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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous - Megan Fox Cover Art

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous Poems by Megan Fox

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Heartbreaking…Go read the book, everyone.” —Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. “These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,” says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.

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A Gentle Reminder - Bianca Sparacino Cover Art

A Gentle Reminder

A Gentle Reminder by Bianca Sparacino

A gentle reminder, for the days you feel light in this world, and for the days in which the sun rises a little slower. A gentle reminder for when your heart is full of hope, and for when you are learning how to heal it. A gentle reminder for when you finally begin to trust in the goodness, and for when you need the kind of words that hug your broken pieces back together. A gentle reminder for when growth hangs heavy in the air, for when you need to tuck your strength into your bones just to make it to tomorrow. A gentle reminder for when you are balancing the messiness, and the beauty, of what it means to be human, when you are teaching yourself that it is okay to be both happy and sad, that you are real, not perfect. A gentle reminder for when you seek the words you needed when you were younger. A gentle reminder for when you need to hear that you deserve to be loved the way you love others. A gentle reminder for when you need to recognize that you are not your past, that you are not your faults. A gentle reminder for when you need to believe in staying soft, in continuing to be the kind of person who cares. A gentle reminder for when you need to believe in loving deeply in a world that sometimes fails to do so. A gentle reminder to keep going. A gentle reminder to hope. A gentle reminder, for you. Take what you need.

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The Way Forward

The Way Forward
by Yung Pueblo

A  NEW YORK TIMES , PUBLISHERS WEEKLY , USA TODAY , SUNDAY TIMES,  AND   INDIE BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others. In these rapidly changing times, it is more important than ever to know ourselves well and fully, even and especially in the face of turmoil. The Way Forward encourages readers to connect more deeply to their intuition, using it to remain focused and grounded amidst a world in constant flux. In his latest collection of poetry and short prose, Yung Pueblo offers clear strategies for managing the unknown, inhabiting your personal power, and bringing your truest, healthiest self to relationships. Progressing naturally from both Inward and Clarity & Connection , The Way Forward is exactly that­­—an inspired beginning.

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Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

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This Was Meant To Find You - Charlotte Freeman Cover Art

This Was Meant To Find You

This Was Meant To Find You When You Needed It Most by Charlotte Freeman

If you are hurting, healing, feeling, letting someone go, or starting a new chapter and learning to open your heart back up again, this book was meant to find you when you needed it most. This Was Meant To Find You  (When You Needed It Most)  is Charlotte Freeman’s second book and was written to resonate deeply with the ones who seek comfort in reading the right words at the right time. It’s for the ones who are learning what it means to choose yourself a little more each day and be gentle with yourself through all phases of your journey.

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HER

HER
by Pierre Alex Jeanty

"Her" is a collection of poetry and prose about women, their strengths and beauty. Every woman should know the feelings of being loved and radiating those feelings back to her mate. This is a beautiful expression of heartfelt emotion using short, gratifying sentiments. If there is a lover in you, you will not get enough of "Her."

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The Odyssey - Homer & Emily Wilson Cover Art

The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer & Emily Wilson

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. This fresh, authoritative translation captures the beauty of this ancient poem as well as the drama of its narrative. Its characters are unforgettable, none more so than the “complicated” hero himself, a man of many disguises, many tricks, and many moods, who emerges in this version as a more fully rounded human being than ever before. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey sings with a voice that echoes Homer’s music; matching the number of lines in the Greek original, the poem sails along at Homer’s swift, smooth pace. A fascinating, informative introduction explores the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the poem’s major themes, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence. Maps drawn especially for this volume, a pronunciation glossary, and extensive notes and summaries of each book make this is an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

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Blood Orange

Blood Orange by Yaffa AS

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians. The collection came quickly and relentlessly, drawn from the depths of the author's soul  during a movement for a free Palestine and aligned with a solar eclipse.  It beckons readers to re-evaluate what is perceived as immutable and to imagine pathways toward Utopia.  "Blood Orange"- the title an homage to the Yaffa Oranges (which were appropriated first by the British and subsequently by Israel) refers to the author themselves, their homeland and blood spilled in the name of settler colonialism. This highly charged and cathartic body of work confronts the anguish and loss inflicted by genocide but also embraces a vision of a world free of it. The poems within "Blood Orange" were a means of working through and processing the grief caused by recent events and serve as an act of protest and defiance against settler colonialism as a whole.

