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Sometimes life hurts. It's hard, challenging, and filled with pain. We often endure such traumatic ordeals that we're no longer coping with the brokenness lying dormant in our hearts. We're living life to cope. We get caught up in enduring and not learning how to persevere. It's in the dark and broken places where we can truly be healed. We discover what's hurting in the unhealed area of our lives. The triggers of deep-rooted pain, trauma, fear, and bitterness are revealed. We stop running away from the darkness. Taking care of self becomes the priority. We learn how to become unbroken. In The Heartbroken Poet: Healing in Darkness, K.A. Nelson shares internal battles with anxiety, church hurt, faith, grief, toxic relationships, and trauma. She journals through heartbreak as healing manifests in her life. With this collection of poems, scribbles, and journal prompts, K.A. provides a safe haven for the brokenhearted and hope for those who have been silenced. She will inspire you to continue on your journey to healing while being in the darkness.

From Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out, comes an anthology of brand new stories showcasing the best Black talent from across contemporary horror writing.

Navigating love.Losing family.Accepting grief.Finding peace.Amber Campbell weaves through the journey of finding and losing friends, family, and partners in her first collection of poetry. Divided between three sections, her poetry explores the highs and lows of relationships, including hope, grief, regret, and peace. The Ones is a conversational, heart-wrenching collection of everything love has to offer.

"Why remember the dead?" poet Kathy Nelson begins this sobering meditation, a descent and rise through what's lost and sometimes found again, her keen eye on the natural world, her mother in the Bardo and in life, both trouble and love restored, unshakable grief, regret, triumph, mystery... And why exactly? Because we need these poems as lens, as touchstone. And such lovely, startling interventions of language and image! Vivid detail, layer upon layer-say, a "landscape stitched with fencerows," or to hold a breath "until someone unlocks the door." That someone is this most remarkable poet. "Last night," Nelson writes, "I found a hidden stairway leading down/into a maze of rooms ..." And what a rewarding gift for all of us, to follow her there. -Marianne Boruch, Bestiary Dark

The Nation's Saddest Love Poems is a sequence of poems covering the unreality of grieving, alongside the notion that love is a far broader idea than the vague notion of romance often centred in poetry anthologies about love.

Sometimes the people we love the most are the people who hurt us the most, but this pain does not need to define us. We can write our future in any light we like, free from the pains of our past. Trauma by Rowan McKiernan is a powerful and poignant collection of poetry that delves deep into the human experience of pain, heartbreak, and trauma. Raw and vulnerable, Trauma takes readers on a journey of survival and healing, offering a road to solace and hope in the darkest moments of their lives.

Edgar Allan Poe inspired poetry from thirty-one international poets.Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow;-vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore-For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-Nameless here for evermore.The Raven (1845)BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

”… nu kommer de ikke i kirken længere, de går til bjergsøen igen, de fortæller andre historier …”Indbyggerne i bjerglandsbyen drømmer urolige om røde papegøjer. En ung kvinde er forsvundet. En forsvunden mand er dukket op. Man forsøger at holde sig til traditionerne og samle sig om fejringen af byens grundlæggelse for 370 år siden. Og dog, for måske ligger en ny start endnu længere tilbage?Bjergets mund er en kollektivroman om en fattig sydamerikansk landsby, hvis primære indtægtskilde er rosenfarme, men som samtidig er på sporet af en anden og ældre rigdom.Dea Sofie Kudsk (f. 1990) er cand.mag. i kultur- og sprogmødestudier og historie. Sammen med sin colombianske mand og deres søn bor hun delvis i Salling, delvis i Colombia. Hun debuterede med romanen Bogotana (2017) og er siden udkommet med romanerne fjorden kysten (2018) og Udstrakt landskab (2020). Forfatterskabet bærer bl.a. præg af Kudsks arbejde med antikoloniel teori og af livet på to kontinenter.

Jemima Atar's 'you are safe now' is a poetry collection about the trauma of sexual abuse and its emotional, physical, and spiritual aftereffects.

"It's no exaggeration to say that Charles Baudelaire invented modern poetry. Flowers of Evil has been a bible for poets from Rimbaud to T.S. Eliot to Edna St. Vincent Millay, who, with Georges Dillon, brought out an inspired rhymed version of the book in 1936. Here it is reprinted, with the French originals, for the first time in many years. Millay and Dillon's versions are virtuosic in their handling of rhyme and meter, and their take on the Flowers of Evil as a whole is among the most persuasive English, capturing in flowing lines comparable to Baudelaire's the tortured consciousness and troubling sensuality that are his opulent music's counterpart. The book also allows readers a new appreciation of the range of Millay's own achievement as a poet and translator"--

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Max est amoureux de Marianne, mais il y a un problème, celle-ci est dans le coma.Le spectateur se retrouve témoin d'un monologue entre les deux personnages.Max nous raconte son quotidien, ses colères, ses rêves et son amour pour l'unique femme de sa vie.La pièce nous plonge dans la vie de ce drôle de couple, bien au-delà du coma. Cependant, la fin n'est jamais celle qu'on croit.

