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Poems & Prayers - Matthew McConaughey Cover Art

Poems & Prayers

Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Academy Award–winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my poems are my prayers. I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world. A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream. I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe. But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential. I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality. Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason. Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.

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On the Slaughter

On the Slaughter by Hayim Nahman Bialik & Peter Cole

The first comprehensive English translation of a Russian-Jewish master's poetry, from the fiery poems he wrote in the wake of the pogroms of the early 20th century to his sublime lyrics about longing and self-reflection. On the Slaughter , named for Bialik's most famous poem, also includes a sample of the poet's work for children and an impassioned introduction by the collection's translator, MacArthur winner Peter Cole. Few poets in the history of Hebrew have possessed the power and prescience of Hayim Nahman Bialik. Born in 1873 in a small Ukrainian village, he spent his most productive years in Odessa and in his fifties made his way to British Mandatory Palestine. He died in Vienna in 1934. Bialik’s body of work opened a path from the traditional Jewish world of Eastern Europe into a more expansive Jewish humanism. In a line that stretches back to the Bible and the Hebrew poetry of Muslim and Christian Spain, he stands out—in the words of Maxim Gorky—as “a modern Isaiah.” To this day he remains an iconic and shockingly relevant poet, essayist, and tutelary spirit. Translated and introduced by MacArthur-winning poet Peter Cole, On the Slaughter presents Bialik for the first time in English as a masterful artist, someone far more politically and psychologically unsettling than his reputation as the national poet of the Jewish people might suggest. This compact collection offers readers a panoramic view of Bialik’s inner and outer landscapes: his visionary “poems of wrath” respond in startling fashion to the devastations of pogroms and  a Jewish community in crisis, while his quietly sublime lyrics of longing, doubt, and withering self-assessment bring us into the silence at the heart of his art. The volume also includes a sampling of slyly sophisticated verse for children, and a moving introduction that bridges Bialik’s moment and our own.

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Information Desk

Information Desk An Epic by Robyn Schiff

Named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick “Among the year's highlights . . . groundbreaking, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met’s galleries, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art.” — Washington Post “ An effluvial rush of memory, desire, data, and metaphor . . . It’s bracing to encounter a mind so voracious, so unapologetic in its intelligence. ” — New York Review of Books A book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from a writer whose work offers “something few poets ever discover: a vision of the whole world” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker ) Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history, material, and memory, Information Desk: An Epic takes us on an anguished soul-quest and ecstatic intellectual query to confront the violent forces that inform the museum’s encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art. Novelistic in its sweep, frantically informative, and deeply intimate in its private recollections, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns, including illusion, deception, self-deception, complicity, lecherous coworkers, the composition of pigment, the scattering of seeds, ideas, and capital, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses—parasitic wasps—in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.

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The Iliad - Homer & Emily Wilson Cover Art

The Iliad

The Iliad by Homer & Emily Wilson

“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” —Ange Mlinko, London Review of Books The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)—critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s other great epic—the most revered war poem of all time. The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals. In Wilson’s hands, this thrilling, magical, and often horrifying tale now gallops at a pace befitting its legendary battle scenes, in crisp but resonant language that evokes the poem’s deep pathos and reveals palpably real, even “complicated,” characters—both human and divine. The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity’s most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous & Andrew George

The ancient Sumerian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest written stories in existence, translated with an introduction by Andrew George in Penguin Classics. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind's eternal struggle with the fear of death. The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George's gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluid narrative and will long rank as the definitive English Gilgamesh . If you enjoyed The Epic of Gilgamesh , you might like Homer's Iliad , also available in Penguin Classics. 'A masterly new verse translation' The Times 'Andrew George has skilfully bridged the gap between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work' London Review of Books

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Just Remember - Joey Kidney Cover Art

Just Remember

Just Remember by Joey Kidney

Through this genuine and personal collection of poems, Joey Kidney shares gentle reminders that though life can be overwhelming and unpredictable, we all have the ability to hold tight to hope. Sometimes we just need a little help remembering. With over 10 million followers across his vast social media platform, Canadian-born writer Joey Kidney has built a thriving international community of supporters seeking his brotherly advice on life, love, and healing. Just Remember is the perfect embodiment of Joey’s journey over the past decade of sharing his life and what his supporters have come to love most about his work: a thoughtful collection of quick, peaceful poems that you can revisit throughout the day when you need a gentle reminder that you are seen and loved and needed in this chaotic world.

