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1) Human Nature
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For fans of L.E Bowman's What I Learned from the Trees and Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe comes Kari Highman's debut poetry collection about exploring not only our hearts, but the world around us. Human Nature delves into how our emotional expressiveness can be challenged or bettered by the environment. This book looks at the literal definition of its namesake while examining the figurative language of those words through poetic diction,...
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Hay momentos que nunca serán olvidados… Dolores, traumas, palabras regaladas al viento que nunca llegaron a destino, amores que no fueron. El invierno en el que me enamoré de la tormenta es la estela de cada uno de estos momentos.
Entre versos y reflexiones, nos adentramos en las entrañas de un pasado lleno de grietas, oscuridad y dolor, pero que con el tiempo supo ser luz, amor y florecer.
«Estamos hechos de instantes, fragmentos, que marcan...
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I have a filthy heart. It's been bruised,and broken,and houses secrets best left in the dark.These are its collections.
Courtney Jones lives in downtown Toronto, working in content creation and digital strategy. An avid lover of the written word, she prefers to pass her free time reading a good book while enjoying a glass of even better red wine.
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How do you stitch yourself back together after trauma, loss, grief, heartbreak? By inviting what is broken to become what is breathtaking. THE BODY is a collection of poems and short stories written in lyrical prose during the hardest moments of the author's life. This collection explores themes of love, loss, grief, seduction, creativity, consciousness, female empowerment, post-traumatic expansion, and the collective human experience. Because when...
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¿Cuánto recordamos? ¿Cuánto queda sepultado en algún microsegundo de la vida? ¿Cuánto nos animamos a desenterrar?
Mujer con corazón de niña es reflejo, la infancia que marca, los dolores que gritan, la consciencia de no tenerles miedo, secarles las lágrimas y acompañarlos.
Alexandra no escatima en abrirse, mostrar su camino, el de la niña que un día fue y que, sabiendo encontrarla, sigue ahí. A versos, traza la ruta hacia la mujer que...
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Book synopsis: All people are individuals with their own thoughts, ideas, and dreams. What we share are feelings-How we process them and deal with their effect. Even though our situations may differ and circumstances may have different outcomes, we all share the same emotion, love, and passion. The way we miss someone, the heartbreak of loss. They are universal that everyone can understand. Each poem I write is real, raw human emotion. The reader...
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"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
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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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"The Color Between the Hours" speaks to romantic love flirting with disaster, loss beyond reason and crime (white collar and otherwise). Addressing the reader as "you," the work explores inner landscapes. Whether it is a woman contemplating her mother's fate while microwaving dinner, or a person working as a psychic because it's required to collect welfare, the poems embrace a reality that is unique and universal at the same time. In these poems,...
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Culbuter le malheur suivi d'Après le progrès, livre-phare marquant la commémoration des 30 ans du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda (1994-2024). Un million de morts en trois mois. Des silences et des silences. Adolescente à l'époque, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse a échappé au géno-cide. Elle offre dans ce double recueil les mots justes pour faire mémoire par une énonciation radicale de ce qui est un désir puissant de vivre à présent, au présent....
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Anne Waldman es una estrella viva, referente de la Norteamérica más social, cultural y feminista. Ahora, en 2022, aparece en Arrebato Libros la primera antología, en edición bilingüe, que recoge poemas de toda su trayectoria; en la primera parte, los textos que escribió para sus amigos John Cage, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac y John Giorno. En la segunda parte, los poemas más recientes, de sus últimos libros, "Sanctuary" y "Trickster Feminism"....
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A collection of poetry with "resilience throughout and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates" (Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of Only As the Day Is Long).
From Tina Schumann, recipient of the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart Prize nominee, comes a full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to...
16) Soft Inheritance
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In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where "kindness is a scar," though "not all scar-makers are kind." Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of "after"-post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-death-these poems...
17) 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...
18) Swans
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Michelle Brown's second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time. In between, memory shifts and poems shuffle like songs on a jukebox, detailing fraught female friendship, sexual awakening, alcohol abuse and abandon in the dying days of a decade of decadence. Swans is a whip-smart collection from one of Canada's catchiest...
19) Love Me
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Within these pages, you will find verses that speak of love's exhilarating highs, as well as its challenging lows. Love can be a source of unbridled joy, filling us with laughter, warmth, and a profound sense of connection. Yet, it can also bring forth vulnerability, heartache, and bittersweet longing. Through the tapestry of poems and reflections, we celebrate the universal human experience of love. It is an invitation to pause, to contemplate, and...
20) El renacer
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Las palabras resuenan en nuestra mente como los pensamientos en nuestro corazón. En esta obra podrás encontrar versos que podrás interpretar con el amor, la vida y la muerte.
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