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"In Catalogue of Surprises, Dorothy Wall compares words to 'a suspension bridge // a rope we've tied ourselves to / above the chasm.' Her wise poems look clear-eyed deep into the chasm - at illness, family history, despoliation, and mortality. At the same time, she finds beauty in the most unexpected places: pebbles, snail-trails, or the animals of Chernobyl thriving without us. You will find beauty, too, in Dorothy Wall's exquisitely crafted poetry."- Susan Cohen, author of Throat Singing, A Different Wakeful Animal, and Democracy of Fire "The poems in Dorothy Wall's Catalogue of Surprises acknowledge impermanence, mortality, and such existential dilemmas as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, but Wall does not cave under the weight of these realities. She says, '...we are furiously holding out our hands / with their stone of hope / we won't let go,' and shows us that life itself is a catalogue of surprises where, holding our fury and hope, we can look at clouds and relish 'something bright or illuminated / above us.' The poems are elegantly crafted and radiate a light of their own."- Lucille Lang Day, author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and Becoming an Ancestor: Poems¿"Dorothy Wall's poems are like flagstones we step upon to travel forward and backward in time; she casts a wide-ranging eye on life above ground and '...life now underground and shaken.' Her poetry is precise and musical, it leaps and turns and grounds us to place. Dorothy Wall offers us refuge and renewal when she says, 'beauty... is everywhere the sky is.' This poetry possesses the skill of an engraver, and the broad brush strokes of a fine artist."- Joseph Zaccardi, Marin County, California poet laureate (2013-15) ¿¿Dorothy Wall is author of Catalogue of Surprises: Poems (Blue Light Press), Identity Theory: New and Selected Poems (Blue Light Press) and Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Southern Methodist University Press), and coauthor of Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction (St. Martin's Press). Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Schooner, Witness, Bellevue Literary Review, Sonora Review, Cimarron Review, AMA Journal of Ethics, California Magazine, The Writer, Dos Passos Review, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, San Francisco Chronicle and others. She has taught poetry and fiction writing at Napa Valley College, San Francisco State University, and U.C. Berkeley Extension, and works as a writing coach in Oakland.

What is love? In a painstaking effort to answer this question, Samuel Faulk takes the reader on a tumultuous journey of true love gone direly sour. Through poignant poetic storytelling in a unique dictionary format, Faulk reveals the onslaught of emotion in the wake of a marriage's covert deconstruction.Beyond a mere collection of emotive poems, The Devil's Thesaurus serves as an outlet to grieve not only the loss of a lover, but also the loss of self.Ambiguous, reckless, strenuous, and vacant...These are only a few of the adjectives that sum up the culmination of events that transpire throughout this book's pages. Follow the nameless narrator as he works through the alphabet to process the end of everything he holds dear.

On the heels of her memoir, FEVER, Niziolek's debut poetry collection, atrophy, continues pulling even further at the same threads: desire, grief, trauma, love, and illness. However, the primary beast that stalks these pages is the body in isolation, the body in decay, the body as animalistic and wounded and deadly in its pursuit of living. atrophy has all the promise of a young poet and all the grit of a grown woman who has repeatedly clawed her way through the dirt.

Confirmation that I was to follow in my father's footsteps jarred me in ways I never imagined. Since hearing the news, I awaken between 3 and 5 in the morning. Zero dark thirty is when my eyes fly open and I'm full-on aware. The words that normally tumble off my tongue now flow feverishly by pencil over a yellow-lined pad-as though I am possessed. And I write. Poetry. It is through my stepping up, speaking out, and sharing my own very personal thoughts and feelings that will emancipate the stigma attached to the growing numbers of those of us relegated to a diminishing memory. It gives purpose to feelings of less than and bolsters a roguish stubborn ruggedness in me for a worthwhile fight-to maintain dignity, honor and respect.

Shelby McIntyres femogtyve år lange liv har ikke været præget af ret meget frihed og eventyr, men nu vil hun udleve sine store drømme om rejser, studier og romantik – og forhåbentlig møde den eneste ene undervejs.I Virgin River møder hun Luke Riordan, men han er bestemt ikke den type, hun havde i tankerne. Luke forlod hæren efter mange barske år som Black Hawk-pilot, han er desillusioneret, specialist i korte affærer og skyer enhver form for forpligtelser.Shelby og Luke burde på ingen måde passe sammen. Men de skal snart opdage, at det, man ønsker sig, og det, man faktisk har brug for, ikke altid er det samme.VIRGIN RIVER – Dage med længsel er sjette bind i Robyn Carrs romanserie bag Netflix’ kæmpehit, hvor kærlighed, familiedramaer og hjertevarme venskaber udspiller sig i den naturskønne californiske bjerglandsby.

Vor einiger Zeit plante ich aufgrund von Depressionen den Selbstmord. Ich wollte einfach nicht mehr leben. Zu diesem Zweck reiste ich nach Südfrankreich, um von einer Brücke über den Verdon zu springen, eine der größten Schluchten Europas. 200 Meter auf nackten Felsen sollte mir die Garantie geben, dass ich dieses nicht überleben würde. Doch es kam wie so oft anders...

