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Veerpaul's debut Punjabi poetry book, ਕੱਲ ਫਿਰ ਸਵੇਰਾ ਆਵੇਗਾ (Tomorrow Brings a New Dawn), takes readers on an emotional journey through life. This collection is divided into six sections, each exploring human feelings, Punjab's culture, and the search for truth. The poems touch on themes like passion, family bonds, love, and staying hopeful despite life's ups and downs.Each poem in Veerpaul's collection paints a vivid picture, from the lush fields of Punjab to the inner workings of the heart, making the reader pause and reflect. Whether it's the warmth of familial ties, the sting of lost love, or the steady pursuit of one's dreams, the book captures the essence of life's diverse moments. It's a celebration of resilience and the beauty that comes with each new day, promising that no matter the darkness, there is always light ahead. This anthology is not just a reading experience; it's an invitation to see the world through a lens of empathy and hope, making it a perfect companion for moments of solitude and contemplation.Written with genuine care, the book aims to be a comforting and inspiring read, encouraging a deep connection with its heartfelt messages. Veerpaul's work goes beyond mere words, aiming to touch readers' hearts and be a faithful companion for anyone moved by the power of poetry.

"To inspire, to seek truth, to love, and to create is the path of the wolf."Embark on a profound journey in 'Deck of Poetry: The Wolf's Ink', S.Grewal's debut poetry collection, which draws upon artistic inspiration and explores the universal truths of human nature and society. The journey cascades into the world of love by offering a rich mosaic of romantic musings. The experience culminates with masterful wordplay and haikus, leading the reader through the poetic spectrum. 'Deck of Poetry: The Wolf's Ink' mirrors life itself; an intricate balance of diverse aspects that define the human essence.This collection is for you if you're seeking inspiration, spiritual growth, deep truths, and an exploration of romance, love, self healing, and creativity. Each poem is a reflection of the multifaceted nature of the human experience, inviting readers to discover the many facets of themselves. As you journey through these pages, you'll gather poetic cards that resonate with your own truth, creating a unique and meaningful experience.Find your poetic card in the Deck of Poetry.

Traditional Chinese PoetrybyLu Weiqing代序 感懷 時至歲尾，突然感懷。望明月而闻風起，聽晚鍾而聆雀靜。兩鬓鴉雛，如今平添華發，稚子小兒，轉瞬玉樹臨風。庭前新柳，誰绾千絲萬縷，灞陵傷別，相揖車馬舟船。日夜微信，身此地而心彼岸，晨昏顛倒，觀落霞而日東升。關山路遠，難奉高堂老母，夜觀星象，原來命在旅程。青天白眼，自是阮籍所爲，道蘊疏朗，還羨林下之風。對酒當歌，曹公吟老骥伏枥，臨淵洗筆，和靖賞鶴子梅妻。然天地周轉，無始無終，亦可圓融一體，亦可禦風而行。日月其裏，星漢其中。舊歲幾何，自今夜終，新歲新日，自今晨始。

A collection of poems that reflect the many trials we face in a lifetime. The process of the lessons learned throughout the trials and the triumphs that occur as we overcome. These poems are real life situations and testimonies put to pen in poetic form to encourage anyone walking through a trial for better days are coming.

Poetry collection by James E Cherry. Cherry is the founder/president of The Griot Collective of West Tennessee, a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization where he conducts a monthly poetry workshop. He serves as Artist in Residence for the Tennessee Arts Commission with a primary focus on dealing with troubled teens through both the written and spoken word. He resides in Tennessee with his wife, Tammy.

Complete Sonnets is a collection of 154 poems written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1609. They are considered to be the greatest sonnets and poems ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language. This powerful, thought-provoking collection is for anyone interested in exploring the themes of love, desire, and the human condition. Over 150 deal with love, friendship, death, the passage of time, and the nature of beauty. Each sonnet is a masterful exploration of the human experience and emotions, utilizing Shakespeare's unparalleled command of language and imagery. The most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have caused intense scholarly discussion as to the identity of the "lovely boy" and the mysterious "dark lady" to whom most of them are addressed with admiration and love. There has also been controversy concerning the full name of the W.H. in the dedication. The first 17 poems, the procreation sonnets, are addressed to the young man-urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Others express the speaker's love for the young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; criticize him for preferring a rival poet; and express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress. Considered a masterpiece of poetry, the sonnets are a testament to Shakespeare's ability to capture the complexity of the human experience and human emotions. This classic of English literature, will take you on an emotional journey, and will make you question the nature of love, desire and the human condition.

