Wonder
This book will be an exploration of new and old experiences that have caused wonder or were the result of a "What if?"
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977
A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a "passionate madman." Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love--its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power."there is a loneliness in this world so greatthat you can see it in the slow movement ofthe hands of a clock."
Hope
Michael Harston's awareness of life through poetry. Exploring an in-depth understanding of the knowing heart.This is a passage of times in my life.It depicts an emotional journey into the soul, heart and mind.It discovers depths and meaning created with heartfelt understanding.I hope you find a part in you that can relate to the endeavours of creative awareness, knowledge and experience through a life.Of joy, suffering and sacrifices.
Namanlagh
A collection that captures poignant memories and persistent histories from a celebrated poet of Northern Ireland WINNER OF THE PEN HEANEY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEI guess I must have been in two mindsabout the new dayas the daylight godsbegan to march in straight linesgoing I don't know where from "The Spare Room" In his first collection for more than a decade, Tom Paulin revisits themes of place, occupation, conflict and legacy, primarily in the context of his native Northern Ireland. Stories and memories, even histories, are shown to be both frail and persistent, troubling and vital. There is a powerful austerity in play as he sets aside the rhetorical force and linguistic dazzle for which he is renowned, to speak simply of later life and the losses it brings: "if only some idea / could find its way / through enemy territory / then I'd at last begin / to look up at the sky." As outward-looking as ever, he also includes here intimate and resonant versions from Brecht and Ronsard, and from the contemporary Palestinian poet, Walid Khazendar.
Vanished Beauty
Trials and Tribulations.These are the things life is flooded with: disappointments, heartbreaks, and setbacks. These things can be quite annoying and bewildering.However, it is not necessary to pick up arms and fight against the current. A shift in perspective with a calm mental attitude can be a more promising guidance.Endeavor to stop and think. Re-evaluate what and where things spun out of control. Life is always in perpetual motion, just like the rise and fall of the ocean waves. To be steadfast is to view circumstances, both pleasant and otherwise, with revered detachment.
What to Believe and Other Poems
As the author of this original work as a book of poems, I would like the readers to engage their minds and get with my written utterances and apply a kind of understanding and draw their own conclusions of what they have just digested and not to be fearful of some deep thinking. The reader, I hope, will feel somewhat elated and fresh with inner thoughts!
The Garden Out of Dust
The poet of The Garden Out of Dust offers-to all who wish to listen to her, or rather, to see her-here for the first time, perhaps-a little tender longing for what is constantly passing away, a pinch of feeling for the companions of our everyday fortune and misfortune, a drop of melancholic yet solid hope for a more cheerful tomorrow.She extends her hand toward us, smeared with the dusty garden colours, askew with disproportionate lore.
Call Sign Chopper
He's seen violence most never will.He's fought battles few survive.Now he tells the truth. Police officer. Soldier. Bouncer. Bodyguard. Chris Nott lived his life on the front line... violence, conflict, and chaos were part of the job. What stayed with him wassomething else. Now in his 70's, his memories come out in a way he never expected. Poetry! 'Call Sign Chopper - The Poems' is raw, direct, and real, capturing the adrenaline, the trauma, and the battles that never truly end. From life on the edge... to a personal fight with cancer... to a surprising take on the modern world... this isn't polished poetry. It's truth
D I Y Body
In D I Y BODY, Toni Garcia-Butler crafts a vibrant, defi ant exploration of identity, inheritance, and self-making at the intersections of Black, Filipino, Southern, and trans/queer experience. Through poems that move between memory, performance, and everyday ritual, Garcia-Butler builds a body not given, but claimed piece by piece, voice by voice. These poems are alive with sound and movement: karaoke bars become sites of transformation, kitchens hold the ghosts of lineage and love, and mosh pits offer fleeting freedom from misrecognition. This chapbook is a proclamation of naming, desire, family, and belonging, an insistence on the right to define the self beyond expectation or constraint.
