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A selection of the dazzling work of one of the finest writers of her generation and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a poet of elegant restraint, emotional depth, and moral vision Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications...

A random collection of poems showcasing anything from Love to the weirdest inkling of the human brain. Definitely not something to sit next to the poetic masters....

Hate was easy, loving was hard; hate lay down like a rotten fruit, but love needs to be nurtured. Roy McFarlane's second poetry collection The Healing Next Time is a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody, and of a life story set against the ever-changing backdrop of Birmingham at the turn of the millennium.

The Sound of What Comes Next is a collection of poetry and two short stories by poet Lawrence C. Mays. This book serves at book number seven in Lawrence's 18-year writing career. The poetry addresses several topics including love, aging, body image, self-love, adolescence, and emptiness to name a few. This body of work also includes two short stories: "Night Angel" and "So Quiet".

In these exquisitely rendered poems, people fall in and out of love, in and out of religious belief and in and out of accepting the distance between their imagined lives and the lives they live. They look back as much as forward and pick mercilessly at the open wounds of failed relationships. They inhabit geographies that are both their emancipators and captors. And they find joy, or succumb to sorrow, amid life’s inescapable ephemerality and fragility.

In A Collection of Recollections: Between Here and There, Jen Schneider curates, collects, and shares bits and pieces of story and life. From “bus delays” to “knees on concrete” to “states of suspension”, the pieces prompt new ways of thinking about both language and lived experiences. Exploring a range of experiences from “rec time” to “things that go bump in the night”, the collection plays with time, form, and fashion in ways both experiential and experimental.

Taken from a diary of daily living of Rena Winters, a noted newspaper columnist and Hollywood film and television writer, Instead of Therapy is a quick and easy listen to uplift the spirits and motivate you in your life. In today's accelerated and busy world, it is important to find niches of time that one can use to calm the inner soul, find pathways to reflect on our lives, and help us overcome adversity. We all need to pause and regroup our thoughts, energies, and emotions at some point, and this book will help you do it.

In The Devil’s Blacklist, Braeden Michaels gravitates to the darkest edges of the human mind and soul. The collection of almost 200 poems revolves around lust, anger, self-destruction, self-reflection, love, and the love that generates rubble. Braeden Michaels introduces a completely new form of poetry known as Deconstructive Literature, in which the author takes a thought, idea, scene, or emotion and deconstructs it only to rebuild it again, piece by piece, line upon line.

Cancerwords is a record of Glenn Peirson’s three-year battle with a rare sinus cancer. Diagnosed at stage 4, Glenn did his elegant utmost to stay here for his wife and children, the joys of his life. As mother of this remarkable man for all seasons, I was seized by a need to write poetry and take photos on my prayer-walks. These media became my prayer forms. For me, they reached through the madness to a silence where pain is transformed into resilience. I was sustained and enabled to be what Glenn, Mary, Theodora, and Henry needed me to be.

You will confront your darkest fears and beckon them to the surface of your mind. Nightmares will cause conflict between the charcoal days and bleak nights. With a splash of colorful, sweet sentiment to contrast the shadows, Dark Days will leave a twisted, yet merry mark on your soul.

One minute you'll find yourself in the cockpit of a bomber, limping home from a raid over enemy territory, and the next, in a dogfight during the Battle of Britain. Author and screenwriter Brian L. Porter served with the RAF during the Cold War. Many of the works in this collection are based on the personal experiences of those who took part in the conflicts they depict - men and women who were pleased to relate those experiences to the author.

Of Aztecs and Conquistadors is the definitive collection of Juan Pablo Jalisco's poetry. The selection featured in this audiobook will carry the listener on a journey not only through the vast beauty of the land that is Mexico, but also serves as a journey through the ages that have helped to shape this at times wild and rugged, but always romantic and awesomely beautiful country and its people.

I, as poet, live a solitary 4-P journey with the partners of prose, poetry, photography, and prayer. In my journey of time and light, I’ve learned that I can free myself from the ballast of ordinary time and soar in the light. This is time travel for me. Orchids and Neurons is an exploration of poetry as molecular and metaphysical, as highly musically-patterned and ontological. The poet is a simply a medium used in a complex process. In this recent body of work, may you discern my process and see yours.

I am open; these words are my sutures. Shades is an attempt to reconcile who I am as a man, with a society that seems to be fluctuating and struggling at every turn. I show my encounters with family, religion, queerness, heartbreak, COVID-19, and politics. This is a look at my life in 2021, shown through poetry.

Whispers in Verse is a collection of subtle, gentle poems that encompass the beauty of a quiet hush; the serenity of lush calm; and the tranquility of stillness that transcends place and time. It is a journey into the heart to discover what stirs the spirit, and a vision of the memories we have unintentionally forgotten.

This participatory interactive collection of experimental poetry is designed to promote and provoke reflection and revision, and to push back against categorizations as a matter of form or otherwise. The forms reflect bits and pieces of story wrapped into all aspects of our lives. I hope you will enjoy this collection, dedicated to those who question, wonder, and continue to strive to fill in the missing blanks.

This collection of experimental, interactive, and erasure pieces explores belonging in its many forms and formats. Listeners are invited to reimagine what it means to be and to belong. With poems in quiz, fill-in-the blank, list, and Mad Lib-esque format, listeners are prompted to revisit and reimagine preconceived notions of belonging in both inside and outside spaces. Boundaries are tested. Expiration is embraced. From erasures to nontraditional walks across traditional pages, the pieces play with both content and form.

Love is malleable and comes in many forms. It can be shaped into bridges and carved into doorways. It can become a hand to hold up the sky when everything threatens to crash down around us. Inspired by personal experience, If We Could Hold Up the Sky is a poetry collection revolving around the tale of two neurodivergent individuals who meet as colleagues, fall rapidly into an iron friendship, and gradually become romantic partners.

In spaces where ideas simultaneously crystallize, connect, and unravel in random ways, Invisible Ink by Jen Schneider explores everyday moments through multiple perspectives and experimental forms.

In this collection of 30 cat poems, author Debbie De Louise shares her love and knowledge of the felines she’s known throughout her life. Most of the poems are inspired by her current and past cats. Some poems are funny; others are sad, but all reflect the beauty, intelligence, and special characteristics of these animals. If you are a cat lover or enjoy poems about cats, you will be both touched and entertained by this poetry collection that also includes notes about how they inspired her to write the poems.