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Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick - Mary Oliver Cover Art

Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick

Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver, from "The Summer Day" 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. “No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love.” — The Washington Post 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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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Cover Art

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar A Novel by Sylvia Plath

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “A coming–of–age masterpiece.” —Boston Globe "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." —USA Today The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath’s masterwork—an acclaimed and timeless novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressures. The story chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a bright, beautiful, enormously talented college student coming of age in 1950s America, as she navigates the pressures of society along with her own ambitions. While at a prestigious, competitively won position at a New York City magazine one summer, Esther finds herself struggling with the looming expectations of marriage, motherhood, and giving up on her dreams to achieve them. She becomes increasingly disillusioned and her mental health deteriorates, ultimately leading her to undergo harsh treatment and therapy. "Funny, intense, enormously human" (Cosmopolitan), The Bell Jar is a poignant exploration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche and remains an extraordinary accomplishment from one of the country's most luminous talents.

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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 - Rupi Kaur Cover Art

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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Take Me With You - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

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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Ariel: The Restored Edition - Sylvia Plath Cover Art

Ariel: The Restored Edition

Ariel: The Restored Edition A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Sylvia Plath

“Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece.”  — New York Observer Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to the public, it garnered worldwide acclaim, but it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript—including handwritten notes—and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will alter her legacy forever.

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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran Cover Art

The Prophet

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with 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.

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Soft - Kiana Azizian Cover Art

Soft

Soft by Kiana Azizian

There are great awakenings that come from loving and losing. It is in these moments that we really know and understand who we are. In soft, Kiana Azizian uses the repetition of being in love and suffering through heartbreak to heal, forgive, move on, and fall in love again. Self-discovery and reflection are powerfully, yet vividly portrayed in a way that only those who have been loved will understand.

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You're Going to Be OK - Darby Hudson Cover Art

You're Going to Be OK

You're Going to Be OK (Because You're F*cked No Matter What) by Darby Hudson

Social media sensation Darby Hudson offers this collection of encouraging and humorous reflections to encourage others to continue expressing themselves, no matter what.  You're Going to Be OK  is a book on art, jobs, magic and muddling through. These hand-typed fragments were gathered by the train tracks at night over ten years, after author Darby Hudson worked meaningless jobs, trying to make sense of a strange world that insisted it was "perfectly normal." The observations in You're Going to Be OK  are little fragments of collected wisdom that sit somewhere between poetry, comedy and aphorism. With sixty new poems, this updated edition includes even more of Hudson's reflections to enjoy.   

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The Odyssey - Homer & Emily Wilson Cover Art

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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The Truth of You - Iain Thomas Cover Art

The Truth of You

The Truth of You Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness by Iain Thomas

Dear You,   I want you to know that I see you.     I want you to know that even if no one else does, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer, wherever you're reading this, I see you.   I see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream.   I see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be. I see you and in looking at you, I want you to know that whoever you've had to be to survive all this, I will not look away.   I want you to know that there's a space inside this book for you.   So if you have the time and the inclination, you can sit here with me, just for a while.   And perhaps between us, we can see everything that matters.   -pleasefindthis

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All That You Deserve - Jacqueline Whitney Cover Art

All That You Deserve

All That You Deserve by Jacqueline Whitney

You deserve to wholeheartedly love yourself and your life. You deserve to break free from your past and the hurt it has held you in for too long. You deserve to find whole healing and full freedom from any darkness that tries to take your light. You deserve to finally find the peace your soul has been searching for. You deserve to see yourself as someone who is beautiful––you wouldn’t be here if you weren’t meant to be precisely the person you are. You deserve to be loved by someone who loves you with unconditional love––the kind of love you have always dreamed of. I hope you never tell yourself that you are worth nothing because you are worth everything. Sometimes life is beautiful and then unimaginably difficult, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be beautiful again. You can’t wait until life doesn’t hurt anymore to choose to believe you deserve more. You can’t wait until you feel ready to start stepping towards your dreams. You deserve to find everything you’re looking to get out of this precious life. More than anything I just hope you know that you deserve to be here, now. The world would never be the same without you.

