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  The Invisible Sun - A Guide for...

  Attar, Sholeh Wolpe

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  Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award 
  Best Spiritual Books of 2025 - Spirituality and Practice 
  The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world’s most influential mystics—Attar—the twelfth-century poet Rumi called his master. 
  Twelfth-century Persian poet Attar (1145–1221) was revered by Rumi and though his work is beloved around the world, he is mostly unknown to English readers. Translated in simple, elegant language by award-winning poet Sholeh Wolpé—one among generations of poets influenced by Attar's poetry—The Invisible Sun is a beautiful treasury of Attar’s most prescient poetry, offering comfort and inspiration. 
  Attar was one of the most important mystic Sufi poets in the East, comparable in stature and influence to John Milton in the West. In Western thought there is a sharp separation between day-to-day human experience and the transcendence of religion and spirituality. But Sufi philosophy teaches that while the soul awaits its release from the confines of the body, it can experience the other world through mystic union achieved by an inward journey to purify the self. 
  The Invisible Sun widely introduces the work of Attar—the master Rumi called “the spirit” and himself “its shadow”—to English-speaking readers as never before. Profound yet exquisite in its simplicity, bringing comfort and wisdom, Attar’s poetry continues to resonate today: 
  Everything, large and small, honors your existence, 
  don’t look at yourself with contempt. 
  There is nothing greater than you.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Famous Tributes - An Introduction 
  2 - To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us by Ben Jonson 
  3 - In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth by Anne Bradstreet 
  4 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell 
  5 - A Poem Upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector by Andrew Marvell 
  6 - The Death of Grant by Ambrose Bierce 
  7 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 
  8 - Sonnet LVI Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria June 28th, 1838 by Henry Alford 
  9 - To the Countess of Salisbury by Aurelian Townsend 
  10 - An Elegy on the Death of Llywelyn ab Gruyffyd by Gruffydd ap Yr Ynad Coch 
  11 - On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester by Aphra Behn 
  12 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 
  13 - Adonais; An Elegy On the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Female Poets of the Nineteenth...

  George Eliot

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  For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture.  Whilst this traditional view has some merit it is not entirely accurate. 
  Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses. 
  For the Female Poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere.  These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise. 
  The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written.  And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias.  With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share. 
  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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  Exodus: The Shanghai Jews

  Kate McAll

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  As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.  
   
  In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land. 
   
  Funding for this presentation is provided in part by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and The I. Michael Kasser Trust: Michael and Beth Kasser. 
   
  Special thanks to Prof. Steve Hochstadt for his generosity in sharing his research and recordings to help create this work. 
   
  Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2023. 
   
  Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Edyta Brychta as Lisbeth Loewenberg 
  Michael Canavan as Herbert Greening  
  Shannon Cochran as Ilse Greening 
  Arye Gross as Gerard Kohbieter  
  Anna Mathias as Trude Reisman  
  Alan Shearman as Paul Reisman 
  André Sogliuzzo as Ernest Culman 
  Joanne Whalley as Melitta Colland. 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Recording Engineers, Mark Holden and Charles Carroll 
  Sound Design by Mark Holden 
  Editing and Mixing Engineer, Charles Carroll  
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

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  Blossom: Unfolding the Heart

  Bethany Livers

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  Blossom: Unfolding the Heart, is a poetry book about delving deeper into the feelings that have become normalized and ignored. It's common to acknowledge a feeling, thinking it will go away; but sometimes it never does. This poetry book also goes deep into the struggle to be Black in America in this day and age, and we still have a lot of work to do. To sit and listen to what your mind is telling you is way more important than playing it cool. In Blossom, I hope to show teens and young adults that you can have feelings about situations and you do not always have to fit a perfect mold of what society wants. I hope Blossom makes you smile, laugh, think, feel appreciated, look at the world a little more clearly, and even understand why some other people act the way they do.

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  The Elk in the Glade - The World...

  Bruce E. Whitacre

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  “Bruce E. Whitacre’s ability to capture this support network and the extraordinary efforts of Jennie Hicks in a manner that reaches beyond the usual literary or arts reader makes her story appealing to a much wider audience” —Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review 
  “Side by side with the paintings, Whitacre’s book serves as a deeply personal yet relatable account of one woman’s life and turn-of-the-century lifestyle—and clearly demonstrates why this talented painter and pioneer stands as someone to remember.” —BookLife by Publishers Weekly 
  “Bruce E. Whitacre’s collection, The Elk in the Glade, is a lovely and loving celebration of his remarkable great grandmother, Jennie Hicks, life and art, and an inspiring example of how a woman's artistic discipline gave her the courage and insight to transcend the hardships of the Nebraska frontier.” —Ladette Randolph, Editor in Chief, Ploughshares 
  Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre’s debut collection of sixteen poems traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Hicks. The daughter of American pioneers, she marries a successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married, only to outlive him and the farm. Once again alone and facing hardship, she transforms an almost forgotten hobby, her young girl dream, into a brilliant thirty-year career as a successful landscape painter, the future pride of her hometown, Farnam, Nebraska, and an important figure in American art. Lovers of American history, art, and strong female characters will enjoy these chronicles in verse.

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