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  Waste Land The - Read by TS Eliot

  T. S. Eliot

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  The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot’s poetry.  It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterises and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.  The Waste Land caught the imagination of the age with its powerful emotional impact. Eliot felt that the modern Western city had become a sterile desert waste land, and in it life had become a sham pretence, with no content but stale conventionality.  The Four Quartets express the poet’s whole-hearted acceptance of the Christian faith. Each poem describes a meditation which leads to a reconciliation with the burden of the past.

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  Magnolia

  Nina Mingya Powles

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  "why don't you write about yourself ever
  people used to ask / and I didn't know why / either
  in Chinese one word can lead you out of the dark / then back into it / in a single breath"
  Magnolia is the debut poetry collection by poet, essayist and non-fiction writer Nina Mingya Powles, one of contemporary poetry's most exciting new international voices and the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing. These vivid, luscious poems move between journal and biography, place and belonging, all the time exploring the multitudinous facets of language and culture that make up our identity, from the sense of longing that a delicious bowl of food conjures up to the inviting glow of paper lanterns that illuminate memory and travel. Formally rich, these unique poems skilfully broaden the perspective of all a poem can hold can contain through their daring, joyful and expansive approach.

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  The Cavalier Poets

  Ben Jonson, Edmund Waller,...

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  Whilst this given name and the poets included can seem at first glance broad and unmanageable the name both historically and artistically is a near perfect fit. Those poets that pledged support to Charles I, a connoisseur and patron of fine arts, were in the main courtiers or closely aligned.  Among their number were Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew and Sir John Suckling. 
  These poets shied away from verse on religion or philosophy but mused instead on love, joy and simpler things very much living for the ‘now’.  And their verse achieves this with a beauty and potency that, despite their powerful and privileged position, speaks for us all. 
   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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  Thin Black Road - And Other...

  Julie C. Gilbert

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  Thin Black Road 
  There’s a thin black road 
  I have traveled many times. 
  It leads to peace 
  In so many ways. 
  It’s kind of hard to describe 
  For the road’s oft unclear. 
  It unfolds to me 
  Like a lovely gift 
  One word at a time. 
  Then, music fills in the gaps, 
  Making worries fade away, 
  As unexplainable peace pours in. 
  There’s a thin black road 
  It leads me to peace. 
  When good or ill tidings come 
  To threaten my equilibrium, 
  I will travel that road 
  And return to peaceful calm. 
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  This is the first inspirational Christian poetry collection. It’s followed by Just Like You and My Champion. The combination book, Made to Praise, contains all three collections. 
   

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  Into Light Volume One

  M. D, . Friedman

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  INTO LIGHT is the sixth poetry collection from the international, award-winning poet, musician and artist, M. D. Friedman, and is his first full-length poetry book. It reflects the experiences, observations, dreams and epiphanies of a lifetime, speaks quietly about the calling of the heart and loudly about injustices of the world. Eclectic in style and content, M. D. Friedman's poetry connects both the inner and outer realities of a life well-lived.INTO LIGHT Volume One: The Poems of M. D. Friedman, the audio book, contains the first 23 poems from M. D. Friedman's INTO LIGHT poetry book.  For all things INTO LIGHT, e.g., print, e-book, audio book, album, musical and video poetry rendentions, please see liquidlightpress.com/IntoLight.htm. These poems are the masterwork of a different kind of man than most men I’ve known in my 73 years. He is, as we used to say, "his own man." More than a disciple of some orthodox poetry "church," you'll meet a mindful, funny, wise and compassionate person in these texts, unafraid to speak honestly and vulnerably. From Li Po to Robert Johnson, memory care to contemporary politics, grieving lament to defiant slam, MD lays it all out about as clearly as a poet can while leaving enough tantalizing mystery to feed the reader's soul for days on end. He really believes "It is a miracle to be alive."! His poems encourage me to believe it, too!!~ wayne a. gilbert, poet and Colorado Governor's Creative Leadership Award winnerThis long anticipated poetry collection opens like a portal that will rainbow a monochrome world. Reminiscent of Rumi and Hafiz, you will taste the landscape with your tongue, unable to separate your own inner body from the mountains and sky you inhabit, “not the waterfall, but the water falling,” ... “no longer sculpted by gravity.” A love poem to life herself, you will want to take your time, savoring each languid line. “I am taken by how much I need this.”!Valerie A Szarek, award winning poet

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  Dancing With Baptists - They...

  Ken Bailey

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  Set in the turbulent sixties of Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Watts riot, and the Beatles, Dancing with Baptists is the story of Greg Henderson, Jr., a young Air Force surgical tech. When Greg makes a promise to Chap, his dying Black chaplain friend, to get Chap’s book, an unflattering history of Southern Baptists and African Americans, published, all hell breaks loose. Greg returns to Houston, his Baptist roots, and Melinda, his very Baptist high school sweetheart, with the challenge to keep a promise that could cost him everything and critically wound the church of his youth. The dance begins.

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