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The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur Cover Art

The Sun and Her Flowers

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom

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Beauty in the Stillness - Karin Hadadan Cover Art

Beauty in the Stillness

Beauty in the Stillness
by Karin Hadadan

For those who yearn to live in the present moment, who seek reflection through heartbreak, comfort during times of loneliness, or guidance while healing,  Beauty In The Stillness  provides the words you need to read right now. Author Karin Hadadan is the founder of ICI ET NU, a lifestyle brand that promotes living in the present moment.  Beauty In The Stillness  is her first published collection of self-help poetry.

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Valentía - Kelbin Torres Cover Art

Valentía

Valentía by Kelbin Torres

Este no es un libro de esos que dejas olvidados en un rincón, es un libro de esos a lo que vuelves cada vez que lo necesitas. Es de esos que logran derrumbarte, pero también hacerte brillar. Te hará llorar y reír, te acercará más a la vida.Aquí encontrarás verdades, de esas sin filtro, que te hacen reflexionar. No encontrarás utopías, pues cada palabra nace de una experiencia. Valentía es un camino, tiene sus obstáculos, sus dolores y tristezas, pero también está lleno de esperanza, de fe. Es un libro que avivará el fuego de tu corazón, pondrá tus emociones a flor de piel y, sobre todo, te recordará que en esta vida vale mucho más ser valiente que cualquier otra cosa.

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Apologies That Never Came - Pierre Alex Jeanty Cover Art

Apologies That Never Came

Apologies That Never Came by Pierre Alex Jeanty

With massive social media followings and a loyal fan base, Jeanty is poised for great success for his sixth poetry collection entitled Apologies That Never Came . In this series of prose and poetry, both the words and sentiment are simple, uninterrupted by excess flair or complexity. Apologies That Never Came dissects the agony of heartbreak and loss through the unexpressed words and feelings; what is left over at the end. While his poems and prose delve into pain, they ultimately transcend that heartbreak, awakening everyone's preexisting strength and capacity for growth. Much like in his previous collections, Jeanty has successfully created a tool for unity and healing out of the torment of his experiences.

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Beowulf

Beowulf A Translation and Commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

New York Times bestseller “A thrill . . . Beowulf was Tolkien’s lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it.” —New Yorker   J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s.   His creative attention to detail in these lectures gives rise to a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if Tolkien entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beach their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to Beowulf’s rising anger at Unferth’s taunting, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.   “Essential for students of the Old English poem—and the ideal gift for devotees of the One Ring.” —Kirkus

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Devotions

Devotions The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club “No matter where one starts reading,  Devotions  offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning  American Primitive , and  Dream Work , one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” — The Washington Post “It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.”  — Chicago Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems , published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity , published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

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Essential Bukowski - Charles Bukowski Cover Art

Essential Bukowski

Essential Bukowski Poetry by Charles Bukowski

Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture. Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Encompassing a wide range of subjects—from love to death and sex to writing—Bukowski’s unvarnished and self-deprecating verse illuminates the deepest and most enduring concerns of the human condition while remaining sharply aware of the day to day. With his acute eye for the ridiculous and the troubled, Bukowski speaks to the deepest longings and strangest predilections of the human experience. Gloomy yet hopeful, this is tough, unrelenting poetry touched by grace. This is Essential Bukowski.

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Self Love Poetry

Self Love Poetry For Thinkers & Feelers by Melody Godfred

Readers have called her work “life changing,” “pandemic medicine,” and “part of my daily ritual.” Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry book, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers , a collection of 200 thought-provoking and heart-opening self love poems. In  Self Love Poetry , Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. On the left side of the book are "thinker" poems that light up the analytical, more literal, left side of the brain, and on the right side are companion "feeler" poems that speak to the creative, more emotional right side of the brain. Combined, the poems electrify the mind, body and soul through a completely unique poetry experience that inspires each of us to embrace all parts of ourselves. This empowering poetry book will not only engage you to think and feel, but will make you feel seen, show you how to love yourself, and encourage you to seek out the hope and beauty in the world … and in yourself. It’s the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love, especially after a most difficult year. 

