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Jean Valentine

This-World Company

by Mohammed Kazim Ali, John Hoppenthaler ...

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Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's career by a range of poets, scholars, and admirers.Valentine's poetry has long been valued for ... Read more

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Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's career by a range of poets, scholars, and admirers.Valentine's poetry has long been valued for
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The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia

by Amy Wright, Darnell Arnoult, April J. Asbury, Emma Aylor, Zeina Azzam, Jeff Bagato, George Bandy0, Christina Beasley1, John Berry2, David Black3, Terry Hall Bodine4, Tara Bray5, Robert Brickhouse6, Candace Butler7, Ben E. Campbell8, John Casteen9, Michael Chitwood0, Kathy Davis1, R.H.W. Dillard2, Rita Dove3, Michael Dowdy4, Hilda Downer5, Angie Dribben6, Claudia Emerson7, J. Indogo Eriksen8, Latorial Faison9, Forrest Gander0, Matthew Gilbert1, Leah Naomi Green2, Lucy Fowlkes Griffith3, Raymond P. Hammond4, Cathryn Hankla5, Chelsea Harlan6, Mr. David Havird7, Jane Hicks8, Mary Crockett Hill9, Scott Honeycutt0, Emily Hooker1, John Hoppenthaler2, Jessica K. Hylton3, Luisa A. Igloria4, Edison Jennings5, Don Johnson6, Jeffrey N. Johnson7, Joshua Jones8, M.A. Keller9, Jennifer Key0, Chelsea Krieg1, Jessi Lewis2, Christopher Linforth3, Robert Wood Lynn4, Catherine MacDonald5, Margaret Mackinnon6, Josh Mahler7, Jeff Mann8, John Q. Mars9, Irène P. Mathieu0, Gretchen McCroskey1, Marianne Mersereau2, Jesse Millner3, Jim Minick4, Felicia Mitchell5, Thorpe Moeckel6, Elisabeth Murawski7, Yvonne Nguyen8, Mel Nichols9, Evan Nicholls0, William Notter1, Gregory Orr2, James Owens3, Lisa J. Parker4, Lynda Fleet Perry5, Kiki Petrosino6, Alex Pickens7, Matt Prater8, Rita Sims Quillen9, Valencia Robin0, Allison Seay1, Olivia Serio2, Leona Sevick3, Leslie Shiel4, Maia Siegel5, Rod Smith6, Ron Smith7, R.T. Smith8, Lisa Russ Spaar9, Sappho Stanley0, Sofia M. Starnes1, Ruth Stone2, Henry Taylor3, Randolph Thomas4, Michael Trocchia5, Ellen Bryant Voigt6, G.C. Waldrep7, Jorrell Watkins8, L.A. Weeks9, Brian Phillip Whalen00, Stephen Scott Whitaker01, Beth Oast Williams02, Abby Wolpert03, Karenne Wood04, Diana Woodcock05, Annie Woodford06, Amy Woolard07, Charles Wright08, Charles Gillispie09 ...

Series Book 9 - The Southern Poetry Anthology
Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, ... Read more

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Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt,
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Prayer - The Art of Believing

by Neville Goddard ...

Prayer is the master key. A key may fit one door of a house, but when it fits all doors it may well claim to be a master key. Such and no less a key is prayer to all earthly problems. ... Read more

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Prayer is the master key. A key may fit one door of a house, but when it fits all doors it may well claim to be a master key. Such and no less a key is prayer to all earthly problems.
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Under Magnolia

A Southern Memoir

by Frances Mayes ...

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and ... Read more

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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and
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My Bright Abyss

Meditation of a Modern Believer

by Christian Wiman ...

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious ... Read more

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Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious
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Late Migrations

A Natural History of Love and Loss

by Margaret Renkl ...

From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." —Ann PatchettGrowing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents ... Read more

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From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: "Has the makings of an American classic." —Ann PatchettGrowing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents
... Read more
Poetry as Spiritual Practice

Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions

by Robert McDowell ...

"[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the IntroductionPoetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual inquiry, and cultivates wisdom, compassion, self-confidence, patience, and love. In author Robert McDowell's ... Read more

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"[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the IntroductionPoetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual inquiry, and cultivates wisdom, compassion, self-confidence, patience, and love. In author Robert McDowell's
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The Hurting Kind

by Ada Limón ...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain ... Read more

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An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain
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The Force of Character

And the Lasting Life

by James Hillman ...

In his bestselling The Soul's Code, James Hillman restored passion and meaning to the concept of identity, arguing that each of us is born with an innate character, the "daimon" or "spirit" that calls us to what we are meant to be. Now, in The Force of Character, Hillman brings the idea of character full circle, offering a revolutionary new vision of life's most feared and misunderstood chapter: ... Read more

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In his bestselling The Soul's Code, James Hillman restored passion and meaning to the concept of identity, arguing that each of us is born with an innate character, the "daimon" or "spirit" that calls us to what we are meant to be. Now, in The Force of Character, Hillman brings the idea of character full circle, offering a revolutionary new vision of life's most feared and misunderstood chapter:
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The Carrying

Poems

by Ada Limón ...

NBCC Award Winner: "The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body." — The New York TimesVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility— ... Read more

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NBCC Award Winner: "The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body." — The New York TimesVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—
... Read more

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The Courage to Create

by Rollo May ...

What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, ... Read more

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What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.A renowned therapist and inspiring guide,
... Read more

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Prelude to Bruise

by Saeed Jones ...

Praise for Saeed Jones:"Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."—FlavorWire"I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."—D. A. Powell"Prelude to Bruise works its tempestuous mojo just under the skin, wreaking a sweet havoc and rearranging the pulse. ... Read more

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Praise for Saeed Jones:"Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."—FlavorWire"I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."—D. A. Powell"Prelude to Bruise works its tempestuous mojo just under the skin, wreaking a sweet havoc and rearranging the pulse.
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