Schiller's Poems
Schillers Poems: Poems Of The First Period is a collection of early lyrical works from the late 18th century, capturing the raw energy of German Romanticism through vivid explorations of human emotion, nature's beauty, and philosophical depth. Composed during the poets formative years up to 1785, these poems blend ecstatic enthusiasm with introspective musings, drawing from classical influences like Petrarch while pioneering Sturm und Drang intensity. Key pieces delve into passionate love as in odes celebrating idealized romance amid torment and ecstasy, heroic epics portraying warriors farewells and battles against fate like Hector and Andromache, and dark ballads confronting guilt and despair such as The Infanticide where a mothers anguish unfolds in haunting narrative. Lyrical language evokes sensory splendor rustling forests, stormy seas, blooming gardens interwoven with moral inquiries into duty, freedom, and the souls yearning for unity. This volume showcases the poets evolution from youthful fervor to profound insight, influencing later German literature with its rhythmic vitality, emotional resonance, and balance of joy and tragedy, marking a cornerstone of poetic innovation before his classical maturity.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 9 presents a carefully arranged selection of verse that reflects varied emotional and intellectual experiences drawn from everyday life and wider social observation. The collection moves through reflections on nature, affection, conflict, memory, and change, using lyrical language to capture moments that feel both personal and shared. Each poem contributes to an ongoing meditation on how human feeling responds to shifting circumstances, whether shaped by private reflection or public events. The verses balance gentle introspection with a sense of moral awareness, suggesting how individual lives are influenced by time, duty, and collective experience. The tone often blends warmth with restraint, allowing sentiment to emerge without excess. Through rhythm and imagery, the collection emphasizes continuity across different stages of life, showing how seasons mirror inner transformation. Rather than following a single narrative, the volume offers a mosaic of ideas that highlight resilience, empathy, and observation as enduring elements of poetic expression.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 12 brings together a wide range of poems that reflect the breadth of the poet s creative expression and long engagement with verse. The collection combines earlier writings with later additions, revealing a voice shaped by experience, reflection, and observation. Humor appears alongside introspection, creating balance between lightness and thoughtful commentary. Many poems draw from memory and personal experience, while others turn outward to nature and social life, showing how private feeling and shared reality intersect. The tone often feels conversational, inviting readers into moments of reflection on time, growth, and creative purpose. There is an underlying awareness of change, both in personal outlook and artistic development, paired with an acceptance of imperfection as part of creative life. Rather than following a single direction, the volume presents a varied landscape of ideas and emotions, emphasizing poetry as a living record of thought, feeling, and cultural awareness shaped across many stages of life.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 8 presents a carefully arranged selection of verse that reflects varied emotional and intellectual experiences drawn from everyday life and wider social observation. The collection moves through reflections on nature, affection, conflict, memory, and change, using lyrical language to capture moments that feel both personal and shared. Each poem contributes to an ongoing meditation on how human feeling responds to shifting circumstances, whether shaped by private reflection or public events. The verses balance gentle introspection with a sense of moral awareness, suggesting how individual lives are influenced by time, duty, and collective experience. The tone often blends warmth with restraint, allowing sentiment to emerge without excess. Through rhythm and imagery, the collection emphasizes continuity across different stages of life, showing how seasons mirror inner transformation. Rather than following a single narrative, the volume offers a mosaic of ideas that highlight resilience, empathy, and observation as enduring elements of poetic expression.
The Vagabond And Other Poems From Punch
The vagabond and other poems from Punch presents a varied collection of light verse that captures everyday observation through humor, irony, and gentle reflection. The poems draw attention to ordinary moments, small habits, and familiar emotions, transforming them into playful commentary on social behavior and personal experience. Many pieces balance wit with warmth, using simple language and rhythmic clarity to explore imagination, memory, and fleeting pleasures. Alongside humor, the collection introduces reflective passages that consider nature, aging, and the passing of innocence, often revealing quiet insight beneath an amused tone. The influence of magazine culture is evident in the concise structure and conversational style, allowing each poem to stand independently while contributing to a shared mood. Rather than offering grand statements, the work values subtlety, observation, and accessible charm. Through its mix of satire and tenderness, the collection highlights how poetry can entertain while still engaging with social attitudes, emotional nuance, and the rhythms of everyday life.
Rose And Roof-Tree
Rose and roof tree poems presents a reflective collection of poems centered on emotional intimacy the natural world and the quiet tensions of inner life. The verses move between moments of tenderness and restraint using landscape domestic imagery and seasonal change to explore attachment solitude and endurance. Nature is not treated as decoration but as an active presence shaping thought memory and moral awareness. Images of shelter growth and decay recur to suggest the fragile balance between comfort and uncertainty that defines personal experience. Love appears alongside loss not as opposing forces but as intertwined states that deepen perception. The poems favor contemplation over drama allowing feeling to emerge through suggestion rhythm and carefully observed detail. Throughout the collection the tone remains measured and lyrical emphasizing emotional honesty rather than excess. The work reflects a belief that everyday surroundings hold spiritual and emotional meaning when approached with attentiveness. Together the poems form a unified meditation on belonging responsibility and the quiet persistence of hope within ordinary life.