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer & Emily Wilson

Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation. "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 the epic’s music, sailing 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 an Odyssey that will be treasured by a new generation of readers.

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A Magnificently Ordinary Romance - Celia Martinez Cover Art

A Magnificently Ordinary Romance

A Magnificently Ordinary Romance A Poetry Collection by Celia Martinez

Following the success of her Diary of a Romantica series, Celia Martinez returns to further explore love and all of its magnificent beauty. In  A Magnificently Ordinary Romance , social media breakout poet and Yale graduate Celia Martinez (@powerhouseofthecel on TikTok and @diaryofaromantica on Instagram) takes hopeful romantics everywhere on a journey through the timeless adoration and passionate miscommunication of young love.    With the vulnerability and intelligence that has gained her an audience of over 4.5 million listeners, readers, and followers,  AMOR  follows two lovestruck romantics who fall in love a little too quickly—and even more chaotically—before learning they are colleagues working in the same building. A twist that proves even more challenging for their equally enamored guardian angels. A unique take on  amor , romance, and coming of age, Celia Martinez proves to be a once in a generation voice for a new generation of lovers.

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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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You Are Here

You Are Here Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

Published in association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.   In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature poetry,” illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what “nature” and “poetry” are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

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My Dear Wildflower

My Dear Wildflower by r.h. Sin

A soulful and cinematic poetry collection for women reclaiming their worth after heartbreak from New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin. In My Dear Wildflower , poet r.h. Sin returns with a poignant collection that speaks to the strength and vulnerability of women learning to let go of painful relationships and rediscover themselves. Ranging from minimalist verse to emotionally raw monologues, Sin’s poems follow a woman as she transitions from heartbreak and betrayal to clarity and empowerment. She is not a victim. She is the flame, the storm, the wildflower that rises from devastation and dares to bloom again. With undeniable compassion and an empowering message, My Dear Wildflower is a poetic companion for anyone holding out for a love that feels gentle, lasting, and worth the wait.

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The Four Vedas - Sacred Hindu Texts (Illustrated) - Ralph T. H. Griffith Cover Art

The Four Vedas - Sacred Hindu Texts (Illustrated)

The Four Vedas - Sacred Hindu Texts (Illustrated) by Ralph T. H. Griffith

The Four Vedas, the ‘Rigveda’, ‘Yajurveda’, ‘Samaveda’ and the ‘Atharvaveda’ are the primary texts of Hinduism. They comprise vast collections of poems and hymns, composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples that flourished in northwest India during the 2nd millennium BC. These sacred works celebrate a wide pantheon of gods, including natural and cosmic phenomena, as well as abstract qualities. The ‘Rigveda’, the foremost of the Vedas, is among the oldest extant texts of world literature. Noted for their beautiful language and metrical brilliance, these hymns reveal philosophical depth and great spiritual understanding. Delphi’s Eastern Treasures Series provides eReaders with rare and precious texts of Asian literature, featuring prominent works of history, fiction, religion and philosophy, complemented with the original texts. This eBook presents the complete four Vedas, with illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Vedas and their composition * Features the complete translations of the four Vedas of ancient India * Translations by Ralph T. H. Griffith and Arthur Berriedale Keith * Both the Black and White ‘Yajurveda’ * Also includes the complete Sanskrit text of the ‘Rigveda’ * Concise introduction to the Vedas * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the hymns you want to read with individual contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Sanskrit text of the ‘Rigveda’, allowing readers to compare the texts hymn by hymn — ideal for students * Features a bonus resource — discover Macdonell’s seminal study ‘A History of Sanskrit Literature’ CONTENTS: The Translations Rigveda Yajurveda (Black) Yajurveda (White) Samaveda Atharvaveda The Original Text Rigveda (Sanskrit Text) The Dual Text Rigveda (Sanskrit and English Text) The Resource A History of Sanskrit Literature (1900) by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

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Perceval

Perceval Or The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes & A. S. Kline

Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian Romances, written in the late 12th-century, provide a vital link between the Classical Roman poets, Ovid in particular, and the later medieval world of Dante and Chaucer. The five major verse tales, namely Érec and Énide (c1170), Cligès (c1176), Yvain or the Knight of the Lion (before 1181) Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart (before 1181), and Perceval (before 1190), introduce motifs and plot elements that recur frequently in later literature. Well-structured, lively, and witty the tales were written for a sophisticated courtly audience, and the five stories considered together gave expression to the reality and the deeper ideals of French chivalry. Chrétien appears to have used themes culled from French and British sources, while characters such as Lancelot, and features such as the Holy Grail appear for the first time in European literature in his work. Here translated in rhyming couplets to mirror the original, rather than in unrepresentative prose, is a fresh treatment of one of France’s and Europe’s major poets. Chrétien, likely a native of Troyes in north-eastern France, served at the court of his patroness, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne and daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, between 1160 and 1172. Hers was a literate court, and she herself knowledgeable in Latin as well as French texts, and Chrétien used the legendary court of King Arthur as an analogue for the French and Angevin courts of his own day. Marie’s mother Eleanor became Queen of England, in 1154, as the spouse of Henry II, following annulment of her marriage to Louis VII of France, thus Chrétien was able to blend French and British traditions in his works. Between 1170 and 1190, Chrétien, writing in fluent octosyllabic couplets, developed and transformed the narrative verse tradition, and laid the foundations for the plot-driven prose narratives of later times.

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বনলতা সেন - জীবনানন্দ দাশ Cover Art

বনলতা সেন

বনলতা সেন Bengali Poetry by জীবনানন্দ দাশ

বনলতা সেন আধুনিক বাংলা সাহিত্যের ইতিহাসে এক আবিস্মরনীয় নাম। জীবনানন্দ দাশের এই অসামান্য কবিতা সংগ্রহ আজও আমাদের হৃদয় ছুঁয়ে যায়।

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19th Century America

19th Century America by Various Authors

America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. Expanded into its vast frontiers by military force and financial acquisitions; this was a melting pot of peoples and ideas gathering to form an identity. In this volume we take a particular interest in the poets of the 19th Century and their views as their young nation came to terms with itself and its place in the World.

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Immeasurable Praise and Worship to God - Yvette McNeal Cover Art

Immeasurable Praise and Worship to God

Immeasurable Praise and Worship to God Give to God What Is Due by Yvette McNeal

Immeasurable Praise and Worship is about true and genuine praise to the Lord. If you do not know how to praise or think that you do not have a song in your heart, I want to encourage you to get inspired and get into the spirit of giving God what he asks of us as believers.

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রূপসী বাংলা (Bengali)

রূপসী বাংলা (Bengali) A Bangla Poetry Collection by জীবনানন্দ দাশ

জীবনানন্দদাশ১৮৯৮সালেবরিশালেজন্মগ্রহনকরেন।কর্মহীনজীবনেজীবনানন্দযখনইবরিশালেযেতেন,তিনিঅনূভবকরতেনগ্রামবাংলারসাথেনাড়িরটান।এমনইএকমনভাবেআচ্ছন্নহয়ে১৯৩২সালেকয়েকসপ্তাহেরমধ্যেতিনিরচনাকরেনরূপসীবাংলা।এইকবিতাসংকলনঅধিকাংশই১৪লাইনেরসনেট।জীবনানন্দসেইসময়এইবইয়েরনামপ্রস্তাবকরেন“বাংলারত্রস্তনিলীমায়”।এইকবিতাসংগ্রহথেকেবাছাইকরে১৯৫৭সালেপ্রকাশিতহয়“রূপসীবাংলা”সংকলন।

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shine your icy crown

shine your icy crown by Amanda Lovelace

Happily ever after is already within you. A poetry collection from the author who "turns the fairy tale on its head, in all the best feminist ways" ( Ms. Magazine ). amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award–winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents  shine your icy crown , the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, "you are your own fairy tale." this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it's time to take back your power & realize that you don't need a king in order to be a queen. praise for amanda lovelace "Those who are fans and followers of Lovelace will not be disappointed, as she serves up her unique mix of fairytale references and female empowerment, all distilled down into scant, but impactful words . . . Lovelace has found a way to make herself stand out." — YA Books Central "The ease with which one can consume each poem is what makes Lovelace's poetry so striking . . . Its messages and little truths are what make it a fantastic work." — Affinity Magazine

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The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones - Achy Obejas Cover Art

The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones

The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones Poems / Poemas by Achy Obejas

Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month comes another brilliant bilingual poetry collection by Achy Obejas--a meditation on being a queer mom to two sons These 44 prose poems, artful yet accessible, presented in both Spanish and English versions, immerse us in the boy kingdom that Achy Obejas inhabits with her two sons. They move from the wild and divine spirit of boyhood to the everyday rhythms of family life—mac’n’cheese, television, sick days home from school. Achy carries multiple identities: she is Cuban American, lesbian, and Jewish. She captures the universality of motherhood while also illuminating the uniqueness of her queer, multilingual, multicultural family: the way her elder son looks as her as if she’s “dancing with the dead” when she speaks Spanish; the way her boys prefer mac’n’cheese to tostones; the day her elder son comes home from school disquieted, then finally spills it: “A couple of boys yelled at him: Your moms are queer!” The collection is divided into four parts. The first part focuses primarily on Achy’s sons, and subsequent parts branch out into stories of her parents, her roots in Cuba, and her divorce.