Patricia Barone lives along the Mississippi River in Minnesota and feels very lucky to have been a part of the thriving Twin Cities writing community for over four decades. With Future Rounds the Curve, Barone is publishing her sixth book. Your Funny, Funny Face and The Scent of Water were also published by Blue Light Press. Her recent collection, The Music of this Ruin, came from Taj Mahal Review/ Cyberwit. New Rivers Press published Handmade Paper, a collection of poetry, and The Wind, a novella. Barone's New Rivers Press books were given Minnesota Voices Awards. She has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in poetry, a Minnesota State Arts Board Opportunity Grant for a workshop with the Irish poet, Eavan Boland, and a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award for a short story. Barone has published short stories in magazines and anthologies, from such presses as Wising Up Press, Peter Lang, Prentice/Merrill, and Plume-Penguin. She is working on a novel as well as another collection of poetry.

Terri Kirby Erickson, winner of the 2021 international Book Award for Poetry for her sixth collection of poems, A SUN INSIDE MY CHEST, offers up a series of new poems on family, health, loss, and healing, along with selected poems from her previous six collections.

"If there is one thing I know, it is that you should never, ever walk these hallways alone..."¿¿¿What does it take to break a heart? Rejection? Betrayal? Madness? Perhaps a tw¿isted seduction of all three. And what happens when the heart breaks? It rots."A complex look at grief and heartbreak through the lens of horror and poetry."

Bright Skies, Long Shadows is a collection of poems about love, loss, family, trauma, life, death, chaos and hope, as viewed and lived through the lens of someone living with serious mental illness.Marcus's dark imagery, savage rawness and unflinching candor will touch a nerve, maybe draw a tear and maybe, just maybe, make readers realise they are not alone - that life, in all its chapters, really is worth living.

Mulligrubs: a despondent, sullen, or ill-tempered mood: sulks, bluesIn early March 2023, Bonnie had a dark cloud stuck in her brain. She hadn't written anything in a minute, and had some big doctor appointments looming. She had learned that she can't let herself sink too far into a hole, so she looked around at what she could do to ease herself back out of it."A poem a day, that's what I'll do," she thought. "I'll write a poem a day."So she opened a new Word doc and called it "A Poem a Day to Keep the Mulligrubs Away" - which became the book you are about to read.

Mosa Sekele Mashitisho dedicated this book to all those affected by the scourge of Gender-Based Violence. Every victim knows another victim, but no perpetrator knows another like themselves. This is because we have created so many conversations for and about victims, but we have not tapped into the mindsets of these perpetrators and found out what it is that really causes them to behave in ways that make others feel inhumane or inferior or underserving of love, care and warmth that a healthy relationship offers.This book offers empathy to the victims and hope to all survivors that all is not lost. They may and will still find love again and realize that all the pain and suffering was not he definition of what love is all about. There is a beautiful person inside each one of us and if the partners we choose to have cannot see or appreciate that beauty, we need to give ourselves permission to save our lives and leave those relationships.The last part of this book offers love and appreciation in a form of letters written to loved ones, thanking them for being such amazing people in our lives. Even with the many failed marriages ending in divorce, fights and murders, there is still beauty in finding love that surpasses all emotions of anger, insecurities and evil doing. At the end of the day, love follows all of us and bit by bit, if we permit ourselves to leave our unhealthy and unsafe relationships and situations, this love will find us.

"I wept as time stopped, and I wept as time refused to cease."Grieving her faith, her love, and her identity, twenty-one-year-old Scarlett V. Leonelli is devastated by an unexpected tragedy--one threatening to unravel her to her very core. Following a series of inexplicable synchronicities, Scarlett journeys deep into the jungle of a hidden village in Costa Rica where, far beyond the only reality she has ever known, she is forced to trust the path as it appears beneath her feet.Led by the sacred invitations in riddles of mysterious guides, romantic rendezvous, and enticing adventures, Scarlett falls into the belly of the Beast itself.Will Scarlett give in or choose to alchemize one of humanity's inevitable tragedies?The Alchemy of The Beast is the first installation of The Lionheart Chronicles, a series inspired by author Alyssa Noelle Coelho's own truth-seeking journey. Drawing upon her training in sociocultural anthropology and her own experiences as a Traveler, wrestling with the meaning of existence, love, connection, and contribution, Alyssa shines a light on the raw truths of the human condition and showcases the beauty of cultures worldwide.

Have you ever had your heart broken? Ever felt lost or lonely? Blue is a feeling that has a unique darkness and depth in all of us. Blue represents something we must all move through at some point during our lives. There is deep, dark, aqua, and light. The four main chapters within Blue. Flowing, like water, from one stage of grief to the next. What we feel is as natural as the world we live in. Blue is a flowing expression of emotions. Blue can be all around us. Even in the things we don't see. Through this book, I hope to show you how I rose from my darkest depths and back into the light. Please know you are never alone in these feelings. Blue can be beautiful too.