Fleurs De Lys, And Other Poems
Fleurs De Lys and other poems presents a lyrical exploration of place, memory, and emotional reflection shaped by cultural heritage and natural surroundings. The collection draws on historical awareness and landscape to examine identity, belonging, and continuity. Nature is used as a living presence rather than background, offering images that mirror affection, loss, endurance, and quiet joy. Several poems reflect on inherited traditions and collective memory, suggesting how the past remains embedded in language and environment. Alongside these broader reflections, the poems turn inward, addressing love, solitude, and the passage of experience with restraint and clarity. The tone balances reverence with intimacy, allowing symbolic imagery to carry emotional weight without excess. Rather than dramatic declaration, the work favors measured expression and contemplative rhythm. Through its varied subjects, the collection unites personal feeling with shared history, presenting poetry as a space where cultural roots, emotional insight, and natural beauty intersect to form a cohesive and reflective whole.
Songs Of Labor And Other Poems
Songs of labor and other poems presents a lyrical yet unflinching portrayal of working life shaped by exhaustion, sacrifice, and emotional endurance. The collection centers on the inner world of laborers whose daily routines demand physical strength while quietly eroding personal identity. Through reflective and emotionally charged verse, the poems convey how repetitive work reduces individuals to functional parts within a larger system, fostering isolation and quiet despair. Alongside this hardship runs a persistent longing for dignity, connection, and recognition. The poems frequently contrast the tenderness of private emotions with the rigidity of labor, revealing how work intrudes upon family bonds, personal dreams, and self worth. Feelings of grief and frustration are balanced with moments of resilience, where endurance itself becomes a form of resistance. The collective voice woven throughout the poems transforms individual suffering into a shared experience, suggesting solidarity as a source of strength. Rather than offering simple resolution, the collection bears witness to hardship while nurturing hope for social awareness, compassion, and gradual change rooted in empathy and human dignity.
Along The Shore
Along the shore presents a reflective collection of poetry that explores emotional experience through intimate observation and lyrical restraint. The poems move between moments of affection, grief, memory, and quiet joy, using nature as both setting and metaphor. Shorelines, bells, open spaces, and passing hours become symbols through which inner states are examined. The work emphasizes the fragility of life and the persistence of feeling, balancing tenderness with restraint. Images of childhood, absence, and reflection suggest how love leaves lasting impressions even as time advances. Rather than dramatic expression, the collection favors subtle shifts in mood and gentle rhythms that mirror thought and remembrance. The poems often linger on fleeting moments, capturing how ordinary scenes carry emotional weight. Throughout the collection, personal reflection merges with universal experience, inviting contemplation of loss, continuity, and emotional endurance. The overall tone remains quiet and meditative, offering a poetic space where human vulnerability, natural beauty, and the passage of time exist in careful balance.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 10: Before the curfew brings together a varied selection of poems that reflect moments of public recognition, private remembrance, and cultural reflection. The collection moves between celebratory pieces and contemplative verses, highlighting how poetry can honor shared values while also preserving individual memory. Many poems focus on marking occasions, paying tribute to notable lives, and capturing the emotional weight of transition and closure. Alongside these outward-looking works, the volume includes quieter reflections that explore aging, loss, and the persistence of identity over time. The language balances formality with warmth, allowing ceremonial tones to coexist with personal feeling. Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on legacy and continuity, suggesting how words preserve experience beyond a single moment. Rather than forming a single narrative, the poems collectively create a reflective space where history, emotion, and moral awareness intersect, reinforcing poetry as a means of recording both personal and communal experience.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 5 presents a varied collection of verse that reflects emotional sensitivity wit and thoughtful observation. The poems move fluidly between light lyricism and reflective meditation capturing moments of affection memory humor and quiet introspection. Everyday experiences are elevated through polished language and rhythmic clarity allowing personal reflection to connect with shared human feeling. Nature time and moral awareness appear as recurring ideas shaping a balance between sentiment and intellect. Some pieces adopt a playful tone while others pause to examine aging loss and the endurance of affection offering contrast within a unified voice. Musical structure and careful phrasing give the collection a sense of harmony suggesting poetry as both expression and discipline. Rather than telling stories the poems focus on mood insight and emotional resonance inviting readers to reflect on life with warmth and restraint. The collection emphasizes the power of verse to console amuse and provoke thought while maintaining elegance and accessibility throughout.