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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Doré - Edgar Allan Poe Cover Art

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Doré

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Edgar Allan Poe

A mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death  of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one word; Nevermore. Steeped in stylized, but dark prose and written in an almost musical style Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is a bleak, mesmerizing journey through one man’s depression and madness. Illustrated by Gustave Doré, the master woodcut artist gives the poem the rich but despondent feel which perfectly accompanies this classic poem. A reproduction of an 1884 version of an illustrated edition of  Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Illustrated by Gustave Doré the art in the original books was produced in woodcuts. This edition digitally alters and cleans up the images for digital printing.

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Everything You’ll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself - Charlotte Freeman Cover Art

Everything You’ll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself

Everything You’ll Ever Need You Can Find Within Yourself by Charlotte Freeman

Everything You’ll Ever Need (You Can Find Within Yourself)  is Charlotte Freeman’s first book and was written from the most vulnerable places of the heart. The pages of this book are open and honest, written to resonate with those who need it the most. Full of messages we all sometimes need, that often come at  just  the right time, this book is your reminder that everything you’ll ever need, you can find within yourself.

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Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith Cover Art

Life on Mars

Life on Mars Poems by Tracy K. Smith

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

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Your Soul is a River - Nikita Gill Cover Art

Your Soul is a River

Your Soul is a River by Nikita Gill

Thought Catalog Books presents Nikita Gill’s “Your Soul Is A River,” a collection of poetry.

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Seeds Planted in Concrete - Bianca Sparacino Cover Art

Seeds Planted in Concrete

Seeds Planted in Concrete by Bianca Sparacino

Through illustration and poetry, Seeds Planted In Concrete is Bianca Sparacino’s raw testament to the beauty that is found within the contrasts of life. By writing truthfully about the intricacies of both love and loss, Sparacino’s first collection of work is one that will speak to the very depths of those who read it, inspiring a will to love, and live. This collection is a manifesto of the journey every human being takes throughout their life; an assembly of words that celebrates the resilience of the human heart through stages of hurting, feeling, healing and loving.  This special edition of Seeds Planted in Concrete includes enhanced illustrations, available for iBooks only.

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Love is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski Cover Art

Love is a Dog From Hell

Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski

First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

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And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou Cover Art

And Still I Rise

And Still I Rise A Book of Poems by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters .   Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.   Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it.   “It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”

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Cherry Blossoms: Japanese Haiku Series III - Peter Beilenson & Marian Morton Cover Art

Cherry Blossoms: Japanese Haiku Series III

Cherry Blossoms: Japanese Haiku Series III by Peter Beilenson & Marian Morton

Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilenson’s goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional imagery in spare words. Haiku icon Basho is represented amply here, as are imagery-virtuoso Buson and wry, warm, painfully human Issa. The verses of Shiki, Joso, Kyorai, Kikaku, Chora, Gyodai, Kakei, Izen, and others also appear, illuminated by lovely woodblock prints. From the peaceful ( Moonlight nightingale/Casts a whistling line of sound/Over the millpond –Basho) to the lively ( Sudden radiance…/After October rainstorm/Re-reddened peppers –Buson) to the downright absurd ( Ah sacred swallow…/Twittering from your nest in/Great Buddha’s nostril –Issa), this collection will stir your senses and your heart.

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The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

The Spiritual Poems of Rumi Translated by Nader Khalili by Rumi & Nader Khalili

The Spiritual Poems of Rumi  is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumi's spiritual poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for a stronger spiritual core.

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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems - Joy Harjo Cover Art

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo

A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer & Robert Fitzgerald

Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory. Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition. Winner of the Bollingen Prize

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The Iliad

The Iliad A New Translation by Caroline Alexander by Homer & Caroline Alexander

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war. Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages. Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.