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My Dear Wildflower - r.h. Sin Cover Art

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 Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous & Andrew George Cover Art

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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Metamorphoses - Ovid & David Raeburn Cover Art

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses by Ovid & David Raeburn

'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Ovid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into extraordinary new beings. Including the well-known stories of Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Picasso and Ted Hughes. This translation by David Raeburn is in hexameter verse, which brilliantly captures the energy and spontaneity of the original. Translated by DAVID RAEBURN with an Introduction by DENIS FEENEY

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Daring To Take Up Space - Daniell Koepke Cover Art

Daring To Take Up Space

Daring To Take Up Space by Daniell Koepke

In her first poetry collection, Daniell gives voice to the fear and anxiety, as well as the perseverance and strength, that has been fundamental to her own personal growth journey and the path to deeper and more meaningful self-love and acceptance. In her own words, this book is for “the 17-year-old Daniell who was convinced she was worthless; who was convinced she would never survive or amount to anything. This is for the friends and family who never stopped believing in and supporting her. This is for all the people who feel that they have to shrink and hide who they are in order to be loved and accepted and worth something. This is for anyone who needs a reminder that you deserve to take up space in the world and that you are enough.”

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Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Alfred Lord Tennyson Cover Art

Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greatest poet of the Victorian era deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of poetry.  The Delphi Poets Series offers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (5MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Tennyson's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Features Tennyson's first poetry collection, which he wrote with his brother, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Includes other rare collections often missed out of editions * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Also includes the complete poetic dramas * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes the collection of memoirs edited by Tennyson's son - spend hours exploring the poet's letters and anecdotes written by close friends and literary figures * Features two bonus biographies - discover Tennyson's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections POEMS, BY TWO BROTHERS TIMBUCTOO : A POEM POEMS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL POEMS, 1832 THE LOVERíS TALE. A FRAGMENT. POEMS, 1842 MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS, 1831-1868 THE PRINCESS: A MEDLEY IN MEMORIAM A. H. H. MAUD, AND OTHER POEMS IDYLLS OF THE KING ENOCH ARDEN AND OTHER POEMS BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS TIRESIAS AND OTHER POEMS LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER, ETC. DEMETER AND OTHER POEMS THE DEATH OF åNONE, AND OTHER POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays QUEEN MARY: A DRAMA HAROLD: A DRAMA BECKET THE CUP: A TRAGEDY THE FALCON THE PROMISE OF MAY THE FORESTERS: ROBIN HOOD AND MAID MARIAN The Biographies TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS by Hallam, Lord Tennyson ALFRED TENNYSON by Andrew Lang TENNYSON'S LIFE AND POETRY by Eugene Parsons Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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To All the Ones I've Ever Loved - Kiana Azizian Cover Art

To All the Ones I've Ever Loved

To All the Ones I've Ever Loved by Kiana Azizian

Follow the journey of finding self-love. To All The Ones I've Ever Loved shows the pain and struggle caused by the destruction of others, only to find healing and peace within oneself.

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New and Selected Poems, Volume One - Mary Oliver Cover Art

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver

When  New and Selected Poems, Volume One  was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it's done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive." She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world "as if for the second time/the way it really is." Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world.

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What Kind of Woman - Kate Baer Cover Art

What Kind of Woman

What Kind of Woman Poems by Kate Baer

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Juana Inés de la Cruz & Edith Grossman Cover Art

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Selected Works by Juana Inés de la Cruz & Edith Grossman

Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature. Sor Juana (1651–1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense—evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson—of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works—playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor—are also included.

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Paradise Lost Simplified! - John Milton & BookCaps Cover Art

Paradise Lost Simplified!

Paradise Lost Simplified! Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index by John Milton & BookCaps

How can you appreciate John Milton’s Paradise Lost when you have no idea what it’s saying?! If you’ve ever sat down with the epic poem and found yourself scratching your head then this bundled book is just for you! Inside you will find a comprehensive study guide, and a modern retelling (along with the original text) of Paradise Lost. Each section of this book may also be purchased individually.

