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The English Romantic poet Charlotte Smith initiated a revival of the sonnet, whilst also helping to establish the conventions of Gothic fiction with her novels. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Smith’s complete...

Poetry can be a medicine that heals and sustains. Everyone had their own way of surviving. Some people escape from circumstances in their lives by drinking, doing drugs, falling into depression, and many other things, not knowing that there is a healthier way out and most importantly, seeing hope,...

Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity....

When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own...

American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal…stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high...

The Fool, Poetry and Other Works is the last book in a series I now conclude to be THE POSITIVE PRIME, which was the title of my first book of poetry. The Positive Prime began my story and my process as a poetry writer. It is my “Self – Identity” and the beginning of the story of how I viewed...

This is an eclectic collection of poetry that was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006 by the publisher at the time, Central Ave. Publishing. The poems here are gathered into four sections: Lessons; Tales; Complaints; and Beyond the Masks. Nothing about this collection has anything to do...

MPT’s winter issue 'The Blue Vein' focuses on a new wave of Korean poetry, with a selection of new translations of Korea’s foremost poets Kim Hyesoon and Ko Un, poems by Han Kang who won last year’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian and an interview with Kim Hyesoon...

There is a place where love walks hand in hand with poetry and melodies of song. It is a sunlit stretch of golden sand where only gentle hearts in love belong ... Adonna Marie Gipe Adonna Marie Gipe is a passionate poet whose writings reflect her love of God, nature,...

Poetry Through My Ages, Still Writing is the second account of my journey and development as a person and a writer through the poems Ive written. This anthology records my poetry from the age of fifteen, being the age I first took an interest in writing poetry. The poems contained in this book are...

World War I is widely considered “the Great War” and World War II, “the Good War.” Janis Stout thinks of them as two parts of a whole that continues to engage historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief...

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism...

The Poetry Book Society Winter Bulletin for 2017 features writing from Winter Choice poet Sasha Dugdale regarding Joy, as well as pieces from Recommended poets Paul Deaton, Tim Dooley, Anne Michaels and Ahren Warner. These are accompanied by comments from the selectors and numerous extracts from their...

I am a disabled poet/author. I am a non-speaker; my disability is Cerebral Palsy. I graduated from one of Chicago city colleges, Harry S. Truman college. I was double majors. My majors were business and computers. I worked for a non-profit agency for mental disabilities with people for nine years....