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The People's Purge

The People's Purge Words of a Goat Princess Volume II by Jessie Reyez

A love letter to the healing power of collaboration and feeling seen, The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Vol II is a must-read for anyone looking to rid themselves of the guilt of existing and get lost in the razor sharp mind of Jessie Reyez. Born from a popular long-running series on her Instagram page, the latest poetic offering from pop star and bestselling author Jessie Reyez is a collection of in-the-moment poems written in response to fan-supplied prompts.   Whether being asked to write about a dead leaf on the ground, gaslighting, being ghosted by a date, abandonment, addiction, or a sunset over still waters, Jessie responds with a heartfelt original poem that turns a seed of an idea into a garden of encouragement, vulnerability, honesty, and love. The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Volume II —enhanced by the unique art of French Caribbean illustrator Eloïse Diot—is the vibrant bouquet picked from this lush community garden.

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The weight of whats gone

The weight of whats gone by F. Hamiti

Grief doesn’t ask for permission. It arrives uninvited, sits quietly beside us, and never fully leaves. The Weight of What’s Gone, offers a deeply human exploration of sorrow, memory, and love after loss. Through spare, lyrical poems, this collection gives voice to the silence left behind by children, siblings, and parents —lost to time, tragedy, or the ache of absence. These poems do not try to fix grief. They simply sit with it— the way a friend would.

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The Worried Well

The Worried Well by Anthony Immergluck

The Worried Well , selected by Eduardo C. Corral as the winner of the 2024 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, is a tragicomic collection that explores the intersection of anxiety and safety in a chaotic world. Anthony Immergluck balances the thin lines between healing and ailing, between humor and tragedy throughout this exceptional debut poetry collection. Reveling at precipices of imminent disaster while grieving at thresholds of relief, The Worried Well asks, how do we live loving and full lives while being confronted with our mortality? How does language carry us between liminal spaces? The “worried well” is a term often used pejoratively by medical professionals to describe a group of patients who may be lacking visible symptoms but opt for testing and preventative interventions, who seek treatments for ailments that don’t manifest readily in medical diagnostics. Immergluck unpacks the term by writing in the spaces where worry and wellness meet. Despite the profound subjects explored, the collection carries us with a keen sense of humor, grounds us in the everyday, and rises to meet us with unexpected ruptures or sutures of language on each page. Summoning the restless dybbuk of Jewish mythology as well as David and Goliath, navigating hospital rooms, and surviving economic precarity, Immergluck creates a voice that is utterly new and needed in the literary landscape, a voice that reflects, “I don’t / know why I told a worry / child not to worry when / surely the trick is to give / the worry a name and then / to call it again and again.”

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Cuando El Amor Duele

Cuando El Amor Duele by Ikeli O'farrell

"Cuando El amor duele" es un libro de poesía sobre el desamor que explora la profunda realidad emocional que enfrentan aquellos que han experimentado la pérdida de un amor . Con versos que tocan el dolor , la soledad y la superación , este libro es un viaje emocional hacia la sanación . A través de palabras sinceras y conmovedoras, el autor refleja el proceso de curar un corazón roto y encontrar fuerzas en la vulnerabilidad . Si alguna vez te has sentido atrapado en las sombras del desamor , "Cuando El amor duele" será tu compañero ideal. Este libro de poesía de desamor te ofrece una salida, un refugio en el cual entender que el dolor forma parte de la transformación emocional . Con cada poema, te acercarás más a la superación personal y al redescubrimiento de ti mismo. Dirigido a los jóvenes que atraviesan momentos de rompimiento emocional , "Cuando El amor duele" te ayudará a reconectar con tus emociones y te guiará a través de la oscuridad del desamor hasta alcanzar la luz de la autoaceptación y el amor propio . Cada verso es una llamada a sanar , a dejar ir , y a volver a empezar . Este libro es perfecto para quienes buscan poesía sobre el amor y el desamor , y especialmente para aquellos que buscan consolación y esperanza tras una relación rota. Es ideal para regalar a alguien que esté pasando por una ruptura o simplemente a quien necesite una lectura emocional que inspire fuerza en momentos de vulnerabilidad.

