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Awphul Poetry is an abbreviation for Articulation With the PHonetic Use of Language. It doesn't fit in with most modern poetry and attempts to reinvent the use of verse. The book is titled Orange because the color orange often symbolizes controversy. Not only does the color invoke varying emotions...

In a time of grief over his first romantic misunderstanding, Nelson realized that his feelings had to be expressed. Worrying about not wanting to bore anyone with his problems and realizing the amount of long hours he worked in front of a computer, he realized that writing out exactly what was felt...

AMERICA, BEFORE THE STORM Portrait of a Nation By Gerald Lewis Geiger (Copyright 2005) This is a collection of poems in rhythmic and rhymed verse, about America, her place in Atlantica and the World, and a Time in Our Age that brought out the best in us. We all are gathered and accounted...

Few poets have been as adamant about the uselessness of their art in the face of history as American poet George Oppen (1908–1984), and yet, few poets have been as viscerally convinced of the important role of the poem in restoring meaning to our words. Oppen came to maturity between two world wars,...

The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society. That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself...

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America’s foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson’s...

This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery.

The Interview: an Imagined Conversation with William Blake & Four Poems. Featured Poems: For Sherri by Caroline Adams & WALLETS AND WALLOWINGS by Pamelyn Casto. Free Verse: J.C.Mari, Michelle Hartman, Heikki Huotari, Gayle Compton, Michael Minassian, George R. Kramer, Ana Hahs, Brittney Rangel....

The Interview: Rae Armantrout & Four Poems. Featured Poems: Anton Yakovlev, A.S. Coomer, & Sunil Sharma. Free Verse: Katherine Wu, Timothy Robbins, Simon Perchik, John L. Stanizzi, R.J. Zeman, Pamela Sumners, Judith Skillman, & more. Haiku: David McClintock, Hanoch Guy, Cynthia Sharp,...

The Interview: A.E. Stallings & 3 Poems, Featured Poems: Barbara Loots, Shelby Anne Kruse, Felipe Botero Quintana & Ranald Barnicot, Sonnet Contest: winner Susan McLean, & 9 more poets, Free Verse: DS Maolalaí, Marc Carver, John David Muth, Doug Hoekstra, & more, Haiku: Peggy Verrall,...

The Sea Replied by Damian Firth offers exquisite, eloquent, short poems that reflect a fertile and accomplished mind and heart, written by a mature poet with insightful wisdom. Damian passed away in the Spring of 2013. In his honour, this memorial book has been published in the hope that Damian's poetry...

In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned—and aesthetically responsive—to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent...

As I Remember in Poetry and Prose provides a compelling glimpse into a bipolar womans complex and poignant journey as she battled powerful emotions in her life and mind. After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age forty-seven, Natalia Finocchiaro began writing poetry as an outleta decision...

This book is meant to be one of four mini books of excellent Christian poetry. It is my desire that you purchase all four of the mini books as a special once a year offering so that you might enjoy at least one poem a day through out your year. I think you would also very much enjoy your bigger buy...