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Life is full of love, but it is also full of loss. Like paper cuts to the heart, every big and seemingly insignificant loss-the loss of friendships, faith, dreams, health, community, and everything in between-grieves us more than we think it will, and often more than we let on. Why? Because they matter.
In this compassionate and deeply personal book, Rachel Marie Kang invites you to see and be seen in the midst of your sorrow, your suffering-your...
3) Night Maze
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This 23-poem, hardcover-chapbook, is filled with strange and unanswerable questions - or are they? Monsters under the bed, children questioning, women living with wolves, snowfalls, gateways to other worlds, all asked in poetic form.
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"A fresh young voice from the heart of an old soul whose poetry might tug at your heartstrings and your tears."
L.N. - Paducah, KY
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading these soulful poems; The Marines Have Taken...
4) Days of Daze
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This 23-poem is filled with cats, bugs, heart wrenches, soul searching, and backed up sinks. It contains comments about things everyone knows-or thought they did. Waking in a daze, walking around in a daze, entire days of daze, all in poetic form.
5) Fallout
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2011.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Tara's sister died a year ago, on the day that Tara didn't answer her phone when Hannah called. And Hannah stepped in front of a bus. Now Tara lives with the guilt of wondering if things would be different if she had been there when Hannah needed her most. Competing in slam poetry competitions is the only way Tara can keep her sister's memory alive and deal with all the unanswered questions. But at some point, Tara is going to have to let Hannah rest...
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Where does one find solace after the death of a father? Who will listen without judgment to grief's flood of fragile memories, insights, regrets? The young narrator of this collection addresses a meandering creek where she and her father spent quiet hours together fishing. "Creek" becomes the confidante who receives her questions and qualms. The Hook Was Very Sharp, examines a shy daughter's relationship with the hard-working, self-sacrificing, gambling,...
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2021.
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"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--
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In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America's remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.
9) Walk With Me
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A collection of poems that were written at St. Mary's Abbey in West Malling, Kent where James spent seven days in solitude and silence with the nuns.
It was a life-changing experience and helped him through a very troubled period of his life.
The Abbey brought him peace and enhanced the creative side of his brain.
During the seven days, not only did he write these nine poems, but he also wrote three children's books and created the character Albert...
10) Good Grief
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Grief comes in waves, or so they say.
Feels like it comes in hurricanes.
Lenore Lund reaches into some of the hardest places to expose, grief, identity, and love, and expresses with both metaphor and prose what it is to experience all of the above. Drawing on her own experiences of loss and relationships with both places and people, she crafts poetry in a way that brings you back to your own experiences without sacrificing her own voice. Good Grief...
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The essays and poems in Palindrome were born as morning journal entries, riverside scribblings, and phone notes from ridgetops when words howled for freedom. They celebrate the emerald ripple of the Pacific Northwest and embrace departed family, raspberry sunrises, imminent storms, and the bloodshot stare of a sharp-shinned hawk. In the way that a palindrome reads identically, start to finish to start, and contains an internal reflection nudging against...
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"some people live within the rainbows and niceties of life - I live within my mind where hinges and trap doors creak and crack at every turn... perpetually chasing after me". These delicate, heartfelt poems allow you to explore the raw, heartfelt emotions we all experience in life-joy, sorrow, confusion, and above all... love.
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This is a poetic exploration of what it means for a son to care for his father in his final year of life, and what then arises after. After his father was, diagnosed with cancer, the author became his primary carer. During the challenges of this final year, as his father lay bedridden, the author sought solace in poetry.
These poems journey a broad field, from childhood remembrances, to family life, wilderness, the nursing home, and beyond. Nature...
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Going to war is a life-changing experience. COL Smith-Tillery takes you on her journey through war, her battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and her final redemption through poetry and narrative. You are left with a feeling of hope, that for service members and veterans, there can be a life of joy after coming home.
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“Sweet & Sour Dreams: A Ride Through My Mind” is Reagan Watkins' enchanting second book-a captivating collection of prose and poetry that embarks on an emotional odyssey through grief. Within these pages, the reader is transported to a dreamlike realm, where waves of anger, sorrow, and romance intertwine. Watkins masterfully captures the hypnotic essence of grief, revealing how nightmares can intrude upon the healing process. With eloquence and...
16) Riceyman Steps
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In the "great metropolitan industrial district" of East London, Riceyman Steps lead from King's Cross Road to Riceyman Square. Here in this busy neighborhood, Henry Earlforward, the proprietor of a secondhand bookstore, takes a keen interest in Violet Arb, the widowed owner of a nearby confectionary shop. The middle-aged shopkeepers marry, but their chance for late-in-life happiness is increasingly shadowed by Henry's compulsive miserliness. Violet...
17) Ravenous Fate
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Life isn't always pretty. Some people say there is nothing poetic about pain. This book proves otherwise. H.J speaks of the pain with uncanny ability and outstanding accuracy, but does so without diluting its sting. Ravenous Fate pays homage to “The Reaper”, through fictional poetry, and explores the topic of sudden loss with sensuality and an unforgettable flare. Darkness has a voice; also, now, a chance to speak and be heard....
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How would you cope with losing not one, but two young children within three months of each other? This author did, and her inspiring story is weaved throughout the poems and quotes she has written. Based around grief and loss, this collection features breath taking images and honest, powerful, yet poignant verse. This mothers love and devotion for her sons and her family, will leave you appreciating life.
19) leaving traces
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Agnes Meadows, poet: "Leaving Traces " is Mary Pargeter's second collection, and one which fully embraces life's tragedies, sorrows and regrets, as well as some of the things that amuse or remind us of nature's bounty. It is a collection packed with poignant, emotional images that haunt, staying with you long after you've read the poems. Evocative and nostalgic are words that spring to mind over-and-over again when reading Mary's exquisitely crafted...
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Chalese Stevens faced every mother's worst nightmare in June of 2004. She lost her four-year-old son when he drowned in a water park swimming pool. From that day forward, motherhood changed into a nautical journey through loss and grief. This grieving mother has been able to face her devastating loss by turning her story into the raw and vulnerable pages of this book. She takes you through the painful emotions of child loss and how she handled her...
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