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"A collection of poems by Taneum Bambrick"--

In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling linguistic turn grapples with the genre of elegy: what does it mean to experience personal loss, Bibbins seems to ask, amidst a greater societal tragedy?

NBCC Award Winner: “The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body.” —The New York Times
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—“What...

My Thoughts are the actions and inactions of my heart and my mind. The words he found longing to say something about this and about that.

Soft Thorns is a poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey through a young woman's life-from reckoning with her looks and sexuality to dealing with the trauma of sexual assault, and finally through the highs and lows of young love found and lost. Bridgett Devoue shares her raw, human story and the lessons learned from living a life fully.

The Fugitive (1921) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Fugitive is a powerful collection of poems, dialogues, and songs by a master of Indian literature. "Darkly you sweep on, Eternal Fugitive, round whose bodiless rush stagnant space frets into eddying bubbles of light. Is your heart lost to the Lover calling you across his immeasurable loneliness?"...

"A collection of poems by Alex Dimitrov"-- "Alex Dimitrov's third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure--specifically, the twelve months of the year--Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is "our best...

This book is about the life and dedication of my father, the late Evangelist Kenneth W. Pressley Sr. He was a family man, as well as a God-fearing man. This book will explain how he overcame the trials and tribulations of life. This book is about my father's survival and his deliverance.

Leer este libro es como impregnarte en la ternura de mi piel, como mirar a traves de mis ojos, comenzar juntos un pequeno y absoluto canal de conocimiento. Te presento la vida, en muchas de sus formas, incluso la que te paso ahora por tu mente. Yamy Sanchez escritora desde la adolescencia, sera como vivir con mis lineas, solo que ahora transformo mis pensamientos en libros. Tener este libro es como brindarte la copia de la llave principal de las metaforas...

En su obra Estela, el autor aborda la trascendencia humana como tematica principal, cada individuo va dejando una huella perdurable y tangible en sus coetaneos. Escrita en versos, desarrolla diversos topicos relacionados con la paz, el paso del tiempo, el amor y la soledad como derroteros cotidianos y a la vez trascendentes. Su lectura es como recorrer un camino hacia la existencia personal, en la busqueda del sentido de la vida.