This spirited collection of poems is a contemplation, exploring essential questions on love, loss and the bravery to love once more. Crafted from a profound year of the passing of her parents Kate finds her way through the complexities of grief ultimately discovering the heartfelt gifts loss can bring. A meditative tribute to solace and strength found in embracing nature’s serenity and wisdom. Her words serve as a compassionate reminder to take pause and notice the extraordinary in an ordi...

The work comprises selections that speak of humor, romance, and observation of the human condition. Connectedness, love of family, children, and ordinary beauty is subject that is conveyed with enlightened purpose in singular uninventive language.Title of the book was taken from Irish tradition dating back to the early 19th century. Significance of placing candles in the window meant as a symbol to travelers they are welcomed company.It can be said, poets are dreamers. I wo...

Based on the cult hit game, the novelization of Yume Nikki follows a lonesome girl into the bizarre dreamscapes that await her when she falls asleep. Opening doors and wandering aimlessly, is she really as alone as she thinks?

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Mark Strand comes an exquisitely witty and poignant series of prose poems. Sometimes appearing as pure prose, sometimes as impure poetry, but always with Strand’s clarity and simplicity of style, they are like riddles, their answers vanishing just as they appear within reach. Fable, domestic satire, meditation, joke, and fantasy all come together in what is arguably the liveliest, most entertaining book that Strand has yet written.

This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.A perfect introduction to the joy of language, this collection explores:Books About Opposites: Discover the surprising, clever, and ...

First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God a...

A final buzz of energy - and Summer took over so swiftly: Spring endeavoured courageously and then turned around to see: the bee now hummed profusely. A final sense it's all got going - and the apex soon be showing - how golden is the time: our lives arose to pure sunshine.

Through 40 eloquent prayers and small simple photographs that mirror and interpret the text, Being Home is a celebration of mindfulness. As M. Scott Peck put it, "This is simply the best book I know on the subject of the sacrament of the present moment, and a great work of devotional literature." 43 duotone photographs..

In simple things in your life are hidden values, like love letters from Home. Each one is designed to free you from negativity and liberate your soul.

In this collection of 22 distinctive and expressive poems, David Weber, artist and composer, shares his reflections and the powerful imagery of a long life and lasting love, still lively, tender and turbulent.

The story of a family from Sicily who leave for New York at the beginning of last century carrying with them a secret recipe for lemon ice cream.

Rather than embrace the popularized songs and the hype that accompanies the turn of Y2K, Don A. Hoyt examines the real accomplishments that one might expect from a thousand years of new experience. His lyric typifies only a lateral progress: "Behind the blue layers / is the dark of beginnings / disguised as emptiness / the abyss..." (Genesis Repeated). He finds "Fences / along / the road / visit every / nation.... Refugees have more than we" (Refugees). The evolution of consciousness has "...