Tying together the recurring elements of a decade in reflection, this debut book from acclaimed poet M.H. Freeman — Before I Leave — elucidates the cyclicism of life while depositing a positive outlook in stressed and sullen hearts.Framed by four topical pillars — loneliness, adoration, depression, and philosophy — these poems, the majority having been composed between August 2012 and August 2013, exhibit many facets of life we all experience but find difficult to speak.

Real and raw, the voice of R. H. Sin delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in his second book of poetry. Sin's first book is a bestseller and continues to delight his one million followers.R.H. Sin’s second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the pure emotional energy and the vulnerability of his poems. Relationships, love, pain, and fortitude are powerfully...

This impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl with many beneficial thoughts and feelings. With themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is, juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes. Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert. This is at once an intelli...

Life goes onAnd onTil it's all drawn to a closeIt stretches so farThat nobody knowsUntil it's goneIf I could make amendsFor the things that I've doneMaybe we could be friendsAnd I could think of my regretsAnd have none

"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."-The New York Times Book Review"Hicok's poems are like boomerangs; they jut out in wild, associative directions, yet find their way back to the root of the matter, often in sincere and heartbreaking ways."-Publishers WeeklyIn Sex & Love &, Bob Hicok attempts the impossible task of confronting love and its consequenc...

Love Comes First is Erica Jong’s long-awaited return to her poetic roots.Known and beloved for Fear of Flying and her many other books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, Jong expounds on the most eternal, universal topic of all: love. Using brilliant imagery and intense metaphorical insights to paint vivid pictures of love, and all that comes with it—the heights of elation, the depths of sorrow—she covers every inch of the spectrum with her vibran...

A collection of 13 poems:a drug for the desolate,a salve for the disheartened anda respite for those in anguish.

This is a supernatural story/poem that was eventually transformed into a prose novella.

John Beresford presents the first volume of his poetry, covering topics as diverse as office boredom, a return visit to first school, the imagined thoughts of a moonlit tree and what makes a true friend, as well as much, much more.

Silence, I insistIs the best to resist your words,Mighty but missed, highly unaided,Guiding a knife straight to my wrist,Washing the blood, red as it runsIt's not half the pain of the blameAnd how much losing you has hurt.

A couple of dozen poems about a particular relationship, a particular planet, and a personal grab bag of memories and dreams.

Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and formal elegance, the poems confront the elementals of love and loss, mortality and remembrance.