Da kriminalkommissær Hildur Rúnarsdóttir var barn, forsvandt hendes søstre Rósa og Björk. Nu, 25 år senere, begynder mysteriet at blive opklaret, og traumerne fra Hildurs barndom vender tilbage. På et skispor i en afsidesliggende egn af Island finder man liget af en magtfuld lokalpolitiker. Han er blevet skudt, og Hildur og hendes makker, Jakob, sættes på sagen. De første, oplagte spor ender blindt, og Hildur må i stedet grave dybt i fortiden og i de dødes hemmeligheder for at finde morderen. Til sidst står kun et spørgsmål tilbage: Er alle hemmeligheder værd at opklare? Om forfatteren:Finske Satu Rämö (f. 1980) flyttede til Island for over tyve år siden, men har med krimiserien om islandske Hildur fået kæmpe succes i hjemlandet Finland med over 200.000 solgte eksemplarer. "Rósa & Björk" er andet bind i Hildur-trilogien, bind 3 udkommer på dansk i 2025.

From USA Today Bestselling Author Persephone Autumn comes a poetry and prose collection about loss and grief.You were the sweetest, most precious surprise.A soul with a tender heart.I will love and miss you forever.As you rest beneath the wildflowers.

Three of the legendary Russian dissident writer's greatest poems, two autobiographical and one based on a Russian folktale, now in a new, invigorating English translation. Three by Tsvetaeva collects three dazzling and devastating reckonings with love and the end of love by a poet celebrated for the unequaled verbal inventiveness and emotional intensity of her work. “Backstreets,” translated into English for the first time, is a retelling of a Russian fairy tale that offers a witches’ brew of temptation, bodily transformation, marriage, and murder. “Poem of the Mountain” and “Poem of the End,” perhaps the most celebrated of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poetic sequences, explore the shifting dynamics of a love affair. The voices of the lovers, the voice of the narrator, and the voice of poetry combine and recombine, circle each other and split, engaging the reader in a constantly shifting spectrum of emotion, from unbridled passion to rawest grief, and discovering at last a strange triumph in loss.  Andrew Davis’s translations of Tsvetaeva bring out the wild brilliance of an incomparable artist.

Forward by E.C. Waddington: Many chemical and physical changes are reversible, although some are not. One example of an irreversible physical change is the cracking of an egg. It can only be done in one direction: forward.Keeping it Together reminds me of an egg cracking in reverse - it is rare, defiant, unexpected. You want to see it in slow motion, over and over again. Read on and see the slimy whites and rich yolk splattered on the floor with shards of shell scattered around. Watch the waves of viscous protein crawl to the epicenter of the explosion and gather together. Note the feeling in your stomach as you see the eggshell fragments align together, as the yolk is sucked back in as the final globs of white slip between the cracks, as the fracture lines fade out. It is whole again, it is pure again, impossible - but you are sure you had just seen its guts spilled out on the kitchen floor.Inside Keeping it Together, you will find a raw, unusual, and interactive reflection on the self and the artist. It is a whimsical and gross exploration of what it means to create art, what it is to be art in space as time, the horror of falling apart, and the weirdness of clotting back together. When I first read through the manuscript, my soul was cracked open on the counter and its shell flew apart. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and that you are inspired to break a few eggs too.

"A book of elegy, loss, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent. "We sleep long, / if not sound," Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind." In scenes and settings that circle family and the generations in the American South--one poem, "Kith," exploring that strange bedfellow of "kin"--the speaker and his young son wander among the stones of their ancestors. "Like heat he seeks them, / my son, thirsting / to learn those / he don't know / are his dead." Whether it's the Louisiana summer's fireflies in a mason jar (doomed by their collection), or his grandmother, Mama Annie, who latches the screen door when someone steps out for just a moment, all that comprises our flickering precarious joy, all that we want to protect, is lifted into the light in this moving book. Stones becomes an ode to Young's home places and his dear departed, and to what of them--of us--poetry can save"--

"Whispers of Longing: A Journey Through Love and Yearning" is a captivating collection of poetry that delves into the depths of human emotions, exploring the intricate landscape of love, desire, and the longing that accompanies them. This book takes readers on an introspective journey through the highs and lows of relationships, evoking raw emotions and capturing the essence of longing for connection.Through beautifully crafted verses, the poems in this collection navigate the complexities of love, examining the yearning that lingers in the heart and the ache that accompanies unfulfilled desires. The words whisper with vulnerability, painting vivid imagery and immersing readers in a world of passionate encounters, bittersweet memories, and the lingering echoes of lost love.From the tender moments of intimacy and the intoxicating rush of new romance to the painful echoes of heartbreak and the lingering nostalgia of past connections, "Whispers of Longing" captures the universal experiences and emotions that define our human connections. Each poem serves as a poignant reflection on the fragility of relationships, the power of longing, and the eternal search for love and belonging.With its evocative language, heartfelt sentiments, and profound exploration of the human heart, "Whispers of Longing: A Journey Through Love and Yearning" invites readers to immerse themselves in the depths of emotion and embark on a poetic journey that resonates with the universal longing for love and connection.