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The Feeling May Remain

The Feeling May Remain by Akif Kichloo

From despair comes loathing, from loathing comes solitude, from solitude comes wisdom, from wisdom comes growth, and from growth sprouts a new perspective on life. This is the core of The Feeling May Remain: The icebergs of pain, loss, and grief, submerged in the ocean of love, self–care, and healing.  The Feeling May Remain brings the first substantial collection of Akif Kichloo's work to the public. The title Feeling May Remain can be interpreted as an adjective or as a short declarative sentence, something to think about right away. Amidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible yet beautiful life, as Akif puts it, his writing brings new perspectives to existence, with poems that range from cute and sexy to stark and dead serious, hence speaking in more than one way to the sensibilities of his readers from all over the globe.

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Be The One - Eileen Lamb Cover Art

Be The One

Be The One by Eileen Lamb

I’ve written this book for you who feels so deeply or “too much,” as others have said. In this book, I celebrate deep feelings and show you the power in their vulnerability. Whether you’re searching for who you are or for someone else who gets you, this book is for you. The short passages inside will inspire you with their themes of friendship, love, and self-discovery. You are not alone. We are not alone.

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Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollins Cover Art

Black Coffee Blues

Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

Considered by many to be the "classic" Rollins book, Black Coffee Blues is a collection of writings by Henry Rollins from 1989-1991. In his inimitable unflinching way, Rollins shares with readers a hard-edge look into his world through poetry, prose and journals,

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I Find You in the Darkness

I Find You in the Darkness Poems by ALFA

Find your truest self revealed through Alfa’s carefully chosen words, and discover the love you’ve been waiting for. Soul connection. Love. Heartbreak. Alfa knows them all, and I Find You in the Darkness will lead you down her twisting paths of passion and pain with the poetry that has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people on Instagram and Facebook. Find your truest self revealed through Alfa’s carefully chosen words, and discover the love you’ve been waiting for. This volume belongs in the collection of every modern poetry fan.

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The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps - Charles Bukowski Cover Art

The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps by Charles Bukowski

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.

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The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa, Jerónimo Pizarro & Margaret Jull Costa

For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

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I Wish I Knew

I Wish I Knew The uplifting Sunday Times bestseller by Donna Ashworth

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING POETRY COLLECTION In this fast-paced world, I Wish I Knew is a collection of poems to guide us through the wilderness of life, navigating body image, emotions, mental health and personal growth. With honest lessons learned from rock bottom, Donna Ashworth's writing helps us to find courage in chaos and rise to every challenge. Sparking joy, surprise and gratitude on each page, this collection will soothe your soul, strengthen your spirit and help you find your own unique voice. 'Donna's much-needed words will no doubt empower and lift our young people today.' Lisa Faulkner 'A little corner of calm within life's storm - wonderful.' Cat Deeley 'Donna has a rare gift of being able to put into words how we all feel. Her writing is like a hug from a wise friend.' Samia Longchambon 'Donna's wise and beautiful words help us reach a place of peace and acceptance. I would love to have read them many years ago.' Lisa Snowdon

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Nine Horses

Nine Horses Poems by Billy Collins

Nine Horses , Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001–2002, and reappointed for 2002–2003. What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.

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The Prophet - Khalil Gibran Cover Art

The Prophet

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Rich in timeless wisdom and beautiful poetic language, this spiritual classic is “exquisite . . . simply a masterpiece” ( The Independent , London).   As the wise man Almustafa prepares to leave the island where he has lived in exile from his home for twelve years, the community gathers around him, beseeching him to share his wisdom before he departs.   Within this framework, the beloved prophet offers meditations on love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.   Written by a Lebanese-American poet, The Prophet was an immediate success upon its publication in 1923. Translated into more than one hundred languages and selling millions of copies, the book’s popularity has never waned. In the 1960s, it was freshly discovered and venerated by the counterculture, and in 2014, it was adapted into an animated film. The universal truths embedded in these twenty-six prose poems continue to resonate for spiritual seekers.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.  

