Reflections is an assortment of poems composed by Aeishwarya Chaudhari over a span of two years. The silhouettes of emotions can be found painted with rhythmic pastels. The book is a product of simplicity and truth of life, which is perfectly crafted in a melodious way.Readers will definitely find themselves getting soaked in the reality of thoughts and facts that surround them in everyday life.Take out some time for yourself, and dive into the magnificence of the book, which will s...

Award-winning novelist and memoirist Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a collection of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets such as Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich. By doing so, Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.Amber Dawn is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa and the memo...

This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart.

Maria Rybakova’s Gnedich captures the reader’s attention in its first stanzas with a striking allusion to Homeric Greece: “The rage that killed so many/the wretched rage of Achilles/who knew that he would perish/ that he would perish young. This is a novel-in-verse about the first Russian translator of the Iliad, the romantic poet and librarian Nikolai Gnedich (1784-1833). Since Gnedich spent almost his entire life translating Homer’s epic poem, Maria Rybakova has chosen verse as the most ...

Are you a heart thinker?If yes, then this book is just for you. Read through a compilation of thoughts from the heart. Thoughts that wove themselves into words and words that settled down in diary pages as poems and blogs.You won’t find fancy words or complexities inside these pages. But you would definitely find things that you can relate to, right from childhood magic, to growing up pains, heartbreaks, friendships, confusions, realizations, experiences and lessons learnt, tears...

"The eye that sees things as they are disputes with an imagination that sees things as they could be; Miriam Goodman's poems are wry, loving, dissatisfied." -Celia Gilbert"Kathleen Aguero's poetry is startling: full of childlike wonder, then knowledge and anger brought by surviving as a city woman. Aguero never loses her whimsical perspective..." -Joan Norris

People experience all kinds of night: loneliness, grief, depression, anxiety, fear, pain, and countless other darknesses.This collection of profound lyrical poems explores the poet's own experiences and observations of both dark and light, revealing her determination to not only survive, but to conquer whatever tries to overcome her.At the end of it all, the poet demonstrates that the smallest sign of light is enough to help a wandering soul find hope in the passing of the ...

The poems in Road Dance weave together stories of sacrifice and honor, strength and passion, healing and laughter. Collected from journals and memories that began in McCarthy-era New York City, they follow a crazy carnival journey of raising children, the search for love, self-understanding, and the desire to leave a better planet behind. The tales are evocative and sometimes startling, balancing a high wire between fear and redemption."In these poems, Antonsen locates the heavy-he...

A poet once said that poetry and beauty are born from pain...I believe this, because I've lived this.A brain aneurysm and massive stroke changed my life, causing me to lose verbal and physical function for many years. As an AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation) survivor, skin cancer survivor, and being legally blind, it would've been easy to give up and quit. Instead, I became a fighter and began living life to its fullest, never taking anything for granted.I've decided to write...

This is a quintet of narrative poems to inspire and enlighten readers about each topic contained herein. The author narrates life's situations in form of poetry to make readers enjoy her poems even as they are fascinated by the morals contained in each stanza.This e-book contains six poems. The first five making up a quintet while the last poem is a bonus- a gift to her readers.Each poem narrates a unique life situation with morals inbetween stanzas for readers to learn fro...

Here in There, Angela Carr's third book of poetry, is a lyrical petition to the human faculty of attention. In constant motion, the poems locate unusual instances of connection. They ask, do we give or pay attention? And what do we attend to? How do we decide what merits our attention? In a world where stillness is elusive, can we give or pay attention to anything but that which outlives our own distraction? Turning our attention to the senses, in Here in There, touch in...

Think you hate haiku? Think again!Perfect for those who hate to read wordy poetry, Haiku For Haters contains only 24 painless pages of 5-7-5s.If you think you hate haiku, let this brief collection of modern haiku change your mind, with subjects as diverse as pop-star Prince to Chairman Mao and rowdy (even literary) revolution.No boring nature poetry here, kids – this ain't your mama's haiku collection!This is the first in the "Haiku...