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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This one-of-a-kind anthology, including an audio CD, brings eight great English-language poets to life.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Advent Overture will change the way you look at the Christmas season. With winsome charm and wit, its prose and poetry present enlightening and enriching meditations on the Nativity story, with deeply personal and poignant applications that will relate to the contours of every reader's life. It gives a unique and refreshing perspective on all the players in this theater of grace, who will become your mentors as you read, speaking to your own choices and challenges, problems and pains, beliefs and behaviors. You will identify with their fears as well as their faith and feel equally included in God's plans and purposes for the coming of Jesus. Every note of this overture will encourage you to engage the symphony that follows in the gospels and epistles, which develop and fulfill all that is intimated in the Nativity narrative. Once read, you will want to give this book to others as a personal invitation to join the concert.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This book was written to encourage those who have a desire to honor God in their relationships and courtships but have lost hope in their ability to do so. In this book I share my shortcomings and mistakes that I have made concerning my own relationships and my ability to triumph and find the right path after going down so many hopeless roads. You may be someone who feels like you've let God down. You may be having sex outside of marriage, worshiping different idols, or bound to many different addictions. This book is about preparing for commitment, in life, in love, and in faith.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "Ryan is a scrupulously observant poet with a gift for going for the jugular . . . His work is finely honed, provocative, questing, and humane." - Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World Michael Ryan's first collection in many years shows the acclaimed poet at the height of his powers. Highlighting the wit and passion displayed throughout his career, Ryan's latest work comprises fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volumes and thirty-one new poems. In both dramatic lyrics and complex narratives, Ryan renders the world with startling clarity, freshness, and intimacy. New and Selected Poems is filled with the stuff of everyday life, and as the New York Times Book Review said, it "include[s] pain and fear but also surprise, joy, laughter, everything human." "New and Selected Poems reminds us how much we have relied on this poet to forge a path for us in plain style." - Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Ryan's poems have always felt as if they neded to be written. They seem to exist because of some pressure to respond, not because of a facility for language alone. This is a rare quality among poets. The commitment to it is as hard-won, and real, as any you are likely to find in poetry." - David Rivard, American Poetry Review Michael Ryan is the author of many acclaimed books, including three previous volumes of poetry. Among the honors for his work are the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Ryan is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of California at Irvine. Ryan's plain style illuminates the profound complexities of ordinary moments--finding clarity in love, loss, and memory. Poems about Everyday Life: From a quiet moment in a restaurant to the memory of a childhood game, these poems find startling significance in the details we often overlook. Intimate and Humane Poetry: A scrupulously observant voice renders the world with unflinching honesty, exploring pain and fear alongside surprise, joy, and profound human connection. Complex Narrative Poems: Unflinching long-form poems delve into the complexities of memory, marriage, and family, tracing the powerful undercurrents of a life. A Career-Spanning Collection: Featuring fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volumes alongside thirty-one powerful new works from a celebrated American poet.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From Where the Rivers Come is a saving grace. What heaven to read a poet who finds a way to make room for it all, not just the suffering, but the joy hard won.--Jim Moore From Where the Rivers Come never flinches from the body's inevitable vulnerabilities, nor from the soul's response to the emotional collisions of living in a body. From sideshow performers, such as the Anatomical Wonder and Human Pincushion, who suffers from a congenital immunity to pain, to victims of torture and clinically depressed strangers, Solly gives us exacting portraits of human life at the most fragile and resilient extreme. He doesn't hesitate to include his own pain: the loss of love, his mother's death, his own medically reconfigured body.Richard Solly, however, doesn't limit his poetic pilgrimage to descriptions of pain; rather, he advances the ancient argument between body and soul--how one can often become a stand-in for the other. The body, Solly suggests, is not simply a container or tabernacle for the superior and distant soul. The linkage between body and soul is much more fierce and immediate, as he writes, I gave birth to you, / bound your wings to my shoulders. Here is a language of sung gratitude for the wider body of the river of coffee and irretrievable losses, including lilacs and lentils, the nurses who stop by after midnight, walks around a city lake, even the priests who read Solly his last rites, not once, but twice.