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Omar Khayyam & Edward Fitzgerald Cover Art

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam & Edward Fitzgerald

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains - verses of four lines. These works by Fitzgerald are the best known English translations. This edition contains both the first and fifth editions of the Rubaiyat. This influential translation is seen by many as a zenith of English literature in the nineteenth century. Fitzgerald states that his translation "will interest you from its form, and also in many respects in its detail: very unliteral as it is. Many quatrains are mashed together: and something lost, I doubt, of Omar's simplicity, which is so much a virtue in him." And, "I suppose very few People have ever taken such Pains in Translation as I have: though certainly not to be literal. But at all Cost, a Thing must live: with a transfusion of one's own worse Life if one can't retain the Original's better. Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle."

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Dark Testament: and Other Poems

Dark Testament: and Other Poems by Pauli Murray

With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli Murray’s sole book of poems finally returns to print. There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940—fifteen years before Rosa Parks—for refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, Dark Testament and Other Poems attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murray’s poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.

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After Nature

After Nature by W.G. Sebald

After Nature , W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance.” The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages. After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author’s position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.

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The Four Zoas

The Four Zoas by William Blake

In one of the most beautiful works by him, Blake has experimented with forms and styles. He has alluded extensively to mythology and has employed his diverse imagination in this piece. With profound symbolism he represents humanity and its troubles. A highly riveting work!

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Wild Hope

Wild Hope Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days (Poetry Wisdom that Comforts, Guides, and Heals) by Donna Ashworth

Find Hope and Solace in Inspirational Poetry from Scotland’s Poet Sensation and Sunday Times Bestselling Author “Beautiful and uplifting” — Davina McCall “So inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful.” — Lisa Snowdon #1 Best Seller in Love Poetry, Poetry by Women, and Emotional Self Help Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth’s powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find comfort, hope, peace, self-acceptance, and inspiration when we feel worn down, helpless, or sad. Find solace in Ashworth's eloquent verse. Through contemporary poetry, Donna explores the human condition. This inspiring poetry collection brings comfort and guidance, offering a lifeline to those battling anxiety, depression, or merely the strain of a demanding career. Hope exists when nothing else can. Wild Hope helps you find light on the darkest days. Unlock the power of kindness and hope. Ashworth underscores the impact of acts of love and kindness in shaping a better future, reminding readers of the innate goodness of humanity. Through her heartfelt work, you are guided towards emotional healing, enhancing your mental well-being, and fostering an atmosphere of positive thinking. Mental health poetry. Written with love and understanding, Donna reminds us that amidst our daily struggles and constant outpourings of bad news, we have so much to hope for and that every one of us can play a part, big or small, in making the world a better place. In Wild Hope discover:       A reservoir of inspirational poetry Empowering wisdom and practical guidanceStrategies to cultivate self-love and self-acceptanceThe powerful role of acts of kindness and love in creating a better future If you liked books such as Milk and Honey, Healing Words, The Sun and Her Flowers, or Good Grief, you'll love Wild Hope. Also don’t miss Donna’s other bestselling inspirational poetry works, I Wish I Knew, Loss, Life, and Love.

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2Fish

2Fish A Poetry Book by Jhene Aiko Efuru Chilombo

The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter “transform[s] her pain into poetry” in this intimate collection ( People ). Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo has developed and refined a method of emoting through writing. 2Fish  is a collection of intimate poems (and a few short stories) written by Chilombo from adolescence to adulthood, in no particular order. The book details Chilombo’s thoughts in their most raw and honest form—taken directly from a collection of notebooks she has kept since age twelve. “Poignant revealing poems.” — Vibe

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The Apple That Astonished Paris

The Apple That Astonished Paris Poems by Billy Collins

Bruce Weber in the New York Times called Billy Collins “the most popular poet in America.” He is the author of many books of poetry, including, most recently, The Rain in Portugal: Poems . In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris , his “first real book of poems,” as he describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers. In his usual witty and dry style, Collins writes, “I gathered together what I considered my best poems and threw them in the mail.” After “what seemed like a very long time” Press director Miller Williams, a poet as well, returned the poems to him in the “familiar self-addressed, stamped envelope.” He told Collins that there was good work here but that there was work to be done before he’d have a real collection he and the Press could be proud of: “Williams’s words were more encouragement than I had ever gotten before and more than enough to inspire me to begin taking my writing more seriously than I had before.” This collection includes some of Collins’s most anthologized poems, including “Introduction to Poetry,” “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House,” and “Advice to Writers.” Its success over the years is testament to Collins’s talent as one of our best poets, and as he writes in the preface, “this new edition . . . is a credit to the sustained vibrancy of the University of Arkansas Press and, I suspect, to the abiding spirit of its former director, my first editorial father.”