In Divers Tones
In divers tones presents a lyrical collection of poetry that explores emotion, nature, and human experience through varied moods and perspectives. The work reflects on love, loss, celebration, and reflection, often using the Canadian landscape as a backdrop to evoke identity, memory, and belonging. Poems balance personal introspection with observation of the wider world, highlighting how environment, history, and social context shape feeling. Imagery and form are used with care to convey emotional depth, creating resonance between inner experience and external surroundings. Recurring themes include longing, resilience, and the passage of time, with attention to both joy and sorrow as essential elements of life. Rather than relying on dramatic expression, the collection emphasizes subtlety, contemplation, and lyrical rhythm. Through its varied subjects and tones, the work invites readers to consider the interplay between individual reflection and shared history, illustrating how poetry can capture the complexities of life while celebrating the beauty and impermanence of human experience.
The Youth's Coronal
The youth's coronal presents a gentle and instructive collection that blends imagination, moral guidance, and emotional sensitivity for young readers. The work reflects a nurturing vision of childhood shaped by curiosity, innocence, and gradual moral awareness. Nature serves as a central influence, offering images that encourage attentiveness, kindness, and appreciation of simple beauty. Each piece conveys lessons through softness rather than discipline, guiding reflection through warmth and encouragement. Childhood experiences are portrayed as formative moments where habits of thought, feeling, and responsibility quietly take shape. The tone remains hopeful and affirming, emphasizing growth through empathy, patience, and self awareness. Rather than dramatic instruction, the collection relies on accessible language and familiar scenes to inspire reflection and ethical understanding. The balance between playfulness and guidance allows learning to feel natural and inviting. Overall, the work celebrates youth as a meaningful stage of moral formation, where imagination and instruction coexist to nurture character and emotional balance.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 4: Songs in many keys presents a varied collection of verse that reflects emotional sensitivity wit and thoughtful observation. The poems move fluidly between light lyricism and reflective meditation capturing moments of affection memory humor and quiet introspection. Everyday experiences are elevated through polished language and rhythmic clarity allowing personal reflection to connect with shared human feeling. Nature time and moral awareness appear as recurring ideas shaping a balance between sentiment and intellect. Some pieces adopt a playful tone while others pause to examine aging loss and the endurance of affection offering contrast within a unified voice. Musical structure and careful phrasing give the collection a sense of harmony suggesting poetry as both expression and discipline. Rather than telling stories the poems focus on mood insight and emotional resonance inviting readers to reflect on life with warmth and restraint. The collection emphasizes the power of verse to console amuse and provoke thought while maintaining elegance and accessibility throughout.
The Snow-Drop
The snow drop: A Holiday Gift reflects a quiet meditation on endurance, humility, and spiritual awareness expressed through reflections on the natural world. The collection draws meaning from small and overlooked elements of life, using seasonal change and fragile beauty to suggest inner strength. Moments of hardship are balanced with calm reassurance, presenting suffering as a passage toward moral clarity rather than despair. Nature is portrayed as a guide for emotional and spiritual growth, offering lessons in patience, renewal, and faith. The verses emphasize modest virtues, encouraging gentleness, gratitude, and trust in divine order. Emotional restraint shapes the tone, allowing hope to emerge softly rather than through dramatic assertion. Spiritual reflection is closely tied to daily observation, blending personal feeling with shared moral understanding. The work values simplicity over grandeur, suggesting that resilience often appears in the most delicate forms. Overall, the collection presents a contemplative vision of perseverance grounded in belief, quiet courage, and reverence for life.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 7: Songs of many seasons presents a carefully arranged selection of verse that reflects varied emotional and intellectual experiences drawn from everyday life and wider social observation. The collection moves through reflections on nature, affection, conflict, memory, and change, using lyrical language to capture moments that feel both personal and shared. Each poem contributes to an ongoing meditation on how human feeling responds to shifting circumstances, whether shaped by private reflection or public events. The verses balance gentle introspection with a sense of moral awareness, suggesting how individual lives are influenced by time, duty, and collective experience. The tone often blends warmth with restraint, allowing sentiment to emerge without excess. Through rhythm and imagery, the collection emphasizes continuity across different stages of life, showing how seasons mirror inner transformation. Rather than following a single narrative, the volume offers a mosaic of ideas that highlight resilience, empathy, and observation as enduring elements of poetic expression.
