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Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.

Poetry commands the singular ability to lay one prostrate and bare before the reader, giving safe refuge to words and thoughts of depth excavated from crevices yet explored deep within the poet. I find no other form of communication to be so utterly and beautifully invasive.

While the poetry you’ll listen to in Ron Wallace’s latest collection speaks of serious topics such as loss and the inescapable progression of time, you’ll also find plenty of humor in this book. His words bring to life his beloved Oklahoma prairies and skies, and his own family members. Wallace’s reflections on childhood, his parents, and, of course, baseball, are heartwarming.

A chapbook collection of new poetry, read by the author, celebrating both the swashbuckling adventure tales of the age of piracy, as well as the fantasy world of steampunk and Victorian fiction.

A poetry chapbook collection of over 30 poems exploring the mysteries and wonders of our universe. Ranging from whimsical imaginings of how distant astronomers may be contemplating us, to more serious contemplations of our place among the stars, poet Ron Perovich shares his own love of astronomy and invites listeners to delight in the scale of the cosmos with him.

In this moody Russian drama, Ivanov is a melancholic impoverished landowner whose wife is dying of tuberculosis. However, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the beautiful Sasha, the daughter of his wealthy neighbors. Augmented by a diverse array of colorful supporting characters and intrigues, this play provides a glimpse of master dramatist Anton Chekhov's early work.

The realms of illusion and the songs of untold truth, fantasy, desire and pumpkin grins. All told the passion of midnight dreams and Carnival glass done in scarlet.

An epic journey and quest for third heaven. A man and his companion wolf brave the cross country journey in seek of the city without sin. Along the way they meet Shaman Leopards, witches and demons. The trail is dangerous but the quest is what drives them to move forward through peril and phantasmic adventure. This is Epic poetry at its best. Fantasy and high adventure awaits you with The Quest For Third Heaven, August Snow: Book One.

Poetry for the lost. Worlds of gentle rain and bright sunshine, worlds full of shadow and light, these are the lines of careless abandon and the wont of dreamers. Come measure the heartbeats of lovers in a summer shower or the footfalls of a lonesome dreamer in the hours before sunup. These are the jewles of blissful broadcast, the moments we live for, the times we leave behind and so desperately desire, these are heartbeats and the sublime.

The birth of a child, the delicate bloom of replete shapes in evolution, the birth of a child, in solitary declarations of love, a sure sated sensation keen in languishing desires of exhaling revolution, a gasp, a tear spoken by the Inevitable dream of existence, in secrets adorned by the shadow of passion and life, a ghostly creation in tender escort and willful perfections of sublime embrace, an exalted season of magic allure.

This compilation of poetry/works is a heartfelt account of life in the eyes of the author. This book has been designed with love, hope, and forgiveness to put into words what often is lost through life experience from the university of life.

Demcak continues to blossom as a poet of note with Zero Summer, his newest collection of pieces of imagination married to craftsmanship. These poems define lust, desire, onanism, finding and feeling and losing love affairs, childhood longings, and memories - the sum of a sensual being. Demcak's range is from the lyrical ("Vincent V. in 1993") to the raw ("Venus in Furs").