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The Face of Expression
by Aaron Woodson
Readers will enjoy the authors sincere, passionate, compelling, and poignant way of reaching his audience. In this book, you as the reader will take a unique journey through the authors unique and broad perspective on life. You also may be able to relate to life's struggles that we have all experienced in our own journey. The authors primary focus on this book is expression. Expression is therapeutic and gives people an outlet to be who they are. We all can make a very positive impact in this world. The author is demonstrating his desire to make a difference and connect with others in a profound way.
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Savage Pageant
by Jessica Q. Stark
SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show animals up until its closure in 1969. In it, Stark explores the concept of US American spectacle and its historic ties to celebrity culture, the maternal body, racist taxonomies, the mistreatment of animals, and ecological violence. With a hybrid, documentary poetics, SAVAGE PAGEANT reveals how we attempt to narrate and control geographical space and how ghosts (remainders, the sketch, unfinished stories) collapse the tidy corners of our collective, accumulative histories.
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Be Recorder : Poems
by Carmen Gimâenez Smith
Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. Carmen Gimâenez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to cry out into a dream of rebellion--against compromise, against inertia, against self-delusion, and against the ways the media dream up our complacency in an America that depends on it. This reckoning with self and nation demonstrates that who and where we are is as conditional as the fact of our compliance: "Miss America from sea to shining sea / the huddled masses have a question / there is one of you and all of us." Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Gimâenez Smith as oneof the most vital and vivacious poets of our time
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Frank : Sonnets
by Diane Seuss
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,” Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss’s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, frank: sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of “beauty or relief.”
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Don't Call Us Dead : Poems
by Danez Smith
An award winning-poet presents a collection of works that opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police—a place where suspicion, violence and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on earth.
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B Is For Bad Poetry
by Pamela August Russell
This is a hysterical collection of really bad poetry! Poems mock, tease and undermine the world around us - and at anything that takes itself too seriously. The hilarious works include: "Tea For Two" ("A Tragedy"), "Love Is Like A Toilet Bowl" and many more!
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Postcolonial Love Poem
by Natalie Diaz
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages―bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers―be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic.
In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
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The Rain In Portugal : Poems
by Billy Collins
A poetry collection by the former Poet Laureate and New York Times best-selling author of Aimless Love includes more than 40 new works and offers insight into the writer's use of generosity themes, playful language and insightful reflection.
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The Complete Poetry
by Maya Angelou
An updated collection of the inspirational late writer's complete body of poetry includes her reflections on African-American life inJust Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie and her tribute to Nelson Mandela,His Day Is Done.
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The 20th Century In Poetry
by Michael Hulse
This groundbreaking anthology presents in chronological order over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology.
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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
by Gerald Moore
Culled from twenty-seven different countries, this comprehensive, updated survey of the poetry of modern-day Africa features the work of ninety-nine poets, including L. S. Senghor, Augustinho Neto, Christopher Okigbo, and many others.
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Haiku: Poetry Ancient & Modern
by Jackie Hardy
Haiku: Poetry Ancient & Modern is a gorgeously illustrated anthology of over 200 poems from 100 of the best haiku poets in America and around the world, as well as translations of the Japanese masters. The poems range in time from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and follow the elemental themes of earth, air, fire, water, wood and metal.
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