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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 81 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"I'm sure you could benefit from jumping on a treadmill" "Women WANT a male leader . . . It's honest to god the basic human playbook" These are some of the thousands of messages that Kate Baer has received online. Like countless other writers--particularly women--with profiles on the internet, as Kate's online presence grew, so did the darker messages crowding her inbox. These missives from strangers have ranged from "advice" and opinions to outright...
Author
Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." -Fanny Howe. This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self...
Publisher
Ixia Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 130 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this soul-stirring collection of timeless verse, five legendary female poets address life's pains and sorrows as well as its joys and renewals. The poems appeal to the heart, providing companionship on the rugged path that all must tread. The roster features writers from ancient to modern times: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. As instapoets continue to make poetry more accessible and popular, they...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 330 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the success of their anthology, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 123 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection of poems explores the saints of the church's history and contemporary persons who embody something of their charism. Three sections are arranged around the themes of the three "theological virtues": faith, portrayed as a source of strength in times of trial; hope, the darkest in the book, dealing with matters of the body's frailty, illness, social discrimination, and the search for a way to live within the constraints of society;...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Calis's profound poetry has the intensity of Hopkins, while layering light on light in the hope of helping us to see"--
"A new collection by Palestinian-American poet, Andrew Calis finds hope in the Holy Land. "And we hoped in spite of only dirt For the green that could be anything." Steeped in wonder, Which Seeds Will Grow? explores the past and the present, from ancient Jerusalem to Baltimore's gardens and alleys. The poems are patient, waiting...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
109 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poems that are an antidote to the sorrows of our time, illustrating again that the creative resilience of life endures"--
"A posthumous collection of poems on the beauty of the seasons, creation, life and death, from beloved poet and theologian Catherine de Vinck.From the foreword:"Catherine de Vinck's poetry arises from the radiance of the world. Her spiritual journey is distilled here into penetrating insights that speak from heart to heart. These...
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, strikingly immediate and elegant verse translation of the classic, with an introduction and helpful guides to each section, by the rising American poet. Born in the United States into a secularized Hindu family, Amit Majmudar puzzled over the many religious traditions on offer, and found that the Bhagavad Gita had much to teach him with its "song of multiplicities." Chief among them is that "its own assertions aren't as important as the...
11) Or/and: poems
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 22cm
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of those times when it is necessary to make either/or choices and the divine grace that expands our possibilities"--
"In his famed treatise Either/Or, Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard suggests that our basic human condition is one of choice and freedom. But what about when we struggle to discern the right path forward, when we stumble between contradictory desires, when we want everything? Such insatiability...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"According to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of Eden. Amy Nemecek listens for this divine dialect as she communes with God on her walks along country roads and creek banks, through forests and hayfields. She observes the world around her with expectation, knowing that God still speaks to us as he is at work making all things new. If we have ears to...
15) Gitanjali
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
xiv, 46 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...
16) Silencer
Author
Publisher
A Mariner original, Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
73 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Marcus Wicker's Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police brutality in twenty-first-century America. Precisely contradictory, bittersweet, witty, and heartbreaking, Silencer is where the political and the personal collide. Driven by the sounds of hip-hop and reimagined forms and structures, Wicker's explosive...
Publisher
Storey Publishing, an imprint of Workman Publishing Co., Inc., a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. The anthology features a foreword by Nikita Gill and a carefully curated selection of poems from a diverse range of authors"--
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Expanded edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful collection of curated poems, individually selected to provide the perfect balm for every emotional need. Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark. Whatever you're facing, there is a poem in these pages that will do the trick. This pocket-size companion...
Author
Publisher
Books of Heritage
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
109 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A moving collection of poems reflecting Herb Brin's love of nature and his passion for the Jewish spirit. His verses are the cry, the laughter, the little sorrows and the eternal triumphs of a man – and of a people. Praise for Poems from the Rubio:"How a journalist, how an editor could also be a brilliant poet is a source of astonishment – and of gratitude." –Elie Wiesel (Nobel winner for Literature)"Your Rubio poems reverberate in the soul....
Author
Language
English
Description
Mattie J. T. Stepanek takes us on a Journey Through Heartsongs with more of his moving poems. These poems share the rare wisdom that Mattie has acquired through his struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and the death of his three siblings from the same disease. His life view was one of love and generosity and as a poet and a peacemaker, his desire was to bring his message of peace to as many people as possible.
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