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"We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery." So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy....
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Es una obra cumbre de la poesía moderna. Sus composiciones rompen con el estilo convencional, en uso hasta entonces, y rejuvenecen la estructura del verso mediante el uso regular de encabalgamientos, rechazos y contrarrechazos. Esto renueva la forma rígida del soneto. Utiliza imágenes sugestivas mediante asociaciones a menudo inéditas, tales como el "Ángel cruel que azota los soles" (Le Voyage). Mezcla el lenguaje erudito con el discurso cotidiano....
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Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by...
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Witness the complete collection of poems and haikus drawn from the mind of a recovering addict.Gritty, authentic, and deeply personal, this complete collection of Poetry of an Addict compiles over 250 poems and haikus that stretch back over 30 years, exploring the darkness of addiction and offering a mixture of musings, reflections, and thoughts captured from moments of author Brett C. Persson's life. Ranging from vivid wordplay written while sober...
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You hear it all the time . . . "I'm fine!" "We're doing great!" Sometimes, it's true. A lot of times, it's BS. Because no one likes to admit their lives are a mess.Tales From a Broken Girl is me doing just that, admitting my life is one massive hot mess! But it's also my way of cleaning it up instead of just sweeping it all under the rug.These are the things that piss me off. These are the things that make me cry. But these are also the things that...
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A microscopic and intense view of the sometimes invisible and ignored parts of the world we inhabit. Peering into cities and our place within them, the poet searches for meaning after the death of his father, and observes the flora and fauna, which provide beauty and nourish us. This book delights the senses and poses the question, are we contributing to, or ultimately destroying our planet?
7) Manfred
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Manfred, a Faustian noble, is tortured by guilt over the death of his beloved, Astarte. He uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. The spirits are unable to control the past and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea.
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"Promise me the rich can't sleep," Joseph Lease begs in The Body Ghost, offering poems as light on the page as nursery rhymes, and as powerful as prayer. Here, verse conjures up the body in pain, the body politic in collapse, and the tensile strength of the filaments that connect us.
9) Memento Mori
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Un libro extraordinario con toda la fuerza y lucidez de un poeta maduro que reflexiona sobre la muerte, sobre las muertes de los otros y del término de un ciclo. Es tal vez el libro más profundo de uno de los poetas más importantes de las últimas décadas en Chile.
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The poems in For Your Safety Please Hold On move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga's lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true. The linguistic hopscotch of Czaga's poems about girlhood is often beautifully juxtaposed with feelings of menace or a first taste of smothering...
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I was 17 when my mum died from breast cancer. At that time, and for a period afterwards, I wasn't able to express myself verbally so I turned to writing. It was cathartic, though I never had the courage to share what I wrote, let alone attempt to publish my work. I wouldn't claim to be a poet, or a writer, however, 20 years on I feel ready to share. My hope is that these poems, written while I was still a teenager, will inspire as well as be understood...
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No one makes you sit up and think like Ted does, with his wonderful poems and verse. His take on life is inspiring, especially when it is all wrapped in the broad range of deeply felt thoughts and emotions of the author himself. You will laugh, and chuckle, but be aware some of his more poignant moments, may bring a few tears. Ted's long and active life, has given him insights to the world, you would not normally consider, but within the pages of...
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It seems these days all I do is bring death to what I cherish most. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld. Juggling this dichotomy is not easy for anyone, but Persephone wishes to be known as more than Hades' wife. Through this poetry collection, we follow Persephone through the course of a year. Her life before Hades, her abduction, and her ultimate return in Spring.
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A widow's journey into a new life... My Walk with Grief is a spiritual memoir about Elaine Olson's obsessive ten-year search for identity and love after living in the shadows as a pastor's wife for thirty years, eventually marrying an agnostic who embodies Divine grace. When her husband died, part of Elaine died, too. Unimpeded as a widow, her obsessive search for her own identity and love pulled her into soul struggles, grief, world travel, disastrous...
15) A New Dawn
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Within the tender pages of 'A New Dawn,' find solace and comfort. This poignant collection of poems and inspirational quotes is a beacon of light for those treading the difficult path of grief and loss. Offering a heartfelt embrace to those who seek sol
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Can we ever figure out what life is about? Dig deep into the rhyming symphonies of enticing love, fly over the dazzling winds of ambition, push through the bright lightening of daily struggles, and always remember: It will definitely shine after the darkness!
This book is a collection of poems written across many years of social and emotional explorations that we go through in life. "Rhymes of Life" focus on the social aspects such as self-help topics,...
18) Blood & Nectar
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Written through times of Burnout and contrastingly, through times when exaltation encapsulated the air, leaving a taste of 'Melancholy Euphoria,' this very book is the amalgamation of blood and nectar, suggesting the co-existence of strength with weakness, telling on the agonizing truths while maintaining solidarity. Some of the pieces deal with themes like acceptance and endurance while some are outrageous messages, lamenting over the bloodshed of...
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La frontera como metáfora de la contemporaneidad: escenario de pérdida y regreso, donde acontece la épica del siglo que llega. Una épica que ya no tiene héroes, o al menos no héroes infalibles. El poeta le otorga estatus poético a mundos eternamente desplazados de lo poético. Una Cater-pillar, un limpiaparabrisas en una carretera del oeste y un grafiti montevideano comparten un mismo escenario. El acto de nombrar restituye identidades y otorga...
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Bright Star: 12 Poems to Inspire Book 2 An illustrated book of inspirational poems about grief, consolation, and carrying on. Since my mum died I make sure to take time for honouring her and this spoke to that feeling... in those moments of reading, it's like she's still here.." COZY CHAPTERS Night Light As It Rises is the second book in the Twelve Poems to Inspire series, a range of gift books for festivals like Valentine's and Mother's Day, and...
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