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"The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. It's gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while its form paradoxically is fresh, luscious, and original. Bypassing pity and transforming pain into language Handal stars. She has recorded like Alice Walker, Paul Celan, John Hershey, and Carolyn Forche some of the worst civilization has offered humankind and somehow made it art."-Sapphire

Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the treatment of widowed women by society; lends their stories a voice; shares their unheard tales about marriage; reveals the heavy hand of patriarchy; and, addresses the lack of companionship and sensuality in their lives. This collection of poems covers a myriad of social evils such as misogyny, infidelity, gender inequality, and celibacy amongst other things....

La reedición de El riseñor reproduce la edición original de 1975 con el mismo grabado de Blas Castagna en la tapa y agrega, a modo de apéndice, las partituras de "El riseñor" para coro a mixto a capella, obra compuesta por Julio M. Viera. En este libro, que fue censurado en los setentas, se encuentran las primeras reescrituras de Lamborghini, por ejemplo, la del Himno Nacional Argentino, la del poema de Quevedo "Amor constante más allá de la...

A collection of poems about faith and angels. T.S.Garp's spiritual beliefs is a blend of Western and Eastern philosophies, from studying Buddhism to Christianity with poems that express the universal belief of angels, divine beings, wintry fairies, and having faith, worshiping God, receiving blessings, embracing nature's beauty and keeping hope alive in our hearts and mind.Voices of Angels is about experiencing great expectations, understanding loneliness,...

Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows up the creatures for whom it provides. These poems struggle with that mix of affirmation and destruction, celebrating nature's generosity while trying to...

DUETO DE LUCIÉRNAGAS es un extraordinario libro de poesía con un sello oriental definitivo. Sus autores logran una alternancia en la expresión de temas de vida con pincel de matices atenuados con la particular sensibilidad de la milenaria cultura oriental. Y es que la pluma de Bill Wolak lo lleva por denodados senderos literarios, en Europa, Eurasia, Asia e India, caminos de maduración como autor que le permiten plasmar con absoluta originalidad...

Poetry and love seem pretty out of place these days. This poetry album is a test to see if these are really rare quaint commodities that do not matter and thus, do not sell. It is also a test to see if there can be something other than what poetry is purported to be in modern times. It is to prove that modern poetry should take a lot of lessons from the music world and the art world before it is pronounced defunct.

Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery...

This is a book where I tried to turn each moment of experience in my hands, which convey my insights with elegance of language. This book of poetry goes far with emotions and sensitivity. Effulgent Dream is a book of poems that evoke feelings of love, separation, despair and loneliness. My poems trace a path across the world, delving into other experiences with learning one's intensity. This book will offer you the plans to give you hope, happiness...

Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Meditate with a Hammer is a series of poems aimed to imagine meditative moments from the 'sadhana', spiritual practice, of Hollywood's elite. Building on the wisdom traditions of the East to bring the hammer down on complacent notions about what it means to be spiritual in today's world.