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Corazon Apasionado

Corazon Apasionado by A.J, Brisman

Corazón Apasionado "Corazón Apasionado" es un libro de poemas que te invita a sumergirte en un mar de emociones, donde los versos se convierten en suspiros y las palabras en caricias del alma. Cada capítulo de esta obra teje una historia de amor y pasión, explorando los rincones más profundos del corazón humano. En sus páginas encontrarás la belleza de un amor desbordante en "Amándote", el cálido abrazo de un cielo despejado en "Cielo Azul" y la plenitud de una unión en "Cuando El Amor Reina". Desde el fervor de una esposa ardiente en "Una Esposa Ardiente" hasta la ternura que se desborda en "Roses y Chocolates", cada poema te llevará en un viaje a través de las emociones más intensas y genuinas que el amor puede despertar. Sin embargo, este libro también explora las sombras del corazón, como el dolor y la tristeza en "El Dolor Del Amor" y el anhelo de la compañía en "Mi Amiga Íntima". Pero no todo es melancolía, también descubrirás el fuego encendido en "Fuego Encendido" y la dulzura irresistible en "Chocolates Derretidos". "Corazón Apasionado" es una invitación a explorar la complejidad del amor, desde la pasión arrebatadora hasta la fidelidad inquebrantable en "Fidelidad". A través de versos cuidadosamente tejidos, el autor o la autora nos sumergen en la búsqueda incesante del amor verdadero y la entrega sin engaño ni hipocresía. En cada poema, encontrarás una mirada cautivadora en "Mirada que cautiva", un cuerpo que atrae irresistiblemente en "Cuerpo Que Atrae" y la tentación irresistible en "Tentación De Ti". Pero también hay espacio para la ternura y la intimidad en "Despertando A Tu Lado" y "Llenarte De Caricias". "Corazón Apasionado" es un viaje poético que te invita a descubrir la fuerza del amor, superar obstáculos y celebrar la unión de dos almas en "Obstáculos Vencidos". Desde el primer encuentro en "Ven Conmigo" hasta la pasión desenfrenada en "Haciéndote Mía", cada poema nos sumerge en la intensidad de un vínculo amoroso único. Así que adéntrate en las páginas de "Corazón Apasionado" y déjate seducir por sus versos, porque aquí encontrarás la magia del amor en todas sus formas y la promesa de que nunca dejarás de amar.

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Come Home to Yourself - Deja Rae Cover Art

Come Home to Yourself

Come Home to Yourself by Deja Rae

In her second collection of published writing, Déjà Rae explores the highs and lows of letting go of past relationships and embracing loneliness as a means to discover oneself. Throughout her work, she takes the reader on a journey through seasons of truth, pain, and abundance, showing that each subsequent season requires its predecessor. This book is a catalyst for transformation, a guide to letting go, surrendering to solitude, and discovering one’s authenticity and purpose. By doing so, Déjá Rae shows that the love we are all looking for has always been inside of us, patiently waiting for us to come home.

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The Prophetess

The Prophetess The Return of The Prophet from the Voice of The Divine Feminine by Chelan Harkin

A powerful retelling and continuation of Kahlil Gilbran's The Prophet , this book of prose poetry examines life's deeper meaning and spirituality with the Divine Feminine as a guide. The Prophetess is a modern take on Kahlil Gibran’s classic 1923 book, The Prophet . The beautiful verse explores the power and timeless wisdom of the Divine Feminine. The Prophetess invites readers into the core of life’s most meaningful subjects and offers a taste of a more spiritually fulfilling way to relate to ourselves and the world. This book boldly and astutely encourages the creative redefinition of old patterns of thought that our lives may more closely align with beauty and truth. The Prophetess offers permission to explore a new paradigm characterized by acknowledgment of our light, the claiming of our gifts, and the embrace of our wholeness.

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Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.

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Stag's Leap

Stag's Leap Poems by Sharon Olds

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From one of today's best poets—a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband’s smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now loves another woman. As she writes in the remarkable “Stag’s Leap,” “When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it’s I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.” Olds’s propulsive poetic line and the magic of her imagery are as lively as ever, and there is a new range to the music—sometimes headlong, sometimes contemplative and deep. Her unsparing approach to both pain and love makes this one of the finest, most powerful books of poetry Olds has yet given us.

