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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...
3) 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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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...
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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.
Irene...
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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...
13) 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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A powerful, lyrical collection of essays from the award-winning author of Following the River, exploring the pivotal moments in her life, and how art and nature have shaped her. How does a woman compose a life? The Old Moon in Her Arms is a hybrid book of fragments, pivotal moments and images in the phases of a woman's life, turning points rendered in Lorri Neilsen Glenn's lyrical prose.
Like the shifting images in a kaleidoscope, these glimpses into...
15) The Edges
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This poetry anthology is a rich tapestry of emotions and experiences divided into six evocative sections:
Love & War: A celebration of love in all its forms and complexities and an exploration of human suffering in war's raw and brutal realities.
Nature & Cosmos: A journey through the untamed wilderness and boundless expanse of the universe, where the mysteries of existence unravel in whispers of wind and starlight.
Time & Memories:...
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WE WERE DOLPHINS TOGETHER is a collection of short stories/poems featuring confessions on sisterhood, drug/fantasy addiction, and being a young woman in the modern workforce. With Los Angeles in the late aughts/early teens as her backdrop, our narrator deals with her fluctuating body, and reflects on the female friendships she's had and lost. A 22-year-old drug addict spends a week in jail after shoplifting from Target. An 18-year-old girl comforts...
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Candace Walsh's poems in Iridescent Pigeons, her debut poetry chapbook, serve as a restoration project by articulating the everyday unsaid of love, not just in romantic contexts, but as a friend, sister, daughter, dog parent, wildflower admirer, and mother. Amid free verse, Candace's use of archaic poetic forms (the Sapphic stanza, ode, curtal sonnet, and cento) and homages to Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins claims literary...
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110 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Set in locations from dive bars to Montparnasse Cemetery, from a ancient Greek temple to a tourist shop in Assisi, 'Exit opera' explores the ever-vexing issues of time, mortality, love, and loss, and considers the roles of art and human connection. Whatever their nominal subject--jazz, zombies, Buddhism, Siberian tigers--these poems make for a compelling mix of humor and pain, difficulty and solace"--Inside jacket flap.
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"The Heart's Commitment" is a poignant collection of poems that delves into the depths of human emotions and the complexities of love. Each poem weaves a tapestry of feelings, exploring the joys and sorrows that come with opening one's heart. Through a blend of vivid imagery and lyrical language, this collection invites readers to reflect on their own experiences with love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit. Whether you are seeking solace,...
20) Merging Hearts
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In "Merging Hearts," emotions intertwine in a delicate dance of words and rhythm. This poetry collection delves into the depths of love, loss, hope, and longing. Each poem is a brushstroke on the canvas of the heart, capturing fleeting moments of connection and introspection. Through vivid imagery and poignant reflections, this collection invites readers on a journey through the labyrinth of human experience, where every heartbeat echoes with the...
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