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81) Late Empire
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In her fourth book-a gorgeous call-to-arms in the face of our current social and political conditions-Lisa Olstein employs her signature wit, wordplay, candor, and absurdity in poems that are her most personal-and political-to date. Like a brilliant dinner conversation that ranges from animated discussions of politics, philosophy, and religion to intimate considerations of motherhood, friendship, and eros, Olstein's voice is immediately approachable...
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Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician,...
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“Plays in Time” collects four plays by Karen Malpede set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture programme; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack from well-funded climate change deniers. In each play in this anthology, nature, poetry, ritual and empathy are presented...
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"Madre soltera y otros poemas" reúne los tres libros de poesía de Marina Yuszczuk: "Madre soltera", "La ola de frío polar" y "Lo que la gente hace". El libro funciona como registro y viaje al origen de la obra de Yuszczuk: ahí encontraremos las preocupaciones que rigen sus obras narrativas. Dicho de otro modo, Yuszczuk es la narradora que es porque antes y ahora es la poeta que es.
El pasaje del verso a la prosa es una consecuencia de la necesidades...
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En Teoría de las niñas se habla de la certidumbre de la existencia desde el territorio de la infancia como un sitio donde converge el tiempo, que parece inamovible, y la sensación de encuentro con lo imaginario. Desde la perspectiva del dibujante, personaje que aparece en estas páginas, unas niñas recorren el camino de la memoria, hasta crear un mundo como respuesta al olvido, sin nostalgia posible, tan sólo con la invención de sus propias...
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Nadia Hasan showcases, her poetic growth in her second book of poetry. From the facets of day-to-day living, through the darkness of loss and the pain of grief, comes Waking the Wild. Written with both fairytale-like whimsy and poignant vulnerability, this collection seeks to remind us all of the resilience of the human spirit.
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This fourth book of poetry from Nadine Dunseith touches upon a sensitive, yet empowering journey from her childhood. It is a book of survival and trauma. For anyone who has struggled with past childhood trauma, she hopes this book of poetry can bestow a voice to those who have been silenced.
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In this posthumous collection of poetry and writings, Dona Carol Bartoli leads us from poem to poem and we receive the fruit of a rich intellectual life. What you will experience in the ensuing pages is a rare gift that we did not know even, existed. We knew that she wrote poems, but had no idea of the output until it blossomed all around us in the days after her passing. She lived, loved, and created a world filled with beautiful things with an endless...
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Every day, we face new battles while trying not to revisit the old ones. When we think with the wrong Pink, we usually don't realize until it's too late. These Pink Matters is a collection of poems, short stories, and inner thoughts about love, loss & life. Sometimes we can't place blame, and we have to own our mistakes. Other times, we have to call people out when they've done us wrong. Learn to embrace the chaos while creating your sanity and peace....
91) Ruleta rosa
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Cuarenta y cinco es la fatídica cifra de femicidios perpetrados en Chile el año 2015, el más cruento de las últimas décadas.
Ante la trama impresionante que se despliega detrás de ese conjunto catastrófico, y que solemos no ver o que simplemente naturalizamos, Fanny Campos Espinoza compone este registro poético rupturista, en forma y fondo, de múltiples significaciones. Cada una de esas vidas y muertes tiene en él un poema.
Cuarenta y cinco...
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My brain was a mess, I was a mess, writing what I wrote in this book made everything make sense. I had been carrying so many feelings and emotions around with me for so long, this became my release and my medicine. Since writing this collection, life is sweet, life is better than sweet. I have no time to spend on irrelevant nonsense, only what makes me smile and what makes you smile.
If only one line captures you in between the front cover and this,...
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Une poésie profondément humaniste
2e édition revue et augmentée
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En se laissant guider par la main chaude des ancêtres, Laure Morali suit les formes et les rêves de la terre, du Brésil au Québec en passant par les Andes, le Chiapas et le Nouveau-Mexique. Ses poèmes recueillent l'humilité des êtres et des choses.
Extrait
La terre
cet animal
quand elle respire
nous marchons
dans son rêve
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Este libro es mucho más que un conjunto de rimas. Además de estar dedicado a las mujeres que padecen y han padecido cáncer de cuello de útero, va dedicado a aquellas que necesiten sanar su alma.
Lejos de palabras sensacionalistas, la autora propone reflexionar sobre la incidencia de las emociones en los aspectos externos, teniendo en cuenta que la conciencia de empoderamiento es uno de los hilos conductores a la sanación. Por tal razón, este...
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Mi cabeza está en otra parte reúne una selección de todos los libros publicados por Damaris Calderón en Chile. El título de esta antología corresponde al título de uno de los poemas de Sílabas (2000).
El compromiso con la escritura por parte de Damaris Calderón no es otra cosa que la persistencia de sondear en el abismo; una especie de activismo del que no se hace alarde, pero del que se extrae toda la luz que puede caber en el poema...
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María del Refugio Topete Anaya nació en Mascota, pueblo mágico de Jalisco, México, en mayo de 1946; cuando contaba con 8 añitos, sus padres decidieron volver a vivir en Unión de Tula, del mismo estado, de donde eran oriundos y donde tenían un ranchito llamado Santa Catarina; y estos lugares preciosos donde pasó su juventud y que formaron su carácter huraño, también le enseñaron que no importa el tamaño de las penas que la vida quiera...
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"As I grow in Christ" speaks about how Christ changed my life, I was able to walk away from drugs and alcohol.
"Cast me not from thee, O Lord" is a prayer that can be, read of spoken when one is feeling along.
"Look to the Hill" is to encourage your faith to know that no matter what your situation is that Jesus is right there with you. You are not along.
"Arise and shine" is about your birth, for that the day the Lord chose for you to be born.
A special...
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Dee was born in 1930 to a family in the grips of the Great Depression. This endowed her with a thriftiness and economy of living that carried her to better times. A creative soul, Dee longed to go to art school and was offered a full scholarship at Duke, but it wasn't meant to be. Her father forbade her from attending Duke, and she soon found herself married with a young baby girl.
Her creative spirit somehow survived all the demands of being a...
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