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From Darkness Into Light - A. Helwa Cover Art

From Darkness Into Light

From Darkness Into Light by A. Helwa

Illuminating insights of faith. An awakening of the soul. A gentle return to the deep well of wisdom within you. Healing the heart through the power of Divine Love. From Darkness into Light is an internationally bestselling and empowering collection of spiritual poetry and prose inviting you to step into the healing light of faith. It is a profoundly passionate book of poetry about love, heartbreak, forgiveness, wisdom, personal transformation, self-love, doubt, faith, God, and the soul's ultimate journey of healing, connection, and unity with the One. From Darkness into Light was written for those who are longing to experience a journey of spiritual deepening. For those who have been wounded by the fear-focused only approach to preaching in religion. For those who are looking for hope, for connection, for a deep relationship with God. From Darkness into Light will show you how to approach the Divine from love. It will help you turn your fears into faith. It will show you how to turn your worries into worship and how to walk the path to God with all of your insecurities and doubts. This book is not for the person who is perfect in their relationship with God, but for those who are looking to approach God with sincerity and honesty. From Darkness into Light lovingly reminds you: God's plan for you is more glorious than you can ever imagineYou are loved exactly for who you areGod's mercy encompasses everything including youThe light you seek is already inside of you From Darkness into Light is perfect for: Muslim men and women of all agesSpiritual seekers of all traditionsTeachers to share with classrooms during poetry focused lessonsReaders inspired by the works of Persian or Islamic poetry from writers such as Rumi, Hafiz, Saadi, Attar, Imam Al-Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, Khalil Gibran, ibn Qayyum, and others.Ramadan, Eid Celebration, New Years, Hajj, and holiday gifting Get a copy of Helwa's debut poetry book From Darkness into Light and learn how to live a life illuminated with the light of faith today!

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Instructions for Traveling West - Joy Sullivan Cover Art

Instructions for Traveling West

Instructions for Traveling West Poems by Joy Sullivan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor our intuition, allowing ourselves to strike out for new territories of love, pleasure, and peace.   “This empathetic, honest, and intimate collection is chockful of poems reminding the reader to love earnestly, live freely, and pay attention.”—Kate Baer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of And Yet and What Kind of Woman First, you must realize you’re homesick for all the lives you’re not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart.   So begins Joy Sullivan’s Instructions for Traveling West —a lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Mid-pandemic, Sullivan left the man she planned to marry, sold her house, quit her corporate job, and drove west. This dazzling collection tells that story as it illuminates the questions haunting us all: What possible futures lie on the horizon? What happens when we heed the call of furious reinvention?    A book for anyone flinging themselves into fresh starts, Instructions for Traveling West grapples with loss, loneliness and belonging. These poems teach us that naming our desire is profound alchemy. Each of us holds the power to set our own course forward.   Expansive and heart-opening—exquisite in their specificity, galvanizing in their scope—the poems in Instructions for Traveling West speak to the longing that lives within us all. They remind us that “joy is not a trick.”

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The Practicing Poet - Diane Lockward Cover Art

The Practicing Poet

The Practicing Poet Writing Beyond the Basics by Diane Lockward

Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material," "Finding the Best Words," "Making Music," "Working with Sentences and Line Breaks," "Crafting Surprise," and "Achieving Tone." The concepts become progressively more sophisticated, moving on to "Dealing with Feelings," "Transforming Your Poems," and "Rethinking and Revising." The final section, "Publishing Your Book," covers manuscript organization, book promotion, and presentation of a good public reading. The book includes thirty brief craft essays, each followed by a model poem and analysis of the poem's craft, then a prompt based on the poem. Ten recyclable bonus prompts are also included. Ten Top Tips lists are each loaded with poetry wisdom from an accomplished poet. The Practicing Poet pushes poets beyond the basics and encourages the continued reading, learning, and writing of poetry. It is suitable as a textbook in the classroom, a guidebook in a workshop, or an at-home tutorial for the practicing poet working independently.  The craft essays, poems, and top tips lists include the work of 113 contemporary poets.

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Love Poems for People with Children - John Kenney Cover Art

Love Poems for People with Children

Love Poems for People with Children by John Kenney

In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People , Thurber-prize winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People such a hit, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on the greatest "joy" in life: children. Kenney covers it all, from newborns, toddlers, and sleep deprivation, to the terrible twos, terrible tweens, and terrible teens. A parent's love is unconditional, but sometimes that button can't help but be pushed. Between back to school shopping, summer vacations that never end, the awkwardness of puberty, the inevitable post-college moving back in, and more, a parent's job is never done, whether they like it or not.

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La Movida - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Cover Art

La Movida

La Movida by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

A collection of poems that explores the radical love inherent in revolutionary work through cultural objects, adolescent affect, and queerness from within the fall of empire. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta croons in the voice of a lovesick teenaged folklorist time traveler about revolution, housework, anti-colonialism, folk tales, post-punk, anti-fascism, anorexia, and alcoholism. Named both for the Chicana feminist concepts of revolutionary maneuvers and submerged technologies of struggle and the explosive queer punk movement that emerged in Spain during its transition from Franquist Fascism to democracy, La Movida moves from bed to street to river, defending memory and falling in love along the way.

