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  Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill

  Kimberly Simms

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  This short collections of poetry contains poems from the new full collection collection Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill written by Kimberly Simms. This book is for the history buff, student, and poetry lover alike. Ron Rash says of the collection, “Kimberly Simms writes with eloquence and empathy about an important part of Southern history too often neglected."
  Included poems: "The Cotton Mill's Song", "Mama's Song", "The Ugly Jug", "Dip", "Cliff Jump", "Lindy Lee's Trout Breakfast", "Hop Along Little Crown", "Brother's Mess of Crosses", and "Blue Panes". 
  
  These poems tie into state history standards for South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Zen Poetry - Let the Spring...

  Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto

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  From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English.   This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku—the quintessential Zen art—and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan’s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.

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  Notes from a Shipwreck

  Jessica Mookherjee

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  Notes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed and illuminating voyage of dislocation and longing. By turns evocative, unsettling, and full of 'small acts of magic', Mookherjee simultaneously finds the past, present, and future in the tempestuous, lyrical tides that flow through her poems.
  Here, seafaring lore and shanties interweave with wreckage and survival, drawn by strong currents of history – where migration, colonialism, pandemics and climate change shape the course we are on. The sea is a territory of grief and transformation, alluring and dangerous, where safe harbours and landfall are not always certain. Mookherjee's enchanting, salt-sharp poetry encompasses the many journeys embarked on – whether seeking refuge, escape, or into exile – and consider not only the deep blue sea and its myriad mythologies, but to understand 'what makes a land and person,' – the keen human instinct to seek belonging.

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  Evolution

  Eileen Myles

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  The new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Chelsea Girls reads like “an arrival, a voice always becoming, unpinnable and queer” (Natalie Diaz, New York Times Book Review).   The first all-new collection of poems from Eileen Myles since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets, Evolution follows the author’s critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as a volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice. In these new poems, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that radiates insight, purpose, and risk while channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones.   This long-awaited new collection “lopes forward in the strutting style of the witnessing and sincere, but gorgeously nonaustere, poet in New York…The gift of Evolution is its bold depiction of the textually-rendered ‘I’-Eileen” (Kenyon Review).  A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

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  Short Poetry Collection 097

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2011.

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  The Unedits - The Abstract Pieces

  Jaired Blaine

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  Writing is an escape for me. It helped me cope with my emotions and events in my life. Everything I have written has helped me get through tough, emotional times. Through the years I have become a more open person, but I still find it hard to express myself to others. Writing is the most important part of my life.

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