Helena har travlt med at forberede sin mand Martins fødselsdagsmiddag, da telefonen ringer. Det er hendes kollega Pia, som fortæller, at hun har haft en længere affære med Martin. Forholdet er slut, men Pia synes, at Helena fortjener at vide det. Helenas verden vælter, og for at få en pause fra det hele flygter hun fra byen op til de smukke fjelde i Härjedalen.Trods de lyse sommernætter føles livet mørkt og uoverskueligt, men et spirende venskab med den unge Louise, der driver et lille vaffelbageri i fjeldene, lokker langsomt Helena ud i virkeligheden igen.Hun begynder at arbejde i vaffelbageriet, og det sætter tanker i gang om fremtiden, drømme og muligheden for at begynde forfra. Men Helena bærer på et mørke fra sin barndom, som hun er nødt til at konfrontere for at komme videre i sit liv.Vaffelbageri med udsigt er en gribende feelgood-roman om sorg, selvstændighed og nye muligheder.Pressen skriver: ”En ægte feelgood-roman om følelser, kærlighed, venskab på tværs af alder – og om at finde sig selv efter modgang.”– Goodreads”Varm feelgood med en kant af tristhed og uden at være sukkersød. Om at finde sig selv igen, når livet falder fra hinanden, om venskab på tværs af generationer – og om at turde følge sin indre længsel.”– Goodreads”En meget inspirerende roman om at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved ens livsvalg og ændre på de ting, der kan forhindre én i at være den, man gerne vil være.– Goodreads”En virkelig perfekt Page Turner. Jeg læser ellers meget sjældent feelgood-bøger, men denne her fangede mig og krammede mit hjerte.”– Goodreads

From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of displacement and war.A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement.These poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body--and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations. Hala Alyan asks, What stops you from transforming into someone or something else? When you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest?

Ein Toter und ein Lebender, Samuel Foncha und Marcel Dietler, schreiben gemeinsam ein Buch: Der Mann mit der blauen Anna. Marcel Dietler ist pensionierter Pfarrer und wohnt mit seiner Frau Verena in Gümligen bei Bern. Samuel Foncha kam aus Kamerun, kurz nachdem das Land seine Unabhängigkeit von den Kolonialmächten Frankreich und England erlangt hatte, um in der Schweiz Betriebswirtschaft zu studieren. Verena und Marcel Dietler nahmen den Studenten in ihre Familie auf und so wurde Samuel ihr Sohn, der geliebte ältere Bruder der Kinder des Ehepaars. Bei seiner Rückkehr nach Afrika galt Samuel Foncha als einer der Hoffnungsträger des noch jungen Landes Kamerun. Familie Dietler besuchte den afrikanischen Sohn in seiner Heimat und wurde nun ihrerseits Teil der afrikanischen Familie. Kurz nach diesem Besuch verlor Samuel bei einem Flugzeugabsturz sein Leben. In Fotos und Gesprächen ist er im Geist jedoch immer anwesend. Und so entstand gleichsam mit zwei Autoren der Roman, in welchem ein Kameruner aus seiner Heimat in die Schweiz flieht, seine grosse Liebe, die Schweizerin Cornelia, wieder findet und Fahrer der blauen Strassenbahn Bern-Worb wird, Fahrer der blauen Anna.Ein Buch für alle, die wissen möchten, was Afrikaner erleben und fühlen, wenn sie in die Schweiz kommen, hier arbeiten und sich verlieben, und was für eine Zukunft sie haben.

The poems in Fairy of Disenchantment represent Sun Hesper Jansen's passage through the underworld that is life with Multiple Sclerosis. Because MS never resolves, the journey is circular, a process of constant adaptation and transcendence that draws on personal histories, science and mythology, nature and magic, and above all, imagination.

La autora Flor Olvera te invita a internarte en los laberintos de su alma a través de su poesía, que expone su catarsis descrita en un lenguaje sencillo e inspirador que tocará tus fibras más íntimas, cual si fuera una varita mágica, dejando entrever a una mujer bohemia y soñadora.

Fortællingerne i denne bog taler til dig. De bevæger, fordi de insisterer på dig som vidne, en flue på væggen. Det, du lytter til, er menneskeskæbner, grufulde, underfulde, stilfærdige menneskeskæbner og familieskæbner, beretninger om individuelle og kollektive sorger og traumer. Det er stærke fortællinger om polske jøders skæbner, mesterligt fortalt.”Disse små indtrængende prosatekster bevæger og foruroliger på samme tid. Hvis diagnosen, de stiller, er rigtig, har vi et kæmpe problem i Polen” – Olga Tokarczuk, Nobelprismodtager 2018

This book is a celebration of the forces that shape us - belief and love, conflict and grief, creativity and nature - and of adapting when life has other plans.