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She Outgrew the Wound - r.h. Sin Cover Art

She Outgrew the Wound

She Outgrew the Wound by r.h. Sin

A heartfelt return to form for veteran poet r.h. Sin, She Outgrew the Wound speaks softly to the resiliency of growth, maturity, and life-altering self-love.  For over 10 years, poet r.h. Sin has provided a generation of young lovers with the words to heal from heartbreak, grow from pain, and find the courage to love again after disappointment. With She Outgrew the Wound , he continues this tradition as he offers a hand of encouragement for anyone feeling discouraged and let down, reminding you that the journey back to self-love begins one healed wound at a time. 

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Darby, Love . . . - Darby Hudson Cover Art

Darby, Love . . .

Darby, Love . . . (Alive Things Mom Said to Me Before She Died) by Darby Hudson

Poet Darby Hudson presents an expanded collection of his viral Instagram posts, in which he offers a deeply human glimpse into his mother's unique way of looking at the world, inspiring readers to find joy in every moment.  Darby, Love . . . is equal parts wonder, chaos, and humanity. It's a conversation between the living and the dead, mom and son, steeped in love, loss, and the quiet beauty of life's messiness. Born from a series of viral posts, author Darby Hudson's snapshot of his mother’s unique mind is an inspiration to find wonder in even the most mundane moments in life. With thirty-eight new poems, this updated edition provides a more nuanced look into the world "of magic and dreams" to which his mother belonged. 

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Collected Poems - Judith Wright Cover Art

Collected Poems

Collected Poems by Judith Wright

A new edition of the Collected Poems of Judith Wright, one of Australia's best-loved poets This definitive collection represents the impressive poetic achievement of one of Australia's best loved and most highly respected poets.Judith Wright's Collected Poems comprises her work from 1942 to 1985 and is a fitting tribute to an outstanding poet.  Demonstrating a deep love of the Australian landscape, coupled with an awareness of white history and an intense concern for Aboriginal rights, she increasingly focused on the need for wildlife preservation and conservation and was one of the first Australian environmentalists. The late Dorothy Porter referred to Judith Wright's poetry as being so lucid and so perceptive that it was 'shining with meaning'. Whether she is read for her rich evocation of the Australian land, for the truth, sensitivity and profundity of her meditations on the great themes of love, death and eternity, or for the beauty of her lyric style, Judith Wright is always supremely rewarding.

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Dropbear - Evelyn Araluen Cover Art

Dropbear

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

'I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.'This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.

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Child's Ballads - Volume I - Francis James Child Cover Art

Child's Ballads - Volume I

Child's Ballads - Volume I by Francis James Child

Child's Ballads - Volume I Francis James Child, American scholar, educator, and folklorist (1825-1896) This ebook presents «Child's Ballads - Volume I», from Francis James Child. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents - About This Book - Riddles Wisely Expounded - The Three Ravens - Riddles Wisely Expounded - The Elfin Knight - The Fause Knight On The Road - Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight - B: The Water O Wearie's Well - The Outlandish Knight - The False Knight Outwitted - Gil Brenton - Willie's Lady - Earl Brand - Erlinton - The Fair Flower Of Northumberland - The Twa Sisters - The Cruel Brother - Lord Rendal - Edward - Babylon Or The Bonnie Banks O Fordie - Leesome Brand - Sheath And Knife - Hind Horn - Sir Lionel - King Orfeo - The Cruel Mother - The Maid And The Palmer - St. Stephen And Herod - Judas - Judas (original) - Transliteration And Translation - Bonnie Annie - Willie's Lyke Wake - The Three Ravens - The Whummil Bore - Burd Ellen And Young Tamlane - The Boy And The Mantle - King Arthur And King Cornwall - The Marriage Of Sir Gawain - King Henry - Kempy Kay - Kemp Owyne - Allison Gross - The Laily Worm And The Machrel Of The Sea - Thomas Rymer - The Wee Wee Man - Tam Lin - The Queen Of Elfan's Nourice - Hind Etin - Clerk Colvill - The Broomfield Hill - The Broomfield Hill - The Two Magicians - King John And The Bishop - Captain Wedderburn's Courtship - Captain Wedderburn's Courtship - Proud Lady Margaret - Proud Lady Margaret - Young Andrew - The Twa Brothers - The Twa Brothers - The Bonny Hind - Lizie Wan - The King's Dochter Lady Jean - Young Beichan - The Cherry-tree Carol - The Carnal And The Crane - Dives And Lazarus - Brown Robyn's Confession - Sir Patrick Spens - Sir Aldingar - King Estmere - Sir Cawline - Fair Annie - Child Waters - Fair Janet - Lady Maisry - Lord Ingram And Chiel Wyet - Glasgerion - Young Hunting - Clerk Saunders - Willie And Lady Maisry - The Bent Sae Brown - The Clerk's Twa Sons O Owsenford - Lord Thomas And Fair Annet - Fair Margaret And Sweet William - Lord Lovel - The Lass Of Roch Royal - Sweet William's Ghost - The Wife Of Usher's Well - Old Robin Of Portingale - Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard - The Bonny Birdy - Child Maurice - Bonny Barbara Allen - Lady Alice - Young Benjie - Prince Robert - Young Johnstone - Fause Foodrage - Jellon Grame - Fair Mary Of Wallington - Bonny Bee Hom - Lamkin - Young Waters - The Maid Freed From The Gallows