Poems Of Power
Poems of power explores the presence of divine strength and inner potential within each individual, emphasizing how self-awareness and spiritual recognition contribute to personal fulfillment, success, and happiness. The collection weaves together reflections on love, human relationships, and social consciousness, highlighting the moral and emotional growth that arises from empathy, understanding, and adherence to higher ideals. Through varied poetic forms, the work examines the challenges and triumphs of the human experience, portraying the interplay between personal ambition, ethical responsibility, and emotional depth. The poems encourage readers to recognize their own capacities for resilience, compassion, and creative expression, suggesting that embracing inner power leads to meaningful action and harmonious living. Themes of self-realization, spiritual awakening, and the transformative potential of love permeate the collection, offering both inspiration and contemplation. The work balances lyrical beauty with philosophical insight, guiding readers toward an appreciation of the interconnectedness of personal development, moral insight, and social awareness.
Dreams and Days
Dreams and days: Poems brings together reflective lyric pieces that explore inner feeling, natural beauty, and the quiet movement of time. The collection balances personal emotion with broader human reflection, allowing moments of affection, loss, hope, and resolve to unfold through carefully shaped imagery. Nature frequently serves as a mirror for emotional states, offering symbols of renewal, fragility, and continuity. Rather than dramatic intensity, the poems favor contemplation, inviting readers to pause and consider memory, aspiration, and moral purpose. A spirit of encouragement runs beneath the verses, suggesting faith in human connection and shared effort. Emotional restraint gives the work a meditative tone, where meaning emerges gradually through rhythm and suggestion. The collection reflects an interest in everyday experience elevated through language, treating ordinary feeling as worthy of attention. Through lyrical clarity and thoughtful pacing, the poems present life as a sequence of passing moments shaped by love, reflection, and the desire for lasting significance.
Lays From The West
Lays from the west presents a reflective collection of poems shaped by emotional intensity and lyrical restraint. The verses dwell on memory, longing, and attachment to place, using landscape and personal reflection to explore enduring bonds between identity and homeland. Nature appears not as scenery alone but as an emotional anchor, carrying echoes of love, separation, and quiet endurance. Feelings of loss and remembrance flow through the collection, suggesting how time alters experience without erasing its imprint. The poems balance intimacy with universality, transforming private emotion into shared reflection. Recurrent meditations on distance and belonging emphasize the tension between presence and absence, while restrained language allows sentiment to emerge without excess. Through rhythmic expression and contemplative imagery, the work traces the persistence of emotional ties across change and uncertainty. The collection ultimately frames poetry as a vessel for preservation, where memory, place, and feeling converge to resist silence and forgetting.
The Poems Of Schiller
The poems of Schiller Third Period brings together lyrical works that reflect a mature poetic voice shaped by emotional depth philosophical reflection and an intense engagement with beauty and idealism. The collection explores inner experience through meditations on love aspiration freedom and the tension between human limitation and higher ideals. Nature appears as both a symbolic landscape and a moral mirror offering harmony contrast and inspiration. The poems emphasize feeling as a path to understanding while balancing passion with intellectual clarity. Imagery and rhythm work together to create an elevated tone that encourages contemplation rather than narrative progression. Throughout the collection there is a movement toward unity between reason and emotion suggesting poetry as a means of moral and spiritual refinement. The writing invites readers to reflect on dignity longing and the pursuit of meaning beyond the material world. Rather than focusing on events the poems emphasize states of mind and emotional transformation presenting poetry as a space where imagination elevates lived experience into enduring artistic expression.
The Poetical Works Of Mrs. Leprohon
The poetical works of Mrs. Leprohon is a collection of poems highlighting the literary skill and emotional depth of a Canadian poet. The work explores themes of nature, love, spirituality, and social observation, capturing both the beauty and the challenges of life. The poems reflect personal introspection and philosophical contemplation, addressing human experiences, moral values, and the complexities of relationships. Observations on devotion, family, and societal roles are interwoven with reflections on the natural world, creating a rich interplay between the personal and universal. Through lyrical expression and careful imagery, the collection conveys both joy and melancholy, inviting readers to engage with the emotional and ethical dimensions of existence. The work balances intimate reflection with broader social and spiritual concerns, demonstrating how poetry can illuminate human feeling, thought, and the environment. The poetical works of Mrs. Leprohon presents a tapestry of sentiment, insight, and observation, offering a nuanced exploration of life, emotion, and the enduring significance of art.
