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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...
3) girlhood
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For all of the girls who have been traumatized and brutalized by romantic love. For every girl who died inside because someone else decided to break us for fun. For every woman who knows feminine rage in its most basic form all too well. For all those girls who fell back in love with themselves, and became women with strength and resilience -- this book of poetry is for you.
A thoughtful confrontation of unhealed trauma with nothing but love,...
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Take a peek into the beautiful art of poetry, throughout these poems catalyzes realization that God is who He says He is. Everything that goes on in life does not take Him by surprise or choose favorites. Just a sharing experience of how a situation can change and encourage another to be healed and find courage. The purpose of this journal is to work as a guide in a world of abuse, depression, brokenness and remind us that love cannot be taken away....
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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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Es una obra cautivadora que nos sumerge en un universo poético y reflexivo repleto de emociones profundas que nos invita a meditar sobre las diferentes etapas de la vida. Nos revela una realidad con la cual fácilmente podemos vincularnos a través de cada una de nuestras vivencias, que, a la vez, capturan las diversas facetas de la existencia del ser humano, utilizando como eje el amor, la nostalgia y la reflexión de cada ciclo que experimentamos....
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Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tells the story of two eleven-year-olds through the eyes of Grandmother Moon. Eilidh and Wâpam are born under the same blood moon, but Eilidh was born in Scotland and Wâpam in Kihci-Manito kâ ayapit, now known as Manitoba. After sailing across the ocean in hopes of a more prosperous life, Eilidh meets Wâpam deep in the forest,...
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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...
11) Dayboil
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With razor-sharp acuity and snappy language, Dayboil centres on a community in crisis––a kitchen-table comedy that quickly takes a dark turn.
Four middle-aged women meet at Kathy's house in rural Newfoundland for their weekly cup of tea and gossip when tragic news disrupts their usual banter: Kathy's husband has killed himself. Abruptly, the threads that hold their comfortable community life together begin to snap, and they find themselves exposed...
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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.
13) Apple Thieves
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I am drawn to paintings that catch glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that lead to other rooms,' Beverley Bie Brahic says. Apple Thieves is full of such painterly moments, remembered or caught on the fly, with their charge of mystery, like this shell – 'an empty house / a nudge will set rocking / almost indefinitely' – collected on the coast of her native British Columbia, whose diverse populations and their migrations she evokes in...
14) impact statement
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A revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism.
Borrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric assessments, and court documents, Jody Chan's impact statement traces a history of psychiatric institutions within a settler colonial state. These poems bring the reader into the present moment of the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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Spill
Verb
Cause or allow to flow over the edge of its container, especially unintentionally.
Reveal (confidential information) to someone.
"Spill" features intimate musings on romance, heartbreak, mental health, and self-growth from the perspective of a woman living in the modern age. The collection, as a whole, represents a raw acceptance of life's ups and downs. It leaves the reader feeling validated and curious like chats about the future often...
16) Fish Love
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In FISH LOVE, Bryanna Licciardi leans into her obsessive nature and twisted humor, offering readers a landscape of bizarre realism. From dark, familial narratives to imagined dates with serial killers, she eagerly distorts the line between love and loathing, self and other, fantasy and actuality. With a dreamlike quality and gut-punching lines, Licciardi guides readers through the stages of rage, hurt, laughter, and raw memory, ultimately ending her...
17) 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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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...
19) Sinuous Heart
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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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You know that moment? The one where a single leaf glides, sliding this way and that, until it touches the ground. Watching it makes everything else blur for a minute. It's just you and the one, single, solitary leaf.
Or that time when walking on a path in the woods, an entire rainstorm of leaves flit around you, falling at various speeds until they swirl on the path.
These moments that seem so ordinary hold magic in that they can allow everything...
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