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I Hope This Reaches Her in Time Revised Edition

I Hope This Reaches Her in Time Revised Edition by r.h. Sin

New York Times  bestselling author, r.h. Sin, presents a revised and expanded edition of his bestseller  I Hope This Reaches Her in Time . There will come a time when the weariness of your soul will urge you to seek out a sign, some sort of indication that things will get better. Your heart will be drawn to this place, to these pages. These words were written for you, this book is your manifesto. I hope this reaches you in time.  

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In a Few Minutes Before Later

In a Few Minutes Before Later by Brenda Hillman

Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023 An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry. During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person         absolutely? Tell them now. In a half-unwieldy life you made, under the hyaline sky, while the dead         drank from zigzag pools nearby, if they saved you in your wild incapacities,         in timing of the world's harm in a little pettiness in your own heart while others took         your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal,         when others said you should feel grateful         to be minimally adequate for the world's triple exposure or some tired committee...         The ones who love us, how do they break through our defenses?         We're tired today. Come back later. Their baffled voices melting our wax walls with a candle, the ones who understand what being is—the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones—         they have their courage, you have yours,,,;         when you meet the one you love, it is so rare. When you meet the one who loves you, it is extremely rare.

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The Poetic Edda

The Poetic Edda by Jackson Crawford

"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc. Jackson Crawford's modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping.  With their individual headnotes and complementary general introduction, they supply today's readers with most of what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings."

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sandars

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality.

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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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Take Me With You

Take Me With You by Andrea Gibson

A “surprising and powerful” ( The Millions ) book of poetry that’s short enough to read in a single sitting, but full of messages big enough to stay with you—from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time, the subject of the award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light . Just to be clear, I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate heavens for all my flying parts. In Take Me With You , Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness with stunning imagery and a fierce willingness to delve into the exploration of what it means to heal and to be different in this strange age. Illustrated throughout with evocative line drawings by Sarah J. Coleman, this book is divided into three sections: On Love, On the World, and On Becoming. Written in one-liners, couplets, greatest hits phrases, and longer-form poems, it is destined to find its way into the hands of anyone who could use its wisdom.

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Call Me By My True Names

Call Me By My True Names The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh by Thích Nhất Hạnh & Ocean Vuong

THE THICH NHAT HANH POETRY COLLECTION: Over 50 inspiring poems from the world-renowned Zen monk, peace activist, and author of The Miracle of Mindfulness . “ . . . the antidote to our modern pain and sorrows. His books help me be more human, more me than I was before.” —Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Though he is best known for his groundbreaking and accessible works on applying mindfulness to everyday life, Thich Nhat Hanh is also a distinguished poet and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. This stunning poetry collection explores these lesser-known facets of Nhat Hanh’s life, revealing not only his path to becoming a Zen meditation teacher but his skill as a poet, his achievements as a peace activist, and his experiences as a young refugee. Through more than 50 poems spanning several decades, Nhat Hanh reveals the stories of his past—from his childhood in war-torn Vietnam to the beginnings of his own spiritual journey—and shares his ideas on how we can come together to create a more peaceful, compassionate world. Uplifting, insightful, and profound, Call Me By My True Names is at once an exquisite work of poetry and a portrait of one of the world’s greatest Zen masters and peacemakers.

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To the Moon

To the Moon by Charlz dela Cruz

To the Moon  is a collection of poems thrown at the Moon ~ and back. Again and again, unconditionally. Your silhouette falls in my mouth Your silhouette falls in my mouth Repeatedly I could not speak, in pleasure You compel me to rise and fall To be lost and found In your quivering hands You confuse the bones out of me I look for myself in the rush And fainting ebb Of your sighs That I find myself in your soul As tonight, I love you with kisses Smoothly etched Between the sheets Of your being. I will open you, petal by petal I will open you, petal by petal Slowly, amidst exchanging breaths Feel my fingers send ripples down your skin Tracing constellations made of desires, erupting Urges Watch me surrender my soul To every inch of your splendor While I examine the pages of your body Soft, glowing, and infinite Every pore, every curve Nothing will be left untouched Feel how my lips write my devotions on your naked self The blunt confessions of a soul, in lust with divinity And make your body tremble With your already trembling lips For I will eat you down, until your words falter Until your sighs learn to pray And beneath the curious moon and the shy burning stars I will look straight into your eyes Bask in every expression you make As I stretch you open, with my hard wicked body Digging into you — slowly, passionately And without mercy While love, that strange mysterious love, melts Into our sweat Then I will hold you, pull you, closer, closest Oh, my most sacred — now gasping, relished Yet we still need To inhale each other With tears in our eyes, we turn our soft murmurs Into deafening moans Moans that conjure the Soul of God (Because the holiest moans can only come From two imperfect souls, meshed In prayer) And then nothing — nothing but ecstatic bliss And the desire to be enlightened Shall be No more For nothing will remain But the combined scent of two souls One shared breath, and a dreamless sleep For once, let me show your body What it really means To be touched: Like a moth, caressed By fire.

