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As a Registered Nurse, Belinda Subraman has worked in several difficult areas, but from 2001 to 2007 she was working as a hospice nurse. Hospice is the art of preparation, and when Belinda's own father reached his final days in 2008, she took what preparation she had and flew back to Carolina...

The poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with a minnesong of the early Middle Ages and a poem of the seventeenth century, the book then focuses on the Age of Goethe (1749–1832). Inspired by Goethe...

“A passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse . . . The images are vivid and the voice is honest and powerful” (Stephen King).   This is the debut collection of poetry by singer/songwriter Ryan Adams, acclaimed for albums including Cardinology, Cold Roses, and Prisoner. His work...

What is your favorite poem? That is the question students from two fifth-grade classes at a New York grade school asked famous people to whom they had written. Their idea, the students explained, was to put together a book that would benefit the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children....

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey The existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised...

The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of...

‘The human desire for patterned language is as strong as the need for narrative.’ —Geoff Page In The Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who’s who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality,...

Windharp: Niall MacMonagle's essential anthology of the last century of Irish poetry The Easter Rising of 1916 was a foundational moment of the independent Irish state; but while that insurrection continues to divide opinion, there is no disagreement as to the majesty of Yeats's 'Easter 1916',...

Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.

This book is inspired by and created for the emotional honesty of one's heart. It will elucidate past pains, hurt, disappointment and gleeful feelings. For poetry stands to be there eye of the doctor that heals our inner spirit. With poetry we are able to become truthful through words that string...

From my mind to yours is a true discription of this book of poetry. It captivates you, each poem pulls you through a portal then takes you on a journey with the author. And if you are not a lover of poetry, then by the time you complete this book, you will be.

The Dark Room Chronicles: A Collection of Poetry is a book which came about through his harsh experiences in prison. The reader can expect inspirational, motivational, and relatable imagery through the form of word. My poetry also deals with life struggles, self-consciousness, hope, faith, and determination....

Tough City And Love Poetry speaks volumes on a world full of passion within the hearts and minds of urban youth that has yet to have been cultivated, ALKN invites you to glimpse into that very world with this anthology of his younger works. Here is a collection of writings that is contrary to popular...

Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if one stops trying to block the incoming cacophony and instead embraces the multiple streams of data that bombard the contemporary thought process? What...