"Je crois que c'est comme ça que la rouille s'est infiltrée. Dès mes premières larmes séchées, elle s'est déposée dans mes pensées. Et comme je n'ai laissé personne m'approcher, la rouille s'est incrustée de partout."Il y a trois ans, Yuna a dressé une liste de défis à réaliser avant le bac, avec son meilleur ami Issa. Aujourd'hui, elle est seule et s'apprête à traverser la France afin de réaliser son dernier défi. Sur la plateforme de covoiturage, elle a prévenu qu'elle veut qu'on lui fiche la paix.Mais les covoitureuses sont curieuses. Leurs échanges et leurs questions amènent Yuna à un terrible constat : elle est devenue tout ce qu'elle détestait avant. Le deuil, la rancune et la colère ont grippé tous ses mécanismes de vie. Pour se débarrasser de la rouille qui l'ankylose, Yuna va devoir accepter d'ouvrir sa boîte à souvenirs, pour le pire mais surtout pour le meilleur. Or, faire confiance à ses partenaires de voyage, c'est aussi faire confiance à celle qu'elle était lorsqu'elle a imaginé cette liste pleine de pep's et de joie.Dans un récit mêlant tranches de vie et feel-good, plongez dans les souvenirs de Yuna, au coeur d'une amitié puissante et festive, d'une créativité joviale, mais aussi dans le drame qui a tout ravagé. Et accompagnez Yuna dans sa remontée à la surface.

This book consists of a collection of poems from David Bowker; the majority were written in the autumn of 2022, but others are from the mid-1990s and the 2010s. The poems are observations and thoughts on life - they are responses to the author's experiences. Though David's creative life has largely been as a visual artist through painting, drawing, collage and photography - something that continues - the autumn of 2022 brought a need to express through words. The fruits of this period have been collated with those other poems from earlier years for this book.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" Strofen er ligeså udødelig som Romeo og Julies kærlighed. Man ved ikke præcis hvornår den er skrevet, men siden den oprindelige udgivelse i 1609 har Shakespeares sonetter været kendt og elsket verden over. Denne genudgivelse af Johannes Valdemar Østerbergs oversættelse fra 1944 rummer alle 154 sonetter, der på smukkeste vis skildrer evigtgyldige temaer som kærlighed og utroskab, jalousi, skønhed og forgængelighed.Den engelske skuespilforfatter William Shakespeare (1564-1616) er bredt anerkendt som verdens største dramatiker. Hans skuespil er oversat til alle moderne sprog og bliver opført mere end nogen anden skuespilforfatters stykker. Udover virket som forfatter arbejdede Shakespeare som skuespiller, og han er endvidere en af Englands allerstørste digtere nogensinde. Han står bag 39 skuespil, 154 sonetter og flere andre digte.

"Pollock's poetry is brilliant"- Kristiana Reed, editor-in-chief, Free Verse Revolution Stephen C. Pollock's poetry collection Exits explores the beauty and frailty of life, the cycles of nature, and the promise of renewal. Musical and multilayered, the poems in Exits have drawn comparisons to the poetry of Seamus Heaney and the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Exits has been honored with the Gold Medal for poetry in the 2023 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards and the Silver Medal for poetry in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards. Echoing these accolades, Midwest Book Review declares: "Exits is a book that has profoundly impacted the literary world." "Exits . . . is a magnificent work"- Readers' Favorite Reviews, 5.0 stars "Exits exemplifies the musicality of language"- Foreword-Clarion Reviews "Full of wit, insight and provocative imagery, Exits is a masterful collection"- IndieReader, 5.0 stars "Exits is a book that has profoundly impacted the literary world"- Midwest Book Review The poems in Exits comprise a meditation on life's transience. Many of the images and metaphors are drawn from nature. In addition, each poem is paired with a piece of artwork intended to resonate with the writing and enhance the reader's experience. Every life is finite. Awareness of death's inevitability profoundly affects each person's perspective on their life and its meaning. In a world ravaged by contagion, climate change, famine, and war, Exits dovetails with the prevailing zeitgeist.

Language, myths, stories, and even our understanding of reality are usually expressed in the form of oppositions. The sacred and the profane, absence and presence, male and female. Very fittingly opposition is the central theme that pervades this seemingly disparate collage of lyrical compositions. Franciska Soares who has progressively lost her hearing claims that it is only in her brand-new silent world that she has discovered her ability to hear. Using poetry with its quintessential sacramental nature, she gives the reader an opportunity to experience this rapture. There's no need for a poet's ear to discern the music, the nuances. And like an artist, she has kept her poems incomplete and open. Quiet enough is most definitely a work of art, and one for the desk, not the bookshelf.