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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran Cover Art

The Prophet

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with 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.

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Ascension Theory - Christopher Bolin Cover Art

Ascension Theory

Ascension Theory by Christopher Bolin

“This meditation,” writes Christopher Bolin in Ascension Theory ,“is about appearing without motes between us: / it is practice for presenting oneself to God.” Bolin’s stark and masterful debut collection records a deeply moving attempt to restore poetry to the possibilities of redemptive action. The physical and emotional landscapes of these poems, rendered with clear-eyed precision, are beyond the reaches of protection and consolation: tundra, frozen sea, barren woodlands, skies littered with satellite trash, fields marked by abandoned, makeshift shrines, sick rooms, vacant reaches that provide “nodes / in every direction // for sensing // the second coming.” Bolin’s eye and mind are acutely tuned to the edges of broken objects and vistas, to the mysterious remnants out of which meaningful speech might be reconstituted. These poems unfold in a world of beautiful, crystalline absence, one that is nearly depopulated, as though encountered in the aftermath of an unnamed violence to the land and to the soul. In poems of prodigious elegance and anxious control, Bolin evokes influences as various as Robert Frost, James Wright, Robert Hass, George Oppen, and Robert Creeley, while fashioning his own original and urgent idiom, one that both theorizes and tests the prospects of imaginative ascension, and finds “new locutions for referencing / sky.”

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Empty Bottles Full of Stories - r.h. Sin Cover Art

Empty Bottles Full of Stories

Empty Bottles Full of Stories by r.h. Sin

What are you hiding behind your smile? If those empty bottles that line the walls of your room could speak, what tales would they spill? So much of your truth is buried beneath the lies you tell yourself. There's a need to scream to the moon; there's this urge to go out into the darkness of the night to purge. There are so many stories living inside your soul, you just want the opportunity to tell them. And when you can't find the will to express what lives within your heart, these words will give you peace. These words will set you free.

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The Poetic Edda - Jackson Crawford Cover Art

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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Dream Work - Mary Oliver Cover Art

Dream Work

Dream Work Poems by Mary Oliver

“ Dream Work is made up of poems that fulfill the demand of lyric poetry by being short, passionate, charged with emotion and its necessary companion, thought. . . . The music in Oliver’s writing is unmistakable. . . . Dream Work is an outstanding book.” —Los Angeles Times In this collection of forty-five poems, originally published in 1986, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver turns her attention to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit, the parallel awe and destruction that is nature, and the great wonder and struggle of being. Including some of her most well-known poems, such as "Wild Geese" and "The Journey," Dream Work demonstrates the remarkable depth of perceptural awareness that underlies much of Oliver's writing. An expressive exploration of the world and how one fits within it, Oliver's collection is a rich but unflinching meditation on how to exist amid the darkness while always, tirelessly, bending toward the light.

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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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The Love Poems of Rumi

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

The Love Poems of Rumi  is a beautiful and elegantly illustrated gift book of Rumi's poems translated by Nader Khalili, geared for readers searching for inspirational themes and messages about love.

