Poetry genre books (319)
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So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans editor Nicholas Laughlin EN
KiribatiDescription:
Collecting new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen countries around the world, So Many Islands brings us stories about love and protest, about childhood innocence and the traumas of history, about leaving home and trying to return. These writers island homes may seem remote on the map, but there is nothing isolated about their compelling, fresh voices. Featuring contributions by authors from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Grenada, Jamaica, Kiribati, Malta, Mauritius, Niue, Rotuma (Fiji), Samoa, Singapore, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga, and Trinidad... continue
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Sobre la grama : poemas by Gioconda Belli ES
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Sobre la Grama fue un desvelo de novedad poética en la Nicaragua de 1972. Una joven autora, Gioconda Belli, se desnudaba en blanco y negro con una fresca naturalidad y honestidad. Una revolución poética para su país dentro de en un contexto con una significativa presencia de otras poetas profundamente implicadas en la causa nacional y revolucionaria. Este libro fue merecedor del premio de poesía nicaragüense Mariano Fiallos Gil. Belli se recrea en la expresión de la feminidad y la pasión. Juega con el arte de rebuscar entre las profundidade... continue
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Soft Magic by Upile Chisala EN
MalawiDescription:
'soft magic.' is the debut collection of prose and poetry by Malawian writer, Upile Chisala. This book explores the self, joy, blackness, gender, matters of the heart, the experience of Diaspora, spirituality and most of all, how we survive. 'soft magic.' is a shared healing journey.
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You : Poems by Misha Collins EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his "Army For Good," comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well lived. This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys: passing a simple blade of grass on the sidewalk, the freedom of peeing outdoors late at night, or the way a hand-built ceramic mug feels w... continue
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Something Evergreen Called Life by Rania Mamoun EN
SudanDescription:
"Come behind these walls that cage you something evergreen called life" After years of writing and organizing against the regime of Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese writer, journalist, and activist Rania Mamoun was finally forced to leave her country with her young daughters, taking refuge in a US city in the early throes of a pandemic. Confined to her new home, Mamoun embarked on a daily practice of writing out of which emerged these poems of loss, despair, and hope. Brought into English by Yasmine Seale with lyric agility and an ethic of care, Something Evergreen Called Life offers readers nightpier... continue
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Song of the Flies : An Account of the Events by Maria Mercedes Carranza EN
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Canto de las Moscas (Song of the Flies), by the late Colombian poet María Mercedes Carranza, was published for the first time in 1997, following a decade marked by extremely high levels of violence in Colombia. At this point the country had already endured nearly half a century of armed struggle between government and rebel groups, and had more recently experienced the emergence of paramilitary forces and warring drug lords. Carranza wrote these twenty-four poems, each bearing the name of a town or city that had been the site of large-scale violence, as a sort of chronicle and commemoration of... continue
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Tonga228.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : Selected Works by Juana Ines de la Cruz EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature. Sor Juana (1651–1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her ... continue
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Sounding Ground by Vladimir Lucien EN
Country: North America / 
St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Winner of: 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; his poetry is intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method. His poems contain stories of ancestors, immediate family, the history embedded in his language choices as a St Lucian writer, and heroes such as Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Kamau Brathwaite, and a local steelbandsman. Although never overtly political, there's an oblique and often witty politics embedded in the poems, as where observing the rise of a grandfather out of rural poverty into the style of coloni... continue
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Spitalul manechinelor by Nora Iuga RO
RomaniaDescription:
Ce e un manechin?
Un om-păpușă, unu’ care se lasă îmbrăcat și dezbrăcat în văzul lumii, o făptură derutantă, un fel de paralitic într-un spital; nu mișcă, nu vorbește decît înlăuntrul său, ca într-un joc de-a v-ați ascunselea: „observi cum îți fur vorbele cum îți mut patul cînd eram tînără mă îndrăgosteam în mai acum mă îndrăgostesc în octombrie soarele meu bostanul meu doldora de semințe orice ascunzătoare e o mărturisire“. (Nora Iuga, iulie 2010)