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book by Gerald Hausman marks the author's third book of poems since New Marlboro State which Gary Snyder called fine poems, clear and inside / outside of things. The theme of Runners is not the mere physical act of long-distance running, but the art of direction-finding in life. Using this as a metaphor the poet explores the heart of the four universal directions while running through the four compass points of the American landscape. Whether he is up north in a New England blizzard or jogging along the Mississippi, Gerald Hausman invests his work with that peculiar insight common to poets of place: scenes enchant by evoking permanence through a re-calling of history and the heart, legend and the mystery of the moment.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This unique, funny and inspiring book of poems documents the poet's journey into greater and greater joy as she spends more time with her statue of the Laughing Buddha. She practically dares the universe to bring her down, and it cannot do so. In poem after poem, laughter triumphs over whatever comes her way. It is a literate, knowing laughter, that will set the reader smiling, then laughing, then seeing, then smiling a deeper kind of smile. Jane Marla Robbins is a National Endowment of the Arts Poetry Grant finalist.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Explore the mysteries of love through this poetry collection covering 101 kinds of love. Take a journey through these poems as love progresses from brutal love to healing love, from self-love to world love and from rock love to spiritual love.The book is written for those who believe in love, value it strongly and are seeking to explore love's dimensions and workings more in order to deepen their understanding. It would especially appeal to those who have done much of their own work to know love beyond the drivel and hype. These poems are deeply psychological and heavily influenced by both Buddhism and Systems Theory, highlighting loving kindness, nondualism and interconnection. This book can help those of us who need to break out of the illusions of dualism so we can travel the wicked and beautiful road to real love. The journey from illusion to healing to nonduality in the book is based on Buddhist beliefs that we have to go beyond maya and the struggles brought on by desire and aversion to find compassion, maitri, karuna and equanimity.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Building on surrealist fables and traditional folktales, personal anecdotes and the tribal myths of his Serbian homeland, Vasko Popa created one of the most original poetries of the twentieth century.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In Christian theology, a skandalon is a distraction from grace, a maze of error where we wander pointlessly, wasting our lives. To the ancient Greeks, a skandalon was the trigger of a trap. T.R. Hummer's labyrinthine new collection encompasses these meanings and more, as its poems take various paths to unexpected destinations.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. From the Dark Shadows to a Vibrant Light: Poems for the Victims and Survivors is short collection of true events, feelings, and words put into poems. These poems are in support of Sexual Assault and Awareness and a creative form of Advocacy. The poems are entered in chronological order of a tragic rape of a college girl and two males who she thought she could trust. It reveals the dark shadows of the event, the aftermath of her struggle, and the peace she has now found. She is going from dark to light, sad to happy, unhealthy to healthy. The thoughts of those nights haunt her for months and make her wonder what her future will consist of, if she can overcome this hurt and betrayal, and even when she wanted to give up she gave herself a little hope. The unfortunate situations appear in her thoughts and sometimes haunt her dreams. From the Dark shadows also includes a poem the girl wrote for a person near and dear to her heart. The two individuals can help one another with their healing process. That girl is me. Through creative writing (poetry), I have helped heal myself. I have overcome my rape and now can say I have grown from victim to survivor. I hope my collection of short poems encourage others who struggle with the aftermath most sexual assault victims go through. I am in hopes that this book will always serve as a form of advocacy for Sexual Assault and Awareness.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Being human means to sometimes lose perspective. We focus on the one negative comment we received instead of the ten positive ones. We think we're the only person who had something really embarrassing happen to us, or that a problem we're having will go on forever. When we've lost sight of the big picture, how can we help ourselves put things back in perspective? Poetry can lend a hand. …

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