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Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in this chapbook. He shipped to Vietnam as an infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai.

Smoke is a collection of poems written over the course of two years. It is portrait of grief and the courage it takes to sit with it. It is an account of what it feels like to be intimate with sadness and loneliness. It is a portrait of healing. Smoke is documentation of growth and its grueling processes. It begins in grief and ends in joy. It is a book where the black girl rescues herself.

Frightening visions of abandonment, suicide, murder, and depression...nightmares populated by archetypes of spiritual evil, loneliness, death, mystery, and supernatural terror. These are the lifeblood of haunted poet, Michael H. Hanson. Take a step upon a dangerous carnival ride of the soul and brace yourself for jarring drops into shocking darkness. Dark Parchments offers up 85 chilling poems that crawl and slither through the fears staining the human psyche, making us shiver in the night. Scared yet? You will be.

Los poemas de El jardinero tocan temas utilizadas en la poesía sánscrita más antigua: la juventud y la vejez, la riqueza y el despojo, el amor, la muerte y el sexo. La sugerencia es una de las mayores cualidades de esta poesía.

Questa famosa raccolta di poesie, pubblicata tra il 1914 e il 1915 racconta sotto forma di epitaffio la vita dell'ipotetica cittadina di Spoon River, i cui abitanti sono sepolti nel cimitero locale. Le storie si intrecciano alle storie, offrendo un ritratto commovente e crudo delle vite reali che si nascondevano dietro alle apparenze.

El cuervo es un poema narrativo escrito por Edgar Allan Poe, publicado por primera vez en 1845. Constituye su composición poética más famosa, ya que le dio reconocimiento internacional. Son notables su musicalidad, el lenguaje estilizado y la atmósfera sobrenatural que logra recrear. El texto narra la misteriosa visita de un cuervo parlante a la casa de un amante afligido, y del lento descenso hacia la locura de este último.

John Foy’s newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O’Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyday experiences to generate compassionate, clever, and deeply knowing verse.

Through the poems of Voice Message, Katherine Barrett Swett reflects on her personal tragedy and the fragility of human lives and bodies with a tender care. Her debut collection explores the powers of art and poetry to participate in the processing of catastrophic grief, speaking through both the consolation and devastation these creative works can offer. Swett’s formal verse provides a lens through which sadness, destruction, and loss appear as aberrant and inevitable.

Whether it's the fireflies of a Louisiana summer caught in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that makes up our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them - of us - poetry can save.

A breathtaking collection of love poems from one of our great contemporary poets - stunning odes of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self.

Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his new collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In another poem, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young. Elsewhere, waist-deep in the Mississippi River, under the Atlantic Ocean, on the cracked ice of a frozen pond, even in outer space, the poet explores forces that seem past endurance.

Engaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the home, and the world at large. Beyond the productivity and excess, the sweetness and sting, Requeening brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood, an evolving relationship of care and tending, responsibility and joy, dependence and deep love.

This is a small audiobook of poems for people who have lost a loved one.

My Heart Beats is a poetic heart-cry of the unborn innocents who have already perished and those who are destined to die. Some of what you will listen might sound harsh or confrontational. Truth sometimes comes across that way, even when the one penning the words does not intend to be harsh, just honest.

Asesinato. En este corto poema el autor relata en forma de diálogo un crimen que realmente ocurrió en la calle 42 de Nueva York. El relato de la violencia que este acto físico supuso le sirve al poeta para plasmar el dolor de su ánimo. Ciudad sin sueño. Intenta transmitir el poeta su propia insatisfacción por analogía con la noche, la vigilia, que no le permite dormir ni soñar ni encontrar alivio o esperanza. Navidad en el Hudson. En este poema identifica el protagonista su sensación de soledad con respecto al resto del mundo en el río Hudson.

Jose Ángel Graña Abad nos trae con su decimocuarta publicación “Este corazón muge y grita”, un conjunto de poemas de una intensidad extrema, que constituyen una obra poética, que evocándonos la pasión y la fuerza de “El rayo que no cesa” *, ha conseguido generar un universo de imágenes poéticas de gran belleza. El baile pasional de la dialéctica del amor y la muerte, del materialismo y el idealismo, se desarrolla en los versos, donde incluso llegan a cantar Janis Joplin, Paty Smith, o Amy Winehaouse.

A collection of poetry by Kieran Marsden.

It’s a dark and stormy night, and “The Raven”, read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, transports us to a lonely chamber illuminated by firelight. The inhabitant who becomes the narrator hears a gentle tapping at the chamber door. The tapping is a raven who speaks one word, “Nevermore."

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti becomes the speaker of Dickinson's poem personifying Death. Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife.

Poetry kills inner demons. It takes away their power. Removes their teeth. Loosens their grip. It turns them into mere words in a narration. Something to be heard and remembered, but no longer feared. What follows is an act of therapy. In moments of inner crisis, I put pencil to paper and let the words come. This process is not pleasant, but it is cathartic. I share this with you in the hopes that we can both feel less alone in our suffering and to show you that when you look at your demons, they lose all their power.