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Brought to you by Penguin. A collection of powerful contemporary poetry exploring themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection, from British poet and viral phenomenon Lucas Jones. 'You're here to make All the wonder make sense You're not the life - You're the living itself' How do you...

Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them...

This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys: passing a simple blade of grass on the sidewalk, the freedom of peeing outdoors late at night, or the way a hand-built ceramic mug feels when it's full of warm tea on a chilly morning. It's a catalog and a compendium that examines the complicated experience of being all too human and interacting with a complex, confounding, breathtaking world ... and a reminder to stop and be awake and alive in yourself.

Have you ever yearned to embark on a profound journey of self-discovery, love, and connection? Look no further than Still the captivating debut poetry collection by Renzo Del Castillo that will transport you to the heart of a family's journey from Lima, Peru to Miami, Florida as political refugees and asylum seekers.

A spectacular, tender-hearted poetry debut. you still have yourself is a contemplative collection of poems and reflections that follows an inner journey through loss, transformation, and return. Structured around the passage of time and embodied as different inner archetypes, the book unfolds...

Some books promise healing. This one promises honesty. Because I’m Still Breathing is a poetry collection about survival, about what it means to keep going when the world seems intent on breaking you. From the author of Because I Felt Everything comes over 100 poems that peel back the silence around pain, vulnerability, and the invisible battles we fight alone. These are verses for the nights when breathing feels like an act of defiance, for the mornings when simply existing is a victory.

Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through poetry that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates for them a shared coming of age through a correspondence of written fragments, artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera. Fragmented memories, relics, and confessions combine in a labyrinth of fever dreams and meditations that contemplate innocence and experience, war and peace, exile and homecoming, flight and failure, love and loss.

Journal of poetry about the closeness with Christ.

Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing in this compelling exploration of resilience and forgiveness. Have you endured unimaginable hardships, surviving what feels like hell on earth, only to realize that the path to salvation lies not in entering heaven, but in healing your own wounded heart? In this poignant tale, you will discover that the true meaning of home extends far beyond physical walls – it resides within the depths of your own being.

This book tells a not so unique tale of an individual's journey to find God, love, and acceptance while being single, gay, and sick. It is a beautiful journey of self acceptance, dealing with rejection, and finding the Greatest Love and Life in the midst.

Still Waters is a bold and refreshing collection of poems. The author engages and immerses the reader in the emotional and spiritual challenges of human experiences. Poems of varying styles explore themes of social justice, love, grief, and empowerment.

Still a Lady takes the listener on an introspective journey of self-love, romance, overcoming hardship, and self-empowerment. Through Monica El’s poetic advocacy, she offers support, encouragement, and inspiration with the power of the written word. Moreover, these poems serve as an affirmation of one’s true self and a reminder that authenticity and vulnerability are not to be avoided, but embraced.

The date is March 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic is sweeping the world, instigating lockdown in country upon country. Life has suddenly changed, personal freedom is a thing of the past, as friends and extended family are separated through social distancing. In a small house in "the street of the hollow eyes" lives a family of four in an ordinary neighborhood trying to get on in these times. Until the extraordinary happens when the father develops a fever.

Still Clutching Maps is a poetry collection exploring ideas of identity and place. It encompasses the author’s experiences of living and travelling in the American southwest, Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Northwest, and Yukon Territory. It is an honest collection draped in raw imagery, exposing an evolving relationship to language, power and loss.

The Starlight Still Within Us is a vision unto itself. It soars with a boundless lyricism that speaks of worlds within us and beyond us; it sinks like a free diver into the dark depths of poetry's creative wisdom. Arm yourself with with tea and time and settle in, TSSWU is set to become a starlit companion, full of humor and philosophical musings, for your days ahead.

This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life breakups and dating, female genital cutting, imprints of racism and misogyny, and the oddness of sex and love, and urges us to take a second look at the ways in which human relationships are never what we expect them to be.

From the quickening pulse of that first glance to the gut-twisting pull of space given, but not asked for, Richards chronicles the emotional journey of love, tension, and heartbreak with honest sincerity. His beaten and battered heart was served on a silver platter—still beating—for the world to digest in morbid relatability. From one hopelessly openhearted fool to another.

Eine einzigartige Sammlung an Gedichten aus fünf Jahrhunderten, in denen der Mond als heimlicher Star, einsamer Held, als Tröster oder auch stiller Beobachter auftritt. In dieser abwechslungsreichen Zusammenstellung werden romantische, fantastische, klassische und popkulturelle Verse gelungen kuratiert und durch unverwechselbare Stimmen zum Leben erweckt. So gelingt ein magisches Stelldichein mit dem Mond als Reiseführer durch den lyrischen Kosmos. Die Gedichte lösen in jedem Faszination und Liebe zum Mond aus.

In his first collection of thought-provoking and occasionally humorous writings, Ken Skoby invites us to join him on a voyage within to explore his poems and thoughts while hopefully creating our own.

Are you living as though the best years of your life are a time in your past? Or do you start each day feeling your life is full of possibility–that there are still great challenges, joys, and life victories ahead of you? Your honest answer to this question is the most important decision you will ever make.