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Poetry and love seem pretty out of place these days. This poetry album is a test to see if these are really rare quaint commodities that do not matter and thus, do not sell. It is also a test to see if there can be something other than what poetry is purported to be in modern times. It is to prove that...

This is is a book of inspirational poetry intended to reach all people who are hurting and in need in this world. It is designed to provide peace, comfort and above all hope. It serves to remind you that your struggles are known by God and are not in vain. This book is designed to carry you further on the healing journey home.

Regarded as Ireland's national bard, Thomas Moore was a poet, satirist, composer, and political propagandist, as well as a close friend of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents...

Between February 2008 and May 2009 Waldrep and Gallaher wrote poems back and forth to each other, sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes five or six times in a single day. As the collaboration deepened, a "third voice" developed that neither poet could claim, but was a combination of...

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has...

C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an...

Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual’s maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society,...

In The Truth: An Autobiography in Poetry and Prose Talya Morgana Stein shares her many struggles in their truth through poetry and prose. As she explores the condition that has changed her life, she explains what it has meant to her and the way in which she lives her life. Whether you have been affected...

The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern literary language in nineteenth-century Russia and then taken to Palestine as part of the Zionist revolution....

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Edward Thomas, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating...

Poetry is a relative term these days. It seems anyone with an ax to grind or a rant to rave can get up in a dingy venue and call him/ herself a poet. We all know from school days what poetry used to sound like, however, that form has pretty much been abandon and or adapted to fit our times for better...

Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes), shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for first book and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards. Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling...

"Skoog’s first full-length collection captures and presents the truth of the truth: our under-analyzed, overlooked, often fragile existences on earth."—Dave Jarecki"Skoog’s use of language is disorientating, vivid and surprising, all the things I love about great poetry."—Nathan Moore"Ed...

Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with...