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  The Poetry of Evenings - The...

  John Keats, Sara Teasdale,...

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  In England summer evenings remind us of the falling of the light, of village greens and the thump of willow on leather.  In winter, evenings are dark, unlit and a time to be inside. 
  The evening light, of twilight, of sunset, has another name in the movie business. They call it ‘magic hour’ and sometimes it is just that. The heavy, golden light suffuses everything with a glow and fullness that gladdens our hearts and delights our eyes. 
  For our poets this was a time of mystery and wonder; between the bright day and the canopy of stars that heralded sleep. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Dazzle Ships - Poems

  Jamie Sharpe

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  pbiPoems that challenge the depths of perception/b/i/p
  pDazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, iHow do we hide those things that are too big to hide?/i Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex and distort the viewer’s perspective (in this case, German submarines). “Razzle dazzle” was art attempting to hide life./p
  pJamie Sharpe’s iDazzle Ships/i is also concerned with art’s relationship to life. It questions how we build poems from the material of mass culture. And in asking whether authentic modes of expression can be found in an increasingly automated world, Sharpe creates a poetry that is at once as disturbing as it is hilarious and as deeply profound as it is subtle./p

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Stars - 12...

  John Keats, A E Housman, James...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - The Stars - An Introduction 
  2 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  3 - Sonnet 14 - Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck by William Shakespeare 
  4 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  5 - Stars by A E Housman 
  6 - Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - From Sunset to Star Rise by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  8 - Stars by Sara Teasdale 
  9 - The Light of Stars by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  10 - Places Among the Stars by Stephen Crane 
  11 - Star of Ethiopia by Lucian B Watkins 
  12 - When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven by James Joyce 
  13 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant

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  Cleopatra

  Jacob Abbott

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  Cleopatra is probably one of the most well-known women in history, right alongside Joan of Arc and many other prominent ladies who have changed the face of history as we know it. The lesser known details of her reign, as well as her methods of seduction, philosophies and involvement in world politics, however, are seldom discussed at length. Jacob Abbott's Cleopatra is probably one of the few books that truly discusses these matters in great detail, and it is still considered accurate and well-written, despite being just about two centuries old. Cleopatra is the story of the great ruler of Egypt, who has oftentimes instilled inspiration, respect and even fear in the hearts of her political opponents. Considered by many to be a brilliant strategist, an unscrupulous ruler, a philosopher queen, and a woman who wasn't afraid to use her unique qualities and talents to seduce her male opponents, Cleopatra's life was complex and intricate, while still many of the facts associated with her political moves and their true extent are not fully understood.

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  M Archive - After the End of the...

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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  Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and following the trajectory of Gumbs's acclaimed visionary fiction short story "Evidence," M Archive is told from the perspective of a future researcher who uncovers evidence of the conditions of late capitalism, antiblackness, and environmental crisis while examining possibilities of being that exceed the human. By exploring how Black feminist theory is already after the end of the world, Gumbs reinscribes the possibilities and potentials of scholarship while demonstrating the impossibility of demarcating the lines between art, science, spirit, scholarship, and politics.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Wind - 12...

  William Shakespeare, Percy...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  Wind - An Introduction 
  2 - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare 
  3 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  4 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  5 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  6 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  7 - Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  8 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan 
  9 - Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  10 - Wind Over the Sea by Geoffrey Bache Smith 
  11 - The Winds of Fate by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  12 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  13 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay

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