Tall, Dark, Handsome...
For anyone who has scanned the Personal Ads, but might never have dared to respond to one, this is a titillating journey by a woman who did. Tall, Dark, Handsome... is a small book of erotic poetry and haiku based on a sensual relationship that was the result of answering a personal ad. The poetry is an inner landscape of feelings and emotions expressed through the outer landscape of nature. The story, although drawn from a particular situation, is universal in its appeal to love and lovers everywhere.
Memories of Canada and Scotland
Memories of Canada and Scotland: Speeches and verses brings together reflective prose and poetic expression shaped by attachment to place, heritage, and shared values. The collection moves fluidly between public addresses and lyrical passages, creating a unified meditation on belonging and remembrance. Canada is presented through impressions of vast landscapes, emerging identity, and communal aspiration, while Scotland appears as a source of ancestral memory, tradition, and emotional grounding. Rather than focusing on events or individuals, the work emphasizes atmosphere, sentiment, and continuity. Pride is conveyed through admiration for natural beauty and cultural resilience, while loyalty is framed as an enduring bond between land and people. The alternating forms allow the author to balance formal reflection with personal feeling, giving the text both ceremonial gravity and quiet intimacy. Throughout, ideas of duty, memory, and cultural inheritance recur, suggesting that identity is shaped as much by remembered origins as by present surroundings. The book ultimately functions as a tribute to two landscapes connected through emotion, history, and shared moral outlook.
Yarns and Threads
What makes a good yarn? Is it spun with a strong thread running through it, or does it need more than one thread? And how do you know a real yarn from a fake one? Does the difference really matter? After all, as soon as you open this book and start reading it, all the yarns and threads, the short stories and poems, they become yours. You can make of them what you will.Everything in this book comes from the heart. All the stories and poems were written with the hope that they will make you, the reader, smile or laugh, reflect or be moved. Perhaps the poems and stories will even encourage you to think about which yarns and threads you might like to spin as well.
Ichiban
Patricia Aya Williams' Ichiban follows a Japanese mother, an American father, and their daughter from post-WWII Japan to the Gen-X schoolyards of East San Jose. The collection exuberantly insists that "we too / sing America" applies to teenage girls whose tampons charge like a "battering ram in a moat of blood" and to a tough mother who loves watching sumo and rooting for "wrestlers from her prefecture-Ishikawa" and harshly judging them: "Aww he too little / he not gonna make it." After the father's early death, the speaker revisits photos of him on aircraft carriers, and the mother, as she nears her own death many decades later, asks him: "Pat, my handsome young sailor / ichiban yasashii na kao, most gentle face // God ever show me on this earth- // how you will recognize / my prune face, more than twice your age?" As if anyone could forget her, especially after Ichiban captures her voice, humor, and tenacity with such vibrancy.-Allison Pitinii Davis, Line Study of a Motel Clerk and Business: a novellaIchiban is an unsparing and unsentimental coming of age poetry-coming to terms with parents, coming to terms with cultural expectations, and with one's self. I am particularly taken by the variety of angles and poetic forms through which Williams views and recounts salient life-shaping episodes. The title poem "Ichiban" could stand alone-illustrated and animated. The entire collection is a gem.-Donna Hilbert, Louis Award judge and author of Enormous Blue Umbrella
The Raven Prayers
This collection of poetry, written mostly in 2016, chronicles the tumultuous flurry of emotions experienced by the bipolar mind. Topics ranging from depression and mental illness to deep religious and existential conflict, The Raven Prayers is a look into the turmoil that was a tortured mind, somewhere between faith and doubt.
Love Loves Leaving
This collection speaks to those who have ever felt abandoned, unseen or misunderstood. How does one feel when love leaves? What's the aftermath of transient love? These poems explore how it arrives unexpectedly, transforms us and sometimes leaves just as quickly.Whether it's unrequited love, emotional neglect, or the deep sadness of being unheard. This collection does not aim to romanticise heartbreak but rather to witness it-and in doing so, remind readers that there is power in feeling deeply and that healing begins with honesty.May this find anyone who has ever felt too much.
Dire
Death is such a fascinating yet sorrowful thing. And I say 'thing' because it is so mysterious. The way we experience death and dying is very personal. I strongly believe that since it happens to everyone, at some point, we need to be more open about it. Explore the science, the religion, the thought processes, the comfort. Let's demystify death, in the hopes that we won't be afraid; after all, we can't run away from it.
