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Despite our ethnic group, race, or background, we all share similar emotional struggles-sorrow, happiness, fears, anxieties, suffering, and joy. A Kite Caught in the Sky beautifully expresses our shared human condition through this collection of modern poetry by Dr. Zeenat Chowdhury-Jackson. During her medical career, she has been privileged to serve various ethnic groups, races, and backgrounds, and has witnessed firsthand the similarity between...
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"We used to be lovers" is a collection of love poems to the past, the present, and the future. Gray's intimate pairing of poetry and photography is purposefully vulnerable, raw, and melancholic. The work aims to reveal the great and enlightening freedom in realizing all truths - even the ones that push us through dark places.
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Tatiana Marín
Naturalized American, who has been a lover of art and literature since a very young age, emigrated to the USA, where she currently resides and dedicates herself to writing.
She has published several of her literary works in the USA and Spain, crossing borders in different languages such as Spanish, English, and French. Tatiana Marín's poetry is characterized by its lyrical and evocative style. Her verses are a combination...
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Robin Morgan's lyrical gifts are again on display in this limited edition of four of her most celebrated poems Prostituted women, pimps, Alice B. Toklas, and Bertha Mason-Edward Rochester's mad first wife in Jane Eyre-all make appearances in a poem titled "Battery," a word that, in Morgan's hands, has surprising meanings. Affirmation underscores the perfect Shakespearian sonnet, "Birthright," as it counsels a defiant gaze at life and death. The life...
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This debut collection is not for the faint of heart, as the poet unpacks the raw pain of the mind. Based on her life experiences, Fay van Burg addresses gut-wrenchingly relatable struggles and painful moments, while fighting for her sanity and wellbeing.
Fighting the Madness tackles abstract concepts of hurt and sorrow while taking you on an emotional journey of strength and perseverance.
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In our timeless, fast-paced world, Sinuous Heart delves into the haunting emotional landscapes of our relationships, both romantic and platonic. This poignant poetry collection captures the essence of loneliness that often lingers in empty connections, leaving us yearning for authenticity and companionship.
Through vivid imagery and heartfelt language, Fay van Burg delves into the struggles of maintaining intimacy and sincerity in a time when distractions...
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Discover the latest collection of poems by award-winning Danish poet Helle Gade, a captivating journey that will sweep you away on a rollercoaster of emotions. This exciting and passionate compilation showcases Gade's unique ability to convey raw, heartfelt sentiments that resonate deeply with both longtime fans and new readers alike.
With each poem, you will be drawn into the intricacies of the human experience, navigating the highs and lows of...
8) Xanax Cowboy
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The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.
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A love story that defies boundaries and changes destinies.
Step into a world where love knows no bounds and destinies are intertwined in unexpected ways in Love's Chosen Destiny. In this heartfelt and captivating romance, written by Myrna Skoller, Liz's life is a tapestry woven with deep connections, unexpected attractions, and life-altering choices.
Liz and Julie have been inseparable since high school, their bond unbreakable. Julie's younger brother,...
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Hands of a well-lived life, proofing another godly inspired poem.
Rebecca Gordon Gray was born in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky to Ben and Susie Johnson. She was the youngest of twelve children. She married John Paul Gray, I, and had one son John Paul Gray, II. She lived her entire life in Lawrenceburg and loved every minute of it. Her husband passed in 1981 and she never remarried.
Rebecca was asked by many to write poetry for their events,...
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Three lives, intertwined, two centuries apart. An exploration of the complexities of race and power at an intimate level.
In The Stoop and the Steeple, Nancy Meyer directs an uncompromising lens at the fifteen years she spent with Mel, a Jamaican artist she met on a New York stoop, and faces the memory of Zebulon, a man her ancestors enslaved. A man who climbed a steeple and crowed. Was it for freedom? We will never know, but the mystery of this...
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Etymology of Courage is the follow-up to Spoken Medicine by Gabrielle Journey Jones, also published by Ginninderra Press. Gabrielle dedicates this collection to everyone brave enough to share their truth creatively through spoken word poetry. 'Etymology' is the study of the origin of words. 'Courage' means bravery, although historically it referred to our emotions, heart and feelings. Therefore, to speak poetry from the heart is a daring double act...
13) Goddess
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A girl steals a god from her white lotus altar. A poet looks back on her religious past. Built upon Buddhist and Christian imagery, this chapbook is Cheryl Tan's love letter to queer teenagehood. Glittering with fragments of a failed relationship, these poems piece together a tale of desire, destruction and loss.
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What if we view poetry as a visual medium? How would you set a movie scene with only a few words about love and dreams?
Irene's poems do just that, taking you into magic visuals about nature, love, and dreams. They will tell you stories of grief, despair, and awareness of the modern world's troubles.
With a keen eye for detail, she writes poems with profound emotions. Step into it to be lost in fairytales, haunted by ghosts, dreams, and memories.
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'Poetry has the ability to cover a lot of ground in a few lines, and Muriel Bergel's book deals with so many questions and conundrums. In these pages we find goddesses, dreams, music, mothers and even ugg boots. Mythology and the everyday are combined to great effect. This is a remarkably poised first collection, inviting us to travel with the poet as she navigates her way through loss, labyrinths and the art of kissing. Vivid images and memorable...
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Author Ellen Harrison releases her first poetry collection that soothes the soul, encourages empowerment, and reveals the inner strength of every reader. She began reading poetry as a source of comfort and found strength and liberation in the inspirational words of Maya Angelou.
When Ellen lost her father, she turned to poetry as a way to cope and process her emotions. What she didn't realize was the transformative power that words would have on...
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'It's the details of a thing...what eye love about Gabe's poetry. The depth in the beauty of a moment slowed way down... Eye enter her words and the legs of my mind and heart slow to stroll as eye am carried like a precious thing on the words of her song...her poetry. From the warm feel of the water on my skin as a single mother washes the dishes and sneaks in some dreaming to the joy found in laughter... What a beautiful walk this is...and its the...
20) Coming Home
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In this collection, Fiona Steele writes about the journey of coming home - to P.E.I. after moving away and to the Island identity she is rooted in. It is organized in three distinct parts: sandstone, sea, and sky. Sandstone is about the beginning. It's the foundation of Steele's life, family relationships, and understanding her sexuality. Sea follows Steele's journey of embracing her identity as well as her time living on the mainland. And finally,...
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