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  The Prophet

  Kahlil Gibran

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  This work provides a concise synthesis of the key insights and analysis from The Prophet. It is an independent summary, not the original book, and has no affiliation with or endorsement from the original publication. Created for readers who want a clear, thought-provoking overview, it distills the central themes and ideas while preserving the depth and relevance of the work. 
  A lyrical book of short teachings on love, work, freedom, grief, and joy. Gentle, poetic wisdom that reads like spiritual counsel—simple lines that linger.

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  The Ride Down Mt Morgan

  Arthur Miller

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  Lyman Felt has it all. Wealth, success, power and the kind of good solid wife he needs. Oh, and he also has another wife, the kind of earthy, sexy woman he wants. Lyman juggles his artful lie until a car accident on the slippery slope of Mt. Morgan lands him in a hospital bed and the two wives in the waiting room. But really, is there any such thing as "just an accident?" 
   
  Includes an interview with Robert M. Collins, author of Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years. 
   
  Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May 2005. 
   
  Directed by Richard Masur 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: 
  Brian Cox as Lyman Felt 
  Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Nurse Logan 
  Gregory Itzin as Tom Wilson 
  Jenny O'Hara as Theo Felt 
  Amy Pietz as Leah Felt 
  Kirsten Potter as Bessie Felt 
   
  Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor: Mark Holden  
  Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Leora Wien and Jode Ryskiewicz

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  Transcendence

  Andrew Rae

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  What lies behind this sunlit world?…Something too deep for thought,…Open only to prayer.
   
  These poems reflect moments when one experiences something more than what one  sees and hears, feelings of the sublime, the holy, the transcendent.
   
  …When meditating by a Wiltshire stream, or walking alone through an African forest, observed by a thousand unseen eyes and ears, from giant cats to tremulous snakes.
   
  …Feelings of going beyond oneself, beyond anxiety and feelings of inadequacy, losing oneself in the great chain of being.
   
  …The healing experience of being part of nature, losing the fear of death.
   
  From  intimations of transcendence in nature, this book moves on to the magic of ancient churches where so many have offered up their sorrows and joys and then to meditations and prayers, as well as the consolations offered by ancient rituals, by the rhythm of the church’s seasons, from the magic of Christmas through the penitence of Lent to the glories of Easter.
   
  The final section explores the tragic lockdowns caused by Covid-19.

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  Poets on Poets - Famous poets...

  Thomas Hood, Alice Meynell,...

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  Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter.  Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return.   
   
  In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves.  Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers.  Some are deeply personal others are abstract.  Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. 
   
  Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 
   
  01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction 
  02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold 
  03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey 
  04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell 
  05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay 
  06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley 
  07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin 
  08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall 
  09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith 
  12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 
  13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood 
  14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell 
  15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson 
  16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne 
  17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys 
  19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith 
  21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare 
  22 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson 
  24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce 
  25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood 
  26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran 
  27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes 
  28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper 
  30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick 
  31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson 
  32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams 
  39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
  42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns 
  43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
  44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson 
  46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword 
  47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys 
  49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney 
  50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro 
  51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
  53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 
  56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  57 - The

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  Resting Bitch Face - Poems

  Taylor Byas

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  The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from object, artistic muse, and victim to subject, critic, and master of her story 
   
   
   
  Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism, and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry and prose. Taylor Byas uses some of our most common ways of "watching" throughout history (painting, films, sculpture, and photographs) to explore how these mediums shape Black female subjectivity. 
   
   
   
  From the examination of artwork by Picasso, Gauguin, Sally Mann, and Nan Goldin, Byas displays her mastery of the poetic form by engaging in intimate and inventive writing. Fluctuating between watcher and watched, the speaker of these poems uses mirrors and reflections to flip the script and talk back to histories of art, text, photography, relationships, and men. From Polaroids to gesso primer to sculpture, Byas creates a world in which the artist calls out and the muse responds. For not only does she enter the world of the long-revered classic artist, but she also infuses her poems with such iconic pop culture works as The Joker, WandaVision, and Last Tango in Paris.

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  The Child Soldiers

  E Braveheart

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  Wherever you’re from, from whatever background or class, no one knows  what goes on behind closed doors. The trauma and abuse I was brought up
   with from a young child has made me the person that I am today. It is like a branding iron put onto a developing mind. The scars you cannot see but dictate my every moment, others of you out there will know exactly what I mean. I hold no shame for what was done to me as a child.
   It has certainly given me more tolerance for other’s situations because of it. It has certainly made me more understanding. For all my adult life, I have suffered from mental health issues as a result. This itself has made me more empathetic with others. All these poems come from deep within. Some written from very dark places, others from hope and forgiveness, I’ve written many poems when I’ve had no one to talk to. Writing has always been there for me - it has always been my friend. 
  Forgive those that hurt you for it will only harm you. Love and good luck
   
  Braveheart.

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