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1) Funeral diva
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"In this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on black queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneed's poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebears- like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde-whose...
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"In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book about the language of poetry, loss, and love. How do you...
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Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and intentionally as possible, to preserve its drafts, and record the painstaking, elusively transcendent stuff of its construction. It would be the end cap to a new collection of poetry, and a means to process modern American life in a time of political turmoil, mega fires, and sobriety. What Zapruder didn't anticipate was that this literary project would reveal a deeply personal aspect as well:...
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"The Secret Gospel of Mark is a powerful dynamo of a story that delicately weaves the author's experiences with an appreciation for seven great literary touchstones: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Mark Strand, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In speaking to the beauty these poets' works inspire in him, Reece finds the beauty of his own life's journey, a path that runs from coming of age as a gay teenager...
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Seven-year-old Claudia wakes up one day to find her mother gone, having left Guatemala for the United States to flee domestic abuse and pursue economic prosperity. Three years later, her mother returns, and the family begins the month-long journey to El Norte. A harrowing story told with the candid innocence of childhood, this lyrical memoir depicts a complex self-portrait of the struggle and resilience inherent to immigration today.
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There is a river of metaphor running in the unconscious mind of each of us that holds all the insight into our life's meaning we will ever need. This collection of slightly fictionalized vignettes, these clippings stored in the envelope of Ilana Haley's memory, is this river flowing within Ilana. And it is the significance of this that lends this book so much energy, so much punch when we read through these pages of her life.
Each character in this...
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Spanning a life from the 1950s to the present, this memoir begins with very South Australian roots, German and Cornish. It shines a light on some key events that helped shape the social consciousness of many Baby Boomers. A rigid school system, Bob Dylan, hippies, drugs and protest. But, it also reflects on a life challenged by family mental illness.
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In this, his seventh book of poetry, written over a period of more than forty years, Graeme Hetherington explores how his friendship with James McAuley has parallels with that of Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the ancient Mesopotamian epic. As in the original, it is a warts and all treatment, with human behavior in relationship to loss and the inevitability of death being the concerns that bind it together.
10) Through My Eyes
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Have you ever gone through a traumatic experience that you mentally didn't know how to process what happened after it was over? Did the experience make you bitter or better? So many of us have remained broken on the inside from our traumatic experiences and it's time to change that by healing what's broken on the inside of us. You will need to forgive, exhale, acknowledge your feelings and emotions, learn to love yourself all over again from scratch...
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The following poetry book written by Tom Cintula is a series of free verse poems and spoken word works that have been written to express the wonder and curiosity envisioned internally in which no one else can see more clearly than he. He discusses personal demons and existential dread that he has gone through over the course of his life in his dwelling on the downtrodden and dreariness. He also explores its reasoning and upside in the adversity shared...
12) Dar a sombra
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La autora de "Dar a sombra" nos entrega esta crónica fragmentaria, formada por episodios de su vida cotidiana, ideas, recuerdos, preguntas y sueños, que son el testimonio vital de una mujer que ama y sufre mientras intenta dar a luz un sueño: el de ser madre. La reproducción asistida no consigue generar el latido deseado, lo frustra con su luz artificial, invade los rincones de lo cotidiano con ilusiones postergadas. Cuatro años de incertidumbre...
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Dedicated to exploring the hidden potential lying within every human, Ebenezer O. Makinde began his writing career at the age of 20, deciding to focus his efforts on the advancement of the philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, individual achievement and personal freedom, based on his own experiences and personal challenges. Complex and dynamic, his writing is both inspirational and timeless, reasoned and sensitive. With a universal message of...
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Jocelyn Diaz's multiple trial-and-error forays inspired this beautiful and heartfelt collection of poems and true-life stories into love from 2016 until today. In her writings, she shares the genuine and raw emotions she experienced. Some of the poems and stories are about when she was on the brink of falling in love, most poems speak on her experience with heartbreak and then healing and letting go. Jocelyn wants readers to see the beauty in falling...
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Talmage was born on Nov. 11, 1976. Do you know why this day was special? It was Veteran's Day of the Bicentennial year of our country's independence. Besides being born on a special day, Talmage was a special kid. He was a gutsy 5-year-old, who liked to ride his big wheel down the sidewalk by taking off the seat, kneeling on the big wheel and pushing with his foot. That way he could go faster. We called him "a bull in a china cupboard."
We were sledding...
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It never occurred to me that I would outlive my wife Dotti. She was a seminal part of the air I breathed, the flowers I smelled, the fruit I tasted, the flesh I touched, the language I heard. And then, one day after thirty-three years of marriage, the phone rang, and her obstetrician-gynecologist told her, "You have cancer." From the moment of that phone call until Dotti's passing took a year. It was a year of tumultuous, terrifying, heart-rending...
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Andrew lived quietly in a small town in North-East England with his 90-year-old mother. The money from his Incapacity Benefit paid for their food, his mother paid for the heating from her Age Pension and they got by. He did the shopping, the cooking and the washing. He read a lot, wrote poetry and when the weather warmed up, he gardened. It was a constrained life but within it, he could cope. In 2006, there were 2.7 million people on Incapacity Benefit...
20) No Secrets
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No Secrets is the second volume of Carter-Winward's genre defying writing that is part poetry, part fiction, part memoir and all told with a clarity that does not allow secrets. These short pieces tell us the stories many of us hide, even from ourselves.
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