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  The Carrying - Poems

  Ada Limón

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  WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 
  FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 
  From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet. 
  Vulnerable, 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—“What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then, / I’ll take it,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” 
  In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display—even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.

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  Maid for Four - Dirty...

  Tala Melton

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  Sandi looked around the room and realized that her billionaire boss and his friends were not seeing her as a housekeeper anymore, at least not like the clean your house kind...

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  These are the Things we Have Lost

  Janice Warman

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  A poetic memoir from an award-winning journalist tracing love, loss and the truths we dare to speak.
  In her debut poetry collection, These Are the Things We Have Lost, Janice Warman chronicles a journey from her South African childhood to the landscapes of motherhood with unflinching honesty. From pregnancy 'high on hormones and Pellegrino', to second weddings, these poems capture intimate moments of love and loss. With a journalist's precision and a poet's sensitivity, Warman's voice moves between continents and decades. A celebration of life's joys and an elegy for what inevitably slips through our grasp.

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  WaitWho Got Goosed™ Vol 2

  Julie Coles

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  "Wait...Who Got Goosed?™ Vol 2: 
  More Mother Goose Rhymes Revisited...Not for Sippy cup-Booster seat-Thumb sucking young'uns  
  Whether encountering Audacious Women, people who make Regrettable Decisions, or discovering how some folks handle Truly Inexplicable Moments, Wait...Who Got Goosed?TM Vol. 2 poems for mature readers will illicit some gasps, a lot of laughs, or maybe a few shakes of the head. Human blunders viewed through a lyrical, humorous lens can sometimes lighten our perspectives about some pretty awkward moments. What Exasperation Looks Like describes experiences that would benefit from lessons learned in the related Useful Ways to Self-Help. Andwho among us has known Some Driven to Inspire, while Others...Not So Much? Readers will meet a range of relatable characters, some of whom encounter consequences of their own making, while others make accidental discoveries that reveal opportunities for self-reflection and growth. This is an invitation for readers to embark on a joyful and enlightening journey! 
  Wait...Who Got Goosed?TM Vol. 2: A modern-day tribute to Mother Goose Rhymes; Tales capturing the imaginations of mature readers, is released under Pivot In New Directions Publishing®.

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  Bycatch

  Caroline Smith

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  In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted-poet Caroline Smith, the poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They capture the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by the deep-sea trawler of dementia – yet find amongst the isolation and sadness, moments also of clarity, epiphany and love.
  Whilst these poems chart deep waters, they remind us also of the enduring and miraculous bond between those who have known each other for a lifetime. With grace and often with humour, Smith unravels the intricate nature of care, the symbiosis of family, and ultimately the sense of self held in the memories and personal histories of her own parents. It is in the swell of the wave, as ageing and loss threaten to engulf even the words, these extraordinary poems remain tender, unforgettable and salt-sharp.

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  Gitanjali

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  Brought to by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz. In addition to the normal narration, this version includes an "Ambient" version with peaceful meditative music. Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. The poems express devotion to God and love, and were influential in the West and widely translated. It features an introduction by poet W.B. Yeats.

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