Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poet
In those days I began to see light under every
bushel basket, light nearly splitting
the sides of the bushel basket. Light came
through the rafters of the dairy where the grackles
congregated like well-taxed citizens
untransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the one
underneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say.
When I grew restless in the interior,
the...
Author
Formats
Description
If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a...
Author
Formats
Description
A moving, innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history.
From 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four-hundred letters. Describing the writing of their poems, their travel and daily illnesses, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection they had for each other, these missives are the most intimate record available of both poets and one of the greatest...
Author
Formats
Description
By the author of the wildly successful 2am Thoughts and Nineteen, comes Rooms of the Mind, a journey into the parts of our psyche that can either hide and protect us, or expose us to all that exists. Here you'll find an exploration of pain, heartbreak and wonder at what the world might, bring us next.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"A witty, entertaining mystery featuring a hilarious, sharp as a tack new amateur sleuth from the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder. It's just another day at the office for book editor Samantha Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her star novelist that her latest effort is utterly unpublishable, lunch scheduled with gossipy author Kit Lowell, whose new book will deliciously dish the dirt on the...
Author
Formats
Description
"What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage? This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own...
47) Only and forever
Author
Series
Bergman brothers volume 7
Formats
Description
"Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids' soccer, and adopting a household of pets-just maybe, he's overcommitted himself?-Viggo's chaotic life has made finding his forever love seem downright improbable. Enter Tallulah Clarke, chilly cynic with a massive case of writer's block. Tallulah needs help with her thriller's...
Author
Description
In this representative collection of Christina Rossetti's poems we find a vast array of narrative tales, love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, ballads, and sprightly verses for children. Ranked among the finest English poets of the nineteenth century, Christina Rossetti is a widely read, though not widely imitated poet, recognized for her devotional poetry, influenced by the religious conservatism and asceticism of the Church of England. This collection of...
Author
Description
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...
50) Stained Glass
Author
Description
“Stained Glass” is poetry that reflects the light and shade of life, and all the colours in between.
The poet celebrates the strength and extraordinary resilience of women through the exploration of diverse issues, including love, loss, social expectations, self-awareness and personal integrity.
In rare moments the glass is rose-coloured; elsewhere, the window is astonishingly clear.
Author
Description
"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...
Author
Description
Une poésie profondément humaniste
2e édition revue et augmentée
Résumé
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
Author
Description
This book consists of an amazing set of poetry and flash fiction to give readers an altogether unique experience of reading. Every poetry is a story in meter, with hidden meaning. Each poetry intends to convey different feelings. Some poetries express intense Love, Sorrow, Elation, and much more. It's a short but sweet book to give readers a short break from heavy reading. Readers will experience a different thought process and would appreciate the...
Author
Description
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of "The Bindings: The Girl with Cerebral Palsy and the Experiences that Hold Me Together," an extraordinary book of poetry by April Williams. In this heartfelt collection, April, a self-taught poet with cerebral palsy and scoliosis, opens her soul and shares her remarkable journey through melodic, emotional, and profoundly touching verses.
Within the pages of this book, April's evocative words paint a vivid...
58) La Fleur
Author
Description
La Fleur is a poetry collection about dealing with love and relationships. This book takes the reader into the Authors personal world of heartbreak, pain, love, and triumph. La Fleur takes place at a time in the Authors life where she was transitioning from being a girl to a woman. La Fleur translates to The Flower in English which is very symbolic for the Author for many reasons. First the name Jasmine is a type of flower; and second the Author finds...
Author
Description
Internationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother's dementia-ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain even as memory and past fade. Learning to speak in maybes-perhaps I told you? Were you there? and to let a mother direct memory as memory vanishes, Gammon threads a path through time, bringing us into the heart and heat of a mother-daughter relationship that is changing as each day...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request