Letter Flower Poetry for children
'This poetry volume of poems by Dr. Nguyen Khac Hao is a whimsical journey into a child's world, blending innocence with nature. The verses transform daily routines - like eating or learning the alphabet - into musical, imaginative adventures. With themes ranging from personified celestial bodies to cherished family bonds, the poems evoke a sense of purity and wonder. Ultimately, the manuscript serves as a bridge, teaching children to value their emotions while offering adults a peaceful, nostalgic escape.I.Bella (the critic)
Euterpe's Dream
On Pegasus' wings, I fly like a phoenix Soaring across continents, clans and counties Gliding over mountains and seas Inspired by Euterpe's secret melody While singing Orpheus' lamentable hymn They say poetry makes it a bit easier to live life I hope that these sonnets surmount such heights Burning like fire and quenching like water The truth, spoken through the word Of a child staring at the bright star A chance, at least, to live twice, here and afar.
The Poetical Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
The poetical works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Volume 11 gathers poems that move between public tribute and inward reflection, creating a layered portrait of remembrance and cultural awareness. The collection places strong emphasis on honoring moments of significance, whether tied to collective memory or personal experience. Many verses are shaped around occasions and farewells, using measured language to express respect, gratitude, and reflection. Alongside these ceremonial tones, the poems explore quieter thoughts on aging, responsibility, and the passage of time. The writing balances dignity with emotional restraint, allowing reflection to feel sincere rather than ornate. Throughout the volume, there is a consistent awareness of legacy, suggesting that words serve as a bridge between past experience and present understanding. Instead of a continuous narrative, the poems function as individual meditations that together highlight how poetry preserves memory, affirms shared values, and offers insight into enduring human emotions.
Vignettes In Verse
Vignettes in verse presents a delicate collection of poetic sketches capturing fleeting moments of human emotion, nature's subtle beauty, and introspective reverie through lyrical precision and evocative imagery. These compact verses explore tender affections blooming amid quiet domestic scenes, the melancholy of parting lovers shadowed by fate's whims, and contemplative walks through verdant landscapes where whispers of wind and rustling leaves stir philosophical musings on transience. Moral reflections weave through tales of virtue tested by adversity, friendship's enduring warmth against life's tempests, and the soul's quiet yearnings for harmony beyond earthly strife. Pastoral idylls evoke blooming gardens and serene countrysides, while urban vignettes hint at bustling streets alive with hidden sorrows and joys. Spiritual undertones emerge in hymns to divine grace illuminating mortal struggles, blending personal devotion with universal aspirations. Personal elegies mourn lost kin through heartfelt tributes emphasizing resilience and memory's solace. This intimate anthology distills profound insights into succinct forms, celebrating life's ephemeral graces, ethical fortitude, and the redemptive power of artistic expression amid sorrow and delight.
The Poems Of Schiller
The poems of Schiller: Suppressed poems is a collection that presents a range of poetic expressions exploring love, existence, mortality, and social observation. The verses reflect a deep engagement with human emotion, moral reflection, and philosophical questioning, capturing the intensity and introspection characteristic of Romantic literature. Through careful attention to language, rhythm, and imagery, the poems convey both personal sentiment and broader societal critique, examining the tensions between individual desire and ethical responsibility. Themes of passion, longing, and the fleeting nature of life are interwoven with reflections on justice, freedom, and human dignity. The collection demonstrates the poet s ability to merge aesthetic beauty with intellectual depth, offering readers a multifaceted experience that is at once emotional, contemplative, and socially aware. By blending lyrical elegance with thematic complexity, the book highlights the enduring relevance of poetry as a medium for exploring the human condition and the moral, philosophical, and emotional dimensions of existence.
The Poetical Works Of John Dryden
The poetical works of John Dryden Volume 1 presents a wide-ranging body of poetry and reflective prose that highlights the depth and versatility of a major literary voice. The collection brings together elegies, satires, and historically inspired pieces that reveal a strong command of language, structure, and persuasive expression. Throughout the volume, poetic form is used to engage with public life, moral reflection, artistic responsibility, and shifting social values. The selected works explore loyalty, authority, ambition, and human contradiction, while also demonstrating technical control over rhythm and rhetorical balance. Attention is given to the circumstances that shaped the writing, including intellectual training, professional challenges, and changing political climates. Rather than existing in isolation, the poems are presented as responses to lived experience, debate, and cultural transformation. The contextual material helps frame the creative choices found in the verse, allowing readers to see how personal conviction and public discourse intersect. Overall, the volume offers insight into poetic craft while revealing how literature can act as both artistic expression and commentary on power, identity, and cultural continuity.
