gender-fluid, feminist perspective to the Emily Dickinson table of debate. In bold tribute with a title utilizing the last two words Emily Dickinson wrote, Rosa Lane's Called Back converses with one of our greatest poets in theatrical monologue--decoding secrets amid the blatant. Evoked by epigraphs selected from Dickinson's work, Lane's poems, through her I-speaker, reveal the extraordinary to be found in the ordinary and speak to the struggle of sexual orientation, otherness, and the challenges of living in a Calvinistic socioreligious world of oughts and noughts as evidenced in Dickinson's poems. From sapphic eroticism and subsequent pangs of nonbelonging to tacking next life as a welcome reprieve, poems in Called Back create a de novo dot-connecting lyrical narrative.

Everybody has a story to tell, and this story is told in a most unique way-through the beauty, rhythm, and honesty of poetry.The author's story is one that has yet to be completed or even reach its peak, but he has experienced many things in his thirty-five years of life-joy, sorrow, struggle, and triumph. From childhood to adulthood, he has continued to grow as a person through each time of joy and challenge. As you read the words in this book, may you reminisce about your own youth and the experiences that created the person you are today. That's a wonderful thing! Take a journey back through the years as you journey through each page of poems, celebrating how far you have come and how far you will go in the future.

Rafael Alberti's collection of poems set in vibrant Rome, his home in exile from Spain. After his long exile in France and Argentina following the Spanish Civil War, Rafael Alberti's final home in exile was Rome, where he wrote Roma: Peligro para caminantes (Rome: Pedestrians Beware). There, Romulus and Remus sneak down to the Tiber to suckle on feral cats, a jack of all trades pisses on the poet's shoes, whistling as he walks away, and in the Campo de' Fiori the poet compares sonnets with the wandering spirit of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, all in the shadow of the glory of Rome's imperial ruins. Two suites of sonnets open and close the book, while in between, Alberti displays masterful poems in metered and free verse, rhyming couplets, and a numbered series of short poems. The blending of classical tradition with post-modern echoes the darkness and luminosity that exist within the poems, tinged with longing, nostalgia, love, as well as hope. In the end, the Eternal City is a refuge for Alberti: "I left for you all that I once held dear. / Oh Rome, my sorrow pleads, hold out your hands / and give me everything I left for you." This unique trilingual edition features exquisite and nuanced translations in English and Italian from the original Spanish by Anthony Geist and Giuseppe Leporace alongside visually evocative photographs of Rome by Adam Weintraub. Readers will want to take this poetic walk in Rome since what sometimes elicits caution, an aspect of danger, also becomes a destination for discovery.

A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma. In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, highlighting the natural world, the lasting impact of hurricanes, and the marginalization of Puerto Ricans. These poems also focus on the multiple sites of oppression in the United States, especially the racial, social, and political injustices that occur every day. Smith Silva writes with a powerful, gripping voice, confronting the "drowning" of disenfranchised communities as they are displaced, exploited, and robbed of their identities, but remain resilient. Written with unflinching language and vivid imagery, In Inheritance of Drowning reveals the many facets of the lives of marginalized people.

A stunning poetry collection that offers solace and understanding. Jack Ridl's latest collection, All at Once, is structured as a lyrical collage that looks back at his eighty years of life in a rearview mirror. Nothing eludes this poet's attention, reflection, or unbridled joy. Ridl's poems, written in a direct style and tender voice, bring together mismatched meditations, leading us to experience the reality that neither ourselves nor wherever we are is one-sided. These poems are musings on loss and grief, softly interwoven with devotion, human connection, and love. In the words of his daughter when she was seven years old, "Daddy, 'with' is the most important word in the world because we are always 'with.'" Each person reveals infinite realities of "with." All at Once is for anyone in need of companionship or a gentle smile.

Embark on an intimate journey into this very personal collection of soul-baring poetry. From my tumultuous teens through my turbulent twenties, I confronted addiction and mental health challenges. In the depths of my despair, poetry offered me solace and hope. With each verse, I strive to embolden those wrestling with similar demons, inspiring them to conquer and overcome. For others, I hope to illuminate the paths of loved ones walking similar battles. It is with both humility and honor that I share these words, allowing readers into the raw landscape of my soul.

"Embark on a Poetic Journey of Identity and Resilience with Assimilated Natives: A Collection of Borderland Poems Exploring the Complexities of Chicanx Heritage in America"Discover the world of ASSIMILATED NATIVES, a compelling collection of borderland poems that delves deep into the intricate identity of a third-plus generation Chicanx. Through the eloquence of poetry, the author embarks on a poignant and introspective journey, shedding light on the profound impact of forced assimilation into American culture on the intricate tapestry of cultural practices. These poems intricately weave a narrative that vividly portrays the disruption and transformation of age-old traditions, capturing the struggle of navigating the tension between heritage and assimilation."In ASSIMILATED NATIVES, Gume Laurel shares stories about grief and identity, about history and conflict, about the desire to find love and 'to be at home and whole in [his] own skin.' It's a rare thing to find a poet so willing to be open with his heart, so real. Laurel speaks from the border the way that many of us who carry the border within us recognize intimately--because the border never leaves us, because the border shapes the way we think and breathe and love and write."--ire'ne lara silva, author of Cuicacalli / House of Song and the eaters of flowers"Gume Laurel III's poetry is a bold examination of the self as it explores the interstitial spaces of his native borderlands in beautifully crafted poems. The ghost of a culture lost through generational assimilation roams this collection, and Laurel, like so many of us, must confront the complexities of the specter to come to terms with it. Poems like 'Little Joto' and 'A Heritage Reborn' are potent reminders that borders are inherently queer spaces, and that identity is ultimately fluid. A thoughtful and moving collection of essential poetry for our time."--César L. De León, author of Speaking with Grackles by Soapberry Trees"ASSIMILATED NATIVES is a deeply introspective collection of poetry that explores the multifaceted nature of cultural and personal identity. Gume delves into the themes of love, grief, mental health, queerness and latinidad, exploring the challenges of finding a sense of belonging in the Rio Grande Valley, where the border between the US and Mexico blurs. He grapples with the impact of assimilation on self-expression, questioning what it means to truly belong in a world that values conformity over authenticity. In this collection he has found a way to harness his voice to challenge readers to reflect on their own identities, and the impact of assimilation on our society." - Chibbi Orduña, author of Otro/PatriaPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Family & Relationships. Latinx Studies. LGBTQ+ Studies.

In his debut full-length poetry collection, Alejandro Jimenez takes readers on a journey of self-discovery and introspection as he grapples with the profound concept of 'home.' With a new and old country as his backdrop, he skillfully weaves a tapestry of verse that delves into the essence of belonging, identity, and the interconnectedness of people, culture, nostalgia, and the beautiful complexities of the human spirit.