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Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom - Christine Evangelou Cover Art

Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom

Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom by Christine Evangelou

Beating Hearts and Butterflies is a book of poetry with purpose: inspirational, dreamy, empowering, spiritually healing and transformative. Beating Hearts and Butterflies contains 122 story-telling, inspiring and relatable poems, verses and reflections on love, loss, failure, healing, embracing darkness and your authentic spark, transformation, fate, destiny, emotional and heart intelligence, and the beauty of wishes and dreams that keep our hopes flying high. "Chrysalis" is derived from the Greek word for Gold…"khrysos". It is only by combing through the darkness and inner grief, the chrysalis of our own soul that we emerge with greater spiritual riches. This poetry takes you on a poetic, healing carpet ride back to the centre of your heart and the courage of your soul to help you spin grief, worries, and life experiences into something golden, lighting up your heart… because every experience is valuable, everything has meaning. Tough times do not, and should not steer us away from our centre- if we learn through love then they lead us directly toward it. About Christine: Christine is a motivational writer, author and poet. She writes for her site "The Motivation Angel" and has previously contributed her writing to some US and UK based personal development/motivation sites. See more on her author page at "The Motivation Angel".

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The Prophet

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

A worldwide best-seller since its date of original publication in 1923, The Prophet has become a token of free thought and intellectual betterment across many generations of readers. This unique and timeless classic is composed of 28 prose poetry fables, each examining a different facet of the human experience. A treasure worth holding close, The Prophet is an unforgettable book of poems worth savoring. The Prophet serves as an intricate examination of the world through the eyes of prophet Almustafa on his way back to his native country after having been in exile for the past twelve years. On the ship carrying him home, Almustafa becomes engulfed in conversation with various passengers on board. Each conversation differs from the last while all providing valuable experiences for Almustafa. Providing insight, clarity, and depth, Almustafa’s musings on each subject make way for the ways in which one can better learn to understand the levels of deep human emotion. From the intricacies of human thought, and circumstance, Gibran’s words have carried with them a certain meditative and instructive examination of what it feels like to be human. With honorable mentions from celebrity authors and poets, the importance of reading The Prophet cannot be overstated. An absolute must-read for anyone seeking emotional enlightenment, guidance, or human insight. With each poem and line varying in length and explanation, The Prophet is as topical today as it was when it was first published.

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La tierra baldía

La tierra baldía by T. S. Eliot

La tierra baldía es una pieza coral donde las voces de vivos y muertos, de personas y personajes, se atropellan, se travisten de otros o de versiones pasadas y futuras de sí mismos. Hurga en la memoria afectiva que guardamos de cosas y seres; antes que nombrar el miedo y condicionar nuestra reacción, muestra “el miedo en un montón de polvo”; antes que referirse a la soledad y a la muerte, propone ver “los huesos regados en un seco desván”.

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The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach. With a length of about 70 printed pages over three chapters, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. The text was first published in 1915 in the October issue of the journal Die weißen Blätter under the editorship of René Schickele. The first edition in book form appeared in December 1915 in the series Der jüngste Tag, edited by Kurt Wolff.

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Birding, or Desire

Birding, or Desire by Don McKay

This extraordinary book is a celebration –of the quirky plenitude of nature, and of the deep rhythms of family life. Don McKay writes with great technical panache. But his attention to what he loves is so constant and so generous that we are left, not with mere virtuosity, but with a world renewed.

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Eyes On The Road

Eyes On The Road by Michell C Clark

Feel everything… you can cry and keep your eyes on the road at the same time. To everyone who is searching for peace… I hope that this book helps you to accept your past, embrace the present moment, and get excited about your future. I hope this book helps you to keep your eyes on the road.

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