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Twenty years ago Nevin Sample walked into a small bank in Deep Cove, robbed a teller at gunpoint and fled into the forest of Cates Park. After a lengthy pursuit, he hid behind a stump at the edge of a small clearing. The police called to him. He raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Nevin had a magnetism, an understated complexity: there were those who loved him, resented him, found him gregarious. To Joe Denham, he was an old, close...
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The passion of this book is immense because it shows you how to release the sufferings of Jesus Christ and your own swiftly. At your willingness to take a quantum leap to release Him from the crown of thorns is the most rapid way to see through the fog of darkness and into the clarity of lightness where you will see the world from which you are from. And you will look behind you and see the mirage of the world from which you instinctively know you...
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The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home," where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."
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The inhabitants of Frank Jamison's Songs of Unsung People are the people we meet every day on the streets and in the diners, some physically strong and some who get about with the help of walkers. From a preacher on a street corner to a woman on a ferry bound for Sausalito, some engaged in the everyday minutiae of life, as store clerks and waitresses or, more outlandishly, a man showing off cats for a crowd gathered to watch a Key West sunset, all...
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These poems are for all lovers without exception, whether or not they're members of this other, exclusive club. Blessed are they who aren't members, just as surely as all true-blue members in good standing wish they weren't. There's only one way into this club, and no way out. If you lose a spouse to the Lord that you cannot live without, but manage to live on by brute force, you're in the ranks of the bereaved torch carriers of this very painful...
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This volume is structurally similar to the 150 ancient songs of the Bible attributed to King David. However, the content is, based on modern thought in the continuing quest for spiritual enlightenment. The songs turn away from revenge and fear giving today's reader a contemporary approach to sustaining their faith. Each stanza was, written as a prayer, or a plea to God, not just for mercy for us, but for strength to be merciful to others. Just as...
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Dying of the Light contains fifty new poems retelling Milton's Paradise Lost from a perspective sympathetic to Lucifer. The poems in Willett's debut collection balance the visceral with the visual, the domestic with the divine, and the static with the transformative. This collection follows Lucifer escaping heaven, living with trauma, and finally journeying to Eden to free humanity. It is a story about family violence and institutional power; it is...
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Since he was just a toddler, the author was, identified as having a special gift of intelligence. As a student, he, excelled in school, and was, known by all as a smart, funny boy, with a quick wit and a shy manner. Then one day he shocks an entire community by attacking an innocent child in a local video arcade. No one would have suspected that he was being, treated for mental illness, and that the medicine that was supposed to help him gave him...
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(Another) collection of free verse, poetry and prose dealing with the universal concepts of loss and longing.
A fictional and heartbroken Romeo transcribes the stages of a relationship, from the tension and excitement of the chase all the way through to the end.
Wrapped in self-loathing and vicious introspection, this volume exposes the thought process of a breaking, slowly soul.
72) Dream Deep
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A product of pencil-and-paper night writing, Dream Deep is a collection of poems based on recollected dreams.
In some cases, the images dreamt are expanded, and the dream serves as a seed from which the poem develops. But, in other cases, the entirety of the poem is wrought directly, so there's no need to expand or contract the imagery. Multiple themes emerge throughout this collection-themes such as fantasy, romance, horror, as well as threads of...
73) Ryan's Rainbows
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This publication of poems is the heartbreak and pain that comes from the inner depths of the soul of any parent who has lost a child, particularly to suicide or, in this case, military suicide. The painful truth is that twenty-two veterans a day commit suicide (twenty-two too many). This chronicles the complicated grief long after the loss of a loved one, one mother's journey written through poems of the pain and grief long after losing her twenty-three-year-old...
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The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland.
An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances-a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads has for the English.
Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewicz's first volume of poetry achieved a level of sublimity that immediately...
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Angel Wings stretches the emotional boundaries of the human heart by exploring the concepts of love, loss, and hope. Author Nichole Conley shares her pivotal life experiences with unique perspective as her poems depict love in many forms, losses that come with loving deeply, and the power of self-discovery. Her words encourage spiritual reflection by challenging external limits in favor of examining emotions and internal conflict. Immerse yourself...
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In the underground urban landscape each of us finds ourselves in these uncertain days, bleakness, loneliness, and cavities of the soul are most prevalent.
We feel like cages and boxes, steel and cardboard. We act like cobras and rats. Not because we want to, but because we think we have no choice.
In the red-streak alarm America of today, sidewalks and street corners are the most potent and pregnant reminders of that emptiness.
We forget what, where,...
77) El cielo Ideal
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Cada eslabón ha tenido su propia forja, y el conjunto, que pareciera pujar por la disgregación, en realidad se contorsiona para problematizar las relaciones entre poesía, historia y política mediante la creación de un espacio imaginario.
78) Dark Moments
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21 poems: A Happier Place, Mascara, Butterflies Bursting into Flames, Punching Bag, Hugging Teddy Bears, Taken, The Bottom of a Bottle, Thinning, Fester, A Prayer, Paper Boats, Regret, Sins of Another, Snake, Suppressing the Pain, In Vain, Two Sides, Stay, Little Soul, Broken Butterfly, Counting Sheep.
79) Silvija
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Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.
In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley's Silvija combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent...
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Trauma is never something easy to deal with. Trauma can also take many forms. During my teenage years, the biggest trauma took the form of death. The loss of a very prominent figure in my life, my band teacher, who was like a second father to me, sent me into a downward spiral of depression. My salvation was my family, friends, and a creative outlet, poetry. I took the deepest and darkest thoughts that swirled around in my head and molded them into...
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