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Promises of Gold

Promises of Gold by Jose Olivarez & David Ruano

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named one of NPR's Books We Love “How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love— but what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.” In this groundbreaking collection of poems, José Olivarez explores every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of the American Dream with unflinching humanity, he lays bare the ways in which “love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.” Whether readers enter this collection in English or via the Spanish translation by poet David Ruano González, these extraordinary poems are sure to become beloved for their illuminations of life—and love. “¿Cuántas malas parejas han inspirado poemas? ¿Cuántos crush es? Sin faltarle el respeto al amor romántico—pero ¿qué hay de los amigos? Esos compas que están ahí todo el tiempo—animándonos y recordándonos que elamor es abundante”. En esta innovadora colección de poemas, José Olivarez explora cada tipo de amor—el propio, fraternal, romántico, familiar, cultural. Lidiando con las contradicciones del sueño americano, con una humanidad inquebrantable, deja al descubierto las maneras en que “el amor se va complicando por fuerzas más grandes que nuestros corazones”. Ya sea que los lectores entren a esta colección en inglés o a partir de la traducción al español del poeta David Ruano González, estos extraordinarios poemas serán amados seguramente por sus iluminaciones sobre el amor y la vida.

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Thirst

Thirst Poems by Mary Oliver

Thirst , a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

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Works of Dante Alighieri with Complete Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Cover Art

Works of Dante Alighieri with Complete Divine Comedy

Works of Dante Alighieri with Complete Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the works of world poet Dante Alighieri, with beautiful illustrations, the original Italian texts and bonus material. (12MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dante's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry * Excellent formatting of the poems * Both verse and prose translations of THE DIVINE COMEDY, with glossed footnotes – ideal for students * Also includes Gustave Doré’s celebrated illustrations of THE DIVINE COMEDY – over a hundred stunning images * Easily locate the cantos you want to read with detailed contents tables * Includes Dante’s complete works in Italian – ideal for students exploring the original texts * Features a bonus biography - discover Dante's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections THE NEW LIFE THE DIVINE COMEDY (VERSE) THE DIVINE COMEDY (PROSE) The Italian Texts LIST OF WORKS The Biography DANTE: HIS TIMES AND HIS WORK BY ARTHUR JOHN BUTLER

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The Spiritual Poems of Rumi - Rumi & Nader Khalili Cover Art

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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The Strength In Our Scars

The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino

“The Strength In Our Scars” is Bianca Sparacino’s reminder to you: No matter what you’re going through, no matter where you are on your healing journey—you are strong. Through poetry, prose, and compassionate encouragement you would expect from someone who knows exactly what you’re working through, Sparacino is here with the words you need. “The Strength In Our Scars” tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and ultimately learning to heal. In this book you will find peace, you will find a rock, you will find understanding, and you will find hope. Remember: Whatever is dark within you has also carved light into your soul. Whatever is lost within you has also brought you back home to yourself. Whatever is hurt within you is also healing you in ways you may not understand at that moment in time. This book hopes to show you that.

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Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses by Ovid & Stephanie McCarter

The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid’s classic. A Penguin Classic Hardcover      Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both those of us who have it and those of us who do not. For those who are brutalized and traumatized, transformation is often the outward manifestation of their trauma. A beautiful virgin is caught in the gaze of someone more powerful who rapes or tries to rape them, and they ultimately are turned into a tree or a lake or a stone or a bird. The victim’s objectification is clear: They are first a visual object, then a sexual object, and finally simply an object. Around 50 of the epic’s tales involve rape or attempted rape of women. Past translations have obscured or mitigated Ovid’s language so that rape appears to be consensual sex. Through her translation, McCarter considers the responsibility of handling sexual and social dynamics.   Then why continue to read Ovid? McCarter proposes Ovid should be read because he gives us stories through which we can better explore ourselves and our world, and he illuminates problems that humans have been grappling with for millennia. Careful translation of rape and the body allows readers to see Ovid’s nuances clearly and to better appreciate how ideas about sexuality, beauty, and gender are constructed over time. This is especially important since so many of our own ideas about these phenomena are themselves undergoing rapid metamorphosis, and Ovid can help us see and understand this progression. The Metamorphoses holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to the modern world, one that offers us the opportunity to reflect on contemporary discussions about gender, sexuality, race, violence, art, and identity.

