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  Catastrophic Molting

  Amy Shimshon-Santo

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  CATASTROPHIC MOLTING (FlowerSong Press) Amy Shimshon-Santo uses the tools of language to remind readers there is power in repudiation, comfort in collective mourning, and possibility in reimagining. The book title is inspired by the molting ritual of sea elephants (Mirounga Angustirostris) along the California coast. The mirounga rest together on the shore as social protection from violence when they are the most vulnerable. Only through these periods of dramatic change can they grow sleek new coats. The book’s journey begins with “Contagion,” revealing a world split in half like a calabash by a virus. “Beating, trembling,” a woman pleads for mercy while the poems confront the liminality of profound change. “A new cycle had begun / I would never be the same again.” The second section, Sangue, gives voice to mourning and rage. “when you murder the future of music / you are conjuring extinction.” Dysfunction on planet Earth reverberates from the street into the expansive galaxy. Refusing to normalize violence, the poet gathers war inside her own body to detonate it, then blows “tsunami-wind / to rattle clear the desks.” With the verve of Oya, the goddess of ancestral and radical change, the book claims ground for empathy and inter-being. The collection asks readers to imagine: “what if we were a part of a whole / that loved us without ceasing?” Catastrophic Molting breaks from inertia and seeks new ground. Our “foremothers greet the unborn” and are “betrothed to a story that doesn’t wish us dead.” Shimshon-Santo suggests that “stepping off might actually be, stepping in / turning away might actually be, turning toward.”

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  The Naming of Names

  Shash Trevett

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  Shortlisted for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize
  Over 100,000 Tamil civilians were killed during the Sri Lankan civil war, their deaths often dismissed as collateral damage. What happens to names once the person who wore them dies? When there is no one left alive who remembers the laughter they once carried. In the ordinary course of a life every syllable of a name would be fully used up: a full life led. The violence of war doesn't merely decimate the physical body: it shocks into silence names, lineages and history. This book is a tender exhumation of the lyricism of Tamil names: of flowers, the moon and stars; of beauty, music and grace.
  Expanding upon the work in her powerful and moving 2021 pamphlet From a Borrowed Land, Shash Trevett's The Naming of Names bears witness to the Tamil experience during the Sri Lankan civil war through poetry that spans a broad range of responses to this violent and tragic history.

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  Picasso - Poetesque

  Mike Blake

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  PICASSO : Poetesque  
  A poem about the cubist painter of the last Century (20th). 
  He was a surrealist artist, and in his earlier works painted in the neoclassical. 
  Born in Spain, he escaped Franco's regime by being in exile in France. 
  Some of his cubist art may have been influenced by his knowledge of the atrocities committed during 
  the Spanish Civil war, especially in his Masterpiece Guernica. 
  Released on Amazon :   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPPF6YW5 
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  *NO A.I. has been used in the creation of this Poem.* As for all the Authors poems & Short Stories.* 
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  When Silence Screams

  Olivia Shiel

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Some stories are whispered. Hers roars from the shadows. 
  Liv has mastered the art of pretending — pretending she’s okay, pretending she’s strong, pretending she can outrun the echoes of everything she’s survived. But silence has a way of catching up. 
  From childhood scars buried beneath perfect smiles to the relationships that promised rescue but brought more ruin, Liv’s life is a tightrope walk between chaos and clarity. Each chapter unravels secrets too heavy to hold, choices too painful to forget, and a voice that’s fought too long to stay unheard. 
  But this isn’t just a story of survival. 
  It’s a mirror. A message. A map. 
  When Silence Screams doesn’t just take you through Olivia’s journey — it walks beside your own. At the end of every chapter, powerful life lessons pull back the curtain on pain, healing, faith, and freedom. For every woman who’s ever questioned her worth, every girl who’s carried what she couldn’t name, this book becomes more than a memoir — it becomes a guide to coming home to yourself. 
  This is not a story of tragedy. 
  This is a story of becoming.

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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  A haunting tale of ambition, power, and moral corruption, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's most compelling and enduring tragedies. Set against the shadowed landscapes of medieval Scotland, this dramatic masterpiece explores the devastating consequences of unchecked ambition and the fragile boundaries between fate and free will.
  
  The story follows Macbeth, a brave and respected Scottish general, whose life is forever altered after a prophetic encounter with three mysterious witches. They foretell that he will rise to become King of Scotland. Spurred by this tantalizing prediction—and urged on by the fierce determination of Lady Macbeth—he is consumed by a relentless desire for power. What begins as a spark of possibility quickly ignites into a blaze of ruthless ambition.
  
  Driven by fear and hunger for the crown, Macbeth commits an unthinkable act that sets him on a path of bloodshed and tyranny. As suspicion and paranoia take hold, he descends deeper into violence, ordering further murders to secure his position. Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth, once resolute and unyielding, begins to unravel under the crushing weight of guilt.
  
  In Macbeth, Shakespeare masterfully examines the psychological toll of wrongdoing. Themes of ambition, conscience, guilt, betrayal, and the supernatural intertwine in a tense and atmospheric narrative. The play poses timeless questions: Is destiny predetermined, or shaped by choice? How far will a person go to achieve greatness? And what remains of the soul when morality is sacrificed for power?
  
  Rich with unforgettable imagery, poetic language, and dramatic intensity, Macbeth remains one of the most frequently performed and studied works in world literature. From the eerie chants of the witches to Lady Macbeth's chilling descent into madness, the play continues to captivate audiences with its dark beauty and profound insight into human nature.
  
  A gripping exploration of ambition's destructive force, Macbeth stands as a powerful reminder that the pursuit of power without integrity can lead not to triumph—but to ruin.

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  HOMER: The Iliad & the Odyssey

  Homer

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  Nearly three thousand years after they were composed, The Iliad and The Odyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author. He was certainly an accomplished Greek bard, and he probably lived in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BCE Authorship is traditionally ascribed to a blind poet named Homer, and it is under this name that the works are still published. Greeks of the third and second centuries BCE, however, already questioned whether Homer existed and whether the two epics were even written by a single individual. 
  Most modern scholars believe that even if a single person wrote the epics, his work owed a tremendous debt to a long tradition of unwritten, oral poetry. Stories of a glorious expedition to the East and of its leaders’ fateful journeys home had been circulating in Greece for hundreds of years before The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed. Casual storytellers and semiprofessional minstrels passed these stories down through generations, with each artist developing and polishing the story as he told it. According to this theory, one poet, multiple poets working in collaboration, or perhaps even a series of poets handing down their work in succession finally turned these stories into written works, again with each adding his own touch and expanding or contracting certain episodes in the overall narrative to fit his taste.

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