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With poems that arise at the intersection among phenological study, place, and memory, Of the Earth and Other Desires celebrates the locus poetica of our land communities and explores what they have to teach those who move through them about desire. This volume was awarded the John Rezmerski Manuscript Prize in 2023 by the League of Minnesota Poets.

Diese neue Ausgabe des Buchs der Lieder kann ich dem überrheinischen Publikum nicht zuschicken, ohne sie mit freundlichsten Grüßen in ehrlichster Prosa zu begleiten. Ich weiß nicht, welches wunderliche Gefühl mich davon abhält, dergleichen Vorworte, wie es bei Gedichtsammlungen üblich ist, in schönen Rhythmen zu versifizieren. Seit einiger Zeit sträubt sich etwas in mir gegen alle gebundene Rede, und wie ich höre, regt sich bei manchen Zeitgenossen eine ähnliche Abneigung. Es will mich bedünken, als sei in schönen Versen allzu viel gelogen worden, und die Wahrheit scheue sich, in metrischen Gewanden zu erscheinen.

T. S. Eliot's best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. For the first time in company history a companion volume will be published. Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs' poems are as witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot's cats.

In this new collection of poems, essays, and flash fiction, the author once again exhibits her ability to write about both the light and dark sides of life. There are numerous poems and stories about nature: its kindness, cruelty, and wonder. There are frank expressions of the sadness and frustration she felt at the progressive loss of her eyesight and a poem about the social isolation that disability can bring. Other pieces, though, sing of joys as diverse as family closeness, the love of dogs, the delights of scents, and the power of the muse.

The poems in this collection fly from the microcosm of ripples in a lake to the macrocosm of light bending in a black hole, from math to jazz, from informal to formal, from the here-and-now to the hereafter. This short book contains an infinite universe - one that you will long to return to again and again.

What do we need healing from? Lingering loss, stinging heartbreak, disappointment, trauma—sometimes life itself leaves us raw. We mend in our own ways, yet certain salves touch us all: music, nature, literature, art. This isn’t a self-help book in verse—no judgment if that’s your balm—but something different. These tenderly woven poems and vignettes ripple with literary seasons, portraits, and landscapes mirroring the soul. They honor language, cradling the spirit, while delicate threads of cultural heritage offer a glimpse into my island homeland. They pulse with love, self-...

Inspired by Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, these poems are meditations on female rage, postpartum depression, compulsion, and intrusive thoughts. They pull from periods of sleep deprivation, soul exhaustion, and nightmarish delusions, and each is left untitled, a nod to the stream-of-conscious mind of a new mother.

The deliciously book-length story of "The Vineyard" is set in and around the little house in Oyster Ponds where the poet spends the summer months. In freeflowing lines and pages that turn with the calendar, the poem unspools impressions that seem confided rather than written, as Galassi observes the "pretend peace'' of this quiet village house and garden, his oasis in the great swirl of dailiness.

The women in Allison Adair’s debut collection—luminous and electric from the first line to the last—live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores. They understand the nature of being hollowed out, of being “the planet’s stone / core as it tries to carve out one secret place and fails.” And so, as these poems take us from the midst of the Civil War to our current era, they chart fairy tales that are at once unsettling and painfully familiar, never forgetting that cruelty compels us to search for tenderness.

In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full.

When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present. In One Wild Word Away, Geffrey Davis weaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp descriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts generational trauma and the potential loss of a loved one while in the process of raising his own son.

A poetry chapbook collection of over 30 poems exploring the mysteries and wonders of our universe. Ranging from whimsical imaginings of how distant astronomers may be contemplating us, to more serious contemplations of our place among the stars, poet Ron Perovich shares his own love of astronomy and invites listeners to delight in the scale of the cosmos with him.

The world of wild swimming is where souls are restored, heavy hearts are healed, and the deep immersion in nature is resource-ing a new age of seekers. The explosion of wild swimming during the pandemic is testament to the power of taking the plunge, how nature is plugging us back into source, and how the need to immerse in nature is a powerful tool for change.

Thirty-six poems inspired by volunteering full time with a disability nonprofit, discovery around disability and employment, weight loss and growth, and silence and nature.

It's about our impact on the planet as a human species. Are we amazing? Or are we...really...

This book is a reflection of a soul journey between life and eternity through pathways of pain, confusion, loss, struggling for freedom, justice, and beautiful memories. A soul’s journey is calling desperately for peace, love, and mercy in a world full of hunger, poverty, injustice, and destruction. In a world where humanity is crying for help to survive, a soul journey paints the heart with colorful feelings of life, which lead us at the end to our roots to Mother Nature, where nature is telling us the most wonderful and amazing stories of mankind.

Write Out Your Drops is an eclectic poetry collection speaking on an array of themes as it pertains to being true to oneself. The author brings listeners on an expressive journey through lyrical verses and graceful symbolism that makes one's individual experience seem more understood through the collective. The collection speaks on fighting despite the rain, embracing your tears through the struggles you face, and remaining in tune to the melody of your heart and the blood to which you are rooted.

Lynda Lambert covers a wide terrain of subjects and topics in this new audiobook, from lights to legends to seasons, treating us to images and metaphors about plants, people, and weather. She opens this large collection with the title poem, "Star Signs", which walks us through the alphabet as it digs through thoughts, emotions and observations, “Using star signs to map out new terrain”. Throughout this audiobook of poems, these gems of poetic creation shimmer like beads on her fabric art, like bold brush strokes of color on her paintings.

The title poem depicts the struggle between good and evil with a surprise ending. Hope enlivens a dark universe. Dances, music, and magic explode with joyful energy. Brief sketches and humor vs challenges dealing with existential threats. Do we really die? New doors open, and nature shines at its most uplifting.

Beneath a Willow Tree takes us on a journey to fall more deeply in love with life through a deep connection with the natural world. These 33 poems celebrate the cosmic dance of nature and Spirit and honor the mysterious bond between our inner and outer landscapes. Join Lucy Wyer as she extols nature’s gifts that help us to expand our mystical consciousness.