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  Haikus of an Addict

  Brett C. Persson

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  Witness haikus drawn from the mind of a recovering addict. 
  Gritty, authentic, and deeply personal, this complete collection of Poetry of an Addict compiles over 125 haikus that explore the darkness of addiction and offering a mixture of musings, reflections, and thoughts captured from moments of author Brett C. Persson's life. Ranging from vivid wordplay written while sober to fragments and flashes of thought that were snatched from the depths of drug and alcohol use, these poems illuminate the mind of a man who struggled for decades with pain, grief, and substance abuse. 
  Balancing the sorrows of addiction with a redeeming message of hope and growth, readers will be taken on a journey that will offer them a window into the mind of an addict, revealing the inner conflicts, struggles, and suffering that grips the throes of addiction. This collection provides a new perspective to any poetry fan who wants to deepen their understanding of addiction, find a new source of human resilience, and see how one man managed to rise above his addiction to reclaim his life. 
  Perfect for kindred souls who have struggled with addiction, Haikus of an Addict shines as a guiding light that will help you reflect on your own demons – or build the courage to confront them.

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  My Baby First Birthday

  Jenny Zhang

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  Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born—without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people's dreams. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. 
   
   
   
  The magic trick in this book is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.

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  The Raven

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Raven, first published in 1845, is Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous and haunting poem. With its hypnotic rhythm, gothic imagery, and refrain of “Nevermore,” it explores grief, obsession, and the descent into madness. The story follows a bereaved narrator who, late one stormy night, is visited by a mysterious raven that seems to echo his deepest despair. Blending the supernatural with psychological torment, Poe creates one of the most iconic works in American literature. This audiobook edition captures the dark atmosphere and lyrical intensity of Poe’s masterpiece, making it a perfect listen for lovers of classic poetry, gothic tales, and timeless literature. 
  Keywords/Tags: gothic poetry, classic literature, American poetry, gothic horror, madness, grief, haunted tales, psychological gothic

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Edna St Vincent Millay, Antonio...

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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 - Travel - An Introduction 
  2 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  4 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  5 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth 
  6 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  7 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 
  8 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker 
  9 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling 
  10 - I Write of That Journey by Mirabai 
  11 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow 
  12 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman 
  13 - The Journey by Tagore

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  Maps You Can't Make

  Mariella Saavedra Carquin

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  Trauma takes up real space within us, and it can be so difficult to hold. How do we access that place of longing and loss, of fragmented memory and grief? How do we carry it as we walk in the world? There’s no map for this, no clear path through the internal landscape it reshapes, no easy way to make meaning of our lives in that disoriented state. Mariella Saavedra Carquin confronts hard truths in this powerful debut collection, pushing through layered complexities of immigration, race, and identity to find a way forward.

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  Chamber Music

  James Joyce

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  Chamber Musicby James JoyceNarrated by Denis DalyThis collection of 36 short poems was published in 1907.The title is alleged to be an ironic pun referring cryptically to the sound of urine striking the sides of a chamber pot. However, the poems have no touch of vulgarity or bawdiness.The collection received favorable critical comments from Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats.Joyce later commented on the poems: "When I wrote Chamber Music, I was a lonely boy, walking about by myself at night and thinking that one day a girl would love me."Production copyright 2024 Voices of Today

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