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Cartas que no llegaron

Cartas que no llegaron by Gilraen Eärfalas

Narciso no llegó con un arpón en la mano, sino con un girasol y un amor de cuento. Prendió la primera llama para luego salvarme del incendio y me sedujo con ese traje de príncipe que resguardaba a un dragón. Se convirtió en mi lugar seguro, en el agua que necesitaba para sobrevivir. Me ató los pies y se encargó de hacerme olvidar que alguna vez, antes de él, esos pies fueron aletas. ‹‹Le escribí cientos de cartas que nunca envié, y aunque todas ellas gritaban ¨vuelve¨, eran la única forma que tenía de aprender a dejarle ir››.

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Autobiography of Red

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist   "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje "A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." --The New York Times Book Review "A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice

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The Inferno

The Inferno by Dante, Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander

The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first volume of Dante’s epic poem, the Divine Comedy. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible introduction and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and research. The Hollander translation is the new standard in English of this essential work of world literature.

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The Iliad of Homer

The Iliad of Homer by Homer & Richmond Lattimore

“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation.” For sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers. This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore’s Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore’s elegant, fluent verses—with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek—remain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book. The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer’s poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes lived—and thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.

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Love Poems

Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni

In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered. Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected. Articulating in sensuous verse what we know only instinctively, Nikki Giovanni once again confirms her place as one of our nations's most distinguished poets and powerful truth-tellers.

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Poet in the New World

Poet in the New World Poems, 1946–1953 by Czeslaw Milosz & Robert Hass & David Frick

A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czeslaw Milosz famously bore witness to its violence in his native Poland and in the war’s aftermath from exile in Europe and the United States. Immediately after the war, he lived in Washington, D.C., working as a diplomatic official, having left behind an old world stained by bloodshed and still in the throes of ideological conflict as he sought to find his bearings in a new world. Poet in the New World gathers the poems written during these years—for the first time in English translation—and is contextualized by the poetry that came directly before and after, from poems written in Warsaw in 1945, shortly before he departed for the United States, to others written in Europe from 1951 to 1953, after his significant time away. Capturing Milosz at his existential and stylistic best, Poet in the New World is attuned to the necessity of imagination and the duty of language and is filled with wonder and skepticism. Milosz grapples with the extraordinary violence he had witnessed in Warsaw and the strange postwar United States he has inhabited, all while pondering the enduring fate of his beloved Poland. In the poem “Warsaw,” the poet asks, “How can I live in this country/Where the foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin?” Equal parts affecting and illuminating, Poet in the New World is an essential addition to the Milosz canon, in a beautifully rendered translation by Robert Hass and David Frick, that reverberates with the questions of histories past, present, and future.

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The Iliad

The Iliad (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) by Homer & Stephen Mitchell

TOLSTOY CALLED THE ILIAD A miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original. In Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad, the epic story resounds again across 2,700 years, as if the lifeblood of its heroes Achilles and Patroclus, Hector and Priam flows in every word. And we are there with them, amid the horror and ecstasy of war, carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful. Mitchell’s Iliad is the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a dramatically sharper, leaner text. In addition, Mitchell’s illuminating introduction opens the epic still further to our understanding and appreciation. Now, thanks to Stephen Mitchell’s scholarship and the power of his language, the Iliad ’s ancient story comes to moving, vivid new life.

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todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí

todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí by Rupi Kaur

El poemario que consagra a la poeta joven más popular del mundo y voz de su generación. Con una sensibilidad exquisita, rupi kaur aborda en todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores obras como el feminismo, el trauma, la pérdida o el amor, pero en esta ocasión da un paso más allá y revela, en un ejercicio único de generosidad y honestidad, experiencias muy personales como el modo en que ha lidiado los últimos años con la depresión, el éxito o la presión a la que se ha visto sometida. Capaz de traducir en palabras sensaciones y sentimientos complejos, exhibe además una notable sabiduría para desgranar males de nuestro tiempo como la autoexigencia, las enfermedades mentales o las relaciones tóxicas.

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