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  In The Cold Heat of Battle

  Mike Blake

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  In The Cold Heat of Battle :: This poem describes the universal feelings of a soldier in contemplation of his own mortality and impending death.The battle of forces, not just of the enemy in front of him but the battleraging from within. His self doubt and questioning why he is even on the battlefield in the first place, fighting for this war.The Universal Soldier is reflecting on his decision to be there at the pointy end of war, the vanguard of the front line. This is an anti-war Poem.Part of the War Theme Series:   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F73X52HFind the Author & Follow here: https://www.amazon.com.mx/stores/Mike-Blake/author/B00SG40RM8Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/wild_poetrys

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  The Kingdom of Surfaces - Poems

  Sally Wen Mao

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  In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history—especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls—to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence. In lyric poems and wide-ranging sequences, Mao interrogates gendered expressions such as the contemporary “leftover women,” which denotes unmarried women, and the historical “castle-toppler,” a term used to describe a concubine whose beauty ruins an emperor and his empire. These poems also explore the permeability of object and subject through the history of Chinese women in America, labor practices around the silk loom, and the ongoing violence against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
   
  At its heart, The Kingdom of Surfaces imagines the poet wandering into a Western fantasy, which covets, imitates, and appropriates Chinese aesthetics via Chinamania and the nineteenth-century Aesthetic Movement, while perpetuating state violence upon actual lives. The title poem is a speculative recasting of Through the Looking-Glass, set in a surreal topsy-turvy version of the eponymous China-themed 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala. The Kingdom of Surfaces is a brilliantly conceived call for those who recognize the horrors of American exceptionalism to topple the empire that values capital over lives and power over liberation.

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  The Poetry of Robert Southey -...

  Robert Southey

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  Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". 
  Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse was highly influential and he wrote movingly against the horrors and injustice of the slave trade.  Among his other classics are Inchcape Rock as well as a number of plays including Wat Tyler. 
  He was great friends with Coleridge, indeed in 1795, in a plan they soon abandoned, they thought to found a utopian commune-like society, called Pantisocracy, in the wilds of Pennsylvania. 
  However, that same year, the two friends married sisters Sarah and Edith Fricker. Southey's marriage was successful but Coleridge's was not. In 1810 he abandoned his wife and three children to Southey's care in the Lake District.  Although his income was small and those dependent upon him growing in number he continued to write and burnish his reputation with a wider public. 
  In 1813 on the refusal of Walter Scott he was offered by George II the post of Poet Laureate, a post Southey accepted and kept till his death 30 years later. 
  Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. His biographies included those of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson. 
  He was a renowned scholar of Portuguese and Spanish literature and history, and translated works from those two languages into English and wrote a History of Brazil (part of his planned but un-completed History of Portugal) and a History of the Peninsular War. 
  Perhaps his most enduring contribution is the children's classic The Story of the Three Bears, the original Goldilocks story, first published in Southey's prose collection The Doctor. 
  In 1838, Edith died and Southey married Caroline Anne Bowles, also a poet, on 4 June 1839. 
  Robert Southey died on the 21st of March, 1843 and is buried in Crosthwaite Church in Keswick. 
  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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  The Rose Tattoo

  Tennessee Williams

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  In the wake of World War II, a poor widow named Serafina lives with her only daughter Rosa in a Sicilian community on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. As Rosa grows to maturity, Serafina is forced to reconcile the values of the New World with the deeply-held pain of her past. 
   
  
   
  This L.A. Theatre Works recording reunites Mercedes Ruehl and Anthony LaPaglia, who starred in the 1995 Broadway production that earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, and Drama Desk Awards for both actors.
   
  
   
  Recorded at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 1999.
   
  
   
  Directed by Richard Masur
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  Emily Bergl as Rosa
   
  Marieclare Costello as Peppina and Bessie
   
  Tim DeKay as Jack
   
  Brent Hinkley as a Doctor and Salesman
   
  Anthony LaPaglia as Alvaro
   
  Carol Locatell as Guiseppina
   
  Kate Mulligan as Estelle, Miss Yorke
   
  Antonia Ray as Assunta
   
  Peggy Roeder as The Strega 
   
  Mercedes Ruehl as Serafina
   
  Vincent Schiavelli as Father DeLeo
   
  Claudette Sutherland as Violetta and Flora
   
  
   
  Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Jane Slater
   
  Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson
   
  Radio production by Raymond Guarna

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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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  This Way to Change - Poems Prose...

  Jezz Chung

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  Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making. The interactive healing practices in this book include writing and reflection prompts, somatic exercises, guided meditations, and more to help listeners tap into their powers of self-healing on their journey through change. 
   
   
   
  For anyone interested in: 
   
   
   
  ● Healing through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence 
   
   
   
  ● Building community to address collective crisis, interdependence as the intersection of self care and community care 
   
   
   
  ● Transforming yourself to transform the world 
   
   
   
  ● Holistic and alternative approaches to wellness including guided meditations, reflection prompts, somatic practices 
   
   
   
  ● AAPI listeners interested in Jezz Chung's Korean American perspective on identity, sociopolitical engagement, and intergenerational trauma 
   
   
   
  ● Self-Love Poetry, Heart Talk, and such bestselling authors as Alexandra Elle and Yung Pueblo

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