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Homer's Epics

Homer's Epics The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer

These two timeless epics by the ancient Greek poet—each translated by a world-renowned author—have captured the Western imagination for millennia.   The Iliad : Alexander Pope "works miracles" in this beautiful verse translation of Homer's epic poem set near the end of the Trojan War. It centers on a quarrel between the invading Greek king Agamemnon and his greatest asset in battle, the warrior Achilles. From this conflict, Homer weaves a tale of warring nations, vengeful gods, and the terrible consequences of prideful rage ( The New York Times ).   The Odyssey : The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, embarks to return home. But he is cursed by the god Poseidon to wander the perilous earth for ten years before reaching his destination. Homer's epic adventure of survival by wit and battling mythical creatures is presented here in a stirring prose translation by Samuel Butler.

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The Great Cataclysm - Malcolm Mohr Cover Art

The Great Cataclysm

The Great Cataclysm by Malcolm Mohr

THE GREAT CATACLYSM: BALLADS OF AGONY AND TRIUMPH   In The Great Cataclysm, explore the lyrical world of Malcolm Mohr as he navigates through the turbulent seas of substance abuse and bipolar disorder. Through emotive verse and evocative imagery, this collection takes those reading on a gritty innermost journey, through the agony and triumphs of mental health. This boundless collection of bipolar ballads, offers a wide  view  of  mental  turmoil, while also encompassing the everlasting bliss of creation that is fueled by the condition itself. Through brutal self reflection and undying patience, Malcolm explores the delicate sway between comfort and destruction. Embracing the chaos that leads to new meaning of life and self discovery. What the author interprets as the true beauty of struggle and is ultimately what defines us all in the end. A testament of how the harshest forms of mental illness can serve as a matchless catalyst of unique expression, allowing  life  changing  transcendence into something that is endlessly more. It is Malcolm's mission to reach out to the millions just like him. Encouraging those reading to test this perspective by using their own mental health conditions as a means to explore their own unique form of self expression. This is the project of The Great Cataclysm

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Inward - Yung Pueblo Cover Art

Inward

Inward by Yung Pueblo

From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo comes the first book in a new series, a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly strive to know ourselves.  Perfect for all experiencing heartbreak and turmoil in their lives, Inward serves as a reminder that healing, transformation, and freedom are possible.

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she followed the moon back to herself

she followed the moon back to herself by Amanda Lovelace

USA TODAY Bestselling Author The tenth poetry collection from Amanda Lovelace deviates from the path of fairy tales and myths, instead bringing readers face to face with the person behind the poems that have made her beloved. From bestselling poetess Amanda Lovelace comes she followed the moon back to herself , an autobiographical standalone poetry collection that follows a woman who—through heartbreak, bottles of rosé, and the general messiness of life—felt like she completely lost who she was. Each bitesize poem shines a light on where she’s been and how she’s managed to overcome it all, offering a dose of hope and moondust to all who join her on the journey back to herself. An authentic, relatable collection that is a must-read for fans of Amanda Lovelace’s work and all interested in modern poetry.

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Lord of the Butterflies - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

Lord of the Butterflies

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

Andrea Gibson’s latest collection is a masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career. Each emotion here is deft and delicate, resting inside of imagery heavy enough to sink the heart, while giving the body wings to soar.

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You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson Cover Art

You Better Be Lightning

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are

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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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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Geoffrey Chaucer & Nevill Coghill

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In  The Canterbury Tales  Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse,  The Canterbury Tales  offer us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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The Odyssey - Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox Cover Art

The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey , which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's translation. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Clarity & Connection

Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Recognized by Time Magazine as one of the TIME100 Creators: Most Influential Digital Voices From the celebrated author of Inward comes the second in series, a collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. To be read on its own or as a complement to  Inward , Yung Pueblo’s second work is a powerful resource for those invested in the work of personal transformation, building self-awareness, and deepening their connection with others.   

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The Inferno

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi & Archibald T. MacAllister

Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell. The first part of Dante ’ s Divine Comedy  is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan. One of the few literary works that has enjoyed a fame both immediate and enduring, The Inferno remains powerful after seven centuries. It confronts the most universal values—good and evil, free will and predestination—while remaining intensely personal and ferociously political, for it was born out of the anguish of a man who saw human life blighted by the injustice and corruption of his times. Translated by John Ciardi With an Introduction by Archibald T. MacAllister and an Afterword by Edward M. Cifelli

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