"The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, it finally receives the treatment it deserves"--

Goodbye, For Now. delves into the author's journey with identity and relationships as a child of immigrants in New Zealand, navigating the intersections of otherness and queerness. It mourns and critiques family dynamics, explores the complexities of queerness, self-acceptance, and romance, encapsulating the anxieties of being queer and seeking love. It serves as both a lament and a defiance against vulnerability, ultimately a love letter to the author's evolving self and those who have embraced its various iterations.

This book is a compilation of poems written over many years. The poems cover comedy, short stories, and topics people discuss in their daily lives. Some are the author's interpretation of biblical scriptures. Others are based on the author's life experience, including events he has witnessed and people he has observed. Inspired by Shakesperean and Italian Sonnets, the author has written several of his own in various forms. The author has included some Limericks in this book which he started writing for fun and decided to share for your reading pleasure.

This is a collection of poetry that was designed to be read aloud. Tested in many open mics and coffee shops, the authors favorite compliment is "I don't know if it is poetry cause I like it and I know I don't like poetry."

A great story has to have a spectacular conclusion, great planning (And I always enjoyed twists and grandeur).What better way to write mine than use my poetry to publish an outline?This is my Premier piece, The Prelude to what I really want to write.So, if you find this and poetry isn't your thing, It's not mine either.But stick around because this is going to be one hell of a Story.

The first major and only available collection from John Farris, a seminal Black voice in downtown New York City poetry, featuring his final poems transcribed and in manuscript form, along with the self-portraits and drawings he made at the same time, encouraged to do so by his friend David Hammons. John Farris (1940-2016) was the ultimate gadfly of the New York poetry scene, a universally known and revered genius. Author of the small press novel The Ass' Tale and poetry collection It's Not About Time, these Last Poems will be his first widely available work. A collection of drawings along with facsimile and transcribed poems from the end of his life, it's a profound monument to a poet who resolutely lived on the margins, and whose voice is all the more important because of it.

"Eka Prajapatira Mrutyu" is a lyrical long poem by poet Dr. Dinabandhu Sahoo, who is a doctor by profession and a poet and painter by passion. There are illustrations to support each poem. All the illustrations are done by the poet himself.

How lucky we are to have A.R. Williams' refined and contemplative poems. Poems that reach well beyond his native Virginia and touch on the universal themes of memory, relationships, and place. Poems that, collectively, share the overarching theme that our lives and the natural world are always in flux. This is expertly demonstrated in the author's poem "Breath Cloud: " "a translucent cluster of cotton / eventuates / and like a ghostly daydream, / vanishes." Perpetual change means that we will all inevitably experience hardship and loss-this means that there is much to fear. Not surprisingly, Williams is discerning and does not leave his readers feeling hopeless. He also offers us poems of renewal. The author concludes by confessing that he has "nothing more pressing to do than...write to [us]" and, selfishly, I hope that remains the case for years to come. I wholeheartedly recommend this strong and stirring debut.-Corey D. Cook, author of Junk Drawer and editor of Red Eft ReviewThe experience of reading A Funeral in the Wild feels like discovering a cherished photo album. A. R Williams creates a series of poised and delicate snapshots, blending family and the pieces of the natural world that mean the most to him. The result is a surprising sense of intimacy, in poems that are tender, questioning and sometimes raw. Among repeated motifs of trees and birds, we trace the roots of a childhood, a marriage and look with vulnerable hope into the future, where dragonflies helicopter above leafy limbs, ripe tomatoes clutch a child's hand at the market, and dandelion seeds are blown into the wind.-Jen Feroze, author of The Colour of HopeA.R. Williams' first chapbook focuses on fatherhood, relationships and personal fragilities, with a bird's-eye view over life in American towns and landscapes. In these lively, short poems, we are presented with witty descriptions-"A red-winged blackbird intonated a hymn, / before flaunting his red and yellow/ shoulder pads and jet-black suit" and a memorably poetic description of tree-bark with its "cracked and ashen armor." The imagist technique employed by Williams has a real focus on craft and economy, ensuring that these spring-loaded poems are both vivid and suggestive, with an emotional undertow, where words are chosen for resonance and not wasted.-Matthew M. C. Smith, author of The Keeper of Aeons and editor of Black Bough Poetry

"We walk together gathering the coming darkness with both hands."In Sandra Noel's What the Pain Left, the poems crystalize through the lens of grief, each poem sharpened by images, story, and insights. This sounds like a volume of long poems and a thick read, but no. Tightly and sparingly, Noel stitches with a golden thread her poems of clarity and depth. She details her life with her husband from young love's first attraction to their rich shared life with its core of marine science and the sea. His cancer diagnosis interferes with their life's flow. They encounter days of watching for hope in the affront of pain, then nights dealing with death, and finally her days turning toward living. These poems call us to a deeper empathy.-Ann Spiers, author of Rain Violent (Empty Bowl), Back Cut (Black Heron), and Harpoon (Triple Series # Ravenna). See annspiers.com.In Sandra Noel's What the Pain Left, we witness the flux and flow of a life passing in clear, forthright language that bares all the complexity of changing weather and temperamental seas. These poems read as vulnerable glimpses into what is a painful and unfathomable journey: the death of a soulmate. As the poems unfold, we witness hints of the poet's continued, independent journey in a life that embraces the natural world which once linked these life partners together in their work and home. A life, like some landscapes, which now "...will never be healed completely but it can be restored enough." Part diary, part love letter, Noel's humor, gratitude, and self-awareness keep these poems honest and truly from the heart.-Katy E. Ellis, author of Home Water, Home Land

A debut collection that draws on the poet's Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and grief. Darius Atefat-Peckham's debut poetry collection follows a boy's coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother. Through these poems, Atefat-Peckham constructs a language for grief that is porous and revelatory, spoken assuredly across the imagination, bridging time and space, and creating a reciprocal haunting between the living and the dead. Inspired by the Persian epic The Book of Kings, the Sufi mystic poetry of Rumi, and his mother's poetry, these poems form a path of connection between the author and his Iranian heritage. Book of Kin interrogates what it means to exist between cultures, to be a survivor of tragedy, to practice love and joy toward one's beloveds, and to hope for greater connection through poems that wade through time and memory "like so many fish spreading swimming in the green-blue." Book of Kin won the 2023 Autumn House Poetry Prize.

Tender poetry chronicling a son's relationship with his mother through her battle with cancer and his move from his homeland of Nigeria to the United States. Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press, Okwudili Nebeolisa's debut poetry collection serves as an intimate exploration of the relationship between a Nigerian mother and son. Throughout the book, Nebeolisa navigates the guilt of starting a new life in the United States, far away from his home country and from his mother, who is battling cancer. Depicting tender moments between mother and son, Terminal Maladies highlights how the poet and his family shoulder the responsibility of caregiving together and how Nebeolisa works to bridge the physical and emotional distance between them. He reflects on the reasons behind his Nigerian mother's withholding, questioning her need to act bravely alongside his own assumed role as her protector.

A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body. With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. Reflecting on our strange times and the atmospheric undercurrents of chaos and disintegration, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book and invites the reader into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience. Throughout the book, sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher echo the rhythms of Win's poetry.

Experimental poetry that embraces shifts, adaptation, and the unknown as a means to move beyond old and dying worlds. Considering how we might detox from old languages, systems, and modes of life, Ian Lockaby's poems seek out new forms of interconnectivity and possibility, finding the energy of emerging worlds along the edges of ruins. This collection poses questions of how to thrive in aftermaths, suggesting that attempts at absolute knowledge are less powerful than an embrace of the unknown. Throughout these poems, Lockaby uses crows as a model for dynamic adaption and creative entanglement with the world and with language, finding "defensible space" for new lyrical syntax amid shifts and desolation: "Everywhere a burning root system. Everywhere, a root fire crowing off the splayed tail feathers of a crow." Defensible Space/if a crow--looks towards a reintroduction of fire into wilds and wilds into our lives, taking the unknown of an "if" as the base from where we can build life.

Poetry that explores wildness and composes a landscape of complex human emotions. Drawing on a range of stylistic influences, the poetry of Sur takes on the essence of connection and the ways in which we continually develop meaning about others and to the natural world. With this collection, David Koehn paints a landscape where wilderness intertwines with human emotions and grows between ill-fitting interpersonal connections. Sur invites readers to step back and look critically at their world while remaining intimately intertwined with it. Throughout, imagery of nature--like a snake drinking from a stream, or a mountain god--blends with the emotional landscape of tumultuous relationships, exploring themes of wildness and an inevitable unraveling of secrets.

A surreal poetry collection considering memory and self-discovery through the character of the archon, the keeper of the mental archive. In Ruth Ellen Kocher's Archon / After, the archive is revealed as both a form of violence and of memory, of site and of event. As keeper of the archive, Kocher's archon determines what pieces of the past may be preserved, housed, documented, ordered, and reviewed. Through these poems, the archon dives deep into memories and into the mysteries of daily life, and, in governance over the future, determines what will be and should be forgotten. The act of forgetting becomes archival violence, with the archon not only serving as the guardian of what remains in the archive but also as an eradicator who decides what is purged. The imagistic and surreal language of this collection invites us to explore a non-logical terrain as we follow the protagonist into her darkest memories and find a path for our own journey of self-discovery.

Poetic ballads that speak to a father's quest to chronicle daily life amid times of collapse. Taking its name from part of a lost triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, The Wayfarer documents its speaker's attempt to forge a path through the world--both as a father and as an artist--and to adequately capture the experience of living through poetry. In language that melds the vernacular and the archival, these ballads recall moments of love as they arise in an everyday existence dominated by an awareness of political and ecological collapse. Caught between the terror of wandering and the awe of witnessing new minds as they acquire early words and memories, the poems hold out hope for the tenuous transmission of meaning between generations.

A poetry collection that questions the current construction of psychiatric treatment while speaking through lived experience and advocating for disability justice. The poems of Brody Parrish Craig's new collection upends narratives around current psychiatric treatment models to focus on the lived experience of survivors and to speak toward liberation, abolition, and disability justice. Titled after the author's own medical records, The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian questions the prevailing narrative that the medical industry knows stories of disability and madness better than those who have lived them. Craig uses lyricism to expose the intersection of madness and criminality in contemporary American culture, moving through institutions, community spaces, and loss of kin. Through the course of the collection, the speaker turns toward irreverence and interrogation, carves out their own freedom, and challenges the script of the patient, the mad, and the "criminal." These poems deconstruct the "patient" to set the person free.

Poems that consider the complexities of human life and the ways that we perceive reality. In Omitting All That is Usually Said, Robin Caton explores the nature of light, form, language, meaning, and thought, alongside the complexity of their interwoven relationships. Caton interrogates the workings of the human mind and explores the way we integrate disparate perceptions. Caton questions whether we can be certain that things really exist and that all we experience isn't simply a play of light and shadow. She considers how we live with all the limitations and emotional turmoil imbedded in humanity, while also maintaining a sense of something we call perfection. The poems of Omitting All That is Usually Said investigate how we might capture the depths of conflicting experiences and lived knowledge in ways that we can comprehend, and they marvel at how we find delight in all of it.

Anne Harding Woodworth's The Spare Parts Saga is the journey of her book, Spare Parts: A Novella in Verse (Turning Point, 2008), as it is goes from Washington, DC, to a place between Co. Tipperary and Co. Clare, Ireland. It is not an easy trip. The poet chronicles her book's several transatlantic crossings. The U.S. Postal Service's daily tracking provides her with the titles of the poems, which prompt Anne to remember her past and to comment on life during the Covid pandemic, as well as to deride the USPS for the book's circuitous travel.

Saints and Sinners is an annual celebration that takes place in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans each spring. The Festival includes writing workshops, readings, panel discussions, literary walking tours, and a variety of special events. We also aim to inspire the written word through our short fiction contest, and our annual Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award sponsored by Rob Byrnes. Each year we induct individuals to our Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is intended to recognize people for their dedication to LGBTQ literature. Selected members have shown their passion for our literary community through various avenues including writing, promotion, publishing, editing, teaching, bookselling, and volunteerism.This collection includes a varied selection of poetry from the 2024 festivals including the winners and finalists for the festival's annual poetry contest.

This book offers poignant observations on overlooked aspects of life, conveyed through accessible writing to widen perspectives. Spanning various themes, I delve beneath the surface details that often escape our awareness, elevating them into consciousness through reflections from an intuitive lens. My aim is to open up unconventional avenues of exploration beyond the status quo. Rather than adhering to fixed structural formulas, I let the prose flow freely as an organic extension of my authentic self. There is a subtle power when words channel directly from their source within the mind, heart, and soul. The observations contained in these pages stem from quiet moments of inward attentiveness to what moves me. I find insight in the seemingly mundane, resonating with the extraordinary inherent in ordinary life when we pause to notice. Through spare yet stirring language, I unpack my personal revelations, hoping readers may gain fresh eyes to see the wonder always available just below the veil of habit. This book is my heart felt offering to everyone to read and to enjoy.

Sylvia Plath e la straordinaria voce poetica americana del Novecento, morta suicida nel 1963, dopo un tormentato matrimonio con il poeta laureato inglese, Ted Hughes. Questo volume contiene 15 poesie dalla raccolta "Ariel", in traduzione italiana, ed un ampio saggio introduttivo di Erminia Passannanti. Il volume non ha il testo a fronte in inglese.

This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid's poem as an exemplar of the 'premodern' ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem's ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

This is the first collection of poems by the creator and spoken word artist Lisa Bennett. She transports us through a wide range of emotions and to different places in her life and growth, through parenting, marriage, divorce, and redemption. If these poems do not sing to you, she hasn't found your key yet. Lisa lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California with thousands of redwoods and a small menagerie.Advance Praise ofWhere I Come InPoems in Lisa Bennett's "Where I Come In" are by turns honest, sensual, and funny. The reader is drawn to accompany the poet as she seeks truth and justice in family history and human history, in wild Nature and human nature. With subjects as varied as infertility, a failed marriage, Kundalini, her pet parrot and Jesus Christ, Bennett displays her poetic prowess and asks readers to awaken into their power as she has clearly awakened into her own. -- Magdalena Montagne, Author of Earth, My Witness