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  Bad Weather Mammals - Poems

  Ashley-Elizabeth Best

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  “The sick should be good. / It is a kind of undoing,” Ashley-Elizabeth Best writes in her second collection. Bad Weather Mammals navigates the devastations and joys of living in a disabled and traumatized body. By taking a backward glance, she traces how growing up under the maladaptive bureaucracy of social services with a single disabled mother and five younger siblings led her to a precarious future in which she is also disabled and living on social assistance. In poems that explore a variety of formal constraints, such as the suite “ODSP 1, 2, & 3,” which infuses government forms with lyric poetry, she suggests all the ways the medical and bureaucratic systems can dehumanize and traumatize our most vulnerable citizens. By digging deep into her own experiences, Best has archived the ways we fail each other in our most desperate times — while at the same time outlining how we can show up to revel in disabled joy and community. Bad Weather Mammals disassembles dominant narratives about how disabled individuals should be and reconceptualizes the embodied experiences that recenter us in our own narrative.

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  The Prophet

  Kahlil Gibran

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  "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran is a profoundly spiritual and philosophical collection of poetic essays that has captivated readers worldwide with its timeless insights into the human condition. Set against the backdrop of a fictional Middle Eastern village, the narrative unfolds through the character of Almustafa, the titular prophet, who, on the eve of his departure after twelve years of exile, shares his deep reflections on life, love, sorrow, joy, and mortality with the townspeople. Each essay addresses essential aspects of life—from marriage and parenting to work and freedom—offering wisdom that seeks to uplift the spirit and enrich the soul. Gibran's eloquent prose is both lyrical and accessible, making profound philosophical concepts resonate with readers of all backgrounds. The book not only explores the trials and tribulations of individual existence but also delves into the communal and universal truths that bind humanity together, making "The Prophet" a cherished classic in modern literature.

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  Bottled Oddities: The Collected...

  Dawson Hann

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  Dawson Hann's poems, as the title implies, are all highly individual in their structures and points of view. They engage comprehensively, and often humorously, with those truths of human experience that our emotions, and our imagination, at times long for. They sit upon a shelf of life's varied experiences, inviting you to sample, through compelling imagery and a diversity of poetic forms, the meaning the poet has extracted from a remarkably rich life of travel and human engagement. Not just this, but also a poetic faith in the truths lying often unseen at the heart of frequently ordinary human experiences. Likewise, they take you on journeys into memories new and old, restlessly yet beautifully searching for the truths always to be found there too.
  
  The poetic journeys in this collection are frequently uplifting and always authentic illustrations of the poet's conviction that nothing in life is quite what it seems and that poetic forms are as good a way as any to illuminate so many truths about how we understand ourselves and others.
  
   

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  What to Believe and Other Poems

  Cliff Duncan

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  As the author of this original work as a book of poems, I would like the readers to engage their minds and get with my written utterances and apply a kind of understanding and draw their own conclusions of what they have just digested and not to be fearful of some deep thinking. The reader, I hope, will feel somewhat elated and fresh with inner thoughts!

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  Comedie Purgatory

  Alighieri Dante

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  In this second volume of Dante Alighieri's ageless classic, the *Comedie* (*Commedia*) , Vergil and Dante emerge from their upward climb out the lower depths of Hell, at the center of the earth, to find themselves at the shores of the Mountain of Purgatory, exactly opposite Jerusalem in the Hemisphere of Water, where it is the only land below the Equator. Here they encounter other newcome souls and those who are awaiting entry into the punishments. In Canto IX they pass through the Gate of Purgatory and begin the upward climb through the seven circles to the Garden at the top where Beatrice is waiting for Dante to lead him on the ascent to the stars.

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  More American

  Sharon Hashimoto

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  Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the realities of assimilation, service, and internment as experienced by Japanese Americans during, and in the decades following, the Second World War. In this stunning second collection, Hashimoto reckons with the limitations of language, and by extension, notions of citizenship. She deftly sounds the dissonances in the language of loyalty and allegiance.

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