Withered Leaves From Memory's Garland
Withered leaves from memory's garland presents a reflective literary collection shaped by remembrance emotional endurance and the quiet passage of time. The work gathers personal reflections and poetic meditations that dwell on memory as both comfort and burden. Everyday moments family bonds and past experiences are revisited with tenderness revealing how loss and affection coexist within recollection. The imagery of fading leaves reinforces the fragility of human experience and the inevitability of change. Rather than dramatic events the focus rests on subtle emotional shifts moments of longing and acceptance shaped by reflection. The writing emphasizes introspection drawing meaning from absence silence and remembrance. Grief is portrayed as gentle and enduring rather than overwhelming allowing memory to function as preservation rather than pain. Through measured language and symbolic reflection the collection explores how identity is shaped by what remains after time has passed. The work ultimately affirms memory as a living presence that connects past and present through emotional continuity.
Divinations on Survival
Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mothers, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth.Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors.Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.
Fire at the Big Top
The 80th anniversary of the circus fire looms / like burnt smoke over water. Now you are // both the boy and the girl and the only one / left to tell this story. So begins this collection of flaming poems that illuminates sexual love and lights up the circus. Yannone gives each performer a sonnet in a corona that includes the wire walker, the clown, the human cannonball, the bandleader. Before you've finished reading this page-turner, which is both a jeremiad and a joy, you'll even hear from the arsonist, himself, who intones, There is nothing on Earth I wouldn't want / To watch burn.-Lillo Way, Flying: Trapeze PoemsAn erotic circus of the glittering, gaudy, and heartbreaking, Fire at the Big Top is nothing short of electrifying. Yannone has crafted a subversive world of queer performanceand expression, where poems are crowns, matches, acrobats, clowns, knives, and rings and their leaping movements unfurl like colorful scarves or flaming swords. The mostintricate magic trick, this collection shows us how sex and love can turn the mundane into illusion and spectacle.-Ansley Clark, BloodlineFire at the Big Top is a waxed-paraffin blaze of a read! A story of darling dare, wire walking, and combustion. A frenzy of love, destruction and tragedy in circus proportions.-Catherine Ronan, Elemental Skin
Whispers of My Heart
Whispers of My Heart is a soul-stirring collection of poems that invites readers into a sacred space of reflection, healing, and quiet strength.Through heartfelt words and gentle honesty, Dr. Nadine Spencer-Elys矇e captures the beauty of life's tender moments-love, loss, faith, growth, and the unspoken emotions that often live deep within the heart. Each poem reads like a whisper-soft yet powerful-reminding readers that even in silence, God is near.Written especially for women navigating life's many seasons, this collection offers comfort, encouragement, and a renewed sense of purpose. Whether you are in a season of waiting, healing, rediscovery, or gratitude, these poems will meet you where you are.This is more than poetry-it is a companion for your journey.Some women will find themselves in these words... and realize they were never alone.Whispers of My Heart is a heartfelt collection of inspirational and faith-filled poetry that speaks to the quiet places within. Through reflections on love, growth, pain, and purpose, these poems gently guide readers toward healing and a deeper connection with God.Perfect for moments of stillness, devotion, or reflection, this collection is a reminder that even the softest whisper can carry the greatest strength.
What Came Down in the Smoke
Suffused with the horror, humor, and magic of Wabanaki storytelling, What Came Down in the Smoke is, like a child left for dead in the snow who comes home with a beaver's tail, a book about survival. With vivid imagery and lyrical intensity, Hart weaves together fragments of the natural world with deeply personal reflections on grief, love, and the passage of time....Summer J. Hart's newest book pulses with life, its vivacity made more exhilarating and exquisite by how poised the poems are, too, on the brink of pain, loss, grief, vulnerability, and death. Correlatively, Hart's poetic voice throughout the book is-somehow, miraculously, all at once-as clamorous and insistent as the cry of a Valkyrie and as aching and tender as a nightingale's. Her turns of phrase are so surprising and fresh that one feels constantly, as one moves from line to line and page to page, as though one has stumbled on a scene of intimacy-two lovers furtively kissing or a mother nursing a tiny child to sleep-that does not belong to one, but an intimacy that one is allowed to witness, nonetheless. -Eleanor Johnston, author of Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism
