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This book is a collection of poems written in everyday language which can be easily understood and what is learned can be applied. Described within are events most people can relate to, though very seldom speak openly about and carry the weight of it on their shoulders, believing its just their "e;lot in life"e; and continue to struggle.

PRESENTACIÓN DEL AUTOR A mediados de los años noventa fue particularmente sereno, un poco cansado, pero con un poco de "paz y esperanza: por eso mis poemas de esa época están menos atormentados".Siempre están llenos de imágenes y llenos de ansiedad, temerosos, pero más felices, con un poco de esperanza.Mi investigación nunca tuvo un respiro y continué incluso hacia un nuevo objetivo, con mi codicia por la verdad.ROSSI ARDUINORossi Arduino nació el 9 de junio de 1956, en Italia, en Bergamo y tiene un escritor y un comentarista en un periódico web, así como un colaborador de la revista.Hoy es un blogger gratuito: su Blog, News News, tiene una difusión notable, con más de 8 millones de páginas vistas, datos de Google counter.

BUILD YOUR OWN LOTUS Decisions being made right now will determine if the earth will be habitable for humans in the near future. Corporate greed has scarred our beloved Eden for centuries, but one can make the choice to live in joy, to rejoice in the beauty that survives. Thich Nhat Hahn said "No mud, no lotus". We can wallow in the mud and muck of our worrisome world, or we create lotus blossoms with a life of hope and creativity.

Poetry for healing, transformation, and reconciliation work. Jehann is an alchemist, a "mystic" artist, "who exposes the intersectionality of various forms of human oppression through this collection. It is a must read collection of poetry, especially for those individuals who are committed to social justice and the transformation of our institutions."

Prepare to be swept off your feet as Michael Hall delivers a literary touchdown with "There's something about Mary." In this captivating poem like writing, Hall delves into the profound depths of his admiration for a dear friend, celebrating the enigmatic essence of Mary. Join Hall on this mesmerizing and soul-stirring exploration as he skillfully unravels the mystery surrounding "there's something about Mary." Through his poignant verses, Hall portrays Mary as an earthly angel, infusing this evocative work with a transcendent and deeply moving energy that resonates with the soul, leaving an indelible mark on the reader's heart and spirit.

Prepare to be swept off your feet as Michael Hall delivers a literary touchdown with "There's something about Mary." In this captivating poem like writing, Hall delves into the profound depths of his admiration for a dear friend, celebrating the enigmatic essence of Mary. Join Hall on this mesmerizing and soul-stirring exploration as he skillfully unravels the mystery surrounding "there's something about Mary." Through his poignant verses, Hall portrays Mary as an earthly angel, infusing this evocative work with a transcendent and deeply moving energy that resonates with the soul, leaving an indelible mark on the reader's heart and spirit.

"Mi vida de poemas" es una historia de determinación, valor y una fe inquebrantable. Cada poema es un capítulo de una vida llena de luchas y la perseverancia de una madre soltera. Respira cada línea y comparte esas experiencias y ve ellas a través de las ventanas de sus ojos. Algunos poemas le permiten volar como una mariposa, la realización de la libertad de un primer vuelo, mientras que otros traen un dolor a tu corazón. Deja sentir el anhelo de una pareja amorosa y el cuidado y la dedicación a sus tres hijos. Su prosa nos lleva a donde no sabemos cómo ir nosotros mismos, mirando profundamente en nuestras almas con poemas que cantan a veces y a veces regañan a uno. Un viaje fascinante expresado desde el corazón de un escritor de talento. Búscate un rincón tranquilo y comparte una vida en prosa que rara vez tenemos el privilegio de visitar.

The thirty-six woodblock prints that were the inspiration for this collection of writings were made by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The pieces show different views of Mount Fuji from various waystations where people would go to look at the beautiful mountain. The writings in this book are haibun, a literary form originating in Japan that combines prose-autobiography, diary entries, essay, or short story-and poetry-often haiku. Hokusai was in his seventies when he produced the Mount Fuji series; the author, Martin Willitts Jr., was seventy years old when he began studying the prints, attempting to merge himself with Hokusai.

The journey, a book of poetry, is about inspiration, faith, lifting and assurance of new changes, new beginnings and hope that surpasses beyond human understanding. The book of poetry will one step further in realizing that God can make all things possible through life's journey on a road less travelled by many. It's laughter, tears, heart-felt and designates issues of the heart. You'll be drawm to the paths as you take part in the journey.

This collection begins in a time of drought - of isolation, longing, and desperation in a land without rain. As monsoon season approaches, we shift into a time of too much rain, to a point where all becomes toxic and destructive. On the other side of the monsoon, the superbloom is finally able to take place. Superbloom focuses on recovery, rebirth, and allowing new, healthy forms of love to thrive.Makaela Smith's inaugural work, Superbloom, is a mesmerizing expedition into the emotional deserts that reside within us. Within the barren stretches of pain and heartbreak, Smith's verses emerge as vibrant oases, unexpectedly breathing life into the arid landscapes of our souls.Far beyond a mere collection of poetry, Superbloom is a daring journey through the untamed wilderness of the heart, guided by the evocative prose of Makaela Smith. Her words don't just speak; they resonate, linger, and profoundly touch the depths of the heart, etching an indelible mark on the reader's emotional terrain.

This collection of poetry charts the arc of a marriage, from the formation of the relationship and building a dreamed-of life together, through cycles and years of emotional abuse, and then into and through divorce and its healing aftermath. It grapples unflinchingly with deception, loss, love, heartbreak, and ultimately finding a path to wholeness and healing.

I hope my thoughts will be a help in the further meant of enlightenment for the citizens of our potentially beautiful and peaceful future of our planet. I am excited to present this my fourth book of philosophical poetic thoughts. This volume is dedicated to ideas both ancient and on the cutting edge of science, spiritualism, and beneficial reasoning. How these things are related in this day and age to what I believe to be the most productive and enlightening concepts of our day. This is to say a greater understanding of the multiple aspects of the processes which I believe will bring about a deeper understanding and greater love for both ourselves and each other.

In these accumulative works, she presents excerpts of real-life experiences collectively within a quiescent voice of wisdom that renders spiritual discoveries. She unleashes hidden secrets sharply magnified using defined imagery to link the reader to her profound truths.She presents biblical doctrine as a guide; hopeful the reader will discover a heightened awareness of understanding the depths of each poem and short story. Her poetic rhymes provide a perspective in harmony with the spirit to intrigue the sensesThe book was written in this creative arrangement to share new discoveries. It is a gift to everyone, Christians and non-Christians for enlightenment and encouragement. The expressions have purpose from deep compassionate love inspired by God. She is optimistic her works will set into motion unambiguous receptiveness and renewed optimism, and reveal a unique perspective to illuminate the spirit from which it is given.Janet McNeil is an inspiring poet, writer, and author of "Shaped with Purpose", a mosaic collection of inspirational poetry and short stories.

Ekphrastic poems bump up against poems about baseball, about the sad fate of urban areas, about art, about ordinary mortality, and most personally about the horrific murders perpetrated during the Holocaust and other atrocities, as in "The Vanished World of Iryna Abramov," a villanelle set during the Russian invasion of Ukraine: "In Bucha, the flowers grow fat on the graves." This is a collection to be read and read again, and to cherish with each re-reading.

Si quiere ser arte, sea un ladrillo.Permita usted ser llevado por inciertas manos: Las posibilidades de poetizar son infinitas o como dijo el poeta peruano Alberto Hidalgo: El poemar repuebla el tiempo/acrecienta el espacio de perspectivas y de alrecedores/y en tanto que se espacia poemando/se tiempa para siempre quien poema y quien poema hoy, es Jassin Antuna desde este su libro iniciático. De cielos raros, del cual puede percibirse que fue concebido con la plasticidad de un fotógrafo o de un pintor, se captan realidades que son llevadas a las palabras desde la evocación y la nostalgia: padre, madre, familia, gorriones, escenas de parque, patria, transitan por este mundo tangible o ilusorio. Hay una serie de tonos y de maneras de poemar: desde el verso libre y el verso clásico (sonetos), lo cual le da una versatilidad en su propuesta: Parece que en sí ya eras una forma/estás en todas las formas. Machado dijo que se hace camino al andar y el camino de la poesía es arduo y duro. Aun le espera mucho a este joven creador que empieza. Él asume el reto y reconoce el arte de otros y lo reconoce en si, dejándose llevar ya sea por ciertas e inciertas manos y culmina en uno de sus poemas diciendo: el verdadero arte es la permanencia. Buen mar y buen viento para la vela. JAVIER ALVARADO

La poesía de Yrene Santos se inscribe dentro de la tradición humana arraigada en el "malestar femenino" histórico, latinoamericano y personal. Su lírica plasma un testimonio resistente a una exacerbada carga de una angustia, amargura y "Desolación" del eco de la voz vibrante de la figura femenina de madre y/o amante. En este espacio no faltan la sensibilidad, la esperanza y el optimismo Limpio mi círculo para seguir adelante, anhelando una ruta borrosa de la justicia humana que suena más bien por su ausencia. En su poemario Después de la lluvia, El Yo poético se asoma incrustado en un flujo narrativo donde se alterna la lírica con la narración elaborando una trenza semi-autobiográfica de ficción.Sus versos repercuten una ola de dolor suspicaz en el cual el agotamiento y la serenidad se abrazan en el flujo de una música interior, capaz de evocar en nuestras almas la melodía mística de la eterna Scheherazade. The poetry of Yrene Santos is part of the human tradition rooted in historical, Latin-American and personal "female discomfort." Her lyric expresses a testimony resistant to an exacerbated burden of anguish, bitterness and "Desolation" of the echo of the vibrant voice of the female figures of mother and / or lover. In this space, there is no lack of sensitivity, hope or optimism. I clean my circle to move forward, longing for a blurred route of human justice that sounds rather because of its absence. In her work, After the Rain, the poetic "I" appears embedded in a narrative flow where the lyric alternates with the narration, creating a semi-autobiographical braid of fiction.Her verses impact a wave of suspicious pain in which exhaustion and serenity embrace in the flow of an inner tune, capable of evoking in our souls the mystical melody of the eternal Scheherazade. Abeer Abdel HafezProfessor at Faculty of Arts, Spanish DepartmentCairo University

"The poems in this book reframe the daily and habitual to reveal the strange, rich interiors of ordinary moments: sitting in a traffic jam, tilted back in a dentist's chair, thinking of an old joke while looking at a famous painting. Christopher Blackman is alert to the ironies that link the comedy and tragedy of existence, yet his poems are never arch or brittle. They start, as so many unforgettable poems do, by welcoming us with lucidity and candor into the particulars of someone else's life; they end by handing us back our own lives, transformed." -Nan Cohen"The poems of Christopher Blackman's poignant Three-Day Weekend search for authenticity beneath the fluorescent glow of late capitalism. Who might we be free of our jobs and shorn of limiting social norms? What might we turn our attention to before it's too late? Blackman's candid-and often funny-poems reach out from a "stretch of time that precedes the pageant's end" to grab the reader by the shoulders and shake them awake."-Keith Leonard"I really like these Chaplinesque lyrics, the prat-fall wisdom of their lines, the stumbling beauty of their turns, the charm of the speaker's ill-timed realizations.... The book is more than a snack-pak of pop pleasure; it is secretly a solemn buffet. These passages begin in the intoxications of bars and radios and movie theaters, but lead into the enduring, sober territories of interior history, the fantods and grace of love and death, and they end questioningly, wisely befuddled, standing beside the reader, saying "I'm the last one left in the poem, and I'm a little afraid/ to be here without anything else to distract me.."-Ed Skoog

The prose poem is the literary sphinx, the literary chimera, minotaur, gryphon-part one thing, part another and at their best, they're magical, mythical. Fantastic Imaginary Creatures collects the best contemporary prose poems that demonstrate the potentiality and plasticity the form allows. Some of these poems have been previously published, and some are brand spanking new.

The Crooked Mirror is a collection of verse about Love and Loss, Remembrance and Hope by poet Stephen Evans.From the Poet: So here's what I think. A poem is a linguistic unity. It has no narrative flow. It has no time. It has no tempo, no pauses. It is the opposite of music. It coalesces in the mind as the last element is read or heard; only then does it exist, like a quantum state collapsing into reality from the interaction of a reader.The text of a poem is a single word broken up into elements separated by lines and spaces. It is a delivery mechanism, and a flawed one. But it's what we have. And it is precious. Because a poem is as close as we can get to truth, given the undeveloped state of our languages. And minds, for that matter.A few in this book may qualify as poems. Any would be cause for celebration. Poetry is where we're going. At least I hope so.

Through a welcome bundle of poetic correspondence with an international community of artists and poets, a seasoned North Carolina poet and spouse of a U.S. Marine (author of previous collections Uniform, Permanent Change of Station, and FORCES) shares intimate insights and observations on creating history, family, community, and art. "In her engagements with poets from Ireland to India, as well as U.S. military veterans and families, Lisa Stice is an ideal correspondent with art and history," says the publisher. "Stice introduces us to old words and new friends. With the flow and scrawl of her metaphorical pen, she delivers every poet's dream: accessible, illuminating conversations with our world-at-large-including our pasts, presents, and unfolding possibilities." Includes a special 3-prompt mini-section on how to write your own epistolary poems!

Offering brief snapshots into the author's experience growing up half black and half white, In Between My Bodies presents through screenplays, short answer questions, blog posts, and more. Uncomfortably relatable to some, an overreaction to others, In Between My Bodies interactively invites readers to examine the depth that just a few careless words, a symbol, or an expectation can hold.

"i was born from the body of a woman i have never met." DESOLATION is a look into the soul of someone who has never felt at home in their body. someone whose adoption shaped them in the worst ways. what it feels like to be misaligned with your own existence. and alienated from the concept of family. this book is for anyone who was adopted. for anyone with an ED. for anyone with body trauma. for those who don't feel like they belong anywhere, in this lifetime or in the next. for those who ache.

"Laura Isabela Amsel's Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet explores the personal sting of a difficult father, breast cancer, and an unexpected divorce, as well as the more general sting of habitat loss and climate change, yet the sweet remains-horses and birds and flowers survive the squeeze of suburban development, and the poet's own travels and memories of travel begin to open the present up to new possibilities. Amsel distinguishes herself by her linguistic exuberance and craft, her risk-taking and her ear for nuance, for cadence and resonance. The poems in Brief Campaign achieve a complex and formal-if grief-shadowed-beauty."-Jon Davis, founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts' MFA Program and author of fourteen poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and Fearless Now and Nameless"Laura Isabela Amsel's beautiful poems tap emotion like spiles in maple trunks. She knows the natural world like few do, shares her loot with us wing flutter by quiet slither before the inevitable bite. Her imagery transports the reader to a place one might only have in muscle memory. Amsel reminds us that we are all part of something larger and more layered than our self-made human boxes. An extraordinary collection worthy of rereading time and again." -Amanda Boyden, author of the international bestselling novels Pretty Little Dirty, Babylon Rolling, and the memoir I Got the Dog "In A Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet, 'seeing sharpens / into sudden spectacle.' Laura Isabela Amsel's intrepid debut collection forages the open country of the heart, plucking out, in Auden's phrase, 'the images...that hurt and connect.' Here are poems that, 'hum in [the] mouth's hive'; that pulse with ecological attention; that search, sear, sting, supply the balm, and stitch open wounds into song. With this compelling book, Amsel claims her place as a poet in full possession of her gift." -Michael Pickard, Ph.D., Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Literature, Millsaps College

New England without winter is a blessing and a curse. ¡Gracias, El Niño!Here at Nixes Mate headquarters, graveyard for pirates, mutineers, and booze cruises, we're excited about our new books, and this issue which features fifteen new authors to Nixes Mate Review. Every year or so, we change the size of the Review and our books. Of course, we've always shunned the standard size of books and journals. This year is no exception. Who needs 6 x 9 when you can have 5.83 x 8.27! The Review is 6 5/8 x 10 1/4. Go figure.You must be asking yourself, why does that matter. It doesn't. Afterall, New England with or without winter heralds a new Spring. ¡Gracias, El Niño!

In a descent toward what might make our epoch sing in its most falsetto pitch, Vincenz troubles our ears by running a narrative script thru it to plumb its bottom. In a word, the theft of his own ear has felt its echo disguise upon disguise to make these poems carom off one another thence to settle into their proper end. Thieves' Canto is a return from any meta-beyond back into our world, or, "Present Patience." - t thilleman

In a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink interrogates the perpetual mysteries and resonances at the convergence of national identity, historical influence, and personal experience.In Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart, Jonathan Fink interweaves a welcome range of poetic styles including expansive, narrative poems, shorter, lyrical poems, and intricate one-sentence poems that are sustained over multiple pages to deliver his most intimate collection to date. Charting changing national and personal landscapes, Fink’s writing explores such diverse subjects as growing up in West Texas at the conclusion of the Cold War; ekphrastic poems about the paintings of Goya, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft; the intuitive language he shares with his infant daughter on a quiet evening before she falls asleep; and the famous story of a suicide prevented on the George Washington Bridge—the jumper stayed by the man who tells him, “Don’t do it–we love you, my heart.” The imperative, urgent compassion conveyed in the stranger’s command thrums through all the poems in this collection, compelling the reader outward to deeper connections and lived empathy.

JLM Morton's Red Handed, is a remarkably original and impressive debut collection of poetry exploring the histories of cloth and dye, the natural world, and family. Morton skillfully combines personal recollections with political activism and care, her voice raw and her imagination fierce. These poems are exquisitely crafted, with a sensory language of colours and textures, Red Handed is vibrant and alive.

"Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce." Jennifer Weiner Amidst the tumult of divorce, a haven unexpectedly emerges through the tapestry of poignant poems that weave through the threads of unraveling knots. Initiated in the initial optimism of a fourteen-year marriage, the journey navigates challenges of relocation, cultural adaptation, parenting, and home-building. However, the latter seven years unveil a bleaker narrative, prompting a crucial reassessment. These verses delve into profound contemplation on the essence of love, from the exuberance of beginnings to the heartbreak of divorce, particularly when children are involved. As the decision to part ways is made, societal expectations are challenged, advocating for a nuanced understanding of separation without assigning blame. The poems encapsulate a fifteen-year odyssey, from the intoxicating allure of another's being to a profound respect for the essence of love-a commitment to an ideal rather than an inflexible reality. In the process of divorce, the author discovers solace in his poems while embarking on a journey to rediscover inner light and remain open to future relationships. This collection dismantles the fairy tale notion of happily ever after, offering a raw and honest exploration of the complexities woven into the fabric of love and marriage.

David Calogero Centorbi is from Detroit, Michigan. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and is the author of Landscapes of You and Me (Alien Buddha Press, 2021) and After Falling into Disarray (Daily Drunk Press, 2021). This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2023.

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, impresario, puppeteer, and artist living in N.Y.C. He is author of nineteen books of verse, including Blue Lyre from Dos Madres Press, Party Everywhere from Xanadu, and Doppelgängster from MadHat Press. He is a recipient of the Kathy Acker Award for both writing and publishing. His work is included in Best American Poetry for 2023. The former publisher of Cover Magazine, The Underground National, he now publishes Live Mag! This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023.