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I have a filthy heart. It's been bruised,and broken,and houses secrets best left in the dark.These are its collections.
Courtney Jones lives in downtown Toronto, working in content creation and digital strategy. An avid lover of the written word, she prefers to pass her free time reading a good book while enjoying a glass of even better red wine.
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How do you stitch yourself back together after trauma, loss, grief, heartbreak? By inviting what is broken to become what is breathtaking. THE BODY is a collection of poems and short stories written in lyrical prose during the hardest moments of the author's life. This collection explores themes of love, loss, grief, seduction, creativity, consciousness, female empowerment, post-traumatic expansion, and the collective human experience. Because when...
3) Human Nature
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For fans of L.E Bowman's What I Learned from the Trees and Sophie Diener's Someone Somewhere Maybe comes Kari Highman's debut poetry collection about exploring not only our hearts, but the world around us. Human Nature delves into how our emotional expressiveness can be challenged or bettered by the environment. This book looks at the literal definition of its namesake while examining the figurative language of those words through poetic diction,...
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Book synopsis: All people are individuals with their own thoughts, ideas, and dreams. What we share are feelings-How we process them and deal with their effect. Even though our situations may differ and circumstances may have different outcomes, we all share the same emotion, love, and passion. The way we miss someone, the heartbreak of loss. They are universal that everyone can understand. Each poem I write is real, raw human emotion. The reader...
6) Medium
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From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium uses language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time.These deeply resonant and performative poems share the lives and perspectives of women who- in their roles as biological, physical, or spiritual mediums- have helped to shape the course of history. Reckoning with the dominant historical narratives of each woman' s era, Skibsrud underscores the power...
7) Persona Play
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to don a different persona? To try on the qualities of an archetype? New personas are donned regularly by actors in the movies and in theater, and also by everyday people at costume parties, and at Halloween. These are chances to play make-believe, to step into another identity for a brief period of time.When someone finds a persona to dress up as that particularly delights them: Their faces...
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A revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism.
Borrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric assessments, and court documents, Jody Chan's impact statement traces a history of psychiatric institutions within a settler colonial state. These poems bring the reader into the present moment of the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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A collection of poetry with "resilience throughout and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates" (Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of Only As the Day Is Long).
From Tina Schumann, recipient of the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart Prize nominee, comes a full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept of self, loss, fragility, and the constructs we must create in order to...
10) El renacer
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Las palabras resuenan en nuestra mente como los pensamientos en nuestro corazón. En esta obra podrás encontrar versos que podrás interpretar con el amor, la vida y la muerte.
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You know that moment? The one where a single leaf glides, sliding this way and that, until it touches the ground. Watching it makes everything else blur for a minute. It's just you and the one, single, solitary leaf.
Or that time when walking on a path in the woods, an entire rainstorm of leaves flit around you, falling at various speeds until they swirl on the path.
These moments that seem so ordinary hold magic in that they can allow everything...
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People, places, memories, and everything in-between hold the greatest remedy for reconnecting your soul, releasing your expression, and reclaiming your purpose. Taking the time to pause, observe, reflect and implement what's around and within you, embracing what you are worthy of, being grateful for what the pain has taught you, surrounds you, in the experiences you live. And Everything in Between is how I've navigated my life so far from my past,...
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"The Color Between the Hours" speaks to romantic love flirting with disaster, loss beyond reason and crime (white collar and otherwise). Addressing the reader as "you," the work explores inner landscapes. Whether it is a woman contemplating her mother's fate while microwaving dinner, or a person working as a psychic because it's required to collect welfare, the poems embrace a reality that is unique and universal at the same time. In these poems,...
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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence...
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"Defining Thought," the inaugural gem in the captivating Defing collection, unveils a poetic tapestry that delicately captures profound musings left unspoken. Embark on a journey through the pages, where your mind steps beyond its comfort zone, exploring the depths of elusive thoughts. This poetic odyssey invites you to traverse the realms of the poet's mind, prompting introspection and a craving for deeper exploration. As you dive into the rabbit's...
17) Poetry
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Bao is someone who got into writing since her middle school years and loves it since. She uses writing as her voice. Her poems range from suicide and depression to mostly dark things. She also uses her creativity by writing stories for those who are unable to speak up.Warning: Her poems can be raw and explicit.
18) Xactly Poetic
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A book of forms. Where a free verse poet challenges herself to write only to write in specific forms.
19) Foxes, Mostly
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Foxes, Mostly: Partially pastoral poems is a slim volume of poetry that is, indeed, mostly about foxes. There is a little riffing on pastoral techniques to engage the imagination of the reader.
20) Psythur
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psithurism [sith-yuh-riz-uhm] noun:a rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration Psythur is a collections of works selected by the editors throughout the year. Poems that were misfits for our other collections, but nonetheless stirred our mind, heart, or soul.
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