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Of Broken Pieces and Light Ahead is a compilation of prose and poetry that speaks to both our individual and shared human experience, of trauma, of healing and ultimately triumph. It is an exquisite yet profound portrayal of the winding and intertwining road that led the author from helplessness to empowerment, from fragmented to whole, and from darkness to light. It takes the reader on a journey through vivid snapshots of war, love, life and death,...
3262) Hanging On Our Own Bones
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Through these seven narrative poems, Grahn weaves real-life conditions with goddess mythology to construct modern interpretations of lamentation in nine parts. Song and poem lamentations have a widespread history from all over the globe and carry a wealth of forms and a few requirements-they must read well out loud, they must address current pressing issues, and they must make every attempt to be truthful. Here Grahn's steadfast and rhythmic verse...
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A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present. Together these vividly recounted entries capture historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences. Resilience and Triumph provides readers with an eye-opening glimpse into 50 years...
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Nadia is the oldest child, an orphan and a refugee. Even though her stepfather is a loving man and her stepmother is tolerant, she feels solely responsible for her brother and sister.
So it's no surprise to anyone that when her stepfather falls ill and contracts a marriage for Nadia, she agrees at once.
What else is she to do?
Making the decision is easy. Living with it is another story altogether.
Follow Nadia in the journey to find herself and...
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Ce recueil touchant, autant par sa dureté que par sa légèreté, nous peint l'état d'âme d'une femme hypersensible dominée par son ego. Elle nous relate son cheminement vers sa liberté, en se mettant à nu et en se délestant de ses illusions, de ses vieux démons. Elle nous livre son pardon envers elle-même et le père de sa fille. Sans fard, elle nous partage à cœur ouvert sa transformation de chrysalide en papillon.
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Hailed an immediate classic of Finnish literature on its publication in 1978 and an international bestseller that has been translated into 19 languages, Märta Tikkanen's verse novel is a haunting, profoundly evocative portrait of one woman's fraught relationship with her alcoholic husband, inspired by the author's own experience. In language that is as delicate as it is fierce, Tikkanen explores the depths of fear and violence that often accompany...
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Not your typical book of monologues, this new collection embodies the mission of The Kilroys, an advocacy group founded in 2013 to raise awareness for the underutilized work of female and female-identifying playwrights. The collection is comprised of monologues from "The List"-- the result of an industry survey to locate the most highly-regarded, underproduced plays by women and trans playwrights.
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Voici mon cœur en quelques pages, en quelques morceaux. Je te livre mes réflexions les plus profondes, mes souvenirs les plus poignants; ceux qui m'ont empêché de dormir pendant longtemps. Dans ce livre, c'est mon histoire. C'est aussi le récit de milliers de coeurs brisés, meurtris. Bref, c'est l'histoire d'une personne ramenée à la vie par un amour bouleversant.
3270) Les maux d'Eng
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L'amour… c'est beau, ça anime. Sombre, c'est obscur, ça fait mal. Un mélange d'amour et de désamour. Imbibée de mes maux, Les libérer en mots.
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Pour Enguerrane Ngiama, la littérature est un exutoire. Elle écrit des poèmes afin de libérer sa pensée et d'exposer ses sentiments.
3271) Rising Sunrise
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This book is a compilation of poetry and short stories written by the author, Christiana Guarino, while she was growing up and attending elementary and high schools. It also includes poetry written by the author's mother, Linda Mata.
3272) Poèmes aux présidents
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J'ai imaginé des jardins et des plumes qui rouleraient au grand vent. Des monuments et tant de choses du passé au présent. J'ai dû, un jour, écrire ce poème à mon père, lever un peu le voile. Raconter une nuit, de sang et de métal. Puis tourner en ridicule une mégère, réveiller des dieux d'hier ! Eux, ils étaient revenus ici parler ensemble. Coluche, Kennedy, de Gaulle, Lady D, une Reine et bien d'autres sous ma plume. Un instant, la...
3273) The Book of Story Rhymes
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A collection of fascinating stories of unpredictable people, the lives they lead, and their need to be rid of the baggage they carry. It's overviews, under-views, moments in time, with twists and turns, depicted in rhyme. THE BOOK OF STORY RHYMES is a short story collection with fabricated human-interest tales about diverse, colorful adult characters with complicated backgrounds. Some of these story rhymes have hints of humor, many have interesting...
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Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poetry captures the lives of "lost souls roaming"--be they young girls in convents, merchants, whores, widows, soldiers. Old Europe still lives in Bosselaar's rich language: Entre chien et loup, as it's known in Flanders--the time at dusk when a wolf can be mistaken for a dog.
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Sans artifice, l'auteure emprunte la forme poétique du haïku pour décrire avec justesse et humour le mal qui l'assaille.
Le corps et la souffrance accueillis dans l'envolée de la vie. Les poèmes, écrits dans le style japonais du haïku, présentent la chaleur vivifiante du corps, des pensées, des émotions et du sens dans toute leur intensité. Amusantes parfois, suscitant la sympathie, souvent, ces 68 pages rebondissantes fascinent dans leur...
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In Laura Read's second poetry collection, the former poet laureate of Spokane, WA, weaves past and present together to create a portrait of a life in progress. As the speaker looks back on her life, she exists simultaneously as all the selves she has ever been: a lost child, a lonely adolescent, a teacher, a daughter, a friend, a wife, a mother-a woman continually shaped and reshaped by memory and experience. Deeply rooted in a particular time and...
3277) The Cosmic Connection
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This is the work of the late Fler Beaumont, who passed to higher life (1-9-2019). She was a prolific poet and author.
"The Cosmic Connection" volume by Fler, came through a spiritual walk-in, known as Peter Mardon. His spirit wrote these poems, during the 1960's & 1970's.
It is an honour to reproduce this work, titled. "The Cosmic Connection, (A Special Collection of Poems from the 60's & 70's").
3278) Capture & Flight
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Eloquent, evocative and exquisite - a collection of eleven brief poems, fragments, notes from the heart. Linnet's short, poetic pieces are like intimate letters from a past life. Through them, we are invited to share a woman's abandonment of her true being in the pursuit of another's controlling desire. These lyrical reflections celebrate the female voice, through scraps of memories captured in finely crafted cadences, alight with inner rhythm.
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Hymnes à la vie – Chante la Terre succède à Carnet d'adolescences – Errances en rassemblant les écrits poétiques de Suzanna Meneguzzi sur l'humain et la Terre. Cet ouvrage retrace son parcours existentiel en mettant l'accent sur sa connexion divine à la nature, abordant également la perte avec une vision cosmique de l'humain et de nos liens basés sur l'énergie invisible de l'amour.
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Suzanna Meneguzzi est...
3280) Lueurs d'espoir
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Lueurs d'espoir est un recueil de poésie qui raconte l'histoire de l'auteure, de son enfance jusqu'à l'âge adulte. Ce sont des textes mis en contexte, qui développent plusieurs thèmes, dont l'amour, la perte d'êtres chers, la maladie et bien d'autres.
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Dans l'univers poétique, Danielle Boucher a trouvé sa voie grâce à la rencontre avec le poème La passante d'Émile Nelligan. Elle décide alors de se lancer dans...
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