LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF MY DAYS AS AN IDEALISTYou urge me, after so many years of silence, to send you details about my occupations, about this "wonderful" world in which, you say, I am lucky enough to live and move and have my being. I might answer that I am a man without occupation, and that this world is not in the least wonderful.—E.M. Cioran, "Letter To A Faraway Friend"How far I have come to wishto come home. This morning,the first in twenty-three

MAKING UP THE WORLD is a series of lyrical meditations and reflections of one man's journey through the present and future, relationships, successful and unsuccessful and making the world manageable, by making up a manner of being in the world that is truly one's own.

Mark Fleckenstein is a poet of moments: moments caught and transcribed and wondered at and presented for wonder. His poetry creates the cerebral equivalent of retinal persistence: the images and phrases of his poems echo past the turn of the page and fire an impulse to re-read and reconsider and reconnect. This is an important collection from an accomplished and ambitious poet.Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Mark Fleckenstein has published four books of poetr...

A book of poems on the solitude of being and the loneliness of being in love. And the [dis]comfort the author finds in the thought of dying.

All my fealings I needed to express in my poem I want the world to say she can know what I think and want to share with him. I hope that in my collection of poems you will find interesting poems and I which you pleasant reading.

In his second book of poems, Jason Guriel cuts a dazzling figurewhip-smart, charismatic, with a mischievousness always eager to play for more serious stakes. Guriels way of seeing the world is low-key and sly: he tries to show us the big picture by enumerating all the small oneswhat he calls the way tiny things / cant help being, next / to nothing, something. Although a zealous celebrator of ordinariness, his tightly-turned lines have the courage of their own spiky oddity.The poems in Pure...

A short book of poetry touching on the subject of religion among other things.

100 pages of illustrations and dark poetryHow to Read This Book: This ebook is best viewed on a tablet (like an iPad) or color e-reader (like a Kindle Fire) to fully appreciate the images. To zoom in on the illustrations, you may need to double tap on the image before widening your pinched fingers on the screen.***This book. It is odd. It makes little to no sense at times. Also may seem dark. This is all a jumble of my actions, thoughts, and emotion...

You'll weep, empathize with pain, and experience hope in this two-part collection of poetry and prose. Delicate Thoughts explores the depths of heartbreak, depression, and subsequent woman empowerment in an emotionally raw, diary-like style. Open your heart and absorb the beauty of the human experience that is spilled out on every page.

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A young man writes letters in a last gasp at finding meaning in the world.

Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, int...