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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
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"The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball about infatuation, love, and heartbreak. The real-life story of a relationship in the author's past told in verse and short prose pieces. Relatable and honest, with Tank's signature mix of whimsy and realness, Vulnerable AF is about the difference between love and infatuation, the danger and confusion of losing yourself in the idea of someone else,...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Apocrifa imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, romance, sex, relationships, and affection that do not lend to direct translation in English. Serving as both titles and markers of the progression of time, these poetically defined words highlight the growing tension of one who claims "i cannot love you...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"LVOE. Volume II" is an expanded exploration of self-love, meditation, meaning, loss, and romance from the internet's favorite poet. Atticus implores his instantly recognizable lyrical style, gorgeous illustrations, and relatable themes to once again dazzle readers, inspiring them to look within. This collection will feature all-new poems, each paired with beautiful sketches that bring the words alive from the page. "LVOE. Volume II" looks forward,...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Love at First Sight is a beautiful poem about love and chance and destiny by the 1996 Polish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Illustrated by Italian artist Beatrice Gasca Queirazza, Szymborska's poem comes to life in entirely new ways for her readers and for lovers everywhere in this oversized book perfect for gift giving. Szymborska tells of two young lovers bound together in an instant--or were they? As the poem unfolds, the reader's assumptions--like...
Author
Publisher
Vegetarian Alcoholic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Love isn't always pretty, yet most of us choose to remain constant in its pursuit. These poems unwrap the mythos of romance with the clairvoyance of a writer who knows the best and worst of relationships inside and out. LeBlanc dares to honestly show us how even when the best of intentions fail, we can always find beauty if we stay true to the monsters in ourselves.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things -- your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way back home. Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with heartfelt anecdotes and insightful messages, The Way Back Home is a tribute to...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better...
11) Acts: poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Spencer Reece, a poet and an Episcopal priest, suffuses his poetry with tenderness, humanity, and a wonderous alchemy of beauty and sorrow. As the Nobel laureate Louise Glück wrote, "emanating from Spencer Reece's work [is] a sense of immanence that belongs more commonly to religious passion; it is a great thing to have it again in art." Acts, the third book of poetry by Reece, is the product of a decade of work and of a life acutely lived. In it,...
13) And yet: poems
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The second full-length poetry collection from the ... author"--Back cover.
Kate's second full-length book of traditional poetry, And Yet, dives deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of her writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss. Taken together, these poems demonstrate the remarkable evolution of a writer and an artist working at the height of her craft, pushing herself and her poetry in a beautiful and impressive way.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Multiple
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"A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural--is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions...
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How do we find steadiness within ourselves in the midst of dizzying personal and global change? At a time when many of us feel overwhelmed by fear and isolation, Cleo Wade's Remember Love offers intimate, uplifting words that anchor, nurture, and make us feel less alone. She shares that the heart work we do for ourselves is not done to avoid the tough stuff-periods of lostness, self-doubt, depression, grief, heartbreak, and anxiety. Wade instead...
16) Vita nuova
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante’s “little book,” the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an essential precursor to Dante’s sublime poetic apotheosis, the Divine Comedy. --from Amazon.
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